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F.B.S. TO ANON
"Reply: wills proved in St. Paul's Cathedral."
Sussex Notes and Queries 10 (1944/5) 42-43.
[Probate jurisdiction of the Cathedral discussed.]

F.L.M.R. TO ANON
"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) 95-96, 177-178, 190; 8 (1901) 11-19; 10 (1904) 17-21, 44-45.
[Wills extracted from. Gloucestershire, genealogical interests.]

FAIRHOLT, F.W.
"On an Inventory of the Household of Sir Thomas Ramsey, Lord Mayor of London 1577."
Archaeologia 40 (1866) 311-342.
[Will and P.I. printed. London, 1590. Gentry.]

FAIRS, G.L.
"William Pennoyre, an Early Benefactor of Hay."
Radnorshire Society Transactions 44 (1974) 37-45.
[Will quoted and discussed. London, 1670. Clothmaker. Charitable foundation.]

FAITH, Rosamond Jane
"Peasant Families and Inheritance Customs in Medieval England."
Agricultural History Review 14 (1966) 77-95.
[Wills used in discussion of partible inheritance.]

FALLOW, T.M.
"English Medieval Chalices and Patens."
Archaeological Journal 43 (1886) 137-161; 364-402.
[Wills and P.I.s used and extracted from. 1255-1557. Religious history, church plate.]

FARR, M.W.
"Nicholas Eyffeler of Warwick, Glazier. Executors' accounts and other documents concerning the foundation of his almshouse charity, 1592-1621." Miscellany Dugdale Society #31 (1977) 29-110.
[P.I. printed. Warwick, 1592. German immigrant, glazier, charity.]

FARRER, Thomas C.
Wills and Administrations So Far Discovered by Me in England and Wales and the Isle of Man....
Dorking: Tanner (private), 1936.

FEHRENBACH, R.J. and LEEDHAM-GREEN, E.S.
Private Libraries in Renaissance England. 3 vols.
Binghampton, N.Y.: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1992.
[P.I.s, 112 used to create booklists. 1507-1625.]

FEINGOLD, Mordechai
"Jordan Revisited: Patterns of charitable giving in sixteenth and seventeenth century England."
History of Education 8 (1979) 257-273.
[Will use by Jordan for determining levels of charity attacked for methodological purposes.]

The Mathematician's Apprenticeship.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
[P.I.s discussed. 16th century. Cambridge University student P.I. on pp.115-121.]

FELL, John
"Some Illustrations of Home Life in Lonsdale, North of the Sands, in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 11 (1891) 368-398.
[P.I.s, 3 printed or extracted from. Blackbeck, Ulverstone, 1673-1689. Fell family]

FENTON, James Alexander
"Worthing 200 Years Ago."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 35 (1887) 93-100.
[P.I. printed. Worthing, 1662. Farmer.]

FERGUSON, Richard Saul
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 12 (1888) 129-130.
[P.I. printed. Carlisle, 1325. Clergy (Bishop John Ross).]

Testamenta Karleolensia: The series of wills from the prae-reformation registers of the bishops of Carlisle, 1353-1386.
London: Elliot Stock, 1893.
[Wills, 157 printed, Latin texts (some merely probate documents) indexed, with glossary. Carlisle, 1353-1386.]

"Wills Relating to the Dean and Chapter Library at Carlisle."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society  4 (1880) 1-12.
[Wills (2) and P.I. printed. Carlisle, 1698, 1700. Clergy; antiquarian.]

FERGUSON, W.F.
"Mathias Springham, 1561-1620."
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 23 (1972) 194-203.
[Will described and quoted from. Merchant taylor, 1620.]

FERRERS, E.
"Will of King James the Second, with an Inventory of Goods and Chattels."
Archaeologia 18 (1817) 224-239.
[Will and P.I. printed. Paris, 1699. Royalty, James II.]

FFOLIOTT, Rosemary                                                                 IRELAND
"Household stuff."
Irish Ancestor 1 (1969) 43-51.
[P.I.s, 5 printed. Early 18th century, compared with 17th century.]

                                                                                                        IRELAND
"The Inventory of John Mahon of Stokestown, Co. Roscommon, 1708."
Irish Ancestor 10 (1978) 77-80.
[P.I. printed. Stokestown, 1708. Gentry.]

FFOLIOTT, Rosemary, and BREFFNEY, Brian de                    IRELAND
"The Contents of Burton Hall, Co. Cork, in 1686."
Irish Ancestor 5 (1973) 104-113.
[P.I. printed. Burton Hall, 1686. Nobility.]

FIELDHOUSE, R.
"Agriculture in Wensleydale since 1600."
Northern History 16 (1980) 169-195.
[P.I.s, 458 studied. Wensleydale, 1575-1750. Farmers, agricultural history.]

"Social Structure from Tudor Lay Subsidies and Probate Inventories."
Local Population Studies 12 (1974) 9-24.
[P.I.s, 2 printed, 28 used. 16th century. Methodology.]

FIELDHOUSE, R. and JENNINGS, B.
A History of Richmond and Swaledale.
London: Philimore and Company, 1978.
[P.I.s, 500 analyzed. Richmond and Swaledale. Chapter 10 "Wealth and Poverty."]

FIENNES, D.E.M.
"The Will of Nathaniel Fiennes."
Cake and Cockhorse 9 (1984) 143-147.
[Will printed. Banbury, 1669. Gentry.]

FINBERG, H.P.R.
"A Vice-Archdeacon's Legacy."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 22 (1945) 285-287.
[Executor's proof in modern English. Tavistock Abbey, c.1190. Clergy.]

FINCH, Mary E.
The Wealth of Five Northamptonshire Families 1540-1640.
Northamptonshire Records Society #19 (1956).
[Wills used. Northamptonshire, 1540-1640. Bequests, disposition of lands, testamentary execution.]

FISHER, A.
"Sir Simon Leach of Cadeleigh, Knight."
Devon Notes and Queries 2 (1902-3) 29-37.
[Will extracted from. Cadeleigh, 1637. Lawyer?]

FISHER, F.J.
"Influenza and Inflation in Tudor England."
Economic History Review 2^nd ser. 18 (1965) 120-129; reprinted in London and the English Economy, 1500-1700, ed. by P.J. Corfield and N.B. Harte. Roncevert, W.V.: Hambledon Press, 1990; 163-172.
[Wills and probate runs used as evidence for regional mortality changes. 1551-1570. Medical and economic history.]

FISHER, J.
"Three Welsh Wills."
Archaeologia Cambrensis ser.6 19 (1919) 181-192.
[Wills, 3 printed. Wales, 1288, 1563, 1600. One clerical.]

FISHER, John L.
"Will of John Harbard, of West Ham, 1534."
Essex Review 55 (1946) 105-107.
[Will printed. West Ham, 1534. Poulterer.]

FISHWICK, Henry
The History of the Parish of Bispham, in the County of Lancaster.
Chetham Society, n.s. #10 (1887).
[Wills, 10 abstracted from British Museum records. Bispham, 1560-1580.]

The History of the Parish of Poulton-le-Fylde, in the County of Lancaster.
Chetham Society, n.s. #8 (1885).
[Wills, 25 abstracted. Poulton-le-Fylde, 1557-1597.]

The History of the Parish of St. Michaels-on-Wyre in the County of Lancaster....
Chetham Society, n.s. #25 (1891).
[Wills, 21 abstracted. St. Michaels-on-Wyre, 16th century.]

"The Lemons of Preston."
The Reliquary 17 (1876-7) 169-173.
[P.I. printed. Preston, 1609. Gentry.]

"Rockdale in the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire n.s.2 (1889) 15-36.
[P.I. printed. Rocjdale, 1636. Fletcher.]

FITCH, Marc
Testamentary Records in the Commissary Court of London. 2 vols.
London: H.M.S.O., 1969, 1974.
[Wills indexed. London court, 1374-1570. Now in Guildhall Library.]

FITZHERBERT, Reginald H.C.
"Will of Ralph Fitzherbert, Esq., of Norbury, A.D. 1483."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 19 (1897) 94-100.
[Will abstracted and discussed, along with earlier will of his. Norbury, 1483. Gentleman.]

"Will of the Alebrated Judge, Sir Anthony Fitzherbert."
Reliquary 21 (1880-1) 234-236.
[Will printed. Norbury, 1538. Judge.]

FLEMING, P.W.
"Charity, Faith and the Gentry of Kent, 1422-1529."
In Property and Politics: Essays in late medieval English history, A.J. Pollard, ed., Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1984; 36-58.
[Wills, some 200 sampled. Kent, 1422-1529. Religious history.]

FLETCHER, A.
A County Community in Peace and War: Sussex, 1600-1660.
London: ???????????1975.

FLETCHER, J.M.J.
"Bishop Pursglove of Tideswell."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 32 (1910) 1-32.
[Will printed. Hull, 1580. Clergy.]

FLETCHER, William G.D.
"Abstract of Herrick Wills."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society 6 (1885) 127-134.
[Wills, 25 abstracted, one P.I. printed (1543). Herrick family, 1494-1707.]

"Notes from Early Leicestershire Wills."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society 6 (1888) 54-59.
[Wills discused as sources, especially for the Reformation period.]

"Peter Drinkwater, Alderman of Chester, 1631."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 14 (1919) 52-52, 53-54.
[Will abstracted. Chester, 1631. Mayor and Sheriff.]

"Thomas Davenport, Mayor of Leicester, 1553-4."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural, and Archaeological Society 6 (1886) 216-220.
[Will printed. Leicester, 1555. Burgher, mayor.]

"Will of Sir Edward Bromley, Knt, of Shifnal Grange, 1626."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeology and Natural History Society 2^nd ser. 5 (1893) 225-228.
[Wills, 2 printed. Shifnal Grange, 1625, 1656. Gentry, husband and wife.]

FLOOD, Susan, ed.
St. Albans Wills, 1471-1500.
Hitchen: Hertfordshire Record Society, 1993.
[Wills, 303 printed. Short intro, glossary, index.]

FLOWER, John W.
"Notices of the Family of Cobham of Sterborough Castle, Lingfield, Surrey."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 2 (1864) 115-194.
[Wills, 3 of family printed, 1369, 1400, 1403. Original Latin or French w/trans.]

FLOWER-SMITH, M.
"Arms and the Men."
In Uffculme a Peculiar Parish: A Devon Town from Tudor Times, ed. by P. Wyatt and R. Stanes (Uffculme:?????????, 1997) pp.??????????

FOISTER, S.
"Paintings and Other Works of Art in Sixteenth-century English Inventories."
Burlington Magazine 123 (1981) 273-282.
[P.I.s discussed very generally as sources, organized by type of artwork.]

FOOTE, Lisa H., and HAINES, Carol H.                                     COLONIAL
"Household Vernacular in Concord, Massachusetts, Probate Inventories: 1655-1800."
American Speech: 1600 to the present, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1983; 55-69.
[P.I.s, 505 studied. Concord, 1655-1800. Domestic goods terminology.]

FORBES, Harriette M.                                                                  COLONIAL
Gravestones of Early New England and the Men Who Made Them. 1653-1800.
New York: Da Capo, 1967; reprint of 1927 text.
[P.I.s studied to identify carvers of specific headstones.]

FORD, Judith
"A Study of Wills and Will Making in the Period 1500-1533 with Special Reference to the Copy Wills in the Probate Registers of the Archdeacon of Bedford, 1489-1533."  Ph.D. dissertation, Open University (Eng.), 1992.
[Wills, 780 studied. Bedford, 1500-1533. Succession legalities and research methodology.]

FORDE, Helen
"Friends and Authority: a consideration of attitudes and expedients with particular reference to Derbyshire."  Journal of the Friends Historical Society 54 (1978) 115-125.
[Wills: problems of non-oath-swearing Quakers as witnesses to and executors of wills. Late 17th and early 18th centuries.]

