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I had such amazing help with a transcription yesterday that I wanted to see if anyone wants to have a look over this document to verify the transcription. This is photographed as three pages from the Chancery Roll.
Any comments appreciated.
Thank you
Trudy
1670 10 May Regnal Year 21 Chares II
Mary Wrixon v Richard Wrixon Income from lands in Yetminster, Dorset. Roll/Case Number C78/700, no. 12 [43]
Wrixon vs Wrixon
Whereas before this tyme that is to say in the Tyme of Saint Michaell in the yeare of my our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and seaven Mary Wrixon Administrator of the goods and Chattles of Christopher Wrixon her late husband deceased complaint exhibited her bill of complaint unto this high and honble [honourable] court of Chancery against Richard Wrixon Defendant Declareing thereby that the said Christoper Wrixon about foure yeares since did in consideration of twenty pounds to him in hand paid and twelve pounds per annum to be paid unto him for his life and after his death to the complainant for her life and after both their deaths then the sume of two hundred pound to the Executors or Adminstrators of the survivor of them surrenders a customary Tenement lying in Yetminster in the County of Dorsett to one Gyles Symme and that upon the surrender thereof he the said Symme got her good security for payment of the said twelve pound per annum and the said two hundred pound after both their decease to him the said Christoper Wrixon and that the said Christoper Wrixon about September one thousand six hundred sixty and foure dyed intestate after whose death the said complainant was minded to take out letters of Adminstration of the goods Chattles of her said husband but the Defendant being her husband brothers sonne did imediately after the death of him repaye [repare meaning go to] to the complainant and informed her that it would be a great deale of trouble for her to goe to the Court for granting of letters of Adminstation being remotte from her att Blandford in the said County of Dorsett she being very weake & aged and therefore pressed her to write him a letter of attorney to impower him to take letters of Administration and he would take them in her name and for her use and there upon being soe persuaded by the said defendant she said complainant consented soe to doe where upon the said defendant he went presently to one Mr Plunchett an Attorney and gave him direction to make a renunciation insteade of a ltr [letter] of Attorney by which the Court Soe decided to grant letters of Administration to him which said Wrixons the said Defendant brought unto the said of complainant and required her to settle the same telling her it was a letter of attorney and that all that he did should be for her good which the said of complainant believeing she there upon settled the same without ever reading thereof or having it reade unto her. And that there upon he the said defendant sent unto the said Court for granting letter of Administration and presented Administration of the goods and Chattles of him the said Christoper Wrixon deceased to be granted to him in his owne name and then seized on all the bond and estate of the husband of her the said complainant of the value of foure hundred pound and imployed it to his owne use and presently after repayed againe to her the said of complainant and persuaded her to discharge the security that her said husband has for the said twelve pound per annual and the said two hundred pound to be paid to the Executors of Administrations of her the said complainant and to take other security in his name which the said defendant
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pervaded with her to soe And the said complainant further shewed that the said defendant having soe wronght upton her and got the power unto his owne hand hath ever since received the said twelve pound per annum being three yeares and refused to pay the same to her the said complainant or any pte [pte = parce] thereof and giveth out that the said twelve pound per annual is his and the two hundred pound after to the end therefore that the said defendant might be compelled to pay unto the said complainant the arrears of the said annuity of twelve pound per annual and to an attempt for the plantiff estate of the said Christopher Wrixon that he possed him selfe of and pity the same to the said complainant and assigne over to her the securities he hath taken in his owne name of to his use this relinquish the letters of Administration soe by false obteyned [obtained] as aforesaid she the said complainant prayed the aide and assistance of this honorable court and that presence of Spirit might be awarded against the said defendant to appeare and answere the said bill which presence being granted and the said defendant therewithass served he appeared accordingly and made the answere to the said complainant bill to which answere she the said complainant replyed and the partys being at full and perfect issue diverse witnesses were examined in the said cause and they depositions duly published according to the ordinary and usual rules of this court as by the said bill answere replycation [replication] and depositions of witnesses at remayneing [remaining] of record in the honble [honourable] court doth and may more at large appeare and the cause thus standing ready prepared for heareing a day was afterward appoynted by this court for heareing thereof on which day being the tenth day of may instant upon the debatteing of