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ANONYMOUS                                                                             IRELAND
"Abstracts from Some Skerrit [Family] Wills."
Irish Ancestor 5 (1973) 100-104.
[Wills, 5 pre-1700 abstracted.]

"Abstracts of Ancient Wills."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 (1836) 99-106.
[Wills, 31 abstracts from Landsdowne Manuscript 860A printed. 1300-1464.]

"Abstracts of Hungerford Wills."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 7 (1841) 70-72.
[Wills, 13 abstracted. Hungerford family, 1485-1559.]

                                                                                                       IRELAND
"Abstracts of Some Ardagh, Clogher and Kilmore Diocesan Wills."
Irish Ancestor 6 (1974) 112-121.
[Wills abstracted, most 18th century.]

                                                                                                       IRELAND
"Abstracts of Some Hamilton [Family] Wills."
Irish Ancestor 3 (1971) 27-32.
[Wills abstracted, several pre-1700.]

"Abstracts of the Wills of the Ashby Family, from the Year 1496 to 1675, Combined with Notes and References to the Pedigree." Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 5 (1838) 132-135.
[Wills, 13 abstracted. Harefield, Co. Middlesex, Ashby family; 1496-1675.]

                                                                                                       IRELAND
"Abstracts of Wills."
Irish Ancestor 2 (1970) 117-127; 3 (1971) 92-101; 4 (1972) 45-51 [continued in 13 (1981) and thereafter as regular feature].
[Wills, 23 late 17th-century abstracted in three volumes.]

"An Apothecary's Inventory in 1631."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 55 (1960) 5-6.
[P.I. described and discussed. Chester, 1631. Apothecary.]

"Anne, Lady Beauchamp's inventory at Edington, Wiltshire, 1665."
Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Magazine 58 (1963) 383-393.
[P.I. printed. Edington, 1665. Nobility.]

"Arundelliana."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 (1836) 389-395.
[Will, Latin text printed. 1433. John Arundell, knight.]

"Barnard Castle Wills."
Teesdale Record Society Publication #1 (1935) 10-15, 18-23; #6 (1941) 8-13.
[Wills printed. Barnard Castle, 1584-1785.]

"A Beddington Inventory of Furniture, Sixteenth Century."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 32 (1919) 158-161.
[P.I. printed. Surrrey, undated. Gentleman.]

"Bostock Family of Bruern Stapleford."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 35 (1948) 32, 34.
[Wills, 5 abstracted. Broughton, Newton and Bruern Stapleford, 1659-1690. Bostock family.]

"Bostock Family of Farndon."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 26 (1934) 30-33.
[Wills, 2, and 1 P.I. printed. Farndon, 1636, 1645. Gentleman and yeoman.]

"The Bostocks of Holt."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 23 (1928) 7-8.
[Wills, 3 printed, 1 with P.I. Holt, Bostock family, 1601/2 (widow), 1602/3, 1663 (esqs).]

"A Chester Man's Will, A.D. 1558."
Cheshire Sheaf n.s. 1 (1880) 289-291.
[Will printed. Chester, 1558. Yeoman.]

                                                                                                       WALES
"Christmas Vaughn, of Penllwyngwyn in Llangennech."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 18 (1925) 31-32.
[Will extracted from and abstratced. Penllwyngwyn, 1680. Gentry.]

"Copies of Lost Irish Wills."
The Antiquities Journal 11 (1931) 290-291.
[Note on the acquisition by the PRO of Northern Ireland of a collection of 17th and 18th-centuryIrish wills, perhaps 20,000 registered.]

"Copy of an Inventory of Queen Katherine's Wardrobe."
Sussex Archaeological Society 37 (1890) 173-176.
[Inv. printed. Undated. Royalty.]

"Cornwallis Wills."
The East Anglian 3rd ser. 10 (1903-4) 221-225.
[Wills, 2 printed. Brome, 1506, 1544. Gentleman, knight.]

"Curious Inventory.
The Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer 6 (1884) 280.
[P.I. printed. London, 1609. Salter.]

"Curious Nuncupative Will of Robert Hervey, 1599."
East Anglian n.s. 2 (1887-88) 83.
[Will printed. Made orally while on campaign in Ireland, 1599. Gentry.]

"Deane Family, of Temple Guiting: Will of Edmund Deane."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 509-510.
[Will printed. Temple Guiting, 1660. Gentry.]

"Descent and Kindred of the Family Wickham."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 2 (1835) 368-387.
[Will printed in English. Swaclif, 1464. Gentleman.]

"Documents Relating to Sir William Bonville of Shute, Co. Devon."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 8 (1843) 237-247.
[Will abstract printed. 1407. Knight.]

"Documents Relating to the Percy Family: The Will of the Countess of Northumberland."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 6 (1840) 374-378.
[Will printed and discussed. York, 1542. Widow, nobility.]

"The Earliest Chester Will."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 4 (1903) 32-33.
[Will printed in modern English. Macclesfield, 1301. Gentry.]

"Edington."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 5 (1905-7) 129-136.
[Wills, 3 printed. Mughall, Wilts., 1554, 1567, 1605. Playdell family; Gentry.]

"Englefield Family."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 29 (1935) 49-50.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Storeton (1629, yeoman) and Arrow (1640, laborer).]

"Extracts from the Topopgraphical Collections of Sir Henry Calthorpe."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 7 (1841) 197-210.
[Will printed. Stifkey, Norfolk, 1514. Manorial tenant.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Extract from the Will of Captain John Mason."
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society 1 (1824) 317-320.
[Will extracts printed. New Hampshire colony, 1635.]

                                                                                                       WALES
"Extracts from Old Wills Relating to Wales and Their Marches."
Archaeologia Cambrensis 4th ser. 7 (1876) 220-227; 9 (1878) 148-156; 12 (1881) 80-83; 13 (1882) 118-126; 14 (1883) 14ff (additional ?).
[Wills, 90 extracted from, some Latin. Most early/mid-16th century.]

"The Family of Broughton of Shocklach and Marchwiel in the Sixteenth Century."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 88-89; see also 3rd ser. 28 (1935) 4.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Shocklidge, 1565; Eyton, 1576. Gentry.]

"Family of Pratt of East Anglia."
East Anglian n.s. 7 (1897-8) 294-295.
[Wills, 10 abstracted. Proved at Norwich, Bury-St. Edmunds, Ipswich, 1426-1632. Family.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"A Few Abstracts from the Will Books at Annapolis, Maryland."
William and Mary Quarterly 13 (1904) 27-28.
[Wills, 8 abstracted. Maryland colony, 1656-1672.]

"Four Goldsmiths' Wills."
Reliquary n.s. 7 (1893) 111-113.
[Wills, four register abstracts printed. Yorkshire, 1511-1547. Goldsmiths.]

"Francis Family of Chester and Eastham."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 30 (1935) 2, 4, 8, 12, 21, 24, 27.
[Wills, 7, and 3 P.I.s printed. Chester, Childer Thornton and Eastham, 1592-1698. Family; includes widow, barber surgeon, yeoman, tanner.]

"Furniture and Pictures at Cobham Hall in 1672."
Archaeologica Cantiana 17 (1887) 392-408.
[P.I. extracted from. Duke of Richmond, 1672. Furniture, paintings, firearms.]

"George Cotgrave's Will."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 4 (1903) 132.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1608(?). Gentleman.]

"Gloucestershire Wills."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 5 (1891-3) 44-47, 98-102, 147-156, 271-272, 365-368, 416-418, 561-566;
6 (1894-5) 72-75; 7 (1900) 95-6, 177-178, 190; 8 (1901) 11-19; 10 (1904) 17-21, 44-45.
[Wills extracted from. Gloucestershire. Comments generally genealogical.]

                                                                                                       IRELAND
A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills.
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1972 [reprint of 1930 edition.]
[Wills listed by name of testator, keyed to source.]

"Heath Family of Cheshire."
Cheshire Sheaf 13 (1917) 16-17.
[Will and P.I. printed. Baddington, Chester, 1650. Yeoman.]

                                                                                                        WALES
"Henry Vaughn, of Trimsaran."
Transactions of the Carmarthernshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 18 (1925) 46.
[Will abstracted. 17th century, Trimsaran. Gentry.]

"History of the Family of Foljambe."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 2 (1835) 68-90.
[Will printed. Chesterfield, 1526. Gentry.]

"Hyde and Langford of Trowbridge."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 1 (1893-5) 519-521.
[Wills, 3 abstracted. Trowbridge, 1585 (clothier), 1594 (gent.), 1624 (widow).]

Index and Extracts of Cumbrians in Wills Proved in the P.C.C.
Northshields: Cumbria Family History Society, 1984.

Index of Surrey Probate Inventories, 16th-19th Centuries.
Surrey: Domestic Buildings Research Group, 1986.
[P.I. index that often includes occupation, date, sometimes means of death.]

"Inventarium omnium bonorum Hugonis filii Elyae de Richmund et Julianae uxoris suae..."
Archaeologia Aeliana 1 (1857) 196.
[P.I. printed. Richmond, 1316. Gentry.]

"An Inventorie."
The Antiquary 7 (1883) 273-274.
[P.I. extracted from. Duchess of Somerset, 1587. Jewels and precious stones.]

"An Inventory of an Innkeeper's Possessions in 1685."
Archaeologia Cantiana 46 (1934) 97-101.
[P.I. printed. Speldhurst, 1685. Innkeeper.]

                                                                                                        IRELAND
Inventory of Irish Wills and their Call Numbers in the Latter Day Saints Family History Libraries.
North Salt Lake City: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1990.

"Inventory of James Arderne, Dean of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 54 (1959) 37.
[P.I. printed. Chester, 1692. Clergy.]

"The Inventory of Juliana de Leyborne, Countess of Huntyngdon."
Archaeologia Cantiana 1 (1858) 1-8.
[Will and P.I. printed. Kent, 1367. Nobility.]

"Inventory of Nathaniel Fiennes, died 1669."
Cake and Cockhorse 9 (1983) 38-48.
[P.I. printed Newton Toney (Wilts.) and Brumby Hall (Lincs.), 1669. Gentry, 2 houses.]

"Inventory of the Contents of Chastleton Manor House."
Transactions of the Birmingham and Midland Institute 15 (1888) 79ff.
[PI printed. Walter Jones, esq., Oxfordshire, 1633]

"An Inventory of the Contents of Broughton Castle in 1662 and 1731 with Commentary by Henry Gordon Slade."
Cake and Cockhorse 8 (1979-1982) 6:155-172.
[P.I.s printed. Banbury region, 1662, 1731. Gentry; with layout plan and notes.]

"Inventory of the Goods of John Robson, Master of the College of Lingfield, Co. Surrey, in 1524."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 8 (1843) 39-42.
[P.I. printed. Lingfield, 1524. Teacher.]

"Inventory of the Goods of Mr. Francis Bradshaw, 1635."
Reliquary n.s. 4 (1890) 98-102.
[P.I. printed. Bradshaw Hall, Derbyshire, 1635. High Sheriff.]

"Inventory of the Goods of Sir Charles Raleigh, of Downtown, 1698."
Wiltshire Archaeology and Natural History Magazine 42 (1923) 307-312.
[P.I. printed without commentary. Downtown, 1698. Gentry.]

"Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Thomas Owen of Condover, 1599."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society 53 (1950) 200-206.
[P.I. printed (no notes/intro). Condover, 1559.]

"The Inventory of William Leversage, 1668."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 55 (1960) 9-10.
[P.I. printed. Betchton, 1668. Gentry.]

"John Don, Mercer, of Kidwelly and London, Died 1480."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 25 (1934) 63.
[Will abstracted. 1480. Mercer.]

"John Huddesfeld."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-04) 69-72.
[Will printed. 1528. Gentry.]

"A Kentish Cottage Inventory of 1529."
Home Counties Magazine 9 (1907) 58.
[Will and P.I. printed. Lewisham, 1529. Husbandman.]

"Larden Family of Tattenhall and Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 33 (1939) 27, 33, 39; 34 (1940) 96.
[Wills, four abstracted. 1591, 1602, 1636, 1672. Family.]

                                                                                                        SCOTLAND
"A Last Will and Testament, 1626."
Scottish Historical Review 16 (1918/9) 353-354.
[Will printed. Crail, 1626. Clergy.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"The Last Will of Captain Myles Standish."
Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society 1 (1824) 259-261.
[Will printed. Plymouth Colony, 1655.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Libraries in Colonial Virginia."
William and Mary Quarterly 2 (1893/4) 169-175; 3 (1894/5) 43-45, 132-134, 180-182, 246-247; 4 (1895/6) 15-ff; 8 (1900) 18-19, 230-231.
[Wills, P.I.s and inv.s extracted from. Virginia Colony to 1700. Booklists; 24 total.]

A List of Wills, Administrations etc. in the Public Record Office, London, England, 12th-19th Century.
Baltimore: Magna Carta Book Co., 1968.
[Wills and administrations listed by office, indexed; from anonymous 1932 typescript.]

A List of Wills and Marriage Settlements in the Local Collection of the Shrewsbury Public Library.
Shrewsbury Public Library, 1958.

Lock, Stock and Barrel. Some Hertfordshire Inventories 1610-1615.
Hertfordshire Sources #12 (1978).
[P.I.s, 15 printed or extracted from, some facsimiles, glossary, drawings. Hertfordshire, early 17th century.]

"A Mayor of Salisbury's Will of 1600 A.D. and the Advowson of Steeple Langford."
Hatcher Review 2 (1981) 86-91.
[Will abstracted. New Sarum, 1600. Mayor and merchant.]

"A Medieval Yeoman's Will."
East Anglian n.s. 6 (1895-6) 158-159.
[Will printed. Alvesborn, 1501. Yeoman.]

"Minshull Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 16 (1921), 17 (1922), 18 (1923) scattered through the three volumes.
[Wills, 23, and 2 P.I.s printed. Minshull family; inter alia: Wych Malbank (6 wills), Erdiswick (3), London, Eaton, Mynshull. Includes salter (w/P.I.), mercer (w/P.I.) draper, master of arts, widows, yeomen, clergy.]

"Mynshull of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 12 (1917) 22.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1685/6. Widow.]

Of Good and Perfect Remembrance: Bolton wills and inventories, 1545-1600.
Bolton: Bolton and District Family History Society, 1987. [Surnames `A' to `M']
[Wills, 72 printed, many with P.I.s, glossary. Bolton, 1545-1600.]

"Old Inventories in North Lincolnshire."
Old Lincolnshire  1 (1883-1885) 203-207.
[PIs, 2 printed: Saxby farmer, 1558, Elsham gentleman, 1679]

"Old Shropshire Wills."
Shropshire Archaeological Society Transactions 5 (1882) 257-264.
[Wills, one printed and translated; 29 short abstracts. Shropshire, 1306.]

"Old Wills no. III: William Toller of Downham, Suffolk, 1503."
East Anglian 1 (1863) 403.
[Will printed. Downham, 1503. Gentry.]

"Old Wills no. 4: Thomas Grenegresse, of Pulham St. Mary Magdalen, Norfolk, 1503."
East Anglian 2 (1866) 81.
[Will printed in original English. Norfolk, 1503."

"Old Wills no. V: Will of John Danyell the Elder, 1507."
East Anglian 2 (1866) 281.
[Will printed in original English. Hadley, Co. Suffolk, 1507. Butcher.]

"Old Wills no. 6: Richard Legatt of Dennington, 1485."
East Anglian 3 (1866-68) 33-34.
[Will printed. Dennington, 1485.]

"Original Documents."
Archaeological Journal 3 (1846) 65-66.
[P.I. printed (Latin), will discussed. 1293. Husbandman.]

"Original Documents."
Archaeological Journal 5 (1848) 316-320.
[Wills, 2 printed. Sandhutton, Yorks., 1558. Yeomen.]

"Original Documents."
The Reliquary 3 (1862-3) 226-228.
[Will and P.I. printed. Eyam, 1666.]

"Peter Hurdis, Master of Bowdon School, c.1616-1672."
Cheshire Sheaf 4th ser. 2 (1967) 29-31.
[Will and P.I. printed. Bowdon, 1672. Teacher.]

"Piety and Frugality."
Records of Buckinghamshire 13 (1939) 427-431.
[Will extracted from and discussed. 1528.]

Pre-1858 English Probate Jurisdictions: A genealogical research guide to probate courts.
Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S., 1968.
[A series of guidebooks to probate jurisdictions. Counties included: Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cornwall, Cumberland, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Kent, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, London, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Rutlandshire, Shropshire, Somersetshire, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Sussex, Warwickshire, Westmorland, Wiltshire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire.]

Pre-1858 Welsh Probate Inventories. A genealogical research guide to probate courts.
Salt Lake City: Church of Jesus Christ of L.D.S., 1970.
[A series of guidebooks top probate jurisdictions, including North and South Wales and Monmouthshire.]

"A Pre-Reformation Parson: His will and its conditions, etc."
East Anglian n.s. 11 (1905-06) 193-196.
[Will printed and discussed. Rampton, 1545. Clergy.]

"Prices and Alien Priories."
The Reliquary 12 (1871/2) 86-87.
[P.I. printed. Winchester, 1545. Alderman.]

Probate Inventories of Tamworth.
Stafford: Staffordshire County Council, 1978.

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1635-1681. 3 vols.
Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1916-1921.
[Wills, many with P.I.s, about 1,000 printed.]

"Rattlesden Wills."
East Anglian n.s. 11 (1905) 286-287.
[Wills, 2 printed. Suffolk Co., 1559, 1578.]

"The Recent Discovery of a Body in St. Stephen's Chapel, Westminster."
Archaeologia 34 (1852) 406-430.
[Will printed. Bishop of St. David's, 1444.]

"The Rectors of Barrow, Co. Ches."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 32 (1938) 61-62.
[Will and P.I. described and discussed. Barrow, 1661. Clergy.]

"A Register of Stafford and Other Local Wills."
Historical Collections. Staffordshire Record Society, 1926; 1-56.
[Wills, 80 abstracted. Eccles Hall and Stafford, 1537-1558, 1575-1583.]

"Reply: Wills proved in St. Paul's Cathedral."
Sussex Notes and Queries 10 (1944-5) 42-43.
[Probate jurisdiction of the cathedral discussed.]

"The Reverend Peter Sharpe, Rector of Dodleston, 1596-1616."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 82.
[Wills printed. Doddleston, 1616. Clergy and wife.]

"Richard Winchester's Inventory."
Family History: The Journal of the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies 14 (1989) 420-425.
[P.I. printed. Cranbrook, 1596. Died falling from tree, no will.]

                                                                                                        WALES
"Rys ap Griffith ap Aron, his Will."
Archaeologia Cambrensis 3rd ser. 6 (1860) 23.
[Will printed (Latin). Peniarth, 1476.]

"The Salusburys of Bachymbyd, Co. Denbigh, and Later of Rug, Co. Merioneth."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 25 (1931) 10-11, 13-15.

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Schools in Virginia: John Farneffold's Free School."
William and Mary Quarterly 17 (1908/9) 244-246.
[Will abstracted from. Virginia, 1702. Establishment of free school.]

"The Sefton Family of Great Mollington."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 54 (1959) 12.
[Will printed. Mollington Torret, 1578. Yeoman.]

"A Seventeeth-century Colsterworth Will."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 12 (1912) 120-121.
[Will printed. Colsterworth, 1640. Yeoman.]

Shotley Parish Records.
Bury St. Edmunds: Paul and Matthew, 1912.
[Wills, 83 printed (trans.). Shotley parish, 1375-1630.]

"Simon Aston."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 2 (1896-8) 249.
[Will abstracted. London(?), 1638.]

"Sir Henry Vaughn the Elder, 1587? - 1660?"
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 20 (1926-1927) 32-34.
[PI printed: Henry Vaughn the Younger, 1676; knight and MP.]

"A Sixteenth Century Will."
Records of Buckinghamshire 12 (1929) 119-124.
[Will printed. Buckinghamshire, 1579. Gentleman.]

"Snell and Vyner Families."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 1 (1896) 111-113.
[Wills, 3 printed in full. London (1661 goldsmith; 1688 knight), Gloucester (1673 clergy).]

"Some Nethersole Wills."
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica ser.5 9 (1936) 178-180.
[Wills, 3 printed. Family, 1656, 1673, 1704, 1726.]

"Some Particulars of the Abbot of Battle's Inn, in the Parish of St. Olave, Southwark."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 8 (1843) 247-262.
[Will printed in modern English. Southwark, 1466. Knight.]

"Some Yeomans' Wills."
Records of Buckinghamshire 13 (1939) 25-31.
[P.I.s, 3 printed. Buckinghamshire, 1695, 1699, 1715. Carpenter and family.]

"Staverton Inventory."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 27 (1956-8) 59-64.
[P.I. printed. Staverton, 1628. Merchant.]

Surrey Wills; Archdeaconry Court, "Herringman" Register.
London: for the Surrey Record Society, 1920.
[Wills, 1,213 printed or abstracted. Surrey, 1595-1608.]

Surrey Wills; Archdeaconry Court, "Spage" Register.
London: for the Surrey Record Society, 1921.
[Wills, 329 printed, trans. Surrey, 1484-1489.]

"Teesdale Wills."
Teesdale Record Society Publications #14 (1947) 6-7.
[Wills, 9 printed. Teesdale, 1604-1793.]

"Testament of John Wotton, Master of the Collegiate Church of All Saints, Maidstone, September 30, 1417."
Archaeologia Cantiana 4 (1861) 225-233.
[Will printed (Latin). Maidstone, 1417. Clergy.]

"Testamenta Antiqua IV."
Reliquary n.s. 8 (1894) 176-177
[Wills, 4 printed. Hull 1535, organ-maker; Naburn 1543, gent.; Scarborough 1558 & Halifax 1565, goldsmiths.]

"Testamenta Antiqua V."
Reliquary n.s. 8 (1894) 219-223.
[Wills, 3 printed. Matlock, Derbs. 1622, gent.; Long Eaton, Derbs., Yeoman; Newark, Notts., plumber.]

                                                                                                IRELAND
"Testamentary Records from Lettice Evoryna O'Hanlon of Orior."
The Irish Genealogist 2 (1943) 141-157.
[Wills printed, most later 17th century.]

"The Thelwell, Ashpool, and Mule Families of Denbighshire."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 24 (1929) 8-9.
[Wills, 5 abstracted. Llanhychan 1592, 1656; Llanganhavall, 1572; Llanruth, 1618/9; Pentre-Mawr, 1611.]

"The Thelwell Family of Denbighshire."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 24 (1929) 2.
[Wills, 3 abstracted. Plasward, 1586 (2, one a widow); Llanbeder, 1617, clerk.]

"Thomas Bundy's Will."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 313-314.
[Will printed (Latin). 1492.]

"Thomas Edwards, LLD. Will proved 1683."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 25 (1934) 36.
[Will printed. London, 1683. Lawyer; bequests for scholars.]

"Thomas Grene of Congleton and Stapley."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 36-38.
[Will printed. Stapley, 1602. Lawrence Rope.]

"Thomas Harriot's will, 1621."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 25 (1934) 62-63.
[Will discussed. London, 1621. Astronomer.]

"Thomas Willis, M.D."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 8 (1914-16) 337-342.
[Will printed. London, 1675. Physician; founder of Royal Society.]

"Topographical Notices of the Parishes of Ampton, Harkstead, and Livermere parva, Suffolk."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 7 (1841) 294-295.
[Will printed in original English. Ampton, 1521. Tenant.]

"Transcripts and Abstracts of Wills."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 5 (1838) 88-91, 305-311; 6 (1840) 98-101; 7 (1841) 42-47.
[Wills, 12 printed. Various places: vol 5: 7 wills, 1512-1531, gentry; vol 6: Charles Howard, Lord Admiral (1587); Lord North, 160; vol 7: 3 wills, 1539, 1557, 1657, gentry.]

"Two Early Sixteenth Century Wills - Merell of Earls Colne and Coggeshall, Essex."
The East Anglian n.s. 3 (1889-90) 19-22.
[Wills printed. Earls Colne (1513), Coggeshall (1515, fuller).]

"Two Old Gloucestershire Wills, A.D.1595."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 677-178.
[Wills printed. Gloucestershire, 1595.]

"Two Fifteenth Century Bulkeley Wills.
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 37 (1948) 54-62.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. 1483; Woolwich gentleman, 1490.]

"Two Swettenham Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 26 (1934) 27.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Swetnam and Bertles gent., 1657.]

"An Unrecorded Chester Will."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 59 (1965) 8.
[Will printed. Chester, 1564.]

"An Unrecorded Chester Will."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 59 (1965) 10.
[Will printed. Chester, 1556. Glover(?).]

