Entry from probate diary for the Consistory Court of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland.

Date 18 April 1616.

Smith al[ia]s Saer./

[? p[robatum]

E[iu]sdem die et anno d[i]c[t]us decanus certif[icat]e com[m]isisse

ad[ministati]o[ne]m bon[oru]m

iurariu[m] et Creditoru[m] Averille Smith al[ia]s Saer nuper de

grovehow bottom Ebor dioc[es] def[unc]t[a] Mattheo Newgill, Tho[mas]

Newgill et Jane Carter ux[or] Thome Carte [? Prius] iurat[i]s

Salvo iure com[m]issaq[ue] Ex[hibi]tu[m] Inv[entarium] infra xlli et d[i]c[t]i

ad[ministra]tione

oblig[and] ./

Loosely translated :-

"the same day and date the Dean certified the comission of the administration of the goods, rights and credits of Averil Smith alias Saer late of Grovehow Bottom in the Diocese of York to Matthew Newgill, Thomas Newgill and Jane Carter, wife of Thomas Carter who were previously sworn. Without infraction of the law and bound in the sum of £40 to exhibit an inventory and to administer.