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

[tnorbury]

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

[Bookbox]

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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