FORMAN, Benno M.                                                                    COLONIAL
"The Chest of Drawers in America, 1635-1730: The origin of the joined chest of drawers." Winterthur Portfolio 20 (1985) 1-30.
[P.I.s as sources on types and evolution of early chests.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Furniture for Dressing in Early America, 1650-1730: Forms, nomenclature and use."
Winterthur Portfolio 22 (1987) 149-164.
[P.I.s, anecdotal use as sources on dressing table types.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"A New Light on Early Grave Markers."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 104 (1968) 127-129.
[P.I.s, 2 studied. Essex Co., 1669, 1680. Wooden grave markers.]

FORRER, H.B.
"Strettill and Moss Families."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 81-89 and passim.
[Family wills from Mobberley abstracted.]

"Will of Hugh Strettill of Mobberley, 1682."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 90-91.
[Will had monumental inscription printed. Mobberley, 1682. Yeoman.]

FOSTER, C.W.
"Abstracts of Lincolnshire Wills."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 23:182 (1934) 337-334, 345-352; 23:183 (1934) 55-56.
[Wills, about 700 abstracted, no indices. Lincolnshire, 1650s.]

Abstracts of Lincolnshire Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Horncastle: W.K. Morton and Sons, nd.
Wills abstracted; no intro. Lincolnshire, 1649-1653.]

Lincoln Wills. 3 vols.
(London: J. Ruddock and Sons) Lincolnshire Record Society vols. 10 (1914), 24 (1920), 32 (1930).
[Wills abstracted, but "exhaustively". Vol. 10: 244 wills (1271-1526); 24: 338 wills (1505-1530); 32: 413 wills (1530-1532).]

"Lincolnshire Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury."
Associated Architectural Societies Reports and Papers 41 (1934) 61-114, 179-218.
[Wills, 107 printed (translated). Lincolnshire, 1384-1490. Arranged by register book.]

FOSTER, George Jarvis
Doctors' Commons: Its courts and registries, with a treatise on probate court business. 3rd edition.
London: Reeves, 1871.
[Testamentary practice and probate. London.]

FOSTER, Joseph
Wills and Administrations of the Various Backhouse Families registered in the Archdeaconry Court of Richmond. London: Chiswick Press, 1894.
[Wills and/or P.I.s, 181 abstracted. Backhouse family, most 17th and 18th century.]

FOSTER, W.E.
"Wills of Irby Family."
Fenland Notes and Queries 5 (1901-3) 8-12, 40-43.
[Wills of the family (12) abstracted. Thetford, 1505 (2); Moulton, 1531; Gosberton, 1548, 1563; Boston, 1562, 1613; Sutterton, 1638; Snoring, 1665; London, 1617; Southwark, 1624; Alceemarle, Va., 1651.]

"Will of the Tache Family."
Fenland Notes and Queries (5 (1901-3) 43-46.
[Wills, 3 abstracted. Quaplad, 1496; Waplode, 1553; Moulton, 1580, yeoman.]

FOWLER, J.T.
Acts of the Chapter of the Collegiate Church of SS. Peter and Wilfred, Ripon A.D. 1452-1506. 2 vols. Durham: Surtees Society, 1874.
[Wills, 90 recorded (see index); 7 P.I.s recorded. Ripon, 1453-1506.]

FRANCE, R. Sharpe
"An Inventory of the Goods of John Cuerdon of Cuerdon, 1601."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 91 (1939) 193-204.
[P.I. printed. Cuerdon, 1601. Gentry.]

"Wills"
History 50 (1965) 36-39.
[Introductory article in their "Short Guide to Records" series.]

FRASER, C.M. and EMSLEY, Kenneth
"Newcastle Merchant Adventurers from West Yorkshire."
Archaeologia Aeliana 5th ser. 6 (1978) 117-129.
[Will abstracted. Newcastle, 1658. Merchant adventurer.]

FRASER, M.
"Costume in the Wills and Inventories."
In Uffculme a Peculiar Parish: A Devon Town from Tudor Times, ed. by P. Wyatt adn R. Stanes (Uffculme:?????????, 1997) pp.??????????

FREEMAN, C.E.
"Elizabethan Inventories 1562-1591."
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 32 (1952) 92-107.
[P.I.s, 15 printed. Bedfordshire, 1562-1591.]

FRESHFIELD, Edwin
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 12 (1889) 376-380.
[P.I. (partial) printed. London, 1579. Gentleman.]

Wills, leases and memoranda in the book of records of the Parish of St. Christopher Le Stocks in the City of London. London: Rixon and Arnold, 1895.
[Wills, 7 printed (Latin, some English). London, 1400-1483.]

FRIEDMAN, John B.
"Books, Owners and Makers in Fifteenth-century Yorkshire: The evidence from some wills and extant manuscripts."
In Latin and Vernacular, A.J.Minnis ed., Wolfeboro, N.H.: D.S.Brewer, 1989; 111-127.
[Wills studied. Yorkshire, 1369-1497. Books.]

FRIEDRICHS, Rhoda L.
"The Two Last Wills of Ralph Lord Cromwell."
Nottingham Medieval Studies 34 (1990) 93-112.
[Wills discussed. 1431, 1454. Gentry, Treasurer of England.]

FROST, P.
"Yeomen and Metalsmiths: Livestock in the dual economy in south Staffordshire, 1560-1720."
Agricultural History Review 29 (1981) 29-41.
[P.I.s, 1,809 studied. South Staffordshire, 1560-1720. Agricultural history, livestock.]

FRY, George S.
Abstracts of Wills Relating to Walthamstow, Co. Essex, 1335-1559.
Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, 1921.

FULLER, E.A.
"The Will of Richard Dixton, esq."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 11 (1886/7) 155-160.
[Will printed in original English. Circencester, 1438. Gentleman.]

FURNESS, P.
"Copy of the Will of Edward Eyre, of Hope."
Reliquary 8 (1867-8) 60-61.
[Will printed. Hope, 1559. Gentry.]

FURNIVALL, Frederick James
The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, London, A.D. 1387-1439.
Early English Text Society, Old ser. #78 (1882); reprinted by Oxford Univeristy Press (New York, 1964).
[Wills printed in original English. London, 1387-1439.]

FUSSEL, G.E.
"Rural Readings in Old Time England."
Library Review 19 (1964) 405-408.
[Printed P.I.s as sources of booklists; anecdotal, some quantification.]

FUSSELL, G.E. and ATWATER, V.G.B.
"Farmers' Goods and Chattels: 1500 to 1800."
History 20 (1935) 211-20.
[P.I.s used. Earliest discusion of invs. for agricultural history.]

G.-W., A.A. TO ANON.....
"Will of Richard Larden, of Alpraham, husbandman, 1591."
Cheshire Sheaf 3^rd ser. 34 (1941) 96.
[Will printed. Alpraham, 1591. Agriculturist.]

GAIRDNER, James
The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. 7 vols.
London, 1904; New York: AMS Press, 1965.
[Wills, 9 family, 1419-1510, at VI:188-209; IV, wills of 1465, 1476; III:147-189, 1459 inv. of Fastolf's plate, etc.]

"William Gregory's Will."
In his Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century (London: Camden Society, 1876) pp. xlii-xlix.
[Will, English original printed. London, 1456, skinner.]

GALLEY, C.
The Demography of Early Modern Towns: York in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,1998.

GALPIN, F.W.
"The History of the Church of Hatfield Regis or Broad Oak, with Some Account of the Priory Buildings."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society n.s. 7 (1898) 327-345.

GALWEY, H.D.                                                                             IRELAND
"Irish Wills from Barcelona."
The Irish Genealogist 6 (1981) 212-218.
[Wills, 15 abstracted. Barcelona, 1726-1748. Officers in Spanish service.]

GARLICK, Joan
"Farming Activities at Thame and Woodstock in the Early Seventeenth Century: The Evidence of Probate Inventories."
Oxfordshire Local History 3 #7 (1991) 291-316.
[PIs, 54 studied. 1598-1640; gentry and yeomen. Patterns of land use; animals; crops; wealth. With tables and graphs.]

GARRARD, Rachel P.
"English Probate Inventories and their Use in Studying the Significance of the Domestic Interior, 1570-1700."
In Probate Inventories Ad Van der Woude and Anton Schuurman eds., Wagenigen: Afdeling Agrarische Geshiedenis Landbouwhogeschool, 1980; 55-82.
[P.I.s, c.2500 used. Suffolk, 1570-1700. House interiors, rooms, furnishings.]

GAUTHIER, D.P.
"The Role of Inheritance in Locke's Political Theory."
Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 32 (1966) 38-45.
[Inheritance seen through Locke's natural law view of property.]

GEARE, Ralph Holwell
"Holwells of Membury, Colyton, Axmouth."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 26 (1954-5) 52-53.
[Will abstracted. Membury, proved 1624. Yeoman.]

"GENEALOGIST"
"Abstracts of Wills at the Probate Registry, Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 1 (1896) 56.
[Wills, 4 abstracted. Coggeshall, 1639 (yeoman); Mosbury, 1657; Wallazie, 1663 (knight); Great Saughall, 1677 (gentry).]

"Abstracts of Wills at the Probate Registry, Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 2 (1898) 144-145.
[Wills, 3 abstracted. Trafford, 1585 (with P.I. value); Newton cu`Larton, 1609 (yeoman; with creditors); Little Sutton, 1611 (with debts listed).]

"Genealogical Abstracts from the Wills at the Probate Registry, Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 2 (1898) 86-87.
[Wills, 4 extracted from or abstracted. Willaston, 1612, 1617, yeomen; Newton, 1628 (gentry); Littell Budworth, 1611 (with debts).]

"The Will of a Monk of Hilbree Island."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 4 (1903) 2-3.
[Will printed with intro. Hilbree Island, 1550. Monk.]

"The Will of an Early Rector of West Kirby."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 4 (1902) 12-13.
[Will printed. West Kirby, 1526. Clergy.]

"The Will of Thomas Bunbury of Stanney, esquire."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 1 (1896) 44-45.
[Will printed. Stanney, 1600. Knight.]

GEORGE, Edwin and Stella
Bristol Probate Inventories. Part 1: 1542-1650. (B.R.S. Publication #54)
Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2002. 
[PIs, 108 printed. Short intro.]

Bristol Probate Inventories. Part 2: 1657-1689. (B.R.S. Publication #57)
Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 2005. 
[PIs, 111 printed. Short intro.]

Guide to the Probate Inventories of the Bristol Deanery of the Diocese of Bristol, 1542-1804.
Bristol Record Society, 1988.
[P.I.s tabulated, including year, name, occupation, parish/area, value. Bristol Deanery, 1542-1804.]

GIBBON, Charles
"The Dedications of the Churches and Chapels Now Existing in the Rapes of Chichester, Arundal and Brammer..."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 12 (1960) 61-111.
[Wills used. Sussex. Church and chapel dedications listed with quotations from documents.]

GIBBONS, Alfred
Early Lincoln Wills. An abstract of all the wills and administrations recorded in the Episcopal registers of the old Diocese of Lincoln, comprising the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntington, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester & Hertford, 1280-1547. Lincoln: J. Williamson, 1888.
[Wills abstracted, indexed.]

Notes on the Visitation of Lincolnshire, 1634. 2 vols.
Lincoln: James Williamson, 1898.
[Wills, several abstracted. Lincolnshire families, 17th century.]

GIBSON, Jeremy Sumner Wycherly
"A Disputed Inheritance."
Cake and Cockhorse 6 (1974-6) 5:83-88.
[Will of John Webb.]

"Inventories in the Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury."
Local Historian 14 (1980) 222-225.
[P.I.s and their organization in the archive discussed.]

A Simplified Guide to Probate Jurisdictions.
Solihull: Federation of Family History Societies, 1985.
[62-page directory organized by county.]

Wills and Where to Find Them.
British Record Society Publication, 1974; 1994.
[Guide to county archives and indices for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland.]

GIBSON, Strickland
Abstracts from the Wills and Testamentary Documents of Binders, Printers and Stationers of Oxford from 1493 to 1638.  London: Bibliographical Society, 1907.
[Wills, 30 introductions and abstracts; a few inventories. Oxford, 1493-1638. Book trade.]

GIFFEN, Jane C.                                                    COLONIAL
"A Selection of New Hampshire Inventories."
Historical New Hampshire 24 (1969) 3-78.
[P.I.s, 12 printed. Portsmouth, 17th-18th cc. Upper classes.]

