In the name of God Amen
I Nicholas Gotty of Cowden in the County of Kent Yeoman being of a sound mind memory and understanding praised be to God for the same do make publish and declare this to be my last Will and Testament in writing in manner and form following (that is to say ffirst I will order and direct that all such just debts which I shall owe at the time of my decease my funeral expenses and the charges of proving this my will shall be paid and discharged by my executors hereafter named out of my personal estate Also I give and devise unto my loving wife Elizabeth and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life if she so long continues my widow and unmarried all and every my messuages lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever with their appurtenances wheresoever the same shall be situate lying and being she my said wife keeping all and every the Buildings thereunto belonging in good and tenantable repair and from and after the decease or marriage which first shall happen Then I do hereby give and devise one moiety or equal half part thereof with the appurtenances unto my daughter Elizabeth now the wife of Edward Hall of Hartfield in the County of Sussex Yeoman and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life and from and after her decease I give and devise the moiety unto and amongst all and every the child and children as well sons as daughters of my said daughter Elizabeth and to their heirs and assigns forever equally to be divided between them share and share alike as tenants in common and for want of such child or children Then I give and devise the same moiety unto my own Right heirs forever I also give and devise the other Moiety or equal half part thereof with the appurtenances unto my daughter Sarah and her assigns for and during the term of her natural life and from and after her decease I give and devise the same unto and amongst all and every the child and children as well sons as daughters of my said daughter Sarah and to their heirs and assigns forever equally to be divided between them share and share alike as Tenants in common and for want of such child or children then I give and devise the same unto my own right heirs forever Also I give and bequeath unto my Brother Edward Gotty and Joseph Smelling of East Grinsted in Sussex Miller and to the survivor of them and the executors and administrators of such survivor all and every my goods chattels and personal estate whatsoever which I shall be possessed off at the time of my decease Upon Trust that they my said executors or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor shall and do with all convenient speed after my decease make sale of all and every of my said Goods and Chattels which I shall dye possessed off or be any ways intitled unto and the money arising by such sale after my just debts funeral expenses and the charge of proving this my will shall be fully paid and satisfied shall and so together with all my ready money put and place the same out of Interest upon some Government or other Real Security and after the same shall be so put and placed out at Interest shall and do yearly and every year pay the interest and produce thereof unto my said loving wife Elizabeth and her assigns for and during the Term of her natural life if she so long continues my widow and unmarried by two half yearly payments in the year The first payment thereof to begin and be made on the next half year day after the same shall be so put and placed out at interest as aforesaid and from and after the decease or marriage of my said wife which shall first happen then I do give and bequeath the principle money arising by the sale of my said Goods and Chattels together with my ready Money so put and placed out at Interest as aforesaid and the Interest thereof unto my said Two daughters Elizabeth the wife of Edward Hall and Sarah Gotty and to their executors and administrators equally to be divided between them share and share alike And I do hereby desire my said Trustees immediately to take an inventory of all my Goods Chattels and personal Estate after my decease and I do hereby make nominate and appoint them the said Edward Gotty and Joseph Smelling Joint executors of this my last Will and Testament desiring both of them to see the same only performed and I do hereby divert and order that my said Trustees and Executors shall not be accountable for the loss of any of that Trust Money so to be put out by them as aforesaid at Interest without the same is by his or their wilfull neglect or default only and that they shall retain to him or themselves all such reasonable costs and charges which they or either of them shall bear pay or be put unto upon account of the Trusts hereby reposed in them or either of them and I do hereby revoke all former Wills by me at anytime heretofore made and do declare this only to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have to this my last Will and Testament contained in two sheets of paper to each sheet thereof set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of May One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty one Nicholas Gotty Signed Sealed published and declared by the said Nicholas Gotty the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presance of us who in his presence and at his Request subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto Edward Gotty Junr Elizabeth Smart George Foster