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KAMERICK, Kathleen Clare
"This Book of Imagery: Holy images in late medieval England."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1991.
[Wills, 900 studied. Bequests of images, comparison by gender, class, geography. Art.]

Popular Piety and Art in the Later Middle Ages.
New York: Palgrave, 2002.
[Wills, 883 studied, 224 with art-related bequests. 1371-1550, most 1441-1500. Great Yarmouth, Great and Little Walsingham, Swaffham, Wymondham, Ipswich, Walberswick, Mildenhall. See Chapter 3 on images in parish churches.]

KAYE, W.J.
"Some Early Eighteenth-century Inventories."
Antiquary 36 (1900) 50-52.
[P.I. printed. Near Sheffield, 1728. Merchant.]

KEEN, Maurice
English Society in the Later Middle Ages.
London: The Penguin Press, 1990.
[Wills used. See pp. 176-179 on aristocratic inheritance practices; Chapter 11 "Popular Religion".]

KEEN, R.
"Inventory of Richard Hooker, 1601."
Archaeologia Cantiana 70 (1956) 231-236.
[P.I. of Hooker's living at Bishopsbourne, Kent, 1601.]

KEENE, Derek and HARDING, Vanessa
A Survey of Documentary Sources for Property Holding in London before the Great Fire.
London: London Records Society, 1985.
[Annotated list of London records offices that hold pre-1666 P.I.s.]

KELLY, Susan
"Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word."
In The Use of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe, Rosamond McKitterick ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 36-62.
[Wills studied as vernacular written instruments, pp. 47 ff. Anglo-Saxon.]

KENNEDY, M.J.O.
"A Banbury Seafarer."
Cake and Cockhorse 4 (1968-71) 41-43.
[Will described and discussed. Banbury, 1691. Shipwright.]

KENNEDY, P.A.
"A Gentleman's Home in the Reign of Henry VII."
Northamptonshire Past and Present 2 (1954) 17-28.
[P.I. printed with glossary. Addington (Henry de Vere), 1493.]

Nottinghamshire Household Inventories.
Nottingham: Derry and Sons, 1963.
[P.I.s, 118 printed with notes and glossary. Nottinghamshire, 1512-1568.]

KENT, P. Ramsey
"Kent Family Wills, 1623-1676: Thomas Kent of Scamblesby, Clerk."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 3 (1893) 205-207.
[Wills, 5 abstracted or printed. Scamblesby or Donington on Bain, 1623-1678. Clerks (3), widow, gentry.]

KENYON, G.H.
"Kirdford Inventories, 1611-1776, with Particular Reference to Weald Clay Farming."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 93 (1955) 78-156.
[P.I.s, 210 analyzed. Chichester, 1611-1776. Material culture and agricultural history.]

"Petworth Town and Trades, 1610-1760."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 96 (1958) 35-107; 98 (1960) 71-117.
[P.I.s, 179 summarized. Petworth, 1610-1760. Tradesmen and gentlemen.]

"Three Kirdford Inventories."
Sussex Notes and Queries 14 (1956) 145-157.
[P.I.s printed. Kirdford, 1647 and two 18th century. Clergy.]

KERMODE, J.I.
"The Merchants of Three Northern English Towns."
In Profession, Vocation and Culture in Later Medieval England: essays dedicated to the memory of A.R. Myers, Cecil Clough ed., Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1982; 7-50.
[Wills, 320 studied. York, Beverly, Hull, c.1390-1500. Social history.]

KERRIDGE, Eric
The Agricultural Revolution.
New York: A.M. Kelley, 1967.
[P.I.s used extensively. From 16th c. on, unindexed. Note esp. "Manuscript sources" and bibliography for range of sources.]

"Agriculture 1500-1793."
In Victoria Histories of the Counties of England. A History of Wiltshire. Vol. 4.
London: Oxford Press, 1959; 43-64.
[P.I.s used slightly. Agricultural history.]

"Turnip Husbandry in High Suffolk."
Economic History Review 2^nd ser. 8 (1956) 390-392.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Suffolk, c.1650-1700. Turnip farming.]

KERRY, Charles
"Will of Alice Pulter, of St. Andrew's, Hitchin, Herts."
Reliquary n.s. 2 (1888) 30-31.
[Will printed in Latin. Hitchin, 1457. Merchant's widow.]

KETTLE, A.J.
"`My wife shall have it': Marriage and property in the wills and testaments of later medieval England."
In Marriage and Property, E.M. Craik ed., Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984; 89-103.
[Wills, "several thousand" used. "Second half of the thirteenth century to the end of the fifteenth century, from Somerset to Northumberland." Anecdotal presentation.]

KEY, Jane
"The Letters and Will of Lady Dorothy Bacon, 1597-1629."
Miscellany of Norfolk Record Society #56 (1991) 77-112.
[Will printed. Kings Lynn, 1629. Gentry.]

KEYNES, Simon
"Royal Government and the Written Word in Late Anglo-Saxon England."
In The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe, Rosamond McKitterick ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 226-157.
[Wills discussed and described. See pp. 251-257. Anglo-Saxons.]

KIDSTON, G.J.
"Some Early Wills of the Bonham Family."
Wiltshire Magazine 48 (1938) 273-291.
[Wills, 3 printed (2 Latin). Wiltshire, 1386, 1411, 1551 (w/P.I.).]

KIESSLING, Nicholas K.
"Robert Burton's Will, Holographic Copy with Text."
The Review of English Studies n.s. 41 (1990) 94-101.
[Will printed. London, 1639. Author.]

KING
"The Will of Clemence Stock of Boughton, Last Abbess of Delapre."
Northamptonshire Past and Present 2 (1959) 283-288.
[Will printed and introduced. Delapre, 1546. Religious.]

KING, H.W.
"Essex Wills."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society 1 (1858) 149-161; 3 (1865) 53-63, 75-94, 167-197; 4 (1869) 1-24, 147ff., 164-182; 5 (1873) 281-293; n.s. 1 (1878) 142-152, 165-178; 2 (1884) 55-70, 359-376; 3 (1889) 287-303.
[Wills, scores printed or extracted from (some) Latin. Essex, 15th and 16th centuries.]

KINGSFORD, Charles Lethbridge
"Additional Material for the History of the Grey Friars, London."
In his Collectanea Franciscana, British Society of Franciscan Studies #10 (1922).
[Wills, 209 extracted from. Bequests to Franciscan convents and churches, mostly from those buried in them.]

"Essex House, Formerly Leicester House and Exeter Inn."
Archaeologia 73 (1923) 1-54.
[P.I. printed. 1588. Nobility.]

Prejudice and Promise in Fifteenth Century England.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.
[Wills used on pp.40-43 for information on book ownership.]

Stonor Letters and Papers. II.
Camden Society, 3rd ser. 30 (1919).
[Will printed. Edmund, 1475.]

"Two Forfeitures in the Year of Agincourt."
Archaeologia 70 (1918) 71-100.
[Inv. (forfeiture) printed (Latin). Henry le Scrope, Richard Gurmyn, 1415.]

KINNEY, Thomas L.
"`Too secuturs and an overseere make thre theves': Popular attitudes towards false executors of wills and testaments."
In Fifteenth Century Studies, vol.3, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1978-80; 93-105.
[Examines popular literature for attitudes.]

KIRALFY, Albert
"Wills of Personality (moveables) in England from 1066 to 1500 A.D."
In Actes à cause de mort/ Europe medievale et moderne [see main entry, GENERAL "Anonymous"] II: 35-45.
[Testamentary law and practice. 1066-1500.]

KIRBY, Joan W.
"A Fifteenth-century Family, the Plumptons of Plumpton, and their Lawyers, 1461-1515."
Northern History 15 (1989) 106-119.
[Willmaking as influenced by lawyers.]

"Restoration Leeds and the Aldermen of the Corporation."
Northern History 22 (1986) 123-174.
[Wills used. Leeds. Prosopographical study.]

KIRK, George E.
"Some Documents of Barnoldswick Manor Court of Probate."
Miscellanea 6. Yorkshire Archaeological Society #118.
[P.I.s and one will among 49 documents. Barnoldswick, 17th and 18th centuries.]

"Wills, Inventories and Bonds of the Manor Court of Temple Newsham, W.R. Yorkshire, 1616-1701."
Thoresby Society Miscellany 33 (1934) 241-282.
[Wills and P.I.s among 130 documents. Temple Newsham, 1616-1701.]

KIRKE, Henry
"Original Documents."
The Reliquary 6 (1865-6) 109.
[P.I. printed. Milnehousedale, 1695. Widow.]

KITCHING, Christopher
"The History of Recordkeeping in the United Kingdom to 1939: A select bibliography."
Journal of the Society of Archivists 9 (1988) 88-100.
[Bibliography on archives.]

"The Prerogative Court of Canterbury from Warham to Whitgift."
In Continuity and Change: Personnel and administration of the church in England 1500-1642, Rosemary O'Day and Felicity Heal eds., Leicester: Leicester University College, 1976; 191-214.
[Probate administration in the sixteenth century discussed.]

"The Probate Jurisdiction of Thomas Cromwell's Vicegerent."
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 46 (1973) 102-105.
[Discussion of new court (1536-40) to prove wills, grant administrations, hear cases over £200.]

KITE, Edward
"Horton Wills."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 163-170.
[Wills of Family, 2 printed. Bradford, 1530, clothier; Ilford, 1549.]

"Will of Joan Trye [1533], Mother of the Last Abbess of Lacock."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 6 (1908-10) 554-562; followed up by C.H. Talbot in 7 (1911-13) 57-59.
[Will printed. Lacock, 1533. Widow.]

"Will of John de Waltham, Bishop of Salisbury."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 6 (1908-10) 438-444.
[Will printed in Latin. Salisbury, 1395. Clergy.]

"Wilton House and Its Literary Association."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 5 (1905-07) 529-544.
[Wills, 3 printed. Calne, 1597, gentry; 1604; 1626, widow.]

KNIGHT, Mark
Piety and Devotion among the Warwickshire Gentry, 1485-1547.
Dugdale Society Occasional Paper #32 (1989).
[Wills, 64 analyzed. Warwickshire, 1485-1547. Support for parishes and convents, gentry set the tone for lower classes.]

KOCH, Donald Warner                                                                COLONIAL
"Income Distribution and Political Structure in Seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 105 (1969) 50-69.
[Probate records, 769 studied. Salem, Essex County, 1635-1681. Material wealth, income.]

KREIDER, Alan
English Chantries: The road to dissolution.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979.
[Wills used as sources for pious foundations in the later 15th and 16th centuries; unindexed.]

KULIKOFF, A.                                                                             COLONIAL
"The Economic Growth of the Eighteenth-century Chesapeake Colonies."
Journal of Economic History 29 (1979) 275-288.
[P.I.s used. Chesapeake region colonies, 1731-1776. Economic history, personal wealth.]

L., H.R.
"Robert Dunkton of Ipswich."
East Anglian Miscellany (1943) 4-12, 31-32, 33, 35, 37, 38.
[Will abbreviation printed. Bailiff, Ipswich. 1669-1670. Roundhead political author.]

LABANOFF, Prince Alex
Lettres, Instructions et Mémoires de Marie Stuart, Reine d'Ecosse, publiés sur les originaux
et les manuscrits. 7 vols. London: Charles Dolman, 1844.
[P.I. printed (Vol. VII:254-274). Fotheringay, 1587. Royalty.]

LAITHWAITE, M.
"A Ship-master's House at Faversham, Kent."
Post Medieval Archaeology 2 (1968) 150-162.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Faversham, 1635, 1675. Shipmaster.]

LAKE, Cuthbert
Notes on the Will of Henry Cloker, 1573, and St. Magnus the Martyr and their Connection with the Worshipful Company of Coopers.
London: The company, 1924.
[Part of the will printed. London, 1573. List of the Silver and gilt plate at St. Magnus's Church, London. Church patronage.]

LANCASTER, L.
"Kinship in Anglo-Saxon Society: Part II."
British Journal of Sociology 9 (1958) 359-377.
[Wills used in discussion of Anglo-Saxon succession. Bequests of AElfgar, AEthelflaed and AElfflaed are tabulated on pp.364-365.]

LAND, Aubrey                                                                              COLONIAL
"The Planters of Colonial Maryland."
Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972) 109-128.
[P.I.s, 2 printed, others used anecdotally. Maryland, 1694, 1698. Smaller planters.]

LANDER, Stephen
"Church Courts and the Reformation in the Diocese of Chichester, 1500-1558."
In The English Reformation Revised, ed. by Chrisotopher Haigh, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987; 34-55.
[Probate procedure as it changed from 1500 to 1558.]