GITTINGS, Clare
Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England.
London: Croom Helm, 1984.
[Wills used; anecdotal use in relation to burial instructions (pp. 22-38).]

"Probate Accounts: A neglected resource."
Local Historian 21 (1991) 51-59.
[Probate accounts discussed as sources; 16th/17th cc.]

GIUSEPPI, M.S.
"On the Testament of Sir Hugh de Neville, Written at Acre, 1267."
Archaeologia 56 (1899) 357-370.
[Will printed (French and translated). Acre, 1267. Crusader/ pilgrim; with other documentary evidence on Hugh.]

GIVEN, Lois V.                                                                COLONIAL
"`The Great and Stately Palace': Inventories of the Estate of John and Elizabeth Tatham."
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83 (1959) 265-270.
[P.I.s, 2 studied. Burlington, N.J., 1700. House and furnishings.]

GIVEN-WILSON, C.J.
The Chronicle of Adam of Usk, 1377-1421.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
[Will of Usk printed in Latin and English. Usk, 1429. Dr. of Laws.]

"Richard II and his Grandfather's Will (with text of petitions)."
English Historical Review 93 (April 1978) 320-337.
[Will referred to (Edward III); problems with enfoeffment to use, Richard's interference with execution of the will.]

GLENNIE, Paul
"Continuity and Change in Hertfordshire Agriculture 1550-1700. I. Patterns of production; II. Trends in crop yields and their determinants." The Agricultural History Review 36 (1988) 55-76, 145-161.
[P.I.s, 2150 used. Hertfordshire, 1550-1700. Farming patterns, yields.]

GODDARD, Rainald W.K.
"Goddard of Sedgehill, Co. Wilts."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 3 (1899-01) 521-525; 4 (1902-4) 171-174.
[Wills, 9, and 2 P.I.s printed. 1550-1654 (wills); P.I. of 1666 (gent.) and Meere, 1679 (spinster).]

GODMAN, Percy S.
"Borough of Horsham Market Deed."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 46 (1903) 181-194.
[Wills, 3 printed. Sussex, 1574, 1593, 1601.]

"Itchingfield."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 51 (1948) 95-158.
[See "Wills" section (pp.109-119). Some texts and extracts included.]

"Two Sussex Inventories."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 51 (1908) 115-122.
[P.I.s printed. Sussex, 1677, 1747.]

GOFFIN, R.J.R.
The Testamentary Executor in England and Elsewhere.
London: C.J. Clay and sons, 1901.
[Historical discussion of role of executor in Roman and English law.]

GOLDBERG, P.J.P.
"Female Labour Service and Marriage in the Late Medieval Urban North."
Northern History 22 (1986) 18-38.
[Wills used anecdotally. Bequests to support poor girls, widows.]

"Lay Book Ownership in Late Medieval York: The evidence of wills."
Library 16 (1994) 181-189.
[Wills, 2,286 studied. York, 1321-1500. Books; all lay classes.]

"Mortality and Economic Change in the Diocese of York, 1390-1514."
Northern History 24 (1988) 38-55.
[P.I.s studied for evidence of demographic and economic change. York Diocese, 1390-1514.]

"Women in Fifteenth-century Town Life."
In Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century, J.A.F. Thomson ed., Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988; 107-128.
[Wills used anecdotally. Social networks, occupations, lay piety.]

Women in Medieval England: c.1275-1525.
New York: Manchester University Press, 1995.
[Wills, 50 excerpted from. By women and related to women. Scattered through the collection of docs; see index.]

GOLDING, C.
"Will of William Hayles the Elder, of Sutton in Suffolk."
East Anglian 3 (1866-1868) 293-295.
[Will printed. Sutton, 1624. Yeoman.]

GOODACRE, John
The Transformation of a Peasant Economy: Townspeople and villagers in the Lutterworth area 1500-1700. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1994.
[P.I.s used, poorly indexed, see tables. Lutterworth, 1500-1700. Population growth, relative wealth, occupations.]

GOODALL, Boyd P.
"Goodall Wills."
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica 5^th ser. 9 (1936) 160-161.
[Wills, 2 register abstracts printed. 1593, 1603/4.]

GOODBODY, Olive C.                                                                  IRELAND
"Inventories of Five Dublin Quaker Merchants in the Late Seventeenth Century."
Irish Ancestor 10 (1978) 38-48.
[P.I.s, 5 printed. Dublin, 1684-1695. Shearman, grocer, weaver, chandler, clothier; Quakers.]

"Quaker Inventories."                                                                  IRELAND
Irish Ancestor 3 (1971) 52-62.
[P.I.s, 5 printed. Dublin, 1675-1758. Merchant, clothier, miller, draper, farmer; Quakers.]

GOODER, Arthur
Coventry at the Time of the Black Death.
Coventry: Coventry Branch of the Historical Association, 1998.
[Will of Coventry merchant printed in English, 1361; pp. 51-52.]

GOOSE, Nigel R.
"Decay and Regeneration in Seventeenth-century Reading."
Southern History 6 (1984) 53-74.
[Wills, 12 studied. Reading, 1660-1699. Cash bequests.]

“Fertility and Mortality in Pre-Industrial English Towns from Probate and Parish Register Evidence.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 189-212.
[PIs and other records studied for Colchester, Reading and Cambridge, 1524-1670s.]

GOOSE, Nigel and Nesta EVANS
“Wills as an Historical Source.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 38-71.
[Overview of ways in which historians have used Early Modern English wills as primary sources: studies of e.g. literacy, population, kinship, inheritance, religious affiliation.]

GOTTFRIED, Robert S.
Epidemic Disease in Fifteenth-century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1978.
[Wills, 15,000 analyzed by computer. Norfolk, Suffolk, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, 1430-1480. Full statistical study of the sample population.]

"Population, Plague and the Sweating Sickness: Demographic movements in the Late Fifteenth Century."
Journal of British Studies 17 (1977) 12-37.
[Wills used, 15,000. Initial published study of material on which Epidemic Disease was based. 1470-1487.Mortality patterns; replacement ratios; wealth and age variables.]

GOULD, Jim
"Settlement and Farming in the Parish of Aldridge (West Midlands) Prior to 1650."
Transactions of the South Staffordshhire Archaeological and Natural History Society 20 (1978) 41-56.
[P.I.s used. Aldridge 1533-1643. Farming.]

GOWER, G.W.G.L.
Genealogy of the Family of Gresham.
London: ???, 1883.
[Will of Sir Thomas Gresham printed. London, 1575; pp. 80-85.]

GRACE, F.
"The Administration of a Will."
Suffolk Review 12 (1989) 18-25.
[Will and P.I. printed and compared with household account book. 1698. Yeoman.]

GRAINGER, Francis
"Agriculture in Cumberland in Ancient Times."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 9 (1909) 120-146.
[Will and P.I. printed. Cumberland, 1575. Farmer.]

"The Chambers Family of Raby Cote."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 1 (1901) 194-234.
[Wills, 5 printed. Family, 1544-1652.]

GRANT, H.M. and BARNARD, E.A.B.
"The Parish and Church of Kingsnorton."
Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeology Society n.s. 2 (1924/5) 123-145.
[Wills, six discussed and quoted from. Kingsnorton, 16th century.]

GRASSBY, Richard
The Business Community of Seventeenth-century England.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[Wills and P.I.s used, but primarily secondary literature that uses them. Extensive use indexed. Merchants, inheritance, religiosity, wealth, etc.]

"The Personal Wealth of the Business Community in Seventeenth-century England."
Economic History Review 2^nd ser. 23 (1970) 220-234.
[Wills and P;I.s used anecdotally as evidence of wealth.]

GRAY, George and PALMER, William Mortlock
Abstracts of Wills of Printers of Cambridge 1504-1699.
London: Blades, East, and Blades, 1915.
[Wills, 48 abstracted in original language. Cambridge, 1504-1699. Printers.]

GRAY, Irvine E.
"Smith of Nibley's Will."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 78 (1960) 129-136.
[Will printed. 1640. John Smith, historian of the Berkeleys.]

"Some Seventeenth-century Token-issuers."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 84 (1965) 101-109.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally in study of this craft.]

GREAVES, Richard L.
Society and Religion in Elizabethan England.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
[Wills, scattered, anecdotal, unindexed use. See for example p. 584 on clerical charity, 708-736 on `funerals and charity'. Religious history.]

GREEN, Angela
"Legacy of History: Essex wills before and after the Reformation."
Essex Review #258 (1957) 63-73.
[Wills discussed in general terms, especially as source for religious history.]

GREEN, Francis                                                                WALES
"Early Wills in West Wales."
West Wales Historical Records 7 (1917-18) 143-164.
[Wills discussed and extracted from. West Wales, 1399-1600s.]

"Pembrokeshire in By-gone Days."
West Wales Historical Records 9 (1923) 67-134.
[Wills used. Pp. 113-117 lists all pewter and silver articles mentioned in Pembrokeshire wills, 1551-1569. Material culture.]

GREENHILL, Frank A.
"Seven Leicestershire Wills."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society 38 (1962/3) 9-20.
[Wills printed. Leicestershire, 1506-1633.]

GREENSTREET, James
"Early Kentish Wills (A.D. 1442-1467)."
Archaeologia Cantiana 11 (1877) 370-387.
[Wills, 12 printed. Kent, 1442-1467.]

"Wills and Other Records, Relating to the Family of Finch."
Archaeologia Cantiana 13 (1880) 321-338.
[Wills, 8 printed or abstracted. Family, 1443-1597.]

"Wills and Other Records Relating to the Family of Hodsoll."
Archaeologia Cantiana 14 (1882) 223-240.
[Wills, 12 printed. Family, 1423/4-1712.]

GREENWELL, W.
Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Part 2.
Surtees Society #38 (1860).
[Wills, 150 printed, many with P.I.s. 1580-1599. Continuation of Raines #2 (1850), continued by Hodgson #112 (1906).]

GREENWOOD, J.R.
"The Will of Thomas Salter of London, 1558."
Norfolk Archaeology 38 (1983) 280-295.
[Will printed. London, 1558. Catholic merchant of Norwich.]

GREENWOOD, J. Roger and BAYLISS, Jon
"Wills about Brasses and Burials, from the Norfolk Record Office."
Monumental Brass Society Bulletin 12 (1976) 11-13.

GREVEN, Philip J.                                                                        COLONIAL
Four Generations: Population, land and family in colonial Andover, Massachusetts.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970.
[Wills, 273 used extensively; indexed. Andover, 1650-1800. Wealth, demographics, inheritance patterns.]

GRIFFITHS, W.A.                                                                        WALES
"Some Early Montgomeryshire Wills at St. Asaph and Somerset House Relating to the Parishes of Llandysilio, Llandrinio, Guilsfield." Collections Historical and Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire 37 (1913) 75-92.
[Wills briefly abstracted; genealogical materials. Later 16th to early 18th centuries.]

GRIFFITS, R.G.
"An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Thomas Cowcher, Mercer, of Worcester (1643)."
Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society 14 (1938) 45-60.
[P.I. printed, with introduction. Worcester, 1643. Mercer.]

GROSS, Charles
"Mortmain in Medieval Boroughs."
American Historical Review 12 (1907) 733-742.
[Inheritance law discussed.]

GROVES, Jill
Ashton-on-Mersey and Sale Wills: Wills and Probate Inventories from Two Cheshire Townships. 3 parts.
Sale: Northern Writers Advisory Services, 1999.
[Part 1: 1600-1650; Part 2: 1651-1700. Part 3: 1701-1760. 101 docs printed w/annotations; index adn glossary. Historical intro to towns.]

Piggings, Husslements and Desperate Debts: A Social History of Northeast Cheshire through Wills and Probate Inventories.
Sale: Northern Writers Advisory Services, 1994.
["Analysis of over 500 wills and PIs..." None printed. Housing, food, women, wealth, crops, land, religion.]

