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Series
Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations and Prerogative Court of...
Catalogue reference: PROB 36
What's it about?
PROB 36
An artificial series of various exhibits, including exhibits produced in causes, articles of agreement between creditors, proxies of renunciation and of curation, revoked letters of administration, excommunications, and affidavits.All the...
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 36
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Title (The name of the record)
- Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations and Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Miscellaneous Exhibits Pre 1722
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1653-1721
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Description (What the record is about)
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An artificial series of various exhibits, including exhibits produced in causes, articles of agreement between creditors, proxies of renunciation and of curation, revoked letters of administration, excommunications, and affidavits.
All the documents in the series predate the establishment of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury's main series of numbered exhibits in 1722. A few derive from the Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations, which exercised probate jurisdiction throughout England and Wales from 1653 to 1660, but the majority postdate the restoration of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1660.
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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 and Latin
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 27 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
- Litigation
- Debt
- Wills and probate
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12147/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Within the department: PROB
Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
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Court for Probate of Wills and Granting Administrations and Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Miscellaneous Exhibits Pre 1722
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