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1778. 4 Term. [Thursday] October 23.
me only, at my House. The Register of the Ecclesiastical Court Mr. Jackson attended. He enters all acts done by a Single Judge in the Ecclesiastical Court as done in Open Court, which Mr. Justice Chambers says, is right. Mr. Jackson says the Swearing an Administrator before a single Judge is usual, not only in Vacation, as this was, being the first day of the Sittings after this Term; but also even in Term.
William Cotes was Son of Humphrey Cotes, who was a Capital Figure in some of Mr. Wilkes’s Transactions.
The Sum Sworn to as the amount of William Cotes’s Estate was Thirty Thousand Rupees.