GROVES, Jill, and Pat HIGGINBOTTOM
Bowden Wills: Wills and Probate Inventories from a Cheshire Township. 3 parts.
Sale: Northern Writers Advisory Services, 1997.
[Part 1: 1600-1650; Part 2: 1651-1689; Part 3: 1690-1760. 56 probate cases, includes administration docs., incl. evidence. Glossary, index.]

GUNNER, William H.
"Original Document."
Archaeological Journal 9 (1852) 358-360.
[Will printed. Achonry, 1397. Clergy.]

"The Will of John Fromond, Benefactor to Winchester College."
Archaeological Journal 16 (1859) 166-173.
[Will printed (Latin) and discussed. 1420. Steward of College; gentry. Allington, Hamps.]

"The Will of Luke de Ponynges, Lord St. John, of Baskyng."
Archaeological Journal 11 (1854) 45-48.
[Will printed (Latin). Baskyng, 1376. Nobility.]

GUNNER, W.H. and WAY, Albert
"The Will of Sir John de Foxle, of Apuldrefield, Kent; A.D. 1378."
Archaeological Journal 15 (1858) 267-277.
[Will printed (Latin). Apuldrefield, 1378. Gentry.]

GYLL, Gordon
"Wills of the Family of Gylle, of Hertfordshire."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 8 (1843) 283-297.
[Wills, 10 printed. 1485-1641. London, Wediall, Little Courte, Bocklande, Shepreth. Includes priest, widow, knight.]

HAENSEL, Paul
"Die mittelalterlichen Erbschaftssteuren in England."
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Kirchenrecht 20 (1911) 1-50.
[Prints will. William Beauchamp, 1296.]

HAIGH, Christopher
"Anticlericalism and the English Reformation."
In his The English Reformation Revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; 56-74.
[Will making and probate practice as role of clergy changes.]

Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
[Wills, 109 studied. See esp. Chapter 5, "Orthodox Piety and Practices." Lancashire, 1519-1603. Religious history.]

HAIR, Paul Edward Hedley
English Seamen and Traders in Guinea, 1553-1565: The New Evidence of Their Wills.
Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1992.
[Wills, 90 transcribed. Long intro, well indexed. From 7 voyages; sailors, merchants.]

HALE, William H.and ELLACOMBE, Henry T.
Account of the Executors of Richard de Gravesend, Bishop of London, 1303, and of the Executors of Thomas de Bitton, Bishop of Exeter, 1310.
Camden Society Publications #10 (1874).
[P.I.s, 2 printed; will of Thomas printed. 1303, 1310. Clergy.]

HALL, Edgar Vine
"Four Westminster Wills."
Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica 5^th ser. 9 (1937) 312-316, 335-337.
[Wills printed. 1611 (2), 1617, 1622.]

Marlowe's Death at Deptford Strand. Wills of the jurors at the inquest: With some other wills.
London: Mitchell and Clarke, 1937.
[Wills, a dozen extracted. Late 16th-early 17th century.]

Romance of Wills and Testaments.
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.
[Popularized, anecdotal romp through early wills, mostly English 18th century. Includes Dr. Johnson's, animals, ghosts, servants, love and strife...]

Spiritual Bequeathing.
London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1930.
[Wills quoted from anecdotally; idiosyncratic choices by Hall.]

Wills from Shakespeare's Town and Times.
London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, n.d.
[Wills, 10 printed. Stratford, late 16th and early 17th centuries.]

HALL, Elisabeth
Michael Wharton of North Bar House, Beverly: An inventory of his possessions: With some other inventories from the area of Beverly and Hull.   Hull: University of Hull, 1986.

HALL, J. Melland
"Charlton Abbots: will of Alice Mountaine, A.D. 1611."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 407-408.
[Will printed. Charlton Abbots, 1611. Widow.]

"Harescombe: the will of James Mitchell, with inventory, A.D. 1698."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 4 (1890) 164-167.
[Will and P.I. printed. Harescombe, 1698. Gentleman.]

"Shipton Oliffe: will of Giles Deen, A.D. 1634."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 4 (1890) 132-134.
[Will printed. Shipton Oliffe, 1634. Yeoman.]

"The Will of John Arnolde, Rector of St. Michaels, Gloucestershire, 1450."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 532-533.
[Will printed. Gloucestershire, 1450. Clergy.]

"The Will of John Camber, 1496."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 444-446.
[Will printed. Sevenhampton, 1496. Merchant.]

"The Will of John Redcle, of Pychyncumbe, 1537."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 573.
[Will printed. Pynchyncumbe, 1537.]

"The Will of the Reverend Richard Capel, M.A."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 638-642.
[Will printed. Pithcombe, 1656. Clergy, author.]

HALL, Olwen
"Inventories of Ingatestone and West Thorndon Halls, 1572-1685."
Essex Journal 11 (1976) 2-13.
[P.I.s, 4 printed. Ingatestone and West Thorndon, 1572, 1608, 1613, 1685.]

HALL, T. Walter
A Descriptive Catalogue of Miscellaneous Charters and Other Documents Relating to the Districts of Sheffield and Rotherham... Sheffield: J.W. Northend, 1916.
[Wills various abstracted; 1372-1752, arranged chronologically.]

Sheffield 1297 to 1554. A catalogue of ancient charters...with abstracts of all wills proved at York to 1544.
Sheffield: J.W. Northend, 1913.
[Wills, 59 abstracted. Sheffield, 1400-1554.]

HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard
Ancient Inventories of Furniture, Pictures, Tapestry, etc. Illustrative of the Domestic Manners of the English in the Sixteenth Century. London: J.E. Adland, 1854.
[P.I.s, 4 printed. 1588 (Kenilworth Castle), 1610 (unspecified, after death of wife), 1626, 1635-5 (Countess of Leicester).]

An Inventory of the Goods and Chattels of Ann Shaw, the Friend and Neighbour of Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon. London: Chiswick Press, 1880.
[P.I. printed, no notes or intro. Stratford, 1630.]

Some Account of a Collection of Several Thousand Bills, Accounts, and Inventories, Illustrating the History of Prices between the Years 1650 and 1750. Brixton Hill: for private circulation only, 1852.
[P.I. printed. 1665. Note pp. 6-8 for notices of other 17th and 18th-century inventories printed in series.]

HAMER, D.
"Was William Shakespeare William Shakeshafte?"
Review of English Studies n.s. 21 (Fall, 1970) 41-48.
[Will extracted from; question of cross identity.]

HAMILTON, William
Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew Compiled about 1710.
Glasgow: Hutchinson and Brookman, 1831; Paisley: A. Gardner, 1878.
[P.I. extracted from. Blantyre, 1609. Clergy; also references made throughout Part 1 to wills.]

HAMILTON-EDWARDS, Gerald
In Search of British Ancestry. 3rd edition.
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983.
[Handbook to sources; see "Wills and administrations," pp. 32-42, and index.]

HANAWALT, Barbara 
"Reading the Lives of the Illiterate: London's Poor."
Speculum 80 (2005) 1067-1086.
[Wills, 29% of 228 wills used anecdotally. London, 1300-1349. Alms.]

"Remarriage as an Option for Urban and Rural Widows in Late Medieval England."
In Wife and Widow in Medieval England, ed. by Sue Sheridan Walker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993; 141-164.
[Will research used anecdotally, see esp. 143-7 on `Widows' Material Resources.']

The Ties that Bound: Peasant families in medieval England.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
[Wills, some 389 studied. Bedfordshire, 15th century. Inheritance, bequests, social networks.]

HANDLER, Jerome S., and POHLMANN, John T.                  COLONIAL
"Slave Manumission and Freedmen in Seventeenth-century Barbados."
William and Mary Quarterly 41 (1984) 390-408.
[Wills, 3,777 studied. Barbados, 1650-1700. Manumission; bequests to slaves.]

HANLEY, H.A.
"Sixteenth-century People: Some aspects of social life in Elizabethan Bucks."
Records of Buckinghamshire 19 (1973) 259-271.
[Will of "the disinheritor" studied. Buckinghamshire, 1579. Husbandman.]

HARDING, Vanessa
"Burial Choice and Burial Location in Later Medieval London."
In Death in Towns. Urban Responses to the Dying and Dead, 100-1600, New York: Leicester University Press, 1992; 119-135.
[Wills, 500 studied. London, 1380-1541. Burial choices.]

HARFORD, Dundas
"Richard of Caister, and His Metrical Prayer."
Norfolk Archaeology 17 (1910) 221-244.
[Will printed (Latin). Caister, 1420.]

HARDING, Vanessa
The Dead and the Living in Paris and London, 1500-1670.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
[Willmaking; bequests, funeral and burial arrangements. See index.]

HARLEY, Laurence S.
"A 13th-century Will and Great Horkesley Chantry."
Essex Journal 6 (1971/2) 98-100.
[Will discussed. Great Horkesley, 1278. Rector.]

HARMER, F.E.
Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914.
[Wills (Anglo-Saxon) printed and translated: the Reve Abba, Earl Aelfred, King Alfred, Earl Aethelwold, King Eadred. Nobility and royalty.]

HARPER-BILL, Christopher
The Register of John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1486-1500. Vol.2.
Rochester, New York: The Boydell Press, 1991.
[Wills, 8 printed. Canterbury diocese, 1487-1493. See pp.6-91.]

HARROD, Henry
"Extracts from Wills in the Norwich Registries."
Norfolk Archaeology 1 (1847) 111-128, 255-272; 4 (1855) 317-339; 5 (1859) 209-220.
[Wills, 74 extracted from or abstracted (orig. English or translated). Norwich, 1370-1518, 1644-1650.]

HARRIES, Joan
Crondall in the Time of Elizabeth I: A study based mainly on the probate inventories.
Farnham: Farnham and District Museum Society, 1986.
[P.I.s, 90 used anecdotally; also pp. 10-18 on wills and bequests.]

HARRIS, Alan
"The Agriculture of the East Riding of Yorkshire before the Parliamentary Enclosures."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 40 (1959) 119-128.
[P.I.s, 60 used. Yorkshire's East Riding, 1690-1740. Agricultural history, crops, land use.]

HARRIS, Barbara Jean
"A New Look at the Reformation: aristocratic women and nunneries, 1450-1540."
Journal of British Studies 32 (1993) 89-113.
[Wills, 393 studied. Nobles and knights who left dowries. Uses printed sources.]

HARRIS, Virgil McClure
Ancient, Curious and Famous Wills.
London: Stanley Paul and Co., 1912.
[Wills, similar to collection of Peignot; some French, mostly English wills. Confused organization, no listing.]

HARRISON, Frederick
Life in a Medieval College; the Story of the Vicars-choral of York Minster.
London: J. Murray, 1952.
[Wills, 4 abstracted, more discussed. York, 1380/1, 1387, 1506, 1524. Clergy.]

HARRISON, J.V.
"Five Bewcastle Wills."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquities and Archaeology Society n.s. 67 (1967) 93-111.
[Wills printed. Routledge family, 1587-1617. Gentry.]

"Kirkhaugh Wills."
Archaeologia Aeliana 4^th ser. 40 (1962) 253-276; 41 (1963) 173-193.
[Wills, 98 abstracted. Kirkhaugh, 1663-1818 (most 18th-century). Grouped by surnames.]

HARRISON, Mona C.
"The Probate Inventory of an Early Seventeeth Century Northampton Mercer and Linen Draper." Northamptonshire Past and Present 6 (1982/3) 313-317.
[P.I. printed. Northampton, 1625. Mercer.]

HART, W.H.
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2 (1863) 243-247.
[Wills, 2 printed. Folkestone, 1534.]

"The Will of Thomas Babbington, of Dethic, Derbys."
Transactions of the Derbyshire Archaeology and Natural History Society 19 (1897) 80-83.
[Will printed. Dethic, 1517. Neither intro nor notes.]

HARTHORN, M.J.
"The Will of George White of Hutton, 1584."
The Essex Recusant 16 (1974) 100-102.
[Will printed. Hutton, 1584. Catholic Gentry.]

HARTSHORNE, Albert
"The Gold Chains, the Pendants, the Paternosters, and the Zones of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and Later Times."
Archaeological Journal  66 (1909) 77-102.
[Wills and PIs used anecdotally. York, 1347-1509. Appendix: abstracts the terms ofthe will of John of Gaunt (1399), with references to his jewelery.]

