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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> | Before the Reformation the diocese of Lincoln comprised:<br> | ||
*Archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stow in the county of Lincoln | *Archdeaconries of Lincoln and Stow in the county of Lincoln | ||
*Archdeaconry of Leicester | *Archdeaconry of Leicester | ||
*Archdeaconry of Northampton (including the counties of Northampton and Rutland) | *Archdeaconry of Northampton (including the counties of Northampton and Rutland) | ||
*Archdeaconry of Oxford | *Archdeaconry of Oxford | ||
*Archdeaconry of Bedford | *Archdeaconry of Bedford | ||
*Archdeaconry of Buckingham | *Archdeaconry of Buckingham | ||
*Huntingdon (including the counties of Huntingdon and the county of Hertford except for the peculiar of St. Albans).<br> | *Huntingdon (including the counties of Huntingdon and the county of Hertford except for the peculiar of St. Albans).<br> | ||
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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.<ref>Camp, Anthony J. Wills and Their Whereabouts. London: published by author, 1974; page 66.</ref> The Family History Library has a copy of 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> | 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.<ref>Camp, Anthony J. Wills and Their Whereabouts. London: published by author, 1974; page 66.</ref> The Family History Library has a copy of 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> | ||
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[[Category:Lincolnshire]] | [[Category:Lincolnshire]] | ||