LANE, Joan
"Farm and Cottage Inventories from Butlers Marston, 1546- 1755."
Warwickshire Historian 1 (1971) 12-28, 32.
[P.I.s, 30 studied. Butlers Marston, 1546-1755. Rural history, material culture.]

John Hall and his Patients: The medical practise of Shakespeare's Son-in-law.
Stratford-upon-Avon: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1996.
[Will printed. Stratford, 1635. Physician.]

LANG, Sheila and MCGREGOR, Margaret
Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol, 1546-1603.
Bristol Record Society #44 (1993).
[Wills, 192 abstracted. Bristol (urban), 1546-1602.]

LANSBERRY, H.C.F.
Sevenoaks Wills and Inventories in the Reign of Charles II.
Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society, 1988.
[Wills, 153 printed, many with P.I.s. Sevenoaks, 1660-1685.]

LAPIDGE, Michael
"Surviving Booklists from Anglo-Saxon England."
In Learning and Literature, ed, by Lapidge and H. Gneuss, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985; 33-89.
[Booklists from wills printed: Aelberht, archibishop of York, 778; Aelfwold, bp. of Crediton, c. 1015.]

LAQUEUR, T.
"The Cultural Origins of Popular Literacy in England, 1500-1850."
Oxford Review of Education 2 (1976) 255-275.
[P.I.s used. 1500-1850. Books and literacy.]

LARKING, Lambert B.
"Extracts from the Will of Elena, Widow of Thomas Jemes of Cobham..."
Archaeologia Cantiana 2 (1859) 225.
[Will, Latin text extracted from. Cobham, 1435. Widow.]

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

"Inventory of the Effects of Roger de Mortimer at Wigmore Castle and Abbey, Herefordshire 1322."
Archaeological Jounal 15 (1858) 354-362.
[P.I. printed. Herefordshire, 1322. Nobility.]

"Notes of Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 2 (1859) 230-231.
[Will summarized. Tudely, 1474. Genealogical.]

LARMINIE, Vivienne
"Settlement and Sentiment: Inheritance and personal relationships among two Midland gentry families in the seventeenth century."   Midland History 12 (1987) 27-47.
[Wills used sparingly. Crokes and Newdigates. 17th century.]

Wealth, Kinship and Culture: The seventeenth-century Newdigates of Arbury and their world.
Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 1995.
[Wills used anecdotally, indexed. Family history, 17th century.]

LARSON, Rebecca Darlene                                                    COLONIAL
"`Public Friends': Quaker women travelling ministers, 1700- 1775."
Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1993.
[Wills used anecdotally. Female Quaker ministers who crossed the Atlantic and served in public life.]

LARTIGAUT, Jean                                                                  SCOTLAND
"Le testament d'un homme d'armes écossais [Jean La Clisso] à Figeac en 1484."
Bulletin de la Société des études littéraires, scientifiques et artistiques du Lot 98 (1977) 143-144.
[Will discussed. Figeac, 1484. Soldier.]

LASSITER, John Carroll
"The Younger Sons of English Peers, 1660-1780."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1982.
[Wills used in study of the effects of the consolidation of great estates.]

LATHAM, A.M.C.
"Sir Walter Ralegh's Will."
Review of English Studies n.s. 22 (1971) 129-136.
[Will extracted from. Walter Ralegh, 1597.]

LAWES-WITTEWRONGE, Marie A.R.
"An Inventory of the Goods of Sir Thomas Myddleton."
Home Counties Magazine 5 (1903) 16-26.
[P.I. printed. London, 1631. Lord Mayor.]

LAWLIS, Merritt E.
"Another Look at Simon Eyre's Will."
Notes and Queries 199 (1954) 13-16.
[Will discussed. London, 1457. Lord Mayor.]

LAWRENCE, Henry
"The Will of Lionel Tylney, Lead-miner and Merchant: Died 19 November 1653."
Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society ns. 5 (1931) 1 ff.
[Will printed, with executor's accounts. Holmesfield, 1653. Lead miner and merchant.]

LEA, J.H.
Abstracts of Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.
Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1904.
[Wills, 1,366 abstracted from for personal information. Soame Register, 1620.]

LEACH, A.F.
Visitations and Memorials of Southwell Minster.
London: Camden Society Publications, 1891.
[WIlls, 29 and P.I. printed (some Latin). Southwell, 1470-1541.]

LEE, A.K., ed.
The Ancient Parish of Glossop: Index of Probate Documents.
n.p.: Derbyshire Family History Society, 1990.

LEE, J.
"Inventory of the Goods and Effects of a Gentleman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth."
The Journal of the British Archaeological Association 12 (1856) 170-174.
[P.I. printed. Morton, 1572. Gentry.]

LEE-WARNER, James
"The Stapletons of Ingham."
Norfolk Archaeology 8 (1879) 181-223.
[Will printed, of Miles Stapleton, 1466 (Latin). Gentry.]

LEEDHAM-GREEN, Elizabeth S.
Books in Cambridge Inventories: Book lists from vice-chancellor's court probate inventories in the Tudor and Stuart periods. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
[P.I.s (200) and 41 wills used for book lists by owners in Vol. 1; Vol.2 catalogues all books in the lists, cross-referencing to Vol. 1.]

"One That Got Away: The inventory of Thomas Southwell, 1605."
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 526-530.
[P.I. printed. Cambridge, 1605. Scholar.]

LEGA-WEAKES, Ethel
"Totnes Guildhall."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 16 (1930-1) 35-36.
[Will abstract extracted from. Totnes, 1607. Merchant, bequest for paving of Hall.]

LEMESURIER, A.M.C.
"The Orphans' Inventories at the London City Guild Hall."
Economic History Review 5 (1934) 98-103.
[P.I.s and wills among the documents in the book described. London, 1666-1730.]

LEONE, Mark, and SCHACKEL, Paul L.
"Forks, Clocks and Power."
In Mirror and Metaphor: Material and social constructions of reality, ed. by Daniel W. Ingersoll and Gordon Bronitsky, Latham, Md.: University Press of America, 1987; 45-61.
[P.I.s, 225 studied. Annapolis and Ann Arundel Counties, 1699-1776. "Symbolic legitimization of wealth through linkage of culture to nature."]

LEPINE, David
A Brotherhood of Canons Serving God: English secular cathedrals in the later middle ages. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1995.
[Wills discussed. See esp. pp.139-155, "Canons' Personal Devotion," for use as evidence for piety and charity.]

LESTRANGE, Hamon
"Will of Sir Roger le Strange, Knt."
Norfolk Archaeology 9 (1884) 226-239.
[Will printed. Hunstanton, 1505. Knight.]

LEVESON-GOWER, Granville
"Further Notes."
Archaeologia Cantiana 21 (1895) 83-86.
[Wills, 7 discussed. Cowden Church, 1465-1524. Pre-Reformation church images.]

"Inventories of the College of Lingfield."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 7 (1880) 228-245.
[P.I. printed. Lingfield, 1524. House and farm goods of master of Lingfield College.]

"Notes on Edenbridge."
Archaeologia Cantiana 21 (1895) 109-114.
[Wills, 12 extracted from. Edenbridge, 1447-1600. Anecdotal.]

"Will of Isabel Flemyng, Formerly Legh."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 7 (1880) 246-255.
[Will printed. Addington, 1544. Widow, gentry.]

LEVETT, A.E.
"Wills of Villeins and Copyholders."
In Studies in Manorial History, London: Oxford University Press, 1938; 208-234.
[Wills, 23 printed. St Albans Abbey court book, 1395-1427.]

LEVEY, Santina M.
Of Household Stuff: The 1601 Inventories of Bess of Hardwick. London: The National Trust, 2001.
Prints the household probate inventories of Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, 1601. Chatsworth and Hardwick.Glossary.]

LEVINE, G.
"Some Norwich Goldsmiths' Wills."
Norfolk Archaology 35 (1973) 483-490.
[Wills (8) and P.I.s (2) described. Norwich, 1580-1645. Goldsmiths.]

LEVINE, M.
"The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII."
The Historian 26 (1964) 471-485.
[Will discussed. Reappraises L.B. Smith's arguments concerning authenticity of the will.]

LEVY, Barry                                                                                 COLONIAL
"From `Dark Corners' to American Domesticity: The British social context of the Welsh and Cheshire Quakers' familial revolution in Pennsylvania, 1657-1685."  In The World of William Penn, ed. by Richard and Mary Maples Dunn, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986; 215-239.
[Wills, 253, and P.I.s, 323 studied. Northwestern Pennsylvania, 1660-1691. Yeomen, husbandmen, artisans; wealth, bequests.]
                                                                                                        COLONIAL
Quakers and the American Family: British settlement in the Delaware Valley.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
[Wills and testation studied. Later 17th, much material from 18th century. See index, "Inheritance", also pp. 36-40 on English and Welsh practice.]
                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"`Tender Plants': Quaker farmers and children in the Delaware Valley."
Journal of Family History 3 (1978) 116-135.
[P.I.s, 41 studied. Chester Co., Pennsylvania, 1681-1735. Farmers; wealth, livestock, property.]

LEWER, N.B. ed.
"The Testament and Last Will of Elizabeth, Widow of John De Vere 13th Earl of Oxford."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s. 20 (1933) 7-16.
[Will printed. Elizabeth de Vere, 1537. Nobility.]

LICHLITER, Assélia Strobhar
700 Years of the Beville Family: The lives and times of 18 generations of the Beville family of Huntingdonshire, England. Washington, D.C.: McGregor and Werner, 1976.
[Wills, dozens printed. Family, from 1487.]

LINDERT, P.
"An Algorithm for Probate Sampling."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 11 (1981) 649-668.
[P.I.s used as examples, 1699-1700. Both American and English documents. Methodology.]

LINDLEY, E.S.
Wotton under Edge. Men and Affairs of a Cotswold Wool Town.
Dursley: Alan Sutton, 1977.
[Wills and P.I.s used; see pp. 144-154 on household goods. Wotton, later 16th-17th centuries. Material culture.]

LINDLEY, K. and D. SCOTT
The Journal of Thomas Juxton, 1644-1647.
Camden  5th ser. 13, (1999).
[Wills printed. His father, John Juxton, merchant taylor of London, 1626.Will of Thomas printed, 1672, at pp. 187-192.]

LITTLE, Elizabeth A.                                                                   COLONIAL
Probate Records of Nantucket Indians.
Nantucket: Nantucket Historical Association, 1980.
[P.I.s, 10 printed. Nantucket region, 1727-1770.]

LITTLEHALES, Henry
The Medieval Records of a London City Church (St. Mary at Hill) A.D. 1420-1559.
Early English Text Society 125/8.   London: Kegan Paul, 1904; Kraus Reprint, 1987.
[Wills, 8 and 2 P.I.s printed. London, wills in English 1323- 1514; P.I.s 1485 and 1531.]

LITZENBERGER, Caroline
"Local Responses to Changes in Religious Policy Based on Evidence from Gloucestershire Wills (1540-1580)."
Continuity and Change 8 (1993) 417-439.
[Wills, 3,000 studied. Gloucestershire, 1541-1580. Religious attachments.]

"Local Responses to Religious Changes: Evidence from Gloucestershire Wills."
In Religion and the English People, 1500-1640, ed. by Eric J. Carlson (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998) pp. 245-270.
[Wills, 3000 studied. Glooucestershire, 1541-1580. 1,325 women and 1,285 men used. Religious preambles, bequests, scribal influence...]

LIVETT, R.G. Chaplin
"The Goods of a Suffolk Parson in the Seventeenth Century."
East Anglian n.s. 10 (1903/4) 33-36.
[P.I. printed with values. Wetheringsett, 1679. Clergy.]

LLOYD, Howell A.                                                                        WALES
The Gentry of Southwest Wales, 1540-1640.
Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1968.
[Wills used. Southwest Wales, early 17th century. Disposition of property by the gentry, pp. 50-52.]

LLOYD, N.R.
"How Wills May Be Used in Local History."
Middlesex Local History Council Bulletin #13 (1962); 5-8.
[Wills used as examples. Hendon, 16th century. Methodology.]

LLOYD JONES, G.
The Discovery of Hebrew in Tudor England: A third language.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1983.
[Inv.s used. Tudor England. Existence of Hebrew works in book collections.]

LOCKRIDGE, Kenneth                                                               COLONIAL
"Land, Population, and the Evolution of New England Society, 1630-1790."
Past & Present 39 (1968) 62-80.
[P.I.s, 610 studied. Rural Suffolk Co., Mass., c.1655-1665/ c.1760-1770. Changes in wealth over time.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
Literacy in Colonial New England: An inquiry into the social context of literacy in the early modern west. New York: W.W. Norton, 1974.
[Wills, 3126 studied as main source. New England, 1650-1762. Book bequests, signatures, and other evidence for literacy.]

