Henry Crocker Will 31st 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.
Henry Crocker
Sealed and delivered
In the presence of Henry Crocker
John Anstis
Wm Dinham William Richards
Imp his purse girdle & wearing apparril 01 00 00
Money in his chest 30 00 00
One oxen 06 05 00
One horse or lithe nagg 01 10 00
Fourty three Sheepe 09 00 00
Three piggs 00 16 00
Two geese & gander foure henns & cork 00 03 00
One chattel estate of two lives after fourty years of
the two lives live soo long 02 00 00
Corne in the mowhay & in the barne 04 00 00
Corne in the ground 03 00 00
An old butt & wheele 02 00 00
A plow harrowes yuokes chaynes & other utensils of
husbandry 00 15 00
Foure little old pewter dishes in the hall 00 03 00
Two little brass crocks dishes & spoons in the hall 00 12 00
Two old table boards one table cloth & old chaire 00 03 00
One little brass pann a little iron candlestick 00 05 00
One paire of old hand irons brandis spitt & frieingpan 00 02 00
Two old knives & old caske & a flash knive 00 02 06
A barne boards windeing shool saw & seines 00 07 06
Three old beads with theire furnishings 03 00 00
An old chest a tray an old press & an old sidetable 00 02 00
All lumber & all things forgotten & unapraised 00 02 06
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Sume 65 08 06
J Robins apraisors
Richard Keast
Will transcribed by Carol Hughes