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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations:...
Catalogue reference: PROB 23
What's it about?
PROB 23
Court copies of wills proved by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations before 1660 and by lesser jurisdictions after 1660, but only in cases where the Prerogative Court of Canterbury...
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 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations: Supplementary Wills, Series IV
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1629-1827
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Description (What the record is about)
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Court copies of wills proved by the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations before 1660 and by lesser jurisdictions after 1660, but only in cases where the Prerogative Court of Canterbury cancelled the original certificates of probates or administration with the will annexed.
The records are for the most part court copies of wills with the certificate of probate attached. In some cases only the certificate survives.
Most of thedocuments are wills or relate to wills originally proved in inferior jurisdictions to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Some of them bear endorsements stating that the estates to which they relate fell within the jurisdiction of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and that for that reason they were surrendered to the Court.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The following abbreviations have been used in the list:
- Adc=archdeaconry
- Comm=commissary
- D=dean
- DC=dean and chapter
- Preb=prebend
- VG=vicar general
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 85 file(s)
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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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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When a will was proved before a court with probate jurisdiction the executor received a copy of the will. A certificate stating that probate had been granted to the executor and setting out the terms of the grant was attached to the copy of the will by a strip of parchment bearing the seal of the court.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12134/
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Prerogative Court of Canterbury and Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations: Supplementary Wills, Series IV
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