Chancery Mary Wrixon v Richard Wrixon Lands in Yetminster, Dorset. 1670

[horselydown86]

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.

ADDED:

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.

[horselydown86]

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.

[tnorbury]

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]

[tnorbury]

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.

[tnorbury]

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

[horselydown86]

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.

[tnorbury]

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

[horselydown86]

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...

[tnorbury]

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.

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