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SABIN, Arthur
"Bristol Wills and Documents."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society 64 (1944) 118-147.
[Wills, 10 registered. Bristol, 1559.]
"Dorset Wills in the Archives of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol."
Notes and Queries for Dorset and Somerset 24 (1943) 69-74,
89-94, 112-113, 132-133, 149-151, 169-174, 203-209, 227-230, 244-250,
260-264.
[Wills, 50 printed. Bristol, 1542-1572.]
SAGE
"Trenchard"
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 177.
[Will abstracted. Normanton, 1635. Gentry.]
SAGE, Edward J.
"Essex Wills: #1"
East Anglian 1 (1863) 325-327.
[Will printed. Guydy Hall, 1576. Anthony Cooke, Preceptor to Edward
VI.]
"Essex Wills: No.2."
East Anglian 1 (1863) 348-351.
[Will printed. Eastbury Hall, 1578. Gentry.]
"Essex Wills: No.3."
East Anglian 1 (1863) 359.
[Will printed. Hornchurch, 1610. Clergy.]
"Essex Wills: No.4: Thomas Cartwright, D.D., Bishop of Chester, and
Vicar of Barking,
A.D. 1689." East Anglian 1 (1863) 388-394.
[Will printed. Chester, 1689. Clergy.]
ST. GEORGE, Robert
B.
COLONIAL
"A Retreat from Wilderness: Pattern in the domestic environments of
southeastern New England, 1630-1730."
Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1982.
[P.I.s used. 439 artisans studied. Occupational identity, houses and
furnishings, ethnography.]
ST. HILL,
Ammabel
COLONIAL
"Extracts from Wills Relating to the West Indies Recorded in England."
Barbados Museum Journal 11 (1944) 183-200; 12 (1945/6) 20-35,
67-86, 143-159, 179-195; 13 (1946) 67-85, 183-201; 14 (1947) 29-46,
116-122.
[Wills, several hundred extracted from. West Indian colonial merchants,
etc.]
ST. JOHN HOPE, W.H.
"Inventories of the Goods of Henry of Eastry (1331), Richard of Oxenden
(1334), and Robert Hathbrand (1339), Successively Priors of the
Monastery of Christchurch, Canterbury." Archaeological Journal
53 (1896) 258-283.
[P.I.s printed. Canterbury, 1331, 1334, 1339. Clergy.]
SALE, Anthony J.H.
Cheltenham Probate Records, 1660-1740.
Bristol: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1999.
[Abstracts wills and prints PIs, 537 documents. Intro w/ tables of
goods owned; glossary and index.]
"Ownership and Use of Silver in Gloucestershire, 1660-1740."
Transactions of theBristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
113 (1995) 121-150.
[1,286 PIs studied. Silver and plate; some statistical analysis, a few
entries printed.]
SALTER, H.E.
Cartulary of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist. 3 vols.
Oxford Historical Society #69. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914-17.
[Wills, 7 printed; see index. Oxford, 1275-1342.]
Registrum cancellarii oxoniensis 1434-1469. 2 vols.
Oxford Historical Society #93 and 94. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932.
[Wills, 48 printed; see index. Oxford, 1434-1469.]
SALTER, James
"Wills and Inventories of Warwickshire Clergy,
1660-1720."
Warwickshire History 3 (1976) pages?.
[Wills, 59 used. Warwickshire, 1660-1720. Clergy;
largely methodological.]
SANDERS, Joanne
Mcree
COLONIAL
Barbados Records. Wills and Administrations. Vol.1 1639-1680.
Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1979;
Vol.2 1681--1700. Houston: Sanders Historical Publications,
1980. (Post-1700 also available).
[Wills, 3,900 abstracted (do not include all bequests). Barbados,
1639-1700.]
SANDERSON, Margaret
B.H.
SCOTLAND
"The Edinburgh Merchants in Society 1570-1603: The evidence of their
testaments."
In Renaissance and Reformation in Scotland, I.B. Cowan and D.
Shaw eds., Edinburgh: Scottish Academic Press, 1983; 183-199.
[Wills: 205 studied. Edinburgh, 1570-1603. Merchants; kinship,
commerce, material culture, wealth.]
SANDYS, William
"Copy of the Inventory of Archbishop Parker's Goods at the Time of His
Death."
Archaeologia 30 (1848) 1-30.
[P.I. printed. Clergy, 1577.]
SARGENT,
William
COLONIAL
Maine Wills 1640-1760.
Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston and Co., 1887.
[Wills printed. Prior to 1700 on pp.1-129.]
SAUL, Nigel
"The Religious Sympathies of the Gentry in Gloucestershire, 1200-1500."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society 98 (1980) 99-112.
[Wills, 24 studied. Gloucestershire, 1200-1500. Burial sites, bequests,
growth of lay piety.]
SAVILLE, G. Edward
Kings Coughton: A Warwickshire hamlet.
Privately printed, 1973.
[P.I.s, 3 printed, several more discussed. Kings Coughton, early 17th
century.]
The Seventeenth-century Inventories of Alcester, Warwickshire.
Kings Coughton: by the author, 1979.
SAWTELL, G.H.
"Notes on Four Inventories of Goods of Members of the Families of
Hampden and Lee of Hartwell."
Records of Buckinghamshire 3 (1870) 3-7.
[Invs. described. Hartwell, 1541, 1570, 1572, 1617.]
SAWYER, Peter
Charters of Burton Abbey. British Academy, Anglo-Saxon Charters
#2
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979.
[Will of Wulfric (founder) printed (O.E.). c.1002-1004.]
SAXTON, E.B.
"Speke Hall and Two Norris [family] Inventories, 1624 and 1700."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
96 (1944) 108-137.
[Inv. (1624) and P.I. (1700) printed. Norris family, Speke Hall.]
"A Speke Hall Inventory of 1624."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
97 (1945) 107-143.
[Inv. printed. A fuller copy of the previous entry.]
SCARISBRICK, J.J.
The Reformation and the English People.
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984.
[Wills, over 2500 studied. Mostly form the Midland, 16th century. See
Chapters 1 and 2.]
SCASE, Wendy
"Reginald Pecock, John Carpenter and John Colop's "common profit"
Books: Aspects of book ownership and circulation in
fifteenth-century London." Medium Aevum 61 (1992) 261-274.
[Wills and P.I.s used. London, 15th century. Books circulated in
exchange for post-mortem prayers.]
SCHEN, Claire S.
Charity and Lay Piety in Reformation London, 1500-1620.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002.
[Wills, 685 studied. Pious bequests. See chapters: "Prayers and
Purgatory: Wills on the Eve of the reformation, 1500-1538;" The Old and
the New Ways: Wills and Charity, 1539-1580."]
