Probate
Derived from Dorset History Centre Ref Ad/Dt/W/1692; Event Record Number: 30
Date: 18th August 1692
Sarah Cooke, daughter of Frances Lane of Stalbridge Weston, is the Administratrix for the estate of the late Frances Lane.
Thomas Cooke, yeomanA freeholder or substantial tenant farmer, ranking above a husbandman but below the gentry. Yeomen held enough land to live... In full. of Stalbridge Weston, and John Cooke, Haberdasher of Stalbridge, stand surety to the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset on 18 August 1692.
An inventory is required to be submitted by 1st November 1692 and later, a full account of the administration, after which the obligation becomes void.
Signed: Thomas Cooke, John Cooke
In the presence of: John Combe, William Horlock senior.