I did this will because it came up on the Blake search but have no idea why Thomas Bradley used the surname Blake. This is the last of the PCC wills for Hampshire and I will now work on the wills from the Hampshire Record Office for which I have quite a few. They are from the 1500s and 1600s so will be slower coming probably but will try for a will a day.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Jan 2014
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/894/370
Testator: Thomas Bradley otherwise Blake, mariner
Place: Rockford, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Type of Record: Will
Date of document: 14 Jul 1755, probated 22 Dec 1763
Condition: 18th century English, legible copy
[Margin]: Thomas Bradley
[Margin]: otherwise
[Margin]: Blake
1 In the name of God Amen
2 I Thomas Bradley Mariner belonging to his Majestys Ship
3 Captain Son of Thomas Bradley of Portsmouth in the county
4 of Southampton labourer being in Bodily health and of sound
5 and disposing mind and memory and considering the perils and
6 dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this transitory
7 life do for avoiding controversies after my decease make
8 publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner
9 following that is to say first I Recommend my Soul to God that
10 gave it and my body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall
11 please God to order and as for and concerning all my worldly
12 Estate I Give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that
13 is to say all my pay and Wages Sum and Sums of Money
14 Lands Tenements Goods Chattels and Estate whatsoever as
15 shall be any ways due owing or belonging unto me at the time
16 of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto
17 my said Father Thomas Bradley to and for his own use and
18 benefit and I do hereby nominate and appoint my said Father
19 Thomas Bradley sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament
20 hereof revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds
21 of Gift by me at anytime heretofore made and I do ordain and
22 ratify these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will
23 and Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have
24 set my hand and Seal the Fourteenth day of July in the year of
25 our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty five and in the
26 twenty ninth year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the
27 Second over Great Britain etc Tho: Bradley Signed Sealed
28 published and declared in the presence of us Thos Binsteed
29 Thos Binsteed Junr
30 On the twenty second day of December in the Year of our
31 Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty three administration
32 with the Will annexed of the Goods Chattels and Credits of Thomas
33 Bradley otherwise Blake late belonging to his Majestys Ships
34 Captain and Shoreham a seaman in the pay of his Majestys
35 Navy Batchelor deceased and granted to John Hazard the
36 lawful Attorney of Thomas Bradley the Father of the said
37 deceased and Sole Executor named in the said Will for the use
38 and benefit of the said Executor now residing at Portsmouth in the
39 County of Southampton his having been first sworn duly to ad[mini]ster
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