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Note: John Pymme or Pyme(d.l558) was the son of Robert Pymme (d.152l) and Juliana, He was more than a simple yeoman, for in 1553 he bought from the Chilham churchwardens an embroidered silk vestment. The wardens purchased from him 6,000 tiles and 12"T" (thousand feet?) of tiling lath for 52s, evidently for replacing roofing or hanging tile wall facings. This is reminiscent of a similar transaction of John Pympe some 60 years earlier, but instead of the tileworks of Boxley Abbey, these tiles were surely from the "brickyard" of Chilham Castle.
In his will John directed that he be buried in Chilham churchyard and named his wife Joan (Joanne) executor, with brother (in-law) Barrey as overseer "to gain for his labours lOs". His widow was to have the revenue from his properties until Michaelmas two years hence. Then son Robert was - to receive "my tenement which I now dwell in (at Shottenden) with 7 acres at the backe side", four pieces of land called two middle fields and another two called Bramefield one acre of woodland in the chese (chase?) by "the slide without the hedge" and four acres of land called Michael's field. John's widow was to retain the chamber next the hall door, the loft over, a cow "to be kept winter and summer at son Robert's charges" and "to come to the fire when she is disposed at any time".
When son John reached age 22 he was to get the tenement and gardens that the testator had bought from Reynold Harris and 7 pieces pf land in Chjlham and Molash parishes lying by the lanes that led to Molash and Dane Street. When son George reached age 22 he was to have "the house that mother Miles dwelleth in", with 2 acres of orchard on the road from Shottenden "forestall" to Chilham, plus 2 acres of arable land in Chjlham and Selling parishes, one called '2hesis and the other Vicarage Croft (since identified as Shottenden Hill) with 2 acres of woodland in Chilham called Chesis Wood op the lane between the Slide and Vicarage Croft, and 3 acres next ttie latter. Sons John and George were to share a tenement that the testator had bought at Soljshjll on the road toward Chilhan, but iad been leased back to the seller. Should the rent be defaulted, wife Joan was to have this Property for her lifetime and move to .~ol1sh1ll from "her two chambers and cowkeepingn at Shottenden
John left to his two Sons equally his grain, cattle and "household stuffe" in the parish of Teynhalu, where he evidently rented property. and unspecified debts owing to him in Faversham and Davington. To each of his daughters he left £6 13s 4d. and to each of his servants. Henry, Francis and Alice (probably farmhands and maid) 20d. To each son he left a brass pot, the eldest to have first choice, then the second. the youngest to have that which remained. Each daughter was to receive a cow and 4 tegge (yearling sheep). Following the custom, John commended his soul to God in fulsome terms, and left money to the high altar for his tithes and offerings "negligetlye forgotten", plus provision for repairs to the church and "to refresh the poor".
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