the matter in question between the said partys in the presence of the councel rearmed on both sides the scope of the said complainant bill being to compel the defense to assign over the securities he tooke in his owne name for the said twelve pounds annum and the two hundred pound and to redeliver to the said complainant the goods and chattels of the said Christopher Wrixon he posses himselfe of by virtue of the said letters of Administration and relinquish the same as is before recited But the defendant councel insisted that the defendant by answere denyed that there was ever any discourse between him and the complainant about any letter of attorney to be made to sue forth letters of Administration in her name in trust for her and that she declared to Mr Pluncknett who advised her one forth letters of Administration that she was weake and should not meddle therewith for she derived use benefit thereby but what benefit could be made should redownd to the said defendant and that she renounced the Administration and the rumination reade to her before the settleing thereof and denied any security was given for the said twelve pounds per annum and the said two hundred pounds but onely a premise to that purpose but confessed that since the letters of Administration to him granted he had security from Symmes and others and that all the complainant request he did abate forty shillings per annum of the twelve pound a yeare and demed he was to receive the said twelve pounds per annum in trust for the said complainant dureing her life but that by agreement and according to his premise he was to take care for the said complainant maintenance if she needed any during their joynt lives this court never the lesse upon hearing the proofes reade in the cause and what could be alleadged [alleged] on either sides was satiffyed that the defendant ought to pay unto the said complainant the said ten pounds per annum dureing her life with the arrears thereof late is therefore this present day that is to say on Monday the said tenth day of may in the one and twentieth year of our sovereign lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland kinge defender of the faith &c by the right honourable Sir Orlando Bridgman knight and baronet lord keeper of the greate seale of England and by the authority of the high and honorable court of Chancery ordered administered and agreed that the said defendant soe pay unto the said complainant ten pounds per annum halfe yearly dureing the life of the said complainant and also to attempt for soe much of the arrears thereof as he hathe received since his entry upon the premises to be computed and cast up by Sir William Childe knight one of the misters of the court and permit the court to receive only rent as remains in the hand of William Owish tenant in possession of the premises and said minister as to appoint a tyme and place for the defendant payment of said arrears as the said minister is to only the said ten pounds per annum be settled by security on the said complainant payable as aforesaid and that use deduction be made by the said minster of any money received by the said complainant at law but that the said minister soe allows the same and the said defendant soe pay the same unto the said complainant with the said arrears to be computed as aforesaid.
Transcribed 2/22/2016 by Trudy Norbury
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Hi Trudy,
I have glanced over the first page and some sections of the remainder. Generally you are very close, with just the odd word wrong (see some examples below).
To make it easier for us to check such a long document, would you be able to re-arrange your transcript so that it follows the line endings of the original text. It becomes brain-wrenchingly hard to find one's place otherwise.
Then perhaps post small sections of transcript at a time, to reduce the job to manageable chunks.
By the way I am amazed that this hand - basically close to Bastard Secretary - is being used as late as these documents. It is mostly found about one hundred years earlier. (There may be scope for jokes about Dorset here....but I'll refrain.)
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pervaded with her to soe = p(re)valed with her to doe
soe by false obteyned = soe by fraude obteyned
...upon the surrendring thereof
he the said lymne* gave good security...
* by comparison with Saint michaell it's unlikely his name begins with an S.
It appears to be spelt l-y-m-n-e.
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Hi Trudy,
I have just sent you a pm.
Regards
Sarah
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By the way I am amazed that this hand - basically close to Bastard Secretary - is being used as late as these documents. It is mostly found about one hundred years earlier. (There may be scope for jokes about Dorset here....but I'll refrain.)
That is interesting to know a little more about the writing. I had thought it was some kind of Common Chancery. I have been using a chart that compares Set Chancery, Common Chancery, Court Hand & Secretary Hand. It can be found at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molcgdrg/nl/nl-11/nl11-11l.htm.
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To make it easier for us to check such a long document, would you be able to re-arrange your transcript so that it follows the line endings of the original text. It becomes brain-wrenchingly hard to find one's place otherwise.
Then perhaps post small sections of transcript at a time, to reduce the job to manageable chunks.