"Warwickshire Wills."
Warwickshire Antiquarian Magazine. Warwick: H.F. Cooke and Son, 1859; 198-216.
[Wills, 4 printed. 1437 (lawyer), 1457 (gentleman), 1578 (widow), 1597 (w/P.I., gentleman).]

"A Wealthy Miller of Bromborough in 1590."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 53 (1958) 38-47 (intermittent).
[Will and debts printed. Bromborough, 1590. Miller.]

"Whittle Family of Oscroft."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 21-2, 47, 73, 76.
[Will printed. Whittle family, 1599 and 17th century.]

"The Will and Inventory of Richard Collyns, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, 1523."
Reliquary n.s. 7 (1893) 104-109.
[Will and P.I. printed. London, 1523. Haberdasher.]

"The Will of a Dictatorial Parent in Raby, 1616."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 54 (1959) 7-8.
[Will abstract extracts printed. Raby, 1616.]

"Will of Alexander Baguley, 1541."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 111.
[Will printed. Stopporthe, 1541.]

"Will of Alice Ledgerd, 1591."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 12 (1917) 92.
Will printed. London, 1591. Widow.]

"The Will of Andrew Holes, A.D. 1470."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 566-571.
[Will printed (Latin), with no notes. "Cancellarius ecclesiae Sarum". Clergy.]

"Will of Anne Bostock of Churton, Widow, 1622."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 30 (1935) 67.
[Will printed. Churton, 1622. Widow.]

"Will of Anne Davenport of Bramhall, Widow, 1601."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 51.
[Will abstracted. Bramhall, 1599. Widow.]

"The Will of Anne Ornsby."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 19 (1927) 108-109.
[Will printed. South Kelsey, 1711. Serving maid.]

"Will of Arthur Dymoke, A.D.1558."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 5 (1897) 104-107.
[Will printed. Lincolnshire, 1558.]

"Will of Cicely Anyon of Chester, 1629."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 1-2, 3-4.
[Will and P.I. printed. Chester, 1629. Widow.]

"Will of Dame Elizabeth Coke."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 83.
[Will printed in modern English. London, 1484. Draper's widow.]

"Will of Dame Mary Fytton, 1557."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 56-57.
[Will printed. Gowseworth, 1557. Knight's widow.]

                                                                                  WALES
"Will of David ap Meuric Vychan."
In Original Documents Printed as a Supplement to the Archaeologia Cambrensis. London: J. Parker, 1877; cxliii-cxliv.
[Will printed (Latin). 1495. Nobility.]

"Will of David Middelton, 1548."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 88-89.
[Will printed. Chester, 1548. Alderman.]

"Will of David Williams in 1504."
Archaeologia Cambrensis n.s. 4 (1853) 179-180.
[Will printed. Newton Nottage, 1504. Clergy.]

"Will of Dorothy Rice, Widow."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 10 (1914) 97.
[Will beneficiaries listed. 1688. Gentry.]

"Will of Dulassa Ligh, Widow, 1493."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 62.
[Will printed. Stokeport, 1493. Widow.]

"Will of Edmund Holes, 1420."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 54-55.
[Will printed in modern English. 1420.]

"Will of Edmund Mascy, Priest, 1517."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 58-59.
[Will printed in modern English with extracts of original English. Walbroke, 1516. Clergy.]

"Will of Edward Bathoe of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 9 (1913) 56.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1628. Alderman.]

"Will of Edward Powell, 1666."
Cheshire Sheaf 4th ser. (1968) 9.
[Will printed. Macclesfield, 1666. Teacher?]

"Will of Elizabeth Cooke of Chester, 1681."
Chester Sheaf 3rd ser. 49 (1956) 21.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1681. Widow.]

"Will of Elizabeth Hanke, 1506."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 25.
[Will printed. 1506.]

"Will of Elizabeth Smith of Chester, 1682."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 34 (1941) 105-6.
[Will printed. Chester, 1682. Gentry, widow.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Will of Francis Dade, alias Major John Smith."
William and Mary Quarterly 8 (1899/1900) 205.
[Will printed. Maryland colony, 1663.]

"Will of George Leche of the City of Chester, Alderman, 1551."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 35-36.
[Will printed. Chester, 1551. Alderman.]

"Will of Geroge Wood of Balterley, Esq., 1558."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 73-74.
[Will printed. Balterley, 1558.]

"Will of Grace Pennant, Alias Drihurst, of Chistleton, Widow, 1599."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 26 (1934) 73.
[Will abstracted. Chistleton, 1599. Widow.]

"Will of Henry Bostoke, 1551."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 112.
[Will printed. 1551.]

"Will of Henry Bostock of Picton, 1588."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 30 (1935) 71.
[Will abstracted. Picton, 1588.]

"Will of Henry Leche, of Chester, Draper, 1569."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 40-41.
[Will printed. Chester, 1569. Draper.]

"Will of Henry Leke, 1559."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 5 (1838) 48-49.
[Will abstracted and discussed. Southwark, 1559. German immigrant, brewer.]

"Will of Henry Rayneforde, Chaplain, 1506."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 93-94.
[Will printed. Chester(?), 1506. Clergy.]

"Will of Henry Ryle, 1536."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 34-35.
[Will printed. Winslow, 1536.]

"Will of Hugh ap Griffith of Colcot, Co. Chester, 1556/7."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 33.
[Will printed. Colcot, 1556/7.]

"Will of Hugh Colsonsok of London, 1514."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1921) 61.
[Will printed. London, fuller. 1514.]

"Will of Hugh Philcock, 1516."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 108-109.
[Will printed. London, 1506.]

"Will of Hugh Starky of Oulton, Esq., 1555."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 95-96.
[Will printed. Oulton, 1555.]

"Will of Humfry Starky Kt., 1486."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 49-50.
[Will printed in modern English. 1486. Chief Baron of the Exchequer.]

"Will of James Merbury, 1457."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 39.
[Will printed in English. Bristol, 1457.]

"Will of James Whitney, 1545."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 49-50.
[Will printed. 1545.]

"Will of Jane Bird of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 83-83.
[Will printed. Chester, 1571. Widow.]

"Will of Jane Chamber of Chester, 1548."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 26.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1548.]

"Will of Jane Spencer, of London, Widow, 1552."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 61-62.
[Will abstract extracted from. London, 1552. Draper's widow.]

"Will of John Aldersey of Chester, 1605."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 36 (1948) 13-14.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1605. Merchant and alderman.]

                                                                                                        WALES
"Will of John Blome."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 11 (1915) 87.
[Will printed. 1649. Welsh settler, gentry.]

"Will of John Brysco, 1557."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 82.
[Will printed. 1557.]

"Will of John Davye, 1558."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 42-43; 19 (1924) 12.
[Will printed. Chester, 1558.]

"Will of John de Toft, Chaplain, 1421."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 12-13.
[Will printed in English. Routhestron, 1421. Clergy.]

"Will of John Hanky of Churton, 1497."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 23.
[Will printed in modern English. Churton, 1497.]

"Will of John Hawarden of Chester 1496."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 23 (1928) 2-3.
[Will printed. Chester, 1496.]

"Will of John Hawarden of Chester, 1496."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 69-70.
[Will printed. Chester, 1496.]

"Will of John Hope of Chester, 1439."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser.17 (1922) 105.
[Will printed in modern English. Chester, 1438. "Citizen".]

"Will of John Horton, 1426."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 46.
[Will printed (English). London, 1426. Draper's apprentice.]

"Will of John Jewe."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 7 (1841) 30-31.
[Will printed. Dorsetshire, 1415. Gentry.]

"Will of John Mascy of Coddington, 1499."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 39.
[Will printed in modern English. Coddington, 1499.]

"Will of John Midleton, 1582."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 5 (1838) 54-58.
[Will printed. Southwark, 1582. Well off citizen.]

"Will of John Myklowe, 1522."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 97.
[Will printed. London, 1522.]

"Will of John Newton."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 7 (1911-13) 167-170.
[Will printed. Whiteparish, 1487. Clergy.]

"Will of John Norton."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 8 (1914-16) 321-323.
[Will printed. 1402. Chancellor of Sarum.]

"The Will of John Smyth of Cottingham."
Reliquary n.s. 7 (1893) 109-111.
[Will printed with brass rubbing. Cottingham, 1504.]

"Will of John Spurstowe of Spurstowe, 1539/40."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 44-45.
[Will printed, with that of Randle Spurstowe.]

"Will of John Stone (Prebendary of Fordington in Salisbury Cathedral and Vicar of Aldbourne, Co. Wilts.)."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 8 (1914-16) 537-538.
[Will printed. Aldbourne, 1524. Clergy.]

"Will of John Thruston, Chamberlain, of Bristol."
William and Mary Quarterly 8 (1899/1900) 51-54, 115-119.
[Will printed. Bristol, 1675. Soapmaker, chamberlain.]

"Will of John Verdon, Page of the Buttery, 1522,"
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 65-66.
[Will printed. London, 1522. Page of the Royal Buttery.]

"Will of John Writh, Garter King of Arms."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 7 (1911-13) 448-450.
[Will printed. 1504. Noble.]

The Will of King Alfred.
London, Pickering, 1828; reprint of Oxford 1788 edition; bound with John Nichols,

A collection of all the wills ... of the kings and queens of England.
London: J. Nichols, 1780.
[Will printed, Anglo-Saxon with facing translation. Royalty, King Alfred of Wessex.]

"Will of Lawrence Werham (Weverham), 1488."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 30-31.
[Will printed. London, 1488.]

"Will of Magdalen Shukbrugh of Chester, 1680."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 28 (1935) 11-12.
[Will printed. Chester, 1680. Widow.]

"Will of Margaret Dalison. A.D.1545."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 5 (1897) 119-121.
[Will printed, no notes. Lincolnshire, widow, 1545.]

"Will of Margaret Fiske, of Laxfield, 1504."
East Anglian 4 (1870) 194.
[Will printed. Laxfield, 1504. Wife.]

"Will of Margaret Smith, 1506."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 15 (1918) 42-43.
[Will abstratced. London, 1506. Brewer's widow.]

"Will of Mary Felton of Shotley, A.D. 1602."
The East Anglian n.s. 3 (1889-90) 281-282.
[Will abstracted. Shotley, 1602. Gentry, widow.]

"Will of Master John Brakynburgh, Clerk."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 12 (1912) 63.
[Will abstracted. London(?), 1487. Clergy.]

"Will of Matthew Johnson, Alias Hewster, 1498-9."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 92.
[Will printed. Chester, 1499. "Citizen".]

"Will of Nicholas Daryngton, Vicar of Wynbury, 1543."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 36.
[Will printed. Wynbury, 1543. Clergy.]

"Will of Nicholas Elcock, 1536."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 63-64.
[Will printed. Stopporte, 1536.]

"Will of Nicholas Ince of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 46 (1952) 1-2.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1652. Mayor, sheriff.]

"Will of Nicholas Manley, 1520-1."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 94.
[Will printed. Pulton, 1521.]

"Will of Nicholas Ratcliffe of Chester, Notary Public, 1644."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 60 (1966) 51.
[Will printed. Chester, 1643. Notary.]

"The Will of Nicholas Stanton, Minister of St. Margaret's, Ipswich, ob. 1649."
East Anglian n.s. 8 (1899-1900) 193-195.
[Will printed. Ipswich, 1648. Clergy.]

"Will of Philip Malpas, of London, 1469."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1921) 57.
[Will abstracted. London, 1469. Merchant draper.]

"Will of Ralph Borstock of Huxley, Gentleman."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 30 (1935) 64.
[Will printed. Huxley, 1559. Gentleman.]

"Will of Ralph Davenport, of Chester, Alderman."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 23 (1928) 37-38.
[Will printed. Chester, 1506. Alderman.]

"Will of Ralph Massie, Esquire, 1495."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 55.
[Will printed in modern English. 1495.]

"Will of Ralph Rogers, 1539/40."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 99-100.
[Will printed. Chester, 1540.]

"Will of Randolph Brereton of Chester, 1537."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1923) 30.
[Will printed. Chester, 1537.]

"Will of Rauf Leche of Chester, 1580."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 44.
[Will printed. Chester, 1580. Merchant.]

"Will of Rees Owens, of Myddfai, 1647."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 27 (1936) 66.
[Will abstracted. Mothvey, 1647. Gentry.]

"Will of Rev. Adrian Hawkins."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and FIeld Club 25 (1935) 11.
[Will and P.I. abstracted. Carmarthen, 1638. Clergy.]

"Will of Richard Broster, of Chester, 1523."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1918) 37-38.
[Will printed. Chester, 1523. Tanner.]

"Will of Richard Chalyn[er] of Chester, 1549."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 13.
[Will printed. Westcester, 1549.]

"Will of Richard Clutterbuck, of Eastington, A.D.1583."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 5 (1891-3) 229-230.
[Will printed. Eastington, 1583.]

"The Will of Richard de la Wych, Bishop of Chichester, 1253."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 1 (1848) 164-192.
[Will printed and annotated. Chichester, 1253. Clergy.]

"Will of Richard Dodyngton, Priest, 1495."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 46.
[Will printed. 1495. Priest.]

"Will of Richard Fyton, 1438."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 24-25.
Will printed (English). Shirbourne, 1438.]

"Will of Richard Gravenor, of Eton, Esquire, 1549."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 106-107.
[Will printed. Eton, 1549.]

"Will of Richard Hockenhull of Chester, Baker, 1528."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 49 (1956) 16-17, 19.
[Will printed. Chester, 1528. Baker.]

"Will of Richard Mascy of Grafton, 1505."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 50 (1958) 4.
[Will printed. Grafton, 1505. Gentleman.]

"Will of Richard Messeter."
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 25 (1948) 135-138.
[Will printed. Husbandman, 1576.]

"Will of Richard Raynshay, 1510."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 59.
[Will printed. Ashton, 1510.]

"Will of Richard Walker of Congleton, 1508."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 64-65.
[Will printed. Congleton, 1508.]

"Will of Richard Weyville, 1417."
Sussex Notes and Queries 12 (1948/9) 77-79.
[Will printed (trans.), no notes. Sussex, 1417.]

"Will of Robert Bostock of Multon, 1537."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 88.
[Will printed. Multon, 1537.]

"Will of Robert Clutterbuck, 1563."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 5 (1891-3) 329-330.]
[Will printed. Gloucestershire, 1563.]

"Will of Robert Clyff, Chaplain, 1538."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 67-68.
[Will printed. 1538. Clergy.]

"Will of Robert Gardiner, of London, 1554."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1924) 19-20.
[Will printed. London, 1554. Draper.]

"Will of Robert Lauton of Aldford, 1539."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 27.
[Will printed. Aldford, 1539.]

"Will of Robert Leygh, 1530."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 5-6.
[Will printed. 1530.]

"Will of Robert Sandford of Chester, Clerk. 1622."
Cheshire Sheaf n.s.1 (1895) 140.
[Will printed. Chester, 1622. Clergy.]

"Will of Robert Redich of Grappenhall, 1508."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 61.
[Will printed. Grappenhall, 1508. "Esquire".]

"Will of Robert Wiggan, Clerk, 1550."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 75.
[Will printed. Hilbre, 1550. Clergy.]

"Will of Roger Flecher, 1528/9."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 101.
[Will printed. Denbigh, 1529.]

"Will of Roger Ryle, 1511."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 64.
[Will printed. 1511.]

"Will of Samuel Michell of Notton, 1694."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 6 (1908-10) 269-270.
[Will abstracted. Notton, 1694. Clothier.]

"Will of Sir Edmund Shaa, Knight, 1487."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 64-65.
[Will printed. London, 1487. Goldsmith, ex-mayor.]

"Will of Sir Edward Fitton, 1547/8."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 45 (1951) 37-38, 39.
[Will printed. Gawsworth, 1548. Knight.]

"Will of Sir George Beverley, Knight, of Huntington near Chester, 1620."
Cheshire Sheaf n.s. 1 (1895) 151-152.
[Will printed, with notes on family. Huntington, 1620.]

"Will of Sir Guy Bryan, 1386."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 (1836) pages?
[Will printed in original French. 1386. Gentry.]

"Will of Sir Ingram Percy."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 6 (1840) 273-274.
[Will printed. 1538. Knight.]

"Will of Sir James Spencer, Kt., 1544."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 58.
[Will abstracted. London, 1544. Alderman.]

"Will of Sir John Hody, 1441."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 7 (1841) 23-26.
[Will printed (Latin). Pillesdon, Dors., 1441. Chief Justice of England.]

"Will of Sir John Mautravers, 1386."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4 (1837) 179-180.
[Will printed (Latin). Abbotsburgh, 1386. Knight.]

"Will of Sir John Maynwaring of Over Peover, Kt., 1516, and Nicholas Maynwaring, Clerk, 1537."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 73-76.
[Wills printed.]

"Will of Sir Philip Honywood."
William and Mary Quarterly 3 (1894/5) 64.
[Will printed. Charing, Co. Kent, 1684. Gentry.]

"Will of Sir Richard Brereton of Tatton, Kt., 1558."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 77-78.
[Will printed. Tatton, 1558. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Richard Grobham, A.D. 1628."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 5 (1905-7) 32-39.
[Will printed, no notes. Great Wishford, 1628. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Richard Poynings."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 (1836) 259-260.
[Will printed in English. 1427. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Richard Sutton, Kt., 1524."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 89-90.
[Will extracted from. London(?), 1524. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Robert Fouleshurst, Kt., 1498/9/"
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 42.
[Will printed. Bertunley, 1499. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Thomas Cawne, Kt., fin Ed. III."
Archaeologia Cantiana 4 1861) 221-225.
[Will printed in English. Ightham, 1377. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Thomas Gravener of Eton, Kt., 1549."
Cheshire Sheaf 17 (1922) 109-110.
[Will printed. Eccleston, 1540. Knight.]

"Will of Sir Randle Brereton, 1530."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 7 (1910) 67-71.
[Will printed in modern English. Malpasse, 1530. Knight.]

"Will of Sir William Percy."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 61 (1920) 144-145.
[Will printed (trans.). Sussex, 1407. Gentry.]

"The Will of Sir William Vaughn (1641); The Will of Dame Anne Vaughn (1672)."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field CLub 10 (1914) 70.
[Wills, 2 abstracted for genealogical information. Colonizer of Newfoundland.]

"Will of the Rev. Philip Lewis, M.A."
In Original Documents Printed as a Supplement to the Archaeologia Cambrensis London: J. Parker, 1877; vii-ix.
[Will and P.I. printed, no intro. Presteign, 1684. Clergy.]

"Will of Thomas Gamull, 1643, Co-founder of Audlem Free School."
Cheshire Sheaf 60 (1966) 4-5.
[Will abstracted. London, 1643. Grocer.]

"Will of Thomas Goose of Chester, Draper, 1620."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 29 (1935) 55.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1620. Draper.]

"The Will of Thomas Holden of Holden, 1441."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (Transactions) n.s. 30 (1914) 257-260.
[Will abstracted. Holden, 1441. Gentry.]

"Will of Thomas Jacob of Wooton Bassett."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-04) 469-472.
[Will printed. Wooton Bassett, 1644. Gentry.]

"The Will of Thomas Lambert, Canon of Salisbury and Archdeacon of Wilts, 1674."
Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 47 (1935) 272-274.
[Will printed, no notes. Salisbury, 1674. Clergy.]

"Will of Thomas Myddelton, 1535/6."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 87.
[Will printed. Chester, 1536. Alderman.]

"Will of Thomas Newhall, 1499."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 26.
[Will printed. Witton, 1499.]

"Will of Thomas Oulegreve, 1472."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 15.
[Will printed. London, 1472. Skinner.]

"Will of Thomas Runocorn 1511."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 15 (1920) 23.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1511.]

"Will of Thomas Roncorne, Clerk, Rector of Bebington, 1557."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 53-54.
[Will printed. Bebington, 1557. Clergy.]

"Will of Thomas Tilson of Ruchton, 1426."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 53.
[Will printed in modern English. Rushton, 1426.]

"Will of Thomas Wych of London, 1425."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1921) 46-47.
[Will abstratced from Latin text. London, 1425. Fishmonger.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Will of William Broadribb."
William and Mary Quarterly 14 (1905) 35-37.
[Will printed. Jamestown, Virginia Colony, 1703. Planter.

"Will of William Bromshill."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 1 (1834) 373-374.
[Will printed in original English. Aston Rogers, Salop. Co., 1428. High Sheriff of Shropshire.]

"Will of William Cholle, Smith, 1494-6."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 8.
[Will printed. London, 1494. Smith.]

"Will of William Dacres of Denbigh, 1520."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 22 (1927) 86.
[Will printed. Denbigh, 1520.]

"Will of William Egerton of Hampton, Gentleman."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 21.
[Will printed. Hampton, 1508. Gentleman.]

"Will of William Furnell."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 28 (1961) 68ff.
[Will printed. 1668.]

"Will of William Harrison of Namptwich, Yeoman, 1690."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 24 (1929) 35.
[Will printed. Namptwich, 1690. Yeoman.]

"Will of William Hocknell of Prenton, 1563."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1919) 32.
[Will abstracted. Prenton, 1563.]

"Will of William Liptrott of Weston near Runcorn, Schoolmaster, 1688."
Cheshire Sheaf 4th ser. 2 (1967) 24-25.
[Will printed. Westen, 1688. Teacher.]

"Will of William Mekilfelde, Esq., of Henham, Co. Suffolk."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 5 (1838) 12-18.
[Will printed in original English and Latin. 1439. Gentry.]

"Will of William Morton of Moreton, Esquire, 1525."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 17-18.
[Will printed. Moreton, 1525.]

"Will of William Pykton, 1508."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 67.
[Will printed. London, 1508. Mercer.]

"Will of William Rogerson of Chester, 1519."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 13 (1918) 90-91.
[Will printed. Chester, 1519. Ironmonger.]

"Will of William Stiles, of Chester, Alderman, 1585."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1919) 13-14, 17.
[Will printed. Chester, 1585. Alderman.]

"Will of William Walsham, 1389."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 103.
[Will printed in modern English. Bunbury, 1389.]

"Will of William Warde of Rydmarley, 1503."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 22.
[Will printed in modern English. Rydmarley, 1503.]

"Will of William Wilbraham of Woodhey, 1536."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 68-69.
[Will printed in modern English. Woodhey, 1534.]

"Will of William Wittour, Clerk, of Tarporley, 1543."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 17 (1922) 86.
[Will printed. Tarporley, 1543. Clergy.]

"William Glasier, Mayor of Chester in 1551."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 48 (1956) 6.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1555. Merchant.]

"William of Edington: Founder of Edington Priory, Bishop of Winchester and first prelate of the Noble Order of the Garter." Wiltshire Notes and Queries 3 (1899-1901) 214-221.
[Will printed (Latin). 1366. Clergy.]

"Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 2 (1859) 225, 230-231.
[Wills, 2 printed. Cobham, widow, 1435; gentry, 1475 (abstract).]

"Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 3 (1860) 200-206.
[Wills, 2 printed (trans.). Chelmington, 1464, 1500. Twysden brothers.]

"Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 4 (1861) 225-233.
[Wills, 2 printed (trans.). Knight, undated (end Edw.III?); Maidstone, cleric, 1417 (w/orig. Lat.).]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Wills"
Essex Institute Historical Collections 50 (1914) 217-240, 313-336; 51 (1915) 57-80, 137-160.
[Wills, 77 printed, most paired with P.I.s. Essex Co., Mass., 1640s.

"Wills."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society 11 (1888) 97-100.
[Wills, 5 printed. Shropshire, 1316 (2) 1337, 1342, 1376.]

"Wills of Parishioners of Chistleton."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 31 (1937) 7, 21, 31, 33, 48, 52, 54, 59, 73.
[Wills, 7 printed. Chistleton, 1588-1641.]

"Wills of the House of Percy."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 2 (1835) 65-66.
[Wills, 4 printed. Newburgh (Henry 4th Earl of Northumberland, 1485 (English); Newland (son Joscelyn, 1532, esq.); Terington (Robert, 1544); George (Latin, 1474).]

"Wills of Thomas Chafe and Pascoe Risdon."
Devon Notes and Queries 1 (1900-01) 249-251.
[Wills, 2 printed. St. Giles (1648, Gentleman); Winscott (1647, widow).]

"Wiltshire Members of the Long Parliament."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 1 (1893-5) 380-381.
[Will abstracted. Great Sherston, 1619. Yeoman.]

ADAMS, B. ed.
Lifestyle and Culture in Hertford. Wills and Inventories for the Parishes of All Saints and St. Andrew, 1660-1725.
Hertforshire Record Publications #13. 1997.

