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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Filed Engrossed Eighteenth Century Inventories and...
Catalogue reference: PROB 3
What's it about?
PROB 3
Engrossed copies of inventories from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury preserved in their original filing arrangement. Appended to some of the inventories are other documents including executors' and administrators' accounts, and declarations...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- PROB 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Filed Engrossed Eighteenth Century Inventories and Associated Documents
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1701-1782
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Description (What the record is about)
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Engrossed copies of inventories from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury preserved in their original filing arrangement. Appended to some of the inventories are other documents including executors' and administrators' accounts, and declarations in lieu of inventories.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For records which were extracted from or became separated from undoubted Prerogative Court of Canterbury records, and were placed in another PROB series because they were inventories, accounts, or commissions relating to inventories and accounts of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth centuries see:
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1660-1858
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 5894 parchment membranes
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Wills and probate
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12114/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: PROB
Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Filed Engrossed Eighteenth Century Inventories and Associated Documents
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