Kemp Will 1688
Will of Richard Kempe
of Ramsgate, Kent
Source: Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB 11/392/289
Submitted by Shelagh Mason
Know all men by these presents That I Richard Kemp of Romansgate in the Isle of Thanet and County of Kent Marriner being onwardly
bound in parts beyond the seas not knowing how God in Providence might dispose of mee have constituted and made and doe hereby authorize
and appoint Nicholas Parker of the Precinct of Saint Katherines neare the Tower of London Marriner my lawfull Attorney and Assignee
for mee in my name and for my use to demand and receive of all and every person and persons whatsoever All moneys wages and debts, goods
and other Estate in right belonging now or hereafter unto mee whether it bee by writeing contract Accompt or for my service done or to bee
done – onboard any shipp or vessell either in his Majesties service, Merchants or Companies Service or otherwise howsoever or wheresoever
it bee
And to have use and take all lawfull wayes and meanes for recovery thereof Accquittance or other
sufficient discharge such and soe many of them to give as occasion requires Alsoe one Attorney or
more under him to make and impowerthe same againe as pleasure to revoake
And in all causes and cases in law or otherwise whatsoever my said Attorney shall legally doe or
promise to bee done in and about the premisses to the use aforesaid I doe hereby ratifie allowe and
confirme as powerfull and effectuall in all respects as if I were personally present and did the same
Lastly Considering the uncertainty of this life I doe make and declare this to bee my last Will and Testament and the said Nicholas Parker
sole Executor thereof
And unto him his Executors Administrators and Assignes for ever after my decease I do hereby will give devise and bequeath All
moneys, plate, wages, goods, debts and other Estate as I shall die possessed of or any way interested in whatsoever
And Whereas the said Nicholas Parker hath beene my only friend in necessity I doe hereby bind mee
and all that is or ever shall be to mee in the penalty of forty pounds lawfull English
money that I will not neither directly or indirectly revoake made void nor Countermand any thing in
these presents written or conteined untill what I now am or hereafter shall bee indebted unto the said
Nicholas Parker his Executors Administrators or Assignes bee first fully paid and satisfied
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the eighteenth day of January Anno dini 1685
Richard Kemp
Subscribed Sealed Published and declared in the presence of: Nath. Randell - Tho. Cornelius
Probatum fuit: 18th September 1688.
Transcribed by Shelagh Mason 18th January 2021
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