LOCKWOOD, Luke V.
Colonial Furniture in America. 2 vols.
New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1926.
[P.I.s used anecdotally throughout. From the 1620s; furniture.]

LOMAS, Richard
"The Black Death in County Durham."
Journal of Medieval History 15 (1989) 127-140.
[PIs, 113 cases studied. Durham Co., 1349. Summaries of property listed. Peasants living on Cathedral Priory tenancies.]

LONDON, Hugh S.
The Life of William Bruges, the First Garter King of Arms.
Harleian Society Publications #111 and #112 (1959, 1960).
[Wills or abstracts, 3 printed. Richard B (1415, Latin), widow Katherine (1436) and William (1449).]

LONG, Charles Edward
"Inventory of the Goods &c of John Robson, Master of the College of Lingfield, Co. Surrey, 1524."
Collectanea topographica et genealogica 8 (1843) 39-42.
[Inv. printed. 1524. Teacher.]

LONG, W. Harwood
"Regional Farming in 17th-century Yorkshire."
Agricultural History Review 8 (1960) 103-114.
[P.I.s, 871 studied. Yorkshire, 1688-89. Farming: crops, livestock.]

LONGDEN, Henry Isham
Northamptonshire and Rutland Clergy from 1500. 6 vols.
Northampton: Archer and Goodman, 1938-1952.
[Alphabetical listing and descriptions. Will abstracts attached to many.]

LONGMAN, Grant
A Corner of England's Garden: An agrarian history of south west Hertfordshire, 1600-1850. 2 vols.
By author, 1977.
[P.I.s used in studying crops, livestock. See pp. 9ff.; tables 1-20 in vol 2]

LONGSTAFFE, W.H.D.
"The Tenures of Middleton St. George and Some Account of the House of Killinghall."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s. 2 (1858) 69-106.
[P.I. (1610, lawyer) and several family wills printed. York, 16th century.

LONSDALE Allister
"A Note on Leeds Wills, 1539-1561."
The Thoresby Miscellany 14 (1968) 78-85.
[Wills (published) used to show changes in religious practices and beliefs, one each for reigns of Henry VIII, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth.]

LOWE, Kathryn A.
"`As Fre as Thowt'?: some medieval copies and translations of Old English wills."
English Manuscript Studies 4 (1993) 1-23.
[Will copies (6) compared with original models for accuracy. Anglo-Saxon.]

"A New Edition of The Will of Wulfgyth."
Notes and Queries 36 (1989) 295-298.
[Will printed from 13th-century copy of 11th-century will. Anglo-Saxon.]

LOWE, Norman
The Lancashire Textile Industry in the Sixteenth Century.
Chetham Society Publications, ser.3 #20 (1972).
[P.I.s, 6 printed. Lancashire, 1570-1598. From workers in different branches of production.]

LOWNDES, G. Alan
"An Inventory of the Household Goods of Sir Thomas Barrington, Bart., at Hatfield Priory, in 1626."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society ns. 3 (1889) 156-176.
[P.I. printed. Hatfield, 1629. Gentry.]

LOWTHER BOUCH, C.M.
"The Descendants of William Lowther of the Rose. II The Lowthers of Great Orton."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 40 (1940) 60-98.
[Wills and P.I.s of family members, 3 before 1700 printed, others also. Great Orton, 1595-1695.]

LOWER, Mark A.
"Notes on the Wills Proved at the Consistory Courts of Lewes and Chichester."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 3 (1850) 108-116.
[Wills, 2 abstracted and used anecdotally. 1542.]

"Will of a Sussex Clergyman Three Hundred Years Ago."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 13 (1861) 49-56.
[Will printed. Wilmington, 1550. Clergy.]

"Wills of Inhabitants of Herstmonceaux."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 4 (1851) 201-208.
[Wills discussed informally. Herstmonceaux, mid-16th century.]

LUMB, George D.
Testamenta Leodiensia. Wills of Leeds, Pontefract, Wakefield, Otley and District, 1539-1561.
Thorseby Society Publications #19 (1911) and #27 (1930).
[Wills, 1,090 extracted from. Leeds, etc., 1539-1561.]

"Testamenta Leodiensia, 1514-1531."
Publications of the Thoresby Society 9 (1899) 81-96, 161-192, 246-277.
[Wills, 146 printed (some Latin). Leeds, 1514-1531.]

"Testamenta Leodiensia, 1531-1559."
Publications of the Thoresby Society 11 (1904) 37-68, 289-320; 15 (1909) 10-25.
[Wills, 119 printed. Leeds, 1531-1559. Continued in vol.9.]

LUMMIS, W.M.
"John Rychers of Bungay."
East Anglian Miscellany (1944) 16-17, 19, 22.
[Will printed. Bungay, 1530.]

LYON, Irving Whitehall
The Colonial Furniture of New England. A Study of the Domestic Furniture in Use in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.  
New York: Dutton, 1977; reprint of 1891 edition.
[P.I.s extracted from in discussions of furniture types and uses.]

LYTE, H.C. Maxwell
"Dunster Church."
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 22 (1936) 8-10.
[Will printed, no notes. Chantry founder, 1477.]

MACCULLOCH, Diarmid
The Later Reformation in England, 1547-1603.
London: MacMillan, 1990.
[Wills discussed as sources for confessional adherence in Chapter 8, "Reception of the Reformation."]

MACDONALD, ROGER A.
"The Blank Space in Shakespeare's Will."
Notes and Queries 35 (1988) 485-6.
[Will discussed. 1616. Why was one of his heirs omitted?]

MACFARLANE, Alan
The Family Life of Ralph Josselin: An essay in historical anthropology.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
[Wills, 8 printed. Relatives of R.J. (cleric), 1628-1691.]

Guide to English Historical Records.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
[General introduction. See Chapter 5, "Ecclesiastical jurisdiction on wills and probate materials."]

"The Myth of the Peasantry; Family and Economy in a Northern Parish."
In Land, Kinship and Life Cycle, Richard M. Smith ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984; 333-349.
[Wills used. Kirkby Lonsdale. Exploding myths about English peasantry.]

MACFARLANE, Alan, et al.
Reconstructing Historical Communities.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.
[Methodological manual on usefulness of sources (wills and P.I.s pp. 109-111); how to abstract wills.]

MACHIN, R.
The Houses of Yetminster.
Bristol: University of Bristol, Department of Extramural Studies, 1978.
[P.I.s, 8 printed or excerpted from. Yetminster, 16th and 17th century (pp. 160-172). Housing and furnishing.]

"The Mechanism of the Pre-industrial Building Cycle."
Vernacular Architecture 8 (1977) 815-819.
[P.I.s used (from collections of Havinden, Machin and Steers). 1550-1700. Cash and credits in house building and remodeling.]

Probate Inventories and Manorial Excepts of Chetnole, Leigh and Yetminster.
Bristol: University of Bristol, 1976.
[P.I.s, 141 printed and analyzed, 54 excerpted from. Chetnole, Leigh, Yetminster.]

MACKIE, Peter
"Chaplains in the diocese of York, 1480-1530: The testamentary evidence."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 58 (1986) 123-133.
[Wills used. Yorkshire, 1480-1530. Clergy.]

MACKIEWICZ, Susan
"Philadelphia Flourishing: The material world of Philadelphia, 1682-1760."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1988.
[P.I.s studied. Philadelphia, 1682-1760. Material goods as a sign of good government and personal industry.]

MACLEAN, John
"The Will of William Selk, Vicar of All Saints, Bristol, 1270."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 15 (1890/1) 310-315.
[Will printed and examined as a dcoument. Bristol, 1270. Clergy.]

MADAN, Falconer
Stuart Papers Relating Chiefly to Queen Mary of Modena.
2 vols. London: J.B. Nichols, 1889.
[P.I. printed. Chaillot monastery, 1669. Henriette-Marie, wife of Charles I.]

MADDERN, Philippa
"Friends of the Dead: Executors, wills and family strategy in fifteenth-century Norfolk."
In Rulers and Ruled in Late Medieval England: Essays presented to Gerald Harriss, ed. by G.L. Harriss, Rowena E. Archer, Simon Walker. Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambedon Press, 1995; 155-174.
[Wills, 369 used. Norfolk, 1400-1500. Relation of legatees to testators.]

MADDISON, A.R.
"Abstract of the Will of Dame Elizabeth Skipwith."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 8 (1904) 38-41.
[Will abstracted. St. Giles-in-the-Field, 1697.]

"A Curious Will."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 8 (1905) 246-247.
[Will printed. Gosberton, c.1608. Gentry?]

"An Early Lincoln Will, A.D. 1280."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 4 (1896) 99-100.
[Will printed in Latin. Lincoln, 1280. Knight.]

"The Following Inventories are in the Muniment Room of the Dean and Chapter of of Lincoln."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 7 (1902) 87-91.
[P.I.s printed. Lincoln, 1645, 1681, 1690. Clerics.]

Lincolnshire Wills. 2 vols.
Lincoln: James Williamson, 1888, 1891.
[Wills, 545 abstracted. Lincolnshire, 1500-1617.]

"Lincolnshire Wills."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 7 (1902) 122-126.
[Will printed. Upper Langton, 1637. Widow.]

"Monson WIlls."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 9 (1907) 29-32.
[Will printed and discussed. Burton, 1669. Widow, gentry; handwritten by testatrix with phonetic spelling.]

"Preamble and Bequests in Wills of the 17th century."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 7 (1903) 214-221.
[Wills and P.I.s extracted from, no analysis. Lincolnshire, 17th century.]

"Saunderson Family."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 6 (1901) 86-89.
[Will abstracted and extracted from. 1630, baronet; son, 1636, with debts listed.]

"Will of Faith Tyrwhit of Scrivelsby, Widow."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 6 (1901) 60-62.
[Will abstracted, extracted from and discussed. Scrivelby, 1669. Widow, gentry.]

"Will of Jane Palmer, of Boston, Widow of Laurence Palmer, Merchant, and Previously Widow of John Cracroft, of Ingoldmells." Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 8 (1904) 3-5.
[Will printed. Boston (Eng.), 1569/70. Widow.]

"Will of Joan Kay, Widow, of Stixwold."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 8 (1905) 73-75.
[Will printed. Stixwold, 1525. Widow; pious bequests.]

MADGE, S.J.
"Worcester House in the Strand."
Archaeologia 91 (1945) 157-180.
[Inv. (forfeiture) printed. 1643.]

MAIN, Gloria L.                                                                           COLONIAL
"The Correction of Biases in Colonial American Probate Records."
Historical Methods Newsletter 8 (1974) 10-28.
[Methodological approach based on records form 1670-1719.]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"The Distribution of Consumer Goods In Colonial New England: A subregional approach."
In Early American Probate Inventories, ed. by Peter Benes, Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1987; 153-168.
[P.I.s, 16,151 studied. Suffolk, Worcester and Hampshire counties, Mass., 1638-1774. Material culture, household and personal wealth.]
                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Inequality in Early America: The evidence from probate records Massachusetts and Maryland."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 7 (1977) 559-581.
[Probate and tax records as sources: methodological discussion, review of literature.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Probate Records as a Source for Early American History."
William and Mary Quarterly 3^rd ser. 32 (1975) 89-99.
[P.I.s as sources; methodological.]
                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"The Standard of Living in Colonial Massachusetts."
Journal of Economic History 43 (1983) 101-108.
[P.I.s, 646 studied. Rural Massachusetts, 1650-1753. Young fathers; consumption goods.]

"The Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1773."    COLONIAL
William and Mary Quarterly 45 (1988) 124-134.
[P.I.s, 2,400 studied. Connecticut, rural Mass., and Boston, 1640-1771. Material culture, wealth. See also pp.160-170 for commentary.]
                                                                                                       COLONIAL
Tobacco Colony: Life in early Maryland. 1650-1720.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.
[P.I.s used. Maryland, 1650-1720. Material culture and wealth, see also Appendix C, "Probate Records as a Source for Historical Investigation."]

MAIN, Gloria and Jackson T.                                                    COLONIAL
"Economic Growth and the Standard of Living in Southern New England, 1640-1744."
Journal of Economic History 48 (1988) 27-46.
[P.I.s, 16,500 studied. Connecticut, southern Mass., 1640-1744. Wealth, property, material culture.]

MAIN, Jackson Turner                                                              COLONIAL
"The Distribution of Property in Colonial Connecticut."
In Human Dimensions of Nation Making: Essays on colonial and Revolutionary America, ed. by James Kirby Martin, Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976.
[P.I.s, c.1,200 studied. Hartford region, 1650-1774. Wealth and property holdings.]
                                                                                                   COLONIAL
Society and Economy in Colonial Connecticut.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
[P.I.s, c.1,500 studied. Connecticut, 1640-1700. Material culture; books, tools, clothing, wealth.]