1670 10 May Regnal Year 21 Chares II
Mary Wrixon v Richard Wrixon Income from lands in Yetminster, Dorset. Decree Roll/Case Number C78/700, no. 12 [43]
Wrixon vs Wrixon
Image One Parchment labeled 26
[line 1] Whereas before this tyme that is to say in the Tyme of Saint Michaell in the
[line 2] yeare of my our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and seaven Mary Wrixon Administrator
[line 3] of the goods and Chattles of Christopher Wrixon her late husband deceased
[line 4] complaint exhibited her bill of complaint unto this high and honble [honourable] court of Chancery
[line 5] against Richard Wrixon Defendant Declareing thereby that the said Christoper
[line 6] Wrixon about foure yeares since did in consideration of twenty pounds to him in
[line 7] hand paid and twelve pounds per annum to be paid unto him for his life and
[line 8] after his death to the complainant for her life and after both their deaths then
[line 9] the sume of two hundred pound to the Executors or Adminstrators of the
[line10] survivor of them surrenders a customary Tenement lying in Yetminster in the
[line 11] County of Dorsett to one Gyles Lymne and that upon the surrender thereof
[line 12] he the said Lymne got her good security for payment of the said twelve pound
[line 13] per annum and the said two hundred pound after both their decease to him the said
[line 14] Christoper Wrixon and that the said Christoper Wrixon about September one
[line15] thousand six hundred sixty and foure dyed intestate after whose death the said
[line 16] complainant was minded to take out letters of Adminstration of the goods Chattles
[line 17] of her said husband but the Defendant being her husband brothers sonne did
[line 18] imediately after the death of him repaye [repare meaning go to] to the complainant and informed her
[line 19] that it would be a great deale of trouble for her to goe to the Court for
[line 20] granting of letters of Adminstation being remotte from her att Blandford in the
[line 21] said County of Dorsett she being very weake & aged and therefore pressed her to write
Image One Start Parchment labeled 25
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pervaded with her to soe = p(re)valed with her to doe
soe by false obteyned = soe by fraude obteyned
...upon the surrendring thereof
he the said lymne* gave good security...
* by comparison with Saint michaell it's unlikely his name begins with an S.
It appears to be spelt l-y-m-n-e.
I think I saw Symms as I have been working on Wrixon and Symmes, but with your input I have to agree Lymne seems more likely.
Thank you
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Line 2: yeare of our Lord.....Mary Wrixon Admi(nistratri)x
Line 4: Compl(aynan)t exhibited her bill of Compl(ayn)t into...
Line 10: ...them surrender a customary...
Line 11: ...upon the surrendring thereof
Line 12: ...said lymne gave good security... twelve poundes
Line 13: ...both their deceases...
Line 17: ...being her husbandes brothers sonne...
Line 18: ...death of him repaire to the...
Line 20: granteing of l(ette)res...being remoate from her
Line 21: ...pressed her to make
Notes:
Some of these are just spelling.
At the start of Line 4, Complaynant refers back to Mary Wrixon in line 2.
There are faint -es brevigraphs on certain plurals eg good(es) in line 3 and husband(es) in line 17.
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I have had another attempt at the next section, trying to incorporate the new information I have been learning.
Image One Start Parchment labeled 25
[line 22] him a letter of attorney to imp(erat)oure [imperō means to command] him to take letters of Administration and he
[line 23] would take them in her name and for her use and thereupon being soe
[line 24] persw(u)aded by the said defend(an)t she said the Compl(aynan)t consented soe to doe where upon
[line 25] the said defend(an)t he went pr(es)ently to one Mr Plunchett an Attorney and gave
[line 26] him dy(r)ect(i)on to make a renunciation insteade of a ltr [letter] of Attorney by which the
[line 27] Court was desired to grant letters of Administration to him which said
[line 28] Wrixons the said defend(an)t brought unto the said of Compl(aynan)t and required
[line 29] her to settle the same telling her it was a letter of attorney and that all that he
[line 30] did it should be for her good which the said of Compl(aynan)t believeing she thereupon
[line 31] settled the same without ever reading thereof or having it reade unto her.
[line 32] And that there upon he the said defend(an)t sent unto the said Court for
[line 33] granting letter of Administration and procured Administration of the goods
[line 34] and Chattles of him the said Christoper Wrixon deceased to be granted to him
[line 35] in his owne name and then seized on all the bond and estate of the husband
[line 36] of her the said Compl(aynan)t of the value of foure hundred pound and imployed it
[line 37] to his owne use and presently after repayed againe to her the said of Compl(aynan)t
[line 38] and persuaded her to discharge the security that her said husband has for
[line 39] the said twelve pound per annual and the said two hundred pound to be paid to
[line 40] the Executors of Administrations of her the said Compl(aynan)t and to take other
[line 41] security in his name which the said def(endan)t p(re)valed with her to doe. And the
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Hi Trudy,
You are very close with this section. Only a couple of words are altogether wrong. Mostly it's just spelling or a letter out, and in a few places an extraneous word has intruded (such as the he in Line 25).
Line 25: ...Mr Plucknett...
Line 26: ...direcc(i)on...renuncac(i)on...
Line 28: writeing the said...
Line 30: ...beleeveing...
Line 32: ...went unto...
Line 33: ...granting letters...
Line 35: ...bond(es) and estate...
Line 36: ...hundred pound(es)...
Line 37: ...after repaired againe...
Line 38 ...said husband had for...
Line 39: ...twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and the two hundred pound(es) to be...
