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Kendall 20 Sepr 1662
Caur & Admod bono Milouis Rawes
nup do Troutbeck defit
Ad.bd
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[Obligation] Obligation is in Latin and has not been transcribed. It is virtually a copy of the condition.
--------------------------------- Robtum Birkett de Troutbecke ----
de Windermere in Cond Westmorland yeom [yeoman] et James ffisher --
ten---- et firmiter obligari --------------------------------------
--------------- [and so on]
[Condition]
[The test runs into the right hand edge]
The Condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden
Robert Birkett doe well & truly Administer
Singular the goods rights Creditts Cattalls & Chattells which late weere & did [belonged?]
unto Myles Rawes late of Troutbecke above named deceased that is to
pall[?] all[?] debts legacies soe farr as the goods extend or the Law binds A-
exhibit into Court a true & perfect Inventory of all the goods of the said deceased
And give a true & perfect accompt of all his actings[?] in the fimster[?] whe-
ha[?] shalbe thereunto lawfully required And stand to & to abide the Co[urt]
order concerneinge the distribution of the being if any be And att
times well & sufficiently sure to keepe harmles the abovenamed Vic[?]
Gen'll[?] tell his offices for grantinge the Administration And give fur
security for prefermant[?] of the the fimster[?] when thereunto required That
this obligation to be void or else remain in force
Robert Birkett X his mark
James ffisher [signed]
Signat Sigillat et
delibat in p--------
R A Colpets [signed]
Jo: Cowper [signed]
[There appears to be no Inventory]
NOTES:
1560 Wynnandermyer (Windermere) W. son of Will.
Rawe, Robert Raw, Richard Rawes, Robert Rawes.
1574 Appelwheit (Applethwaite) No free tenants, Tenants are by Tenantright rendered yearly.
Robert & William Rawes, 3 acres; George Rawes, 3 acres; John Rawes, 2 acres; Richard Rawes, 3 acres.
Applethwaite is a Constablewick in the parish of Windermere.
- It is possible that this Myles Rawes is the same as the Miles Rawes of lived at the Crosses in Applethwaite.
- Unfortunately the relationship, if any, of Robert Birkett is not known.
- The Crosses and nearby Hole Head in Applethwaite were occupied by branches of the Rawes Family in the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Other people mentioned in the Inventory.
- Robert Birkett.
- R A Colpetts.
- John Cowper.
- James Fisher.
Transcribed from the original by Julian Rawes, 2016