ON the 27th day of February 1871, Letters of Administration of all and singular the personal Estate and Effects of Charles Jacob Durham, late of Bear Lane, Greenwich, in the County of Kent, Licensed Victualler deceased who died on the 10th day of November 1870, at Bear Lane aforesaid intestate were granted at the Principal Registry of her Majesty’s Court of Probate to John Edward Meek of No. 195 Saint John Street, Clerkenwell in the County of Middlesex, a Copartner in the firm of John and William Nicholson and Company, of the same place, Distillers, the person appointed by the Right Honourable James Plaisted, Baron Penzance, the Judge of Her Majesty’s said Court, under the authority of the 73rd? Section of the Court of Probate Act 1857 to be the Administrator of all and singular the personal Estate and Effects of the said deceased, he having been first sworn duly to administer   Effects under £3,000   NOTE: John Edward Meek was a partner in the firm of John & William Nicholson, Distillers (the brand name still exists today), so perhaps Charles Jacob died in debt - apparently Nicholsons loaned out money to many publicans and there are records of these loans and associated deeds - they were possibly trying to get their money back