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IN HIS MAJESTIES HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
The District Probate Court at Bodmin
BE IT KNOWN THAT Loveday Pett of Keybridge in the Parish of Saint Breward in the County of Cornwall Widow who at the time of her death had a fixed place of abode within the District of the County of Cornwall died on the 11th day of December 1890 at Keybridge aforesaid.
AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the District Probate Registry of His Majesties High Court of Justice at Bodmin and that Administration of the Personal Estate of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to Edward George Lanxon Pett the grandson of the said deceased the sole Executor named in the said Will and it is hereby certified that an Affidavit in verification of the account of the said estate has been delivered wherein it is shown that the gross value of the said estate amounts to £60
Dated the 8th day of March 1902
W H L Shadwell
District Registrar

Extracted by the Executor

(Large pressed seal attached)

Probate Engrossment
THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of one Loveday Pett of Keybridge in the Parish of Saint Breward and County of Cornwall Widow I direct that all my just expenses be paid by my Executor hereinafter named I give and bequeath all my Household furniture goods and chattels monies and securities for monies and everything of which I shall be possessed at the time of my decease unto my grandson Edward George Lanxon Pett as and for his own absolute use and benefit and I hereby appoint the said Edward Lanxon Pett sole Executor of this my Will. In witness whereof I the said Loveday Pett have to this my last Will and Testaments set my hand this 12th day of May 1883
Signed published and declared by the within named Testatrix as for her last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses
William Miller Deaconstow Saint Breward
Edmund George Lanxon Pett Senior Keybridge Saint Breward
 

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Contributed by Malcolm McCarthy, (Malc in Sunny Padstow), who has the original document.