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PROBATE TRANSCRIPTON – WILL & OATH

Ref No / AP/M/2510/1
Title / MARTYN, Henry of Launceston, gentleman [on endorsement], mercer [in will]
Date of probate* / 31 Jul 1754
Description / ‘Henry Martyn Mercer of the Burrough of Dunheved alias Launceston’
Bequests:
-  to ‘my Uncle Martyn’ a guinea ring
-  to wife Frances Martyn and her heirs forever ‘all my Houses Lands Tenements and Hereditaments within the Burrough of Dunheved alias Launceston aforesaid or elsewhere lying or being’
-  to wife ‘all my Household Goods Mony Plate Jewels Shop Goods Stock in trade all my Real and Personal Estate whatsoever’
Executor: wife Frances Martyn
Signature: [Testator’s name written in same hand as witnesses with + in a circle]
Witnesses:
Henry Pengelly, Phillip King and John Barriball [All written by same hand]
Date of will: 21 Nov 1732
Date proved: 31 Jul 1754
Endorsed:
‘Admion of the Goods &c of the Said Deceased…was Granted to Mary Frances Harrison (Wife of John Harrison) the Executrix named in the Will of Frances Martyn, who (whilst living) was the whole and Sole Executrix named in the Said Will of the Said Henry Martyn Deceased’
No Inventory
Note: The will is a copy, not the original
Ref No / AP/M/2510/2
Title / MARTYN, Henry of Launceston, gentleman [on endorsement], mercer [in will]
Date of probate/grant / 31 Jul 1754
Description / Date of document: 31 Jul 1754
Oath by Mary Frances Harrison ‘the now Wife of John Harrison Gent’, executor of Frances Martyn, who had been named executor of Henry Martyn of Launceston borough, mercer, that she would well and truly administer the will of Henry Martyn ‘which remain[s] unadministered by Frances Martyn’
A true and perfect inventory to be prepared and a true and just account to be made when lawfully required
Witness:
Signature of J Lyne Commissioner

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