Catalogue description Probate of the Will of this date of THOMAS MAY of Tisehurst, esq

To be buried at Tisehurst. To poor of Tisehurst, £5. Wife Elizabeth. Pecuniary gifts to: man-servant Thos. May, man-servant, Isaac Alchin; Thos. Martin of Lamberhurst

Gold rings, value 40s. to the following

Grandmother, Mrs Jone Busbridge; mother, Mrs Ann May; father-in-law, and mother-in-law, Mr Alexander Courthope and Mrs Susannah Courthope; brother, Edw. May; sisters, Anne May and Susannah May; uncle, Anthony May; brothers, Peter Courthope & Richard Courthope; sister, Susannah Courthope; brother and sister in law, John Browne and his wife and to every one of their children; cousin Anthony May of Burwash

To Walter Roberts of Tiseherst and Herbert May of Tiseherst, £50 each, they being appointed executors

Legacy given by testator's father to brother Edward May of £1000 or the manor farm and lands called Kitchingham in Etchingham purchased of Thomas Batchelor not to take effect and the said Edward on attaining 21 to release all his interest in the same or to take no benefit under testator's will

Legacy of £500 given by father to testator's sister Anne May on her marriage and £30 a year until marraige to be charged upon Kitchingham farm

Devise to executors of all manors, messuages, lands &c. in Tiseherst and Etchingham and in Hawkherst and in Frittenden, co. Kent, until brother Edward should attain 21, then to said brother in tail male, with contingent remainders to Herbert May, Anthony May and testator's man-servant Thomas May & c

Codicil made at Sprivers in Horsmonden, co. Kent, 13 March, 1673-4, gives rings to cousin Henry Courthope of Benenden and his wife

Proved in P.C.C., 5 Dec., 1674