Help please to decipher

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Mealymoo

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I would appreciate help with reading this please. Also clarification of what the one hundred pounds mentioned is about.

My feeble attempt. I have ideas for some of the missing words but would like others input. Thanks in advance guys.

I do ________ certify that on twenty third day of May in the ________ of our ___________ 1840 George Waring of this township of Hoyland Swaine in the parish of Silkstone in the county of York nephew & sole executor named??? in this the last will and testament of John Waring __________ of Hoyland Swaine aforesaid in this ___________ of _____________ farmer deceased was sworn ______________ & ____________ its executor & perform??? the same and that ______ which of this _____________ _____________ & ___________ of the said deceased within the diocese of York ________ amount in value to the sum of one hundred??? pounds.
 

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I do hereby certify that on twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord?? 1840 George Waring of this township of Hoyland Swaine in the parish of Silkstone in the county of York nephew & sole executor named??? in this the last will and testament of John Waring __________ of Hoyland Swaine aforesaid in this ___________ of _____________ farmer deceased was sworn ______________ & ____________ its executor & perform??? the same and that ______ which of this _____________ _____________ & ___________ of the said deceased within the diocese of York ________ amount in value to the sum of one hundred??? pounds.

Sorry - all I could work out.
 
i think the word named is correct and then possibly "in this the last will and testament of John Waring late of Hoyland Swaine"

"which of this goods chattells & assets of the said deceased"
 
I do hereby certify that on twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord?? 1840 George Waring of this township of Hoyland Swaine in the parish of Silkstone in the county of York nephew & sole executor named??? in this the last will and testament of John Waring ____late______ of Hoyland Swaine aforesaid in this ______? of north or York farmer deceased was sworn will & trusty to execute & perform the same and that the whole of this goods & chattels & ?__cordits?_assets is better Doug.___ of the said deceased within the diocese of York ________ amount in value to the sum of one hundred??? pounds.
 
Doug and Wendy, thanks both :)

Any idea what the reference to one hundred pounds is about? Is it that the
"which of this goods chattells & assets of the said deceased"
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are worth one hundred pounds?
 
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I do hereby certify that on twenty third day of May in the year of our Lord?? 1840 George Waring of this township of Hoyland Swaine in the parish of Silkstone in the county of York nephew & sole executor named??? in this the last will and testament of John Waring ____late______ of Hoyland Swaine aforesaid in this ______? of north or York farmer deceased was sworn will & trusty to execute & perform the same and that the whole of this goods & chattels & ?__cordits?_assets is better Doug.___ of the said deceased within the diocese of York ________ amount in value to the sum of one hundred??? pounds.
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I believe this is a Judge or avocat (Surrogate is beside his name) confirming that the Executor settled up the estate of John Waring. I am having a heck of a time going back and forth to the copy I have clarified and enlarged. My memory is awful even for seconds.

You only had a year usually to settle up an estate or had to pay an atrocious fine. So this looks to me like a lawyer/judge/whatever stating that the nephew had done all of that with the "goods, chattels and assets". I have this sort of thing written on the bottom of Wills from 1804 roughly. That clerk should be shot for his lousy writing, LOL.

As for the odd word that I can add to the above, while "assets" looks like contents, you have it right. Lordy I typed 100's of these while working in law. As for the bits in the middle.....John Waring, deceased, late of Hoyton Swaine aforesaid...and I can't get the blasted word after "in this ??? of York?

The "will and trusty" is more likely "well and truly or truely". And at the end it is just One Hundred Pounds.

Hope these bits help, but one can't see the forest for the trees and I am pretty sure it is just an OK from a legal beagle, to use our vernacular. Sound about right????
 
Thank you everyone, I've just popped on here but have to go out for the day very soon. Tomorrow I'll add all your help and fill in what were the missing words. I think between you you've almost solved it :)

Many thanks :)
 
I have two Wills from the 1500's here for the Stallans. One is 1500 and the other is 1535. The first one is horrible and looks like either Arabic of Pitman Shorthand. Elayne and I sat up one night till 3 am trying to decipher it. :eek:

I do have an advantage tho. I worked as a paralegal and I loved typing up Wills and the language (give, devise and bequeath, etc) never changed for 500 years until in the 1980's when they went to a simple format.......

So other than using a whole first page to make sure they got a leg up into Heaven, they frankly are very much the same in verbiage. It's the lousy clerks' writings that throw people and the weird way of writing say an "E" which I call a boiled egg with the top cut but still sitting there. Janey will know what I mean, :D Or a double "S" which in this Will (assets) is written more the way we do.....should be the long S than a short one.
 
Towards the end I'm seeing "goods chattells and credits ........ do not amount in value to the sum of one Hundred Pounds"

Also, I noticed a few suggestions of "this County/Diocese" etc: in each case I think it's just "the" - cf "the twenty third day" in line 1, and "this the last Will" in line 4.
 
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