ADDY, J.
Death, Money, and the Vultures: Inheritance and Avarice, 1660-1750.
London:??????????, 1992

ADDY, S.O.
"An Inventory of Furniture at Beauchief Hall, 1691."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 3 (1881) 56-66.
[P.I. printed. Beauchief Hall, 1691. Lawyer.]

"Inventory of Robert Marples, 1676."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 9 (1887) 22-32.
[P.I. printed. Barlborough, 1676. Gentry.]

"Pedigrees of Brownell of Hallamshire and North Derbyshire."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 45 (1923) 91-109.
[P.I. and will printed of 1634, will abstracts of 1631, 1634. Hallamshire and Derbyshire. Gentry, genealogical.]

"Wills at Somerset House relating to Derbyshire."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 45 (1923) 42-75.
[Wills, 24 printed. Derbyshire, 1393-1558.]

"Wills Proved in Manor Court."
Sussex Notes and Queries 1 (1926/7) 252-254.
[Wills used; testamentary/probate practice discussed. 15th century.]

ADLER, Michael                                                                             JEWS
"Inventory of the Propertyof the Condemned Jews, 1285."
M.J.H.S.E.  2 (1935) 56-71.

AGIUS, Pauline
"Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Furniture in Oxford: A survey of that listed in the probate inventories of members of the university, 1568-1699."
Furniture History 7 (1971) 72-86.
[P.I.s, 706 studied. Oxford, 1568-1699. Furniture.]

 AINSWORTH, John                                                                      IRELAND
"Abstracts of 17th-Century Irish Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,"
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Journal 78 (1948) 24-37.
[Wills, 14 abstracted. England, 1630-1670.]

ALCOCK, N.W.
"An American Stray: The inventory of Henry Worthe of Washfield in 1606."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 34 (1981) 271-272.
[P.I. printed. Washfield, 1606. Gentry.]

"Devonshire Farmhouses. Part II, some Dartmoor houses."
Transactions of the Devonshire Association 101 (1969) 83- 106.
[P.I.s used and 4 printed. Widecombe, 1663, 1668, 1674, 1778. Material culture and architecture.]

People at Home. Living in a Warwickshire Village, 1500-1800.
Chichester: Phillimore, 1993.
[P.I.s, prints 55 uses and analyses many more extensively. Warwickshire, 1500-1800. Material culture and social history.]

Stoneleigh Villagers 1597-1650.
Coventry: University of Warwick, Open Studies, 1975.
[P.I.s and wills used. Stoneleigh, 1597-1650. Based on work of students in University of Birmingham extramural course.]

"Surviving Devon Wills and Inventories."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 31 (1968-70) 182.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed. Short note on materials in County Record Office, Truro.]

ALCOCK, N.W., FAULKNER, P.A., and JONES, S.R.
"Maxstone Castle. Warwickshire."
Archaeological Journal 135 (1978) 195-233.
[P.I. printed. Warwickshire, 1669 (and three later). Gentry.]

ALCOCK, N.W. and HAMPARTUMIAN, Jane
"A Computer-generated Place-name Index for the Probate Records of the Lichfield Diocese."
Archives 15 (1982) 209-215.
[Dated discussion of record indexing technology.]

ALEXANDER, C.G.
"The Ancient Custom of the Province of York."
Thoresby Society Miscellaneous Publications 28 (1923-7) pages?

ALEXANDER, James
"The Economic Structure of the City of London at the End of the Seventeenth Century."
Urban History Yearbook (1989) 47-62.
[Probate records used. London, 1693-1705. Wealth estimates.]

ALEXANDER, Marion J.
"Sixteenth-Century Probate Documents from Mancester."
Warwickshire History 6 (1985/6) 121-132.
[P.I.s, 62, and 5 wills analyzed. Mancetter, 16th century. Material culture, wealth.]

ALLAN, J. Malcolm
Only My Books. Archbishop Leighton's Bequests.
University of Stirling Bibliographical Society, Occasional Paper #5, 1985.
[Will and P.I. discussed. Glasgow, 1684. Clergy, discussion of bequests.]

ALLDRIDGE, Nick J.
"House and Household in Restoration Chester."
Urban History Yearbook (1983) 39-53.
[P.I.s, 74 studied. Chester, 1660-1680. Anecdotal use for study of housing and family structure.]

"Loyalty and Identity in Chester Parishes 1540-1640."
In Parish Church and People, ed. by S.J. Wright, London: Hutchinson, 1988; 85-214.
[Wills, 69 studied. Chester, 1540-1640. Cross-parish allegiance in bequests.]

ALLEN, David Grayson                                                                COLONIAL
In English Ways. The Movement of Societies and the Transferral of English Local Law and Custom to the Massachusetts Bay in the Seventeenth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
[P.I.s, 72 studied. Rowley, Mass., 1639-1697. Nature and distribution of wealth; agriculture; debt; indexed.]

ALLEN, David Grayson, and THOMPSON, Roger                   COLONIAL
"A Tale of Two Towns: persistent English localism in seventeenth-century Massachussetts."
In Contrast and Connection, ed by David Grayson Allen and Roger Thompson, London: G. Bell and Sons, 1976; 1-35.
[P.I.s used. Hingham, Mass., 17th century. Material culture.]

ALLEN, Marion E.
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1620-4.
Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell Press, 1989.
[Wills, 784 abstracted, some original wills, some register copies. Suffolk, 1620-1624.]

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk 1625-6.
Suffolk Records Society #37 (1995).
[Wills, 424 abstracted, glossary, index of occupations. Suffolk, 1625-6.]

ALLEN, Marion E. and Evans, Nesta R.
Wills from the Archdeaconry of Suffolk: 1629-1636.
Boston: New England Genealogical Society, 1986.
[Wills, 1091 abstracted, some from original wills, some from registers. Suffolk, 1629-1636.]

Wills from the Archdeaconry of Suffolk: 1637-1640.
Boston: New England Genealogical Society, 1986.
[Wills, 972 abstracted, from originals and registers; no preambles. Suffolk, 1637-1640.]

ALLEN, Robert C.
"Inferring Yields from Probate Inventories."
Journal of Economic History 48 (1988) 117-125.
[P.I.s as sources for crop yields; with reference to Overton's "Estimating Crop Yields...".]

ALLEN, W. Taprell
"The Will of William Whittington, of St. Briavels, gent. - 1625."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 10 (1885/6) 304-312.
[Will printed. St. Briavels, 1625. Gentleman.]

ALLISON, K.J.
"The Norfolk Worsted Industry in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
Yorkshire Bulletin of Economic and Social Research 12:3 (1960-1) 73-83.
[P.I.s, 28 urban, 17 rural used. Norfolk region, 1590-1621. Wealth, stocks of cloth.]

ALMACK, Richard
"Original Documents."
Archaeological Journal 5 (1848) 316-320.
[Wills of the Catholic yeomen Almoke brothers of Thirsk, 1558]

ALSOP, J.D.
"Religious Preambles in Early Modern English Wills as Formulae."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 40 (Jan. 1989) 19-27.
[Wills. Discusses the untrustworthiness of wills as indicators of testators' piety.]

"Sea Surgeons, Health and England's Maritime Expansion: The West African trade 1553-1660."
Mariner's Mirror 76 (1990) 215-221.
[Wills used anecdotally. Shipboard surgeons' characteristics, roles according to seamen's wills.]

TITLE?
William and Mary Quarterly 34 (1977) 542-571.
[Wills, 462 studied. Charles, St. Mary's, Prince George's counties, 1640-1710. Men's bequests, women's property.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake."
William and Mary Quarterly 45 (1988) 135-159.
[P.I.s studied. Southern Western Shore of Maryland, Virginia, 1658-1777. Material wealth, consumer goods; see pp. 160-70 for commentary.]

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AMBLER, R.W., et al.
The Probate Inventories of the Ancient Parish of Clee, South Humberside, 1536-1742.
Hull: University of Hull School of Adult and Continuing Education, 1987.

AMBLER, R.W. and WATKINSON, B.L. eds.
Farmers and Fishermen: The probate inventories of Clee, South Humberside 1536-1742.
Hull: The University of Hull, 1987.
[P.I.s, 211 printed and discussed. Clee, 1536-1742. Farmers and fishermen, material culture, social and economic history.]

AMUSSEN, Susan Dwyer
An Ordered Society: Gender and class in Early Modern England.
London: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
[Wills, uses 562. Stow and Wimbotsham, 1590-1750. See Chapter 3, "Families, Property and Family Economies" for extensive use of wills, especially by women.]

AMYOT, Thomas
"Transcript of Two Rolls Containing an Inventory of Effects Formerly Belonging to Sir John Fastolfe."
Archaeologia 21 (1827) 232-280.
[P.I. printed. 1459 original, copy of 1744 used. Nobility.]

ANDERSON, Sonia P.
An English Consul in Turkey: Paul Rycaut at Smyrna, 1667-1678.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
[Will abstracted from. c.1700. See appendix II on chancery suit involving will; diplomat, historian of Turkey.]

ANDERSON, Terry Lee                                                        COLONIAL
"Economic Growth in Colonial New England: "Statistical renaissance"."
Journal of Economic History 29 (1979) 275-288.
[P.I.s used as evidence for wealth and its components to 1750. New England. Economic history.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
The Economic Growth of Seventeenth-century New England.
New York: Arno Press, 1975 (published PhD. diss., University of Washington, 1972.).
[P.I.s 954 used as evidence for colonial economics. See esp. pp.82-110, and Appendix C. New England, 17th century. Economic returns to capital.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Wealth Estimates for the New England Colonies, 1650-1709."
Explorations in Economic History 12 (1975) 151-176.
[P.I.s, 954 statistically analyzed. New England, 1650-1709. Economic history, land and capital as wealth.]

ANDERTON, Henry Ince
"The Manor of Bardsea."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 12 (1912) 216-261.
[Wills, 3 printed. Bardsea, 1692, 1697, 1706. Family.]

ANDRE, James L., and RICE, R.G.
"Warnham: Its church, monuments, registers and vicars."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 33 (1883) 152-206.
[Wills, 2 printed. Warnham, 1523, 1565-6. Father/son; gentry.]

ANDRESEN, Karen Elizabeth                                                     COLONIAL
"Colonial Probate Records."
Early American Life 14 (1983) 1: 7-16.
[P.I.s introduced to a popular audience.]

"The Layered Society: material life in Portsmouth, N.H., 1680 to 1740."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of New Hampshire, 1982.
[P.I.s, 234 of males studied. Portsmouth, 1680-1740. Material culture.]

ANDREW, C.K. Croft
"Sir Alexander Carew, 1609-1644."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 22 (1942-6) 37-43.
[Will and P.I. printed. 1644; executed as traitor by roundheads. Gentry.]

ANDREWES, Lancelot
The Works of Lancelot Andrewes, Sometine Bishop of Winchester. vol.11.
Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1854; reprinted by AMS (New York, 1967).
[Will printed w/3 codicils (App. G). Winchester, 1626. Clergy.]

ANSTEY, Henry
Munimenta Academica, or Documents Illustrative of Academical Life and Studies at Oxford. Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores (Rolls series #50). 2 vols. London: Longman, 1868.
Kraus Reprint Ltd., 1966.
[P.I.s, 13 and 17 wills printed, Latin texts. Oxford, 1440s and 1450s. Scholars, masters, priests.]

ANSTRUTHER, Godfrey
"Abstracts of Wills."
London Recusant 3 (1973) 74-79; 4 (1974) 16-20, 69-72; 5 (1975) 4-19, 102-116; 6 (1976) 112-116; 7 (1977) 52-57, 62-67; 8 (1978) 25-31.
[Wills, 127 abstracts printed, many 19th-century. Catholics.]

"Abstracts of Wills of Essex Catholic Interest."
The Essex Recusant 15 (1973) 24-25; 16 (1974) 103-106; 17 (1975) 52-57, 91-95; 18 (1976) 37-41, 89-97.
[Wills, 41 abstracted. Essex Co., 17th century. Catholics and Catholic clergy.]

ANTHEUNIS, L.
"Het testament van Henry Bolt, Engels priester en banneling te Mechelen overleden in 1617."
Handelingen K. Kring oudenheidjunde, letteren et kunst mechelen 53 (1949) 183-187.

APPLEBY, Andrew B.
"Diet in Sixteenth-century England: Sources, problems, possibilities."
In Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979; 97-116.
[P.I.s , 16th/17th cc used as sources for diet. Food.]

APTED, M.R.
"Social Conditions at Tredegar House, Newport, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Monmouthshire Antiquary 3 (1973) 125-154.
[PUI of 1688 printed; will of staff member of 1674 printed. P.I.s studied, of 1688-1698 . Newport, 17th and 18th centuries. Social history.]

APTHORP, A.V.
"Curious Sussex Wills."
Sussex County Magazine 19 (1945) 41-42.
[Wills used anecdotally and excerpted from. Sussex, 16th century. Short, popular overview.]

ARCHER, Rowena E. and Ferme, B.E.
"Testamentary Procedure with Special Reference to the Executrix."
In Medieval Women in Southern England, Reading Medieval Studies #15 (1989) 3-34.
[Discussion of testamentary law and practice with examples from wills in text. 14th and 15th centuries. Women.]

ARKELL, Tom
"Household Goods from Probate Inventories."
In West Penwith in the Time of Charles II, ed. by H. Beaufort-Murphy (Penzance: ???????, 1998), pp. ???????????

"The Incidence of Poverty in England in the Later Seventeenth Century."
Social History 12 (1987) ??????????

"Interpreting Probate Inventories.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 72-101.
[Brief overview of a range of studies using PIs from Early Modern England and Wales. Farming; crafts, urban occupations; houses and contents.]

“The Probate Process.” In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell
(Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 3-12.
[Short introduction to the process of probate recording and administration in Early Modern England.]

When Death Do Us Part: Understanding and Interpreting the Probate Records of Early Modern England.
Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000.
[Collection of 17 articles on the nature and uses of early modern English probate materials; catalogued separately. Appendices include edited selections from ecclesiastical canons on probate; main pre-1760 acts of Parliament on probate; list of courts covered by the British Record Society Index Library Series; transcripts of 22 sample probate documents.]

ARLEDGE, Lane H.
"The Charity of London's Aldermen, 1460-1540: The testamentary record."
Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1987.
[Wills, 153 analyzed. London, 1460-1540. Burghers, endowments of poor, hospitals, education for reasons of piety.]

ARMSTRONG, C.A.J.
"The Piety of Cecily, Duchess of York: a study in late medieval culture."
In his England, France and Burgundy in the Fifteenth Century,  London: The Hambledon Press, 1983; 135-156.
[Will studied (printed in J.G.Nichols and J.Bruce, Wills from Doctors Commons (London, 1863)). Royalty, 15th century.]

ARNOLD, Janet
Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd: The inventories of the Wardrobe of Robes prepared in July 1600.
Leeds: Maney, 1988.
[Stowe and Folger Invs. of 1600 printed, with glossary and extensive introduction to clothing, royal tailors, etc.]

ARUNDELL, Edward
"The Arundells of Gloucestershire."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society  66 (1945) 208-218.
[Wills of family members (17th-cc.) printed on pp. 214-218.]

ASHBY, M.K.
The Changing English Village: A history of Bledington, Gloucestershire in its setting 1066-1914.
Kineton: Roundwood Press, 1974.
[Wills used anecdotally, indexed. See esp. pp.112-116. Bledington, 1066-1914.]

ASHMORE, Owen
"Household Inventories of the Lancashire Gentry, 1550-1700."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 110 (1958) 59-105.
[Wills and P.I.s, 34 discussed at length, some extracts. Lancashire, 1550-1700. Gentry, material culture, domestic rooms.]

"Inventories as a Source of Local History I - Houses."
Amateur Historian 4 (1959) 157-161.
[Short overview of information in typical P.I.s regarding housing.]

"Inventories as a Source of Local History II- Farmers."
Amateur Historian 4 (1959) 186-195.
[Short overview of information on farmers and agricultural matters found in P.I.s.]

ASTILL, G.G.
"An Early Inventory of a Leicestershire Knight."
Midland History 2 (1974) 274-283.
[P.I. printed and translated. Leicestershire, 1369. Gentry.]

ASTLE, Thomas
"Extract from the Will of Thomas Earl of Ormond, dated July 31, 1515. From the Register called 'Holder'."
Archaeologia 3 (1786) 20-21.
[Will extract printed. 1515. Nobility.]

ASTON, Margaret
"Death."
In Fifteenth-century Attitudes: Perceptions of society in late medieval England, ed. by Rosemary Horrox. Cambridge: Cambridge Unievrsity Press, 1994; 202-228.
[Wills used anecdotally as sources for attitudes about death. 15th century.]

ATCHLEY, Cuthbert F.
"The Halleway Chauntry at the Parish Church of All Saints, Bristol, and the Halleway Family."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 24 (1901) 74-125.
[Wills, 4 printed. Bristol, 1388, 1389, 1404, 1413. Burghers.]

ATKINSON, J.A., FLYNN, B., PORTASS, V., SINGLEHURST, and SMITH, H.J.
Darlington Wills and Inventories, 1600-1625.
Surtees Society Publications #201 (1993).
[Wills (46) and P.I.s (57). Darlington, 1600-25. Proved at Durham.]

ATKINSON, Thomas E.
"Brief History of English Testamentary Jurisdiction."
Missouri Law Review 8 (1943) 107-128.

ATREE, F.W.T.
"Notes on the Family of Chaloner of Cuckfield."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 44 (1901) 116-139.
[Wills, 12 printed or abstracted. Family; 16th and 17th century.]

"Notes on the Family of Michelborne."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 50 (1907) 61-108.
[Wills, 23 printed. Family; 1523-1699.

"Some Hampshire Dedications Gathered from Pre-Reformation Wills."
Hampshire Field Club 2 (1893) 331-340.
[Clauses in wills to be buried in churchyards of 51 parishes; brief will extracts, most 1500-1530]

ATTREE, F.W.T., and BOOKER, J.H.L.
"The Sussex Colepeppers."
Sussex Archeological Collections 47 (1904) 47-81.
[Wills, a dozen printed. Family; 1429 (French) to late 16th century.]

ATTREED, Lorraine C.
"Preparation for Death in Sixteenth-century England."
Sixteenth Century Journal 13:3 (1982) 37-66.
[Wills, 1,960 studied. 1525-1588. Shedding reliance on clergy, increased reliance on family and friends. Religious history.]

AUSTEN, Frederick W.
"Some Essex Wills."
Essex Review 56 (1947) 196-203.
[Unsystematic essay using bits of wills anecdotally. Essex.]

AUSTIN, Roland
"The Inventory of the Goods of Oliver Diston, Rector of Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, 1615."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 46 (1924) 187-193.
[P.I. printed. Dumbledon, 1615. Clergy.]

"The Will of Robert Huntington, Vicar of Leigh, 1648-1664."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeology Society 58 (1936 243-256.
[Will printed, with intro and pedigree. Leigh, 1664. Clergy.]

AUWERS, Linda                                                                           COLONIAL
"Fathers, Sons and Wealth in Colonial Windsor, Connecticut."
Journal of Family History 3 (1978) 136-149.
[Wills and P.I.s, 179 analyzed. Windsor, 1638-1703. Demographics, wealth, determinants of inheritance.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Reading the Marks of the Past: Exploring female literacy in colonial Windsor, Connecticut."
Historical Methods 13 (1980) 204-214.
[Wills, 67 studied. Windsor, 1640-1799. Women; signatures as sign of literacy.]

AVELING, Hugh
"The Recusancy Papers of the Meynell Family of North Kilvington, North Riding of Yorkshire, 1596-1676."
In Miscellanea, E.E. Reynolds, ed., Catholic Record Society, 1964; x-xi, 1-112.
[Will (1576) and P.I. (1653) printed. North Riding, Yorkshire. Gentry.]

AVELING, Hugh and PANTIN, W.A.
The Letter Book of Robert Joseph, Monk-scholar of Evesham and Gloucester College, Oxford, 1530-1533.
Oxford Historical Society, n.s.#19, 1967.
[Will of Robert Wyllis, supposed to be Robert Joseph, printed on pp.267-8. Oxford. Clergy.]

AVELING, J.C.H.
Catholic Recusancy in the City of York 1558-1791.
Catholic Record Society, 1970.
[Wills studied as evidence for religious climate and recusancy. York, 1558-1791. Townspeople, religious history.]

AXON, Ernest
"John Angier's Will, 1667."
In his Oliver Heywood's Life of John Angier of Denton, London: Chetham Society, 1937 (vol.97); 133-137.
[Will Printed. Denton, 1667. Clergy.]

AXON, William E.A.
"Documents Relating to the Plague in Manchester in 1605."
Chetham Miscellanies III. Manchester: for the Chetham Society, 1909.
[PIs of 2 1606 plague victims printed, printer, Manchester]

BACH, Ulrich
Kommentierte Bibliographie englischer literarischer Testamente vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.
Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1982.
[Annotated bibliographical entries on 127 works plus additional studies on the genre, with introduction on the genre.]

BAGLEY, J.J.
"Inventories as a Source of Local History III - Textile and Other Industries."
Amateur Historian 4 (1960) 227-231.
[Overview of information on these industries contained in typical P.I.s.]

"Inventories as a Source of Local History IV - Professions."
Amateur Historian 4 (1960) 320-324.
[Overview of information on various early modern professions as contained in P.I.s.]

"Matthew Markland, a Wigan Mercer: The manufacture and sale of Lancashire textiles in the reign of Elizabeth I and James I." Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society 68 (1959) 45-68.
[P.I. printed. Wigan, 1617. Mercer.]

"The Will, Inventory and Accounts of Robert Walthew of Pemberton (d.1676)."
In A Lancashire Miscellany, ed by R.S. France, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society #109, 1965; 49-122.
[Will, P.I. and administrator's records printed. Pemberton, 1676. Gentry.]

"Wills and Inventories (1540-1660)."
In his Historical Interpretation Vol.2: Sources of English History 1540 to the Present Day, New York: St. Martins Press, 1971; 38-52.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed as sources.]

BAIGENT, Francis Joseph
A Collection of Records and Documents Relating to the Hundred and Manor of Crondal in the County of Southampton.
Hampshire Record Society, 1891.
[Wills printed. Bishop Aelfsige, c.958, and Bishop Elphage, c.975. Anglo-Saxon; clergy.]

"On the Parish Church of Wyke, near Winchester."
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 19 (1863) 184-212.
[P.I. printed. Winchester, 1550. Cleric.]

BAILEY, F.A.
"The Elizabethan Playhouse, Prescot, Lancashire."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 103 (1951) 69-81.
[Will and P.I. printed. Prescott, 1603. Gentleman (Richard Harrington); relation of probate documents to the theater.]

BAIN, J.                                                                                         SCOTLAND
"Testamentum quondam reverendissimi patris Domini Gauini Archiepiscopi Glasguensis ac Monasterii insula missarum perpetui commendatarii."
Archaeological Journal 39 (1882) 412-419.
[Will printed [Latin]. Glasgow, 1548. Clergy.]

BAIN, Joseph
"Will (in the form of Endenture) of Sir John Colville of the Dale Knight "y't Dyed in Normandye"."
Archaeological Journal 36 (1879) 274-275.
[Will discussed. Gentry.]

BAKER, H. de Fre
"Will of Lady Mary Lisle."
Salisbury Field Club 1 (1893) 172-173.

BALL, H. Houston
"Will of Willyam Haste of Norwich, Worsted Weaver, A.D. 1539."
The East Anglian 3rd ser. 10 (1903-4) 103-105.
[Will printed. Norwich, 1535 (read in 1539). Weaver.]

BAMFORD, A. Bennett
"Bequests Relating to Essex..."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s. 13 (1912) 253-266; n.s. 14 (1913) 26-48.
[Wills, extracts from calendars at Husting, London. Essex, 1366-1617.]

BANKES, Joyce and KERRIDGE, James
"The Probate Inventory of James Bankes, 1617."
In their The Early Records of the Bankes Family at Winstanley. Chetham Society, 3rd ser. vol.21, 1973; 43-46.
[P.I. printed. Winstanley, 1617. Burgher.]

BARBOUR, Philip L.                                                                    COLONIAL
"A Note on the Discovery of the Original Will of Captain John Smith: With a verbatim transcription."
William and Mary Quarterly 25 (1968) 625-628.
[Will printed. Virginia, 1631. Colonist.]

BARCK, Dorothy C.                                                                     COLONIAL
Papers of the Lloyd Family of Lloyd's Neck, New York. Vol. 1 (1654-1752).
New York: For the New York Historical Society, 1927.
[Will and P.I. printed. Boston, 1684 and 1693. Merchant.]

