Will of A Sailor Shipping to Guinea, 12 Oct
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[North Country Wills, ed. J. W. Clay (Surtees Soc., Vol. CXXI., 1912), pp. 1-2.]
George Warde, maryner and bacheler, borne in the towne of Newton in the countie of Richmonde, nowe being shipped in the good shippe called the Teager, and in the said shippe I am appoynted to goo into the lande of Geney,¹ being a longe and 1 This was ' the third and last voyage of M. William Towrson to the coast ofGuinie in the yeare 1557,' which will be found narrated in Hakluyt, Principal Navigations, Vol. VI., pp. 231-52. Four ships, the Minion, the Christopher, the Tiger and the Unicorn sailed from Plymouth on the 30th ..
January, 1558. The old Tiger of London had often voyaged to Barbary, dangerouse journey, having no certentie of my lif nor sure comyng home, and do consider my bounden dutie towardes my poore mother, Sibell Warde, and my foure bretherne, all dwelling in Great Creacall in the parishe of Beadall, the whiche of right and good conscience ought to have all that I have or shall have, if God take me oute of this worlde in the tyme of this my journey, do make this my will, myndynge never to alter this my will, nor to make any other untill I come save to London agayne. I give my chest, withall suche goodes as is properly myne in the shippe and all my waiges that remayneth unreceaved of me, with all suche shares as maye come by chaunce of warre after my death, unto my mother Sybell Warde, whome I make my executrix, to dispose of my goodes unto her self and to my bretherne, every one of theym part and part like by even portions. I make myn uncle Christofer Warde of London myn oversear and he to have xx s. for his labour, and myne attorney to withstande the law against all suche as kepe awaye any part within my will, and to paye hymself all suche chardges spent in the lawe.