SCHEULEER, T.H. Lunsingh
"Documents on the Furnishing of Kensington House."
Walpole Society 38 (1962) 15-58.
[Inv. printed. Kensington House, 1697.]
SCHOMBERG, Arthur
"Blake"
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 1 (1893) 449-454.
[Will printed. London, 1683. Knight.]
"Robert Nicholas."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 1 (1893-5) 321-323.
[Will printed. Milksham, 1667. Gentry.]
"Trenchard Wills."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 4 (1902-4) 325-330.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Wotton, 1492; Cutteridge, 1621.]
"Will of John Ludlow."
Wiltshire Notes and Queries 7 (1911-13) 423-424.
[Will printed. Hull Deville, 1519.]
SCHRAM, O.K.
"Some Early East Anglian Wills."
Norfolk Archaelogy 22 (1926) 350-369.
[Wills, quoted from. Anglo-Saxon, mid- to late 11th century; emphasis
on place names.]
SCOTT, R.F.
"On a List of the Plate, Bools, and Vestments Bequeathed by Lady
Margaret to Christ's College."
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 60 (1894-8)
349-367.
[Will discussed. 1509. Will printed in C.H. Cooper, Life of Lady
Margaret.]
SCOTT, Susan, and Christopher J. DUNCAN
Biology of Plagues: Evidence from Historical
Populations.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
[See Chapter 5.8: "Wills and Testaments of Those Who Died in the Plague
at Penrith" pp. 140-146. 9 wills abstracted, 1598. Discussed in
relation
to plague at Penrith, 1597-1598]
Return of the Black Death: The World's Greatest Serial Killer.
Chichester: Wiley and Sons, 2004.
[Wills, 11 abstracted. Discusses will making at Penrith, 1598 in
context of plague. Also, information on burials, pp. 108-113; wills at
Eyem, 1665-1666, pp. 196-202.]
SCOTT-MONCRIEFF,
R.
SCOTLAND
"Notes on the Household Furnishings Belonging to the deceist Andro Hog,
writer to the Signet, 1691."
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 53 (1918)
52-63.
[P.I. printed and discussed. 1691]
SEARLE, Arthur
"An Inventory for Navestock, 1601."
Essex Journal 4 (1969) 31-33.
[Inv. printed. Navestock, 1601. Husbandman.]
SEERGRE
"An Executor's Account in 1618."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 56 (1963) 38-39, 41-42, 42-43, 45, 47,
49, 51, 52.
[Account printed without will. Warford, 1618.]
SELLAR, David
H.
SCOTLAND
"Juridical Acts Made in Contemplation of Death in the Law of Scotland."
In Actes à cause de mort/ Europe medievale et moderne
[see main entry, GENERAL "Anonymous"] II: 159-171.
[Testamentary law and custom. Scotland, 1559-1964.]
SERJEANTSON, R.M., and LONGDEN, H. Isham
"The Parish Churches and Religious
Houses
of Northamptonshire: their dedications, altars, images and lights."
Archaeological Journal 70 (1913)
217-452.
[Wills, scores of extracts from.
Northamptonshire. 14th-16th centuries. Donations arranged by type, by
church.]
"Will of Roger Benetheton, 1438/9."
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 4 (1917) 1-3.
[Will printed, no notes or intro. Bedfordshire, 1438/9.]
SHAMMAS,
Carole
COLONIAL
"Constructing a Wealth Distribution from Probate Records."
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9 (1978) 297-307.
[P.I.s, 275 used. Worcester, 1669-70. Technical statistical and
methodological study.]
"The Domestic Environment in Early-modern England and America."
Journal of Social History 14 (1980) 3-24.
[P.I.s studied. Oxfordshire, 1550-1591; southern Worcestershire,
1669-70; Massachussetts, 1774. Comparative study.]
"The Determinants of Personal Wealth in Seventeenth-century England
and America."
Journal of Economic History 37 (1977) 675-689.
[P.I.s, 538 studied. Worcestershire, East London and Virginia,
1660-1677. Comparative economic study.]
COLONIAL
"How Self-sufficient Was Early America?"
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 13 (1982) 247-272.
[P.I.s studied. Massachussetts, 1774. small-scale manufacturing
equipment; general discussion of P.I.s as sources.]
COLONIAL
The Pre-industrial Consumer in England and America.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1990.
[P.I.s, 300 used. 1500-1800. Comparative social and economic study.]
SHAMMAS, Carole, SALMON, Marylynn, and DAHLIN,
Michel
COLONIAL
Inheritance in America from Colonial Times to the Present.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987.
[Wills and testamentary practice discussed. See esp. Chapter 1,
"English Inheritance Law and its Transference to the Colonies;" and
Chapter 2, "Colonial Testamentary Practice and Family Capitalism,"
which centers on Bucks Co., Pennsylvania.]
SHANAHAN, D.
"Thomas White, Alias Blacklow: Last will and testament."
The Essex Recusant 18 (1976) 1-3.
[Will (1670) and codicil (1676) printed. Catholic gentry.]
SHANAHAN, Daniel
"A London Tavern in 1644."
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society
20 (1961) 194-197.
[Sales inventory printed. London, 1644. Mitre Tavern in the Strand.]
SHANAHAN, Daniel, and DAVIDSON, Alan
"The Descendants of St. Thomas More."
London Recusant 3 (1973) 82-98.
[Wills, 3 printed. Family, 1617, 1625, 1648. Clergy, other.]
SHAPCOTE, Dorothy
"Wills of Shapcotes of Knowstone"
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 15 (1928-9) 221-235.
[Wills, 4 described. Knowstone, 1687, 1698, 1699 (2). Man and his
widow; widow.]
SHARPE, Reginald R.
Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting,
London AD 1258 to AD 1688. 2 vols.
London: John C. Francis, 1889, 1890.
[Wills, over 4000 calendared, abstracted as in register. London,
1258-1688.]
SHAW, R. Cunliffe
The Records of a Lancashire Family from the XIIth to the XXth Century.
Preston: The Guardian Press, 1940.
[Wills abstracted or printed in the text; unindexed. Shaw family.]
SHAW, William Francis
Liber estriae; or Memorials of the Royal Ville and Parish of Eastry.
London: J.R. Smith, 1870.
[P.I.s, 3 printed, 1597-1618 (widows, gentleman); extracts from 36
wills, 1451-1617. Eastry.]
SHEASBY, Carolyn
In My Father's House: A Glimpse of the Past through Probate
Inventories.
Sutton-in-Craven: C. Sheasby, 1994.
[PIs, 10 transcribed. Eborall family, 1546-1724. Occupation, houses,
goods, material culture. Yeoman family.]
SHEEHAN, Michael M.