BARCLAY, R.S.                                                                            SCOTLAND
"Orkney Testaments and Inventories, 1573-1615."
Scottish Record Society n.s. 6 (1977).
[Wills (6) and P.I.s (5) printed, with calendar of 198 abstracts. Orkneys, 1573-1615.]

BARKER, Eric E.
The Register of Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York, 1480-1500. vol.1
Torquay: The Devonshire Press, 1976.
[Will printed. Masham, 1492. Thomas, Lord Scrope.]

BARLEY, L.B. and M.W.
"Lincolnshire Craftsmen in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
The Lincolnshire Historian 2 (1959) 7-22.
[P.I.s extracted from, arranged by craft. Lincolnshire, 16th, 17th centuries. Craftsmen, material culture.]

"Lincolnshire Shopkeepers in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
The Lincolnshire Historian 2 (1962) pages?.
[P.I.s, 375 studied. Lincolnshire, 1535-1700. Retail merchants, material culture, social and economic history.]

BARLEY, Maurice W.
The English Farmhouse and Cottage.
London: Routledge, 1961.
[P.I.s, 16 printed. 10 counties, 1569-1719. See also pp. 38-9 on P.I.s as sources on housing; indexed.]

"A Glossary for Names for Rooms in Houses of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
In Culture and Environment. Essays in Honor of Sir Cyril Fox, I.L. Forster and L. Alcock, eds., London: Routedge and Keegan Paul, 1963; 479-501.
[Short glossary drawn from P.I.s.]

"Farmhouses and Cottages, 1550-1725."
Economic History Review 2nd ser. 7 (1955) 291-306.
[P.I.s used in discussion. Farmers, rural folk, material culture, housing.]

"The Lincolnshire Village and its Buildings."
The Lincolnshire Historian 7 (1951) 252-272.
P.I.s, 800 used in student project, 3 printed. Lincolnshire, 1570-1710. Methodology.]

"Rural Housing in England."
In The Agrarian History of England and Wales Vol. IV 1500-1640, Joan Thirsk ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967; 696-766.
[P.I.s used in discussion. 1500-1640. Yeoman husbandmen, laborers.]

BARNARD, John
"A Puritan Controversialist and his Books: The will of Alexander Cooke (1564-1632)."
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 86 (1992) 82-86.
[Will studied. 1632. Anti-Catholic pamphleteer; books.]

BARNARD, John, and BELL, Maureen
"The Early Seventeenth-Century York Book Trade and John Foster's Inventory of 1616."
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society: Literary and historical section 24 (1994) 17-132.
[P.I. printed. York, 1616. Bookseller; books.]

"The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583): A preliminary survey."
Publishing History 29 (1991) 5-46.
[P.I. booklist printed. London, 1583. Printer, bookseller.]

BARNETT, Herbert
Glympton: The History of an Oxfordshire Manor.
Oxford: Oxford Record Society,  1923.
[1546 wills of two rectors printed. Glympton, Oxfordshire.]

BARRATT, D. M. et al.
Index to the Probate Records of the Courts of the Bishp and Archdeacon of Oxford, 1733-1857 and of the Oxfordshire Peculiars, 1547-1856.
London: British Record Society, 1997.

BARRON, Caroline M.
"The Golden Age of Women in Medieval London."
Reading Medieval Studies (1989) 35-58.
[Discusses women's testamentary options and limitations in 14th and 15th centuries.]

"The Parish Fraternities of Medieval London."
In The Church in Pre-Reformation Society: Essays in honour of F.R.H. DuBoulay, Barron and Christopher Harper-Bill eds., Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1985; 13-37.
[Wills used anecdotally, see esp. 21-22. London, religious history.]

BARTLETT, K.S.
The Wills of Horbury, 1404-1757. 2 vols. [I: to 1688]
Wakefield: City of Wakefield Metro District Council Library, 1978, 1980.
[Wills, 174 printed (102 to 1701), many with P.I.s, all in English. Horbury, 1404-1757.]

BARTTELOT, W.G.
"Extracts from Two Old Barttelot Wills."
Sussex Archaeological Society 28 (1878) 204-205.
[Wills extracted from. Family, 1493/4, 1496. No notes.]

BASKERVILLE, Geoffrey
"The Dispossessed Religious in Surrey."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 47 (1941) 12-28.
[Wills, two printed. Surrey, 1541, 1556. Clergy (abbot, parson).]

"Some Ecclesiastical Wills."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 52 (1930) 281-293.
[Wills, 6 abstracted. Mid-16th century. Clergy (abbots, priors).]

BATES, C.J.
"The Bordre Holds of Northumberland: Halton Tower."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s. 14 (1891) 311-322.
[P.I. printed. Halton, 1624. Gentry.]

BATES, T.H.
"Rhyming Will of Robert Rye."
East Anglian 3 (1866-68) 247-248.
[Will printed. 1550. Possible literary piece, but registered in the Bury Cartulary.]

BATHO, G.R.
The Household Papers of Henry Percy, Ninth Earl of Northumberland, 1564-1632.
Camden Publications, Third Series #93, 1962.
[Will and invs. (seven) printed in Part IV. Northumberland, 1564-1632. Nobility.]

BAUMGARTEN, Linda R.                                                          COLONIAL
"The Textiles Trade in Boston, 1650-1700."
In Arts of the Anglo-American Community in the Seventeenth Century, ed. by Ian Quimby, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Winterthur Museum, 1975; 219-273.
[P.I.s, 485 studied. Boston, 1650-1700. Textiles.]

BAX, Alfred R.
"On Some Armorial Ledgers in the Cathedral Church of St. Saviour, Southwark, and the Persons They Commemorate."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 22 (1909) 1-68.
[Wills, 27 abstracts printed, mostly 18th-century. London.]

BAYFIELD, T.G.
"Old Wills: II"
East Anglian 1 (1862) 214.
[Will printed (Latin). Postwick, 1383. Wife of John de Spanys.]

BAZELEY, W.
"Notes on Buckland Manor and Advowson from A.D.209 to A.D. 1546."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 9 (1885) 103-124.
[Inv. printed. Gloucestershire, early 16th century. Gentry.]

BEAUDRY, Mary Carolyn                                                          COLONIAL
"`Or What Else You Please to Call It': Folk semantic domains in early Virginia probate inventories."
Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1980.
[P.I.s studied. Virginia, 17th and 18th centuries. Study of "artifact-language".]

BEAUDRY, Mary, et. al
"A Vessel Typology for Early Chesapeake Ceramics: The Potomac typological system."
Historical Archaeology 17 (1983) 18-43.
[P.I.s, 6 extracted from. Virginia and Maryland, 1660s. Methodological.]

BEAUROY, Jacques
"Familles marchandes de Bishop's Lynn au XIVe siècle."
In Le marchand au Moyen Age, Saint-Herblain: S.H.M.E.S./C.I.D. éditions, 1992; 175-187.
[Wills, 120 analyzed. Bishop's Lynn, 14th century. Social, economic, religious history.]

"Family Patterns and Relations of Bishop's Lynn Willmakers in the Fourteenth Century."
In The World We Have Gained. Histories of Population and Social Structure, ed. by Lloyd Bonfield, et al., Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986; 23-42.
[Wills, 125 studied. Bishop's Lynn, 1276-1425. Burghers, family histories.]

BEAVER, Dan
"`Sown in dishonour, raised in glory': death, ritual and social organization in northern Gloucestershire, 1590-1690."
Social History 17 (1992) 389-419.
[Wills, 732 analyzed. Northern Gloucestershire, 1590-1690. Will making and funerary arrangements, economic/class variations.]

BEAZLEY, F.C.
"Coventry Family."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 8 (1911) 76, 78, 82-3, 84-5, 88, 90, 93, 95, 96.
[Wills, 6 abstracted. 1575-1671. Family (knights, widow, yeoman, gentleman.]

"The Family of Gardener of Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1919) 57, 59.
[Wills, 2 printed. Chester, 1615 (girdler), 1690 (gentleman).]

"Hockenhull of Prenton Family."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 10 (1914) 46-47, 48, 50.
[Will and P.I. printed. Liverpool, 1682. Gentry.]

"Holford Hall."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 10 (1914) 15-16, 17-18, 20
[Wills, 3 printed or abstracted. Holford, 1622 (widow), 1633 (gentry), 1667.]

"Inventory of Rich. Griffin, of Bartherton, 1648."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 78.
[P.I. printed. Bartherton, 1648.]

"Notes on the Brooke and Brock Families of Cheshire."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 74 (1922) 158-174.
[Wills, 17 abstracted. Family, 1592-1715.]

"Richard Harrison of West Kirby and Afterward of New England."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 25 (1931) 48.
[Will printed. Greasbie, 1668. Yeoman.]

"Some Cheshire Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 9 (1913) 2-3, 5-6, 7, 10, 15, 22, 27-28, 43-44, 60, 62; 10 (1914) 8-9. See also 13 (1918) 20-21.
[Wills, 11 abstracted, 2 w/P.I. Leycester family; 1571-1694.]

"Some Cheshire Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 21 (1925) 79, 84, 86, 90, 92, 95.
[Wills, 6 abstracted. 1582-1619. Eastham and other places.]

"Some Cheshire Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 22 (1927) 6, 9, 13, 15, 18-19, 29, 32, 33, 34, 43, 47-48, 50.
[Wills, 12 abstracted. 1591-1690. Various places.]

"Some Chester Wills."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 23 (1928) 48, 53, 59.
[Wills, 3 printed. Massie family. Chester and Aston, 1611 and 1689 (spinster and gentry).]

"Whitney of Alvanley Pedigree."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 25 (1931) 1, 19, 22, 26, 30, 62, 63, 69, 79, 88.
[Wills, 12 abstracted. Whitley family, 1615-1697. Includes wheelwright, shoemaker, husbandmen, clerk, widows.]

"Will of Edward Morgell of Chester, Gent., 1661/2."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 94.
[Will printed. Chester, 1662. Gentleman.]

"Will of Ellen Griffin, of Mobberley, Widow, 1669."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 76.
[Will printed. Mobberley, 1669. Widow.]

"Will of Fulk Griffin, of Nantwich, 1670."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 74.
[Will and P.I. printed. Nantwich, 1670. Butcher.]

"Will of John Griffin, of Bartherton, Esq., 1623."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 59-60.
[Will printed. Bartherton, 1623.]

"Will of John Griffin, of Nantwich, 1671."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 82.
[Will abstracted. Nantwich, 1671. Butcher.]

"Will of John Groome, of Ruyton, Co. Denbigh, 1666."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 107.
[Will printed. Ruyton, 1666.]

"Will of John Lowndes of Overton, Co. Chester, Gent., 1666."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 9.
[Will printed. Overton, 1666. Gentleman.]

"Will of Katherine Partington of Cotton, Widow, 1593."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 12 (1917) 88.
[Will abstracted. Cotton, 1593. Widow.]

"Will of Margery Bold of Upton, 1570."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 12 (1917) 89-90.
[Will printed. Upton, 1570. Widow.]

"Will of Nicholas Burges of Hollingsworth, 1635."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 19 (1924) 48.
[Will and P.I. printed. Hollingsworth, 1635. Clergy.]

"Will of Richard Griffin of Nantwich, Esq., 1690."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 61-62.
[Will printed. Nantwich, 1690.]

"Will of Richard Trafford, of Chester, Tallow Chandler, 1663."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 53-54.
[Will printed. Chester, 1663. Chandler.]

"Will of Robert Trafford of Bridge Trafford, 1610."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 51.
[WIll printed. Bridge Trafford, 1610. Blacksmith.]

"Will of Robert Berrington, of Sandbach, Innholder, 1613."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 103.
[Will printed. Sandbach, 1613. Innkeeper.]

"Will of William Ball, of Chester, Glover, 1665."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 22 (1927) 73-74.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1665. Glover.]

"Will of William Trafford of Stoak, Husbandman, 1578."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 33.
[Will printed. Stoak, 1578. Husbandman.]

BECK, Richard Theodore
The Cutting Edge: The Early History of the Surgeons of London.
London: Lund Humphries, 1974.
[At least one PI printed: John Dagville, d. 1477.]

BECKETT, J.V.
A History of Laxton, England's Last Open Field Village.
London: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Laxton, late 17th-early 18th century. Pp.83-89 on house size, furnishings, wealth; pp.103-107 on farming, tools, field holdings.]

BECKER, Lucinda
Death and the Early Modern Englishwoman.
Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2003.
[Discussion on pp. 33-34 "based upon a study of over 400 [published] wills" from the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-1626 (a plague year) and Archdeacon Sudbury 1636-1638 ; women as executices; woman as testators; See chapter 7: "Female Identity in Death: Wills and Posthumous Marital Status."]

BECKERMAN, J.S.
"Succession in Normandy, 1087, and in England, 1066: The role of testamentary custom."
Speculum 47 (April 1972) 258-260.
[Political wills and succession, legal and customary considerations among royalty and nobility. 1066, 1087.]

BEECHENO, F.R.
"The Sucklings House at Norwich."
Norfolk Archaeology 20 (1921) 158-177.
[P.I. printed. Norwich, 1589. Burgher (Robert Suckling).]

BEESON, C.F.C.
"Edgecote House in 1585."
Cake and Cockhorse 3 (1965) 19 ff.
[P.I. printed used. Banbury, 1585. Gentry.]

BEETHAM FISHER, Anita Loy
"The Merchants of Medieval Bristol, 1350-1500."
Ph.D. diss., University of Oregon, 1987.
[Wills used in prosopographical study: political control, piety, property.]

BEIER, A.L.
"The Social Problems of an Elizabethan Country Town: Warwick, 1580-1590."
In Country Towns in Pre-Industrial England, ed by Peter Clark, New York: St. Martins Press, 1981.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Warwick, 1580-1590. Townspeople, occupations, property values, charity.]

BELCHER, B.
"Extract from the Will of Sir William Wetherden, Vicar of Bodiam, A.D. 1513."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 38 (1892) 196-197.
[Will extracted from. Bodiam, 1513. Clergy.]

BELL, Patricia, ed.
Bedfordshire Wills, 1480-1519.
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, #45 (1966).
[Wills, 194 printed from registers of the court of the archdeacon. Bedfordshire, 1480-1519.]

BELLEWES, G.O.
"The Last Savages of Bobbing."
Archaeologia Cantiana 29 (1911) 164-168.
[Wills, 4 abstracted. Family, 1375-1436. 3 widows and a knight.]

BÉMONT, Charles
Simon de Montfort.
Trans. E.F. Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930.
[Will printed. 1259. Nobility.]

"Testament de Simon de Montfort, Comte de Leicester."
Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 38 (1877) 333-337.
[Will printed, French text. 1259. Nobility.]

BENES, Peter                                                                               COLONIAL
"Additional Light on Wooden Grave Markers."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 111 (1975) 53-64.
[Wills and probate accounts used anecdotally. Massachusetts, 1675-c.1700. Mention of wooden grave markers.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Sleeping Arrangements in Early Massachusetts: The Newbury household of Henry Lunt, Hatter."
 In his Early American Probate Inventories, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1987; 140-152.
[P.I. printed, discussed. Newbury, 1709. Hatter.]

BENES, Peter and Jane M.
"Introduction: Unlocking the Semantic and Quantitative Doors."
In his Early Amercan Probate Inventories, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Porceedings for 1987; 5-16.
[Value and problems of using P.I.s in folklife studies; introduces articles by Candee, Hawley, Main, Sweeney, Trautman, Trent, and others.]

BENNETT, Elizabeth
"Debt and Credit in the Urban Economy: London, 1380-1460."
Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1989.
[Wills used as evidence of credit restrictions that widened gap between rich and poor.]

BENNETT, H.S.
"Notes on English Book-prices, 1480-1560."
The Library 5 (1950/1) 172-178.
[P.I. used. 1545. Merchant.]

BENNETT, J.H.E.
"Alexander Standish, Clerk."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 13 (1918) 81-81.
[Will abstracted. 1538. Clergy.]

"Kendrick Williams of Chester, Ironmonger."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 47.
[Will printed. Chester, 1664. Ironmonger.]

"Will of Hugh Robinson alias Chamber of Chester, 1535."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 9.
[Will printed. Chester, 1535.]

"The Will of James Goodacre, 1525."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 67.
[Will printed. Woodchurch, 1525.]

"Will of John Bars, 1348."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 52.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1348.]

"Will of John Norris, Gentleman, 1499."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 22 (1927) 62.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1499. Gentleman.]

"Will of Nicholas Deykyn of Chester, 1518.]
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1919) 8-9.
[Will abstracted with nice intro. Chester, 1518. Feltcapper.]

"Will of Nicholas Spencer of Northwich, 1510."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 15 (1920) 11.
[Will abstracted. Northwich, 1510.]

"Will of Rafe Huxley, 1514."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 39.
[Will abstracted. Tatenhall, 1514.]

"Will of William Danald, of Chester, 1526."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 71.
[Will printed. Chester, 1526.]

"Will of William Ketell, 1361."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 44.
[Will printed in modern English. Bunbury, 1361.]

BENNETT, Josephine
"John Morer's Will: Thomas Linacre and Prior Sellyng's Greek teaching."
Studies in the Renaissance 15 (1968) 70-91.
[Will printed, discussed. Tenterdon, 1489. Clergy, humanist.]

BENNETT, N.H.
The Register of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln, 1420-1431. vol.1.
Canterbury and York Society vol.73 (1984).
[Wills, 10 printed (see index). Lincoln diocese, 1419-20.]

BENSON, John
"Down Family."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 20 (1938-9) 283-285.
[Will abstracted. Instowe, 1631. Clergy.]

"Isobella Daumarle."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 21 (1941) 306.
[Will discussed. Relationships and genealogical matters in her 1407 will.]

BENTLEY, Gerald Eades
"`The Grateful Dead': Actors' testamentary bequests to women, 1580-1651."
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 135 (1991) 382-387.
[Wills studied. 1580-1651. Status of women in actors' wills.]

The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 7 volumes.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1941-68.
[Wills, 18 printed or abstracted. 1617-1651. Actors, managers, etc.]

BENTLEY, John
Elizabethan Ingleton: A Syudy Based on Elizabethan Probate Records.
Ingleton: Ingleton Publications, 1990.
[68 PIs examined; prints examples of 1570 and 1588; Will of a curate of 1583 printed with facsimile; 1573 facsimile of will transcribed. North Yorkshire; wioth glossary]

BENTON, G. Montagu
"Essex Wills at Canterbury."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 21 (1934) 234-269.
[Wills, 37 printed. Essex, 1293-1559 (most 1497-1503).]

"Fingringhoe Wills, A.D. 1400-1550."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s.20 (1933) 51-72.
[Wills, 45 analyzed from both originals and register abstracts. Fingringhoe, 1400-1550.]

"Will of John Belyham, of Stratford St. Mary, 1500."
East Anglian Miscellany  (1937) 22, 25-26.
[Will abstracted, 1500.]

BENTON, George M.
"Great Bromley Wills."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s.23 (1942) 170-173.
[Wills, 16 abstracted. Great Bromley, 1514-1550.]

"Layer-de-Haye Wills."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s.21 (1937) 335-337.
[Wills, 15 abstracted. Layer-de Haye, 1500-1549.]

"Will of William More, Bishop of Colchester, 1540."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s.23 (1945) 354-356.
[Will, "full abstract." Colchester, 1540. Clergy.]

BERGER, R.M.
"The Development of the Retail Trade in Provincial England, 1550-1700."
Journal of Economic History 40 (1980) 123-128.
[P.I.s, 235 studied. Norwich, Coventry, Kent. Retail merchants, material culture, economic history.]

BERLATSKY, Joel
"Marriage and Family in a Tudor Elite: Familial patterns of Elizabethan bishops."
Journal of Family History 3 (1978) 6-22.
[Wills, 51 studied. 1558-1603. Clergy, familial and charity bequests.]

BERRY, Henry F.                                                                         IRELAND
Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin in the Time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton, 1457-1483.
Dublin: University Press, 1898.
[Wills and P.I.s registered on pp. 1-171. Latin with English translations.]

BESTALL, J.M. and D.V.
Chesterfield Wills and Inventories 1521-1603.
Derbyshire Record Society, #1 (1977).
[P.I.s, 230 printed, most with wills (abstracted); glossary. Chesterfield, 1521-1603.

BESTALL, John
"Group Projects in Local History - probate inventories of Chesterfield 1521-1700."
Bulletin of Local History East Midlands 8 (1973) 13-18.
[P.I.s discussed as sources; methodological. Chesterfield, 1521-1700.]

BETTEY, J.H. and WILDE, D.S.
"The Probate Inventories of Dorset Farmers, 1573-1670."
Local Historian 12 (1977) 228-234.
[P.I.s, 784 analyzed. Dorset, 1573-1670. Farmers, crop diversity and valuation, household furnishings, wealth, mobility.]

"Using a Computer for a Local History."
Local Historian 11 (1974) 129-133.
[P.I.s, methodology discussed with reference to Dorset farmers' P.I.s (1573-1670). See Bettey, 1977.]

BEWDLEY HISTORICAL RESEARCH GROUP
Bewdley in Its Golden Age: Vol. 1: Life in Bewdley, 1660-1760. .
Bewdley: Bewdley Historical Research Group, 1991.

Bewdley in Its Golden Age: Vol. 2: Trades and Industries, 1660-1760. .
Bewdley: Bewdley Historical Research Group, 1999.
["Principal sources used are probate wils and inventories, borough accounts, Gloucester Port books and local newspapers." See Angela Purcell's chapter, "Will and Inventories" in Vol. 1. A total of 481 wills and 565 PIs used, and a "selection" printed.]

BIGOD, R.                                                    WALES
"Household and Personal Possessions in the Radnorshire Wills of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Transactions of the Radnorshire Society 51 (1981) 16-28.
[Wills. Radnorshire, 16th, 17th, 18th centuries. Changes in material culture, economic history. Houses adn possessions; examples taken from wills printed earlier in the Transactions.]

BINGHAM, C.W.
"Inventory of the Household and Personal Effects, Farmstock, etc. of Robert Bingham of Bingham's Melcombe, Dorset: A.D.1561."  Archaeological Journal 17 (1860) 151-157.
[P.I. printed; room by room with valuations and notes. Bingham's Melcombe, 1561. Gentry.]

BIRCH, Walter de Gray
Liber vitae: Register and martyrology of New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchester.
Hampshire Record Society, 1892.
[Wills of Alfred the Great (w/trans.), bishop Aelfsige (958), extracts from King Eadred's.]

"Notes on the Will of King John."
British Archaeological Journal 43 (1887) 335-339.
[Will printed in shortened Latin text with trans., provisions discussed. Royalty, King John, 1217.]

BISHOP, G.L.
Wills from Cirencester and District, 1541-1548.
Circencester: by author, 1987.
[42 wills printed, most with facsimilies. Glossary. In 1541 Gloucester became a diocesan see; in 1547 all chantries were closed.]

BLACK, William H.
"The Discovery of the Will of Hans Holbein."
Archaeologia 39 (1863) 1-18, 272-276.
[Will (his?) printed and discussed. London, 1543. Painter.]

BLACKER, Beaver H.
"Will of John Wytloff, of Lodyswill, 1404."
Gloucester Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 403-404.
[Will printed, Englished. Lodyswill, 1404. Clergy.]

BLAIR, W.J.
"The Will of Robert Russell, Vicar of Leatherhead."
Proceedings of the Leatherhead and District Local History Society 3 (1974) 244-245.

BLAKE, Martin J.                                                                        IRELAND
"Will of Geoffrey French of Galway, 1528."
Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 4 (1904-5) 226-230.

BLOOM, J. Harvey
"Charters from St. Swithun's, Worcester."
In Collectanea, S.G. Hamilton, ed., Worcestershire Historical Society, 1912; 1-69.
[Wills, 5 printed with other abstracts. St. Swithun's, 1361-1442.]

Wayman Wills and Administrations Preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1821.
London: Wallace Gandy, 1922.
[Wills printed, 75 prior to 1750; early ones abstracted. Wayman family, 1383-1821.]

BLUNDELL, J.H.
"Inventory of Toddington Manor House, 1644."
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 11 (1927) 129-136.
[Inv. printed; goods and property sequestered during the war.]

BOCKETT, Julia
"Collection of Wills of Persons Resident in Surrey between the Years 1497 and 1522."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 1 (1858) 180-189.
[Wills, 6 printed. Surrey, 1497-1522.]

BODFISH, Mary
Probate Inventories of Smethwick Residents 1647-1747 in the Lichfield Joint Record Office and Public Record Office. Smethwick: Local Historical Society, 1992.
[P.I.s, 17 pre-1700 printed. Smethwick, 1647-1700. Illustrations and glossary.]

