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HomepageAdministration Bond of Gervas Cullen
Late of Upton: July 20, 1666
Jim Cullen


This is an Act of Administration (or Letters of Administration), recorded in Latin. It is the official record of the court granting power to settle an estate. Gervase Cullen died intestate (without a will) and the court grants Catherine, the widow of Gervase, the authority to administer all goods, rights, credits, and chattels of Gervas. Catherine would have had to sign with sureties to ensure she didn't disappear with the estate's assets. She also would have been required to provide a true and full inventory of Gervas' assets and to give a true account of her administration to the court when called upon.


Administration Bond of Gervas Cullen
of Upton, Nottinghamshire, July 20, 1666


The twentieth day of the month of July in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty and six at Southwell in the county of Nottingham before the master Gilbert Benet Clerk master of arts of the collegiate church of the blessed Mary the virgin of Southwell aforesaid Commissary Administration of all and singular the goods rights credits and chattels which were of Gervas Cullen late of Upton within the jurisdiction of the said Chapter intestate (as it is asserted) deceased at the time of his life and death within the jurisdiction of the said Chapter dying was and is committed in the name and by the authority of the said Chapter to Catherine Cullen widow relict of the said deceased concerning well and faithfully administering and concerning the debts of the said deceased according to the requirement of the law well and faithfully paying and concerning a true and perfect Inventory of all the goods and chattels promised being made and in the peculiar Court of the said Chapter being exhibited and also concerning a true full and faithful account calculation or reckoning of and upon her administration in that part when to it she shall have been lawfully called being rendered and that the deceased as much as she knew or believed understood had died upon the holy gospels of God by her bodily touched before the same Commissary present being first sworn saving the right of whomsoever an Inventory having been exhibited by her by virtue for a true full and perfect and the bond of security having been provided etc.



Source: DGS#: 008088276, Image#: 39/437 (#56)
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