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Bond relating to the Property of Ann Hooper, dated 4 December 1818

St Enoder
4th December 1818
Bond upon the Admion of the Goods etc of Ann Hooper Widow deced granted to Richard Hooper and William Hooper the sons and two of the next in Kin of the said deced
The Admors were Sworn before John Wallis the younger Clerk Surrogate
Saving etc
No Inventory
Stp £11
 
Know all Men by these Presents that We Richard Hooper of the Parish of St Columb Major in the County of Cornwall Farmer William Hooper of the Parish of St Enoder in the said County Farmer John Rowse of Saint Columb in the Said County Farmer and Solomon Martin of the Borough of Bodmin in the County of Cornwall Yeoman are held and firmly bound unto The Worshipful William Short Clerk Archdeacon of Cornwall.
in the Sum of Nine Hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said William Short or to his certain Attorney his Executors Administrators or Afsigns To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves and every of us by himself for the whole our and each and every of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the Seventh day of December in the Fifty Ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland King Defender of the Faith etc And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen
 
The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden Richard Hooper and William Hooper being as the Said admitted Administrators of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of Ann Hooper late of Saint Enoder widow deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands Possession or Knowledge of them the said Richard Hooper and William Hooper or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for them and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court of Cornwall at or before the last day of March next ensuing and the same Goods Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased at the time of her death which at any time after shall come to the hands or Possession of the said Richard Hooper and William Hooper or into the hands and Possession of any other Person or Persons for them do well and truly administer according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt of the said Administration at or before the last day of December 1819 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompt the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and Twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second intituted an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates shall limit and appoint And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the said Richard Hooper and William Hooper above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue

  
N.B. Words in italics within brackets are inserted by the transcriber e.g. (signed)
Source: CRO Ref AP/H/6872

Contributed by Sue Boyland

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