In the name of God Amen
I Agnes Hone of Horsell in the County of Surry widdowe 
being aged and weake yett sound and perfect in memory thanks 
be to God doe here ordaine make and declare this my last will 
and Testament as followeth  First I commend and committ my 
soule into the hands of Almighty God my faithfull Creator 
hopeing as for the admission of my sinnes by the meritts of 
Jesus Christ and my body to bee buryed with christian decent 
buryall in the churchyard of Horsell aforesaid att the discretion 
of my Executor hereafter named  Item I give and bequeath to 
Thomas Hone my Grandson and oldest sonne of Thomas 
Hone my sonne all those my brookes and Meadowe grounds 
called Parley Brookes lyeinge in wookeinge in Horsell 
conteyninge twelve acres more or lesse and one Coppse called 
Carches contayninge five acres more or lesse To have and to 
hold to him and his heirs of his body lawfully to bee begotten 
for ever hee the said Thomas Hone paying to John Hone 
Richard Hone and Robert Hone his brothers younger sonnes 
of my said sonne Thomas Hone Twenty pounds to bee shared by 
even and equall proporcons amongst them as the same may bee 
raysed of the rents of the aforesaid lands the tax deducted the 
oldest to bee paid first and soe on and on and likewise to my 
Granddaughter Agnes Hone Twenty pounds as that shall also 
bee raised after the foresaid Twenty pounds willed and devised 
to my said Grandsonnes shall be discharged Provided that if any 
of my said Grandchildren fortune to dye then my will is that the 
porcon of that childe so dyeing shall bee utterly extinguished  
And if it shall happen my said Grandchild Thomas Hone to dye 
without heirs of his body lawfully begotten then my will and 
pleasure is that my foresaid lands shall remain and bee to 
Richard Hone my Grandsonne the sonne of my said sonne 
Thomas Hone and to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten for 
ever hee the said Richard paying yearely after the aforesaid 
legacies and discharges unto Elizabeth the now wife of my 
said Grandchilde Thomas Hone in case shee survive her 
husband three pounds by the yeare soe longe as shee shall 
remaine a widdowe and not longer  Is also my will and pleasure 
is that if my said Grandchilde Thomas Hone should happen to 
have paid all the legacies aforesaid before his death and dyeinge 
without heires that then my said Grandchild Richard Hone shall 
repay the one halfe thereof that is to say Twenty pounds unto the 
aforesaid Elizabeth his brothers widdowe or her Executors or 
assignes  Item I give and bequeath unto Thomas Hone my sonne 
the table and forme in the hall in his dwellinge house the Mill in 
the outward Kitchen Chamber the saltinge trough in the outward 
Kitchen duringe his naturall life and after his decease the said 
mill to remaine to Thomas Hone my Grandchilde his Executors 
and assigns and the said Table and forme fromtime to time to 
continue and remaine to the lawfull heire or heires of my sonne 
Thomas Hone who shall inherritt his cheife messuage or 
mansion house hee now dwelleth in Item my will and pleasure is 
that for my house and land wherein John Woods the younger 
now dwelleth my Grandsonne Richard Hone shall have and hold 
the same to him and his heirs for ever hee the said Richard 
paying to his father Thomas Hone the sume of thirty pounds 
Item I give to Thomas Hone my Grandsonne the bedstead 
fetherbedd feather boulster horse boulster I nowe lye on together 
with one Coverlette belonginge to itt all in my Chamber Item I 
give to John Hone my Grandchilde the furnace already sett upp 
in the outward Kitchin  Lastly I ordaine my sonne Thomas Hone 
to bee the sole and lawfull Executor of this my last will and 
Testament hereby frustrateinge and annullinge all former wills 
whatsoever In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and 
Seale the one and twentieth day of November one thousand six 
hundred fifty-five the marke of Agnes Hone  Witness hereunto 
Richard Alessey  

This will was proved att London the nineteenth day of 
September in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred 
fifty six before the Judges for probate of wills and grantinge 
Administration lawfully authorised by the oath of Thomas Hone 
the sonne and Executor named in the said will to whom 
Administration of all and singular the goods Chattells and debts 
of the said deceased were remitted he beinge first sworne well 
and truly to administer the same.