Line 40: ...Executors or Administrators...
Regarding Line 40, there are two styles of r used in this hand. You can see the second type in "Executors" and the second r in "Administrators". Therefore the word between is or.
In Line 37, it is definitely repaired, as it was in Line 18 (repaire). You were correct in the bracket in your post #1. The y is bendy - see security or imployed.
Again there are some faint -es brevigraphs on plurals. See here:
http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/handwriting/materials/alphabets/brevs.php
for examples of this brevigraph.
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It's possible that the contraction mark over renuncac(i)on is meant to signify that the missing i should be read as following the first c - renunc(i)ac(i)on.
Also, in my opinion, impoure is probably just a variant spelling of empower.
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Here is a clear example of the -es brevigraph in use - goodes & catelles.
Why it's so faint in your document is a mystery, but you can just see it after (for example) the two instances of pound in Line 39.
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Also, in my opinion, impoure is probably just a variant spelling of empower.
Interesting, I wondered if the idea of command and empower in the context would lead to the same result of the attorney applying for the letters of Administration!
Unless you have further input I will put this note
[imperō means to command or could be a variant of spelling empower]
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Why it's so faint in your document is a mystery, but you can just see it after (for example) the two instances of pound in Line 39.
Without your wise counsel I would not have even seen it.
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Thank you so much for all the help. This marks the halfway point with my calculation of 105 lines, wow. There are two points that I know I am unclear on, have made note.
[line 42] said Compl(aynan)t further shewed that the said defend(an)t having soe wronght
[line 43] upon her and gott the power into his owne hand (what does that mark after d mean!) hath ever since received
[line 44] the said twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) being three yeares and refused to pay the same
[line 45] to her the said Compl(aynan)t or any pte [pte = parce] thereof and giveth out that the said twelve
[line 46] pound(es) p(er) ann(um) is his and the two hundred pound(es) alsoe to (!) the end therefore that
[line 47] the said defend(an)t might be compelled to pay unto the said Compl(aynan)t the arreares
[line 48] of the said annuity of twelve pound(es) p(er) annual and come to an attempt for the
[line 49] plantiff estate of the said Christopher Wrixon that he poss(ess)es himselfe of and pay
End of Image One. Note Image One and Two both contain lines 28 – 49.
[line 50] the same to the said Compl(aynan)t and assigne over to her the securities he hath taken
[line 51] in his owne name or to his use and relinquish the letters of Administration soe by
[line 52] fraude obteyned [obtained] as aforesaid she the said Compl(aynan)t prayed the aide and assistance
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Line 42: ...soe wrought
Line 43: ...owne handes... (It's another rather faint -es brevigraph.)
Line 45: ...any p(ar)te thereof...
Line 48: ...said anuity...p(er) ann(um) and come to an accompt... (accompt = archaic term meaning account)
Line 49: p(er)sonall estate...that he poss(ess)ed himselfe of... (compare the d in said with the s in his or yeares in the lines above)
Line 51: ...relinquish his letters...
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Line 46: ...two hundred pound(es) alsoe To the end...
I have noticed I missed a correction to Line 1: ...Terme of Saint Michaell...
This refers to the first of the terms which divide the legal (and academic) year into four - Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas.
Terme in Line 1 has the same capital T as the To in Line 46.
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Arh, that explains the Saint Michael.
[line 53] of this hon(ora)ble court and that pres(ence) of Sp(ir)it might be awarded against the said
[line 54] defend(an)t to appeare and answere the said bill which pres(ence) being granted and the
[line 55] said defend(an)t therewithass served he appeared accordingly and made the answere
[line 56] to the said Compl(aynan)t bill to which answere she the said Compl(aynan)t replyed and the
[line 57] partys being at full and p(er)fect issue diverse wittnesses were examined in the
[line 58] said cause and their deposicons duly published according to the ordinary and
[line 59] usuall rules of this court d(o)s by the said bill answere replycation [replication] and deposicons
[line 60] of witnesses att remayneing [remaining] of record in the hon(oura)ble court doth and may more
[line 61] att large Appeare And the cause thus standing ready p(re)pared for heareing a day
Start Image Three. Note Image Two and Three both contain lines 62 – 80.
[line 62] was afterward(es) appoynted by this court for heareing thereof On which day being
[line 63] the tenth day of may instaut [issued or assigned] upon the heareing and debatteing of the matter
[line 64] in question between the said partys in the pr(es)ence of the councell learned on both
[line 65] sides the scope of the said Compl(aynan)t bill being to compell the defend(an)t to
[line 66] assignes over the securitys he tooke in his owne name for the said twelve
[line 67] pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and the two hundred pound(es) and to redeliver to the said Compl(aynan)t
[line 68] the good(es) and chattles of the said Christopher Wrixon he poss(ess)ed himselfe of
[line 69] by vertue of the said letters of Administration and relinquish the same as is
[line 70] before recyted But the defend(an)t councell insisted that the defend(an)t by answere
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Line 53: ...and that p(ro)ces of S(ub)p(oen)a might be awarded...
