Shelmerdine

admon of Neddy Shelmerdine

late of Herod in Ph of Ashton under line

Clothier deced

granted 7th Oct 1814

Know all Men by these Presents, that we Neddy Shelmerdine and Robert Shelmerdine, Clothiers, and William Mills, Cotton Manufacturer, all of Herod in the Parish of Ashton-under-Line, in the County of Lancaster and Diocese of Chester,

are holden and firmly bound unto the Right Reverend Father in God, George Henry by divine Permission, Lord Bishop of Chester, in the sum of Eight hundred pounds, of good and lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, current of that part of the said Kingdom called England, to be paid unto the said Right Reverend Father, his lawful attorney, executors, and administrators, or assigns: To which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and every of us, severally, for and in the whole, our heirs, executors, and administrators, and the heirs, executors, and administrators of every of us, firmly by these Presents SEALED with our Seals, and dated the seventh day of October in the fifty fourth 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, and in the year of our Lord God, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen

The Condition of this Obligation is such, that if the above bounden Neddy Shelmerdine the natural and lawful Son and the of the next of kin and

ADMINISTRATOR

of all and singular the goods, chattels, and credits of Neddy Shelmerdine late of Herod aforesaid Clothier, a Widower, deceased

do 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 Neddy Shelmerdine 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 Consistory Court of Chester at or before the seventh day of April 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 Neddy Shelmerdine or into the hands

and possession of any other person or persons for him do well and truly adminster according to law’ and further do make, or cuaswe to be made, a true and just account of his said administrations, at or before the seventh day of October which shall be in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen 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 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 an act of parliament, made in the two-and-twentieth and three-and-twentieth years of the reign of his late majesty King CHARLES the second, entitled, 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 Neddy Shelmerdine above bounden, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said letter of administration, (approbation of such testament being first had and made in the said court) then his obligation to be void and of none effect, or else to remain in full force and virtue.

Sealed and Delivered

in the Presence of

James Turner

Surrogate

Neddy Shelmerdine

Robert Shelmerdine

William Mills

The seventh day of October 1814 Neddy Shelmerdine within named took the usual Oath of an Administrator in common form, and also made Oath that the Personal Estate and Effects of the Intestate within the Diocese of Chester were under the value of Four Hundred and Fifty Pounds, before me James Turner

Surrogate at Mottram

The Intestate died the 17th day of September, 1814

Admon issued

Dated 7th Oct 1814