Know all men by these presente That  I John Hollis of the parish of Handslap in the County of Buckingham Mariner belong to his Majesties Ship Colchester have and by these present Do make ordain and constitute John Downes in the parish of St Giles Cripplegate London my true and lawfull Attorny irrevokable for me and in my name and for my use to ask Demand and receive of and from the Right Honoble the Treasurer or Paymaster of his Majesties Navy and Commissioners for prize money and whom else it may concern as with all such wages and pay bounty money prize money and all other sum and sums of money whatseover as now is and which hereafter shall or may be due or payable unto me pursuant to his Majesties greacious Declaration of the twenty third of May One thousand Six hundred and Eighty nine And also all such pensions Salaries Smart money and all other moneys and things whatsoever which now and at any time hereafter is and shall be out to use for my own service or otherwise in any of his Majesties Ships ffriggotts or Vessells or any Merchants Ship or Ships as alsoe to demand recover and receive of all other person and persons whatsoever whom it doth or may concern all and singular such other sum and sums of money goods wares effects wages Debts Duties claims and Demands whatsoever which now and hereafter is or shall be Due and payable unto me either by Bond Bill Book acc.... or otherwise howsoever and moresoever in my name and for my proper use to Demise and let by Lease in  writing or otherwise All or any of my Messuages Lands or Tenements to such person or persons and for such term of yeares conditions and Reservacons as my said Attorney or his Councell shall think fit and convenient Giving and hereby granting unto my said Attorney my full and whole power in the premises and to recover and receive all and singular the sum and sums of money matters and things aforesaid and upon none payment thereof or anypart thereof all such person and persons whom it may concern and where need shall require their Executors Administrators and goods to sue arrest attach seize imprison prosecute and condemn and to compound and agree and out of prison to release and discharge and upon receipt of the premises or any part thereof acquittances releases or any other Discharges for me and in my name to make seal and Deliver and one Attorney or more to substitute and at pleasure to revoke and generally to act and do all other Acts matters and things whatsoever needfull and and necessary to be done in touching the premises as fully and effectually as I ought or could do if I were personally present Ratifying and allowing for firm and valid and irrevocable all and whatsoever my said Attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done in or touching the premises by virtue of these presents And I the said John Hollis considering the uncertainty of this transitory life do make and declare these presents to contain my last Will and Testament that is to say All such wages sum and sums of money Lands Tenements Goods Chattells and Estate whatseover wherewith at the time of my decease I shall be possessed or invested or which shall belong or appertain unto me I do give devise and bequeath unto the said John Downs and I do hereby nominate and appoint and to his heirs for ever the said John Downes to be Executor of this my last Will and Testament and do revoke all former Wills and Deeds of Gift by me at any time heretofore made and do order these presents to stand and be for and as my only last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seale the tenth Day of ffebruary Anno Dom One thousand six hundred ninety seven and in the eighth year of the Reign of King William the third the marke of John Hollis Signed sealed published and declared in the present of Fredrick Veghman Capt. Edmund Bugdon 1st Lieut Thomas Lewin Carpenter Jos:Arther Boatswain

Proved 9th day of April 1698