Line 54: ...which p(ro)ces...
Line 55: ...therewithall served...made his answere
Line 56: ...said Compl(aynan)t(es) bill...
Line 59: usuall Rules of this Court As by...
Line 60: ...all remayneing of Record...
Line 63: ...of May instant...debateing (instant as used in business letters meaning of the current month)
Line 65 ...said Compl(aynan)t(es) bill...
Line 70 ...Defend(an)t(es) Councell...
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I got caught by a few abbreviations in the last section.
I really appreciate all the help. I have attempted to clean up the last section. All of this is on the third image. It would appear to me that justice was awarded towards the Complaynant!
[line 72] any letter of attorney to be made to sue forth letters of Administration in her
[line 73] name in trust for her and that she declared to Mr Pluncknett who advised her
[line 74] to one forth letters of Administration that she was weake and should not
[line 75] meddle therewith for she designed use benefitt thereby but what benefitt could
[line 76] be made should redownd to the said defend(an)t and that she renounced the
[line 77] Administration and the renunc(i)ation reade to her before the settleing thereof
[line 78] and denied any security was given for the said twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and
[line 79] the said two hundred pound(es) but onely a p(ro)mise to that purpose but confessed
[line 80] that since the letters of Administration to him granted he had security from
End Image Two. Note Image Two and Three both contain lines 62 – 80.
[line 81] Lymmes and others and that all the Compl(aynan)t request he did abate forty shilling(es)
[line 82] p(er) ann(um) of the twelve pound(es) a yeare and demed he was to receive the said
[line 83] twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) in trust for the said Compl(aynan)t dureing her life But that
[line 84] by agreement and according to his p(ro)mise he was to take care for the said
[line 85] Compl(aynan)t(es) maintenance if she needed any dureing their joynt lives This Court
[line 86] neverthelesse upon heareing the proofes reade in the cause and what
[line 87] could be alleadged [alleged] on either sides was satisfyed that the defend(an)t ought to pay unto the
[line 88] said Compl(aynan)t the said tenn pound(es) p(er) ann(um) dureing her life with the arrears
[line 89] thereof la(te) is therefore this pr(es)ent day that is to say on Moonday the said
[line 90] tenth day of May in the one and twentieth year of the raigne of our Sovereign
[line 91] Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and
[line 92] Ireland Kinge defender of the faith &c by the right hon(oura)ble Sir Orlando
[line 93] Bridg(e)man Knight and bar(onet) Lord keep(er) of the Greate Seale of England and
[line 94] by the authority of the high and hon(ora)ble Court of Chancery Ordered adiudged [adjudged] and
[line 95] Agreed that the said def(endan)t doe pay unto the said Compl(aynan)t tenn pound(es) p(er) ann(um)
[line 96] halfe yearly dureing the life of the said Compl(aynan)t and alsoe to attempt for soe much
[line 97] of the arrears thereof as he hathe received since his entry upon the p(re)misses to be computed
[line 98] and cast upp by Sir William Childe Knight one of the m(iste)r(es) of the Court and p(er)mitt the
[line 99] Compl(aynan)t to receive such rent as remaines in the hand(es) of William Owish ten(a)nt in poss(ess)ion
[line 100] of the p(re)misses and said m(iniste)r as to appoynt a tyme and place for the def(endan)t payment of
[line 101] such arreares as the said m(iniste)r Obatt report one to the said Compl(aynan)t thereas said ware of is to only the said ten pound(es) p(er) ann(um) be settled by security
[line 102] on the said Compl(aynan)t payable as aforesaid and that use deduction be made by the said m(inste)r
[line 103] of any money recovered by the said Compl(aynan)t at law but that the said m(iniste)r doe allows the same
[line 104] and the said def(endan)t doe pay the same unto the said Compl(aynan)t with the said arrears to be
[line 105] computed as aforesaid.
End of Parchment labeled 24
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Line 73: ...Plucknett...
Line 74 to sue forth...
Line 75: ...designed noe benefitt...
Line 77: ...before the sealeing thereof
Line 81: lymme and others and that att the...
Line 82: ...and denied he was... (same word as Line 78)
Line 89: thereof Itt is therefore... (It's the same letter as seen on Joynt and Ireland, being the I/J)
Line 95: decreed that...
