IN HIS MAJESTY'S HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

THE PRINCIPAL PROBATE REGISTRY

BE IT KNOWN that THOMAS HARDY of Max Gate Dorchester in the County of Dorset O.M. died there on the 11th day of January 1928

AND BE IT FURTHER KNOWN that at the date hereunder written the last Will and Testament (a copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of the said deceased was proved and registered in the Principal Probate Registry of His Majesty's High Court of Justice and that Administration of all the Estate which by law devolves to and vests in the personal representative of the said deceased was granted by the aforesaid Court to LLOYDS BANK LIMITED the general Executor named in the said Will POWER RESERVED OF MAKING A GRANT OF PROBATE TO THE LITERARY EXECUTORS NAMED IN THE SAID WILL.

AND it is hereby certified that an Affidavit for Inland Revenue has been delivered wherein it is shewn that the gross value of the said Estate in Great Britain (exclusive of what the said deceased may have been possessed of or entitled to as a Trustee and not beneficially) amounts to £91,707 - 14 - 3.

AND it is further certified that it appears by a Receipt signed by an Inland Revenue Officer on the said Affidavit that £16,712 - 15 - 0 on account of Estate Duty and Interest on such duty has been paid.

DATED the 22nd. day of February, 1928

(Signed) H.A.de C.Pereira

REGISTRAR

(Seal of Probate Division)
of the High Court of
Justice, Principal Regis-
(-try)

Extracted by LOCK REED & LOCK

Solrs., Dorchester