2017In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it was not uncommon to give a child the name of a living elder brother, possibly in some cases at the request of a godfather who wished the baby to bear his own name.
John Hatche the Younger, of Sellinge, was born about the year 1495. By the will of his father he succeeded to lands and tenements including a "new house" in Sellinge. The name of his wife is unknown.
John Hatche, of Sellinge, beside Horton Monks, made his will April 13, 1535, and it was proved April 26, 1536. To be buried in the churchyard at Sellynge. To every godchild 12d. To every of my children two ewes. To my wife two kine, two hogs, six ewes, and half my household stuff. The residue of my goods to be sold to pay my debts and legacies by my executors, my wife and Thomas Marchall, to whom I give 6s. 8d. apiece. To John Marshall 3s. 4d. to help my wife with the writings. Witnesses: Thomas Dylnott the younger, Robert Cavell and Richard Hempsted. My last will regarding my lands. A piece of land called Mewlyng and my mill beside Hythe to be sold, and the money, and also £9. 20d. which Thomas Dylnott owes me, to be used to pay my debts and legacies. Hodyforth mill and half the meadow to be put to farm and the money used for the same purpose. My sons Thomas, John, and Stephen into my new house and lands at their ages of twenty years. My wife to have the other half of the meadows by the names of Lytle Somerlies, greate Somerles, and Rayfelde until my children by twenty years of age, giving to each his share as he attains that age. To her also for life the house and lands at Somerfield, with reversion at her death to my children. If all my sons die under age, reversion to my daughters, the lands being equally divided. To each daughter 40s. at marriage. If all my children die, the money to be used to have an obit kept for twenty years, and the land to be sold and the money to go to my brothers and their heirs. To Thomas Hatche, sone of John Hatche the elder, 13s. 4d. Overseer: Maister Hayman, to who I give 6s. 8d.2018 |