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From: Norma Rudinsky< >
Subject: Will administration 1695
Date: 1 Feb 1998 16:04:58 -0800

The date isn't medieval, right, but the Latin must be.

I have two problems with the papers setting up the administration of a
will (itself not found). The first, dated 19 Martij 1695/6, is fine, but
the second is dated: dat ?ormio Octavo die mensis Junij. I can't find my
17th c. alphabet to decipher the first letter, nor can I think of a letter
to make a Latin word for lst, 2nd, 3rd, first, last, etc (on the
assumption it refers to an eight-day period in the month of June).

Second, the earlier document is roughly as follows with no tails on the
abbreviations and with the questionable part in caps.

Fiat adt omnium et Singularum bonor Juriu Preditor et Cattallorum Sara
Leigh nu? (nuper?) de ... [Carmarthen] vidua defuncti Richard Leigh ET
HENRYE LLEIGH LIBERUS DICT DEFUNCT etc.

Clearly it's the formula for setting up the administration of "all and
singular goods interests? products ? predicates? and chattels
of Sara Leigh late of the city of Carmarthen, widow of the late Richard
Leigh." They had a son Henry, so it appoints him administrator. Then
does LIBERUS mean he is the bachelor (single=free) son of the said DICT
dead mand?

Partly I am uncertain because the second document binding the
administrator to provide an inventory to the archdeaconry of Carmarthen,
etc is made out to and signed by a different son of the late Sara.

Suggestions and corrections welcome.

Norma Leigh Rudinsky

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