HARVEY, John
"Last Will of (King of England) Richard II, 16 April 1399."
In his The Plantagenets 1154-1485, Toronto: B.T. Batsford, 1948; 156-159.
[Will printed in translation. Richard II, 1399. Royalty.]

HARVEY, John Hooper
"The Will of Edward the Black Prince, 1376."
In his The Black Prince and His Age, London: Batsford, 1976; 160-165.
[Will printed in translation. Westminster, 1399. Black Prince, royalty.]

HARVEY, William M.
"Will of the Reverend John Harvey, of Iron Acton, 1693."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 503-505.
[Will printed. Iron Acton, 1693. Clergy.]

"Will of Thomas Viner, D.D., Dean of Gloucester, 1673."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 432-433.
[Will printed. Gloucester, 1673. Clergy.]

HASKINS, George                                                                       COLONIAL
"The Beginnings of Partible Inheritance in the American Colonies."
In Essays in the History of Early American Law, David Flaherty ed., Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969; 204-244.
[Intestacy and the problem of "imperfect" wills. See esp. pp. 214 ff.]

HASSALL, W.O.
Wheatley Records 956-1956.
Oxford Record Society #37 (1956).
[Will printed. Wheatley, 1631. Gentry.]

HASWELL, Francis
"The Family of Dalston."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society n.s. 10 (1910) 201-270.
[Wills included. Several of the family printed. 1369-1738.]

HASWELL, Francis
"The Family of Dalston."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society n.s. 10 (1910) 201-270.
[Wills included. Several of the family printed. 1369-1738.]

HATCHER, J. and BARKER, T.C.
A History of British Pewter.
London: Longman, 1974.
[Wills used (pp. 54-57); P.I.s used (pp. 88-103). Pewter.]

HAVINDEN, M.A.
"Agricultural Progress in Open-field Oxfordshire."
Agricultural History Review 9 (1961) 73-83; reprinted in Agriculture and Economic Growth in England, 1650-1815, E.L. Jones ed., New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967, 66-79; and in Essays in Agrarian History, W.E. Minchinton ed., New York: A.M. Kelley, 1968; 147-159.
[P.I.s, 226 studied. Oxfordshire, 1580-1640. Agricultural change and history.]

Household and Farm Inventories in Oxfordshire, 1550-1590.
Oxfordshire Record Society #44. London: HMSO, 1965.
[P.I.s, 258 printed with glossary. Oxfordshire, 1550-1590. Rural owners and tenants.]

HAWKES, Arthur John
"Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh, Knight and Baronet (1628-1684)."
Chetham Miscellanies n.s. 8:3 (1945) 1-72.
[Will printed in Appendix I. Roger B., grandfather of R.B, 1641. Gentry.]

HAWLEY, Anna L.                                                                         COLONIAL
"The Meaning of Absence: Household inventories in Surrey County, Virginia, 1690-1715."
In Early American Probate Inventories, ed. by Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1987; 23-32.
[P.I.s, 221 studied. Surrey County, Virginia, 1690-1715. Interpreting the absence of expected items in P.I.s.]

HAZELTINE, H.D.
"Comments on the Writings known as Anglo-Saxon Wills."
In Anglo-Saxon Wills, Dorothy Whitelock ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930; vii-xl.
[Wills discussed in this intro to the collection. Anglo- Saxon.]

HEAL, Felicity
Of Prelates and Princes. A study of the economic and Social Position of the Tudor Episcopate.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
[Wills used in Appendix III, lists of charitable bequests and foundations. 1488-1536. Clergy.]

HEALY, William                                                    IRELAND
History and Antiquities of Kilkenny.
Kilkenny: P.M. Egan, 1893.
[Will printed. Kilkenny, 1619. Merchant.]

HEANLEY, Robert M.
"Wainfleet Records."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 4 (1896) 49-51.
[Will printed, Latin and English. Wainfleet, 1468. Yeoman.]

"The Will of Robert Barrett of Wainfleet."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 3 (1893) 46-50.
[Will printed with discussion. Wainfleet, 1527. "Guard of the Castle of Cales."]

HEATH, Peter
"Urban Piety in the Later Middle Ages: The evidence of Hull wills."
In Church, Politics and Patronage in the 15th Century, R.B. Dobson ed., New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984; 209-234.
[Wills, 355 studied. Hull, 1400-1529. Religious sensibilities.]

HELMHOLZ, Richard H.
"The English Law of Wills and the ius commune, 1450-1640."
In Marriage, Property and Succession, ed. by Lloyd Bonfield. Berlin: Dunckert und Humblot, 1992; 309-326.
[Studies the connections between English and continental laws and practices, 1450-1640.]

"Married Women's Wills in Later Medieval England."
In Wife and Widow in Medieval England, ed. by Sue Sheridan Walker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993; 165-183.
[Will making discussed; evolution of testamentary capacity of women.]

"The Origin of Holographic Wills in English Law."
Journal of Legal History 15 (1994) 97-108.
[The slow acceptance of testator hand-written wills during the 16th century; problem of fewer than accepted minimum of witnesses.]

Roman Canon Law in Reformation England.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
[Discussion of law and administration: "Testaments and Probate", pp. 79-89.]

HELT, J.S.W.
"Women, Memory, and Will-making in Elizabethan England."
In The Place of the Dead, ed. by Bruce Gordon and Peter Marshall (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000) pp. 188-205.

HEMS, Harry
"Curious Wills and Bequests."
The Western Antiquary 2 (1882) 16, 23, 27.
[Wills extracted from. Exeter, 16th century.]

HENSTOCK, Adrian
"Cheese Manufacture and Marketing in Derbyshire and North Staffordshire, 1670-1870."
Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 89 (1969) 32-46.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Derbyshire and North Staffordshire, 1670-1870. Cheese.]

HERRIDGE, D.M.
Surrey Probate Inventories, 1558-1603.
Woking: Surrey Record Society, 2005.
[PIs, 445 printed. Short intro; notes on wills and administrations; indexes and glossary.]

HERVEY, Mary F.S.
"A Lumley Inventory of 1609."
Walpole Society 6 (1918) 36-46.
[Inv. printed. Furniture and art. See Cust (1918).]

"Will, Epitaph and Last Wishes of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundal (1641)."
In her The Life, Correspondence and Collections of Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921; reprinted by Kraus (New York, 1969); 459-461.
[Will printed. Thomas Howard, 1641. Noble.]

HESELTON, K.Y.
"Sunbury Household Effects, 1673-1724 (probate inventories)."
Sunbury and Shepperton Local History Society Occasional Publications 2 (1976) pages?

HEWITT, John
"Cheshire and Lancashire Wills; the families of Brereton."
The Cheshire Sheaf 3^rd ser. 27 (1930).
[Like many of the Cheshire Sheaf numbers, this one has several wills scattered throughout the volume; these include local notables, mostly late medieval and early modern, consult `contents' under "wills".]

"Seals Used upon Wills, Proved at Chester."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 28 (1935) 66.
[Wills, 4 pre-1700 discussed. Chester and Hanbridge. Seals.]

"William Bridges, Priest of Macclesfield."
Chesire Sheaf 3 (1891) 144-145.
[Will printed. Macclesfield, 1536. Clergy.]

HEY, David G.
"A Dual Economy in South Yorkshire."
Agricultural History Review 17 (1969) 108-119.
[P.I. studied. Yorkshire, late 17th century.]

An English Rural Community: Myddle under the Tudors and Stuarts.
New York: Humanities Press, Inc., 1974.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally, though animal ownership tabulated. Myddle, 1485-1603. Rural and agricultural history.]

Family History and Local History in England.
New York: Longman, 1987.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed on pp. 51-61; 2 P.I.s printed (Rotherham butcher 1696, Yorkshire widow 1698).]

The Fiery Blades of Hallamshire: Sheffield and its neighbourhood, 1660-1740.
New York: Leicester University Press, 1991.
[P.I.s used. Hallamshire, 1660-1740. Cutlers and other craftsmen; see esp. pp. 102-135, and index.]

"The Nailmaking Background of the Walkers and the Booths."
Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society 10 (1971) 31-36.
[P.I.s used.]

"The Origins and Early Growth of the Hallamshire Cutlery and Allied Trades."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk, John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 343-367.
[P.I.s used anecdotally for wheels and other cutlery matters.]

The Oxford Guide to Family History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
[Wills and probate records discussed briefly as genealogical sources. See pp. 184-200.]

Packmen, Carriers and Packhorse Roads: Trades and communication in North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1980.
[Wills and P.I.s used extensively (indexed). Derbyshire and Yorkshire.]

The Rural Metalworkers of the Sheffield Region.
Leicester University, Department of English Local History Occasional Paper #5 (second series). Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1972.
[P.I.s used. Sheffield. Dual economy of metalworking and agriculture.]

HICKS, Michael A.
"Chantries, Obits and Almshouses: the Hungerford foundations 1325-1478."
In The Church in Pre-Reformation Society. Essays in Honour of F.R.H. DuBoulay, Caroline M. Barron and Christopher Harper-Bill eds., Wolfeboro, N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1985; 90-108.
[Wills used anecdotally. Hungerford family,1325-1478. Religious history.]

"Four Studies in Conventional Piety."
Southern History 13 (1991) 1-21.
[Wills used. Hungerford family, 15th century. Religious history, personal piety.]

"Piety and Lineage in the Wars of the Roses: The Hungerford experience."
In Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages, R.A. Griffiths and J. Sherborne eds., New York: St. Martins Press, 1986; 90-108.
[Wills used anecdotally. Hungerford, 1450-1485. Religious history.]

"The Piety of Margaret, Lady Hungerford (d.1478)."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 38 (1987) 19-38.
[Will used. Hungerford, 1478. Nobility.]

HIGGS, Laquita Mae Alexander
"Lay Piety in the Borough of Colchester, 1485-1558."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1983.
[Wills studied. Colchester, 1485-1558. Language and bequests as measures of religious change with the Reformation.]

"Wills and Religious Mentality in Tudor Colchester."
Essex Archaeology and History 22 (1991) 87-100.
[Wills, 942 studied. 1485-1603. LAnguage, masses, prayers, bequests, mention of clergy. Lay men and women, clergy.]

HIGHFIELD, J.R.L.
The Early Rolls of Merton College, Oxford.
Oxford Historical Society n.s. #18 (1964).
[Will and codicil printed (Latin). Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester and founder of college, 1276/7. Clergy, education.]

HINGESTON-RANDOLPH, F.C.
The Register of Walter de Stapeldon, Bishop of Exeter.
London: G. Bell and Sons, 1892.
[P.I. (Walter's) printed, with executors' docs. Exeter, 1328. Clergy.]

HINKLEY, E.J.F
A History of the Richard Watts Charity.
Rochester: Richard Watts and the City of Rochester Almshouse Charities, 1979.
[Will printed (App. I). Rochester, 1579. Merchant; see Chapter 3 "The Founding of the Charity."]

"HISTORICUS"
"The Calveley Family of Lea."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 32 (1938) 43-44.
[Will abstracted. The Lea, 1622. Spinster.]

HOARE, Richard Colt
The History of Modern Wiltshire. Old and New Sarum [Salisbury].
London: J.B. Nichols and J.G. Nichols, 1843.
[P.I. printed (Eng. trans.). Salisbury, 1376. Burgher.]

HODGES, Laura F.
"Chaucer's Costume Rhetoric in his Portrait of the Prioress."
Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1985.
[Wills, etc. used to show that her headress was indeed customary. 14th century. Clothing.]

HODGES, Mary
“Widows of the ‘Middling Sort’ and Their Assets in Two Seventeenth-Century Towns.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 306-324.
[PIs and wills studied, Thame and Woodstock, Oxfordshire. 1600-1700. Money-lending, assets, bequests, poverty.]

HODGETT, Gerald A.
The Cartulary of Holy Trinity Aldgate.
London Record Society #7 (1971).
[Wills, 7 abstracted and trans. London, 1296-1407.]

