Catalogue description Copy will of Matthew Robbins of Hawkhurst, Kent, yeoman, 27 Apr 1660

To mother Mrs Katharine Robbins for life, remainder to nephew Richard Austin: the rents of all his land in Benenden and Rolvenden, being a messuage called Kirsford

To Arthur Apsley (son of sister Mary, deceased) at 22, remainder to nephew John Hayman: all tenements, houses and land in Hawkhurst and Cranbrook (except the house and land called The Hole which MR bought of Thomas Hickmote

To sisters Katharine Austin and Margaret Hayman for life, remainder to nephews Thomas Austin and John Hayman: rents of houses and land in Sandhurst

To John and Henry Austin, sons of sister Katharine: house called The Hole in Cranbrook Town

To nephew John Robbins, son of deceased brother Henry: land in Bodiam and Bexhill, subject to John Earle's right of redemption of the copyhold in Bexhill

To executors: William Love's mortgage of a house and land in Rolvenden for £50

To niece Mary Cripse (son of sister Margaret Hayman by her husband Mr Thomas Cripse), remainder to Margaret's children John Hayman and Katherine Hayman: £100 owed by Thomas Rowe of Goudhurst on a mortgage of a messuage and land called Trewewell in Goudhurst

Sister Margaret Hayman, William Carr of Salehurst, clerk, and nephew Richard Austin, executors, to perform will of brother Henry Robbins of 28 Sep 1656, of which MR is sole executor, being careful to give the children 'such a liberal education as may be answerable to their conditions and estates'

Pecuniary bequests to brother John Robbins, nephew Richard Austin son of brother-in-law Richard Austin, daughters and sons of sister Katherine Austin (Katherine, Margaret, Rebecca and Mary, John, Thomas and Henry Austin), Arthur son of sister Mary Apsley, daughters of brother Henry Robbins, deceased (Frances, Margaret and Katherine Robbins, Martha wife of George Morecock, servant Ann Dennett

Overseers: brother John Robbins, cousin John Holman, clerk

W: Nicholas Pollard, William Cooke; W to copy: William Levett, Joseph Newington, 31 Jul 1668