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== Getting Started  ==
== Getting Started  ==
The High Court of Delegates was originally the Court of Appeal from the Prerogative Courts of Canterbury and York, and also from the Irish Probate Courts.&nbsp; It was so called because the Judges were delegated for each prticular case...&nbsp; The High Court of Delegates was abolished in 1832 when the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was established&nbsp; ...Wills [were] proved before the latter body until the creation of the Court of Probate [1857].<ref>Harwood. H. W. Forsyth, The Genealogist, volume 11, page 165. (Family History Library book 942 B2gqm, N.S. vol. 11.)</ref>
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== Indexes  ==
== Indexes  ==
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