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Subject: Re: Tomlinson, Elizabeth: Estate of
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:10:53 EDT



In a message dated 4/10/01 5:25:07 AM, writes:

<< You can't have sons being obviously illegitimate, but not daughters.
Elizabeth
was well known to have never married. >>

Exactly ... so why were her daughter's husbands her legal administrators in
1631?

The answer is that they were defendants and not so much administrators, as
all the distribution had already taken place. Her verbal will was taken care
of by the family and no one ever expected it to go to court, but Dud Dudley
was the type who would sur even over his hangnails.

This term 'administrator' is a misnomer in both court cases, probably a fault
of the clerk who did not fully understand what the cases were about. Perhaps
the defendants did not even knew what it was really about because Dud Dudley
was filing these frivolous law suits. He filed another frivolous suit for
damages when he was evicted from the manor house when he had no right at all
to possess it. That was heard in court as well, so irrelevant and frivolous
suits were part of the docket occasionally.




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