In the name of God Amen, I William Brougham Munkhouse of Penrith in the County of Cumberland, Surgeon, being shortly to depart this Kingdom on a long and dangerous voyage, do make ordain and publish this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following, that is to say –
I will and direct that all the debts which I shall Justly owe at the time of my death together with my Funeral Expences shall in the first place be fully paid and satisfied out of my Personal Estate by my Executor hereinafter named.
I Give, Devise and Bequeath all my Goods, Chattels, Moneys, Securities for Money, Wages and Prize Money, and other Personal Estate of what nature or kind soever and wheresoever that I shall die possessed of or be intitled to at the time of my decease unto my dear father George Munkhouse of Penrith aforesaid, Wine Merchant, whom I do nominate, constitute and appoint Sole Executor of this my Will, hereby revoking all Wills by me at any time heretofore made. In witness whereof I the said Testator have to this my Last Will, contained on one sheet of paper, set my hand and Seal the fourteenth day of June 1768 William Brougham Munkhouse.
Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared by the above named William Brougham Munkhouse the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who have here unto subscribed our Names as Witnesses thereto in the presence of the said Testator and each other. Edwd. Stanley Ral. Cooke.
This Will was proved at London before the right worshipful George Hay, Doctor of Laws, Master Keeper or Commissary of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury Lawfully constituted on the nineteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy One by the Oath of George Munkhouse the Father of the deceased and Sole Executor named in the said Will, to whom Administration was granted of all and singular, the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said deceased ha having been first sworn by Commission duly to administer.
Cliff Thornton, August 2003