MALDEN, A.R.
"The Will of Nicholas Longespee, Bishop of Salisbury (1291-1297)."
English Historical Review 15 (1900) 523-528.
[Will printed. Salisbury, 1295. Clergy.]

MANNING, C.R.
"Will and Codicil of Peter Peterson, Citizen and Goldsmith of Norwich, 1603."
Norfolk Archaeology 11 (1891) 259-302.
[Will and codicil printed. Norwich, 1603. Goldsmith.]

MANWARING, Charles W.                                                                COLONIAL
A Digest of Early Connecticut Probate Records. Vol. 1: 1635-1700.
Hartford: R.S. Peck and Co., 1904-1906.

MAPLES, Ashley K.
"An Almswoman's Inventory."
Fenland Notes and Queries 7 (1907-9) 126-127.
[P.I. printed. Spalding, 1577. Poor woman.]

MARCHANT, Ronald Albert
The Church under the Law: Justice, Administration and Discipline in the Diocese of York, 1560-1640.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1969.
[Testamentary and probate procedures, issues and history in Chapter 3, "The Exchequer and Prerogative Court".]

Puritans and the Church Courts in the Diocese of York, 1560-1642.
London: Longmans, 1960.
[Wills, 2 printed. East Markham (1609), Guiseley (1642). Puritan clergy.]

MARETT, Warwick P.
A Calendar of the Register of Henry Wakefield, Bishop of Worcester, 1375-1395.
Worcestershire Historical Society n.s. #7 (1972).
[Wills, 6 printed (Latin or French), including his own. Worcester, 1381-1395. Clergy and burghers.]

MARGERISON, Samuel
"The Furniture of a Squire's House in 1651."
Bradford Antiquary 1 (1888) 172.
[PI printed with prices. Calverley squire, 1651.]

"Wills from the York Registry, Illustrative of the Entries in the Leeds Parish Registers."
The Publications of the Thoresby Society 1 (1891) 382-390.
[Wills, 32 printed. Leeds, 1587-1592.]

MARRIOTT, Ernest G.
Izaak Walton: 1593-1683. His Life and Work, the Will, Probate Details.
Nottingham: Self, 1987.
[WIll printed. Winchester, 1683. Biography, notes, discussion. Summary of inventory printed. Mercer, angler.]

MARSH, Christopher
“Attitudes to Will-Making in Early Modern England.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 158-175.
[Presents the process of will-making and evidence of personal attitudes to it with a view to determining the reliability of religious statements in Reformation-era wills.]

"`Departing Well and Christianly': Will-making and popular religion in early modern England."
In Religion and the English People 1500-1640: New voices, new perspectives, ed. by Eric Josef Carlson. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, vol.45. Kirksville, Mo.: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998; 201-244.
[Revised version of following article. Will preambles and formularies studied as part of ars moriendi; also disputed will cases and recent historiography.]

"In the Name of God? Will making and faith in early modern England."
In Records of the Nation, G.H. Martin and Peter Spufford, eds, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1990; 215-249.
[Wills discussed; their uses in determining piety, confessional adherence, influence of clergy, etc.]

MARSHAL, John Duncan
Kendal, 1661-1801: The growth of the modern town.
Carlisle: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society and the Kurwen Trust, 1975.
[P.I.s used. Kendal, 1661-1801. Material culture, wealth.]

MARSHALL, George William
A Handbook to the Ancient Courts of Probate and Depositories of Wills.
London: H. Cox, 1895.
[Tabular guide, alphabetical, with earliest known will. Much of the work is outdated and therefor unreliable, except, perhaps, for establishing jurisdiction or provenance.]

"A Priest's Will in 1528."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 1 (1879) 105-107.
[Will printed. London, 1528. Clergy, married, wealthy.]

MARSHALL, J.D.
"Agrarian Wealth and Social Structure in Pre-industrial Cumbria."
Economic History Review 2^nd ser. 33 (1980) 503-521.
[P.I.s, (2,156) and wills (606, each connected to one of the P.I.s) analyzed. Cumbria, 1660-1750. Agricultural and social history.]

"The Domestic Economy of the Lakeland Yeoman, 1660-1749."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society n.s. 73 (1973) 190-219.
[P.I.s studied. Lakeland, 1660-1749. Yeomen, economic history, material culture.]

"Kendal in the Late Seventeeth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 75 (1975) 188-257.
[P.I. used. Kendal, 1675.]

"The Rise and Transformation of the Cumbrian Market Town, 1660-1900."
Northern History 19 (1983) 128-209.
[Wills and P.I.s used anecdotally. Cumbria, late 17th century. Economic history.]

MARTIN, J.M.
"A Warwickshire Market Town in Adversity: Stratford-upon-Avon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
Midland History 7 (1982) 26-41.
[P.I.s, 120 studied. Stratford, 1578-1599, 1620-1639. Social history, wealth and material affluence.]

MARTIN, Janet D.
"An Early Curate of Torver."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 88 (1988) 121-123.
[Will and P.I. printed. Torver, 1605. Clergy.]

MATLOCK POPULATION STUDIES GROUP
"Wills and Their Scribes."
Local Population Studies 8 (1972) 55-57.
[Wills, 115 studied. Response to Spufford in L.P.S. 7 (1971).]

MATTHEWS, J. and G.F.
Yearbook of Probates (from 1630): Abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. 8 vols.
The editors, 1902-1928.
[Acts of probate abstracted. 1630-1655.]

Yearbooks of Probates: Abstracts of probates and sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-1624.
The editors, 1911.
[Acts of probate abstracted. 1620-1624.]

MAX, L.P.
"The Family of Davies of Ashton and Manley."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 27 (1934) 67, 69-71.
[Will printed. Ashton, 1658, gentry.]

"Litigation as to the Will of Anthony Grosvenor of Doddleston, 1575."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 28-30.
[Will discussed. Doddleston, 1575. Also prints deposition surrounding controverted will.]

"Will of Richard Cowley of Wrexham, 1534."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 21 (1926) 44-45.
[Will printed. Wrexham, 1534.]

"The Will of Richard Grosvenor of Eaton, Esq., 1620."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 22 (1927) 83-84.
[Will printed. Eaton, 1620. Gentry.]

MAXWELL, Alexander
The History of Old Dundee, Narrated out of the Town Council Register.
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884.
[Inv. printed. Dundee, 1560? Cooper.]

MAY, Peter
Newmarket Inventories 1662-1715.
Newmarket: by the editor, 1976.
[P.Is, 19 printed with glossary. Newmarket, 1662-1715. Craftsmen, spinster, foreigner, etc.]

Twenty Newmarket Wills, 1439-1497: A glimpse of 15th-century Newmarket.
Bury St. Edmunds: Suffolk Bookshop, 1974.
[Wills, 18 printed in modern English. Newmarket, 1439-1493.]

MAYHEW, G.J.
"The Progress of the Reformation in East Sussex 1530-1559: The evidence from wills."
Southern History 5 (1983) 38-67.
[Wills, 2,495 studied. Lewes Archdeaconry Court, 1530-1559. Religious change abundant according to bequests, preambles, etc.]

MCCLENDON, Muriel C.
"Discipline and Punish? Magistrates and Clergy in Early Reformation Norwich."
In Religion and the English People, 1500-1640, ed. by Eric J. Carlson (Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998) pp. 99-118.
[Religious identities in bequests. Norwich, 16th century.]

MCCLOSKEY, Donald N.
"The Persistence of English Common Fields."
In European Peasants and their Markets: Essays in agrarian economic history, William N. Parker and Eric L. Jones eds., Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975; 73-122.
[Partible inheritance and its effect on the survival of common fields in early modern England.]

MCCUSKER, John J. and MENARD, R.B.                               COLONIAL
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.
Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1985.
[P.I.s used broadly. Colonial America, 1607-1789. Material culture, diet, wealth, etc.]

McELROY, Catheryn J.                                                              COLONIAL
"Furniture in Philadelphia: The first fifty years."
American Furniture and Its Makers. Winterthur Portfolio 13, ed. by Ian Quimby, Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the Winterthur Museum, 1979; 61-80.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Philadelphia, all types of furniture.]

MCFARLANE, Kenneth Bruce
"At the Deathbed of Cardinal Beaufort."
In Studies in Medieval History Presented to Frederick Maurice Powicke, R.W. Hunt, et al. eds., Oxford: the Clarendon Press, 1948; 405-428.
[Will studied briefly. For the will text (1447) see Nicholas, A Collection of Royal Wills, pp.321 ff.]

"Henry V's Books."
In his Lancastrian Kings and Lollard Knights.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972; Appendix C.
[Post-mortem book list printed. 1427. King Henry V.]

MCGARVIE, Michael
"The Will of Edith Rose of Marston Bigot, 1587."
Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries 32 (1987) 627.
[Will printed. Marston Bigot, 1587. Leaseholder's widow.]

MCGRATH, Patrick V.
Bristol Wills, 1546-1593.
Bristol: University of Bristol, 1975.
[Wills, 102 printed (complete collection for the period) with witness of probate. Bristol, 1546-1593.]

Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth-century Bristol.
Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1955.
[Wills (11) and P.I.s (4) printed. Bristol, 1609-1684. Merchants, economic and social history.]

The Wills of Bristol Merchants in the Great Orphan Books.
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society #68 (1949).
[Wills, 401 (50 of merchants) printed. Bristol, 1591-1661. Merchants.]

MCGREGOR, Margaret
Bedfordshire Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1548.
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society #58 (1979).
[Wills, 131 printed and abstracted. Bedfordshire, 1383-1548.]

MCHARDY, A.K.
"Some Late Medieval Eton College Wills."
Journal of Ecclesiastical History 28 (1977) 387-395.
[Wills, 73 studied. Eton College, late-14th, early 15th centuries. Clergy, students; charitable and religious bequests.]

MCINTOSH, Marjorie Keniston
Autonomy and Community: The royal manor of Havering, 1200-1500.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
[Wills, 82 studied. Havering, 1200-1500. Social history.]

A Community Transformed: The Manor and Liberty of Havering, 1500-1620.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
[Wills, 188 studied (tabled on p.441; see pp. 85-91, 188-194), indexed. Havering, 1500-1619. Literacy, pious bequests, religious leanings.]

MCKITTERICK, David
"John Field in 1668: The affairs of a university printer."
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 497-516.
[P.I. printed. Cambridge, 1668. Printer.]

MCMAHON, Sarah F.                                                                 COLONIAL
"A Comfortable Subsistence: The changing composition of diet in rural New England, 1620-1840."
William and Mary Quarterly 42 (1985) 26-65.
[P.I.s, 1,215 studied. Middlesex Co., Mass., 1653-74, 1711-25, 1735-1835. Food, crops as mentioned.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"Provisions Laid up for the Family: towards a history of diet in New England, 1650-1850."
Historical Methods 14 (1981) 4-21.
[P.I.s, 1,215 studied. Middlesex Co., 1650-1850. Food, diet.]

MEGSON, Barbara E.
"Mortality among London Citizens in the Black Death."
Medieval Prosopography 19 (1998) 125-133.
[Wills, 91 studied (87 male, 4 female). London plague victims, 1349. Upper classes.]

MELLING, Elizabeth
Kentish Sources III: Aspects of agriculture and industry.
Maidstone: Kent County Council, 1961.
[P.I.s, 9 printed. Kent, 1565-1729. Farmers and weavers.]

Kentish Sources V: Some Kentish houses.
Maidstone: Kent County Council, 1965.
[Wills and P.I.s printed or extracted from. Kent, 16th-19th centuries. Housing and furnishing.]

MENARD, Russell R.                                                                 COLONIAL
"Farm Prices of Maryland Tobacco, 1659-1710."
Maryland Historical Magazine 68 (1973) 80-85.
[P.I.s used as main source. Maryland Colony, 1659-1710. Tobacco prices.]

                                                                                                       COLONIAL
"From Servant to Freeholder: Status mobility and property accumulation in seventeenth-century Maryland."
William and Mary Quarterly 30 (1973) 37-64.
[P.I.s, 31 studied. Maryland, c.1650-1700. Freedmen; wealth.]
                                                                                                     COLONIAL
"The Maryland Slave Population, 1658-1730: A demographic profile of blacks in four counties."
William and Mary Quarterly 32 (1975) 29-54.
[P.I.s, 300 studied. Lower Western Shore, 1658-1710. Black slave holding, demographics.]

MENARD, Russell, R., CARR, Lois G., and WALSH, L.        COLONIAL
"A Small Planter's Profits: The Cole estate and the growth of the early Chesapeake economy." William and Mary Quarterly 40 (1983) 171-196; reprinted in Material Life in America, 1600-1800, ed. by Robert Blair St. George. Boston: Northeastern University, 1988; 185-201.
[Inv used. St.Mary's Co., Maryland, 1662. Planter.]

