Posted by Barry Burley on July 18, 19103 at 21:20:17:
On 11 April 1664, the administration of Elizabeth Bowlby, widow, of Helmsley, deceased, was granted to Jordan Bowlby, son of the said deceased. An inventory of above £40 was exhibited and a bond was entered.
The University of York
Borthwick Institute of Historial Research
States:
Grants of probate and administration
Where a person died without leaving a will, and no probate file containing an administration bond and/or inventory exists, the only surviving record is normally the probate act book. These books cannot be photocopied, and there is not usually enough information in them to justify the cost of a photograph. In such cases, therefore, the Institute provides abstracts from the probate act books, translated from the Latin. This happens most often with the records of the Prerogative and Exchequer courts of York before about 1690, but can occur at other times and with other probate courts.