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."

The wishes expressed in the will of this brave officer were implicitly
complied with; his body was embalmed and sent to Plymouth by the
admiral, in the Gloucester, commanded by Captain Durell, (afterwards
Admiral Durell,) his brother-in-law, and was buried in the church at
Plymouth with military honours. A neat tablet is erected in the said
church, with the following inscription: "Near this place lies the
body of Philip Saumarez, Esq. commander of H.M.S. Nottingham. He was
the son of Matthew de Saumarez, of the Island of Guernsey, by Anne
Durell, of the island of Jersey, his wife, families of antiquity and
respectability in those parts. He was born 17th November 1710, and
gloriously but unfortunately fell by a cannon-ball, 14th October 1747,
pursuing the ships of the enemy that were making their escape, when
the French were routed by Admiral Hawke."

Out of respect to his memory, his brothers and sisters caused a plain
monument to be erected to him in Westminster Abbey, with the following
inscription:

"ORBE CIRCUMCINTO,

"Sacred to the memory of Philip De Saumarez, Esq., one of the
few whose lives ought rather to be measured by their actions
than their days. From sixteen to thirty-seven