"In case I am killed in action, or die whilst I command the Nottingham, to the three lieutenants a suit of mourning each, which I beg they will accept; and to Mr. Surroude, my chaplain, I bequeath the sum of 100_l._ in regard to his large family; and to Mr. Redley, my clerk, the sum of 30_l._ for the trouble of making up my accounts. "To Admiral Anson and Sir Peter Warren, I desire they will accept a mourning ring each, my executors to lay out 30_l._ in each ring; and to the former I recommend my brother Tom. "I likewise desire that 300_l._ may be laid out to purchase a handsome monument, made in London, to the memory of my late aunt, the Lady Carteret, to be erected in the church where she is interred, and a due epitaph, enumerating her exemplary virtues and life, to be inscribed on it in French and English, and recorded to posterity; and this I desire my brother John will see duly performed, as well as my other executors, with expedition; this piece of gratitude to her memory having been neglected by all her relations. "In case it should not be attended with any inconvenience, the surgeon to preserve and embalm my corpse, to be interred in a military manner on shore, in whatever port the ship may put in; and the surgeon to be presented with 30_l._ for his trouble. I bequeath to my brother officers, Captains Thomas Coates, Martyn, Keppel, Rodney, and Timothy Brett, a mourning ring of 10_l._ value each; the same to Mr. Logie, first lieutenant of the Nottingham. "To the poor of the parish in the island of Guernsey, where I was born, 100_l._ to be distributed: the remainder of what fortune I may have to bequeath, to my honoured father. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my worthy friend Pussey Brook, Esq., James Wallace, Esq., and my eldest brother John Saumarez, Esq., executors of this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at sea, this 30th day of June, and in the twenty-first year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George the Second over Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c., and in the year of our Lord 1747. "PHILIP SAUMAREZ." (L.S.) "Signed in the presence of, Robert Richards, Master. Alexander Gray, Gunner."