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Series
Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Acts of Court
Catalogue reference: PROB 30
What's it about?
PROB 30
Original Prerogative Court of Canterbury records relating to various decisions and judgements. The records are acts in litigation, renunciations of executorship, appointments of guardians for minors, acts to lead decrees and limited grants of...
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 30
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Title (The name of the record)
- Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Acts of Court
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1740-1858
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Description (What the record is about)
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Original Prerogative Court of Canterbury records relating to various decisions and judgements. The records are acts in litigation, renunciations of executorship, appointments of guardians for minors, acts to lead decrees and limited grants of probate and administration, presentation of letters of request (from outside the Province of Canterbury), acts recording the transfer of wills proved in error in other courts and orders concerning the revaluation of estates.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
PROB 30/251 to 440 covering 1819-1858 are arranged in monthly bundles alphabetically by name of the deceased.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For documents appointing proctors to act on behalf of persons with an interest in business in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury see PROB 19
For Prerogative Court of Canterbury administration act books see PROB 6
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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)
- 440 bundle(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
- Litigation
- Children
- 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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Where wills were dubious or grants of administration not straight forward, procedure was by decree rather than in common form.
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Copies information (Indicates existence, availability, location and format of copies)
- PROB 28/ 1-250 (1740 to 1818) is duplicated in the Acts of Court Books in PROB 29
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12141/
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