"The Bequest of Land in England in the High Middle Ages: Testaments and
the law."
In Marriage, Property and Succession, by Lloyd Bonfield.
Berlin: Dunckert und Humblot, 1992; 327-338.
[Willmaking's role in the freeing from traditional restrictions on
bequests of land, 1066-1300. Excerpts from wide variety of wills.]
"English Wills and the Records of the Ecclesiastical and Civil
Jurisdictions."
Journal of Medieval History 14 (1988) 3-12.
[Testamentary process and documentation. Excellent short introduction.]
"A List of Thirteenth-century English Wills."
The Genealogists' Magazine 13 (1961) 259-265.
[Wills' locations listed (for 161 wills), both printed and manuscript.]
The Will in Medieval England.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies [Studies and Texts
#6], 1963.
[Wills studied, 19 printed. From Anglo-Saxon to 13th century. Classic
study.]
SHELLEY, R.J.A.
"Some Early Inventories of Pewter in Country Houses."
Apollo 46 (1947) 86-89.
[Inv.s, 8 extracted from. England and Scotland, most 17th century.
Pewter.]
SHEPHERD, W.R.
The History of Kirby Underdale. 1 vol. + supplement.
Batley: J.S. Newsome and Son, 1928.
[Wills, 22 printed. Kirby Underdale, late 16th-early 17th century.]
SHEPPARD, E.M.
"The Reformation and the Citizens of Norwich."
Norfolk Archaeology 38 (1981) 44-58.
[Wills: 556 used. Norwich, 1530-1559. Religious conversion.]
SHERR, M.F.
"Religion and the Legal Profession: A study of the religious
sensibilities of sixteenth-century London lawyers."
Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 45 (1976)
211-224.
[Wills, 111 studied. London, 16th century. Lawyers' following of
politico-religious trends.]
SHERWOOD, George F. Tudor
"Early Berkshire Wills ante 1558."
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Society vols. 1-7
(1895-1901) passim.
[Will extracts, 256 extracts printed.]
"Early Berkshire Wills ante 1558 from the P.C.C."
Quarterly Journal of the Berks Archaeological and Architectural Society
2 (1892) 149-156; 175-178; 3 (1893) 47-48, 79-82, 100-104,
127-130,
148-152, 168-172, 201-203.
[Wills, 86 extracted from. Continued in above.]
SHERWOOD, Leslie
"Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Inventories."
Archaeologia Cantiana 61 (1948) 57-76.
[P.I.s printed. Kent, widow (1685), yeomen (1708, 1716), brewer
(1701).]
SHIELS, W.J.
The Puritans in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1558-1610.
Northampton: Northamptonshire Record Society, 1979.
[Wills, 1,282 studied. Peterborough diocese, 1558-1569. Preambles
studied for religious affiliation.]
SHILTON, Dorothy, and HOLWORTHY, Richard
Medieval Wills from Wells deposited in the Diocesan Registry, Wells
(1543 to 1546 and 1554-1556).
London: for the Somerset Records Society [#40], 1925.
[Wills, 502 register entries. Wells region, 1543-46, 1554-56.]
SHINNERS, John Raymond, jr.
"Religion in Fourteenth-century England: Clerical standards and popular
practise in the Diocese of Norwich."
Ph.D dissertation, University of Toronto, 1982.
[Wills used as sources for religious knowledge and practice. Norwich,
14th century.]
SHIRLEY, Evelyn Philip
"Extracts from The Fermor Accounts, AD 1580."
Archaeological Journal 8 (1851) 179-186.
[Will extracted from, with executor's accounts. Somerton (Oxs.), 1580.
Gentry.]
"An Inventory of the Effects of Henry Howard KG, Earl of
Northampton, 1614,
Together with a Transcript of His Will (1614)." Archaeologia 42
(1870)
347-378.
[Wills and P.I. printed. Northampton, 1614. Nobility, "late Lord Privy
Seale".]
Stemmata Shirleiana
Westminster: J.B. Nichols and Son, 1841.
[PI of Staunton Harold, knight, printed, 1518 (pp. 73-80); in
second ed. (1873) PI of 1622 printed.
"The Will, Inventories and Funeral Expenses of James Montagu, Bishop
of Winchester, anno 1618."
Archaeologia 44 (1873) 393-421.
[Will and P.I. printed. Winchester, 1618. Clergy.]
SILKE, John
J.
IRELAND
"The Last Will of Red Hugh O'Donnell."
Studia Hibernica 24 (1984) 51-60.
[Will printed. Valladolid, 1602. Nobility.]
SIMPSON, Elizabeth
"Understanding Inventories."
Family History 13 (1985) pages?.
[P.I. printed, with glossary and facsimile of
part. Beckingham, Notts., 1567.]
SIMPSON, Justin
"Richard Warwick, Alderman of Stamford."
Fenland Notes and Queries 3 (1895-1897) 153-155.
[Will abstracted. Stamford, 1682. Gentry; mayor.]
"Will of John Holand of Crowland."
Fenland Notes and Queries 2 (1892-1894) 150-152.
[Will abstracted and pedigree discussed. Crowland, 1567.]
"Will of John Hutton M.A., Rector of Dunsby, Co. Lincoln."
Fenland Notes and Queries 2 (1892-4) 227-228.
[Will printed. Dunsby, 1611. Clergy.]
"The Will of the Reverend John Walton, B.D., Archdeacon of Derby,
1603."
Reliquary 23 (1882-3) 110-112.
[Will printed and discussed. Derby, 1603. Clergy.]
SKILLINGTON, Florence E.
"Enclosed in Clay: A study in Leicester wills."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological Society 42
(1968) 35-52.
[Wills, 148 studied. Leicester, 1514-1543. Funeral, burial and
post-mortem instructions; by parish.]
SKINNER, A.J.P.
"Mercer Family."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 9 (1916-7) 250-251.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Chard, 1631 (M.A.), 1639 (widow).]
"Nicholas Isacke, Mayor of Exeter."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 9 (1916-7) 7-12.
[Wills, 4 of Isacke family abstracted. Ottery St. Mary, 1632; Exeter,
1678; Exon, 1697 and 1698 (widow).]
SKIPP, Victor Henry Thomas
Crisis and Development: An ecological case study of the Forset of
Arden, 1570-1674.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.
[P.I.s used for evidence of employment and agrarian change over time.
Forest of Arden, 1570-1674.]
"Economic and Social Change in the Forest of Arden, 1530- 1649."
In Land, Church and People, supplement to Agricultural
History Review 18 (1970) 84-111.
[P.I.s, 217 studied. Forset of Arden, 1530-1649. Social and economic
history.]
Medieval Yardly.
London: Phillimore, 1970.
[Wills and P.I.s used, see index. Yardley. Peasants, material culture.]
