The Will of Thomas Plint

 

In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Plint of the Borough of Penryn in the County of Cornwall Mariner being in Bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and considering the Perils and dangers of the Seas and other uncertainties of this Transitory Life Do for avoiding Controversies after my decease make publish and declare this my last Will and Testament in manner following (that is to say) ffirst I recommend my Soul to God that gave it and my Body I commit to the Earth or Sea as it shall please God to Order And as for and concerning All and singular such Salary Wages Tickets Prize Money Bounty Money Short Allowances Smart Money Pensions and all other Wages sum and sums of Money Lands Tenements Goods Chattles and Estate whatsoever as shall be in any ways due Owing or belonging unto me at the time of my decease I do give devise and bequeath the same unto my well beloved friend Robert Crowgay of the Borough of Penryn in the County of Cornwall Gentleman And I do hereby Nomiate and Appoint the said Robert Crowgate the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament hereby revoking all former and other Wills Testaments and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore made And I do Ordain and ratify these Present to stand be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof to this my said Will I have set my hand and Seal the Twenty seventh day April in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and ffifty six And in the twenty ninth year of the Reign of his Majesty King George the Second over Great Britain etc. Thomas Plint Signed Sealed Published and declared in the presence of Chas Colby   Cptn William Bayns   Proved at London 22 December 1762   PCC Prob11/882