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NOVEMBER, 1917)
JOB CHARNOCK-HIS PARENTAGE AND WILL
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It now only remains to quote the will of Job Charnock who spent at least 37 years of his life in India and ended his days there on the 10th January, 1693. The will was dated from the infant settlement of Chuttanuttee (Satanati), afterwards to become famous as Calcutta. So far as I am aware, no complete copy of the document has been printed and I therefore give it in full. 10
In the name of God Amen.
"I Job Charnock at present Agent for Affaires of the Right honoble. English East India Company in Bengall being indisposed in body but perfect and sound in mind and memory doe make and ordaine this to be my last Will and Testament (Vizt.)
"Imprimis I bequeath my soul to Almighty God who gave it and my body to be decently buryed at the discretion of my Overseers and for what estate it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me withall I doe here by will and bequeath it as followeth.
" Secondly I will and bequeath that all debts or claimes lawfully made on me be discharged by my Overseers.
Thirdly I give and bequeath to my beloved Friend Daniel Sheldon11 Esquire Seventy pounds Sterling as a Legacy to buy him a Ring.
"Fourthly I give and bequeath to the honble. Nathaniel ] Higginson12 as a Legacy to buy him a Ring four hundred Rupees.
Sixthly I give and bequeath to Mr. John Hill13 as a Legacy to buy him a Ring two hundred Rupees and that likewise he be paid out of my parte of the permission Trade Commission one hundred Rupees more in all three hundred Rupees.
"Seventhly I give and bequeath to Mr. Francis Ellis14 as a Legacy to buy him a Ring one hundred and fifty Rupees.
"Eighthly I doe hereby ordaine and appointed [sic] the honble. Nathaniel Higginson President of Madras and Mr. John Beard 15 of Councill in Bengall to be overseers16 of this my will.
“Ninthly I give and bequeath to the poore of the Parish of Cree Church London the Summe of fifty pounds Sterling.
“Tenthly I give and bequeath to Budlydasse [ Badli DAs) one hundred Rupees and the meanest sort of my sonns Cloathes lately deceased,
“Eleventhly I give and bequeath to the Doctor now attending me fifty Rupees.
"Twelfthly I give and bequeath to my Servants Gunnyshams [Ghansyam ) and Dallub Dalab ) each twenty Rupees.
« Thirteenthly I give and bequeath after the payment of the abovementioned debts Legacies that all my whole Estate in India and elsewhere be equally given and distributed to my three daughters Mary Elizabeth and Katherine only with this reservation that as an addition to my daughter Marys portion there shall be paid her out of my daughter Elizabeths ) and Katherines two thirds Six hundred pounds Sterling.
“Fourteenthly I will and desire my Overseers beforementioned that my three daughters be sent with a convenient handsome equipage for England and recommended to the Care of my well beloved friend Daniell Sheliton [sic] Esqr, in London and that their Estates
30 Wills, P.C. C., 91 Irby. 11 Chief at Kasimbazár, 1658-1665. He returned to England in 1866. 13 Governor of Fort St. George, Madras, 1692-98. 13 Captain John Hill, " Secretary and Captain of the Soldiers." See Yule, Hedges' Diary. II. 92. # Then Second of Council at Hagli. He died at Fort St. George in 1704. Governor of Bengal, 1701-1710.
16 Executors in Bengal.
