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The Will of Robert Wynne, Mayor of Canterbury
Transcribed and submitted by Dorothy Tuttle
This is the last will and Testament a nuncupative of Robert Wynne late
of the parish of St. Mary Bredman in the City of Canterbury, Alderman
deceased by him uttered and declared for his last will and testament
he being in good and perfect memory on the fourth day of ye month of
September 1609 in these words following or the like in effort viz the
said Robert Wynne being moved to make his will he said his will was
quickly made for he did give and bequeath to Frances his wife the one
half of his goods and chattels and the other halfe of his good and
chattels he did give & bequeath to his children and he did move and
appoint Frances his wife to be Executrix of his will & he named
William Wattmer his brother to be his overseer and the said Robert
Wynne further willed that Frances his wife should pay to Sara Effield
her legacy given her in ye will of Christopher Effield her father
deceased of whom the said Robert Wynne was Executor. He should leave
enough behind him to discharge the same. Witnesses present at the
uttering of the promises by the said Testator Robert Wynne for his
last will and testament. Joseph Colege, Mr. James Bissell, Clerk,
Leonard Ashendon and others. s/ James Bissell, Leonard Ashendon.
Probatum: (Proved) 5 Dec 1609 by witness John Fish, Executor James
Bissell & Supervisor William Watmer. (Canterbury Wills, Comistory
Court of Canterbury, Vol. 41 folio 4, FHL Film 188854)
Note:
The WYNNE family is mentioned in the Hasted History of Canterbury
volumes as far back as a John Wynne, Member of Parliament in 1356. The
Wynnes were members of the Woolendrapers Guild. Robert Wynne was
released from his apprenticeship and became a Freeman of the city in
1590. He became mayor nine years later in 1599. The parish records
of St. George's in Canterbury show he and his wife were buried two
days apart in September, 1609. Their deaths were in connection with a
visitation of the plague to Canterbury, either bubonic plague, or
typhus. The outbreak was severe. They left five young children
orphans, and had it not been for the kindness of their uncle, William
Watmer, they would have been destitute. He saw to it they were
removed from the infected house until it was cleansed, and reclothed,
housed, and looked after them during the quarantine. Then he boarded
[BO:Peter:BO] and John with Rowland Dixon, the tailor, to follow an
apprenticeship in their father's trade. Thomas was old enough to
assume the responsibilities of his parent's house, Uncle William took
Elizabeth and Anne to his home, and looked after the financial affairs
of the young children. There is a detailed article of several pages
length in the Archaeologia Cantiana, published by the Kent
Archaeological Society, 1948, by Dorothy Gardiner, which tells of the
dealings of "A Mayor of Canterbury: William Watmer, the Children's
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