| Partner: | Robert SPEARPOINT ( -1540) | |
| Partner: | (unknown) | |
| Children: | Robert SPEARPOINT ( - ) | |
| Name: | Robert SPEARPOINT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Death | 9 Apr 1540 | Lydd |
| Name: | Robert SPEARPOINT | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Anne (?) ( - ) | |
| Birth | "ABT. 1529" | |
| Death | "ABT. 1592" | Shadoxhurst, Kent |
1. Described as a Yeoman of Lydd in the parish register.
2. There is a will of a Robert Spearpoint of Lydd dated 1540, so we assume it is his. It seems surprising that there is no mention of his son Robert. I gather that, in other circumstances, this might not be unusual - eg. if the eldest son is already farming the family farm and living in the family home, then it would seem silly to write a will leaving it to him. Unfortunately, in this case we believe that his son Robert is a minor at the time.
My conclusion is that the writer of this will can't be an ancestor because he didn't have any children. ( Just one note - there is a bit in the will about payments of 20s on the marriage of my poor maidens. I am guessing that this means the 'poor maidens of the village' rather than his daughters ? ]
This is my best attempt at reading the will so far :
In Dei Nomine Amen The seventh (?) day of the month of Feb
in the yere of our Lord god 1530 (?) I Robert Sperpoynt
of Lydd Gent in perfecte Remembrance ordeign (?) and make this
my ____ testament in form folowing first I bequeath my
soule to ____ trust to our blessed Lady the Virgin Mary And to
all the celestial (?) Company (?) ____ And my body is to be burried
in the church yard of Lydd forsaid Item I bequeath to the kepe
____ of the said Church of Lydd ____ Item I bequeath to Alice
Cyppe the wife of Symond Cyppe 20 (?) (?) Item I bequeath
to Elizabeth and Dorothy my sisters betwixt them £10
Item I give and bequeath to Sir John Hykleygh (?) of Lydd ____ ____
Item I give and bequeath to the maryege (?) of my poor maydens (?)
20s that is to say to any of theym 20s Item I bequeath to John Kempe
20s And my couberd fourme (?) table and trestell
my bedstedle and an old chest Item I bequeath to Elizabeth
____ my bedd with the apparell Item I bequeath to James (?) Robyn
the younger all my shepe. Item I give and bequeath to Jasperd
-(i)- and John Whitchurch -(i)- All the Residue of my household
stuffs equally to be divided betwixt theym Item I will that
any ____ at the ____ to be sold by John Kempe my Executor
And the money thereof to be expended for my soule helth (?) Item
I will ther be expended at my ____ ____ to preste clerke
and poor people 20s At my ____ ____ also 20s And
at my yeres ____ in like ____ other 20s And so yerely to be
expended to preste clerke and poore people 20 ____ the Residues
of my goode to be fully bestowed my debts first paid And
legacies fulfilled and discharged I ordeign John Kempe
to be my executor to se that my testament executed And
fulfilled ____ ____ witness William ____ Edward
Strete John ____ ____ ____ and others.
NB, The two missing words marked -(i)- are both the same. They are very short and hardly look like a surname. Could just possibly be 'wife' ?? ! ?
The paragraph granting probate is in Latin, which is beyond me for the moment. However, the only name which apppears in this paragraph appears to be that of John Hykleygh.