BOLINGBROKE, Leonard G.
"Two Elizabethan Inventories."
Norfolk Archaeology 15 (1904) 91-108.
[P.I.s printed. Norfolk. Noble, 1588; pauper, 1513.]

BOLTON and District Family History Society
Bolton Wills and Inventories, 1545 to 1600. I. "A" to "M".
Self published, 1987.

BOND, Shelagh M.
"Two 17th Century Inventories."
Society of Friends, St. George's ... Report (1960) 16-21.
[P.I.s printed. Windsor, 1677, 1679. Knight and dean.]

BONFIELD, Lloyd
"Normative Rules and Property Transmission: Reflections on the link between marriage and inheritance in early modern England." In his The World We Have Gained: Histories of population and social structure, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1986; 155-176.
[Wills considered narrow base for studies of inheritance, suggests attention to inter vivos settlements.]

BOUWENS, Bethell Godefroy
Wills and Their Whereabouts.
London: Lund, Humphries, 1939 and1950.
[Introduction to courts and procedures, storage of probate records, repositories. See Anthony Camp for newer editions.]

BORSAY, Peter
"The English Urban Renaissance: the development of provincial culture c. 1680-1760."
Social History 2 (1977) 581-603.
[P.I.s of providers (grocer, gunsmith) used scantily. 1680-1760. Material culture.]

BOUCHER, R.
"Houghton-Selfe."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 416-417.
[Wills, 2 extracted from. Bradford, 1681, clothier; 1682, his widow.]

BOWER, Jacqueline
"The Kent Yeoman in the Seventeenth Century."
Archaeologia Cantiana 114 (1994) ??????????

"Probate Accounts as a Source for Kentish Early Modern Economic and Social History."
Archaeologia Cantiana 109 (1991) 51-62.
[Probate accounts as sources with samples illustrating the type of information available. Methodology.]

BOWKER, Margaret
The Henrician Reformation: The Diocese of Lincoln under John Longland, 1521-1547.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
[Wills, 150 studied as evidence of support for church (pp.47- 49), religiosity (175-180). Lincoln Diocese, 1521-1547.]

BOWLES, C.E.B.
"The Wills of Henry Bradshaw, of Bradshaw, Co. Derby, 1521."
Reliquary n.s. 4 (1890) 106-108.
[Will printed in original, largely phonetic spelling. Bradshaw, 1521. Gentry.]

BOYNTON, Lindsay
"Benjamin Jackson's Will and Inventory, 1719."
Furniture History 26 (1990) 20-26.
[P.I. printed, will discussed. Mason and contractor, 1719.]

BOYNTON, Lindsay and THORNTON, Peter
"The Hardwick Hall Inventory of 1601."
Furniture History 7 (1971) 1-40.
[P.I. printed (attached to Countess of Shrewsbury's will), with glossary. Hardwick Hall, 1601. Nobility.]

BRABROOK, E.W.
"Will of Nicholas Braybrook, canon of Exeter. A.D. 1399-1400."
Archaeological Journal 31 (1874) 181-185.
[Will introduced and printed. Exeter, 1399/1400. Clergy.]

BRACKEN, Charles W.
"The Will of Justinian Peard, Mayor of Plymouth, 1644-5, 1656-7."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 22 (1942) 10-16.
[Will printed. Plymouth. Burgher.]

BRADFER-LAWRENCE, H.L.
"Stiffkey alias Stewkey."
 Norfolk Archaeology 23 (1929) 307-340.
[P.I. of Sir Roger Townshend (1636) printed.]

BRADFIELD, Hazel
"Tracking Down Puritans."
Local Historian 16 (1984) 213-216.
[Wills, 108 used. London, 1620-1629. Preambles as evidence of religious affiliation.]

BRADFORD, Charles A.
"St. Sepulchrei, Holborn; fresh facts from wills."
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society n.s. 8 (1940) 169-194.
[Wills used as source for church's history. Holborn. Bequests, burials, commemorations.]

BRADLEY, Frederick
"Original Documents."
The Reliquary 2 (1861-2) 161-162.
[P.I. printed. Little Sheffield, 1649. Farmer.]

BRAGDON, Kathleen                                                                 COLONIAL
"Probate Records as a Source for Algonquian Ethnohistory."
In Papers of the Tenth Algonquian Conference, Ottowa: Carleton University, 1979; 136-141.
[The probate records of Indians discussed, 1730-1770. Methodological discussion with overview of contents.]

BRAITHWAITE, Alfred W.
"The Mystery of Swarthmoor Hall."
Friends' Historical Society Journal 51 (1965) 22-29.
[Will used (George Fell, 1658) to determine disposal of the property.]

BRAND, John
"An Inventory and Appraisement of the Plate in the Lower Jewel House of the Tower, Anno 1649."
Archaeologia 15 (1806) 271- 290.
[P.I. extracted from. London, 1649. Treasure and silver of Charles I, with regalia from Westminster. Royalty.]

BRAND, Paul A.
"The Control of Mortmain Alienation in England, 1200-1300."
In Legal Records and the Historian, J.H. Baker, ed., London: Royal Historical Society, 1978; 29-40.
[Testamentary law discussed. 1200-1300.]

BRANDON, Peter and SHORT, Brian
The South East from A.D. 1000.
New York: Longman, 1990.
[Wills and P.I.s used. See esp. Chapter 4, "The South East in Transition, 1520-1660;" Chapter 6, "Innovation and Stress, 1660-1837," based in part on original study of 800 P.I.s re: agricultural practices.]

BRAY, William
"An Account of the Revenue, the Expences, the Jewels, etc. of Prince Henry."
Archaeologia 15 (1806) 13-26.
[P.I. extracted from. Jewels, precious stones, swords, etc. of Prince Henry, 1612. Royalty.]

BREARS, Peter C.D.
Yorkshire Probate Inventories, 1542-1689.
Yorkshire Record Series #134, 1972.
[P.I.s, 44 printed with glossary. Yorkshire, 1542-1689.]

BRENT, C.E.
"Rural Employment and Population in Sussex between 1550 and 1640."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 114 (9176) 27-48, 116 (1978) 41-55.
[P.I.s used as evidence for occupations, farming, farm size and output. Sussex, 1550-1640.]

BRIDGES, Glenys
"Where There's a Will..."
Carmarthenshire Antiquary  37 (2001) 41-45.
[Discusses bequest to Queens College, Cambridge, in a Welsh will of 1690 (David Edwards). Discusses wealth of this landowner.]

BRIGDEN, Susan
"Religion and Social Obligation in Early Sixteenth-century London."
Past and Present #103 (1984) 67-112.
[Wills used. London, 16th century. Bequests studied in larger context of charity and social aid activity.]

BRIGG, Mary
"The Forest of Pendle in the Seventeenth Century, [Parts One and Two]."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 113 (1961) 65-96, 115 (1963) 65-90.
[Wills (103) and P.I.s (123) used. Forest of Pendle, 17th century. Material culture, wealth.]

BRIGG, William
Genealogical Abstracts of Wills. Register "Wooton" 1658. 2 vols.
Leeds: J. Laycock and Sons, 1894, 1906.
[Wills (PCC), complete register: 610 in vol 1, 721 in vol.2. Canterbury, 1658.]

"Testamenta Leodiensia."
Miscellanea, 2 vols. Thoresby Society Publications, 1891, 1895; I: 98-111, 205-214; II: 1-16, 139-147.
[Wills, 55 printed. Leeds, 15th to early 16th centuries. Continued by G.D.Lumb.]

BRIGGS, Charles Fairbanks
"The English Manuscripts of Giles of Rome's "The Regimine principum" and their audience, 1300-1500."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1993.
[Wills and P.I.s. 1300-1500. Ownership of manuscripts.]

BRIGSTOCKE, F.T.                                                             WALES
"A Carmarthen Will, 1587."
The Carmarthen Antiquary 3 (1959-61) 31-32.
[Abstract of mayor's will printed, 1587. No discussion.]

BRIGSTOCKE, G.B.                                                            WALES
"Will of John Blome."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club 11 (1916-17) 87.
[Will of merchant printed, 1643.]

BRIGSTOCKE, T.E.                                                             WALES
"St. Barbara's Chapel, Carmarthen."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club I (1905) 13.
[Will abstract of Edward Myddleton, alderman, 1587.]

BRINKWORTH, E.R.
"The Study and Use of Archdeacons' Court Records: Illustrated from the Oxford Records, 1566-1759."
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society  4th ser. 25 (1943) ????????

BRINKWORTH, E.R.C.
"The Inventory of Thomas Brasbridge 1594."
Cake and Cockhorse 2 (1962-5) 5:71-75.]
[P.I. printed. Banbury, 1594. "Clerk".]

BRINKWORTH, E.R.C. and GIBSON, J.S.W.
Banbury Wills and Inventories. 2 vols.
Banbury: Banbury Historical Society, 1976, 1985.
[Wills and P.I.s printed and abstracted. Banbury, 1591-1650. Studies documents, testators, families, material conditions.]

BRITNELL, Bob
"The Britnells/Bricknells of Chinnor: Where there's a will..."
Oxfordshire Family Historian 19 (2005) 22-24.
[Anecdotal articles on the use of wills in study of family history. Bennett Britnell will [1634] outlined and explained]

BROADWAY, Jan
"The Probate Inventory of Phillip Greene, a Restoration Brickmaker in Gloucestershire, 1685."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society  121 (2003) 233-241.
[Prints PI with intro.]

BRODHURST, F.
"The Will of George Talbot, Fourth Earl of Shrewsbury, A.D. 1468-1538."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 31 (1909) 73-88.
[Will printed. 1537. Nobility.]

"The Will of Sir John Cavendish, 1381, with Causes Which Led to His Death."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 33 (1911) 59-70.
[Will printed (Latin w/trans.). Bury St. Edmunds, 1381. Chief Justice; Chancellor of Cambridge University.]

BROOKS, C.W.
Pettyfoggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The `lower branch' of the legal profession in early modern England.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
[Wills and P.I.s; minor anecdotal use as evidence of apprenticeship, wealth of attorneys. 1500-1700. Legal profession.]

BROOKS, F.W.
"The Social Position of the Parson in the Sixteenth Century."
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 3rd ser. 10 (1945-7) 23-37.
[P.I.s used as main source of data on wealth. Lincoln Diocese, 16th century. Clergy, social history.]

BROWN, Andrew D.
Popular Piety in Late Medieval England: The Diocese of Salisbury, 1250-1550.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
[Wills, 1,600 studied. Salisbury diocese, 1270-1547. Results of study used anecdotally: charity patterns, religious association, etc.; see pp. 21-5 on use of wills.]

BROWN, Frederick
Abstracts from Somersetshire Wills, etc..
Privately printed, 1887.
[Wills, perhaps 3000 abstracted. No apparent logic to ordering, no discussion of material; names sometimes grouped. Somersetshire.]

BROWN, Marley R., III                                                        COLONIAL
"`Among weighty friends': The archaeology and social history of the Jacob Mott Family, Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1640-1800." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1987.
[P.I.s used in exploring property and inheritance.]

                                                                                                COLONIAL
"Ceramics from Plymouth, 1621-1800: The documentary record."
In Ceramics in America, ed. by Ian Quimby, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia for the Winterthur Museum, 1973; 41-74.
[P.I.s, 340 studied. Plymouth, 1621-1800. Household delftware and porcelaine.]

BROWN, William
No title.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquarians of Newcastle-upon Tyne 3rd ser. 3 (1909) 171-178.
[Wills, 10 printed. From the York registry, 1601-1625.]

"Holderness Wills."
Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society 10 (1903) 1-18; 11 (1904) 1-18.
[Wills, 30 Latin texts. Holderness, 14th-16th centuries.]

"Old Wills from Harpham."
Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society 21 (1915) 70-79.
[Wills, 6 printed: 5 St. Quintin family 1257-1503, other from 1563.]

BROWNE, A.L.
"Richard Pates, M.P. for Gloucester."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 56 (1934) 201-225.
[Wills, 2 printed. Gloucester, 1588, 1597. Burgher.]

"Wills of the Buckinghamshire Clergy in the Sixteenth Century."
Records of Buckinghamshire 13 (1939-40) 195-204.
[Wills, 4 extracted from. Buckinghamshire, 1520, 1522 (2), 1528. Clergy.]

BROWNE, R.H.
"Inventories of Goods."
The Essex Review 16 (1907) 204-207.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Essex, 1617, 1620. Cheesemakers.]

BRUCE, John
"Observations on a Lease of Two Houses in the Piazza, Covent Garden, Granted to Sir Edmund Verney, A.D. 1634."
Archaeologia 35 (1853) 194-201.
[Inv. of houses printed. London, 1634. Noble's rental property.]

BRUSHFIELD, T.N.
"The Copy of the Will of George Ralegh."
Devon Notes and Queries 1 (1900-1) 202-204.
[Will discussed (see also R. Upham article). 1595. Stepbrother of Sir Walter.]

"Inventory of the Goods of Henery Hampshire of Honiton, 1690."
Devon Notes and Queries 2 (1902-3) 242-246; 9 (1916-17) 151-152 (corrections to the original by H. Tapley Soper).
[P.I. printed. Honiton, 1690. Tobacco manufacturer.]

BRYANT, Clifton D., and SNIZEK, William A.
"The Last Will and Testament: A neglected document in sociological research."
Sociology and Social Research 59 (1975) 219-230.
[Wills as sources in sociological research; methodological.]

BRYANT, Roger, et. al
Wills and Inventories of New Mills People. 3 vols.
Stockport: New Mills Local History Society, 1995.
[I: 1540-1571; II: 1571-1582; III: 1586-1607. 108 documents printed with glossary and short intro.]

BUCHANAN-DUNLOP, W.R.
"The Testament of William Bell, alias Belne, 1587."
Worcestershire Archaeological Society Transactions 26 (1950) 20-31.
[Will, quoted from in text. Worcester, 1587. Catholic.]

BULLEN, R.F.
"Suffolk Wills 1500-1501."
East Anglian Miscellany (1943) 4-12.

BULTER, G. Slade
"Notes on Rye and its Inhabitants."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 17 (1865) 123-136.
[Wills, 3 discused and extracted from. Rye, 1497, 1510 (2).]

BULWER, James
"An Inventory and Valuation of the Goods and Chattels of Charles Wyndham, of Stokesby, Esq., In the Year 1688."
Norfolk Archaeology 5 (1859) 331-340.
[P.I. printed. Stokesby, 1688. Gentleman.]

BUMSTEAD, K.M.
"Wills and Inventories in the Bedale Area of North Yorkshire."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 57 (1985) 163-176.
[Wills (28) and P.I.s (214) analyzed. Bedale, 1539-1720.]

BURGESS, Clive
"Benefactions of Mortality: The Lay response in the late medieval urban parish."
In Studies in Clergy and Ministry, ed. by D.M. Smith. York: University of York. Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 1991; 65-86.

"'By quick and by dead': Wills and pious provisions in late medieval Bristol."
English Historical Review 102:405 (1987) 837-858.
[Wills, 400 studied. Bristol, 15th century. Townspeople, religious responses.]

"'For the increase of Divine Service': Chantries in the parish in late medieval Bristol."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 36 (1985) 46-65.
[Wills, 300 studied. Bristol, 15th century. Townspeople, religious history, foundations, motives, gifts.]

"Late Medieval Wills and Pious Convention: Testamentary evidence reconstructed."
In Profit, Piety and the Professions in Late Medieval England, M.A. Hicks ed., London: Stroud, 1990; 14-33.
[Wills, 350 studied. Bristol, 15th century. Methodological, caution argued in using wills as evidence for piety.]

"A Service for the Dead: The form and function of the anniversary in late medieval Bristol."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeology Society 105 (1987) 183-211.
[Wills used as source for information on anniversary ceremonies. Bristol, 15th century. Religious history.]

"Strategies for Eternity: Perpetual chantry foundations in late medieval Bristol."
In Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medeval England, ed. by Christopher Harper-Bill. D.S. Brewer, 1991; 151-196.

BURGESS, Clive, and KÜMIN, Beat
"Penitential Bequests and Parish Regimes in Late Medieval England."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44 (1993) 610-630.
[Wills studied. London and Bristol, mid-15th-mid-16th century. Reliance of churchwardens on income from pious bequests.]

BURKE, Arthur M.
Indexes to the Ancient Testamentary Records of Westminster.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1913.
[Wills indexed. Westminster, 1200-1700, most post-1485.]

BURNARD, Trevor                                                                      COLONIAL
"Inheritance and Independence: Women's status in early colonial Jamaica."
The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 48 (1991) 93-114.
[Wills, 183 studied. St. Andrew's Parish, 1667-1734. Women's status and wives' roles in men's wills.]

BURRAGE, Champlin
"Will of Ann Robinson, Mother of John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers."
In his The Early English Dissenters in the Light of Recent Research, 2 vols, New York: Russell and Russell, 1912; I: 376-377.
[Will printed. 1616. Widow.]

BURSON, Malcolm C.
"'...for the sake of my soul': The activities of a medieval executor."
Archives 13/14 (1978) 131-136.
[Wills and their administration discussed. Exeter, 15th century. Canon Thomas Barton, bishop's executor.]

BURTON, Don, et al.
Winteringham 1650-1760: Life and Work in a North Lincolnshire Village, Illustrated by Probate Inventories.
Winteringham: Winteringham WEA Branch, 1984.
[PIs, 109 transcribed, discussed in chapter II, used throughout. Glossary.]

BURTT, Joseph
"Inventories of Certain Valuable Effects of King Henry the Eighth, in the Palace of Westminster, AD 1542."
Archaeological Journal 18 (1869) 134-145.
[Inv. printed. Westminster, 1542. Henry VIII.]

"Will of Richard de Elham, Canon of the Church of St. Martin Le Grand, London; dated June 28 1228."
Archaeological Journal 24 (1867) 340-344.
[Will printed (Latin). London, 1228. Clergy.]

BURTT, Joseph, et al.
"Original Documents: Will of Sir John Stanley, of Honford, Cheshire, dated 20 June, AD 1527."
Archaeological Journal 25 (1868) 72-84.
[Will printed and abstracted. Honford, 1527. Gentry.]

BURTT, Ruth G.
"An Inventory of Household Goods, 1696."
Friends' Historical Society Journal 37 (1941) 38-39.
[P.I. printed. Circencester, 1696. Maltster.]

BUTLER, Jon                                                                                COLONIAL
"Thomas Teackle's 333 Books: A great library on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1697."
William and Mary Quarterly 49 (1992) 449-491.
[P.I. booklist printed. Accomack Co., 1697. Clergy.]

C.I.S
"Inventory of Pastor Yong's Estate."
East Anglian Miscellany (1938) 2.
PI with administration printed. Southold, N. Yorkshire. Clergy, 1675.

CAMP, Anthony J.
"The Genealogist's Use of Probate Records."
In The Records of the Nation, G.H. Martin and Peter Spufford eds., Woodbridge, N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1990; 287-298.
[Discussion of wills as sources.]

Wills and Their Whereabouts. 4th edition.
London: n.p., 1974; earlier 1963 edition, Canterbury: Phillimore.
[Guide to major collections of wills in Britain by region; includes Ireland and the Channel Islands.]

CAMPBELL, A. M.
The Black Death and Men of Learning.
New York: ??????????, 1931.
[Wills discussed on pp. 171-174; c. 1350. Scholars and intellectuals.]

CAMPBELL, B.M.S., and Mark OVERTON
"A New Perspective on Medieval and Early Modern Agriculture: Six Centuries of Norfolk Farming, c. 1250-c.1850."
Past and Present 141 (1993) ???????????

CAMPBELL-KEASE, John
A Companion to Local History Research.
London: A and C Black, 1989.
[Wills and P.I.s as sources limited discussion; see index.]

CANDEE, Richard M.                                                                  COLONIAL
"A Documentary History of Plymouth Colony Architecture, 1620-1700."
Old-Time New England 59 (1969) 59-71, 105-111; 60 (1960) 37-53.
[P.I.s, 32 used anecdotally. Plymouth colony, Northern Rhode Island, 1633-1685. Architecture and furnishing.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"First-period Architecture in Maine and New Hampshire: The evidence of probate inventories."
In Early American Probate Inventories, ed. by Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1987; 97-120.
[P.I.s, 67 used. Piscataqua region, 1630-1720. House types related to English models.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Wooden Building in Early Maine and New Hampshire: A technological and cultural history."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1976.
[P.I.s used as sources on wooden structures.]

CAPP, Bernard
"Will Formularies."
Local Population Studies #14 (1975) 49-50.
[Will forms and formulary openings. Methodology.]

CARDWELL, Edward
The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws as Attempted in the Reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: At the University Press, 1850; reprinted by Gregg International Publishers Ltd., 1968.
[Testamentary law. Pp. 135-155: "De testamentis", reprint of Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum (pub. by John Foxe, 1571).]

CARLSON, Eric Jose
"Cassandra Banished? New Research on Religion in Tudor and Early Stuart England."
In his Religion and the English People, 1500-1640 (Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998) 3-22.
Discusses will as source for early modern English social history; intro to his collection of articles.

"The Historical Value of the Ely Consistory Probate Records."
Introductory essay to Index of the Probate Records of the Consistory Court of Ely 1449-1858. Part I. The Index Library #103. London: The British Record Society, 1994; xvii-lix.
[Wills analysed with discussion of literature on using wills. Ely, from 1449. Demographics, bequests.]

Marriage and the English Reformation.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
[Wills, 512 used. Essex, 16th century. Age of daughter's marriage; piety.]

"The Origins, Function and Status of the Office of Churchwarden, with particular reference to the Diocese of Ely."
In The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725, ed. by Margaret Spufford. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; 164-207.
[Wills used. Chilford and Radfield Hundreds, 16th c. Religious affiliation.]

CARLSON, Leland H.
"George Gifford's Will."
In his The Writings of Henry Barrow, 1590-1591, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1966; 382-385.
[Will printed. Mauldon, 1600. Clergy.]

CARNWORTH, Julia
"The Churchwarden's Accounts of Thame, Oxfordshire, c.1443-1524."
In Trade, Devotion and Governance, Dorothy Clayton, Richard Davies and Peter McNiven eds., Dover, N.H.: Alan Stroud, 1994; 177-198.
[Wills' data interspersed when discussing individuals. Thame, 1443-1524.]

CARR, Lois Green                                                                       COLONIAL
"The Development of the Maryland Orphans Court, 1654-1715."
In Law, Society and Politics in Early Maryland, ed. by Aubrey C. Land, L.G. Carr and Edward C. Papenfuse; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977; 41-62.
[Wills discussed tangentially in this study of the development of the court, guardianship and protection of heirs' rights to property.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Diversification in the Colonial Chesapeake: Somerset County, Maryland, in comparative perspective."
In Colonial Chesapeake Society, ed. by Carr, Philip Morgan, and Jean B. Russo, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988; 342-388.
[P.Is studied. Lower Western Shore counties, 1636-1777. Economic production, trade, wealth.]

CARR, Lois Green, and MENARD, Russell R.                         COLONIAL
"Immigration and Opportunity: The freedman in early colonial Maryland."
In The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Society, ed. by Thad W. Tate and David Ammerman, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979; 206-242.
[P.I.s, 1,672 studied. St, Mary's, Calvert, Charles, Prince George's counties, 1658-1705. Wealth, property, white freedmen.]

CARR, Lois Green, and WALSH, Lorena S.                               COLONIAL
"Changing Lifestyles in Colonial St. Mary's County."
Working Papers from The Regional Economic History Research Center 1 (1978) 73-118.
[P.I.s studied. St. Mary's Co., Maryland colony, 1658-1777. Material culture.]

                                                                                                         COLONIAL
"Inventories and the Analysis of Wealth and Consumption Patterns in St. Mary's County, Maryland, 1658-1777."
Historical Methods 13 (1980) 81-104.
[P.I.s, 2,613 analyzed. Maryland colony, 1658-1777. Wealth and material culture.]

                                                                                                         COLONIAL
"The Planter's Wife: The experience of white women in seventeenth-century Maryland."
William and Mary Quarterly 34 (1977) 542-571.
[Will bequests studied, 402 men's and 60 women's. Charles, St, Mary's & Prince Georges counties, 1640-1710. Husbands' bequests to wives.]

                                                                                                      COLONIAL
"The Standard of Living in the Colonial Chesapeake."
William and Mary Quarterly 45 (1988) 135-159.
[P.I.s studied. Southern Western shore of Maryland, York Co., Va; 1658-1777. Material wealth, consumer goods. See also pp. 160-170 for commentary.]