SLACK, Paul
The Impact of the Plague in Tudor and Stuart England.
Boston: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1985.
[Wills used as evidence for mortality. 1485-1560. See esp. pp. 55-61.
Problems with wills as sources, see index.]
"Mortality Crises and Epidemic Disease in England 1485-1610."
In Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century, ed.
by Charles Webster, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979; 9-59.
[Wills as source for mortality studies (see pp. 12-17 esp.).
1485-1610.]
SLADE, Henry Gordon
"Inventories of Broughton Castle in 1662 and 1731."
Cake and Cock Horse 8 (1981) 155-to 171.
[Inv.s. Broughton Castle, Banbury, 1662, 1731. Gentry]
SLADEN, Teresa
"The Garden at Kirby Hall 1570-1700."
Journal of Garden History 4 (1984) 139-156.
[P.I.s and other inv.s used. 1570-1700. Development of garden over
time.]
SLEE, J.
"Some Oxfordshire Wills of the Fifteenth Century."
Dublin Review 234 (1960/1) 345-355.
[Wills, 123 discussed broadly and extracted from. Oxfordshire,
1393-1510. Wills published by Weaver and Beardwood (1958).]
SMALLWOOD, Frank T.
"The Will of Dame Johanna St. John."
Notes and Queries 214 (1969) 344-347.
[Will discussed. Genealogical material, extracts from will. 1705.
Gentry.]
SMITH, Catherine Delano
"Map Ownership in Sixteenth-century Cambridge: The evidence of probate
inventories."
Imago Mundi 47 (1995) 67-93.
[P.I.s: 52 studied. Cambridge, 1536-1560. Maps and atlases; content and
provenance tabulated.]
SMITH, David H.
"A Seventeenth-century Tinker's Will and Inventory."
Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society 4th ser. 3 (1979)
172-177.
[Will and inv. printed. Southkilworth, Leics., 1662. Tinker.]
SMITH, D.M.
Guide to Bishops' Registers of England and Wales.
London: Royal Historical Society, 1981.
["Testamentary business" references in ms. registers indexed.]
SMITH, Daniel
Scott
COLONIAL
"Underregistration and Bias in Probate Records: An analysis of data
from eighteenth-century Massachussetts."
William and Mary Quarterly 22 (1975) 100-110.
[P.I.s as sources. Statistical problems shown when compared with
tax-lists. Methodology.]
SMITH, Hubert
"Dunvall, County Salop."
The Reliquary 24 (1883-4) 161-162.
[P.I. printed. Dunvall, 1683. Gentry.]
SMITH, J.C.C.
"A Note on the Brass to Philip Carew, 1414, at Beddington."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 43 (1935) 53-60.
[Will printed. Ormseby, 1467. Squire.]
SMITH, John
Burgh Records of the City of Glasgow, M.D.LXXIII - M.D.LVVVI.
Glasgow: n.h., 1832.
[P.I. printed. Glasgow, 1574. Burgher (pp.33-35.]
SMITH, Lacey Baldwin
"The Last Will and Testament of Henry VIII: A question of perspective."
Journal of British Studies 2 (1962) 14-27.
[Will and two copies discussed; circumstances surrounding its making
and its political nature. Royalty, Henry VIII.]
SMITH, Margery H.
"Some Humanist Libraries in Early Tudor Cambridge."
Sixteenth Century Journal 5 (1974) 15-34.
[P.I.s as sources of four printed booklists. Cambridge, 1537 (2), 1539,
1545. Books, humanists.]
SMITH, William
"Two Medieval Salisbury Wills."
Society of Archivists Journal 10 (1989) 118-122.
[Wills printed (Latin). Salisbury, 1332/3, 1406. Merchants.]
SNOW, Vernon F.
"An Inventory of the Lord General's Library."
The Library 5th ser. 21 (1966) 115-123.
[P.I. booklist printed. Essex House, 1646. Books, 157 volumes.]
SNYDER, Terri Lynne
"`Rich Widows are the Best Commodity this Country Affords': Gender
relations and the rehabilitation of patriarchy in Virginia,
1660-1700." PhD
dissertation, University of Iowa, 1992.
[Wills used. Virginia, 1660-1700. Inheritance patterns turning against
women.]
SOAMES, C.
"Will of Thomas Polton, Bishop of Worcester, 1432."
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 26 (1891)
52-83.
[Will printed (w/trans.). Worcester, 1432. Clergy.]
SODERLAND, Jean R.
Quakers and Slavery: A divided spirit.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
[P.I.s: 2,401 studied. Chester, Chesterfield, Shrewsbury, Philadelphia,
1676-1780. Slaveholding among Quakers; see esp. App. B, "Sources and
Methods."]
SOMERVELL, John
Some Westmorland Wills. 1686-1738.
Kendal: Titus Wilson and Son, 1928.
[Wills, 10 abstracted (prior to 1700, 74 others) some with P.I.s.
Kendal, 1686-1738. Quakers.]
SOUTHAM, Herbert R.H.
"Inventory of the Effects of Elizabeth Perkes of Westwood, Oldbury,
1668."
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History
Society 3rd ser. 1 (1901) 413-414.
[P.I. printed, no notes. Westwood, 1668.]
SPALDING, James C.
The Reformation of the Ecclesiastical Laws of England, 1552.
[Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies #19]
Kirksville, Missouri, 1992.
[Testamentary laws, see 286-300. 1552.]
SPAUL, John E.H.
"Early Wills and Inventories."
Test Valley and Border Anthology 11 (1977) 238-246; 13 (1979)
288-298.
[Wills abstracted. 1497-1558. Hampshire.]
"Early Wills and Inventories, 4: Wives and Widows, 1558."
Test Valley and Border Anthology 14 (1979) 213-224.
"The Settlement of Sir George Hervey's Estate, 1605-1610."
Romford Record 6 (1974) 21-39.
[1605 will printed. Romford, knight. Also contains subsequest
adminitration documents and a 1610 inventory that reflects that of
1605.]
SPAVOLD, Janet
In the Name of God, Amen: Everyday Life in South Derbyshire, 1535-1700.
Ashby de la Zouch: South Derbyshire Local History Research Group, 1992.
[13 will, 15 PIs, and 11 pairs used, chosen largely for dialect and as
exemplars.
Gresley, Derbs. See "Making a Will" (192-225); "Houses and Their
Contents"
(40-95);
"Using a Relational Database: The example of the Church Gresley
inventories."
Local Historian 26 (1996) 89-101.
[Wills, 214 studied. South Derbyshire, 1535-1700. Methodological study
on using DataEase.]
SPERLING, C.F.D.
"A Suffolk Yeoman's Goods, 1691."
East Anglian n.s. 5 (1893/4) 74.