Line 96: ...accompt for...
Line 98: one of the M(aste)res of this Court and to p(er)mitt...
Line 99: ...Oldish...
Line 100: ...the said M(aste)r is to...
Line 101: ...as the said M(aste)r ^shall report due to the said Compl(aynan)t & the said [Master?]^ is to [?*] the said tenn...
Line 102: ...noe deducc(i)on...m(aste)r...
Line 103: m(aste)r doe allow...
Line 104: and that the said...
This word (or words) is beyond me. It may start with s. It may that there are two words - the second being yt = (th)(a)t.
see that would fit, but I don't believe they are e's.
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Trudy, may I ask by what process you were able to obtain a Decree of Chancery?
I have ordered many Bills and Answers from TNA, but have never seen a decree catalogued.
Did you have to search for it in person?
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HD, for your information, my reply on another thread ...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=744933.msg5920552#msg5920552
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Trudy, may I ask by what process you were able to obtain a Decree of Chancery?
Well, I first read about it in the book
History and Genealogy of the Pomeroy Family: Colateral Lines in Family Groups, Normandy, Great Britain and America; Comprising the Ancestors and Descendants of Eltweed Pomeroy from Beaminster, County Dorset, England, 1630, Part 3
Albert Alonzo Pomeroy
Franklin printing and engraving Company, 1922
on google books https://books.google.com/books?id=m5NIAAAAMAAJ&dq=Richard+Wrixon&source=gbs_navlinks_s
It as a short review
Chancery Deposition W. 725-78. 25 June 20 Charles II. Mary Wrixon widow vs. Richard Wrixon. She was widow of Xpofer Wrixon. Sale by latter of tenement in Yetminster to Giles Symme etc.
When I put Mary Wrixon widow vs. Richard Wrixon on google it came right up with, as Bookbox mentioned, link to the Waalt Project at Univeristy of Houston. http://www.uh.edu/waalt/index.php/C78_1670
Thank you again for your help, I have yet to add the last section to my information, when I have I will upload the document to here.
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Thank you, Trudy, for this information.
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[/b]Line 101: ...as the said M(aste)r ^shall report due to the said Compl(aynan)t & the said [Master?]^ is to [?*] the said tenn...
I have been considering this. Could it be
[line 101] such arreares as the said M(aste)r shall report due(ly) to the said Compl(aynan)t & the said Master of is to suvity [surety] the said ten pound(es) p(er) ann(um) be settled by security
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I have been considering this. Could it be
[line 101] such arreares as the said M(aste)r shall report due(ly) to the said Compl(aynan)t & the said Master of is to suvity [surety] the said ten pound(es) p(er) ann(um) be settled by security
Hi Trudy,
I am a bit doubtful of this reading. The upward flourish on the v (in mid-word positions) normally starts from the left arm of the v. On what I believe is the second letter here, it starts from the right arm. So while it does look somewhat like a v, I'm sceptical.
Perhaps someone else has a suggestion for this word (or words)?
PS: By the way, I can't agree with your reading of due(ly). In my opinion the word is due = owing.
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I was not sure about the mark after the e on due, you are right it is due.
Well if it is not a v the only other idea I have is that the Master would certify the orders of the court!
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Perhaps someone else has a suggestion for this word (or words)?
I believe it's two words - a short (or contracted) verb starting with s... or d..., followed by yt = that.
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I have been reading about the Masters who seal the Chancery reports.
I wonder if it is a variation of the following for example si(gi)l(a)vi, do may read in English to "Master of it is to confirm that"
sigillo, sigillare, sigillavi, sigillatus
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verb
conjugation: 1st conjugation
Definitions:
(DEP form also known)
confirm
seal
seal-up
Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
Area: Legal, Government, Tax, Financial, Political, Titles
Geography: All or none
Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
Source: Latham, “Revised Medieval Word List”, 1980
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The context here is about ensuring that the ten pounds is paid, not about sealing the document. Sorry, but I don't think that's the answer.
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Here is the latest version of the document. Thank you to horselydown86 and Bookbox assistance.
