Source: TNA, PROB 11/466
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In the Name of God Amen I Robert Mudge late belonging to his Majesties Ship Barfleur and now belonging to his Majesties Ship Severn Captaine Stepney Comander & now bound to Sea being well in body and of sound and perfect mind and memory praise therefore be given to Almighty God Doe make Ordaine this my present last will and testament in manner and forme following that is to say First and principally I commend my Soule into the hands of Almighty God hopeing through the meritts death and passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free & pardon & forgivenesse of all my sinns and to inherit evrlasting life & my body I committ to the earth to be decently buried at discretion of my Executor Richard Blackford of New Crosse in Deptford Surry Victualer also hereafter named And as touching the disposition of all such temporall estate as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow upon mee I give devise and dispose thereof as followeth First I will that my Debts and funerall expences shall be first paid and discharged Item I give devise and bequeath unto my loving freind Whitlock Deane of the Inner Temple London Esqr now living by the Hermitage staired in the parish of St Dunstant Stepney als Stebonheath in the County of Middlesex the summe of Tenn shillings to buy him a ring to be paid by my Executor within a month after my decease All the rest and residue of my reall or personall estate goods wages effects debts, bonds, bills, householdstuffe, plate, rings, jewells summe and summes of money Chattells whatsoever not by me hereby devised I doe give and bequeath unto my loveing freind Richard Blackford Senior of New Crosse in the parish of Deptford in the County of Surrey Victualer Which Richard Blackford I doe make and appoint full and sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament And doe hereby revoke disannull and make void All former Wills and Testaments by mee heretofore made In witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale to this my last will and Testament being contained One sheet of paper this eighteenth day of October Anno Dni 1701 And in the thirteenth yeare of the reigne of our Sovreigne Lord William the third King of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the faith &c Robert Mudge Signed sealed published and delivered in the presence of Laurence Goldsborough Mealman at the Hermitage by the Tower Middx Pett Gorden living at the New castle and Ostrich by ye Hermitage ingh St Katerines Victualer Charles Crowther a Glazier at the Hermitage Probatum fuit [this paragraph continues in Latin and appears to grant probate on 19 September 1702] Decimo nono die mensis Septembris Anno Dni millismo Septingesmo scdo [to] Richi Blackford Executoris
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