05 March 1695 Will of John Pike, mariner (proved 15 October 1696)

Source: TNA, PROB 11/434

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Know all men by these presents that I
John Pike Marriner now belonging to his Maties Ship Greenwich
Have and by these presents doe make ordaine and constitute John
Warren of Stepney in the County of Middx Ropemaker my true and
lawfull Attorney irrevocable forme and in my name and for my
use to aske demand and receive of and from the right honble the
Treasurer or Paymaster of their Maties Navy and Coms for prize
money and whom else it may concerne As well all sum wages and
pay bounty money prize money and all other sume and sumes of
money whatsoever as now is and which hereafter shall or may be due or
payable unto me pursueant to his Maties gracious Declaracon of the
23 of May 1689 And also all such pentions salleries smart money
and all other moneys and things whatsoever which now and at any
time hereafter is and shall be due to me for my owne service or



otherwise in any of his Maties ships Frigetts or Vessells or any
Merchant ship or ships As also to demand recover and receive of all
other person and persons whatsoever whom it doth or my concerne all
and singular such other sume and sumes of money goods wares 
effects wages debts dues claimes and demands whatsoever which now and
hereafter is or shall be due and payable unto me either by bond bill
booke account or otherwise howsoever And moreover in my name and
for my proper use to demise and lett by Lease in writeing or otherwise
all or any of my Messuages Lands or Tenements to such person or
persons and for such terme of yeares condicons and reservatons as my
said Attorney or his Councell shall thinke fitt and convenient Giveing
and hereby granting unto my said Attorney my full and whole power
in the premisses and to recover and receive all and singuler the sume
and sumes of money matters and things aforesaid and upon non
payment thereof or any parte thereof All such person and persons
whom it may concerne and where need shall require their Executors
Administrators and goods to sue arrest attache seize imprison prosecute
and condemne and to compound and agree and out of prison to release
and discharge And upon receipt of the said premisses or any parte
thereof Acquittances Releases or any other Discharges for me and in
my name to make seale and deliver and one Attorney or more
to substitute and at pleasure to revoke and generally to act and doe
all other acts matters and things whatsoever needfull and necessary
to be done in and touching the premisses as fully and effectually as I
might or could doe if I were personally present Ratifying and
allowing for firme and valid and irrevocable all and whatsoever
my said Attorney shall lawfully doe or cause to be done in and touching
the premisses by vertue of these presents And I the said John Pike
considering the incertainty of this transitory life doe make and
declare these presents to containe my last Will and Testament that
is to say all such wages sume and sumes of money Lands Tenemts
Goods Chattells and Estate whatsoever wherewith at the time of my
decease I shall be possessed or invested or which shall then belong or of
right appertaine unto me I doe give devise and bequeath unto my
said Attorney John Warren And doe hereby nominate and appoint
my said Attorney my full and sole Executor and doe revoke all
former Wills and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore
made and doe ordaine these presents to stand and be for and as
my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have
hereunto sett my hand and seale the Fifth day of March Anno Dni
1695 And in the Eighth yeare of his Maties Reigne The marke of
John Pike signed sealed published and declared in the presence
of Rd Clton Noy Publiq : 95 : 5 : Mar Edw Townsend his Clerke

Probatum [this paragraph is in latin and appear to grant admin to John Warren alias Warring
on 15 Oct 1696 "Decimo quinto die mensis Octobris Anno Dni Millimo Sexegimo Nonageno Sexto"]

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