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Administration of Deborah Adamthwaite 1803
Deborah Adamthwaite was
the widow of William of Branthwaites (1718-1776): their children were
Rev John Adamthwaite DD, Thomas Adamthwaite and Jane Adamthwaite – who
had married Rev John Turner in 1782
It is interesting that
thirteen years earlier, following her husband William’s death there was
a dispute between the children of this couple as to the distribution of
William’s estate (see Turner v. Adamthwaite). I wonder how Deborah’s
estate was divided?
Know all Men, by these presents that we John Adamthwaite Clerk DD of the
parish of Baddesley Ensor in the County of Warwick, John Owen of
Atherstone in the parish of Mancetter in the County of Warwick gentleman
and Edward Neall of the same place gentleman are holden and firmly bound
unto the Right Reverend Father in God Henry William by Divine
Permission, Lord Bishop of Chester, in the sum of three hundred pounds
of good and lawful money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Right
Reverend Father, his lawful Attorney, Executors, Administrators, or
Assigns to which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves
and each of us severally for and in the whole, our Heirs Executors and
Administrators and the Heirs Executors and Administrators of each of us,
firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals and dated the eighteenth
day of August in the forty third year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord
George the Third, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland King defender of the Faith and in the year of our
Lord God one thousand, eight hundred and three.
The condition of this obligation is such, that if the above bounden John
Adamthwaite, the natural and lawful son and one of the next of kin and
Administrator of all and singular the goods, chattels and credits of
Deborah Adamthwaite late of Settlebeck in the parish of Sedbergh in the
West Riding of the County of York and within the Archdeaconry of
Richmond in the Diocese of Chester widow deceased do make or cause to be
made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels
and credits of the said Deborah Adamthwaite deceased which have or shall
come to the hands, possession or Knowledge of him the said administrator
or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for his
use and the same to be made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited unto the
registry of the consistory court of Richmond, at or before the
Expiration of three calendar months to be computed from the day and the
date of the above written obligation. And the same goods, chattels and
credits and all other the goods chattels and credits of the said
deceased at the time of her death, which at any time after shall come to
the hands or possession of the said Administrator or into the hands or
possession of any other person or persons for his use do well and truly
administer according to Law, and further do make or cause to be made a
true and … account of his said administration at or before the
expiration of twelve calendar months to be computed from the day of the
date of the above written obligation. And all the rest and residue of
the said goods chattels and credits which shall be found remaining upon
the said administrators 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 (pursuant to the true intent
and meaning of an Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and
three and twentieth years of the Reign of his late Majesty King Charles
and Second, entitled an Act for the better settling Intestates Estates)
shall limit and appoint. And if it shall hereafter appear that any last
will and testament was made by the said Deborah Adamthwaite deceased,
and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the
said Court, making request to have it allowed and approved accordingly
if the said Administrator above bounden being thereunto required, do
render and deliver the said Letters of Administration (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 virtue.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of John Adamthwaite
James Chartres, Surrogate of the Consistory Court of Lichfield
John Owen
Eds. Neall
The following Requisition was made to obtain the oath of Rev John
Adamthwaite ... who was too busy to make the journey from his parish in
Warwickshire to settle his mother's estate:
We the Reverend Worshipful George Markham Clerk Doctor in Divinity
Commissary in and throughout the Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Diocese
of Chester lawfully constituted to the Right Reverend Father in God
James by Divine permission Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry his
Vicar General Official principal lawful Surrogate or other Judge
competent in this behalf with all due reverence and respect send
Greeting. Whereas we of our mere office rightly and lawfully proceeding
because the Reverend John Adamthwaite of Baddesley Ensor near Atherton
in the County of Warwick Doctor in Divinity the natural and lawful son
and one of the next of kin of Deborah Adamthwaite late of Settlebeck in
the parish of Sedbergh in the West Riding of the County of York and
within the Archdeaconry and Diocese aforesaid widow deceased resides
within your jurisdiction and cannot without great expence and
inconvenience appear before us to take upon himself the administration
of the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased did upon the
petition of the said John Adamthwaite decree your assistance to be asked
for the purpose hereinafter mentioned Justice so requiring. We
therefore in aid of the Law and confiding in your assent hereunto do
desire and request that you will be pleased in our stead to administer
to the said John Adamthwaite the oath hereunder written and also to see
the Bond hereunto annexed duly executed by the said John Adamthwaite
together with two fit and sufficient sureties and further to do and
expedite all and whatsoever shall be requisite or expedient to be done
in or about the premises for which we hereby grant you our full power
and authority requesting you likewise that after the said Oath has been
so administered and Bond duly executed as aforesaid you will forthwith
transmit unto us or our lawful surrogate or other competent judge in
this behalf the said bond and other the whole and entire proceedings …
and made before you touching the premises certified under your proper
hand and seal of your office together also with these presents for which
we shall be ready to do you the like service when required so to do and
given under the seal your office at Lancaster this twenty sixth day of
July in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand eight hundred and
three.
John Dowbiggin dep reg.
The form of the Oath to be administered to Revd John Adamthwaite laying
his right hand on the New Testament you shall swear that to the best of
your knowledge and belief Deborah Adamthwaite your late Mother deceased
died without making any will and that you will well and faithfully
administer the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased and pay
all her debts so far as such goods chattels and credits will extend and
the Law shall bind you and that you will make nad render a true and
perfect Inventory and Account of all and singular the goods chattels and
credits of the said deceased according to the purport and interest of
the Bond entered into or to be entered into by you for duly
administering the same and that the goods chattels and credits .. which
your said late mother died proposed within the Archdeaconry of Richmond
in the Diocese of Chester did .. in real value amount to the sum of
three hundred pounds.. So help you God.
I do hereby certify under my hand and seal that the within named John
Adamthwaite Clerk DD was duly sworn according to the tenor hereof and
the bond hereunto annexed duly executed at Atherstone in the County of
Warwick and within the Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry this eighteenth
day of August 1803. Before me James Charters (seal) Surrogate of the
Consistory Court of Lichfield.
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