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T: LEONARD BUSHELLL

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN I Leonard Bushell of Lymehouse Mariner being in good and perfect Memory Although sick and weake in body doe make and ordaine this my last Will & Testament in manner and fforme ffolloweinge.

FFIRST I bequeath my Soule into the handes of Almightie God from whence it came hopeinge through the merritts of Jesus Christ my Redeemer To obtaine pardon and fforgiveness of Amm my Sinnes And as for my Body I committ to the Earth from whence it came decentlie to bee buried.

SECONDLIE All the primadge to bee Received here att Scanderoone & ffiftie dollers To bee Received of Mr ?Lee for Gratuitie, which I give and bequeath to William Jackson if Recovered,

THIRDLY I bequeath To Richard ?Soamer Twentie Poundes.

FFOURTHLY I bequeath To William Stevens my Silver hilted Rapier

FFIFTHLY I bequeath to William Parker my Turkish ?Simiter

SEAVENTLY I bequeath to the abovesaid Richard Seamer my studd suite with silver XXXX

EIGHTLY I give To my Servants theire tyme and their wages for the voyadge

NYNTHLY I give To every Head Officer in the Shipp a peice to buy them a Ring to weare for my sake,

TENTHLY I bequeath to my Sister Mary Browne the wife of Zachary Browne Mariner All my Plate, my dyamond Ringe, my ?Cheasts and Screators and what ever XXXX else is usefull for her,

ELEVEANTHLY I give to my Cousen Henry Bushell Twentie Poundes I say the Sonne of Henry Bushell deceased

TWELVETHLY I give to M:r William ?Weld M:r Lawrence ?Sawser and his wife Ellen ?Sawser ffourtue Shillinges a peecee to buy them a Ringe to weare in Memory of mee,

THIRTEENTHLY I give To my brother Zachary Browne my Parte of his Shipp I hold with him

FFOWERTEENTHLY I give To George Browne and Leonard Browne the Sonnes of Zachary Browne Each of them One Hundred Poundes; And if itt please God att the date hereof they have another Child I give that the like Legacie

FFIFTEENTH I give To my Servante John Batchelor besides his tyme halfe the Money I had with him which is Tenne Poundes

SIXTEENTH I give To William Crutchfeild ffive Poundes

LASTLY All the Rest of my Estate that shall Appeare which I REcken to bee about one Thousand Poundes Sterlinge, if my debt Recovered from India I give To my Mother ?Marye Bushell desireinge after her deceasement To give into my Sisters Children the Remainder, Onely is bequeath unto M:r John ?Bence (Or, ??Beine), and M:r William Weld Tenne Pound a peece whom I Appointe my

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my Executors of this my last Will and Testament; dated thhis Second day of July One Thousand Six hundred Sixtie and One, Aboard the Societie in Scanderoone Road:

LEO: BUSHELL

Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us W:m Jackson, Richard ?Seamer, Richard Weld, Will: Stevens, John Ashley, John Bennett, John Purdue:

PROBATUM fuit Testamentum Supra Scriptum apud London Coram Venerabili et Egregio viro Dno Guilielimo Merrick Milite Legim XXXX Curia Prerogative Cantuasiensio Magistro Custode sive Commissario Legitime Constituto ?Decimo dXX Mensio Decembrio Anno Domini Millesimo Sexicimo Sexagesimo Primo Juramiento Guiluelimi Weld XXX Executorum un humioj Testamente Nominat XXX Commissa fuit Administratio Omnium et Singuler bonorum Jurum ez creditorum dictii defuncti de bene et fideliter Administrand eadem Ad Sancta dej Evangelia in ?debita Junio femina Jurat.

JOHANNE NENCE altero Execut in deo Testamento Nominat Expresse Renunnciante:

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