Administration of Anthony Buckingham, millwright, 1689

Herts RO 125 AW5

[the text in italics was added to a handwritten pro forma]

[Latin] Noverint universi per presentes Nos Christopherum Coutts de Winslow in Com' Bucks Grocer & Thomam Ridyard de Winslow in Com' pred' par'l' Clerk teneri et firmiter obligari venerabili viro Guilielmo Oldys legum doctori in et per Johannem Archidiaconatum Sancti Albani Officiali legitime constituto in Com libris bone et legalis monetae Angliae solvend' eidem venerabili viro Doctori Oldys aut suo certo Attornato Executori vel Administratori suis Ad quam quidem solucionem bene et fideliter faciend' Obligamus nos et quemlibet nostrum per se pro toto et in solid' heredes Executores et Administratores nostros et cujuslibet nostrum firmiter per presentes Sigillis nostris sigillat' Dat vicesimo septimo die mensis Junii Anno Domini 1689 Annoque Regni [deletion] Guilelmi et Mariae dei gracia Angliae Scotiae Franciae et Hiberniae Regis fidei defensor' & Reginae

[translation] May everyone know through the present (documents) that we Christopher Coutts of Winslow in the County of Bucks, grocer, and Thomas Ridyard of Winslow in the aforesaid county, parish clerk, are held and firmly bound to the Venerable William Oldys doctor of laws, Official legitimately appointed in and by John the Archdeacon of St Albans for [sum omitted] pounds of good and legal money of England, to be paid to the same Venerable Doctor Olds or his certain attorney, executor or administrator. To the making of this payment well and faithfully we oblige ourselves and each of us individually for the whole and sum, our executors and adminstrators and (those) of each of us, firmly by the present (documents) sealed with our seals. Dated 27 June 1689 in the year of the reign of William and Mary by the grace of God king of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, and the queen [number omitted].

The condition of this Obligation is such that if the above bounden Christopher Coates principal Creditor and Administrator of all and singular the goods ch(att)ells and credits of Anthony Buckingham late of Winslow 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 pos(sess)ion or knowledge of him the said Christopher Coates 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 ye Reg(istra)rs Office of St Albans aforesaid at or before the Last day of January 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 C(hristo)pher Coates or unto the hands and possession of any other person or persons for [blank] doe well and truly administer according to Law  And further doe make or cause to be made a true and just accompt of his s(ai)d Ad(ministrat)ion at or before the last day of last of May next and all the rest and residue of the said goods chattells 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 meanings of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and twentieth years of the reign of our late Sovereign & L(or)d King Charles the Second (Intitled An Act for the Better Settling of Intestate Estates) shall limmitt 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 doe exhibitt the same into the said Court making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the said C(hristo)pher Coates above bounden being thereunto required doe render and deliver the said Le(tte)res of Ad(ministra)tion (approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the said Court  Then this Obligation to be void and of none effect or else to remain in full force and vertue

    (Signed) Christopher Cootts
(Signed) Thos. Ridyard

Sealed and delivered
in the presence of  (Signed)  Edm. Browne

[another hand] Maria Buckingham relicta prius renun'

 

Inventory of Anthony Buckingham, 1688

Herts RO A25/4301

I Mary wife of the deceased Ant.
Bucknham doe renounce admi=
nistra(ci)on witness my hand June 3
An. Dom. 1688
                                    mary buckingam

Winslow Junii 3˚ An. Dom. 1688
(Christ)opher Coetts Administrator
huiusmodi &c juratus fuit coram
Mr Johanne Croft Cur. sur.

p(ai)d towards the charges in St A(l)bans Court
of this instrument ten shillings

[another hand] exh 27 Junii 1689 per A(dmin)istrat'
    &c

A true and perfect account of the Goods and Chattels of Anthony Buckingham of Winsloe in the counti of Buckes millwright decesed taken the twenty day of may in the year of our Lord God 1688  Impraysed and taken
By John Robinson and John Greene as followeth

Imprimis his purse and aparel
2
1
6
Item one Bedsted >
0
2
6
Item one wollbed[?] one other bolster one blanket one thine coverlid
0
8
0
Item one pare of cortings and valants
0
5
0
Item too pare sheetes
0
4
0
Item some afalle[?] wood
0
1
6
Item his worcking tooles
0
10
6
Item one table
0
5
0
Item five cheres
0
2
1
Item pewter & brass
0
10
6
Item one leaufe[?]
0
1
6
recd in depts
3
0
0
recd monye
0
8
6
 
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9
00
7

John (his mark) Robinson
John Greene

 

 

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The administration:

Administration of Anthony Buckingham

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Inventory of Anthony Buckingham
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