Re: Wills & Women's Rights?

I wrote:

Cheryl wrote:

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The 1714 one mostly mentions (prize?) money and wages; the 1752 one gets
into building, bonds, plate and other stuff. The 1714 is of the most
interest to me as there is a slightly earlier document Stateside that
mentioned Capt. Wm Crissop. I got the other one because paying the fees
one at a time seemed wasteful to my Scots soul?
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Somewhere in my files, I've got a mariner's will of the same period ...
less exalted a personage, but the inventory is interesting because it does
list what wages, etc., he was owed at his death. If I can find, I'll post
it to the list.

Bother, it's not in my ship probate file, which means that I had a
non-marine interest in him and filed the probate under his name. Trouble is,
I can't remember his name!

However, it struck me that your 1714 'money' may not be prize money but
transport money. This seems to crop up occasionally in probate inventories
of the period, usually as being unpaid by the government:

e.g. the probate of James Bacon of Whitehaven 1708 is valued at £84 9s 0d.
This valuation included 'one Sixteenth part of the good Ship Concord' at £30
and included a footnote:

|More money due to the said sixteenth part of the sd Ship Concord from her
majesty Queen Anne for transport service|

More interestingly, the probate inventory of Robert Benn of Whitehaven
1699/1700, valued at £373:04:00, has:

|An 8th part of Timber & Planks, & of the ship Primrose shipwrecked in
Scotland 10:00:00|
|Due in their Maties service for the ships Primrose & Assistance
£220:00:00|

So, the transport service money was a huge part of the estate. Or maybe this
included compensation for the shipwreck?

Chris


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