Will of Catherine Carkeek 14th August 1721
(First part is in Latin – Novrint.....)
The Condicon of this obligaton is such that if the above bound on Ezechiel
Carkeek the son and ------------ Administrator of all and singular the goods
chattels and credits of Catherine Carkeek late of Ruan Lanihorne afore s’d
deceased doe make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and
singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which has or shall
come to the hands possion or knowledge of him ------ the said Ezeckiel Carkeeke
----- 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 this
Archdeaconry Court of Cornwall at or before the fourteenth ---- day of November
---- next ensuing and the same goods chattels credits and all other the goods
chattels and credits of the said deceased at the time of her death which at
anytime after shall come to the hands or possession of the said Ezechiel
Carkeeke ------ 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 make a true instaccompt of his s’d Adcon at or before ye fourteenth
--- day of May next ensuing and all the rest and residue of the said goods
chattels 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 there decree or
sentence ysuant 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 raigne of o’r Late
Soveraigne L’d King Charles the second (Intestate An Act for the better settling
of intestates Estates) shall limitt and appoint And if it shall hereafter
appeard that any last will and testament was made by the said deceased and the
executor or executors herein named doe exhibit the same into the said Court
making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the said Ezechiel
Carkeeke above bounden being thereunto required doe render and deliver the said
L’res of Adcon (approbacon of such testament being first had and made) in the
said Court then this Obligaton to be void and of none effect or else remaine in
full force and vertue
Sealed and Delivered
Ezekiel Karkeek
In the presence of
Wm Williams
John Bennett
Transcribed by Don Curkeet