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John Bird
           by Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, do by these presents make known to all men on the Twenty sixth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Two at London, before the Right worshipful Sir John Doclans Knight Doctor of Laws, Master, Keeper, or Commissary of our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, law-fully constituted the last Will and Testament of Thomas Scobell late of Penzance in the County of Cornwall deceased hereunto annexed, was proved, approved and registered ; the said Deceased having whilst living and at the Time of his Death, Goods, Chattels, or Credits, in divers Dioceses or Jurisdictions, by reason whereof the proving and registering the said Will, and the granting Administration of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and the granting allowing, and final discharging the Account thereof, are well known to appertain only and wholly to us, and not to any inferior Judge; and that Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said Deceased, and in any Way concerning his Will was granted to Jane Tennent Scobell Widow the Relict of the said Deceased the sole Executrix named in the said Will she having been already sworn by Commissioners well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of our said Court, on or before the last Day of September next ensuing, and also to render a just and true Account thereof given at the Time and Place above written? year of our translation

  Chas Duneley
John Juggulden ?
WF Goslling
Registers

In the margin:
Surrender £800 and have the Testator paid on or about 22nd February 1851
Slade Wadeson Crichill

On the reverse:
The stamps for £15 has been cancelled and the stamp for £8 has been has been substituted under the authority of 55 Geo 3 Case184
E Hill
Supervisor of Stamps
Sep 26 1853

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