CARRIGAN, Canon William                                                        IRELAND
"Catholic Episcopal Wills in the Public Record Office, Dublin, 1683-1812."
Archivium Hibernicum 1 (1912) 148-200; 2 (1913) 220-241; 3 (1914) 160-202; 4 (1915) 66-95.
[Wills, 52 printed. 1683-1812. Bishops.]

The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory. 4 vols.      IRELAND
Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker, 1905.
[Wills, several printed, scattered, unindexed. Most later 17th century.]

CARRINGTON, W.A.
"Will of Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeology and Natural History Society 18 (1896) 81-93.
[Will printed. Haddon, 1514. Gentry.]

CARTER, Mary
"Town or Urban Society? St. Ives in Huntingdonshire, 1630- 1740."
In Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 15800-1850. Cultural Provinces and English Local History, Charles Phythian-Adams ed., Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993; 77-130.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally. St. Ives, 1640-9, 1680-9, 1720-9. Agricultural economic history.]

CARTERET, Marguerite
"The Will of Marguerite de Carteret (1704)."
Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise (1934) 319-320.

CARTHEW, G.A.
"Extracts form the Will of Martin Hastings, 1574."
Norfolk Archaeology 6 (1864) 193-199.
[Will extracted from. Hindringham, 1574. Gentry.]

CARTWRIGHT, J.J.
"Inventory of the Goods of Sir Cotton Gargrave of Nostell, Yorks., in 1588."
Yorkshire Archaeology and Topographical Journal 11 (1891) 279-286.
[P.I. printed. Nostell, 1588. Gentry.]

CASH, Margaret
Devon Inventories of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Devon and Cornwall Record Society, n.s.#11, 1966.
[P.I.s, 266 printed. Devon, 16th,17th centuries. Useful introduction and glossary.]

CASLEY, Henry C.
"The Position in Life of Wolsey's Parents."
The East Anglian n.s. 2 (1887-8) 21-23, 33-36.
[Wills, 2 printed. Norwich, 1496. Wolsey family.]

CAVANAUGH, Susan H.
Books Privately Owned in England: 1300-1450.
Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S. Brewer, 1988.
[P.I.s and wills used. 1300-1450. Books. Published version of her dissertation]

"A Study of Books Privately Owned in England: 1300-1450."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1980.
Wills, "8,000 or so" studied", also PIs. Short intro then wills and PIs with booklists in originals indexed.

CERASANO, S.P.
"New Renaissance Players' Wills."
Modern Philology 82 (1985) 299-304.
[Wills printed. 1623 (2), 1641, 1659. Actors.]

CHACE, Paul G.                                                                           COLONIAL
"Traditional Patterning of Earthenware Entries and the Form of the Probate Inventory in Seventeenth-century Plymouth Colony."  In Domestic Pottery of the Northeastern United States, 1625- 1850, ed. by Sarah P. Turnbaugh, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985; 49-65.
[P.I.s, 56 studied. Plymouth colony, 1631-1675. Argues that ordering in the P.I.s of objects indicates their implicit valuation.]

CHALKLIN, C.W.
"The Rural Economy of a Kentish Wealden Parish, 1650-1750."
Agricultural History Review 10 (1962) 29-45.
[P.I.s, 26 studied. Kent, 1687-1733. Farmers, crops, animals.]

Seventeenth-century Kent.
London: Longmans Green and Co., Ltd, 1965.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally in discussion of land inheritance customs, material culture. Kent, 17th century.]

"A Seventeenth-century Market Town: Tonbridge."
In Essays in Kentish History, M. Roake and J Whyman eds., London: Cass, 89-99.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Tonbridge. Material culture.]

CHAMBERS, J.D.
The Vale of Trent 1670-1800: A Regional Study of Economic Change.
Economic Hisitory Review Supplement #3.

CHANDLER, Helen
"The Will in Medieval Wales to 1540."
M.A. Thesis, University of Wales, 1991.

CHARLTON, Edward
"Abstract of Will of Christopher Milborne."
Archaeologia Aeliana 6 (1865) 232.
[Will printed (no notes). Overlinackers, 1646. Farmer?]

CHARTRES, John and HEY, David
English Rural Society 1500-1800: Essays in honour of Joan Thirsk.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[Contains four articles (Spufford, Prior, Todd, Thick) that use probate materials.]

CHAYTOR, M.
"Household and Kinship: Ryton in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."
History Workshop Journal 10 (1980) 25-60.
[P.I.s used with other evidence in reconstituting old family history. Ryton, 1550-1650. Methodology, genealogy.]

CHEETHAM, F.H.
"Two Inventories at Scarisbrick Hall, Ormskirk, 1608 and 1673."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 89 (1937) 123-138.
[P.I.s, one printed in full (1673) and one extracted from (1608). Gentry.]

CHENEY, Christopher R.
English Bishops' Chanceries, 1100-1250.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1950.
[Introduction to institutions that strongly affected testamentary practice and recording of documents.]

Notaries Public in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
[Wills discussed scantily, but good material on notarial art and training.]

CHERRY, John
"Late Fourteenth-century Jewellery: The inventory of November 1399."
Burlington Magazine 130 (1988) 137-140.
[P.I. jewelry list printed. 1399, English royal house.]

CHESHER, V.M. and F.J.
The Cornishman's House.
Truro: Barton, 1968.
[P.I.s used extensively and anecdotally, use index. Material culture, housing.]

CHILTON, C.W.
"The Inventory of a Provincial Bookseller's Stock of 1644."
Library 1 (1979) 126-143.
[Inv. booklist analyzed. Hull, 1644. Books.]

CHIPPINDAL, William Harold
History of the Township of Ireby.
Chetham Society n.s. #95, 1935.
[Wills (20 abstracted, 1556-1747) and P.I.s (3: 1626, 1632, 1634) printed. Ireby, 1556-1747. Townspeople and rural folk.]

A History of Whittington.
Chetham Society n.s. #99, 1938.
[Wills, 6 abstracted incl. 1580, 1598, 1716. Whittington. Townspeople.]

CHOPE, R.P.
"Will and Inventory of John Gribble, 1694."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 13 (1924-5) 220-226.
[Will and P.I. printed w/glossary. Stockly English, 1694. Yeoman.]

CHURCH OF ENGLAND, DIOCESE OF LINCOLN
Lincoln Diocese Documents, 1450-1544.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1914; Kraus Reprint, 1971.
[Wills, 37 printed. Lincoln Diocese, 1450-1540.]

CHURCHILL, Irene Josephine
Canterbury Administration: The administrative machinery of the Archbishop of Canterbury illustrated from original records. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1933.
[On probate procedures and recording see Chapter 9, "The Archbishop and his Courts."]

CHURCHES, C.
"Women and Property in Early Modern England: A Case Study."
Social History 23 (1998) ?????????????

CHUTE, C.W.
A History of the Vyne in Hampshire.
London: Marshall and Co., 1888.
[P.I. printed. 1541. See also Chapter VII, "Description of the House," and scattered references to P.I.s as sources.]

CIRKET, Alan F.
"English Wills, 1498-1526."
Bedfordshire Historical Records Society Publications 37 (1957) 1-82 (indexed on pp.169-190).
[Wills, about 200 printed from the Archdeacon of Bedford's earliest surviving register. (See McGregor)]

"CITIZEN"
"Winchester Benefactions."
Hampshire Notes and Queries 1 (1883) 97-110.
[Wills used as sources for gifts to people of Winchester (foundations, schools, churches, the poor). 46 benefactions pre-1700.]

CLARK, Andrew
"An Essex Dairy Farm in 1629."
Essex Review 21 (1920) 156-159.
[P.I. printed. Hutton, 1629. Dairy farming.]

CLARK-MAXWELL, W.G.
"An Inventory of the Contents of Markeaton Hall."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society n.s. 4 (1930) 117-140.
[P.I. printed. Markeaton Hall, 1545. Gentry.]

CLARKE, D.M.
"Probate Records."
The London Recusant 1 (1971) 2-8.
[Wills discussed as sources for studying the recusant community.]

CLARKE, Peter
"The Ownership of Books in England, 1560-1640."
In Schooling and Society, Lawrence Stone ed., Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Univerity Press, 1976; 95-111.
[P.I.s, 2771 studied and statistically analyzed. Canterbury, Faversham, Maidstone, 1560-1640.]

English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution: Religion, politics and society in Kent 1500-1640.
Hassocks, Eng.: The Harvester Press, Ltd., 1977.
[Wills and P.I.s used extensively but anecdotally, e.g. will preambles as evidence af conversion to heresy. Kent, 1500-1640.]

CLARKSON, L.A.
"The Leather Crafts in Tudor and Stuart England."
Agricultural History Review 14 (1966) ?????????????????/

"The Organization of the English Leather Industry in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries."
Economic History Review 2nd ser. 13 (1960) 245-256.
[P.I.s used, extracted from, 55 listed. 1550-1650. Tanners, shoemakers, leatherdressers, glovers.]

CLAY, C.G.A.
Economic Expansion and Social Change: England 1500-1700. 2 vols.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
[Wills and P.I.s used as sources on economic and social conditions. England, 1500-1700.]

CLAY, Christopher
"Marriage, Inheritance and the Rise of Large Estates in England, 1660-1815."
Economic History Review 21 (1968) 503-518.
[Wills used anecdotally as evidence of inheritance patterns. Mostly 18th century.]

CLAY, John W.
Abstracts of Yorkshire Wills in the Time of the Commonwealth...
Yorkshire Archaeological Society #9, 1890,
[Wills, 251 abstracted, from Somerset House collection. Yorkshire, 1649-1659.]

North Country Wills; being abstracts of wills relating to the counties of York, Nottingham, Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland ... 1383-1604. 2 vols. Durham: Andrews et Co., 1908, 1912.
[Wills, abstracts printed of 349 wills, with shorter abstracts of relevant non-residents. 1383-1604.]

Testamenta Eboracensia. A Selection of Wills from the Registry at York. Vol. VI.
Surtees Society Publications #106. Durham: Andrews and Co., 1902.
[Wills, 239 printed. York, 1516-1550.]

CLAY, John W. and CROSSLEY, E.W.
Halifax Wills: Being abstracts and translations of the wills registered at York from the parish of Halifax. 2 vols.
Halifax: n.h., 1904.
[Wills, abstracts printed (all in English): I: 391 dated 1389-1544; II: 293 dated 1545-1559. Halifax.]

CLEAR, A.J.
"Notes on the Four Buckinghamshire Parishes in the Archdeaconry of St. Albans."
Records of Buckinghamshire 12 (1927-33) 24-28.
[Will abstracted and others listed. Greenburgh, 1427.]

CLEIN, Wendy Anne
"`The Lettrure of Armes': Chivalry in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
Ph.D. diss., University of Connecticut, 1985.
[Wills of knights used to show aspects of the reality behind the literary depiction.]

CLERMONT, Thomas Fortescue, Lord
A History of the Family of Fortescue in All Its Branches. 2nd Ed. 3 vols.
London: Ellis and White, 1880.
[Wills, 7 printed (1518-1700); P.I. printed (Bowcomb, Isle of Wight, 1666). See index.]

CLIFFE, J.T.
The Yorkshire Gentry. From the Reformation to the Civil War.
London: Athlone Press, 1969.
[Wills used throughout; see esp. Ch.XII, "The growth of Puritanism." Yorkshire, 1530-1640. Gentry, religious history.]

CLIFTON, Robin
The Last Popular Rebellion: The Western Rising, 1685.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984.
[P.I.s, 490 studied. Somerset, 1681-5. Social groups delineated and defines; see esp. pp. 7-12.]

CLINCH, George
"The Inventory of a Surrey Farmer."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 23 (1910) 77-82.
[Will and P.I. printed. Surrey, 1637. Farmer, material culture.]

CLOUGH, T.H.M. and GREEN, B.
"An Inventory and a Countertable."
Norfolk Archaeology 35 (1971) 268-271.
[P.I. used, rare countertable discussed. 1591. Gentleman.]

COHEN, Sol                                                                                  COLONIAL
Education in the United States: A documentary history. Vol. 1.
New York: Random House, 1974.
[Wills, 3 printed. Virginia 1634, 1659; Maryland, 1653 (Catholic). Support for education.]

COLDHAM, Peter Wilson
English Estates of American Colonists: American wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1700-1799. 2 vols. Baltimore: n.p., 1980.

COLDICOTT, Diane K.
A Long Sutton Miscellany: Including a study of the wills (1620-1856) and probate inventories from the parish of Long Sutton and Well, Hampshire. London: the author, 1979.
[Wills, 67 (some with P.I.s) calendared, studied. Hampshire, 1502-1856. Townspeople and rural folk; table of crops, household goods.]

COLES, E.J.L.                                                                 WALES
"Abstracts of Radnorshire Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury;" "Hereford Probates of Radnorshire Wills;" and "Archdeaconry of Brecon Wills."
Radnorshire Society Transactions 5 (1936) 54-56; 6 (1937) 9-14; 8 (1938) 18-22; 13 (1943) 35-37; 17 (1948) 42; 23 (1953) 45-49; 26 (1956) 22-31; 27 (1957) 20-24; 28 (1958) 13-16; 29 (1959) 45-49; 30 (1960) 51-56; 31 (1961) 23-28; 32 (1962) 58-62; 33 (1963) 47-49; 34 (1964) 39-41; 35 (1965) 33-35; 36 (1966) 47-49; 38 (1968) 44-50; 39 (1969) 68-74; 40 (1970) 61-65; 41 (1971) 71-74; 42 (1972) 78-82; 44 (1974) 58-61; 47 (1977) 86-89; 48 (1978) 79-82; 49 (1979) 86-89; 51 (1981) 60-63; 52 (1982) 70-74 (w/Wm. Faraday); 53 (1983) 69-74; 54 (1984) 32-37; 55 (1985) 39-44.

COLLETT-WHITE, James
Inventories of Bedfordshire Country Houses, 1714-1830.
Bedford: Bedfordshire Resord Society, 1995.
16 house inventories printed. Glossary, index; each house has extended intro and sketches.

COLLINGWOOD, W.G.
"A Book of Old Quaker Wills."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 29 (1929) 1-38.
[Wills, 68 printed. Quakers, 1698-1771.]

"The Inventory of Mistress Fleming of Skirwith, 1639."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s.28 (1928) 33-40.
[P.I. printed. Skirwith, Kirkland, 1639. Gentry, widow.]

COLLINS, Francis
Selby Wills.
Leeds: for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1912.
[Wills and some P.I.s from 695 testators fully abstracted from Peculiar Court records. Selby, 1634-1710.]

Wills and Administrations from the Knaresborough Court Rolls. 2 vols.
Surtees Society (vols 104, 110). Durham: Andrews and co., 1902, 1905.
[Wills, several hundred fully abstracted, with administrative documents. 1510-1660.]

COLLINSON, Patrick
Religion of Protestants. The Church in English Society 1559- 1625.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1982.
[Wills used on pp. 196-7 as evidence of Calvinism (from secondary sources).]

COLMAN, Sylvia
"Eye Vicarage: The documentation of a parsonage house."
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 34 (1977) 49-58.
[Will discussed. Suffolk, 1724. Clergy, material culture.]

"Post Medieval Houses in Suffolk: Some evidence from probate inventories and hearth tax returns."
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 34 (1977) 181-190.
[P.I.s used. Suffolk, later 16th and 17th centuries. Housing, rooms, material culture.]

"The West Suffolk Inventories for 1665: Some clues to house types."
Suffolk Review 3 (1968) 190-195.
[P.I.s surveyed. West Suffolk, 1665. Dwellings.]

COLTMAN, S.
"A Hook Norton Family - the Calcotts."
Cake and Cockhorse 9 (1982) 7-13.
[Will and P.I. printed. Hook Norton, 1682. Baker; illustrated.]

CONNELL, Neville
"Furniture and Furnishings in Barbados during the Seventeenth Century."
Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society 24 (1956-7) 102-121.
[P.I.s, 2 printed, and wills quoted from anecdotally. Barbados, 1658, 1673, and 1670-1700 (wills). Furniture, plate, etc.]

COOK, Alfred
"Banning Family."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 7 (1911-13) 422-423.
[Will abstracted. Burbage, 1579.]

COOK, G.H.
Medieval Chantries and Chantry Chapels.
London: Phoenix House, Ltd., 1947; rev. 1963.
[Wills mentioned anecdotally as sources of foundations and gifts.]

COOK, Robert B.
"Some Early Civic Wills of York."
Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers 31 (1911/20 319-339; 32 (1913/4) 293-317; 33 (1915/6) 473-492.
[Wills, 14 printed w/trans.York, late 14th and early 15th century.]

"Wills of Leeds and District."
Miscellanea VI, Thoresby Society #22 (1915) 85-102.
[Wills abstracted or printed, 26. Late 15th-early 16th centuries. Continued as follows:]

Miscellanea VII, Thoresby Society #24 (1919) 39-66.
[Wills abstracted or printed, 30. Late 15th-ealry 16th centuries. Continued as follows:]

Miscellanea VIII, Thoresby Society #26 (1924) 172-220; 311-349.
[Wills abstracted or printed, 105. Pontefract, late 14th-16th centuries. Continued as follows:]

Miscellanea X, Thoresby Society #33 (1935) 22-60.
[Wills abstracted or printed, 49. Mid-15th - mid-16th centuries.]

COOPER, Joseph H.
"Cuckfield Families."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 42 (1899) 19-53; 43 (1900) 1-44.
[Wills, 2 printed (1581, 1606), one abstracted (1670). Cuckfield family.]

"The Hundred of Swanborough."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 29 (1879) 114-166.
[P.I. printed. Ilford, 1612. Yeoman.]

COOPER, J.P.
"Patterns of Inheritance and Setlement by Great Landowners from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries."
In Family and Inheritance, Jack Goody, et al. eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976; 192-327.
[Wills discussed, 48. Provisions for younger children.]

COOPER, Lettice Ashley
Two Seventeeth-century Dorset Inventories.
Dorset Record Society Publications #5 (1974).
[P.I.s printed and discussed. St. Giles House near Wimbourne, Earls of Shaftesbury, 1639 and 1699.]

COOPER, Sheila McIsaac
"Family, Household, and Occupation in Pre-industrial England: Social structure in King's Lynn, 1689-1702."
Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1985.
[P.I.s used. King's Lynn, 1689-1702. Social history: family size/composition, occupations.]

COOPER, T.S.
"The Will of Thomas Quenell of Lythe Hill, Chiddingfold, Yeoman, 1571."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 15 (1900) 40-50.
[Will printed. Chiddingfold, 1571. Yeoman.]

COOPER, William Durrant.
"Liberties and Franchises within the Rape of Hastings."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 6 (1853) 57-70.
[Wills, one printed (abbot of Battle, 1538), 2 abstracted (1531-1535), one quoted from (1535). Hastings, 1530s. Clergy.]

"The Oxenbridges of Brede Place, Sussex; and Boston, Massachussetts."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 12 (1860) 203-220.
[Will printed. Boston, Mass. (John O.), 1673/4. Cleric.]

COPPEL, Stephen
"Willmaking on the Deathbed."
Local Population Studies 40 (1988) 37-45.
[Wills, 108 studied. Leverton and Grantham, 1501-1600. Cross-referencing with burial records: how long between will-making and burial?]

"Wills and the Community in Tudor Grantham."
In Probate Records and the Local Community, ed. P. Riden, Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985; 71-90.
[Wills, 151, and 146 P.I.s studied. Grantham, 1501-1600. Community study of wealth, occupations, burial, delay of probate, etc.]

CORFIELD, P.J. and PRIESTLY, Ursula
"Rooms and Room-use in Norwich Housing, 1580-1730."
Post Medieval Archaeology 16 (1982) 93-123.
[P.I.s, 871 studied. Norwich, 1580-1730. Number and uses of rooms, furnishings.]

CORNER, G.R.
"A Collection of Ancient Wills , etc.; relating to Southwark."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 1 (1858) 190-202.
[Wills, 16 abstracted. Southwark, 1082-1659.]

CORNWALL COUNTY AND DIOCESAN RECORD OFFICE
Guide to Cornish Probate Records.
Truro: Cornwall Record Office, 1984.
Handbook and guide.

CORNWALL, Julian
"Agricultural Improvement, 1560-1640."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 98 (1960) 118-132.
[P.I.s used anedotally for evidence of investment and debt. Sussex, 1560-1640.]

"Farming in Sussex, 1560-1640."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 92 (1954) 48-92.
[P.I.s used anedotally and extensively. Sussex, 1560-1640. Farmers, material culture, economic history.]

"John Carter of Denham, Yeoman."
Records of Buckinghamshire 16 (1956) 83-94.
[P.I. discussed. Denham, 1635. Yeoman.]

"The Squire of Coninsholme."
In Rural Change and Urban Growth, C.W. Chalkin and M.A. Havinden eds., New York: Longman's,1974; 32-53.
[Will and P.I. discussed. Coninsholme, 1528. Gentry.]

COSTIN, William C.
"The Inventory of John English, B.C.L., Fellow of St, John's College."
Oxoniensia 11 and 12 (1948/8) 102-131.
[Will studied, P.I. printed. Oxford, 1613. Scholar, books.]

COTTON, Charles
The Greyfriars of Canterbury, 1224-1538.
British Society of Franciscan Studies extra ser. #2, (1924).
[Wills, 119 extracted from. Canterbury, 1224-1538. Benefactors' bequests or references to the O.F.M., relgious history.]

COUCH, Jonathan
"An Inventory of a Nobleman's Personal Property in the Sixteenth Century."
Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall 2 (1867) 226-233.
PI printed. Lord of Devon, Kewe, 1557. No discussion or intro

COWARD, B.
"Disputed Inheritances: Some difficulties of the nobility in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries."
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 44 (1971) 194-215.
[Wills used. Stanley family, earls of Derby, 1558-1640. Nobility, problem of collateral descent.]

COWPER, H. Swainson
"Hawkshead Hall."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society 11 (1891) 7-49.
[Wills (3) and P.I.s (4) printed. Hawkshead Hall, 1590-1686.]

"A Note on Some Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Kentish Wills: Provisions for widows."
Archaeologia Cantiana 30 (1914) 127-131.
[Wills, 13 extracted from. Kent, 1461-1527. Bequests to support widows.]

"The Will of Edward Ridge, of Cambridge, 1582."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s.4 (1904) 146-153.
[Will abstracted, extracted from and discussed. Cambridge, 1582. Bachelor.]

COWPER, William
"Glimpses of Old Northampton."
Northamptonshire Notes and Queries 4 (1891) 86-88.
[P.I. printed. Northampton, 1630. Gentry.]

"The Will of Thomas Bellamy, of Stonyard."
Northamptonshire Notes and Queries 3 (1890) 60.
[P.I. printed. Stonyard, 1570. Laborer.]

COX J. Charles
"A Budget from Repton."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society36 (1914) 101-122.
[Wills (8) and 2 P.I.s (abstracted. Repton, 1443-1685.]

"The Parish Churches of Northamptonshire; Illustrated by Wills, temp. Henry VIII."
Archaeological Journal 58 (1901) 113-132.
Wills quoted, esp. bequests to specific English churches; pre-Reformation.

COX, Jane 
An Introduction to...Affection Defying the Ppower of Death: WIlls, Probate, and Death Duty Records.
Birmingham: Federation of Family History Societies, 1993.

Wills, Inventories and Death Duties: the records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and the Estate Duty Office: A provisional guide. London: Public Records Office, 1988.
[General and up-to-date introduction to the records.]

COX, Nancy and Jeff
“Probate: 1500-1800: A System in Transition.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 14-37.
[Dynamic view of the process and legal framework of probate recording in England and major changes.]

"Probate Inventories. The Legal Background. Parts 1 & 2."
Local Historian 16 (1984) 133-145, 217-228.
[P.I.s: legal definitions of categories of goods found typically, and applications of these definitions in practice.]

"Valuations in Probate Inventories. Parts 1 & 2."
Local Historian 16 (1985) 467-478; 17 (1986) 85-100.
[P.I.s, "several thousand" studied. Valuation of items found therein; shows consistency by evaluators given time and place. Shropshire.]

CRADOCK, Joseph
"Abstracts of Documents Relative to the Manor of Gumley, Co. Leicester..."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 3 (1836) 330-332.
[Will abstracted. Gumley, 1661. Gentry; establishing school.]

CRAIG, John
"Margaret Spittlehouse, Female Scrivener."
Local Population Studies (1992) 54-57.

CRAIG, John, and LITZENBERGER, Caroline
"Will as Religious Propaganda: The Testament of William Tracy."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 44 (1993) 415-431.
[Will discussed. Gloucestershire, gentry, d.1530. Public/religious motives behind "personal" willmaking in the early Reformation.]

