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Indenture and Inventory concerning the Estate of Henry Crocker, 31 January 1697/8

Nouerint vniuersi per presentes Nos Henricum Crocker parish of Ruan Lanihorne in County Cornwall yeoman Henricum Crocker of Veryan in County Esq yeoman & William Richards of Lamorran gent teneris & firmiter obligari Edwardo Drewe Archdeacon Archdeaconry in Certum libris bone & legalis monete Anglie soluendis eidem Edwardo Drewe ant suo certo Attornat Executor wol administrator suio adquam quidem soluroem bone ol fideliter fationd obligamus nos ol rujustibetnrum firmiter per presentes sigillis uris sigillat : dat…… …….. die monsis January Annoq Regni Dui mr William Ferly Dei gra Anglia Scotia Francia ol Hibernie Regis Fidei defensor & c. BonoAnnoq Dui 1697
 
The Condicon of this Obligacon is such that if the above bounden Henry Crocker the sonn and Administrator of all and singular the goods chells and credits of Henry Crocker late of Ruan Lanihorne deceased doe make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods chattells and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands passion or knowledge of him the said Henry Crocker or into the hands and possession of any person or persons for him and the same soe made doe exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court at or before the last day of April next ensuing And the same goods chattells and credits and all other the goods chattells and credits of the said deceased at the time of his death which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said Henry Crocker or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him doe well and truly administer according to law And further doe make or cause to be made a true and just account of his said Adcon at or before the last day of January next ensuing and all the rest and residue of the goods chattells and credits which shall be found remaining upon the said Administratore account 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 yeares of the raigne of the late Soveraigne Ld King Charles the second (Insituted An Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates) shall limit and appoint And if it shall hereafter appeare that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named doe exhibit the same into the said court making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly, if the said Henry Crocker above bounden being thereunto required toe render and deliver the said Lres of Adcon (approbacon of such Testament being first had and made) in the said court Then this Obligacon to be void and of none effect or else to remaine in full force and virtue.

A true & perfect Inventory of the goods & Chattells of Henry Crocker of the parish of Ruan Lanyhorne in the County of Cornwall yeoman lately deceased taken valued and apraised by us John Robins & Richard Keast the twenty seventh day of January Anno Domini one thousand six hundred ninety seven

 
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