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the fame fliall direft the infpeftor of fearaen's wills to exa- 

 mine the fame, and make fuch inquiry relative thereto as 

 may appear to him ncceffary on that behalf; and being fatis- 

 fied, he fhall forthwith make out a certificate for obtaining 

 letters of adminiftration, and purfue the courfe minutely 

 defcribed in Burn's Ecclefiaftical Law, art. irills. 



By 32 Geo. III. c. 34. the following fums are to be paid 

 for the feal, parchment, writing, and fuing forth of probates 

 of wills and letters of adminillration granted in purfuance 

 of this aft, for the purpofe of receiving wages, or pay, or 

 allowances of money of any kind, which fliall remain due to 



the deceafed, viz. 



£. s. d. 



For probates of wills, if the goods and chattels') 



are under the value of 20/. - - - J 



For letters of adminillration . - - 



For probates of wills under 40/. - - - 



For adminiftration - - . - - 



For probates of wills under 60/. - - - 



For adminiftration . - . . - 

 For probates of wills under 100/. 



For adminiftration . - . - - 

 For commiflions or requifitions to fwear executors 

 or adminiftrators : 



Under 20/. . . - - - 



And under 100/. . - - - 



15 



4 

 8 



17 



II 



8 



13 

 II 



15 



3 



But if the probates or letters of adminiftration be granted 

 to the widow, children, father, mother, brother, or After, 

 in purfuance of this aft, for the fame purpofe of receiving 

 wages, or pay, or allowances of money of any kind, which 

 ftiall remain due to fuch warrant or petty officer, &c. then 

 the following fums are to be paid, viz. 



15 



16 



For probates of wills under 20/. - - - 

 For adminiftration . - . - - 



For probates of wills under 40/. - • - 

 For adminiftration . - . - - 

 For probates of wills under 60/. - - - 

 For adminiftration - . . - - 

 For probates of wills under 100/. 

 For adminiftration . - . - - 

 For commiflions or requifitions to fwear executors 

 or adminiftrators : 



Under 20/. ----- O 



Under 40/. . . - • - o 



Under 60/. ----- o 

 Under loo/. 0186 



And no more than ^s. are to be taken for the fuing forth 

 of the probate of any will or letters of adminiftration granted 

 to the widow, children, father, mother, brother, or filler 

 of any fuch feaman or marine, &c. and jj. for commiffions 

 or requifitions to fwear fuch widow, &c. unlefs the goods 

 amount to 100/.: which laft-mentioned charge of ^s. muft 

 be underftood to be demandable where the probate or letters 

 of adminiftration are not for the purpofe of receiving wages, 

 or pay, or allowances of money remaining due, but for ge- 

 neral purpofes, as to obtain adminiftration of the goods and 

 chattels of the deceafed. 



A bill of the expences of obtaining letters of adminiftra- 

 tion to creditors, is to be laid before and taxed by one of 

 the regifters of the prerogative court of Canterbury, or 

 their deputies, who are entitled to a fee of 3/. 4<i. for the 

 fame ; and the proftor is to tranfmit fuch letters of admi- 

 niftration wnth the bill of expences fo certified, to the trea- 

 furer or paymafter of his majefty's navy. Proctors taking 

 more than the prefcribed fums forfeit joA, and regifters and 



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other officers of any ecclefiaftical court, procuring letters 

 of adminiftration or probate contrary to this aft and the 

 26 Geo. III., to be incapacitated to aft, and forfeit 500/. 



Will, Qualijication and Office of the Executor of a. See 

 Executor, Executor de fan Tort, and ioi'HT-Executors. 

 See alfo Debts, Ti^wc^^-Executor, Inventory, and Le- 

 gacy. 



Will, Prolate of a. See Probate. 



Will, EJlate at, in Law, is where lands and tenements 

 are let by one man to another, to have and to hold at the 

 will of the leffor ; and the tenant by force of this leafe ob- 

 tains pofleffion. Every eftate of this kind is at the will of 

 both parties, landlord ^nd tenant : fo that either of them 

 may determine his will, and quit his conneftion with the 

 other at his ovtn pleafure, under certain reftriftions. For, 

 if the tenant at will fows his land, and the landlord, before 

 the corn is ripe, or reaped, puts him out, the tenant fhall 

 have the emblements, and free ingrefs and egrefs to cut and 

 carry away the profits. But where the tenant himfelf deter- 

 mines the will, the landlord fhall have the profits of the 

 land. The law is careful, that no fuch fudden determina- 

 tion of the will by one party fhall tend to the manifeft and 

 unforefeen prejudice of the other. This appears in the cafe 

 of emblements juft mentioned ; and alfo, the leflee after the 

 determination of the leffor's will ftiall have reafonable ingrefs 

 and egrefs to fetch away his goods and utenfils. And if 

 rent be payable quarterly or half-yearly, and the leffee de- 

 termines the will, the rent fhall be paid to the end of the 

 current quarter or half-year. Upon the fame principle, 

 courts of law have of late years inclined as much as poffible 

 againil conflruing demifes, where no certain term is men- 

 tioned, to be tenancies at will : but have rather held them 

 to be tenancies from year to year, fo long as both parties 

 pleafe, efpecially where an annual rent is referved : in which 

 cafe they will not fuffer either party to determine the tenancy 

 even at the end of the year, without reafonable notice to the 

 other. Blackft. Com. vol. ii. 



Will 'with a Whifp. See Ignis Fatuus. 



Will'j Coiie, in Geography^ a creek on the N.E. coall 

 of the ifland of St. Chriftopher, to the S.W. of Muddy- 

 Point. 



Will'j Creek, a river of Maryland, which runs into the 

 Potomack, N. lat. 39° 30'. W. long. 78° 47'. 



WILLACH. SeeViLLACH. 



WILLAERT, Adrian, in Biography, the difciple of 

 John Mouton, and mafter of Zarhno, has been long placed 

 at the head of the Venetian fchool of counterpoint by the 

 Italians themfelves. He was born at Bruges in Flanders, 

 and during his youth ftudied the law at Paris ; if with the 

 view of making it his profeflion, there muft have been an 

 early conflift between legiflation and mufic, which having a 

 powerful advocate in his own heart gained the caufe ; for 

 by his own account (fee Josquin) he went to Rome in the 

 time of Leo X., where he found tliat his motet, " Verbum 

 bonum et fuave," was performed in the pontifical chapel, 

 as the work of that renowned compofer ; he therefore muft 

 have been a contrapuntift fome time, before any of his works 

 could have travelled to Rome. 



The account which Zarlino gives of this motet ( P. i. 

 p. 175."! having pafled for a work of Jofquin, excited our 

 curiofity to fee it ; and finding it among the Motetti della 

 Corona, in the Britifh Mufeum, we fcored it ; but difco- 

 vered that the predileftion for a great name had operated 

 too powerfully in favour of this compofition while Jofquin 

 was imagined to be the author of it ; for it is neither writ- 

 ten with the clearncfs, dexterity, nor even correftnefs, of 

 that wonderful contrapuntift : there is not only confufion in 



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