1670 10 May Regnal Year 21 Chares II
Mary Wrixon v Richard Wrixon Income from lands in Yetminster, Dorset. Decree Roll/Case Number C78/700, no. 12 [43]
Wrixon vs Wrixon
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[line 1] Whereas before this tyme that is to say in the Terme of Saint Michael [This refers to the first of the terms which divide the legal, and academic, year into four - Hilary, Easter, Trinity and Michaelmas.] in the
[line 2] yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and seaven Mary Wrixon Admi(nistratri)x
[line 3] of the good(es) and Chattles of Christopher Wrixon her late husband deceased
[line 4] Compl(aynan)t exhibited her bill of Compl(ayn)t into this high and hon(oura)ble court of Chancery
[line 5] against Richard Wrixon Defendant Declareing thereby that the said Christoper
[line 6] Wrixon about foure yeares since did in consideration of twenty pounds to him in
[line 7] hand paid and twelve pounds per annum to be paid unto him for his life and
[line 8] after his death to the Compl(aynan)t for her life and after both their deaths then
[line 9] the sume of two hundred pound to the Executors or Adminstrators of the
[line10] survivor of them surrender a customary Tenement lying in Yetminster in the
[line 11] County of Dorsett to one Gyles Lymne and that upon the surrendring thereof
[line 12] he the said lymne gave good security for payment of the said twelve poundes
[line 13] per annum and the said two hundred pound after both their deceases to him the said
[line 14] Christoper Wrixon and that the said Christoper Wrixon about September one
[line15] thousand six hundred sixty and foure dyed intestate after whose death the said
[line 16] Compl(aynan)t was minded to take out letters of Adminstration of the goods Chattles
[line 17] of her said husband but the Defendant being her husband(es) brothers sonne did
[line 18] imediately after the death of him repaire [repare meaning go to] to the Compl(aynan)t and informed her
[line 19] that it would be a great deale of trouble for her to goe to the Court for
[line 20] granteing of l(ette)res of Adminstation being remoate from her att Blandford in the
[line 21] said County of Dorsett she being very weake & aged and therefore pressed her to make
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[line 22] him a letter of attorney to imp(erat)oure [imperō means to command or could be a variant of spelling empower] him to take letters of Administration and he
[line 23] would take them in her name and for her use and thereupon being soe
[line 24] persw(u)aded by the said defend(an)t she said the Compl(aynan)t consented soe to doe where upon
[line 25] the said defend(an)t went pr(es)ently to one Mr Plucknett an Attorney and gave
[line 26] him direcc(i)on to make a renuncac(i)on insteade of a ltr [letter] of Attorney by which the
[line 27] Court was desired to grant letters of Administration to him which said
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[line 28] writeing the said defend(an)t brought unto the said of Compl(aynan)t and required
[line 29] her to settle the same telling her it was a letter of attorney and that all that he
[line 30] did it should be for her good which the said of Compl(aynan)t beleeveing she thereupon
[line 31] settled the same without ever reading thereof or having it reade unto her.
[line 32] And that there upon he the said defend(an)t went unto the said Court for
[line 33] granting letters of Administration and procured Administration of the goods
[line 34] and Chattles of him the said Christoper Wrixon deceased to be granted to him
[line 35] in his owne name and then seized on all the bond(es) and estate of the husband
[line 36] of her the said Compl(aynan)t of the value of foure hundred pound(es) and imployed it
[line 37] to his owne use and presently after repaired againe to her the said of Compl(aynan)t
[line 38] and persuaded her to discharge the security that her said husband had for
[line 39] the said twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and the two hundred pound(es) to be
[line 40] the Executors or Administrators of her the said Compl(aynan)t and to take other
[line 41] security in his name which the said def(endan)t p(re)valed with her to doe. And the
[line 42] said Compl(aynan)t further shewed that the said defend(an)t having soe wrought
[line 43] upon her and gott the power into his owne hand(es) hath ever since received
[line 44] the said twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) being three yeares and refused to pay the same
[line 45] to her the said Compl(aynan)t or any any p(ar)te thereof and giveth out that the said twelve
[line 46] pound(es) p(er) ann(um) is his and the two hundred pound(es) alsoe To the end therefore that
[line 47] the said defend(an)t might be compelled to pay unto the said Compl(aynan)t the arreares
[line 48] of the said anuity of twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and come to an accompt [accompt = archaic term meaning account] for the
[line 49] plantiff estate of the said Christopher Wrixon that he poss(ess)ed himselfe of and pay
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[line 50] the same to the said Compl(aynan)t and assigne over to her the securities he hath taken
[line 51] in his owne name or to his use and relinquish his letters relinquish the letters of Administration soe by
[line 52] fraude obteyned [obtained] as aforesaid she the said Compl(aynan)t prayed the aide and assistance
