Administration (with the Will annexed) of

Charles Nicholas Pallmer Esquire

Deceased

Will dated 26 January 1837

Administration dated 10 December 1850

This is the last Will and Testament of me Charles Nicholas Pallmer lately of Norbiton in the county of Surrey in the Kingdom of Great Britain but now of the parish of St Dorothy in the Island of Jamaica By the advice and with the full concurrence of my most dearly beloved and excellent wife I give devise and bequeath all my estate real personal or mixed of whatever nature or kind soever or wheresoever the same may be unto my dearly beloved sister Eliza Peters Washington Parker of Albany Terrace in the Kingdom of Great Britain widow to hold to her her heirs executors administrators and assigns to and for her and their own proper use and benefit for ever and I appoint my said sister sole executrix of this my will and hereby revoking and making void all former or other wills by me at any time heretofore made I do declare this to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my hand and affixed my seal this twenty sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven

C N Pallmer

Signed sealed published and declared by the testator Charles Nicholas Pallmer as and for his last will and Testament in the presence of us who at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses

Henry N Dempster

Robt Wilkie

Robert Nidal

All of Spanish Town Jamaica

Extracted by H C Coote

Proctor Doctors Commons

John Bird By Divine Providence, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, To our well beloved in Christ John Parkinson Esquire a creditor of Charles Nicholas Pallmer formerly of Spanish Town in the Island of Jamaica and of Norbiton House near Kingston upon Thames in the county of Surrey and late of Boulogne Sur Mer in France deceased Greeting: Whereas the said Charles Nicholas Pallmer having whilst living, and at the time of his death, goods, chattels, or credits, in divers dioceses or jurisdictions: did (as is alleged) in his lifetime rightly and duly make his last Will and Testament (hereunto annexed) and did therein name his sister Eliza Peters Washington Parker widow sole executrix and Universal Legatee who has renounced the Probate and Execution of the said Will and also Letters of Administration (with the same annexed) of the goods of the said deceased

And we, being desirous that the said Goods, Chattels, and credits, may be well and faithfully administered, applied, and disposed of according to law, Do therefore by these presents grant full Power and Authority to you, in whose fidelity we confide, to administer and faithfully dispose of the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, according to the Tenor and Effect of the said Will: and first to pay the debts of the said deceased, which he did owe at the time of his death, and afterwards the Legacies contained and specified in the said Will, so far as such Goods, Chattels, and Credits, will thereto extend and the law requires: You having been already sworn well and faithfully to administer the same, and to make a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the said Goods, Chattels, and Credits, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of Our Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on or before the last day of June next ensuing; and also to render a just and true Accompt thereof.  And we do by these presents ordain, depute, and constitute you Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, and Credits of the said deceased (with the said Will annexed)

Given at London the tenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and in the third year of our Translation

Chas Dyneley

John Iggulden

W G Gostling

Deputy Registrars

Sworn under Twenty Pounds and that the Testator died about the 30^th December 1848