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Wills of 17th CENTURY CHATHAM SHIPWRIGHTS
Prerogative Court of Canterbury
(P.C.C.) Wills 1603 - 1699) -
Transcribed by D.E. Williams
Robert
MOORCOCK - 1696
In the name of God amen
I Robert Moorcock of Chatham
in the county of Kent shipwright in sound and perfect health of body and
mind praised be God being now bound to sea in Their Majties ship Greewich
and not knowing whether it may please God I shall live to return home
againe doe for the quieting my mind and setling that estate which God of
his mercy hath afforded me make and ordaine this my last will and
testament in manner and forme following Imprimis
I give and devise unto my loveing mother Mary Moorcock all and
every my messuages land tenements and hereditaments situate and being in
the parish of Chatham aforesaid or elsewhere in the county of
Kent to have and to hold to my said loveing mother Mary Moorcock
to her heires and assignes for ever Item
all the rest and residue of my ready money wages pay goods and chattels
whatsoever after payment of my debts I give and bequeath the same unto
my said loveing mother Mary Moorcock whom I dow make and ordaine
full and sole executorix of this my last will and testament hereby
revoking and making void all and every former and other will and wills
by me formerly made in witness whereof I the said Robert Moorcock
have hereunto sett my hand and seale this eighteenth day of December in
the first yeare of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady William
and Mary by the grace of God King and Queen of England etc. one
thousand six hundred eighty nine Robert Moorcock signed sealed
published and declared by the above named Robert Moorcock the
testator to bee his last will and testament in the presence of us who
subscribed our names as witnesses hereunto in the said testator's
presence John Poole Wm Eddye hen commander David Jones.
Proved 8th October 1696
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