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Wills of 18th Century Chatham Shipwrights
Prerogative Court of Canterbury (P.C.C.) Wills 1706 - 1799)

John RANWORTH 1717

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN

I John Ranworth of Chatham in cond. Kent shipwright intending to take a voyage to sea being in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the perills and dangers of the seas and other uncertainties of this transistory life do for avoiding controversies after my decease make & publish and declare this my last will and testament in manner following (that is to say) first I recommend my soul to God that gave it and my body I commit to the earth or sea as it shall please God to order and as for and concerning all my worldly estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all and singular such pay wages summe and summes of money lands tenements goods chattells belonging to me at the time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my loving father Edward Shafter of Chatham aforesaid shipwright and ? tee his wife their heires executors administrators and assigns for ever and I do hereby nominate and appoint them full and sole executors of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former and other wills testaments deeds of gift by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordaine and ratifye these presents to stand and be for my only last will and testament in witness whereof to this my said will I have sett my hand and seale the fourteenth day of March anno domini 1708 and in the eighth year of the reigne of Her Majesty Queen Anne that is now over Great Brittaine etc. John Ranworth signed sealed and published in the presence of me Moses Best Joseph Ranworth Edward Codd attorney in Chatham.

Proved 3rd September 1717 power reserved to Edward Shafter

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