CRAWFORD, Anne
"The Piety of Late Medieval Queens."
In The Church in Pre-Reformation Society: Essays in honour of F.R.H. Duboulay. Dover, N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1985; 48-52.
[Wills used. Nevill-Beaufort queens, esp. Margaret. Royalty, religious history.]

CREIGHTON, Charles
A History of Epidemic in Britain. 2 vols. 2nd ed.
London: ??????????, 1965.
See I: 117-118 on his use of wills for effect of Black Death on English psyche.

CRESSY, David                                                                             COLONIAL
Coming Over: Migration and communication between England and New England.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
[P.I.s, 2,879 used. New England colony, 17th century. Wealth distribution by occupation and status.]

"Death and the Social Order: the funerary preferences of Elizabethan gentlemen."
Continuity and Change 5 (1990) 99-119.
[Wills, 600 analyzed. Essex, 1559-1603. Religious history.]

"Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Schooling."
History of European Ideas 2 (1981) 65-74; also printed in his Society and Culture in Early Modern England (Burlington: Ashgate, 2003) Chapter 4.
Will of Thomas Sutton, speculator and money-lender, discussed. 1611. Bequests for education.

"Kinship and Kin Interaction in Early Modern England."
Past and Present 113 (1986) 38-69; reprinted in Cressy, Society and Culture in Early Modern England, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2003, selection X with original pagination.
[Wills used for anecdotal evidence, some statistical evidence form Elizabethan Essex.]

Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
[Wills, 578 sampled; P.I.s used. Norwich, 1633-1637. Pp.105-8, wills as evidence of literacy; Chapter 6, P.I.s used in correlating wealth and literacy.]

CRISP, Frederick Arthur
"Surrey Wills."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 10 (1891) 143-149, 295-315; 11 (1892/3) 106-139, 285-300; 12 (1894/5) 83-107, 194-210; 13 (1896/7) 95-109, 177-196.
[Wills, 316 abstracted. Surrey, 1600-1609. Continued by Ethel Stokes.]

CROFT, John
Excerpta antiqua; or A Collection of Original Manuscripts.
York: William Blanchard, 1797.
[P.I. printed. Steton, 1558. Knight. Extracts from wills of Sir Wm. Wallworth, 1385 (English) and Wm. Akeroid, priest, 1518. PI pprinted of Sir Wm. Fairfax, Steton, York, 1558 ]

CROOKS, Frederic
"John de Winwick and his Chantry in Huyton Church."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 77 (1925) 26-38.
[Will abstracted. Monketon, 1359. Cleric.]

CROOKSHANK, Arthur C.
"Wills of Sussex Clergy."
Sussex Notes and Queries 8 (1941) 15-16, 42-43, 67-69, 96.
[Wills, calendar. Sussex, 15th-17th centuries. Clergy.]

CROSS, Claire M.
"The Development of Protestantism in Leeds and Hill, 1520- 1640: The evidence from wills." Northern History 18 (1982) 230-238.
[Wills, almost 2000 used. Leeds and Hull, 1520-1640. Religious history, relation of local government to protestant movement.]

"The Incomes of Provincial Clergy, 1520-1645."
In Princes and Paupers in the English Church 1500-1800, Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal eds., New York: Barnes and Noble, 1981; 65-90.
[P.I.s, 180 sampled. 1520-1640. Clergy, economic history, material culture.]

"A Medieval Yorkshire Library."
Northern History 25 (1989) 281-290.
[Will summarized, booklist printed. Yorkshire, 1581. Clergy; books.]

"Monasticism and Society in the Diocese of York."
Transactions of the Royal Society 38 (1988) 131-145.
[Wills studied. York Diocese, 1520-1540. Lay support for monastic houses or convents.]

"Northern Women in the Early Modern Period: The female testators of Hull and Leeds, 1520-1650."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 59 (1987) 83-94.
[Wills, 407 studied and analyzed. Hull and Leeds, 1520-1650. Women.]

"Parochial Structure and the Dissemination of Protestantism in Sixteenth-century England."
Studies in Church History 16 (1979) 269-278.
[Wills used. York, Hull, 1520-1600. Preambles as evidence of Protestantism.]

"Priests into Ministers: The establishment of Protestant practice in the city of York 1530-1630."
In Reformation Principles and Practice. Essays in Honour of Arthur Geoffrey Dickens, P.N. Brooks ed., London: Scolar Press, 1980; 203-226.
[Wills used. York, 1530-1630. Clergy (72) and "mayoral" wills (55), religious history, esp. pious bequests.]

Urban Magistrates and Ministers: Religion in Hull and Leeds from the Reformation to the Civil War.
York: Borthwick Paper #67, 1985.
[Wills used soradically. Hull, Leeds, 1530-1640. Religious history.]

"Wills as Evidence of Popular Piety in the Reformation Period: Leeds and Hull, 1540-1640."
In The End of Strife, D.M. Loades, ed., Edinburgh: Clark, 1984; 44-51.
[Wills, 1966 studied. Leeds, Hull, 1540-1640. Critiques use of pious preambles as source for religious sensibility, suggests study of formularies.]

York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: Minster clergy.
Borthwick Texts and Calendars #10 (1984).
[Wills, 61 printed with some P.I.s; some in Latin; glossary, intros to each entry. York, 1520-1600. Clergy]

York Clergy Wills 1520-1600: City Clergy.
Borthwick Texts and Calendars #15 (1989).
[Wills, 72 printed with some P.I.s; see previous entry.]

CROSSLEY, E.W.
"A Templenewsham Inventory, 1565."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 25 (1920) 91-100.
[P.I. printed. Earl of Lenox's house, 1565. Nobility.]

"The Testamentary Documents of Yorkshire Peculiars."
Miscellanea II, Yorkshire Archaeological Society #74 (1929) pages??
[Wills, 43 studied and printed with a few P.I.s. Peculiars of Westerdale (1550-1575) and Batley (1651-1694).]

"Two Seventeenth-century Inventories."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 34 (1938) 170-203.
[P.I.s, two printed. Yorkshire, 1614 (squire) and 1617 (knight).]

CROSSLEY, Frederick H.
"A Disputed Cheshire Will of the Early 17th Century from the Star Chamber Proceedings."
Chester and North Wales Architectural, Archaeological and Historical Society Journal n.s. 37 (1948) 141-168.
[Will discussed. Ipstones, 1611. Gentry; bill of complaint and answers printed.]

CROW, Richard
"Alice Rundell and her Musket."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 36:2 (1987) 62-65.
[P.I. printed. Gorran, 1629. Farmer's widow.]

CROWLEY, John E.                                                                     COLONIAL
"Family Relations and Inheritance in Early South Carolina."
Histoire Sociale/Social History 17 (1984) 35-57.
[Wills, 553 studied. Low country, Charleston, 1670-1720. Marital status, children, women's roles in executing, inheriting.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"The Importance of Kinship: Testamentary evidence from South Carolina."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16 (1986) 559-577.
[Wills, 151 studied. Low country, 1660s to 1719. Legatees, executors, retention of family ties after death of family head.]

CRUMP, W.B.
"The Yeoman Clothier of the Seventeenth Century: His home and loom-shop."
Bradford Antiquary 7 (1933) 217-239.
[Wills and P.I.s (about a dozen) discussed. Northern England, 17th century. Clothiers.]

CULLING, Elizabeth Ann
"The Impact of the Reformation on the Tudor Royal Household to 1553."
Ph.D. diss, University of Durham (U.K.), 1986.
[Wills used as evidence of change at court. Courtiers, 1529-1553.]

CULLUM, D. and P. WARDLEY
"The Diffusion of the Hindu-Arabic Numeral System: Numeracy, Literacy, and Historical Analysis of Writing Skills in Seventeenth-Century West Cornwall."
Cornish Studies 2 (1994) ??????????????

CULLUM, G.M.G.
"The Family of Payne of Norfolk: Abstracts of the wills at Norwich."
East Anglian n.s.11 (1905-6) 129-131, 146-149, 172-173, 177-179, 206-207, 216-217, 236-237.
[Wills, 63 abstracted. 1427-1624. Family.]

CULLUM, Patricia
"`And Hir Name was Charite': Charitable giving by and for women in late medieval Yorkshire."
In Woman Is a Worthy Wight: Women in English society c.1200-1500, P.J.P. Goldberg ed., Wolfeboro Falls: Alan Sutton, 1992; 182-211.
[Wills, 1500 used. Yorkshire, 1326-1530. Women, pious bequests.]

"Hospitals and Charitable Provision in Medieval Yorkshire, 936-1547."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of York, 1989.
[Wills used. Yorkshire, 936-1547. Pious legacies.]

"`For Pore People Harberles': What was the function of the Maisonsdieu?"
In Trade, Devotion and Governance, Dorothy Clayton, Richard Davies and Peter McNiven eds., Dover, N.H.: Alan Stroud, 1994; 36-54.
[Wills, 539 studied. York. Pious bequests to hospitals, and establishment of "maisonsdieu".]

CULLUM, Patricia H. and GOLDBERG, P.J.P.
"Charitable Provision in Late Medieval York: `to the praise of God and the use of the poor'."
Northern History 29 (1993) 24-39.
[Wills studied for pious bequests to poor, using seven acts of virtue as model. York. Religious history.]

CUMMINGS, Abbott L.                                                              COLONIAL
Bed Hangings: A treatise on fabrics and styles in the curtaining of beds.
Boston: SPNEA, 1961.
[P.I.s, anecdotal use. Suffolk Co. Massachusetts, 1675-1810. See esp. pp. 1-3 "Fabrics and Documentary Sources."]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
Framed Houses of Massachusetts Bay, 1625-1725.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
[P.I.s, 114 studied, used anecdotally in text. Essex, Suffolk, Middlesex counties, 1630-1660. Interpreting house plans; see Appendix 2.]

CUMMINGS, Hubertis M.                                                         COLONIAL
"An Account of Goods at Pennsbury Manor, 1697."
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 84 (1962) 397-416.
[Inv. studied. Pennsylvania Colony, 1687. Compares site restoration based on 1701 will with material in this.]

CUNNINGTON, C.W. and P.
Handbook of English Costume in the 16th Century. 3 vols. New edition.
London: Faber, 1970.
[Wills and P.I.s used throughout. 16th century. Clothing.]

CURLE, Brian R.
Kensington and Chelsea Probate Inventories; 1672-1734.
London: Kensington and Chelsea Public Libraries, 1970.
[P.I.s printed. Kensington and Chelsea, 1672-1734.]

CURRER-BRIGGS, Noël                                                           COLONIAL
Virginia Settlers and English Adventurers. Abstracts of wills, 1484-1798, and legal proceedings, 1560-1700, relating to early Virginia families. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970.
[Wills, 1,078 studied. Kirby Family, 1560-1700. English documents organized by region.]

CURRER-BRIGGS, Noël and GAMBIER, Royston
Huguenot Ancestry.
Southampton, Eng.: Phillimore, 1985.
[P.I.s discussed as sources on pp.86-7. Religious history, genealogy.]

CURREY, H.E.
"Two Derby Wills of the XVI. Century."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 27 (1905) 81-85.
[Wills, 2 printed. Derby, 1506 (widow), 1520 (son).]

CURTIS, Evelyn
"Inventory of Furniture at Houghton House, c.1726-1728."
Publications of the Bedford Historical Record Society 38 (1958) 97-104.
[P.I. printed. Houghton House, 1726-1728. Gentry, furnishings.]

CUST, Lionel
"The Lumley Inventories."
Walpole Society 6 (1918) 15-35.
[Invs. printed. 1590, 1785, 1807. Artworks predominate.]

D'ALMAINE, Harry G.
"The Will of Master Anthony Forster."
The Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Society 26 (1920) 15-19.
[Will printed. M.P., murderer, 1572.]

DALE, T.C.
"Washington Family."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 12 (1922-3) 160-161.
[Will abtracted. Topsham, 1650. Gentry.]

"The Will of Nell Gwynn."
Genealogy Magazine 7 (1935) 8-10.

DALTON, Charles
"Will of Sir Christopher Wray, Lord Chief Justice of England (1589)."
In his History of the Wrays of Glenworthy 1523-1852. Vol.2 Aberdeen: A. King and Co., 1881; Appendix: pp.1-12.
[Will (and other family wills) printed. 1589. Lord Chief Justice.]

DANIEL, F. de F.
"Will of John Williams, rector of Abbas and Temple Combe."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 28 (1961) 39-40.
[Will abstracted, P.I printed. Abbas and Temple Combe, 1692. Clergy.]

"Will of William Furnell of Horsington, Somerset."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 28 (1961) 68-9.
[Will abstracted, P.I. printed. Horsington, 1668.]

DANIELL, Cristopher
Death and Burial in Medieval England. 1066-1550.
New York: Routledge, 1997.
[Wills, 4,700 studied. Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, 1389-1475. See pp.32-4 on willmaking; 97-103 on burial.]

DANIELS, B.C.                                                                    COLONIAL
"Probate Court Inventories and Colonial American History: Historiography, problems and results."
Histoire Sociale/Social History 9 (1976) 387-405.
[P.I.s discussed as sources; useful for any scholar using P.I.s.]

DARBYSHIRE, Hubert S. and LUMB, George
The History of Methley.
Thoresby Society #35 (1937).
[Wills used. Methley, 1443-1660. Note Chapter 9.]

DARK, Arthur
Beginning Genealogy. Part 4: Wills and Administrations.
Gerard Cross: Hillingdon Family History Society, 1995.
20-page pamphlet on using wills and PIs for genealogical purposes.

DARLINGTON, Ida, ed.
London Consistory Court Wills, 1492-1547.
London: London Record Society, 1967.
[Wills and P.I.s, 251 printed from Register "Palmer". London, 1492-1547.]

DARWIN, G.H.
"Inventory."
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 6 (1875) 363-375.
[P.I. printed. Wolverhampton, 1625. Gentry; w/3 houses.]

DASHWOOD, George Henry
"Extracts from Wills Preserved in the Muniment Room at Stowe Bardolph."
Norfolk Archaeology 2 (1849) 97-109.
[Wills, 12 extracted from; some in Latin. Stowe Bardolph, 1321-1557.]

"Notes on the Gawsell Pedigree."
Norfolk Archaeology 5 (1859) 277-286.
[Wills, 3 printed. Family, 1460, 1500, 1507. Gentry, genealogy.]

DAVIDSON, Alan
"The Will of William Byrd."
The Essex Recusant 14 (1972) 66-70.
[Will printed. Stondon, Essex, 1623. Catholic composer.]

DAVIES, Isabel
"Seventeenth-century Delftware Potters in St. Olaves Parish, Southwark."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 66 (1969) 11-31.
[Wills used. Southwark, 17th century. Potters, social and economic history.]

DAVIES, J.W.
"Will of John Lloyd, Esq., St. Andrew's, Holborn (1695)."
The Montgomeryshire Collections 68 (1936?) 133-136.
[Will printed. Holborn, 1695. Quaker gentry.]

DAVIES, Richard G.
"The Episcopate."
In Profession, Vocation and Culture in Later Medieval England. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982; 51-89.
[Wills used as evidence for tasets, books, bequests to schools. Clergy.]

DAVIES, Stuart
"The Documentary Sources of Vernacular Architecture."
Local Historian 12 (1977) 235-240.
[P.I.s, as used in such studies. Methodology.]

DAVIS, James Robert
"Colchester, 1600-1662: Politics, religion and officeholding in an English provincial town."
Ph.D. diss., Brandeis University, 1981.
[Wills used as evidence of shared values of the officeholding "elite". Colchester, 1600-1662. Burghers.]

DAVIS, Norman
Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century. Part I.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1971.
[Wills, printed or extracted from 7 of family, several P.I.s printed. Paston family, 15th century.]

DAVISSON, William I.                                                                 COLONIAL
"Essex County Price Trends: Money and markets in 17th-century Massachusetts."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 103 (1967) 144-185.
[Will (1674) printed, P.I. (1676) printed; 430 P.I.s analyzed. Essex County, 1640-1682. Price trends.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Essex County Wealth Trends: Wealth and economic growth in 17th-century Massachusetts."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 103 (1967) 291-342.
[Wills and P.I.s, 430 studied. Essex County, 1640-1682. Follow-up to earlier economic profile of the county.]

DAWE, P.N.
"A Dorset Farm Inventory of 1704."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 27 (1958) 169-173.
[P.I. printed. Dorset, 1704. Farmer.]

"A Fuller's Inventory from the Dorset Records Office."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 29 (1974) 33-35.
[Inv. printed. Warham, 1689. Fuller.]

"Inventory of a Purbeck Marbler's Goods."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 28 (1965) 241- 242.
[Inv. printed. Isle of Purbeck, 1689. Marbler.]

"Inventory of the Goods of Jasper Rogers of Cattistock, 1710."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 28 (1968) 282-284.
[P.I. printed. Cattistock, 1710.]

DE LAUNAY, Jules
Abstracts of Cranbrook Wills, 1396-1640.
Canterbury: Kent Record Collections, 1984.
[Wills, 659 abstracted. Cranbrook, 1396-1640.]

DE VINE, Steven W.
"Ecclesiastical Antecedents to Secular Jurisdiction over the Feoffment to the Uses to Be Declared in Testamentary Instructions."
American Journal of Legal History
30 (1986) 295-320.
[Testament administrative law of 14th and 15th centuries; crown takes over `uses' of the Church.]

DE NUCCIO, Jerome D.
"`A Testimony of My Innocency': The literary dimensions of Robert Keayne's last will and testament."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1986.
[Will studied. Massachusetts Colony, 1653. Merchant.]

DEACON, Edward
"The Meres Family."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 4 (1896) 191-192.
[Will printed, English. "Kyrton in Holland", 1484. Merchant of Calais staple.]

DEANE, Glenn Donald
"Parents and Progeny: The demography of inequality in colonial North Carolina, 1681-1759."
Ph.D. dissertation. University of North Carolina, 1993.
[Wills used. North Carolina colony, 1680-1759. Familial demographic patterns.]

DEANE, John Bathurst
"The Will of Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury, deceased 15 February 1502/3."
Archaeological Journal 18 (1861) 256-267.
[Will printed, Latin. Canterbury, 1503. Clergy.]

"The Will of Richard Deane."
In his The Life of Richard Deane, London: Longmans, Greene and Co., 1870.
[Will printed. 1653. Commonwealth general.]

DEANESLY, Margaret
The Lollard Bible: And other medieval biblical versions.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920.
[Wills used throughout. See Appendix #6, "Analysis of 7578 wills made to show the relative frequency of ownership of ... Bibles ..." Books, religious history.]

The Preconquest Church in England.
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1963.
[For discussion of the following wills see pp. 345-347: Athelstan, Lady Elfgifu, Brihtric and Aelfswith, Wulfgeat of Donington, Lady Wynflaed, Bishop Aelfsige of Winchester, Lady Aethelflaed, Archbishop Aelfric and Lady Wulfwarren; esp. on matters of emancipation.]

DEEDES, Cecil
"Will of Robert Marshe of Bromeswell."
The East Anglian n.s. 2 (1887-8) 233-234.
[Will vocabulary discussed. Bromeswell, 1526.]

DEEN, James W., Jr.                                                                   COLONIAL
"Patterns of Testation in Four Tidewater Counties in Colonial Virginia."
American Journal of Legal History 16 (1972) 154-176.
[Wills (uses all for period). Counties of Isle of Wight, Lower Norfolk, Surrey, Westmorland, 1660-1719. Concerns of wives and children in legacies.]

DEETZ, James                                                                             COLONIAL
In Small Things Forgotten: The archeology of early American life.
Garden City: Anchor/Doubleday, 1977.
[P.I. printed; Barnstable, Mass., 1664. P.I.s discussed as sources for material culture, and used anecdotally.]

DEMOS, John                                                                              COLONIAL
A Little Commonwealth. Family Life in Plymouth Colony.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
[P.I.s used. Plymouth colony, 17th century. See Part 1, "The Physical Setting," and Index, `inheritance'.]

DE SILVA-VIGIER, Anil
"Testament of John, Duke of Lancaster."
In his This Moste Highe Prince...John of Gaunt, 1340-1399, Cambridge: The Pentland Press, 1992; 365-378.
[Will printed (modern English). 1397. Nobility.]

"DEVONIA CORNWALL"
"Yeo of Woolfardisworthy."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 11 (1920-1) 145-146.
[Will discussed, especially children mentioned. Woolfardisworthy, 1659. Yeoman.]

DEXTER, Franklin B.
"Early Private Libraries in New England."
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society n.s. 28 (1907) 135-147.
[Booklists from wills and P.I.s discussed. 1635-1690.]

DICKIN, E.P.
"Word of Mouth Testaments."
The Essex Review 31 (1922) 118.
[Will, example of Harwich, 1693. Seaman on shipboard.]

DICKENS, A.G.
"Early Expansion of Protestantism in England 1520-1558."
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte 78 (1987) 187-222.
[Wills research discussed. Part IV (pp.213-217): "Continuing Research: the study of wills." Religious history.]

"John Parkyn, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge."
Cambridge Antiquities Society Proceedings 43 (1950) 21-29.
[Will printed. Cambridge, 1558. Catholic, scholar.)

"The Last Medieval Englishman."
In Christian Spirituality. Essays in Honour of Gordon Rupp. London: SCM Press, Ltd., 1975; pages?
[Wills used. 16th century. Studies priest by examining wills of men around him.]

Late Monasticism and the Reformation.
London: The Hambledon Press, 1994.
[Wills as evidence for Protestantism of benefactors and patrons; see index. Religious history.]

Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York 1509-1558.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
[Wills, 763 used. Diocese of York, 1538-1553. Religious conversion and continuity as evidenced by wills.]

DICKINSON, J.C.
"Three Pre-Reformation Documents Concerning South Cumbria."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s.86 (1986) 129-132.
[Wills, 2 described and discussed. Conishead, 1457 (Lord Harrington); Winchester, 1501, Bishop Thomas Langton.]

DILKS, T. Bruce
"Bridgwater Wills, 1310-1497."
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 66 (1920) 78-97.
[Wills, 28 studied. Bridgwater, 1310-1497. Patterns of bequsts.]

DILKS, Thomas B.
Bridgwater Borough Archives. 4 vols.
Somerset Record Society #48, 53, 58, 60 (1933-1948).
[Wills and P.I.s among documents; see index to each volume. I (1933): 1200-1377; 25 wills and P.I.s; II (1938): 1377-1399; 31 wills and P.I.s; III (1945): 1400-1445; 9 wills; IV (1948): 1445-1468; 3 wills. Early texts in Latin. Bridgwater, 1200-1468.]

DILLON, Viscount
"Armour in Wills."
Archaeological Journal 62 (1895) 73-74.
[Wills discussed briefly. Armor, 16th century.]

DILLON, Viscount and HOPE, W.H.St.J.
"Inventory of Goods and Chattels Belonging to Thomas, Duke of Gloucestershire, Seized at his Castle at Pleshy, Essex, 1397."
Archaeological Journal 54 (1897) 275-308.
[P.I. printed (French). Pleshy Castle, 1397. Nobility. Intro.]

DILS, Joan
Redding 1540-1640.
Privately printed, 1986.
[P.I.s and wills, "over 500" studied. Redding, 1540-1640.]

DINN, Robert
Baptism, Spiritual Kinship and Popular Religion in Late Medieval Bury St. Edmunds."
Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 72 (1990) 93-106.
[Wills, 1,181 studied. Bury St. Edmunds, 1439-1530. Godparental relationships as seen through wills.]

"Death and Rebirth in Late medieval Bury St. Edmunds."
In Death in Towns. Urban Responses to the Dying and the Dead, Steven Bassett ed., New York: Leicester University Press, 1992; 151-169.
[Wills, 1,304 studied. Bury St. Edmunds, 1380-99, 1439-1530. Funerary rites, religious beliefs.]

"`Monuments Answerable to Mens Worth': burial patterns, social status and gender in late medieval Bury St. Edmunds."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 46 (1995) 237-255.
[Wills, 1,181 analyzed. Bury St. Edmunds, 1380-9. 1439-1530. Burial wishes and practices.]

DOBSON, D.                                                                                 JAMAICA
"Scottish Jamaica Testaments, 1669-1699."
Scottish Genealogist 35 (1988) 22-23.
[Wills, 38 discussed. Jamaica, 1669-1699. Scots colonists.From Kingston Record Office.]

DOBSON, R.B.
"Citizens and Chantries in Late Medieval York."
In Church and City 1000-1500. Essays in Honour of Christopher Brooke, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992; 311-332.
[Wills discussed. York, 14th and 15th centuries. Chantries requested and chantries actually established.]