[P.I. printed with values. Barking, 1691. Yeoman.]
SPUFFORD, Margaret
Contrasting Communities: English villagers in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
[Wills used throughout. Cambridge county, 16th and 17th centuries. See
esp. Chapter 13 "The Realty of Religion for the Villagers." Material
culture,
social and religious history.]
The Great Reclothing of Rural England. Petty Chapmen and their
Wares in the SeventeenthCentury.
London: The Hambledon Press, 1984.
[Wills and P.I.s, 24 printed, 127 used. 1590-1730s. See Chapter 3,
"Wills and Inventories of Chapmen."]
"Limitations of the Probate Inventory."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk,
John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press,
1990;
139-174.
[P.I.s discussed as sources; anecdotal use in methodological essay.]
"Peasant Inheritance Customs and Land Distribution in Cambridgeshire
from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries."
In Family and Inheritance, Jack Goody et al. eds., New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1976; 156-176.
[Wills, 49 used. Cambridgeshire, 1575-1603. Agrarian history,
inheritance, real property.]
“Religious Preambles and the Scribes of Villagers’ Wills in
Cambridgeshire, 1570-1700.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s
Head Press, 2000) pp. 144-157.
[Second edition of 1971 article ("Scribes of VIllagers' Wills"),
updated according to recent insights into the source use.]
"The Schooling of the Peasantry in Cambridgeshire, 1575-1700."
In Land, Church and People, Joan Thirsk, ed., Reading: Museum
of English Rural Life, 1970; 112-147.
[Wills used. Cambridgeshire, 1575-1700. Rural literacy.]
"The Scribes of Villagers' Wills in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries and their Influence."
Local Population Studies 7 (1971) 28-43.
[Wills discussed. Orwell, 16th and 17th centuries. Scribes' influence
on wording, formulae.]
"The Significance of the Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax."
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 55 (1962)
53-64.
[P.I.s, 100 from Cambridgeshire, 89 from Lincs, compared to hearth tax
returns as sources.1661-1670.]
Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular fiction and its
readership in seventeenth-century England.
Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1982.
[Inv.s of publishers and chapbook distributors used anecdotally. 17th
century. Books.]
"Will Formularies."
Local Population Studies 19 (1979) 35-36.
[Will formularies discussed briefly (16th century).]
The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
[Wills, 1,940 studied. Ely, 1575-1630. See Section 1, "The Importance
of Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries." Calvinists,
religious history.]
SPUFFORD, Peter
“Long-Term Rural Credit in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England:
The Evidence of Probate Accounts.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s
Head Press, 2000) pp. 213-228.
[Shortened English version of his “Les liens du credit.” Kent,
1582-1684. Credit, debt, contact between borrowers and lenders.]
"A Printed Catalogue of the Names of Testators."
In The Records of the Nation, Spufford and G.H. Martin eds.,
Woodbridge, N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1990; 167-186.
[A short history of English will indexing, esp. the Index Society;
lists its volumes from 1888-1988.]
SPURRELL, F.
"Inventory of the Goods of Cornelius Humphrey, of Newhaven, 1697."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 6 (1853) 190-196.
[Tax inv. printed. Newhaven, 1697. Wealthy farmer.]
SQUIRES, H.L.
"Early Montgomeryshire Wills."
Collections Historical and Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire
16 (1883) 299-306; 17 (1884) 121-148.
[Wills, 9 abstracted. Montgomeryshire, 1566-1641. Second part is a
fuller discussion of the registry in which they were found.]
STACY, N.E.
"From the Font to the Grave in Early Modern Dyrham."
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological
Society
113 (1995) 97-120.
[Wills, 150 used. Dyrham, Gloucs, 1530-1750. Family structure,
widowhood,
burial, apprenticeship.]
STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL EDUCATIONAL CENTRE
Probate Inventories of Tamworth.
Staffordshire County Council, 1978.
[P.I.s, 19 printed with glossary and illustrations. Tamworth,
1549-1710.]
STAHLSCHMIDT, J.C.L.
"The Will of Miles Gray, of Colchester, Bell Founder."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s. 3 (1889)
74-75.
[Will printed. Colchester, 1686. Bell founder.]
STANARD, W.G.
"Throckmorton of England and Virginia."
William and Mary Quarterly 3 (1894-5) 46-49.
[Will printed. Ellington, Co. Huntingdon, 1657. Genealogical]
STAPP, Carol
Buchalter
COLONIAL
Afro-Americans in Antebellum Boston: An analysis of probate records.
New York: Garland Publishing Co., 1993.
[P.I.s studied. See Chapter 3, "On Probate Inventories."]
STARR, Frank
English Goodwin Family Papers... 3 vols. for the Ancestry of William
and Ozias Goodwin.
Hartford: n.h., 1921.
[Wills and administrations, some 1,900 abstracted, indexed. PCC and 33
county courts, mostly late 15th through 17th centuries.]
STAWELL, G. Dodsworth
A Quantock Family. The Stawells of Cothelstone....
Taunton: Barnicott and Pearce, 1910.
[Wills, 20 abstracted or printed in App.II ("Wills and Inquisitions
Post-mortem"). 1424-19th century.]
STEBBING, W.P.D.
"An Inventory of an Innkeeper's Possessions in 1685."
Archaeologia Cantiana 46 (1934) 97-101.
[P.I. printed. Speldhurst, 1685. Innkeeper.]
STEER, Francis W.
"A Cowdray Inventory of 1682."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 105 (1967) 84-102.
[Inv. printed. Cowdray, 1682. Catholic family Montagu.]
Review of The Easton Lodge Inventory, 1637.
Essex Review 61 (1952) 238.
[Work reviewed printed privately.]
Farm and Cottage Inventories of Mid-Essex, 1635-1749.
Chelmsford: Essex Record Office Publications, 1950.
[P.I.s, 245 printed. Mid-Essex, 1635-1749. Introduction on contents.]
"Inventories of Anne, Viscountess Dorchester, 1638-9."
Notes and Queries 198 (1953) 94-96, 133-158, 379-387, 414-417,
469-473; 199 (1954) 21-4.
[P.I. and will (in 199 (1954)) printed. 1638. Nobility.]
"The Inventory of Arthur Coke of Bramfield, 1629."
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 25 (1952)
264-287.
[P.I. printed, glossary. Bramfield, 1629. Gentry.]
"A Medieval Household: The Urswick inventory."
The Essex Review 63 (1954) 4-20.
[P.I. printed. Essex, 1479. Knight.]
"The Possessions of a Sussex Surgeon."
Medical History 2 (1958) 134-136.
[Will and P.I. extracted from. Sussex, 1632. Surgeon.]
"Short Guides to Records: 3. Probate inventories."
