Another administration and again in the same general area as the two earlier ones. Elizabeth Blake mother of William Blake of Duntisbourne Abbots. There is a William Blake at Duntisborne Abbots, farmer, born circa 1784 on the 1851 census.
Transcriber: Elizabeth Kipp
Recorded: 28 May 2014
Source: Ancestry – Diocese of Bristol Wills
Testator: Elizabeth Blake
Place: Duntisbourne Abbots, Gloucestershire, England
Type of Record: Probate
Date of document:15 Nov 1851, probated 15 Nov 1851
Condition: 19th century English, legible copy
1 Know all Men by these Presents that We William Blake
2 of Duntisbourne Abbots in the County of Gloucester Farmer
3 Edward Page of Swindon Wilts Ironmonger and
4 William Sutton Page of Coaley in the County of Gloucester
5 Gentleman
6 are held and firmly bound unto James Henry Lord Bishop
7 of Gloucester and Bristol and his successors
8 in the sum of six hundred pounds
9 of good and lawful Money of Great Britain to be paid unto the said Lord
10 Bishop or his Successors or to his or their certain Attorneys Executors Admins-
11 trators or Assigns To which Payment well and truly to be made We oblige ourselves
12 and each of us by himself in and for the whole our and
13 each of our Heirs Executors and Administrators firmly by
14 these Presents Sealed with our Seals dated the nineteenth day of
15 November in the fifteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign
16 Lady Victoria by the Grace of God of the United
17 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith Etc And
18 in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty one
19 The Condition of this Obligation is such That if the above bounden
20 William Blake Administrator of all and singular the Goods
21 Chattles and Credits of Elizabeth Blake deceased do
22 make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods
23 Chattles and Credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to the Hands
24 Possession or Knowledge of him the said William Blake
25 or into the Hands and Possession of any Person or Persons for
26 him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited into the Registry
27 of the Consistory Court of Gloucester at or before the
28 last day of March next ensuing and the same Goods
29 Chattles and Credits and all other the Goods Chattles and Credits of the said deceased
30 at the time of her death which at anytime after shall come to the hands or Possession
31 of the said William Blake or into the hands
32 and Possession of any other Person or Persons for him do well and truly administer
33 according to Law And further do make or cause to be made a true and just Accompt
34 of his said Administration at or before the last day of Nov[embe]r 1852
35 and all the Rest and Residue of the said Goods Chattles and Credits which shall be
36 found remaining upon the said Administrators Accompts the same being first
37 examined and allowed of by the Judge or Judges for the time being of the said
38 Court shall deliver and pay unto such Person or Persons respectively as the said
39 Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to the true Intent and
40 Meaning of a late Act of Parliament made in the two and twentieth and three and
41 twentieth Years of the Reign of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
42 entituled an Act for the better settling of Intestates Estates which limit and appoint
43 And if it shall hereafter appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the
44 said deceased and the Executor or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into
45 the said Court making Request to have it allowed and approved accordingly if the
46 said William Blake
47 above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver the said Letter of
48 Administration Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the
49 said Court then this Obligation to be void or else to remain in full Force and Virtue.
50 Signed Sealed and delivered
51 in the presence of
52 Tho[ma]s Woodward
53 William Blake
54 Edward Page
55 Wm Sutton Page
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