HODGSON, J.C.
"The Manors of Brandon and Branton."
Archaeologia Aeliana 3rd ser. 20 (1923) 28-54.
[Wills, 6 abstracted. Branton, 1608-1704. Family; gentry.]

Wills and Inventories form the Registry at Durham, Part 3.
Surtees Society #112 (1906).
[Wills, 285 printed with some P.I.s. c.1550-1600. Continuation of Raines (1850) and Greenwell #38 (1860).]

HODGSON, J.F.
"On `Low Side Windows'."
Archaeologia Aeliana 23 (1902) 43-235.
[Wills discussed on pp.75-85. Primarily pre-Reformation. Bequests to churches, esp. candles, "lights", their use in funerals.]

HOEPPNER MORAN, Jo Ann
The Growth of English Schooling: Learning, literacy and laicization in Pre-Reformation York diocese.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
[Wills, 10,500 used extensively, indexed. York diocese, 1389-1530. See tables 9, 10; Appendix A "Testamentary Sources Used in this Study."]

HOLDERNESS, B.A.
"Aspects of Inter-regional Land Use and Agriculture in Lincolnshire, 1600-1850."
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology 9 (1974) 35-42.
[P.I.s used. Lincolnshire, 1600-1850. Agricultural history, land use, livestock types, structural changes.]

"The Clergy as Moneylenders in England, 1550-1700."
In Princes and Paupers in the English Church, 1500-1800, Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal eds., Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1981; 195-209.
[P.I.s., 165 used, some wills. Lincoln and Norwich dioceses, 1500-1800. Clergy, social history.]

"Credit in a Rural Community, 1660-1800: Some neglected aspects of probate inventories."
Midland History 3 (1975) 94-115.
[P.I.s, 1,466 studied. Lindsey, 1635-9, 1660-1799. Economic history mortgages, loans, land market.]

"Credit in English Rural Society before the Nineteenth Century, with Special Reference to the Period 1650-1720." 
Agricultural History Review 24 (1976) 97-109.
[P.I.s, 4,650 studied. East Midlands, Norfolk, 1650-1720. Economic history, mortgages, loans, etc.]

"Widows in Pre-industrial Society: An essay upon their economic functions."
In Land, Kinship and Life Cycle, Richard M. Smith ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984; 423-442.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Widows as sources of credit before 1750.]

HOLLINGSHEAD, J.E.
"The Gentry of South-west Lancashire in the Later Sixteenth Century."
Northern History 26 (1990) 82-102.
[P.I.s, 90 tabulated. Lancashire, 1550-1600. Gentry, social history, valuation, status.]

HOLLY
"Dame Joan Stanley of Hooton."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 26-27.
[Will and part of P.I. printed. Hooton, 1614.]

"The Family of Hockenhull of Prenton."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 20 (1924) 5-6.
[Will printed. Prenton, 1646. Esquire.]

"The Will of Dr. Robert Leche, Chancellor of the Diocese of Chester, 1587."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 26 (1934) 85.
[Will printed. Chester, 1587. Clergy.]

"The Will of Reverend Randle Simcock, Curate of Chistleton, 1542."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 1 (1896) 87-88.
[Will printed. Chistleton, 1542. Clergy.]

"The Will of Robert Bostock of Moulton in the Parish of Davenham, 1537."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 26 (1934) 35.
[Will abstracted. Moulton, 1537. Gentry.]

"The Will of Robert Hesketh of Ryecrofte, in Bowdon, Co. Chester, 1516."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 32 (1938) 48.
[Will printed. Ryecrofte, 1516.]

HOLMAN, H.W.
"Will of John Raleigh."
Devon Notes and Queries 2 (1902-3) 19.
[Will printed. Topsham, 1501. Merchant.]

HOLMAN, Joan, and HERRIDGE, Marion
Index of Surrey Probate Inventories, 16th-19th Centuries.
Epsom: Domestic Buildings research Group, 1986.
[P.I.s tabulated: name/year, quality, call#.]

HOLSTEIN, Mark
Diversions of a Will Collector.
Boston: Merrymount Press, 1929.
[Text of a talk to the Quarto Club of New York City.]

HOLT, Richard
Birmingham Wills and Inventories, 1551-1600.
Birmingham: The University, 1985.
[Prints 28 PIs, 13 wills and 12 pairs, "chosen at random." Short intro; glossary.]

The History of the Town of Birmingham, 1166 to 1600.
Oxford; Dugdale Society Occasional Papers #30 (1985).
[P.I.s, 7 printed. Birmingham, 1551-1590. Craftsmen.]

HOLT, Richard, INGRAM, Janet and JARMAN, John
Birmingham Wills and Inventories, 1551-1600.
Birmingham: Birmingham University Press, 1985.

HONIGMAN, E.A.J., and BROCK, Susan
Playhouse Wills, 1558-1642. An edition of wills by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the London theatre.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
[Wills, 136 printed, with 3 P.I.s. London, 1559-1686. Actors, managers, dramatists, theater owners.]

HOOK, David
"John Davies of Kidwell: A neglected literary figure of the seventeenth century."
The Carmarthenshire Antiquary 11 (1975) 104-124.
[P.I. printed. Welsh, 1693. Author]

HOOK, David and Robert
"More Light on the Life of John Davies of Kidwell."
The Carmarthenshire Antiquary 15 (1979) 57-66.
[P.I. printed, of David D., brother of John?. Welsh, 1684/5.]

HOOPER, Clarence
"Extract from the Will of a Ludlow Tradesman."
British Archaeological Journal 22 (1868) 269-270.
[Will extracted from. Ludlow, 1551. Tradesman.]

HOOPER, Hilda J.
"Some Surrey Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 51 (1950) 82-96; 52 (1952) 32-49.
[Wills, 39 printed. Surrey (Streatham, primarily), 1413-1568.]

HOPE, T.M.
"Two Interiors. Topping Hall, Hatfield Peverel, in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
Essex Review 53 (1944) 121-124.
[Inv.s printed. Essex, 1625, 1736 (merchant).]

HOPE, William H. St. John
"The Last Testament and Inventory of John de Veer, Thirteenth Earl of Oxford."
Archaeologia 66 (1915) 275-345.
[Will (1509) and P.I. (1513) printed. Nobility.]

"On the English Drinking Bowls Called Mazers."
Archaeologia 50 (1887) 129-193.
[Will and P.I.s, 66 used. 1322-1562. Evidence for mazers.]

"The Will of John Lowe, S.T.P., Bishop of Rochester."
Reliquary n.s. 8 (1894) 34-36.
[Will printed, Latin. Rochester, 1463. Clergy.]

HOPE-EDWARDS, E.C.
"Sequestration Papers of Sir Thomas Edwardes, Baronet."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 3^rd ser. 1 (1901) 321-372.
[Wills, 4 of family printed. Shropshire, 1634 (2), 1639 (2). Gentry.]

HORN, James                                                                                COLONIAL
"Adapting to a New World: A comparative study of local society in England and Maryland, 1650-1700."
In Colonial Chesapeake Society, ed. by Lois Carr, Philip Morgan and Jean Russo, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988; 133-175.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Maryland colony and Vale of Berkley, 1660-1699. Lifestyle, material culture, housing.]

"The Distribution of Wealth in the Vale of Berkley Gloucestershire, 1660-1700."
Southern History 3 (1981) 81-109.
[Wills and P.I.s, 983 studied. Vale of Berkley, 1660-1700. Economic and social history.]

HORN, Joyce
The Register of Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury, 1407-1417.
Canterbury and York Society #72 (1982).
[Wills, 12 abstracted. Salisbury Diocese, 1407-1414. Documents #695-706.]

HORNYOLD-STRICKLAND, H.
"The Will of Edward Knipe, a Tudor Vicar of Cliburn and Warcop."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society 44 (1945) 151-159.
[Will printed. Cliburn and Warcop, 1574. Clergy.]

HORROX, Rosemary
The Black Death.
New York: Manchester University Press, 1994.
[At pp. 263-266 compares Lancaster parish deaths to willmakers, 1349.]

HORWITZ, Henry
"Testamentary Practise, Family Strategies and the Last Phases of the Custom of London, 1660-1725."
Law and History Review 2 (1984) 223-240.
[Wills, 290 examined. London, 1660-1725. How 75% circumvented restrictions on devolvement of chattels to strict heirs.]

HOSKINS, William George
"A Devon Yeoman in 1648."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 22 (1946) 162-164.
[P.I. printed, will discussed. Devon, 1648. Yeoman.]

"An East Devon Yeoman."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 21 (1941) 241-248.
[P.I. printed. Devon, 1625. Yeoman.]

"An Elizabethan Butcher of Leicester."
In his Essays in Leicestershire History, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1950; 108-122.
[P.I. printed and discussed. Leicester, 1588. Butcher.]

"The Elizabethan Merchants of Exeter."
In Elizabethan Government and Society, S.T. Bindoff, J. Hurstfield, and C.H. Williams eds., London: The Athlone Press, 1961; 163-187.
[P.I.s and wills, 27 used anecdotally. Exeter, later 16th century. Prosopography.]

"An Elizabethan Provincial Town: Leicester."
In Studies in Social History: A tribute to G.M. Trevelyan, J.H. Plumb ed., New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1955; 33-67; reprinted in W.G. Hoskins' Provincial England 1963; 86-114.
[P.I.s, 47 analyzed. Leicester, 1557-1612. Tables of occupations, valuation of goods; discussion of housing.]

"An Exeter's Bookseller's Stock in 1615."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 21 (1941) 36-38.
[P.I. printed. Exeter, 1615. Books.]

Fieldwork in Local History.
London: Faber and Faber, 1967, 1982.
[P.I.s as sources: Chapter 6 "Small Houses;" introductory discussion.]

"Galby and Frisby."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society 22 (1945) 173-211; reprinted in W.G. Hoskins' Essays in Leicestershire History, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1950; 24-66.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally.]

"The Leicester County Parson in the Sixteenth Century."
In his Essays in Leicestershire History, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1950; 1-23.
"The Leicestershire Farmer in the Seventeenth Century."
Agricultural History 25 (1951) 9-20; reprinted in his Provincial England, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1964; 149-168.
[P.I.s, 47 studied. Leicestershire, 1600s. Farmers, early and important article.]

"The Leicestershire Farmer in the Sixteenth Century."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society 22 (1945) 33-95; revised and reprinted in his Essays in Leicestershire History, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 1950; 123-183.
[P.I.s used as sole source. Leicestershire, 1500s. Seminal article using P.I.s for agricultural history.]

Local History in England.
London: Longman, 1972.
[Probate materials as sources. See pp. 117-8.]

The Midland Peasant.
London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1957.
[P.I.s used extensively, some use of wills as evidence for disposal of property. 1500s, 1600s. Agricultural and social history.]

Old Devon.
New York, A.M. Kelley, 1968.
[P.I.s used anecdotally, 1 printed (Axmouth, 1625, yeoman). Exeter, 1564-1618. Merchants.]

"The Rebuilding of Rural England, 1570-1640."
Past and Present 4 (1953) 44-59; reprinted in his Provincial England 1963; 131-148.
[P.I.s studied. Residential construction and reconstruction. Housing and economic history.]

HOULBROOKE, Ralph A.
Church Courts and the People during the English Reformation 1520-1570.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
[Wills discussed in Chapter 4, "Testamentary Administration and Litigation" (pp.89-116). Legal and administrative background.]

"Death, Church and Family in England between the late Fifteenth and the early Eighteenth Centuries."
In his Death, Ritual and Bereavement, New York: Routledge, 1989; 25-42.
[Wills, 600 studied. Archdeaconries of Norwich and Berkshire. yeomen, husbandmen, craftsmen, small traders; pre-occupations, increasing secularism.]

The English Family 1450-1700.
New York: Longman, 1984.
[Wills used. See especially Chapters 7 ("Death and the Broken Family") and 8 ("Inheritance"). Social history.]

"Henry VIII's Wills: A comment."
The Historical Journal 37 (1994) 891-899.
[Will discussed. Response to E.W.Ives' earlier article; see below.]

