Latin help please - Moses Collins

[Jill]

I have managed to decipher the part of Moses Collins will that is in English but am stuck on the latin at the end. As it's on Ancestry I know that the day is 2 July 1648 and have spotted his son Johanni [John] Collins and wife Magdalena [Maudlin] but it would be good to know what the rest says.

For those with Ancestry : Moses Collins probate (http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/5111/40611_310665-00242/733124?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2f%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dCanturburyPrerogativeCourt%26 h%3d733124%26ti%3d5538%26indiv%3dtry%26gss%3dpt%26 ssrc%3dpt_t17033206_p28657681513_kpidz0q3d28657681 513z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&ssrc=pt_t17033206_p28657681513_kpidz0q3d2865768151 3z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid&backlabel=ReturnRecord)

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[ElizabethHerts]

It goes something like this:

The second day of July one thousand six hundred and forty-eight AD a commission was granted to John Collins natural and legitimate son of the said deceased while he lived and at the time of his death of good reputation and credit in divers dioceses or jurisdictions To administer the goods rights and credits of the said deceased according to the tenor and effect of the aforesaid will because Magdalena Collins relict of the said deceased and executrix named in this will, died before she took upon herself the execution of this will, [John Collins] having sworn well and faithfully to administer the same by virtue of a commission previously issue in this regard


I've done this in a rush - cobbled together from various texts I have collected, so I hope it's OK. I won't be around much from now on so I'll leave it for others to correct or comment on!

[Jill]

Thankyou so much, that's really useful. He made his will in 1640 and so his wife's death goes some way towards explaining the 8 year wait before it went to probate (the Civil War wouldn't have helped either). SFHG has no burials for Chithurst during the Civil War, (if they were kept at all) so now I know the period within which she died.

[ElizabethHerts]

Glad to have helped, Jill.