History 47 (1962) 287-290.
[P.I. printed. North Mundham, 1732/3. Blacksmith.]
"Smaller Houses and their Furnishings in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries."
Journal of the British Archaeological Association 3rd
ser. 20/21 (1957-8) 140-159.
[P.I.s printed and explained to non-specialists. 1386 (French), 1657,
1709 (2).]
STEINER, Emily
Documentary Culture and the Making of Modern English Culture.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
[Piers Plowman's will as reflection of contemporary will making and
documentation
(pp. 151-153).]
STEINMAN, George
[untitled communication]
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London 2 (1861)
27-33.
[P.I. printed. Kent, 1616. Noble.]
STELL, Philip
Probate Inventories of the York Diocese, 1350-1500.
York: York Archaeological Trust, 2006.
["About 100" PIs abstracted. Arranged chronologically. With glossary
and
full index.]
STEPHENS, W.B.
History of Congleton.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1970.
[Wills used. Scattered and unindexed. Wealth, religious persuasion.]
"Sources for the History of Agriculture in the English Village and
their Treatment."
Agricultural History 43 (1969) 225-238.
[P.I.s discussed; on P.I.s as sources on agriculture; see p. 230.]
Sources of English Local History. 2nd ed.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
[Wills and P.I.s discussed very generally (pp.36-37).]
STEPHENSON, Mill
"A List of Monumental Brasses in Surrey."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 31 (1918) 85-128.
[Some period effigies are connected with wills.]
"Will of Richard Turnor of Binfield."
Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal 11 (1905) 47-55.
[Will printed. 1558. Gentleman; no discussion.]
STEVENS, Charles
"Beneficiaries under the Cotil Will of 1496."
Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise 20 (1969)
158-162.
[Will quoted from, discussed. Jersey, 1496. Gentry, joint will.]
STEVENS, Joan, and ARTHUR, Jean
"Inventories of Household Effects."
Bulletin of the Société Jersiaise 20 (1972)
361-378.
[P.I.s, 12 discussed. Jersey, 1583-1866.]
STEVENS, John C.
"The Will of Isaac Pluvier, Containing as Inventory of a London
Clockmaker's Stock just Prior to the Great Fire."
Antiquities Horology 4 (1962) 18-21.
STEVENSON, Bill
"The Social Integration of Post-Restoration dissenters, 1660-1725."
In The World of Rural Dissenters, 1520-1725, Margaret Spufford
ed., New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995; 360-387.
[Wills, 94 studied. Fenstanton, 1659-1721. Quakers as witnesses who
cannot take an oath.]
STEVENSON, William Henry
Records of the Borough of Nottingham. 5 vols.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1883-1900.
[Wills printed: I:1382; II: 1410, 1413, 1431, 1479; V: 1633, 1648,
1651. Nottingham borough.]
STEWART-BROWN, R.
"Probate Jurisdiction in Cheshire."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 18 (1923) 59-60.
[Probate practices of 14th-16th centuries discussed.]
"Will of Richard Leigh of High Leigh."
Cheshire Sheaf 3rd ser. 12 (1917) 47.
[Will abstracted. High Leigh, 1540/1. Esquire.]
STIEG, Margaret
Laud's Laboratory. The Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Early 17th
Century.
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1982.
[Wills, proving of in Laud's diocesan courts. Somerset, 1603-1630.]
STITT, Susan COLONIAL
"The Will of Stephen Charlton and Hungars Parish Glebe."
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 77 (1969) 259-276.
[Will used. Northampton Co., 1654. Land disposal.]
STOCKS, John Edward
"Will of William Wolstanton."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological
Society 6 (1888) 224-225.
[Will printed (Latin). Leicestershire, 1403. Rector.]
STOCKS, John Edward, and BRAGG, William B.
Market Harborough Parish Records to A.D. 1530.
London: Elliot Stock, 1890.
[Wills: 24 printed or abstracted; P.I. printed (widow). Market
Harborough, 1509-1526.]
STOKES, Ethel
"Surrey Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury in 1610."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 24 (1911) 56-69; 35 (1924)
30-48.
[Wills, 80 abstracted. Surrey, 1607-1610.]
STONE, Gary
Wheeler
COLONIAL
"Ceramics in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Inventories, 1680-1775, a
Preliminary Study..."
Conference on Historic Sites Archaeology Papers for 1968, Part
2. (1970) 73-90.
[P.I.s studied. Suffolk Co., 1680-1775. Ceramics; methodology and
literature overview.]
STOREY, Harry
"An Inventory of 1615."
Sussex Notes and Queries 7 (1939) 201-204.
[P.I. printed. Waldron, 1615. Gentry.]
STOREY, Robin Lindsey
The Register of Thomas Langley Bishop of Durham 1406-1437. 6
vols.
Publications of the Surtees Society 164 (1949), 166 (1951), 169
(1954), 170 (1955), 177 (1962), 182 (1967).
[Wills and executions, 23 printed; P.I. printed (1412). Durham diocese,
1406-1437. Bishop's register.]
A Short Introduction to Wills.
Canterbury: Phillimore, 1966.
[See esp. pp.1-18 for good short introduction to the source, form,
collections, probate.]
STORM, Melvin
"Lady Clare's Will and the Pardoner's Hundred Marks."
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 89 (1988) 57-62.
[Will (1355) discussed as influence on Chaucer's choice of pardoner's
income.]
STRATFORD, Jenny
The Bedford Inventories. The Worldly Goods of John, Duke of Bedford,
Regent of France (1389-1435).
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1993.
[Inv.s of 1422, 1423/4, 1447-9. Wills discussed (his, 1429, 1435; see
Chapter 2). Nobility.]
STRONG, Patrick and Felicity
"Last Will and Codicils of Henry V (with text)."
English Historical Review 96 (1981) 79-102.
[Will and codicils discussed and printed. 1421, 1422. Royalty.]
STRUTT, Joseph
Horda Angel-cynnan; a Compleat View of the Manners, Customs, etc. of
the Inhabitants of England.
London: Walter Shropshire, 1776.
[P.I.s, 1 printed, Easton-Neston/London, 1540, wealthy gentry; Hampton
Court under Henry VIII (extracts).]
STRYPE, John
The History of ... Edmund Grindal, the First Bishop of London, and
... Archbishop of York and Canterbury Successively. New York: Burt
Franklin Reprints, 1974.
[Will printed. Canterbury, 1583. Clergy.]
STUBBS, Henry
"The Kentish Family of Stubbs. Wills, and Extracts from Records."
Archaeologia Cantiana 18 (1889) 213-234.
[Wills, 34 printed. Kent, family, 1502-1822.]
