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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 3^rd 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 4^th 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 3^rd 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 3^rd 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 3^rdser. 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 2^nd 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 Inve