Bond for Joan Hooper,
 

If you are researching Hoopers of St. Enoder, please contact Sue Boyland of Western Australia
Sue is interested in all the Hoopers of that parish and was the transcriber who first posted this document to the <HOOPER-L@rootsweb.com> mailing list, under the subject 1699 Admon of John Hooper in a message dated 15 Dec 2000.

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St Stephens in Branwell
17 October 1699
Invent etc Obligation
John Hooper Intestate

Latin preamble

The Condition of this Obligation is such that if the above bounden Joann
Hooper the Relict and Administratrix of all and singular the Goods Chattels
and Creditts of John Hooper late of St Stephens decd doe make or cause to be
made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods Chattels and
Creditts of the said decd which have or that come to the hands pofton of
knowledge of the said Joann Hooper or into the hands or pofion of any other
pfon or pfons for her and the fame ... made doe Exhibit or caufe to be
Exhibited into the Registry of the said Archdeaconry Court of Cornwall att
or before the last day of January next enfuing  And the fame Goods Chattels
and Creditts of the said decd att the time of his death which att any time
after shall come to the hands or pofion of the said Joanne Hooper or into
the hands or pofion of any other pfon or pfons for her doe well and truly
Administer according to Lawe and further doe make or caufe to be made the
true and Just account of her said Administration att or before the last day
of March next enfuing  And all the reft and refidue of the said Goods
Chattels and Creditts which shall be found .........ing upon the said
Administratrix's ....... the same being first Examined and Allowed of the
Judge or Judges.... the time being of the said   ..... shall deliver and pay
or cause to be delivered and paid unto such pfon or pfons ........ as the
said Judge or Judges by his or theire decree or ...... ...... to the .....
intent and meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth
and three and twentieth Yeare of the Raigne of our late Sovereign Lord King
Charles the Second Intitled and act for the better settling of Intestate
Estates shall .... and appoint and if it shall hereafter appeare that any
last will and testament was made by the said decd and the Executor or
Executx therein named doe Exhibit the same into the said Courte making
request to have it allowed and approved accordingly If the said Joanne
Hooper abovebounden being there .... required doe render and deliver the
said Letters of Administration of such Testament being first had and made in
the said Courte then this pfent Obligation to be void and of none effect
otherwise to ..... and be in full forme and be ....

                                                               The Signe of
Signed Sealed and delivered                                O
in the pfence of us                                          Jone Hooper
John Anstis
            Signe of
         Rebecca Hooper
         Signe of
         Andrew Hooper  (H)

An Inventory of the goods late John Hooper's of St Stephens in Brannell as
they were valued by Richard Gunn & John Retallick Prayefers
 £   s   d
Imprimus His Purfe Keys & wearing Apparell 01 00 00
His House=hold=stuff 02 10 00
His Corn 12 00 00
ffour Oxen 09 00 00
Two Cows & five Calves 05 00 00
Young Bullocks 05 00 00
Horfes 05 00 00
Sheep 01 00 00
Piggs  01 00 00
Husbandry Implements  03 00 00
  Totall 44 10 00
Novembe ye 22nd 1698
Seen & praysed by us
Richard Gunn
John Retallick