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ESTATE OF RAPHE MADDOCKE, BAKER, CHESTER, ENGLAND, DIED SEPTEMBER 1604LETTER OF ADMINISTRATIONThis document has been catalogued by the staff at the Cheshire Record Office, Chester, England, as a letter of administration. A companion document, the inventory of Raphe Maddock, Chester, baker, gives a death date of September 1604. The inventory was completed 19 February 1604/05. The death of Raphe Maddock is not found in the registers of St. John the Baptist, Chester, the church of which he was probably a member. There was a severe plague in 1604 and many deaths were not recorded.The first paragraph of the administration is in Latin and mentions John [?] Maddocke, City of Chester, baker; William Locker, City of Chester, yeoman; David Yale, lawyer [?]. The last five lines of the first paragraph give a date of 23 February calculated by the reign of ``Jacob'' [James], king of England, France, Scotland and other territories. The last two words of the Latin section seem to mean 38. James I became King of England in 1603, but had been King James VI of Scotland since 1567; 38 years later would bring us to 1605, a reasonable date for the administration of the estate of a person who died in 1604. My best guess at the letters in the Latin (which language I do not know) is as follows: Condinit vind i pyutes nos John Maddocke de Com Citi [torn] Cestrio Bakorei [ ] William Locker de Com et Cita [ ] yeoman teneri et firmiter obligari Vene li Viro miro David Yale Legm [torn] doctori in Viginti Cibris bone et Legalis moneh Ang [torn] solveme ordein [ ] ro David Yale ait sno certo in har [torn] Occunas execmtprobis adminatoribus velat signatis s [torn] ad gnam guidem soluconem beno et fidelr fasinems obligaimus nos er V [ ] urim P se yro toto et in solis huedes exerntores et admratores vos feimiter putes sigillis moris sigillas dat xx iij die mo Ffeburarii Anno Regni dui moi Jacobi de [torn] Anglie Scotie Ffranncie et Hibmie Regis [torn] xv Picardy viz Anglie Ffranncie et Hib [torn] Regni si Scotie Tricesimo octavo The rest of the document is in English as follows: The condicon of this obligacon is such. That is the above bounden John Maddocke doe well and truely administer all and any the goods, chattels, creditte and debte of Raphe Maddocke (for the sake as well of him the said John has of[ ] Eliz: Maddocke daughter of the said decedent) late of the city of Chestere, deceased that is to say doe pay his debte and discharge his legacies wyth any the said Decedens owed or bequeathed att the time of his decease so farr forth as the goods doe extend and as by lawe hee is bound. And also doe make and exte [execute] in writting a true and pfect inventary of all and singuler the goods, chatteles and debte of the said decedent at or before the first of March next [eusne mge ?]. *** And thereof doe make and yeald to the ordinary for the time being or othere Judge competent in ther behalfe a faithfull true and just accompt when as often as hee shall be thereunto lawefully called or as required and finally doe att all times therafter as hys owne & per coaste and charges acquitt discharge same and keepe harmelesse the said David Yale his exe[ ]n[ ]o as admrato as and all and singuler his officers and ministers for and concerning the granting pft letters of admins [torn] to him in his behalfe and duly thing fowrcing the same Then said obligasion to be voyed and of non effecteor ebs to stand and remaine in full [ ]ete and [ ]ert. Sealed and delivered in presence of Tho. Humphreys | |