MENARD, Russell R., HARRIS, P.M.G., and CARR, L.       COLONIAL
"Opportunity and Inequality: The distribution of wealth on the lower western shore of Maryland, 1638-1705."
Maryland Historical Magazine 69 (1974) 169-184.
[P.I.s, 1,735 studied. Maryland, 1638-1705. Wealth and its distribution.]

MESSITER, L.C.
"Will of Richard Messeter."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 25 (1948) 135-138.
[Will printed and abstracted. Cranmore, 1576 (probated 1591).]

MIDDLETON-STEWART, Judith
"Singing for Souls in Suffolk 1300-1548."
Suffolk Review n.s. 16 (1991) 1-19.
[Wills used anecdotally. Suffolk, 1300-1548. Chantry establishments.]

MILLAR, O.
"Inventories and Valuations of the King's Goods, 1649-1651."
Walpole Society 43 (1972) 1-433.
[Inv.s printed. Charles I, 1649-1651.]

MILLER, Helen
"Henry VIII's Unwritten Will."
In Wealth and Power in Tudor England, E.W. Ives et al. eds.
London: Athlone Press, 1978; 87-105.
[Which speaks to Henry's desires? his testament or his actions.]

MILLER, Henry M.
"An Archaeological Perspective on the Evolution of Diet in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1620-1745."
In Colonial Chesapeake Society, ed. by Lois G.Carr, Philip D. Morgan, Jean P. Russo, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988; 176-199.
[P.I.s, 765 studied. St. Mary's Co., 1638-1740. Food, crops.]

MILLS, Katherine Louise
"Wills in Later Medieval England, with Special Reference to Women."
M.A. thesis, Carleton University, 1992.
[Wills used (from Raines' York and Sharpe's London Hustings collections). Early 14th to late 15th centuries. Treatment of women's wills in court.]

MILWARD, Rosemary
A Glossary of Household, Farming and Trade Terms from Probate Inventories, 2nd ed.
Chesterfield: Derbyshire Record Society, 1982.
[P.I.s as source for 800 terms. Offprint from Bestall and Fowkes,Chesterfield Wills, vol 1.]

MIROW, Matthew Campbell
"Readings on Wills in the Inns of Court, 1552-1631."
Ph.D. dissertation. Cambridge University, 1993.

MISKIMIN, Harry A.
"The Legacies of London: 1259-1330."
In The Medieval City, Miskimin et al. eds., New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977; 209-227.
[Wills, 1,550 studied. London, 1259-1330 (Court of Husting). Profiles of legatees and legacies.]

MITCHELL, W.T.
Registrum Cancellarii 1498-1506 [Oxford].
Oxford Historical Society n.s. #27.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
[P.I.s, 15 Latin texts with 13 English abstracts; Wills, 13 Latin with English abstracts. Oxford, 1498-1506. Chancellor's registry.]

MITSON, Anne
"The Significance of Kinship Networks in the Seventeenth Century: South-west Nottinghamshire."
In Societies, Cultures and Kinship, 1580-1800. Cultural Provinces and English Local History, Charles Phythian-Adams ed., Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1993; 24-76.
[Wills, 490 used (17th century); P.I.s, 44 used (1670-1720). Kinship, social history.]

MOBERLY, George Herbert
"Abstract of William Wykeham's Will."
In his Life of William Wykeham, Sometime Bishop of Winchester and Lord High Chancellor of England, London: Simpkin and Co., 1893; 344-348.
[Will printed. 1404. Clergy.]

MOGER, O.M.
"Some Notes on the Whereabouts of West Country Wills."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 25 (1952-3) 9-10.
[Discussion of locations of wills; no longer valid.]

MONCKTON, Herbert
"A Kentish Yeoman and His Will."
Home Counties Magazine 1 (1899) 167-170.
[Will printed. Leeds, 1630. Yeoman.]

MONDAY, A.J.
"A Curious Clause in the Will of Ralph Pomery of the Parish of "Sainte Cuthbrts" [Cuthberts], in Wells, "Shoomaker"."
The Western Antiquary 3 (1884) 236.
[Will extracted from and discussed. Wells, 1584. Shoemaker.]

"The Last Will and Testament of Dame Elizabeth Biconyll, Widow of Sir John Biconyll [or Bicknell], Knight."
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 39 (1893) 35-42.
[Will printed. Beckington, 1500. Gentry.]

"Parr Family of Devonshire, and William Parre of Ashcombe."
Western Antiquary 4 (1885) 10-11.
[Will printed. Ashcombe, 1546.]

"The Will of a Somersetshire Yeoman in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth."
The Western Antiquary 4 (1884) 225-226.
[Will printed. Somersetshire, 1565. Yeoman.]

"Will of a Taunton Merchant in the Reign of Elizabeth."
The Western Antiquary 5 (1886) 261-262.
[Will printed. Taunton, 1579. Merchant.]

"The Wills of Two Somerset Priests."
Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset 5 (1897) 140-141.
[Will printed. Somerset, 1540-1558. Clergy.]

MOON, J.H.
"Thomas Rolff: An examination of the structure of society within the Kentish High Weald based upon the study of a fifteenth-century parish clerk." Archaeologia Cantiana 112 (1993) 193-212.
[Wills, 40 discussed. Lamberhurst, 1413-1598. Why did people leave bequests to T.R.?]

MOOR, C.
"The Askews and Penningtons of Seaton."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Gloucestershire Antiquarian and Archaeology Society 11 (1911) 167-184.
[Will extracted from. Hugh Askew, 1698.]

"The Old Statesman Families of Irton, Cumberland."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society 10 (1910) 148-198.
[P.I.s, several used. Irton, 1583-18th century. Material and financial wealth.]

MOORE, John S.
Clifton and Westbury Probate Inventories, 1609-1761.
Bristol: University of Bristol, 1981.
[P.I.s, 246 printed and analyzed, indexed, glossary, tables. Clifton and Westbury, 1609-1761.]

The Goods and Chattels of our Forefathers.
London: Phillimore, 1976.
[P.I.s, 413 printed, glossary, intro. Gloucestershire villages, 1539-1790.]

"Jack Fisher's `Flu': A visitation revisited."
Economic History Review 46 (1993) 280-307.
[P.I.s used/justified as evidence for demographic drop in late 1550's; Fisher used 7 probate runs, Moore 43.]

"`Jack Fisher's `Flu': A virus still virulent."
Economic History Review 47 (1994) 359-361.
[Defends his earlier thesis on use of P.I.s for demographic study.]

"Probate Inventories: problems and prospects."
In Probate Records and the Local Community, Riden ed., Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985; 11-28.
[P.I.s as sources for local history.]

MORAN, Jo Ann Hoeppner
The Growth of English Schooling 1340-1548. Learning, Literacy and Laicization in Pre-Reformation York Diocese.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
[Wills, 10,500 analyzed. York Diocese, 1389-1530. See Appendix A, "Testamentary Sources." Motivations, books, literacy, religious adherence, etc.]

"Literacy and Education in Northern England, 1350-1550: A methodological inquiry."
Northern History 17 (1981) 1-23.
[Wills, 20,000 studied. York, 1350-1550. Methodology, literacy, books.]

MORANT, A.W.
The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven in the County of York. 3rd ed. 2vols.
London: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1878; reprinted Manchester: E.J. Morten, 1973.
[P.I. printed (pp.398-405, 481). Skipton Castle, 1572. Nobility.]

MORE, Ellen Singer
"The New Arminians: John Goodwin and His Coleman Street Congregation in Cromwellian England."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rochester, 1980.
[Wills used as evidence for Goodwin's followers' lives, thought, ideology. Religious and social history.]

MORETON, C.E.
"Mid-Tudor Trespass: A break-in at Norwich, 1549."
English Historical Review 108 (1993) 387-398.
[Inv. of stolen goods. Norwich, 1549. Gentry.]

MORETON, Charles and RUTLEDGE, Paul
"Skayman's Book, 1516-1518."
In Farming and Gardening in Late Medieval Norfolk, Norfolk Record Society #61 (1997) 95-155.
[Will printed. Norfolk, 1519. Estate manager.]

MORGAN, Frederick C.
"The Will of Sir John Prise of Hereford, 1555."
National Library of Wales Journal 9 (1955) 255-261.
[Will printed. Hereford, 1555.]

MORGAN, Gerald                                                                       WALES
"Dowries for Daughters in West Wales, 1500-1700."
Welsh History Review 17 (1995) 534-549.
[Wills, 450 used. Archdeaconry of Cardigan, 1560-1680. All classes; dowry provisions in wills.]

"Welsh Names in Welsh Wills."
Local Historian 25 (Aug. 1995) 178-185.
[Wills, 720 studied. Wales, most post-1700. Personal and place names for help in identifying them in wills.]

"Women's Wills in West Wales, 1600-1750."
Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian (1992) 95-114.
[Wills used anecdotally. Wales, 1600-1750. Methodological.]

MORRIS, E.R.
"Kerry and Moughtrey Wills at Hereford Probate Office."
Collections Historical and Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire 27 (1893) 233-267.
[Wills, 22 printed, some with inventories, all applicable calendared. 1569-1588.]

MORRIS, G.C.R.
"The Household Goods of Thomas Hobbs (1647?-1698) Surgeon to James II, Physician to Dryden."
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society 23 (1972) 204-208.
[P.I. printed. London, 1698. Physician.]

MORRIS, G.T.W.
"Will of George Hodder of Topsham, Mariner, 1692."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 13 (1924-5) 276-278.
[Will printed. Topsham, 1692. Mariner.]

"Will of Simon Slader, 1536."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 13 (1924-5) 322-325.
[Will printed. Kerton, 1536. With discussion of one bequest.]

"William Morrise, Kerton."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 15 (1928) 15-17.
[Wills, 3 abstracted, Moxey family. Kerton, 1571, 1585, 1588.]

MORRISON, John Harold
Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Register `Scroope' (1630).
London: by the author, 1934.
[Wills abstracted and indexed from the register. 1630.]

Wills, Sentences and Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1661-1670.
London: J.H. Morrison, 1935.
[Materials "arranged and numbered in alphabetical order." 1661-1670.]

MORTIMER, Ian
Berkshire Probate Accounts, 1583-1712.
Reading: Berkshire Record Office, 1999.
[Prints 162 accounts. Indexed with intro and 1 facsimile.]

MORTON, T.N.
"Materials for Country History: Croxteth archive."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 34 (1883) 125-135.
[Wills, 2 printed. Croxteth, 1476, 1528 (widow).]

"Will of William More of Bankhouse."
Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 40 (1888) 180-182.
[Will printed. Bankhouse, 1537.]

MOTLA, Paresh
"Agriculture and Trade: The Economy of Thame, 1600-1680."
Oxfordshire Local History 3 #4 (1990) 153-165.
[Wills and PIs, 250 studied. Thame, Oxon. Wealth, farming, occupations, land use.]

MUMFORD, Alfred A.
Hugh Oldham, 1452?-1519.
London: Faber and Faber, 1936.
[Will printed. Exeter, 1519. Clergy (bishop).]

MUNBY, LIONEL M. ed.
Life and Death in Kings Langley. Wills and Inventories 1498-1659.
Kings Langley: Kings Langley Local Historical and Museum Society, 1981.
[Wills and P.I.s, 147 printed with analysis and intro. Kings Langley, 1498-1659.]

MUNDAY, John T.
"Styward's Substance: Will of Simeon Styward, 1566."
Lakenheath Records 5. Lakenheath: J.T. Munday, 1970.
[Will printed. Lakenheath, nouveau artistocrat.]

"Thirty Testaments."
Lakenheath Records 3 (1969).

MURPHY, Margaret                                                                   IRELAND
"The High Cost of Dying: An analysis of pro anima Bequests in Medieval Dublin."
In The Church and Wealth. Studies in Church History vol 24 (1987); 111-122.
[Wills, 98 analyzed. Dublin, 1270-1500. Pattern of bequests.]

MURRAY, Jacqueline
"Kinship and Friendship: The perception of family by clergy and laity in late medieval London."
Albion 20 (1988) 369-385.
[Wills, 94 clerical, 149 lay studied. London, 1514-1548. Primary relationships and interrelationships of legatees, testators, executors.]

MUSKETT, J.J.
"An Aggrieved Testator: Will of Roger Brooke, 1598."
The East Anglian n.s. 2 (1887-8) 52-54.
[Will printed (`condensed'). London, 1598. Gentry.]

"A Country Parson of 1627."
East Anglian n.s. 10 (1903/4) 81-82.
[Will printed. Little Thurow, 1627. Clergy.]

