Ann Hooper,

If you are researching Hoopers of St. Stephens or St. Enoder, please contact Sue Boyland of Western Australia
She is interested in all the Hoopers of these parishes and was the transcriber who first posted this will to the <HOOPER-L@rootsweb.com> mailing list, under the subject 1818 Ann Hooper of St Enoder in a message dated 4 Mar 2001.

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St Enoder
4th December 1818
Bond upon the Admion of the Goods etc of Ann Hooper Widow deced granted to
Richard Hooper and William Hooper the sons and two of the next in Kin of the
said deced
The Admors were Sworn before John Wallis the younger Clerk Surrogate
Saving etc
No Inventory
Stp £11

Know all Men by these Presents that We Richard Hooper of the Parish of St
Columb Major in the County of Cornwall Farmer William Hooper of the Parish
of St Enoder in the said County Farmer John Rowse of Saint Columb in the
Said County Farmer and Solomon Martin of the Borough of Bodmin in the County
of Cornwall Yeoman are held and firmly bound unto The Worshipful William
Short Clerk Archdeacon of Cornwall.
in the Sum of Nine Hundred Pounds of good and lawful Money of Great Britain
to be paid unto the said William Short or to his certain Attorney his
Executors Administrators or Afsigns To which Payment well and truly to be
made We oblige ourselves and every of us by himself for the whole our and
each and every of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by these
Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the Seventh day of December in the
Fifty Ninth 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 etc And in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight
Hundred and eighteen

The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden Richard
Hooper and William Hooper being as the Said admitted Administrators of all
and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of Ann Hooper late of Saint
Enoder widow deceased do make or cause to be made a true and perfect
Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said
deceased which have or shall come to the Hands Pofsefsion or Knowledge of
them the said Richard Hooper and William Hooper or into the Hands and
Pofsefsion of any Person or Persons for them and the same so made do exhibit
or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Archdeaconry Court of
Cornwall at or before the last day of March next ensuing and the same Goods
Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the
said deceased at the time of her death which at any time after shall come to
the hands or Pofsefsion of the said Richard Hooper and William Hooper or
into the hands  and Pofsefsion of any other Person or Persons for them do
well and truly administer according to Law And further do make or cause to
be made a true and just Accompt of the said Administration at or before the
last day of December 1819 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods
Chattles and Credits which shall be found remaining upon the said
Administrators Accompt 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 or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and Meaning of a
late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three  and
Twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the
Second intituted an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates shall
limit and appoint And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and
Testament was made by the said 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 Richard Hooper and William
Hooper 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 or else to remain in
full Force and Virtue
Sealed and delivered      Richard Hooper (Signed)
in the Presence of      Wm Hooper (Signed)
Rd Martin       John Rowse (signed)
         Soln Martin (signed)