"The Foundation of Perpetual Chantries by the Citizens of Medieval York."
Studies in Church History 4 (1967) 22-38.
[Wills used in study of 140 foundations, later 14th to mid-16th centuries.]

"The Residentiary Canons of York in the Fifteenth Century."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 30 (1979) 145-173.
[Wills used as part of prosopographical study. York, 15th century. Clergy, religious history.]

DODDS, M. Hope
"Wills and Inventories."
History Teacher's Miscellany 3 (1925) 84-5, 101-103, 120-121, 141-143, 170-172, 189-191.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed (with examples) as sources for learning history.]

DOEHAERD, Renee
Les relations commerciales entre Gênes, la Belgique, et l'Outremont d'après les archivs notariales génoises aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles. 4 vols. Brussels: Academica Belgica, 1941-52.
[Will printed, Pascal, son of William. Genoa, 1297. Merchant, IV, 853-7.]

DONALDSON, Gordon                                                               SCOTLAND
The Faith of the Scots.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1990.
[Wills; preambles and bequests used as evidence for religious affiliation. Scotland, 1530-1600.]

DONNE, Stéphan J.
"The Last Will and Testament of Gabriel Dunne, Abbot of Buckfast."
Buckfast Abbey Chronicle 21 (1951) 173-182.
Will printed; has both English and Latin sections. 1553; clergy. W/pedigree.]

DONNELLEY, Nicholas                                                               IRELAND
A Short History of Some Dublin Parishes.
3 vols.
Dublin: Carraig Books, 1977 [facsim. of 1905 edition (Dublin: Catholic Truth Society)].
 
DORMAN, John Frederick                                                         COLONIAL

"Inventory of the Estate of Mr. Ambrose Fielding, Northumberland Co., 1675/6."
Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine 37 (1987) 4256-4263.
[P.I., first two pages printed. Bristol, Eng., and Virginia, 1675/6. Burgher, merchant.]

DORMER, Ernest W.
"The Will of Anthony Blagrave the Younger, of Bulmershe Court, Sonning, in the County of Berks, 1653."
The Berkshire Archaeological Journal 35 (1931) 28-32.
[Will printed. Sonning, 1653. Gentleman.]

DOUCH, H.L.
"Cornish Potters and Pewterers."
Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall n.s. 6 (1969) pages?????????? 

DOUGHTY, R.A.
'Industrial Prices and Inflation in Southern England, 1401-1640."
Explorations in Economic History 12 (1975) ?????????/

DOUGLAS, David and GREENAWAY, G.W.
English Hisitorical Documents. Vol.2, 1042-1189.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1953.
[Wills printed of Aelfric Modercope, Edwin the Thegn, Ketel the Thegn, Thurstan, Wulfgyth (docs. 181-189). Modern English; Anglo-Saxon.]

DOUGLAS, M.
"Inventory of Eatons, 1687."
Sussex Notes and Queries 16 (1967) 289-293.
[P.I. printed. Eatons, 1687. Gentleman.]

DRAPER, Marie P.G.
"Thomas Arneway's Charity."
London Journal 12 (1986) 25-28.
[Will discussed. London, 1603. Burgher; charitable bequests.]

DRINKWATER, C.H.
"The Domestic History of Henry Vynar of London and Conover, Together with a Transcript of His Will."
Shropshire Archaeological Society Transactions 2nd ser. 11 (1899) 189-198.
[Will printed. Conover, 1577. Gentleman.]

DU BOULAY, F.R.H.
The Lordship of Canterbury. An essay on Medieval Society.
New York: Barnes and Noble, 1966.
[Wills, 46 used. Canterbury Diocese, 15th and early 16th centuries. Lay landholders on epsicopal estates. See esp. pp.157-164.]

DUCKLINGTON HISTORY GROUP
Living and Lifestyle in Ducklington, 1640-1740: A Study of Probate Inventories.
Ducklington: Ducklington History Group, 1989.
[PIs, 42 printed. Oxfordshire. Small glossary. Material culture; landuse; agriculture; housing.]

DUDDING, Reginald C.
"Inventory of the Estate of a Late 17th-Century Lincolnshire Smallholder."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 16 (1921) 242-246.
[P.I. printed. Lincolnshire, 1684. Farmer, moneylender.]

"Will of John Haldin."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 22 (1933) 114-120.
[Will printed. Burgh in the March, 1503.]

DUFFIN, A..
Faction and Faith: Politics and Religion of the Cornish Gentry Before the Civil War.
Exeter: ????????????, 1996.

DUFFY, Eamon
The Stripping of the Altars. Traditional Religion in England, c.1400-c.1580.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
[Wills studied. See Chapter 15, "The Impact of Reform: wills." Religious affiliation before and during the Reformation. Also see index.]

DUIGNAN, W.H.
"The Will of Wulfgate of Donnington."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 2nd ser. 3 (1891) 36-40.
[Will printed (modernized English). Anglo-Saxon, Shropshire, c. A.D.1000.]

DULLEY, A.F.
"Four Kentish Towns at the End of the Middle Ages."
Archaeologia Cantiana 81 (1966) 95-108.
[Wills discussed in methodological atack on use of wills in population studies, esp. by Hussey.]

DULLEY, A.J.F.
"People and Homes in the Medway Towns: 1687-1783."
Archaeologia Cantiana 77 (1962) 160-176; reprinted in Essays in Kentish History, M. Roake and J. Whyman eds., London: Cass, 1973; 101-117.
[P.I.s, over 500 studied. Medway region, 1687-1783.]

DULLEY, Morton
"Old Wills No. VII: Walter Lebbard of Warlingham, 1514."
East Anglian 3 (1866-1868) 81-82.
[Will printed. Warlingham, 1514.]

DUNCAN, Leland L.
"Ancient Wills."
Woolwich Antiquarian Society Proceedings 12 (1907) 72-77.

Calendar of Wills Relating to Kent Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1384-1559.
Lewisham Antiquities Society #3 (1890).

"The contents of a Lewisham Cottage in 1529, and the Goods of John Holard, Mrs. Colfe's Father, 1576."
Procedings of the Lewisham Antiquities Society (1913) 6-18.
[P.I.s printed. Lewisham, 1529 and 1576.]

"Ecclesiological Notes Respecting the Deanery of Shoreham, Kent."
Archaeologia Cantiana 23 (1898) 134-149.
[Wills used. Shoreham, 15th and 16th centuries. Mentions of bequests to parish churches.]

Testamenta Cantiana: Extracts from the wills of Kentish folk ... Book "Mellershe", 1560.
London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1895.
[Wills, extracts from all 36 from the P.C.C. register, 1559-1560.]

Testamenta Cantiana: A series of extracts from fifteenth and sixteenth century wills relating to church building and topography. West Kent. London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1906.
[Wills extracted from, organized by parish, indexed but highly fragmented material; bequests from "tapers" to chapels. Kent, 15th and 16th centuries. Religious history.]

"The Will of Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486."
Archaeologia Cantiana 24 1900) 24-252.
[Will printed (Latin). Canterbury, 1486. Clergy.]

"The Will of William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1396."
Archaeologia Cantiana 23 (1898) 55-76.
[Will printed. Canterbury, 1396. Clergy.]

DUNCAN-JONES, Katherine
"`Thy deayth my undoinge': John Langford's copy of the 1605 edition of Sidney's Arcadia."
Bodleian Library Record 13 (1990) 360-364.
[Will, Sidney's, discussed. Otford Palace, 1586.]

DUNCOMBE, Brenda M.
"Thomas of Chillenden's Register: the earliest surviving register of testaments, 1396-1455, kept by the Commissary-general of Canterbury." M.A. thesis. University of London, 1963.

DUNCOMBE, W.G.
"Stuart Yeomen of the Darent Valley."
Kent Records ns. 1 (1991) 5:205-222, all of parts 6-10.
[Wills, 73, P.I.s, 39 printed. Darent Valley, 1604-1714. 81 yeomen represented.]

DUNKIN, E.H.W.
"Testamentary Notices of Churches in West Kent."
Reliquary 18 (1877-8) 203-205.
[Wills extracted from. Legacies to area churches, 15th to 17th centuries. 45 parishes represented.]

"Will of Bishop Robert Pursglove, a Derbyshire Worthy."
Reliquary 18 (1877-8) 223-224.
[Will printed. Hull, 1580. Bishop of Hull.]

DUNN, Richard S.                                                                        COLONIAL
Sugar and Slaves. The rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1972.
[P.I.s, 600 studied. Jamaica compared with Maryland, 17th century. P.I.s used extensively, see index; see esp. pp. 264-272 on methodology.]

DUNSTAN, G.R.
The Register of Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter, 1420-1455. Vol.4.
Devon and Cornwall Record Society n.s. #16 (1971); 1-65.
[Wills, 38 printed (Latin). Exeter Diocese, 1424-1455. Episcopal register.]

DURKAN, JOHN                                                                         SCOTLAND
"Archbishop Robert Blackadder's Will."
Innes Review 23 (1972) 138-148.
[Will printed. Venice, 1508. Clergy, Scots.]

                                                                                                     SCOTLAND
"The Early Scottish Notary."
In The Renaissance And Reformation in Sotland, I.B. Cowan and D. Shaw eds., Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983.
[Notaries and their practice in the sixteenth centuy.]

DUXBURY, Arthur
"Wealth and the Standard of Living in Ravenstonedale, 1691-1840."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society 85 (1985) 219-27.
[Wills (419) and P.I.s (414) studied. Ravenstonedale, 1691-1840. Material culture, wealth, capital.]

DYER, Alan D.
The City of Worcester in the Sixteenth Century.
Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1973.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally. Worcester, 16th century. Charity and standard of living studied.]

"Probate Inventories of Worcester Tradesmen, 1545-1614."
Miscellany II. Leeds: Worcestershire Historical Society, 1967; 1-67.
[P.I.s, 20 printed, with glossary. Worcester, 1545-1614. Tradesmen.]

"Urban Housing:A Documentary Study of Four Midland Towns, 1530-1700."
Post-Medieval Archeology 15 (1981) ???????????

DYER, Christopher
"Changes in the Size of Peasant Holdings in Some West Midland Villages 1400-1540."
In Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle, Richard M. Smith ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984; 277-294.
[Wills used slightly for 16th century. Peasants.]

Lords and Peasants in a Changing Society: The estates of the Bishopric of Worcester, 680-1540.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
[Wills, 38 used. Diocese of Worcester, 1511-1540. Family size and interfamilial connections.]

Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
[P.I.s, 2 printed, more studied. Cuxham, 1349-52; Elmley Castle, 1457. Peasants, see Chapter 6, "Peasants as Consumers."]

"Warwickshire Farming 1349-c.1520: Preparations for an agricultural revolution."
Dugdale Society Occasional Papers #27 (1981).
[P.I.s, minor use. Feldon, 1538-1552. Farmers/peasants, agricultual history.]

DYMOND, Robert
"The House and Furnishings of an Exeter Citizen in the Reign of James I."
The Western Antiquary 7 (1887) 1-5.
[P.I. printed with notes. Exeter, 1609. Brewer.]

"The Preambles of Old Wills."
The Western Antiquary 6 (1886) 12.
[Will preamble printed. Cockington, 1614. Knight.]

"The Will of an Exeter Mayor of the Fifteenth Century."
The Western Antiquary 5 (1886) 294-296.
[Will printed in translation. Exeter, 1486. Burgher, mayor.]

EAMES, Penelope
"Inventories as a Source of Evidence for Domestic Furnishings in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries."
Furniture History 9(1973) 33-41.
[P.I.s discussed and typologized. Methodological.]

EARLE, P.
Making of the English Middle Class: Business, Society and Family Life in London, 1660-1730.
London: Methuen, 1989.

EARWAKER, John Parsons
"Bellfounders in Lancashire and Cheshire and the Adjacent Counties, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire n.s.6 (1892) 171.
[P.I. extracted from. Wigan, 1647. Bellfounder.]

"A Gipsy's Inventory, 1627."
Notes and Queries 6th ser. 4 (1881) 464-465.
[P.I. printed. 1627. A "bohemian".]

The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, County Chester.
London: Hansard Publishing Union, 1890.
[P.I. extracted from. Bradwall, 1616. Lawyer (pp.134-6).]

Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories with an Appendix of Abstracts of Wills Now Lost or Destroyed. 2 vols. Manchester: For the Chetham Society, 1884, 1893.
[Wills, 103 printed, 251 abstracted. Lancashire and Cheshire, 1473-1746. Continuation of G.J. Piccope's 3 volumes (1857-1861), continued by J.P. Rylands (1897).]

"Lawrence Swettenham of Bradwell, Co. Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3 (1891) 73-74.
[Will printed. Bradwell, 1632. Gentry.]

EDLESTON, Robert H.
"Will of Charles Pawlett, first Duke of Bolton."
Teesdale Record Society Publications #11 (1945) 14-18.

EDWARDS, Dorothy
Early Northampton Wills: Preserved in the Northamptonshire Record Office.
Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, 2005.
WIlls, 145 printed. Latin originals w/English translations. 1462-1509. Five chapters of intro, glossary, indexes and list of occupations.]

EDWARDS, Jane Spencer
"Wills and Inventories of the First Purchasers of the Welsh Tract."
Pennsylvania Folklife 23 (1973/4) 2-15.
[Wills and P.I.s studied. Pennsylvania Colony, 1650-1750. Material culture, wealth.]

EDWARDS, Peter R.
"The Development of Dairy Farming on the North Staffordshire Plain in the Seventeenth Century."
Midland History 4 (1977) 175-190.
[P.I.s used. Staffordshire, 17th century. Cheese production, stocks, dairy cattle.]

"The Horse Trade of Chester in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society 62 (1979) 91-106.
[P.I.s used, also will. Malpas area, Chester, 16th and 17th centuries. Horse trade.]

"The Horse Trade of Shropshire in the Early Modern Period."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essay in Honour of Joan Thirsk, John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 227-249.
[P.I.s used. Shropshire. Agriculture and horse-breeding.]

ELLACOMBE, H. T.
Account of the Executors fo Richard, Bishop of London.
London: The Camden Society [Ser.2, Vol. 10], 1874.
[Prints will and P.I. of London, 1304; prints P.I. of Bishop of Exeter, 1310.]

ELLIS, Henry
"Inventory of Goods, &c, in the Manor of Cheseworth, Sedgwick, and other Parks, the Manor Place of Sheffield, and in the Forest of Worth, with the Iron-works..."  Sussex Archaeological Collections 13 (1861) 118-131.
[Inv.s printed. Sussex, 1549 (at time of attainder). Nobility, Lord Admiral Seymour.]

"Notices of Richard Curteys, Bishop of Chichester, 1570 to 1582."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 10 (1858) 56-58.
[P.I. printed. Goods at several sites, 1582. Clergy.]

ELLIS, William Patterson, ed.
"Liber Albus Civitatis Oxoniensis". Abstract of the wills, deeds, and enrolments contained in the White Book of the City of Oxford. Oxford: The Oxford Chronical Co., 1909.
[Wills, portions of 186, Englished. Oxford, 1320-1580s. Primarily real property provisions.]

ELTON, Arthur, HARRISON, Brett, and WARK, Keith
Researching the Country House. A Guide for Local Historians.
London: B.T. Batsford, 1992.
[Wills used (see table of contents) and P.I.s (see index) as sources.]

ELVEY, E.M.
The Courts of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham, 1483-1523.
Buckinghamshire Record Society #10, (1975).
[Wills, 250 printed, mostly Latin, 19 of women. Buckinghamshire, 1483-1523.]

ELVEY, Elizabeth
"Early Records of the Archdeaconry of Buckingham: Their importance to the social historian."
Records of Buckinghamshire 19 (1971) 55-66.
[Wills and P.I.s as sources; anecdotal use as illustrations.]

EMERY, F.V.
"The Farming Regions of Wales."
In The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Vol. IV 1500-1640, Joan Thirsk ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967; 113-160.
[P.I.s 340 used. Wales, 1580-1620. Farmers, livestock and crops (esp. pp. 124-142).]

"The Mechanics of Innovation: Clover cultivation in Wales before 1750."
Journal of Historical Geography 2 (1976) 35-48.
[P.I.s, 139 studied, little mention. Wales, 1676-1740. Farmers, clover.]

"West Glamorgan Farming circa 1580-1620."
National Library of Wales Journal 9 (1955/6) 392-400; 10 (1957/8) 17-32.
[P.I.s used. West Glamorgan, 1580-1620. Farmers, crops.]

EMMERSON, R.
"John Lorymer's Stock: 'marbylle stonys and laten wurke therto belonging."
Monumental Brass Society Transactions 13 (1983) 304-305.
[Will used. London, 1499. Marbler.]

EMMISON, Frederick G.
"Abstract of the Will of Frances Powlett, Widow."
The Essex Recusant 17 (1975) 13-17.
[Will abstracted; no intro. 1599. Catholic widow.]

Archives and Local History.
London: Methuen and Co., 1966.
[P.I.s, 5 printed, incl. a tanner's (1639), introduced as sources (pp.44-49). 1576, 1590, 1667, 1699.]

Elizabethan Life (vol. 3): Home, work and land.
Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1976.
[Wills used as one basis for Part One. Essex, 1558-1603.]

Elizabethan Life (vol. 4): Wills of Essex gentry and merchants.
Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1978.
[Wills, 359 printed. Essex, 1558-1603. Gentry and merchants, from P.C.C.]

Elizabethan Life (vol. 5): Wills of Gentry and Yeomen.
Chelmsford: Essex County Council, 1980.
[Wills, 277 printed. Essex, 1558-1603. Gentry and yeomen.]

Elizabethan Wills of South-west Essex.
Waddeson: Kylin Press, 1983.
[Wills, 418 abstracted. Southwest Essex, 1550-1603.]

Essex Wills: Archdeaconry of Essex, Archdeaconry of Colchester, Archdeaconry of Middlesex.
Washington: National Genealogical Society, 1982.
[Wills, 1002 abstracted. Essex. Constitutes first volume in series, see next entries.]

Essex Wills.
Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983.
[Wills, 880 abstracted. Essex, 16th century. Constitutes vol. 2 in series.]

Essex Wills.
Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1986.
[Wills, 1050 abstracted. Essex, 16th century. Constitutes vol. 3 in series.]

Essex Wills: the archdeaconry courts 1577-1584.
Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1987.
[Wills, 1004 abstracted. Essex, 1577-1584. Constitutes vol. 4 in series.]

"Fifty Thousand Ghosts Return: Essex wills, 1400-1858."
Essex Review 65 (1956) 27-36.
[Will printed. Essex, 1626; cutler. Discusses project of preserving and cataloging wills (see entries supra).]

How to Read Local Archives. 1550-1700.
London: The Historical Association, 1967.
[Wills and inventories as sources. Several photocopied with transcripts. Will of Rodwinter farmer, 1567, extracts from three other wills; partial P.I. of yeoman, 1618.]

Ingatestone Hall in 1600: An inventory. Publications #22.
Chelmford: Essex Record Office, 1954.
[Inv. printed. 1600. Nobility.]

"Jacobean Household Inventories."
Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 20 (1938) vi-ix, 1-145.
[P.I.s, 166 printed and analyzed. Bedfordshire, 1617-1619.]

"A New Scheme for Printing Essex Wills."
Archives 18 (1988) 214-215.
[Announcement of new project to publish 12,000 Essex wills, 1558-1603.]

EMMISON, F.G. and HALL, Olwen
"Life and Death in Foulness, 1503-1632."
Essex Journal 10 (1975) 2-32.
[Wills, 48 printed or extracted from. Foulness, 1502-1632.]

EMSLEY, K.
"The Will and Inventory of the Reverend Cuthbert Ridley, J.P."
Tyne 'n' Tweed 26 (1975) 6-13.

ENGLISH, Barbara
The Great Landowners of East Yorkshire 1530-1910.
New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990.
[Wills used. East Yorkshire. See Chapter 4, "Settlement and Succession". Social and economic history.]

ENGLISH, W.
"Occupations in Worcestershire Wills, 1451-1600."
Worcestershire Archaeology and Local History Newsletter 36 (1986) 19-21.
[Wills, 5394 cases in which occupations are noted are analyzed. Worcestershire, 1451-1600. Social and economic history.]

ERICKSON, Amy
“Using Probate Accounts.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 103-118.
[Introductory article presents the nature and practical usefulness of English probate accounts, stressing their limitations for historians.]

ERICKSON, Mary Louise
Women and Property in Early Modern England.
London: Routledge, 1993.
[P.I. accounts, 1,500 w/accompanying wills and P.I.s when possible. 1580-1720, 500 parishes. Property transmission: law vs. practice.]

ERLER, Mary C.
"Wynkyn de Worde's Will: Legatees and bequests."
The Library 6th ser. 10 (1988) 107-121.
[Will printed. London, 1534. Stationer; identifies legatees, other names.]

EUSTACE, P. Beryl, and GOODBODY, Olive C.                      IRELAND
Quaker Records, Dublin. Abstracts of Wills.
Dublin: Stationery Office, 1957; Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1992.
[Wills, 224 abstracted. Later 17th and 18th century. Quakers.]

EVANS, George Eyre                                                                        WALES 
"Bishop Richard Davies: His Will, AD 1581."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field CLub 8 (1912-1913) 86-87.
[Will printed. Bishop of St. David's. 1581. Clergy.]

"Will of Morgan Owen, Bishop of Llandaff, Carmarthen Grammar School Master, 1629-1663?."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society 27 (1936) 16-19.
[Will printed, 1644.]

EVANS, Joan
"An Inventory of Thomas, Lord Wharton, 1568."
Archaeological Journal 102 (1946) 134-150.
[P.I. printed. 1568. Gentry, Healaugh, near Kirkley Stephen, Yorks.].]

EVANS, John
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 4 (1857) 180-183.
[P.I. printed. Guildford, 1597. Clergy (rector).]

"Extracts from the Private Account Books of Sir William More, of Losely, in Surrey."
Archaeologia 36 (1855) 284-310.
[Inv. printed in part. Losely, 1556. Gentry.]

EVANS, Nesta
"Charitable Bequests and Their Recipients."
Local Historian 15 (1982) 225-226.
[Will studied. Flixton, 1608 (John Browne). Which families received his bequests; definition of the poor.]

The East Anglican Linen Industry: Rural industry and local economy, 1500-1850.
Brookfield, Vt.: Gower Publishing Co., 1985.
[P.I.s used throughout, see index.East Anglia, 1500-1850. Linen industry.]

"Farming and Land-holding in Wood-pasture, East Anglia, 1550-1650."
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 35 (1984) 303-316.
[Wills and P.I.s used in study. East Anglia, 1550-1650. Yeomen, agricultural history.]

"Inheritance, Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern Society as Revealed by Wills."
In Probate Records and the Local Community, ed. by Philip Riden, Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985; 53-70.
[Wills, 596 studied. 1372-1640. Women as testators: bequests, preambles as source for religious beliefs, executors.]

“Occupations and Status of Male Testators in Cambridgeshire, 1551-1750.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 176-188.
[PIs, nearly 19,000 studied from Consistory Court of Diocese of Ely, comparative across several counties.]

"Testators, Literacy, Education and Religious Beliefs."
Local Population Studies 25 (1980) 42-50.
[Wills, 282 studied. South Elham, 1550-1640. Puritans, literacy, religious beliefs.]

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1630-1635.
Wolfeboro, N.H.: Boydell Press, 1987.
[Wills, 894 abstracted, some P.I.s. Sudbury, 1630-5.]

Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1636-1638.
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1993.
[Wills, 576 abstracted., some P.I.s. Sudbury, 1636-8.]

EVERITT, Alan
"Farm Labourers."
In The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Vol. 4 1500- 1640, ed. by Joan Thirsk, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1967; 396-465.
[P.I.s used. 1560-1640. Peasants, wealth and employment; see index.]

EVERSON, P.L., TALOR, C.C. and DUNN, C.J.
Change and Continuity: Rural settlement in North-west Lincolnshire.
London: HMSO, 1991.
[P.I.s used anecdotally in reconstructing rural community. See index. Material culture, social and economic history.]

EXLEY, Catherine
"Testaments and Memories: Negotiating After-death Identities."
Morality 4 (1999) 249-267.

"EXTRANEOUS"
"Old Wills: No. 1."
East Anglian 1 (1864) 157-158.
[Wills, 10 extracted from. 1371-1545.]

"Will of Sir William Calthorp, Knight, 1494."
East Anglian 2 (1865) 210-212.
[Will printed in original English. Norfolk, 1494. Knight.]
 
 

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