SURTEES, Robert
"Wills of the Families of Scrope, Salvayn, Bowes, de la Pole,
Fulthorpe, and Dautre."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 2 (1835) 148-151.
[Wills, 9 printed, Latin texts. Yorkshire, 1429-1469.]
SUTTON, Anne F.
"William Shore, Merchant of London and Derby."
Derbyshire Archaaeological Journal 106 (1986) 127-139.
[Will printed. 1494. Merchant.]
SWAINSON, Cowper H.
"Hawkshead Hall."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and
Archaeological Society 11 (1891) 7-49.
SWANSON, Heather C.
"Craftsmen and Industry in Late Medieval York."
Ph.D. dissertation, York University, 1990.
Medieval Artisans: An urban class in late medieval England.
New York: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
[Wills used as main source and throughout. York, 14th-16th centuries.]
SWANSON, Robert Norman
Church and Society in Late Medieval England.
Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993.
[Wills and P.I.s and printed studies of them used. See esp. Chapter 6,
"Windows on Men's Souls." Religious history, charity.]
SWANTON, E.W.
Bygone Haslemere.
London: West, Newman and Co., 1914.
[Wills, several used and quoted from in text. See Chapter 15, "Some
Seventeeth-century Wills." Yeomen, social history.]
SWANZY, Henry
The Family of Hassard.
Privately printed, 1903.
[Will printed. Family, 1690.]
SWEENEY, Kevin
M.
COLONIAL
"Furniture and the Domestic Environment in Wethersfield, Connecticut,
1639-1800."
Connecticut Antiquarian 36 2:(1984) 10-39; reprinted in Material
Life in America, 1600-1860, ed. by R. St. George, Boston:
Northeastern University Press, 1988; 261-290.
[P.I.s: c.800 studied. Wethersfield, 1639-1800. Furniture types and
distribution.]
COLONIAL
"Using Tax Lists to Detect Biases in Probate Inventories."
In Early American Probate Inventories, ed. by Peter Benes,
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for
1987; 32-40.
[P.I.s: 5 printed, 786 studied. Wethersfield, 1673-1773.
Methodological; comparison with tax lists.]
SWIFT, W.
"Original Documents."
Reliquary 2 (1861-2) 231-232.
[P.I. printed. Sheffield, 1614.]
SWINBOURNE, Henry
A Treatise of Testaments and Last Wills. 1st edition 1590. 7th
ed.
London: W. Clarke, 1803; Norwood N.J.: J. Johnson, 1979.
[Classic treatment of the subject of wills and will making.]
SWYNNERTON, C.
"Early Swynnerton Wills at Lichfield, and Other Extracts."
Reliquary 23 (1882-3) 39-44, 223-224; 24 (1883-4) 34-35.
[Wills, 15 of family abstracted. 1521-1667.]
TAKAHASHI, Mototasu
"The Number of Wills Proved in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,
Graphs, with Tables and Commentary."
In The Records of the Nation. G.H. Martin and Peter Spufford
eds., Woodbridge, N.H.: The Boydell Press, 1990; 187-214.
[Wills statistically enumerated from indexes, calendars, etc.]
TALBOT
"Worcester as an Industrial and Commercial
Centre, 1660-1750."
Transactions of the Worcester Archaeological
Society 10 (1986) pages?.
[P.I.s studied. Worcester, 1660-1750. Material
culture.]
TANNER
"Notices of Sir Richard Arundell."
Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica 6 (1840) 1-20.
[Will printed in French. Knight going to war, early 15th century.]
TANNER, Norman P.
The Church in Late Medieval Norwich, 1370-1532.
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984.
[Wills, 12 printed as representative. Norwich, 1370-1532. Religious
history.]
TANNER, Rosalind H.C.
"Thomas Harriot as Mathematician - a Legacy of Hearsay; part 1."
Physis 9 (1967) 235-247.
[Prints will. 1621. Fate of his mathematical mss. See next entry for
further discussion.]
TANNER, Rosalind, and PEPPER, Jon
"The study of Thomas Harriot's Manuscripts. 1, Harriot's Will."
History of Science 6 (1967) 1-16.
[Will discussed. 1621, Mathematician. See previous entry for will.]
TAPLEY-SOPER, H.
"Recovery of Will of Smyth Family."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 11 (1920-1) 212-214.
[Will printed. Honyton, 1677. Innkeeper.]
"Will of William Williams, 1465."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 15 (1928-9) 184.
[Will abstracted. Brixham, 1465.]
TARVER, Ann
“Understanding Probate Accounts and Their Generation in the
Post-Restoration Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry to 1700.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s
Head Press, 2000) pp. 229-253.
[Probate accounts from Derbyshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, and
Staffordshire,1661-1699. Numbers generated; valuations of property in
those that survive.]
TAYLOR, A.H.
"The Will of a Kentish Parson."
Archaeologia Cantiana 43 (1931) 49-71.
[Will printed with intro. Kent, 1523. Clergy.]
"Will of a Mediaeval Kentish Parson."
Archaeologia Cantiana 43 (1931) 123-132.
[Will printed. Warehorn, 1523. Clergy.]
TAYLOR, E.G.R.
A Regiment for the Sea, and Other Writings on Navigation by William
Bourne of Gravesend.
Hakluyt Society ser.2 #121 (1963).
[Wills printed. 1573, 1582. Navigator.]
TAYLOR, R.
"Townhouses in Taunton, 1500-1700."
Post Medieval Archaeology 8 (1974) 63-79.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. Taunton, 1500-1700. Houses and contents.]
TEGG, William
Wills of their Own, Curious, Eccentric and Benevolent.
London: William Tegg and Co.,1876.
[Wills printed and abstracted. Odd assortment from 12th to 19th
centuries. Indexed.]
TEMPEST, E.B.
"An Old Lincolnshire Will and Its Maker."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 3 (1893) 53-55.
[Will extracted from and discussed. Gosberkirke, 1522. Esquire.]
THACKER, Helen
"Wills and Other Probate Records."
Amateur Historian 1 (1954) 265-268.
[Wills as sources for local historians, general overview.]
THAYER, Philip S. COLONIAL
"The 1669 Will and Inentory of Michael Willis of Boston, Cutler."
Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association 37 (1984)
61-63.
[Will and P.I. printed (w/illustrations, glossary). Boston, Mass.,
1669. Cutler.]
THICK, Malcolm
"Root Crops and the feeding of London's Poor in the Late Sixteenth and
Early Seventeenth Centuries."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk,
John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press,
1990;
279-296.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Dutch gardeners in London.]
THIRSK, Joan
"The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History after 1500."
Agricultural History Review 3 (1955) 66-79.
[P.I.s used. Seminal article on agrarian history using P.I.s.]
English Peasant Farming; The agrarian history of Lincolnshire
from Tudor
to recent times.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957.
