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Wills of 17th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1603 - 1699)
John
CLEMENCE - 1646
In the name of God amen
this fifteenth day of July ano dno 1646 I John Clemence of Chatham
in the county of Kent shipwright being sicke in body but of perfect
memory doe make and ordaine my last will and testament in manner and
forme following first and principally I committ and comend my soule into
the hands of Almighty God my maker and redeemer and my corps to the
earth to be decently buried as my executor shall think fit and for such
worldly substance as God in his mercy hath lent me I give and bequeath
as followeth Item I give and
bequeath to my sonne Thomas Clemence one featherbed and
bedstead ?
and blankett belonging to it with bolster and a plaine deale chest
standing in the chamber and one brass pott and one iron pott and one
spitt and one little table standing in the chamber a forme and five
pounds of lawfull english money to be paid him within one yeare and a
half after my decease and likewise the foresaid goods and as for all
other my goods and money household stuffe whatsoever I give unto Alice
my wife whom I make my sole executor to this my last will and testament
dated this day and yeare first above written the mark of John
Clemence sealed and delivered in the prescence [of] us the mark of George
Wiggenes Ri. Burley
Proved 7th August 1646
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