Richard Hoborn's Will
Like many other important shipwrights of the time, Hoborn was connected to the Pett family, as is evident from his last will and testament:
"Item, to William Pett, the sone of Joseph Pett, deceaced, the somme of five shillings to be paid within twelve months after my decease. Item, to my grandsonne Peter Pett, the son of the aforesaid Joseph Pett after the decease of me and my wife all that ground which I hold by lease by Master Robinson of Rochester to whom I give all the remainder of the yeares unexpired he paying yearly four pence if it be demanded to him and them that shall hold the lease of the said ould house (in) which I now dwell …" (Proved at Westminster, 25 April 1654, on oath of Margaret Hoborn, sole Executrix.)
A quaint and intriguing description of the original layout of the Chatham Dockyard is also available in Hoborn's will. It includes a reference to his "ould house … as it is now fenced with the brewing house and garden joyning it with the belle now standing … and the wharfe in the millponde … unto the fence of James Marsh … to have ingresse, egresse, and regresse through that way unto the waterside or water gate … and … the greate Gate Westward … and the … pumpe."
According to the Chatham parish churchwarden accounts, it is clear that Hoborn held the post of churchwarden from 1634 to 1643, and died in 1654, possibly as a result of the stress caused by the Adderley Inquest at Chatham.
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| Name | Hoborn, Richard |
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| Date of death | 1654 |
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