"Funerals in Reformation Days."
The East Anglian n.s. 3 (1889) 345-348, 367-370.
[Wills extracted from. Shift in customs due to Reformation.]

"Nuncupative Wills."
The East Anglian n.s. 3 (1889-1890) 169-172.
[Wills discussed with examples from the 16th and 17th centuries.]

"Spinster and Wife."
East Anglian n.s. 1 (1885-6) 179-180.
[Wills used. Eastern counties, 17th and 18th centuries. Use of term "spinster" for both wives and unmarried women.]

"A Strange Burial."
The East Anglian n.s. 2 (1887-8) 17-18.
[Will extracted from. Soham, Cambridgeshire, 1607. Rich yeoman; funeral and burial.]

"Will of Richard Allington, esq., 1561."
East Anglian n.s. 1 (1885-6) 320-322.
[Will printed. London, 1561. Lawyer.]

"Will of Sir Hamon L'Estrange of Hunstanton, 1654."
The East Anglian n.s. 1 (1885-6) 153-155.
[Will printed. Norfolk, 1654. Knight.]

"The Will of William Dowsing, Parliamentary Visitor to the Suffolk Churches, 1643-4."
The East Anglian n.s. 1 (1885-6) 138.
[Will described and discussed. Stratford, 1667. Burgher.]

"The Wythipoll Family of Ipswich."
The East Anglian 3^rd ser. 10 (1903-4) 85-89.
[Wills, 2 printed. Ipswich, 1606, 1625. Gentry, husband and widow.]

MYERS, A.R. ed.
English Historical Documents Vol 4. 1327-1485.
New York: Oxford University Press, 969.
[P.I.s (1391, 1439, 1476) and will (1454) printed. Parson, merchant, grocer.]

"The Wealth of Richard Lyons."
In Essays in Medieval History Presented to Bertie Wilkinson, T.A. Sandquist and M.R. Powicke eds., Toronto: University of Toronto University Press, 1969; 301-329.
[Inv. printed. French merchant in London, 1376.]

NAIR, Gwyneth
Highley,the Development of a Community, 1550-1880.
London: Basil Blackwell, 1988.
[Wills used. Highley, 1550-1880. Community members' wealth, family structures, farming.]

NAKAJIMA, Hideto
"Robert Hooke's Family and his Youth: Some new evidence from the will of the Rev. John Hooke."
Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 48 (1994) 11-16.
[Will printed. Hampshire, 1648. Father of Robert; clergy.]

NARRETT, David E.                                                                    COLONIAL
Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
[Wills, 2,456 studied. New Amsterdam (37), non-New York City (800), New York City, 1664-1775. See esp. Chapter 1, "Preparing a Last Will and Testament", and Appendix "New Yorkers who left wills: a social profile, 1664-1775."]

                                                                                                        COLONIAL
"Preparation for Death and Provision for the Living: Notes on New York Wills (1665-1760)."
New York History 57 (1976) 417-437.
[Wills, 4,700 studied. New York, 1665-1760. Social history.]

NASS, Herbert E.
Even from the Grave: The Wills and Last Wishes of the Rich and Famous.
London: Robson, 1995.
[Wills of 68 20th-century celebrities quoted from. Each w/ intro.]

NEAVE, David
Tudor Market Rasen: Life and work in a sixteenth-century market town illustrated by probate inventories.
Hull: University of Hull, 1985.
[P.I.s, 65 printed, glossary, intro. Market Rasen, 1485-1603.]

NEEDHAM, Sue
A Glossary for East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Probate Inventories.
Hull: University of Hull Department of Adult Education, 1984.

NENNER, Howard A.
"`By Colour of Law': the influence of a legal disposition of mind upon English politics from 1660-1689."
Ph.D. dissertation, Univesity of California, Berkeley, 1971.
[Wills used.]

NEVILLE, Barry, and JONES, Edward                                      COLONIAL
"Slavery in Worcester County, Maryland, 1688-1766."
Maryland Historical Magazine 89 (1994) 319-327.
P.I.s studied. Worcester Co., Maryland, 1688-1766. Planters, slaves.]

NEWTON
"The Gentry of Derbyshire."
Derbyshire Archaeological Journal 86 (1966) pages?
[P.I.s used. Derbyshire. Gentry, wealth.]

NIBLETT, J.D.T.
"The Will of John Niblett, of Brokenthroppe, 1543."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1884) 350.
[Will printed. Brokenthroppe, 1543.]

NICHOLS, J.B., ORNSBY, G., CLAY, J.W., RAINE, J.
Testamenta Eboracensia or, Wills Registered at York Illustrative of the History, Manners, Language, Statistics etc. of the Province of York, from the Year 1300 Downwards. 6 vols. Publications of the Surtees Society (1836-1902).
[Wills, over 1000 printed (some Latin). York district, 1300-1550.]

NICHOLS, John
Accounts [Accompts] of Churchwardens. Illustrations of the manners and expences of antient times in England, in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, deduced from the accompts of churchwardens. London: John Nichols, 1797; London: AMS; Kraus Reprints, 1973.
[P.I.s, 2 (1500, 1559) printed and will (1449) extracted from (see Table of Contents).]

A Collection of All the Wills, Now Known to Be Extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, Princes and Princesses of Wales ... from the Reign of William the Conqueror to That of Henry VII. London: J. Nichols, 1780.
[Wills, 30 printed in original languages; also notes on Edward II and Stephen, who died intestate. Royalty, 1066- 1485.]

NICHOLS, John and BRUCE, John
Wills from Doctors Commons.
London: Camden Society, 1863.
[Wills, 32 printed, organized chronologically. 1495-1695. Includes, among others, Cardinal Pole, Bp. Stephen Gardyner, Cecily of York, Elizabeth of Bohemia, Henry Purcell, Francis Drake, Thomas Gresham.]

NICHOLS, John Gough
"The Contemporaries and Successors of Holbein."
Archaeologia 39 (1863) 19-56.
[Wills, 4 printed. London, 1532-1570. Painters.]

Inventories of the Wardrobes, Plate, Chapel Stuff etc. of Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, and of the Wardrobe Stuff at Bayard's Castle of Katherine, Princess Dowager. The Camden Miscellany 3 (1854/5).
[P.I. of Katherine of Aragon (1537), London; inv. of Henry VIII, 1528.]

NICHOLS, John Gough and JACKSON, John Edward
"Inventory of the Goods of Dame Agnes Hungerford, Attained of Murder 14 Hen.VIII."
Archaeologia 38 (1855) 353-372.
[Inv. printed. 1523.]

NICHOLSON, Gillian H.
"The Medieval Wills of Bristol."
M.A. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1970.

NICOLAS, Nicholas Harris
Testamenta Vetusta: being illustrations from wills, manners, customs &c. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families: from the reign of Henry the Second to the accession of Queen Elizabeth. 2 vols. London: Nichols and Son, 1826.
[Wills, some printed most abstracted, nearly 700. 1154-1558.]

NOAKE, John
Worcestershire Relics.
London: Longman and Co., 1877.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Worcester, 1564, c.1580. Drapers; follows discussion of domestic furniture; see also pp.20-45, wills as sources on ancient clothing, esp. of 16th and 17th centuries.]

NORCLIFFE, C.B.
"The Pawson Inventory and Pedigree."
Publications of the Thoresby Society 4 (1895) 163-168.
[P.I. printed. Leeds, 1576. Gentleman.

NORRIS, E.G.
"A Seventeeth-century Inventory."
Essex Review 15 (1906) 169-175.
[P.I. printed. Dukes, 1686.]

NORTH, Christine
“Merchants and Retailers in Seventeenth-Century Cornwall.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 285-305.
[Wills and PIs, 111 studied. Several Cornish towns, 1601-1649. Stocks, wealth.]

NUSSEY, John
"The Will of Trooper Oldroyd of Heckmond Wike: An incident in the Civil War."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 59 (1987) 95-101.
[P.I. and probate records printed. Problems of transferring a soldier's goods.]

O'CONNER, Stephen
"Adam Fraunceys and John Pyel: Perceptions among merchants in fourteenth-century London."
In Trade, Devotion and Governance, Dorothy Clayton, Richard Davies and Peter McNiven eds., Dover, NH: Alan Stroud, 1994; 17-35.
[Wills used as mirrors of status perception. Merchants, 14th century.]

O'DAY, Rosemary
The Debate on the English Reformation.
New York: Methuen, 1986.
[Wills discussed as sources on personal piety; literature review pp.155-159. Reformation period.]

The Family and Family Relations, 1500-1900: England, France and the United States of America.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
[Wills used (indexed). See esp. 104-111, on will making as family strategy.]

OFFORD, V.E. ed.
The Probate Documents of Water Eaton, Oxfordshire, 1592-1730.
Kidlington: Kidlington and District Historical Society, 1986.
[Probate inventories and orther records, 23 printed from 1593-1701 (2 later). Water Eaton, 1592-1730. Most are yeomen, widows, husbandmen.]

OLDFIELD, G.
"Wills that Tell a Tale."
Sneinton Magazine 16 (1985) 24-27.

OLIVA, Marilyn
"The Convent and the Community in the Diocese of Norwich from 1350 to 1540."
Ph.D. dissertation, Fordham University, 1991.
[Wills analyzed. Norwich, 1350-1540. Testators are local folk who donate bequests and members to the convents.]

OLIVE, Gabriel
"Furniture in a West Country Parish, 1576-1769."
Furniture History 12 (1976) 17-28.
[P.I.s, 141 discussed. Yetminster, 1576-1769. Furniture.]

OLIVER, Edmund Ward
"Notes from Ruckinge Wills Affecting Ruckinge Church."
Archaeologia Cantiana 13 (1880) 231-236.
[Wills, 64 studied. Ruckinge, 1402-1541. Bequests to the church.]

OLIVER, George
"Wills of the Families of Denys, Chamond and Arundel of the Episcopal Register at Exeter."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 4 (1837) 169-177.
[Wills, 4 printed. Talferne, et al., 1532, clergy; 1558, knight; 1550/1, widow; 1598.]

OLIVER, George and JONES, P.
"The Will of Katherine, Countess of Devon, daughter of Edward IV; dated May 2, 1527."
Archaeological Journal 10 (1853) 53-58.
[Will printed. Nobility, 1527.]

OLIVER, V.L.
"Thomas Bennett."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 6 (1908-10) 134-6, 183-184.
[Wills, 2 printed. Sarum, 1558, clergy; Norton Bavent, 1573, gentry.]

"Will of John Olliver."
The Western Antiquary 10 (1891) 114.
[Will abstracted. Yeoman, 1651.]

OLLARD, S.L.
"Dunsfold and its Rector."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 31 (1918) 45-84; 32 (1919) 1-33.
[Wills, several extracted from and discussed. Dunsfold, 15th and 16th century. Rectors.]

OLORENSHAW, J.R.
"Rattlesden Papers."
The East Anglian n.s. 5 (1893-1894) 28-29.
[P.I. printed. Rattlesden, 1693/4. Laborer.]

ORME, Nicholas
"Henry de Berbilond, d.1296, a Vicar Choral at Exeter Cathedral."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 37 (1992) 1-7.
[Will translated and discussed. Exeter, 1296. Clergy.]

"Schoolmasters, 1307-1509."
In Profession, Vocation and Culture in Later Medieval England. Esays Dedicated to the Memory of A.R.Myers. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1982; 218-241.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed briefly as sources on wealth. Teachers, 1307-1509.]

ORNSBY, George ed.
The Correspondence of John Cosin, D.D. Lord Bishop of Durham.... Part 2.
Surtees Society Publications #55 (1870).
[Will printed. Durham, 1671. Clergy (bishop's will, doc #107).]

OSBORNE, Brian                                                                         WALES
"Glamorgan Agriculture in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
National Library of Wales Journal 20 (1978) 387-407.
[P.I.s, 1100 used. Glamorgan, 17th and 18th centuries. Balance of sheep, cattle and crop values.]

O'SHEA, Kieran                                                                           IRELAND
"A Castleisland Inventory, 1590."
Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 15-16 (1982-3) 37-46.
[Inv. printed. Castleisland, 1590.]

OVERTON, Mark
A Bibliography of British Probate Inventories.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983.
[Bibliography of some 455 articles and books. All before 1700 are included in this present collection.]

"Computer Analysis of an Inconsistent Data Source: The case of probate inventories."
Journal of Historical Geography 3 (1977) 317-326.
[Dated, with some applicable notes on adopting the structure of inventories to computer formats; examples from Suffolk, Norfolk, 1580-1740.]

