246 THE USE OF THE LAW. 



to pay, i.Judg- did once refuse may when they will take it upon them, and 

 recognJlDeUs no executor sna11 be further charged with debts or legacies 

 by bonds and than the value of the goods come to his hands. So that he 

 bills sealed. 4. foresee that he pay debts upon record, first debts to the 

 s^ServanJ^ king, then upon judgments, statutes, recognizances, then 

 wages. 6. Head debts by bond and bill sealed, rent unpaid, servants wages, 

 workmen. 7. payment to head workmen, and, lastly, shop-books, and 

 compacts b y and contracts by word. For if an executor, or administrator 

 word. p a y debts to others before to the king, or debts due by bond 



before those due by record, or debts by shop-books and con 

 tracts before those by bond, arrearages of rent, and servants , 

 D bt 01 wor kmen s wages, he shall pay the same over again to 



equaf degree of those others. in the said degrees. 



record, the exe- But yet the law giveth them choice, that where divers 

 cutor may pay have debts due in equal degree of record or specialtv. he 



which ofthem -, -, n , i i -11 i / &quot;., . J&amp;gt;&quot; 



he please before ma y P a y which of them he will, before any suit brought 

 suit commenc- against him ; but if suit be brought he must pay them that 

 An one exe & et J uc ^g ment against him. 



cutor ma y e do as Any one executor may convey the goods, or release debts 

 much as all to- without his companion, and any one by himself may do as 

 gether, but if a mucn as all together ; but one man s releasing of debts or 



debtbe released, n - c i i 11 i b 



and assets selling of goods, shall not charge the other to pay so much 

 wanting, he of the goods, if there be not enough to pay debts ; but it 

 shall only be shall charge the party himself that did so release or 



discharged. J 



otherwise of convey. 



administrators. But it is not so with administrators, for they have but 



makin^hise 8 ^ 1 ne autnor ^y gi yen them by the bishop over the goods, 



cu tor, the se* &quot; wmcn authority being given to many, is to be executed by 



cond executor all of them joined together. 



shall be execu- And if an executor die making an executor, the second 



testator. executor is executor to the first testator. 



But otherwise, But if an administrator die intestate, then his administrator 



if the adminis- shall not be executor or administrator to the first. But in 



making his exe- ^ na ^ case ^ ne bishop, whom we call the ordinary, is to com- 



cutor.or if ad- mit the administration of the first testator s goods to his 



ministration be w if e? or next of kin, as if he had died intestate. Always 



lirgTods. In provided, that that which the executor did in his lifetime 



both cases the is to be allowed for good. And so if an administrator die, 



ordinary shall an d make his executor, the executor of the administrator 



nisTratbno? the sna11 not be executor to the first intestate ; but the ordinary 



goods of the must new commit the administration of the goods of the first 



first intestate, intestate again. 



administrators ^ ^ 1C execu tor or administrator pay debts, or funerals, or 



may retain. legacies of his own money, he may retain so much of the 



