----- Original Message ----- From: Betty Jo Moeller <bjmolr@aol.com> To: <columbine@ninenet.com> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:46 PM Subject: PML Search Result matching borden ANDNOT (x-loop/BORDEN-L) > ===================================================================== > A result of your requested PML search. To refine or cancel this > search, please visit http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > ===================================================================== > Source: GC-BORDEN Obituaries > URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/b/o/BORDEN/obituaries?re ad=8 > Subject: Will of John Borden [b. 1425] of Hedcorn, county Kent, England > > > Surname: Borden > ------------------------- > > To be buried in the churchyard of St. Peter and St. Paul there. [Bequests > for lights in the church.] To Thomelyn, my servant, 40s. To Isabel Seede, > my servant 20s. To each executor 6d. Residue to Thomas Hovynden, Richard > Borden, and John Holstrete, my executors, to dispose of for my soul. > > My will regarding my lands. To my feoffees, Thomas Phylip, Richard Borden, > William Ive, John Holstrete, and Robert Hovynden, all my lands and tenements > in Headcorn, and they are to permit Benedicta, my wife, to have during > her widowhood [a place] in hall and kitchen for fire and fiet, with a chamber > and a portion of the garden and a cow to be kept on the land. After the > term of her widowhood she is to have a messuage and lands and her clothing > and apparel and a one-fourth part of all things in her room, but the other > three parts are to go to my children and executors. My executors are to > have until the Michaelmas next after my death to carry out my will, and > are then to let out the lands at the best price until my son William reaches > the age of twenty years, and are to pay £20 to my daughters at the age > of twenty years, and, if one daughter die under twenty, then her share > is to go to the other daughter. When William Borden is twenty years old, > he is to have the lands and tenements, except such as are sold, in fee > simple; but, if he die within age, then all the lands I had from my father > or obtained myself are to go to my daughters, in fee simple, except such > as the feoffees must sell to perform the will. If both William and my daughters > die within age, then I give to the son of the above-mentioned Richard Borden, > if he have one, all the lands that were my father's, and the remainder > are to be disposed of for an honest priest to sing in Headcorn church for > my soul and the souls of Thomas, my father, and Isabel, my mother, and > of Henry Borden and Roberga, his wife, and of Thomas Sander, for two years, > and to buy a silver cross for Headcorn church. [No date of probate.] > >