"The Letters and Will of Thomas Grene, Rector of Poringland."
Norfolk Record Society 56 (1991) 59-76.
[Will printed. London, 1545(?). Clergy.]

HOVENDEN, Robert
The Registers of the Walloon or Stranger's Church in Canterbury.
Huguenot Society of London #5 (1891-8).
[Wills, 101 abstracts printed; arranged chronologically. Canterbury, 1586-1704. Resident foreigners, Huguenots.]

HOWARD, Joseph Jackson
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2 (1862) 170-171.
[Will extracted from. London, 1631. Founder's bequest of a glass to his guild.]

HOWARD, Joseph Jackson, and HASLEWOOD, Francis
"The Dering Pedigree."
Archaeologia Cantiana 10 (1876) 327-351.
[Wills, 89 extracted from. Family, 1480-1698.]

HOWARD, Joseph Jackson, and PERCEVAL, Charles Spencer
"An Holograph Will of Edward Grimston, Esq., Made in 1449."
Archaeologia 45 (1877) 124-126.
[Will printed. London, 1449. Gentleman and diplomat.]

HOWARD, W.J.
Pinner Wills, Part I.
Pinner Local History Society, 1974.
[Wills of Edlyn, Reading and Button families.]

HOWDEN, Marjorie Peers
The Register of Richard Fox, Lord Bishop of Durham, 1494-1501.
Publications of the Surtees Society #142 (1932).
[Will printed. London, 1532 (sic). Cleric.]

HOWELL, Cicely
Land, Family and Inheritance in Transition: Kibworth Harcourt 1280-1700.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
[Wills and P.I.s used extensively. Kibworth Harcourt, 1280-1700. Demographics, map-making, economic conditions, inheritance strategies.]

"Peasant Inheritance Customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700."
In Family and Inheritance, Jack Goody et al. eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976; 112-155.
[Wills, 207 studied. Leicestershire, 16th and 17th centuries. Peasants, inheritance.]

HOWELLS, B.E.
"Pembrokeshire Farming circa 1580-1620."
National Library of Wales Journal 9 (1955/6) 239-251, 313- 333, 413-439.
[P.I.s used. Pembrokeshire, 1580-1620. Agricultural history, material culture (crops, implements, buildings, etc.).]

HOWSE, W.H.
"An Inventory of 1662."
Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 35 (1958) 167.
[P.I. printed with cash values. Lymbrooke, 1662. Widow.]

HUDGINS, Carter L. COLONIAL
"Patrician Culture, Public Ritual and Political Authority in Virginia, 1680-1740."
Ph.D. dissertation, College of William and Mary, 1984.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Virginia, 1680-1740. Gentry; dress, housing, diet, burial customs as class distinguishers.]

HUDLESTON, C. Roy
"Askew of Standing Stones."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society 79 (1979) 57-74.
[Wills, 5 of family printed. Standing Stones, 1669, 1670, 1698, 1702, 1728.]

"Canon Winder Hall and its Owners."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 87 (1987) 157-169.
[Wills, 4 printed. 1638 (w/P.I.), 1652, 1683, 1691.]

"Denton Holme, part 1."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 68 (1968) 72-116.
[Wills, 16 printed. 2 of Arthur Forster, Gentleman (1680, 1693) and 14 from 18th century.]

"George Whitefield's Ancestry."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 59 (1937) 221-242.
[Wills discussed and extracted from. Both sides of Whitefield's family (late 17th century).]

"The Warener Family."
Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 68 (1968) 194.
[Will abstracted and extracted from. Barnard Castle, 1583. Carpenter?]

HUDSON, J. Clare
"An Early Dymoke Will - Leonis Dymoke Militis."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 4 (1896) 11-13.
[Will printed. Lincolnshire, 1519. Knight.]

HUDSON, John
Land, Law and Lordship in Anglo-Norman England.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
[Testamentary succession to land discussed on pp. 120-124.]

HUGHES, Jonathon
Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and secular life in late medieval Yorkshire.
Wolfeboro N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1988.
[Wills discussed, "Testamentary Bequests" pp.47-57. Yorkshire, 15th century. Religious history.]

HULME, Harold CORNWALL
"A Probate Inventory of Goods and Chattels of Sir John Eliot, Late Prisoner in the Tower, 1633."
Camden Miscellany, XVI, Camden Society Publications 3^rd ser. #52 (1936) i-viii, 1-15.
[P.I. printed. Port Eliot and Cuttenbeake, 1633. Gentry.]

HULSE, Lynn
"Apollo's Whirligig: William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle and his music collection."
Seventeenth Century 9 (1994) 213-246.
[Inv. music sheet list printed. 1636. Nobility.]

HULTON, Mary
"`Company and Fellowship': the medieval weavers of Coventry."
Dugdale Society Occasional Papers #31 (1987) pages?
[P.I.s and wills, 2 printed and discussed. Coventry, 1558, 1559. Weavers (pp. 18-23).]

HUMPHREYS, Arthur L.
Bucklebury. A Berkshire Parish in the Home of Bolingbroke 1701-1715.
Reading: by the author, 1932.
[Wills, 121 abstracted. Archdeacon's Court of Berkshire, 1518-1870.]

"Elias Ashmole."
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal 28 (1924) 27-51.
[Will printed. 1686.]

Materials for the History of the Town and Parish of Wellington (Somerset) Part 1. Wills.
London: n.p., 1908.
[Wills, 124 pages of unnumbered abstracts arranged alphabetically. Wellington, 1372-1811.]

HUNT, John G.
"Northcott Family."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 28 (1959-61) 120-124.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Crediton, 1587 (widow); Kirton, 1611 (clothier).]

HUNT, Julian, et al., eds.
Probate Records of the Archdeaconry Court of Buckingham, 1483-1660, and of the Buckinghamshire Peculiars, 1430-1660.
London: British Record Society, 2001.

HUNT, P.C.
"A Rural Household Glossary."
Wiltshire Folklife 2 (1978) 36-41.
[P.I. printed. 1690, Yeoman. Glossary serves as appendix.]

HURSTFIELD, Joel
The Queen's Wards. Wardship and Marriage under Elizabeth I.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1958.
[Wills discussed for testamentary procedure and anecdotally. 1550-1603. See index.]

HUSBANDS, Christopher
"Standards of Living in North Warwickshire in the Seventeenth Century."
Warwickshire History 4 (1980) 203-215.
[P.I.s, 257 analyzed statistically. Warwickshire, 17th century. Methodology, social and economic history.]

HUSSEY, Arthur
"Ash Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 34 (1920) 47-62; 35 (1921) 17-35; 36 (1923) 49-64; 37 (1925) 33-52.
[Wills, 177 printed or abstracted. Kent, most early/mid-16th century.]

Ashford Wills...Abstracts of the Wills of the Residents in the Town of Ashford, Kent, A.D. 1461-1558.
London: Headley Brothers, 1938.
[Wills, 284 abstracted. Ashford, 1461-1558. Glossary; no notes.]

"Eastry Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 38 (1926) 173-182; 39 (1927) 77-90; 40 (1928) 35-47.
[Wills, 110 printed or abstracted. Kent.]

"Faversham Household Inventory, 1609."
Archaeologia Cantiana 27 (1905) 230-236.
[Inv printed with her will (1610). Faversham, 1609/10.]

"Further Notes from Kentish Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 31 (1915) 25-53.
[Wills extracted from. Kent. Parish/church bequests organized by parish.]

"Herne Wills: Abstracts."
Archaeologia Cantiana 28 (1909) 83-114; 30 (1914) 93-126.
[Wills, 134 abstracted (English); up to 1552.]

"Hythe Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 49 (1937) 127-156; 50 (1938) 87-121; 51 (1939) 27-65.
[Wills, 298 printed or abstracted, arranged alphabetically. Hythe, 15th and 16th centuries.]

"Milton Wills [Next Sittingbourne]."
Archaeologia Cantiana 44 (1932) 79-102; 45 (1933) 13-30; 46 (1934) 36-51; 47 (1935) 177-188;
[Wills, 225 abstracted. Milton, late 15th/early 16th centuries.]

"Reculver and Hoath Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 32 (1917) 77-141.
[Wills, 96 abstracted. Kent, c.1460-1540. Arranged by types of pious bequests.]

"Sittingbourne Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 41 (1929) 37-56; 42 (1930) 37-56; 43 (1931) 49-71.
[Wills, 167 abstracted or printed. Kent, 1475-1550.]

HUTCHINSON, J.R.
"Catelyn of Kirby Cane, Norfolk."
The East Anglian 3^rd ser. 10 (1903-4) 376-378.
[Wills, 2 printed. Kirby Cane, 1675, 1678. Husband and wife, yeoman.]

HYDE, P.G.M.
"Henry Hatch and the Battle over his Will."
Archaeologia Cantiana 102 (1985) 111-129.
[Will discussed, with execution problems and resulting lawsuit. Kent, 1533.]

INGLEBY, H. ed.
The Red Register of King's Lynn. 2 vols.
King's Lynn: Thew, 1919,1922.
[Wills, 102 printed. King's Lynn.]

INNES, Stephen                                                            COLONIAL
"Land Tenancy and Social Order in Springfield, Massachusetts, 1652 to 1702."
William and Mary Quarterly 35 (1978) 33-56.
[P.I.s, 70 studied. Springfield, 1650-1705. Wealth, property.]

IMRAY, Jean
The Charity of Richard Whittington: A history of the Trust administered by the Mercers' Company, 1424-1466. London: The Athlone Press, 1968.
[Will of Dick Whittington discussed in Chapters 1 and 2; published in E.F. Jacob's The Register of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford, 1938) vol.2, p. 240.]

IREDALE, David
Enjoying Archives. What they are. Where to find them. How to use them.
Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973.
[Wills discussed on 101-9, and see index; P.I.s discussed on 103-8 with examples.]

IRONFIELD, Christine
"The Parish Of Chipping during the Seventeenth Century."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 127 (1978) 25-46.
[Wills and P.I.s, 90 studied. Chipping, 1650-1700. Occupations, economy.]

IRVINE, William Ferguson
A Collection of Lancashire and Cheshire Wills Not Now to Be Found in Any Probate Registry. 1301-1752.
London: Wyman and Sons, 1896.
[Wills, 123 printed (some Latin). Chester (from Bishop's enrollment books), 1301-1752.]

"An Early Bidston Will."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 5 (1906) 6.
[Will printed with intro. Bidston, 1571. Bailiff.]

"God's Providence House, Liverpool."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 60 (1909) 181-187.
[Wills, 2 of Alcock family abstracted. Liverpool, 1664, 1666.Shoemaker, widow.]

"Notes on the History of Hall i'th'Wood and Its Owners."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire n.s. 19 (1905) 1-41.
[Wills and PIs associated with the manor used. 14 wills and/or PIs printed, 1550-later 17th c.]

"The Reverend Richard Runcorn, Curate of Upton in Overchurch, 1634-36."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 29 (1935) 82-83.
[Will printed. Upton, 1636. Clergy.]

"The Will of John Duncalf of Mobberley, 1592."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 2 (1898) 19-20.
[Will printed. Mobberley, 1592. Yeoman.]

"The Will of William Barnston of Churton, 1664."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 30 (1935) 84-85; 87-88.
[Will abstracted and quoted from C. Hurton, 1664.]

IVES, E.W.
"Henry VIII's Will - a forensic conundrum."
The Historical Journal 35 (1992) 779-804.
[Will discussed as genuine. 1546, royalty.]

"Henry VIII's Will: the protectorate provisions of 1546-7."
The Historical Journal 37 (1994) 901-914.
[Response to Houlbrooke's response to previous entry.]

IZACKE, Samuel
An Account of the Legacies Left to the Poor of The City of Exeter from the Year 1164 - 1674 Inclusive.
Exeter: S. Hedgeland, 1820.
[Wills, 186 extracted from. Exeter, 1164-1674. Legacies to poor.]

JABEZ-SMITH, A.R.
"Anthony Pearson, an Early Cumbrian Quaker."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society 84 (1984) 99-102.