"English Probate Inventories and the Measurement of Agricultural Change."
A.A.G. Bijdragen 23 (1980) 205-215.
[P.I.s, 2,160 studied. Norfolk and Suffolk, 1660-1729. Methodolgy, agricultural history.]

"Estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: an example from East Anglia, 1585-1735."
Journal of Economic History 39 (1979) 363-378.
[P.I.s, 14,000 studied. East Anglia, 1585-1735. Agricultural history, crop yields.]

“Prices from Probate Inventories.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s Head Press, 2000) pp. 120-142.
[Some results of major study of specific PI valuations and other price information in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Lincs., 1550-1750. Economic history.]

"Probate Inventories and the Reconstruction of Agricultural Landscapes."
In Discovering Lost Landscapes, Michael Reed ed., Beckenham: Croom Helm Ltd., 1984; 167-194.
[P.I.s studied. East Anglia, 16th and 17th centuries. Methodology, agricultural history.]

"Re-estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: A comment."
Journal of Economic History 50 (1990) 931-935.
[P.I. study of R.C. Allen critiqued, reverses his conclusion. Oxfordshire, 1585-1735.]

OVERTON, Mark, and CAMPBELL, Bruce M.S.
"Norfolk Livestock Farming, 1250-1740: A comparative study of manorial accounts and probate inventories."
Journal of Historical Geography 18 (1992) 377-396.
[P.I.s compared with manorial accounts as sources on livestock. Norfolk, 1250-1740.]

OWEN, A.E.B.
The Medieval Lindsey Marsh: Selected documents.
Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 1996.
[Wills, 7 abstracted, 1 printed. Lindsey Marsh, 1345-1504. 2 knights, 2 clerics, 1 widow, 2 others. See index "Documents: wills".]

OWEN, Dorothy
The Making of King's Lynn: A documentary study.
London: Oxford University Press, 1984.
[Wills, 1 printed (1431), 2 extracted from (1408, 1503/4); P.I.s, 2 printed (1499, 1536). See pp. 251-256, "Wills and Probate".]

OWEN, Dorothy and THURLEY, Dorothea
The King's School, Ely.
Cambridge: Cambridge Antiquarian Records Society, 1982.
[Wills, 2 printed. Ely, 1597, 1701. School masters.]

OWEN, Dorothy May
Records of the Established Church in England.
British Records Association Archives and the User #1 (1970).
[Probate records, a short introduction to how they were created (pp.44-5.]

OWEN, E.
"The Will of Adam Usk."
English Historical Review  18 (1903) 316-317.

OWEN, Gale R.
"Wynflaed's Wardrobe."
Anglo-Saxon England 8 (1979) 195-222.
[Will used, Anglo-Saxon will in the Library of the British Museum. Clothing.]

OWEN, T.M.                                                                                WALES
"Some Lleyn Inventories of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Transactions of the Caernarvonshire Historical Society 21 (1960) 70-80.

OXLEY, James E.
The Reformation in Essex to the Death of Mary.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1965.
[Wills studied. Essex, 1528-1558. Pp.19-24, 259-261 on bequests, requests for prayer, religious identification.]

P., C.
"Household Goods, 1667."
East Anglian Miscellany (1941) 7, 9.
[PI printed. Stratford, Suffolk, 1667. Daniel Wall.]

PAGE, Stephen Frederick
"Literature and Culture in Late Medieval East Anglia."
Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1988.
[Wills used. Norfolk, Sufolk, 15th century. Burghers, books.]

PAGE, W.
"Hendon Parsonage in 1540."
Middlesex and Hertfordshire oes and Queries 1 (1895) 116-119.
[P.I. closely discussed. Hendon, 1540. Clergy.]

PAGE-TURNER, F.A.
"The Bedfordshire Wills and Administrations Proved at Lambeth Palace and in the Archdeaconry of Huntingdon."
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 2 (1914) 3-59.
[Wills and administrations, 23 printed. Bedfordshire, 1379-1627.]

PAGET, Jane and Tony SALE, eds.
Charlton Kings Probate Records, 1600-1800.
Charlton Kings: Charlton Kings Local Historical Society, 2003.
[PIs, 84 analyzed; 375 wills, PIs and administrations abstracted or printed. Gloucestershire. Includes glossary and index by occupation.]

PAINE, Clive ed.
Hartest, a Village History.
Hartest Local History Group,1984.
[Wills and P.I.s used extensively with regard to many aspects of village life, but they are unindexed.]

PAINTER, A.C.
"Hugh Westwood."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeology Society 54 (1932) 85-105.
[Wills, 2 abstracted and discussed. Late 16th century; his and wife's wills.]

PALGRAVE, F.
The Antient Kalendars and Inventories of the Treasury of His Majesty's Exchequer. Vol. 3.
London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1836.
[P.I.s, 4 printed. 1327/8, plate; 1331, Roger Mortimer; 1358, Queen Isabella; 1403, Count of Worcester.]

PALLISER, David M.
The Age of Elizabeth: England under the Later Tudors.
New York: Longman, 1983.
[P.I.s used (Havinden's Oxfordshire materials). See esp.Chapter 4, "Wealth and Poverty."]

"Civic Mentality and the Environment in Tudor York."
Northern History 18 (1982) 78-115.
[Wills and P.I.s used. York, 16th century. Mortality, family affection, wealth.]

"Epidemics in Tudor York."
Northern History 8 (1973) 45-63.
[Wills, 1,700 studied.York, 1485-1600. Mortality rates calculated; patterns of will-making during times of epidemics.]

"Popular reactions to the Reformation during the Years of Uncertainty 1530-1570."
In The English Reformation Revised, Christopher Haigh ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987; 94-113.
[Will research used as evidence of religious ritual.]

The Reformation in York, 1534-1663. Borthwick Papers #40.
York: St. Anthony's Press, 1971.
[Wills, 1,104 studied. York, 1534-1553. Religious history, preambles, formulae, bequests to relgious institutions.]

Tudor York.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
[Wills and P.I.s used. York, 16th century. Epidemics, provision of tutors for minors, household goods and wealth, occupational tools; bequests as evidence of protestantization.]

PARKER, Mary A.
"The Problem of Christianity and Secularism in Beowulf."
Ph.D. dissertation, New York University, 1984.
[Wills used. Anglo-Saxon, 597-800. Inconsistent advance of Christianity as background to the poem.]

PARKER, Meryl
All My Worldly Goods. Vol. 1: 1447-1742: Insight into Family Life form Wills and Probate Inventories.
All My Worldly Goods. Vol. 2: Wills and Probate Inventories from St. Stephen's Parish, St. Albans, 1418-1700.
Bricket Wood: Bricket Wood Society, 1991.
[Abstracts of documents, 375 total. Hertfordshire. Short intros and glossary.]

PARKER, Vanessa
The Making of Kings Lynn: Secular Buildings from the 11th to the 17th Centuries.
London: Phillimore, 1971.
[P.I.s, 6 printed. Kings Lynn, 1591-1708.]

PARRY, E.
"Helmdon Wills 1603-1760."
Northamptonshire Past and Present 5 (1975) 235-241.
[Wills, 93 used. Helmdon, 1603-1760. General discussion of terms in the wills.]

PARTRIDGE, Charles
"Three Suffolk Wills of the First Half of the Sixteenth Century."
East Anglian n.s. 11 (1905-6) 273-277, 311-312.
[Wills, 3 of Partridge family printed. Acton, 1525 and 1545, yeoman and widow; Lavenham, 1542.]

"Will of Sir Philip Tylney of Shelley Hall, Suffolk, 1532."
Notes and Queries 192 (1947) 297-300.
[Will printed. Suffolk, 1532. Gentry.]

PARTRIDGE, Charles, jr.
"Extracts from the Will of Josiah Stubbin of Offton, 1686."
The East Anglian 3^rd ser. 10 (1903-4) 365-366.
[Will abstracted. Offton, 1686. Gentry.]

"Wills of Richard Partriche of Kersey and Bromeswell, 1610."
The East Anglian 3^rd ser.10 (1903-4) 281-283.
[Will printed. Bromeswell, 1610. Yeoman.]

PATCH, Ira J.                                                                    COLONIAL
"Abstracts from Wills, Inventories &c on File in the Office of the Clerk of Courts, Salem, Massachusetts."
Essex Institute Historical Collections 1 (1859) 3-12, 48-52, 91-96, 143-144, 181-183; 2 (1860) 13-21, 67-72, 123-132, 177-184, 230-236, 273-281; 3 (1861) 48-50, 61-67, 106-110, 188-192, 228-233; 4 (1862) 20-28, 62-72, 112, 169-175, 233-239, 282-283; 5 (1863) 42-48, 91-94, 140-143, 192.
[Wills and/or P.I.s, 780 abstracted. Salem region, 1640-1691.]

PAYNE, John Orlebar
Records of the English Catholics of 1715.
London: Burns and Oates, 1889; reprinted by Gregg International Publishers Ltd. 1970.
[Wills abstracted: "nearly 400 wills and letters of administration of English people declared Catholics in 1715. Often only heirs or relatives are mentioned.]

PEACOCK, Edward
The following is a list of 5 untitled communications that Edward Peacock provided the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London:
3 (1866) 401.
[Will printed. Ouston, 1477.]

5 (1872) 294-299.
[Inv.s (printed) of Cardinal Fisher of Rochester, 1534; bishop's palace and Halling Manor, Kent.]

5 (1872) 376-377.
[Will printed. Grimsby, 1550. Father of Archbishop of Canterbury (Whitby).]

7 (1878) 426-429.
[Will printed. Henley-on-Thames, 1530. Widow, mother of Bishop of Lincoln.]

12 (1888) 227-228.
[Will printed. Hertford, 1521. Farmer (mentions a priest's wife?]

"Extracts from the Churchwarden's Accounts of the Parish of Leverton in the County of Lincoln."
Archaeologia 41 (1867) 333-370.
[Will extracted from. Leverton, 1524. Cleric.]

"Inventories Made for Sir William and Sir Thomas Fairfax, Knights, of Walton and Gilling Castle Yorkshire."
Archaeologia 48 (1884) 121-156.
[Inv.s, 7 printed. Yorkshire. Household goods (1594/5, 1624), sheep and cattle (1596), books (undated), plate and linen (1590).]

"Inventory of a Sixteenth-century Country Parson."
Notes and Queries 6th ser. 3 (1881) 243.
[P.I.printed with valuation. Boddington, 1507. Clergy.]

"Parliamentary Proceedings in 1628."
Archaeologia 42 (1869) 1-10.
[Will printed. London, 1632. Clerk.]

"Robert Todd of Bicker; a Lincolnshire Yeoman of the XVI Century."
The Reliquary 12 (1871/2) 148-151.
[Will and P.I. printed. Lincolnshire, 1546. Yeoman.]

PEARSON, David
Provenance Research in Book History.
London: The British Library, 1994.
[See section on `Ms. lists and inventories: Probate inventories and wills.']

PECKHAM, W.D.
"Henry Spicer, Canon of Chichester."
Sussex Notes and Queries 9 (1942/3) 79-80.
[Will abstracted. Chichester, 1437. Clergy.]

"Some Chichester Wills, 1483-1504."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 87 (1948) 1-27.
[Wills, 54 abstracted. Chichester, 1483-1504.]

PENDERY, Steven R.
"Symbols of Community: Status differences and the archeological record in Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1630-1760."
Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1987.
[P.I.s used. Charlestown, 1630-1760. Wealth, consumer goods.]

PERKINS, Elizabeth R.
Village Life from Wills and Inventories: Clayworth parish 1670-1710.
Nottingham University, 1979.
[P.I.s printed, some analysis, glossary. Clayworth Parish, 1670-1710.]

PERROW, Eber Carle
"The Last Will and Testament as a Form of Literature."
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Arts and Letters 17 (1914) 682-753.
[Broad discussion of the genre across all European literary traditions.]

PERRY, R.
"The Gloucestershire Woolen Industry."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 66 (1945) 49-137.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Gloucestershire. Early study of an industry using these sources.]

PESKETT, H.M.
"The Probate Inventory of Sire John Daumarle, 1393."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 32 (1971) 79-82.
[P.I. printed. Lustleigh, 1393. Gentry.]

PESKETT, Hugh
"Manorial Probate Courts in Devon."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 33 (1974-7) 180.
[Specifically on materials at Templeton.]

PETCHEY, W.J.
A Prospect of Maldon.
Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1991.
[P.I.s used, indexed. Maldon, 16th and early 17th century. Housing, religious attitudes, living standards.]

PETER, M.J.
"A Study of the Administration of the Henrician Acts of Supremacy in Canterbury Diocese."
Ph.D. dissertation, Loyola University of Chicago, 1959.
[Wills, 113 studied. Canterbury, 1540s. Books, clergy.]

