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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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