The testator, David Blake is a Mariner on board the Ship Southampton. His son is named James Blake and he is named Executor.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 13 Apr 2017
Source: The National Archives, PROB 11/490
Name of testator: David Blake, Mariner
Place: on board the Ship Southampton
Type of Record: Will
Dated: 1 Jun 1705, probated 27 Dec 1706
[In margin] Tm: Davidis Blake
1 In the Name of God Amen
2 I David Blake belonging to her Majesty’s Ship Southampton
3 Mariner being in good health of body and of sound and perfect
4 mind and memory But considering the perils and dangers of
5 the Seas and the uncertainty of this transitory life doe make
6 publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner
q following That is to say Imprimis I recommend my Soule into
8 the hand of God that gave And my Body I commit to the
9 Earth or Seas as it shall please God to order And touching
10 and concerning such worldly Estate as it shall please God to
11 bestowe upon me at the time of my decease I give devise and
12 dispose thereof in manner following That is to say All and
13 singular such wages pay Bounty money prize money that now
14 is or hereafter shall be due and payable to me for my Service
15 onboard of the said Ship Southampton or any other Ship or
16 Ships whatsoever And alsoe all other my Estate whatsoever
17 or wheresoever that shall belong to me at the time of my
18 decease I give devise and bequeath unto my well beloved Son
19 James Blake whome I constitute make and ordaine my
20 sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And I doe
21 hereby revoke disannul all and every other former Wills and
22 Testaments by me heretofore made Ratifying and confirming
23 this and noe other to be my last Will and Testament In
24 Witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and Seale
25 this first day of June Anno domini One thousand Seaven
26 hundred and five David Blake Signed Sealed published
27 and declared by the Testator as and for his last Will and
28 Testament in the presence of Geor: Briant Daniel Sutton
29 William Newton
30 Probatum fuit humoi Testamentum apud London
31 coram venti viro Johannie Exton Legum doctore Surrogato
32 Ventis et Egregij viri domini Richardi Raines Militis
33 Legum etiam doctoris Curia Prerogative Cantuar Magri
34 Custodis sive Commissarii legitimo constitute decimo Septimo
35 die mensis decembris Anno domini Millesimo Septingesimo
36 Sexto Juramento Jacobi Blake Filij duti defuncti et Executoris
37 in dicto Testamento nominat Cui commissa fuit Administrato
38 omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti
39 defuncti de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad
40 Sancta dei Evangelia Jurat
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