PETTEGREE, Andrew
"`Thirty years on': progress towards integration amongst the immigrant population of Elizabethan London."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk, John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 297-312.
[Wills, about 100 studied. London, 1560s-1590s. Cross-Channel immigrants and social integration.]

PHELPS, Wayne H.
"Some Sixteenth-century Stationers' Wills."
Studies in Bibliography 32 (1979) 48-59.
[Wills, 13 abstracted. 1517-1582. Stationers.]

"The Will of Randall Taylor, a Restoration Bookseller."
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 72 (1978) 335-337.
[Will printed. London, 1689. Bookseller.]

PHILLIPS, C.B.
"Probate Records and the Kendal Shoemakers in the Seventeenth Century."
In Probate Records and the Local Community, Philip Riden ed., Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985; 29-52.
[Wills (33) and P.I.s (48) studied. Kendal, 1580-1700. Shoemakers.]

PHILLIPS, C.B. and SMITH, J.H.
Stockport Probate Records, 1578-1619.
Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire #124. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1985.
[Wills and P.I.s, 64 printed. Stockport, 1578-1619. Indexed, intro.]

Stockport Probate Records: 1620-1650.
Gloucester: P. Stroud for the Record Society of Lancashire and Gloucester, 1992.
[Will and P.I.s, 118 printed along with other probate documents, intro, index, glossary.Stockport, 1620-1650.]

PHILLIPS, Maberly
"The Meeting House at Horsely-upon-Tyne."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s. 13 (1889) 33-64.
[Wills and P.I.s, 2 printed. Ovingham, 1676, 1677, 1701, 1706. Dissenters.]

"Pedigree and Genealogical Memoranda Relating to the Family of Pelatt, of Steyning, etc."
Sussex Archaeological Collections  38 (1892) 99-128.
[Wills, 17 extracted from or abstracted. Pelatt family, most 16th century.]

PHILLIPPS, Thomas
"A New Notice of Shakespeare."
Archaeologia 32 (1847) 444-445.
[Will printed. Stratford, 1601. Husbandman.]

PICCOPE, Rev. G.J.
Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester. 3 vols.
Manchester: Charles Simms and Co., 1857-1861.
[Wills and P.I.s, 227 printed, indexed. Chester, later 16th to first half of 17th century.]

PICKLES, May F.
"Agrarian Society and Wealth in Mid-Wharfedale, 1664-1743."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 53 (1981) 63-78.
[P.I.s, 220 studied. Wharfedale, 1664-1743. Rural wealth patterns and changes.]

PLOMER, Henry R.
Abstracts from the Wills of English Printers and Stationers from 1492 to 1630.
London: Blades, East and Blades, 1903.
[Wills, 40 abstracted. 1492-1630. Printers and stationers.]

"Books Mentioned in Wills."
Transactions of the Bibliographical Society 7 (1904) 99 ff.
[Wills used as source. 1395-1577. Clergy, gentry, knight, countess, etc.]

"The Will of Thomas Harriot, Mathematician and Astronomer (1560-1621)."
Home Counties Magazine 8 (1906) 240-247.
[Will printed. Syon, 1621. Gentry; mathematician and scientist.]

PLUCKNETT, T.F.T.
A Concise History of the Common Law. 5th ed.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1956.
[History of testamentary law, pp. 732-746 "Wills".

PLUMB, Derek
"The Social and Economic Status of the Later Lollards."
In The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725, Margaret Spufford ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; 103-131.
[Wills and P.I.s used. See pp.115-128. 1524-1550s. Social and economic status.]

POCQUET DU HAUT-JUSSE, B.-A.
"Anne de Bourgogne et le testament de Bedford (1429)."
Bibliothéque de l'Ecole des Chartes 95 (1935) 284-326.
[Will printed (in French). 1429, nobility.]

POLLOCK, Frederick, and MAITLAND, F.W.
History of English Law. Vol.2. 2nd ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968.
[History of testamentary law, see pp.314-356, "The Last Will."]

POOS, L.R.
A Rural Society after the Black Death: Essex 1350-1525.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
[Wills studied. Essex, 1350-1525. See index; esp. material conditions.]

POPE, Janet M.
"Aristocratic Patronage of the English Monastic Reform, 946-1016."
PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994.
[Wills used as sources for gifts from nobles to monasteries. Religious history, 946-1016. Anglo-Saxon.]

POPPLEWELL, Joyce
"Mary Smith's Will: a North Nibley Record of 1666."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 110 (1992) 151-158.
[Will printed, glossary. North Nibley, 1666. Widow of historian John Smith.]

PORTER, Stephen
"Farm Transport in Huntingdonshire, 1610-1749."
Journal of Transport History 3^rd ser. 3 (1982) 35-45.
[P.I.s studied. Huntingdonshire, 1610-1749. Wagons and carts.]

"The Livestock Trade in Huntingdonshire, 1600-1750."
Records of Huntingdonshire 2 (1982) 13-17.
[P.I.s used. Huntingdonshire, 1600-1750 (most 18th century).]

"The Making of Probate Inventories."
Local Historian 12 (1976) 36-37.
[P.I.s discussed: time between death and making of the P.I.]

PORTMAN, Derek
Exeter Houses 1400-1700.
Exeter: University of Exeter, 1966.
[P.I.s, 10 printed. Exeter, 1564-1699. Housing.]

"Vernacular Building in the Oxford Region in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries."
In Rural Change and Urban Growth 1500-1800. Essays in English Regional History in Honour of W.G. Hoskins, C.W. Chalklin and M.V. Havinden eds., London: Longman, 1974; pages?
[P.I.s, 1050 studied, one printed (after 1592). Oxford area, 1539-1700. Architecture and construction.]

POSTLES, David
"Record-keeping in the Medieval Borough: Proof of wills."
Archives 16 (1983) 12-15.
[Will registration practices discussed.]

POULSON, George
The History and Antiquities of the Seignory of Holderness in the East Riding of the County of York. 2 vols.
London: W. Pickering, 1840
[P.I. printed (I:215-224). Barmston, 1582. Knight.]

POWELL, Geoffrey, and Jill WILSON
"The Chipping Camden Altar Hangings."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 115 (1997) 233-243.
[Will of 1488 translated and studied. Gentry; religious bequest.]

POYNTER, F.N.L. and BISHOP, W.J.
"John Symcotts' Will."
In their A Sevententh-century Doctor and his Patients: John Symcotts, 1592?-1662, Publications of the Bedfordshire Historical Record Society #31 (1951) 105-109.
[Will printed. Bedfordshire, 1662. Physician.]

POYNTON, F.J.
"The Family of Haynes of Westbury-on-Trym etc."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 9 (1884/5) 277-297.
[Will, 4 printed. Family, 1580, 1632, 1644, 1679.]

PRATT, David
Researching British Probates. A guide to the microfilm collection of the Family History Library.
Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1991- .
[Probate records (microforms) in the LDS collection in Salt Lake City, Utah.]

PRESSEY, W.J.
"Some Sussex `sede vacante' Wills."
Sussex Notes and Queries 5 (1934/5) 195-199, 232-233.
[Wills, 4 extracted from at length. Sussex, 1500-1503.Clergy, others.]

PREST, William
The Rise of the Barristers: A social history of the English bar, 1590-1640.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1986.
[Wills used. Legal profession, 1590-1640. Evidence of social status, libraries, religious affiliation; provisions for raising sons.]

PRESTON, William E.
Wills Proved in the Court of the Manor of Crosley, Bingley, Cottingley, and Pudsey, in County Yorkshire.
Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society #1 (1929).
[Wills and inventories printed, 162 pages. Yorkshire, 1600-1645.]

PRETYMAN, Richard
"Testamentary Documents Preserved in the Muniments Room in Lincoln Minster."
In Memoirs Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of the County and City of Lincoln (London: Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1850), pp. 311-327.
[Will and PI printed, Latin. Archdeacon, 1386.]

PRICE, P.D.
"Price of Pilleth: Four wills."
Transactions of the Radnorshire Historical Society 44 (1974) 53-57.
[Wills abstracted. Price family, 1624, 1640, 1667, 1671.]

PRIDDEY, Mark
"Probate Records at Oxfordshire Record Office."
Oxfordshire Family Historian 19 (2005) 25-29.
[Practical guide to the use of the ORO in Oxford, by the office's senior director.]

PRIESTLEY, Ursula and CORFIELD, Penelope
"Rooms and Room Use in Norwich Housing, 1580-1730."
Post-medieval Archaeology 16 (1982) 93-123.
[P.I.s discussed as sources, previous research discussed. Norwich, 1580-1730. Housing.]

PRIESTLEY, Ursula and Alayne Fenner
Shops and Shopkeepers in Norwich, 1660-1730.
Norwich: Centre for East Anglian Studies, 1985.
[Study based on probate inventories.]

PRIOR, Mary
"Wives and Wills 1558-1700."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk, John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990; 201-225.
[Wills, 621 studied. Legal and attitudinal aspects for wives making wills; increase of feminism apparent.]

PRUETT, John H.
The Parish Clergy under the Later Stuarts: The Leicestershire experience.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
[Wills used anecdotally; P.I.s used in Chapter V, "Parsons at Home" (material culture, books).]

PRYCE, Huw                                                                                 WALES
Native Law and the Church in Medieval Wales.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
[Wills and testamentary law discussed. Wales, 13th century. See Chapter 5, "Testamentary Dispensation," esp. pp. 118-127, `Making Wills.']

PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Principal Probate Registry, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Paper Inventories, 1661-c.1725: list and index.
List and Index Society #149, #161, #174. (1979).

PURTON, R.C.
"The Will of Sir Rowland Heyward, Knight."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society 51 (1945) 127-138.
[Will printed. London, 1592. Alderman, gentry.]

"Two Old Wills."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society 28 (1936) 23-32.
[Will printed, Latin w/trans. Shropshire, 1307, (Shrewsbury) 1433.]

PURVIS, J.S.
"Dilapidations in Parsonage Property."
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 36 (1945) 316-337.
[P.I.s used anecdotally to discuss substandard rectories.]

PYCROFT, J.W.
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2 (1851) 115-116.
[Booklist printed from P.I. Chester Co., 1557. Gentry.]

QUESNE BIRD, N. du
"Imported German Stoneware in Elizabethan Bristol."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 113 (1995) 181-182.
[Wills studied. Occurences of German stoneware in Bristol wills, 1559-1602.]

QUINN, David B.                                                                COLONIAL
New American World: A documentary history of North America. Vol 6.
New York: Arno Press, 1979.
[Will printed. Newfoundland, 1602. Businessman.]

RABAN, Sandra
"Mortmain in Medieval England."
Past and Present 62 (1974) 3-26.
[Mortmain discussed in general terms.]

RADFORD, W. Locke
"Two London Goldsmiths' Wills."
Notes and Queries 169 (1935) 385-386.
[Wills printed. London, 1537, 1687. Goldsmiths.]

RAFFEL, Burton and Alexandra H. Olsen, eds.
Poems and Prose from the Old English
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
[Prints modern translations of wills of King Alfred, Elfgifu, Ealdorman Elfheah, Ethelfleda, Wulfwarre, and Ealdorman Ethelwold.]

RAFTIS, James Ambrose
Early Tudor Godmanchester.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Studies and Texts,#97), 1990.
[Wills, 130 studied. See Chapter 4, "Testamentary Evidence: The true religion of the freemen." Religious affiliation and practices.]

A Small Town in Late Medieval England: Godmanchester, 1278-1400.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, 1982.
[Wills, 219 studied. Godmanchester, c.1300-1400. See esp. pp. 37-52, "Inheritance"; also beneficiaries, executors, land conveyance.]

RAINE, James
The Correspondence of Dr. Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of York. Surtees Society vol. 17.
London: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1843.
[Wills, 2, and P.I. printed. York, 1605 will of M.H.; Richmond, 1628 will and 1629 P.I. of Timothy Hutton, gentry.]`

The Injunctions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard Barnes, Bishop of Durham, from 1576-1587.
Surtees Society. London: Nichols, 1850.
[Wills and P.I.s, 19 printed. Durham, 1559-1603. Clergy.]

"Marske."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s. 5 (1861) 1-90.
[Wills, 3, and P.I.s, 2 printed. Marske, 1517-1636. Gentlemen, clergy.]

"The Pudsays of Barford."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s.2 (1858) 173-190.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Barford, 1552, 1620 (with will). Widows]

Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills Registered at York... Surtees Society Publications #4.
London: J.B. Nichols, 1836.
[Wills and P.I.s, 306 printed. York region, 1316-1429.]

"Testamentary Curiosities: nuncupative wills."
Archaeologia Aeliana 2 (1858) 191-202.
[Wills, 3 extracts. Late 16th-17th cent