Item 6 - Henry Waterhouse's Will, 22nd May 1793

Administration with will annexed of Captn Henry Waterhouse deceased, dated 14 day of August 1812.
"In the name of God - I Henry Waterhouse Lieutenant in His Majesty's Navy, living in bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory and surviving 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) First 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 Mid as for [re all my worldly Estate I give bequeath and dispose thereof as followeth that is to say all my wages half pay prize money or Chattels and Estate whatsoever as shall be anyways since owing or [ —ing] unto me at the time of my [—] I do give & devise and bequeath
the same unto my Father William Waterhouse of Mount Street Cros—or Square And I do hereby nominate and appoint my friend Mr. Osborne Standert of the Navy Office Executor of this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former and other wills Testaments and Deeds of Gifts by me at any time heretofore made and I do ordain and ratify these Presents to stand and be for and as my only last will and testament. In witness whereof to this my said will I hereon set my Hand and Seal the twenty second Day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and ninety three and in the thirty third year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the third over Great Britain."
[Signed] Henry Waterhouse (SS).
Signed sealed published and [?] in the presence of T. Dodd [and] John Morris"
"Extract by Adderley & Box, Proctors Doctors Commons"
"By Decree"

Appended to the parchment extract is a smaller parchment annexure being an extract from an instrument [a Grant of Administration by Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury] appointing William Waterhouse as Administrator of the estate of Henry Waterhouse, the original instrument, of which this is an extract, being given at London on the 14th August, 1812. [Dimensions: 200mm x 203mm]
Appended to the annexure is a wafer "Seal of the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury". [Dimensions of wafer Seal: 93mm x 79mm]
[Text of Grant of Administration]
Charles by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, To our well beloved in Christ, William Waterhouse the Father and [U—] Legatee named in the Will of Henry Waterhouse late of Smiths Square in the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist Westminster in the County of Middlesex and a Post Captain in the Royal Navy [de—] Greeting; Whereas the said Henry Waterhouse, having whilst living, and at the Time of his Death, Goods, Chattels or Credits, in diver Dioceses or Jurisdictions, did (as is alleged) in his Life-time rightly and duly make his last Will and Testament (hereunto annexed) and did therein name Osborne Standert Esquire, sole Executor, who hath renounced the Probate and execution thereof.
AND WE being desirous that the said Goods, Chattels and Credits may be well and faithfully administered, applied and dispose of the said Goods, Chattels and Credits, according to the Tenor and Effect of the said Will,; and first to pay the Debts of the said Deceased, which he did owe at the Time of his Death, and afterwards the Legacies contained and specified in the said Will, so far as such Goods, Chattels and Credits, will thereto extend and the law requires: You having been already sworn, well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on or before the last Day of February ensuing, and also to render a just and true Account thereof, And we do by these Presents ordain, depute and constitute you Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased (with the said Will annexed.) Given at London the fourteenth Day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve and in the Eighth Year of our Translation.
[Signed]
Geo. Gostting
Nath. Gostting
R.C. Creswell
Deputy Registrars
Extracted by Adderley & Box, Proctors Doctors Commons
"Sworn under One Hundred Pounds G.B."