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Wills and Letters of Administration

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Wills are in PROB 1, PROB 10, PROB 11, PROB 20, PROB 21, PROB 22 and PROB 23, with indexes in PROB 12, PROB 13 and PROB 15. Commissions for wills are in PROB 52 and PROB 56Act books are in PROB 6, PROB 7, PROB 8 and PROB 9, with warrants in PROB...

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Title
Wills and Letters of Administration
Date

1383-1858

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Wills are in PROB 1, PROB 10, PROB 11, PROB 20, PROB 21, PROB 22 and PROB 23, with indexes in PROB 12, PROB 13 and PROB 15. Commissions for wills are in PROB 52 and PROB 56

Act books are in PROB 6, PROB 7, PROB 8 and PROB 9, with warrants in PROB 14 and commission books in PROB 17

Administration bonds are in PROB 46, PROB 51 and PROB 54

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Language

English and Latin

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21 series

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Wills and probate
Publication note(s)
For information on, and evidence relating to, the inaccuracies and omissions odf the calendars covering various seventeenth century years consult the following: Year books of probates (from 1630): Abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, volume VI, 1652-1653 ed. by John Matthews and George F Matthews (London, 1911, 5). Index of wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1653-1656 vol VII ed. by Thomas M Blagg and Josephine Skeate Moir (Index Library, LIV, London, British Record Society, 1925, xii). Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Wills, sentences and probate acts, 1661-1670 ed. by JH Morrison (London, 1935, vi) . Prerogative Court of Canterbury: Letters of Administration, 1620-1630 ed. by JH Morrison (London, 1935, vi). Index of wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, vol XI, 1686-1693 ed. by C Harold Ridge (Index Library, LXXVII, London British Record Society, 1958, v).
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