[line 53] of this hon(ora)ble court and that p(ro)ces of S(ub)p(oen)a might be awarded against the said
[line 54] defend(an)t to appeare and answere the said bill which which p(ro)ces being granted and the
[line 55] said defend(an)t ttherewithall served he appeared accordingly and made his answere
[line 56] to the said Compl(aynan)t(es) bill to which answere she the said Compl(aynan)t replyed and the
[line 57] partys being at full and p(er)fect issue diverse wittnesses were examined in the
[line 58] said cause and their deposicons duly published according to the ordinary and
[line 59] usuall Rules of this Court As by the said bill answere replycation [replication] and deposicons
[line 60] of witnesses all remayneing [remaining] of Record in the hon(oura)ble court doth and may more
[line 61] att large Appeare And the cause thus standing ready p(re)pared for heareing a day
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[line 62] was afterward(es) appoynted by this court for heareing thereof On which day being
[line 63] the tenth day of May instant [instant as used in business letters meaning of the current month ] upon the heareing and debatteing of the matter
[line 64] in question between the said partys in the pr(es)ence of the councell learned on both
[line 65] sides the scope of the said Compl(aynan)t(es) bill being to compell the defend(an)t to
[line 66] assignes over the securitys he tooke in his owne name for the said twelve
[line 67] pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and the two hundred pound(es) and to redeliver to the said Compl(aynan)t
[line 68] the good(es) and chattles of the said Christopher Wrixon he poss(ess)ed himselfe of
[line 69] by vertue of the said letters of Administration and relinquish the same as is
[line 70] before recyted But the Defend(an)t(es) Councell insisted that the defend(an)t by answere
[line 71] denyed that there was ever any discourse between him and the Compl(aynan)t about
[line 72] any letter of attorney to be made to sue forth letters of Administration in her
[line 73] name in trust for her and that she declared to Mr Plucknett who advised her
[line 74] to sue forth letters of Administration that she was weake and should not
[line 75] meddle therewith for she designed noe benefitt thereby but what benefitt could
[line 76] be made should redownd to the said defend(an)t and that she renounced the
[line 77] Administration and the renunc(i)ation reade to her before the sealeing thereof
[line 78] and denied any security was given for the said twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) and
[line 79] the said two hundred pound(es) but onely a p(ro)mise to that purpose but confessed
[line 80] that since the letters of Administration to him granted he had security from
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[line 81] lymmes and others and that att the Compl(aynan)t request he did abate forty shilling(es)
[line 82] p(er) ann(um) of the twelve pound(es) a yeare and denied he was to receive the said
[line 83] twelve pound(es) p(er) ann(um) in trust for the said Compl(aynan)t dureing her life But that
[line 84] by agreement and according to his p(ro)mise he was to take care for the said
[line 85] Compl(aynan)t(es) maintenance if she needed any dureing their joynt lives This Court
[line 86] neverthelesse upon heareing the proofes reade in the cause and what
[line 87] could be alleadged [alleged] on either sides was satisfyed that the defend(an)t ought to pay unto the
[line 88] said Compl(aynan)t the said tenn pound(es) p(er) ann(um) dureing her life with the arrears
[line 89] thereof ltt is therefore this pr(es)ent day that is to say on Moonday the said
[line 90] tenth day of May in the one and twentieth year of the raigne of our Sovereign
[line 91] Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and
[line 92] Ireland Kinge defender of the faith &c by the right hon(oura)ble Sir Orlando
[line 93] Bridg(e)man Knight and bar(onet) Lord keep(er) of the Greate Seale of England and
[line 94] by the authority of the high and hon(ora)ble Court of Chancery Ordered adiudged [adjudged] and
[line 95] decreed that the said def(endan)t doe pay unto the said Compl(aynan)t tenn pound(es) p(er) ann(um)
[line 96] halfe yearly dureing the life of the said Compl(aynan)t and alsoe to accompt for soe much
[line 97] of the arrears thereof as he hathe received since his entry upon the p(re)misses to be computed
[line 98] and cast upp by Sir William Childe Knight one of the M(aste)res of this Court and to p(er)mitt the
[line 99] Compl(aynan)t to receive such rent as remaines in the hand(es) of William Oldish ten(a)nt in poss(ess)ion
[line 100] of the p(re)misses and the said M(aste)r is to appoynt a tyme and place for the def(endan)t payment of
[line 101] such arreares as the said M(aste)r shall report due to the said Compl(aynan)t & the said Master of is to ? [unknown word] yt [(th)(a) that] the said ten pound(es) p(er) ann(um) be settled by security
[line 102] on the said Compl(aynan)t payable as aforesaid and that noe deducc(i)on be made by the said m(aste)r
[line 103] of any money recovered by the said Compl(aynan)t at law but that the said m(aste)r doe allow the same
[line 104] and that the said def(endan)t doe pay the same unto the said Compl(aynan)t with the said arrears to be
[line 105] computed as aforesaid.
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