To be buried there or elsewhere. To Thomasyn, my wife, my messuage [and] lands in Tivetshall and Dicleburgh [Dickleburgh, Norfolk] (she to claim no dower), for her life or widowhood. If she remarry, then she is to have one-third only. If she makes claim for dower in my lands at Occolt [Occold], Thornden [Thorndon, Suffolk], or places near, then she is to forego the Tivetshall lands. To John Punchard the Younger my sister's son, said property in Occolt and Thorndon, charged with £40 to his sister Margaret Punchard (by £10 a year). And to Jeremy Punchard, his brother, £30 (£10 a year). And to Mary Punchard, his other sister, £30 (£10 a year). To John Punchard aforesaid all my tools of a wheelwright and my joiner's tools. To John Bucknam [or Buckman - faded], my servant, 40s. To John Cobbrame [sic], my godson, 40s. To Richard Goothrame, my godson, 40s. To John Watlinge, my godson, 30s. at twenty-one. To John Dowson, my kinsman and godson, £3 when twenty. To Marie Cole, my goddaughter, 40s. at twenty-one. To Margerye Woodward, my goddaughter, 20s. when twenty. To Margaret Chapman, my goddaughter, 20s. To Fraunces Alpe, my nephew and godson, £30 at twenty-two. To Thomas Seaman 30s. To Edward Hickes, my godson, 20s., when twenty. To ? Fisher, my kinsman and godson, 30s., when twenty-one. To Marie Alpe and Anne Alpe, my sister's daughters, my bond wherein Nicholas Haward of Darsham [Suffolk], William Haward of the same and Jeffery Neve of Tivetshall St. Margaret [Norfolk] are bound to me in £20, [but] they are to take only the £10 debt and not the forfeiture. To Edward Alpe, my nephew, £5. To John Punchard the Elder of Beddingfield [Bedingfield, Suffolk], my brother[-in-]law, 40s. To Christopher Mercant of Tyvetshall St. Marie 40s. To the poor of Tivetshall St. Mary 30s. (10s. a year). If Thomasyn, my wife, enter bond in £80 [?, faded] to John Punchard the Elder of Bedingfield, to prove this will, pay legacies, etc., then she is to have all my goods, chattels, etc. Sole executrix: said Thomasyne, my wife. Witnesses: Paule Chapman, Edward Bateman.
Proved the last of October 1609 by the
executrix.
(Consistory Court of Norwich, Register for 1609, fo. 124)
Published in the October 1932 issue of the Journal of the New England Historical Genealogical Society.