Noverint Universi per presentes Nos Henricium  Ascroft de Bickerstaffe paroie de Ormskirk in Comital Lancastris et Diocesi Cestrice Agricolam Eduardum Ascroft de Ladem Agr & Henrium Sherdley de Eadem Generosum teneri & firmiter Obligari Reverendo in Christo Patri & Domino Domine Samueli permissione Divina Cestriensi Episcoto in Centum libris bonae & legatis monetae Mag Brit’ solvend eid Reverendo Patri aut suo certo Atturnato,Executor vel Adminisrator suis: Ad quam quidem solutionen bene et fideliter faciend, Obligannis nos & quomlibet uriun per se  pro toto et in solid Hared, Executor & Administrator uros et uisuslibet urum fermiter per presentes Sigillis uris Sigillat Dat avernis nono & die mensis Octobris Annoq Regi Dui nostris Georgis Secundi Deigra Magnae Brittaniae Francia et Hiberniae Regis – fidi Defensor et primo Annoq Dui 1727.

The Condicon of this Obligaton is such, that if the above bounden Henry Ascroft nral & Lawful Sonn & Adminstrator of all and singular the goods and chatts and credits of William Ascroft late of Bickerstaffe abovesd Yeoman deceased, doe make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased, which have, or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of him the said Henry Ascroft or into the hands and possession of any other person or persons for him and the same so made, do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited into the Registry of the Conry Court of Chester, at or before the fifteenth day of November next ensuing. And the same goods, chattels, and credits, and all other the goods, chattels, and credits of the said deceased; at the time of his death, which at any time after shall come to the hands or possession of the said Henry Ascroft or into the hand and possession of any other person or persons for him do well & truly administer according to law; and further do make or cause to be made a true and just account of his sd Admon, at or before ye fifteenth day of August Anno Dmi 1728. and all the rest and residue of the said goods chattels and credits, which shall be found remaining upon the said Administrator’s Account, the same being first examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said Court, shall deliver & 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 an Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and twentieth years of the rayne of or Late Soveraign Ld King Charles the second (Intituled, An Act for the better settling Intestates Estates) shall limitt and appoint. And if it shall hereafter appear, that any last Will and Testament was made by the said Deceased, & 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 Henry Ascroft above bounden being thereunto required, doe render and deliver the said Lres of Admon (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made) in the said Court: Then this Obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and vertue.

Sealed and Delivered         Hen: Ashcroft his mark

   in the Presence of     Edwd Ashcroft his mark

Robt Herbert   Jeff: Moulding   Hen:Sherdley