"Joseph Williamson and Thomas Lamplugh."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archaeological Society 86 (1986) 145-161.
[Will of Lamplugh (Archbishop of York (1691) printed; extracts from will of Williamson (curate, 1701) printed.]

JACK, Sybil M.
Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England.
London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1977.
[P.I. printed. 1567. Economic history.]

JACKSON, William
"The Curwens of Workington Hall and Kindred Families."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society 5 (1878-80) 311-342.
[Wills, 5 printed (1606-1708, family); P.I.s, 2 printed (1597, 1653). Cumberland. Gentry.]

"The Laws of Buck Crag in Cartmel, and of Bampton."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2 (1876) 264-276.
[Wills, 3 printed (1644, 1689, 1602+P.I.). Yenwith; farmer.]

"The Orfeurs of High Close, Plumbland."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society 3 (1877) 99-126.
[P.I. summarized. Pryor Hall, 1692. Gentry.]

"The Richmonds of Highead."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 2 (1876) 108-147.
[Wills, 3 printed (1632, 1693, 1574); P.I.s, 2 printed (1574, 1614. Family.]

"The Threlkelds of Melmerby."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 10 (1889) 1-47.
[Wills, 10 printed (1367-1598); P.I.s, 5 printed, 1564-1598; with 11 abstracts of 16th and 17th-century wills. Family.]

JACOB, E.F.
"The Archbishop's Testamentary Jurisdiction."
In Medieval Records of the Archbishops of Canterbury, London: The Faith Press, 1962; 35-49.
[Introduction to the probate process in the PCC, 12-16^th centuries. See also in the same volume: I.J. Churchill, "The Archbishop's Registers," pp. 11-20.]

The Register of Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury (1414-1443) 4 vols.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1938.
[Wills, 636 closely printed pages of wills, most Latin, some English in Vol. 2.]

JACOB, W.H.
"A Sixteenth-Century Will."
Hampshire Notes and Queries 4 (1889) 19-20.
[P.I. and will printed. Breamore, 1573.]

JAMES, Edward W.                                                                     COLONIAL
"Grace Sherwood, the Virginia Witch."
William and Mary Quarterly 3 (1894/5) 96-97.
[Will printed. Virginia colony, 1680. John White.]

JANELLE, Pierre
L'Angleterre catholique à la veille du Schisme.
Paris: Gabriel Beauchesne et ses fils, 1935.
[Wills used in study of "intensity of religious life" and for support of clergy.]

JEFFRIES, Peggy
"The Medieval Use as Family Law and Custom: the Berkshire Gentry in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries."
Southern History 1 (1979) 45-69.
[Wills; testamentary transfers of land as separate deeds.]

JENKINSON, Hilary and FOWLER, G.H.
"Some Bedfordshire Wills at Lambeth and Lincoln."
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 14 (1931) 79-132.
[Wills, 32 printed (incl. Latin and French w/trans.). Bedfordshire, 1319-1570.]

JENNINGS, Bernard
“Beyond the Probate Line: Probate Evidence and Related Sources in Early Modern Yorkshire.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 325-335.
[Using probate materials in parallel with other records for industrial and social history. Settlement, property, inheritance.]

JENNINGS, JOHN M.
"The Distribution of Landed Wealth in the Wills of London Merchants, 1400-1450."
Medieval Studies 39 (1977) 261-280.
[Wills, 360 studied. London, 1400-1450. Merchants, economic history; critique of W.K. Jordan's work.]

"London and the Statute of Mortmain: doubts and anxieties among fifteenth-century London testators." Medieval Studies 36 (1974) 175-177.
[Ways around the Statute of Mortmain and its limitation of bequests to churches.]

JERVIS, Simon
"Five Early Inventories of Browsholme Hall."
Furniture History 22 (1986) 1-24.
[P.I.s, 5 printed. Parker family, 1591-1634.]

JESSOPP, Augustus
"Gilbert Haultoft's Will."
Norfolk Archaeology 8 (1879) 177-182.
[Will printed (Latin). Norfolk, 1417. Nobility.]

JEWELL, Helen M.
"The Cultural Interests and Achievements of the Secular Personnel of the Local Administration."
In Profession, Vocation and Culture, Cecil Clough ed., Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982; 130-154.
[Wills, anecdotal use. Books, patronage.]

JEWERS, Arthur Jon
"The Will of Plague-stricken Londoner."
Home Counties Magazine 3 (1901) 109-110.
[Will printed. London, 1593. Burgher dying of plague.]

JEWETT, Lloyd
"Original Documents."
The Reliquary 2 (1861-2) 231-232.
[P.I. printed. Sheffield, 1614. Farmer.]

JEWETT, L.L. and Henry Kirke
"Original Documents."
Reliquary 6 (1865-6) 109.
[P.I. printed. Milnehousedale (Derby), 1695. Widow.]

JOHNSON, Ann M. 
"Clerical Wills of the English Reformation."
Explorations in Renaissance Culture 1(1974) 57-64.
[Wills and PIs, 250 studied. Coventry and Lichfield, 16th century. "Clerical responses to the [religious] crisis."]

"Reformation Clergy of Derbyshire, 1536-1559."
Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 100 (1980) 49-63.
[Wills studied. Derbyshire, 1536-1559. Preambles as evidence of religiosity.]

JOHNSON, Francis R.
"Notes on English Retail Book Prices, 1550-1640."
The Library 5 (1950/1) 83-112.
[P.I.s discussed in section 4, "Inventories of the Stock of Deceased Booksellers."]

JOHNSTON, J.A.
"Books in Wills."
Local Historian 15 (1983) 478-182.
[Wills and P.I.s, 1,181 studied. Diocese of Worcester, 1699-1713. Books and evidence of literacy.]

"Family, Kin and Community in Eight Lincolnshire Parishes, 1567-1800."
Rural History 6 (1995) 179-192.
[Wills, 1,442 studied. Lincolnshire, 1567-1800. Compares bequests to family v. to others by class, gender.]

"The Probate Inventories and Wills of a Worcestershire Parish, 1676-1775."
Midland History 1 (1971) 20-33.
[Wills and P.I.s, 161 studied. Parish of Powick, 1676-1775. Patterns of inheritance, bequests, family solidarity.]

Probate Inventories of Lincoln Citizens: 1661-1714. Lincoln Record Society #80.
Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1991.
[P.I.s, 46 before 1700 printed with 80-page intro, index and glossary. Lincoln, 1661-1700.]

"The Vale of Evesham, 1702-8: The evidence from probate inventories and wills."
Vale of Evesham Historical Society, Research Papers 4 (1973) 85-96.
[Wills and P.I.s, 101 used. Vale of Evesham, 1702-8. "Picture of the common man," material culture, wealth.]

"Worcestershire Probate Inventories 1699-1716."
Midland History 4 (1978) 191-211.
[P.I.s, 1,181 analyzed. Worcestershire, 1699-1716. Social history, sex, bequests, books.]

JONAS, Manfred                                                                         COLONIAL
"The Wills of Early Settlers of Essex County, Massachusetts."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 96 (1960) 228-235.
[Wills, 74 analyzed. Essex County, 1630-1681. Wealth, property distribution; by occupation.]

JONES, Alice Hanson                                                                 COLONIAL
American Colonial Wealth: Documents and methods. 3 vols.
New York: Arno Press, 1977.
[P.I.s, 919 printed. All 13 colonies, 1774. Full statistical analyses, little narrative; see next entry.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Estimating Wealth of the Living from a Probate Sample."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 13 (1982) 273-300.
[P.I.s as sources for economic/social history. Used material from study in previous entry. Methodological.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
Wealth of a Nation to Be.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.
[P.I.s, 919 used. All 13 colonies, 1774. Basis for study, see esp. pp.2-8.; see previous entry.]

JONES, B.C.
"Before Tullie House."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 88 (1988) 125-148.
[P.I. printed. Lady Jane D'Acre, 1574/5.]

"Carlisle Goldsmiths, 1318-1625."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 80 (1980) 37-44.
[P.I. printed with glossary. Carlisle, 1606. Goldsmiths.]

"Inventories of Goods and Chattels."
Amateur Historian 2 (1955) 76-79.
[P.I.s as sources for local historians; general overview.]

"The Lancashire Probate Records."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 104 (1952) 61-73.
[P.I.s as sources for research; their jurisdictional background.]

JONES, David                                                                               SCOTLAND
"A Seventeenth-century Inventory of Furnishings at Kinnaird Castle, Angus."
In Aspects of Scottish Classicism: The house and its formal setting, 1690-1750, Jones and John Frew eds., St. Andrews: Blakeley Milroy, 1989; 49-64.
[P.I. printed with intro and glossary. Angus, 1691-1699.]

JONES, Francis                                                                             WALES
"Medieval Records Relating to the Dioceses of St. David's."
The Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales 14 (1964) 9-24.
[P.I. printed. St. David's, 1293. Bishop Thomas Beck and his agricultural interests.]

                                                                                                        WALES
"The Personality of a Welsh Cleric, 1634."
The Journal of the Historical Society of the Church in Wales 1 (1947) 154-162.
[Will and P.I. printed. St. Asaph, 1634. Dean of chapter.]

JONES, J. Colin and TILSTON, Jeremy
The Will of John Tilston of Wrexham.
J. Tilston, 1992.
[1540(?)-1613.]

JONES, Jeanne A.
"Lewis Hiccox and Shakespeare's Birthplace."
Notes and Queries 41 (1994) 497-502.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed. Stratford-on-Avon, 1627, 1638, 1648. Concerning the fate of Shakespeare's house.]

JONES, John
"A Will of 1496. Bequest to `The Guild of Merchants'"
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 24 (1945) 174-175.
[Will studied. Milbourne Port, 1496.]

JONES, Nansi C.                                                                            WALES
Archdeaconry of Brecon Probate Records. Vol. 1.
Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1989.
[Index of wills, pre-1660.]

JONES, Peris
"Probate Inventories for Mangotsfield Parish, 1611-1670."
Journal of the Bristol and Avon Family History Society  36 (1984) 23-28.
[List of PIs.]

JONES, Thomas Wharton                                                             IRELAND
A True Relation of the Life and Death of the Right Reverend Father in God Wiliam Bedell, Lord Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland. Camden Society Publications ns #4 (1872).
[Will printed. 1640. See index for notices of other family wills.]

JONES, Walter
"Wills of the Hundred of Armingford, Cambs."
The East Anglian 3^rd ser. 10 (1903-4) (see index).
[Wills listed and extracted from. Cambridgeshire.]

JORDAN, Wilbur Kitchener
The Charities of London, 1480-1660.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960.
[Wills used, but unindexed. London, 1480-1660. Bequests to charity.]

The Charities of Rural England, 1480-1660.
New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1962.
[Wills used anecdotally, poorly indexed. Norfolk, Yorkshire, Buckinghamshire, 1480-1660. Bequests to charity.]

The Forming of the Charitable Institutions of the West of England: A study in the changing pattern of social aspirations in Bristol and Somerset, 1480-1660. Published in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society n.s. 50 part 8 (1960).
[Wills studied among documents of 4,160 donors in Bristol and 3,629 in Somerset. 1480-1660. Parish charities, poor relief, social rehabilitation, education, religious purposes, municipal works.]

Philanthropy in England, 1480-1660.
London: George Allen and Unwin, 1959.
[Wills used anecdotally, poorly indexed.]

Social Institutions in Kent, 1480-1660.
Archaeologica Cantiana 75 (1961).
[Extensive use of wills, generally anecdotal; unindexed.]

Social Institutions of Lancashire: A study of the changing patterns of aspirations in Lancashire, 480-1660.
Chetham Society Publications vol.11 (1962).
[Wills used anecdotally as sources. Lancashire, 1480-1660. Charity, education, "social rehabilitation", "municipal betterment".]

JOTCHAM, W.C.
"Ancient Introductions to Wills."
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Society  5 (1899) 114-118.
[Will prefaces, 10 printed. Wantage, Oxon, 1568-1748.]

JURKOWSKI, Maureen
"New Light on John Purvey."
The English Historical Journal 110 (1995) 1180-1190.
[Inv. of books; post-1428. Wycliffite influence.]
 
 

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