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== Some Explanatory Notes on the Lincolnshire Probate Courts == | == Some Explanatory Notes on the Lincolnshire Probate Courts == | ||
Before the Reformation the diocese of Lincoln comprised:<br> | |||
*Archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stow in the county of Lincoln<br> | |||
*Archdeaconry of Leicester<br> | |||
*Archdeaconry of Northampton (including the counties of Northampton and Rutland)<br> | |||
*Archdeaconry of Oxford<br> | |||
*Archdeaconry of Bedford<br> | |||
*Archdeaconry of Buckingham<br> | |||
*Huntingdon (including the counties of Huntingdon and the county of Hertford except for the peculiar of St. Albans).<br> | |||
After the Reformation, the archdeaonries of Bedford, Buckingham and Huntingdon remained until the period 1837-1845 when they were transferred to other dioceses. Since court records of the Bishop's Commissaries for the various Archdeaconries tended to be kept with the records of these archdeacons there is only a relatively small number of wills at Loncoln relating to the counties other than Lincolnshire.<br> | |||
For most of the wills proved in all the courts down to 1532, printed abstracts will be found in C.W. Foster's ''Lincoln Wills'' published by the Lincoln Record Society volumes 5 (1271-1526) and 10 (1505-1530). There are further abstracts of selected items in ''Lincolnshire Wills: First Series A.D 1500-1600'' (published in 1888) and ''Lincolnshire Wills: Second Series A.D. 1600-1617 ''(published in 1891) by Canon A.R. Maddison. The Family History Library has a copy fo these volumes (FHL [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=203079&disp=Lincolnshire+wills++ 942.53 P2ma; film 990132 Items 3-4]). <br> | |||
== Court Jurisdictions == | == Court Jurisdictions == | ||