Catalogue description Copy probate of testament and will

To be buried at Birling, Kent

Executors to pay his debts and have wardship of Thomas Fenys (Fiennes) Lord Dacre, John Semptleiger esq (married to his daughter Katherine Nevill), John Chayny, son and heir of Thomas Chayny, kt, and William Broke, esq, son and heir of George Broke, kt, Lord Cobham.

1,000 marks towards marriage of youngest daughter Ursula

Executors to levy (1) 1,000 marks to indemnify testator's friends and servants standing bound to the king for the wardship and marriage of Thomas [Fiennes] Lord Dacre, (2) £900 to discharge bonds made on marriage between William Broke and Dorothy Nevill

Executors: Henry Poole, kt, [Henry Pole]Lord Montagu, GN's brothers Thomas and Edward Nevill, kts, Thomas Willoughbye, kt, serjeant-at-law, and John Baker esq, recorder of London; to hold all property in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and London to uses declared in his will

Annuity of £20 to George Nevill, son of Sir Edward Nevill

Financial provision for his daughters in case of non-marriage or second marriages

In default of male issue of testator's brother Sir Thomas Nevill, his daughter, GN's niece Margaret Nevill, to hold for life the manors of Mereworth and West Peckham in Kent and 'the olde hay', with advowsons of Mereworth and Maplecombe, Kent and lands and tenements called Plaine Hamons; if she marries Gregory Cromewell, gent, he is to have use of these properties for life, with remainder to GN and his heirs

GN's debts to Lord Mountague to be paid; £60 to be paid to use of his servant James Barham; grant for lives to his present (and 4th) wife Mary Broke otherwise Mary Cobham and her unborn child by GN of the manors of Whalesbeech, Beverington Randeviles [Rodmell Beverington] and Grymers, Sussex

Present feoffees shall continue to hold it to the following uses:

Manors of Dorking, Capel, East Betchworth, Westcott and Padington in Surrey, manors of Eridge and Rotherfield, Forest of Waterdown, moiety of manor, barony, castle and borough of Lewes, manors of Ditchling, Worth, Cuckfield, Rodmell, Peckham, Albourne, Keymer, Chiltington, Nutbourne, Rottingdean, Northease and Iford, Houndean, Blatchington, No Man's Land (Normans lands), Whalesbeech, Randeviles and Grymers, Beverington, Bullockstown, Rolf Hedges, Highley and Riners and moiety of Forest of Worth and Cleeves, all in Sussex, manors of Birling, Yalding, Luddlesdown and Ryarsh in Kent, mansion house called Bergevenny Inn otherwise Pembroke Inn in the city of London and all other tenements and lands in the city and in Southwark to the use of executors to pay debts, funeral expenses and legacies, remainder to his heirs male by his late wife Mary, remainder to brother Sir Thomas Nevill and heirs male, remainder to brother Sir Edward Nevill and heirs male, remainder to heirs male of daughter Jane and her husband Henry Lord Mountague, remainder to GN's heirs, remainder to heirs of Sir Thomas Nevill, remainder to heirs of Sir Edward Nevill, remainder to GN's right heirs

Manors of East Hanningfield, West Hanningfield and South Hanningfield in Essex, manors of Lidgate and Otley and lands and tenements in Bury, Petowe and Blaxhall, Suffolk, manors of Sutton, Bergh (Apton), Tibenham Hastings, Skulton (and?) Burdeles, Norfolk, manors of Allesley, Fillongley and Aston Cantlow, Warwickshire, manor of Ashley and purlieus and Forest of Bere, Hampshire, office of feodary in Wiltshire, with all manors lands and tenements there, all lands and tenements in Staffordshire, all manors, lands and tenements in Gloucester, manors of Kidderminster, Dunclent and Inkberrow, Worcestershire, manors of Woodfield and Walington Hay, Shropshire, barony and castle of Bergavenny (Abergavenny), Ewyas Harold, Ewyas Lacy and all other lands and tenements in Wales and Welsh Marches to use of GN and heirs male by Mary late Lady Abergavenny, with remainders as before

Reversion of manor and advowson of Mereworth in Kent and manors of West Peckham and The Old Hay to executors to the use of Margaret Nevill daughter of Sir Thomas Nevill for life, and to the use for life of Gregory Cromewell, gent, if she marries him, with remainder to GN and his heirs

W: Henry Mountague; Sir Thomas Nevill; Edward Nevill; Thomas Fynes; John Seintleger; John Cheyny; George Whetenhall; Robert Constable, steward of household; Nicholas Gaynesford; Richard Shelley; Nicholas Sibill; John Osbourne, auditor

Probate to executors by their proctor John Howe at London, 4 Jul 1536