[P.I.s used heavily. Lincolnshire, from 1530. Agrarian history: wealth,
crop selection, arable land, livestock holding, etc.]
"The European Debate on Customs of Inheritance, 1500-1700."
In her The Rural Economy of England: Collected essays, London:
The Hambledon Press, 1984; 359-374.
[Overview essay on regional distribution of partible, mixed and
primogeniture forms of inheritance.]
"Farming in Kesteven, 1540-1640."
In her The Rural Economy of England: Collected essays, London:
The Hambledon Press, 1984; 129-148.
"The Farming Regions of England."
In her The Agrarian History of England and Wales. Vol 4 1500-1640,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963; 1- 112.
[P.I.s used in general coverage of the regions.]
Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Century.
Leicester: University College, 1953.
[P.I.s used.]
THOMAS, Anna, FOXELL, Shirley, and BAINES, Arnold H.J.
"The Weeden Charity in Chesham."
Records of Buckinghamshire 19 (1973) 302-316.
[Will terms discussed. Chesham, 1624. Charitable foundation.]
THOMAS, G. Tucker
"Humphrey Toy, Mayor of Carmarthen, A.D. 1557."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club 11 (1915) 76-77.
[Will printed in abbreviated form. Carmarthen, 1557. Merchant, tanner.]
"The Priory of St. John the Evangelist, and Griffith Leyson, D.C.L."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club
11 (1916-17) 34-35.
[Leyson's will printed in modernized English. Carmarthen, 1555. Legal
scholar
and judge.]
"Will of Anthony Rudd, Bishop of St, David's (and Rudd Charity)
(1614)."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club
5 (1909-10) 58-59.
[Will printed with no introduction. Cleric.]
"Wills of Griffith Leyson Esq., D.C.L. (1555); and the Will of Joyce
Gamage (1586)."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club 11 (1915) 34-35.
[Wills printed. Judge and wife.]
"Will of Thomas Jones, Caron, Alias "Twm Sion Catti"; A.D. 1609."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field
Club 9 (1914) 16; 10 (1914) 80-81.
[Will abstracted in vol. 9 and printed in 10. 1609. Farmer.]
THOMAS, Griffith
J.
WALES
"Madam Bevan's Will. The Chancery action."
Transactions of the Carmarthen Antiquarian Society and Field Club
29 (1939) 43-52.
THOMAS, J.H.
"The Company of White Paper makers in Hampshire: An inventory of
plant."
Post Medieval Archaeology 11 (1977) 22-35.
[Inv. printed. Hampshire, 1696. Paper making.]
"The Contents of a Late Seventeenth-Century Hampshire Inn."
Hampshire Archaeology and Local History Newsletter 2 (3) (1972) 1-3.
[PI printed. Warnford, 1694. Innkeeper.]
THOMPSON, A. Hamilton
"The Will of Master William Doune, Archdeacon of Leicester."
Archaeological Journal 72 (1915) 233-284.
[Will printed. Leicester, 1361. Clergy.]
THOMPSON, B.L.
"Dean Barwick and His Will."
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and
Archaeological Society 65 (1965) 240-283.
[Will printed and discussed. London, 1664. Clergy; family, charity.]
THOMPSON, E.M.
"Will and Inventory of Robert Morton, 1486-1488."
British Archaeological Journal 33 (1877) 308-330.
[Will and P.I. printed. London, 1486/1488. Gentry.]
THOMPSON, E.P.
"The Grid of Inheritance: A comment."
In Family and Inheritance, Jack Goody ed., New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1976; 328-360.
[Inheritance customs in England: variables and variations.]
THOMPSON, Janet Ann
"Her Good Name and Credit: The reputation of women in
seventeenth-century Devon."
PhD dissertation, University of Cinncinnati, 1987.
[Wills used. Devon, Civil War and after. Social history, property,
social attitudes.]
THOMPSON, J.W.
The Medieval Library.
Chicago: University of Chicago, 1939.
[Wills discussed briefly at pp.296 ff. and 408 ff. Libraries in
different countries, essays.]
THOMSON, J.A.F.
"Orthodox Religion and the Origins of Lollardy."
History 74 (1989) 39-55.
[Wills discussed. Lollards and their views of their bodies as expressed
in burial requests.]
"Piety and Charity in Late Medieval London."
Journal of Ecclesiatical History 16 (1965) 178-195.
[Wills, 622 studied. London, 1401-49, 1523-30, 1479-86. Charitable
practices.]
THOMSON, Thomas SCOTLAND
A Collection of Inventories and Other Records of the Royal Wardrobe
and Jewelhouse, and of the Artillery and Munitioun in Some of the Royal
Castles, 1488-1606. Edinburgh: n.h., 1815.
[P.I.s and inv.s, 13 printed. Edinburgh, Scotland, 16th century.
Royalty.]
THORNTON, Peter
Seventeenth-century Interior Decoration in England and Holland.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
[P.I.s used extensively; see pp. 330-335 for list. Illustrated.]
THORPE, Benjamin
Diplomatarium anglicum aevi saxonici. A Collection of English
Charters, for the Reign of King Aethelberht of Kent (AD 605) to William
the Conqueror.
London: MacMillan and Co., 1865.
[Will, 69 printed, original and trans. 820-1097. Anglo-Saxon.]
THRELFALL, John B.
"The English Ancestry of Thomasine (Dowsett) Hale, Wife of Thomas Hale
of Newbury, Massachusetts."
New England Historical and Genealogical Register 141 (1987)
128-134.
[Wills (family) used. Newbury, Massachusetts Colony, 15th-17th cc.
Genealogical.]
THRUPP, Sylvia
"Aliens in and Around London in the Fifteenth Century."
In Studies in London History, ed. by A. Hollaender and W.
Kellaway
(London: ??????, 1969) pp. 251-272;
reprinted in Society and History, ed. by R. Grew and N.H.
Steneck
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1977) pp. 101-127.
[Wills of Netherlanders, Italians and other aliens used anecdotally.
Merchants,
artisans.]
The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300-1500.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948.
[Wills used. London, 1300-1500. Evidence for benefactions, indicators
of wealth, numbers of heirs, merchants as executors for nobles.]
"The Problem of Replacement Rates in Late Medieval English Population."
Economic History Review 2nd ser. 18 (1965) 101-119;
reprinted in Society and History, ed. by R. Grew and N.H.
Steneck
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1977) pp. 163-189.
[Uses wills as evidence for pattern of population replacement. Essex
adn
Hertfordshire. 411 wills of males studied: 1420-1435, 1477-1479;
1480-1492.]
THWAITE, Hartley
Abstracts of Abbotside Wills, 1552-1688.
Leeds: Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1968. (Vol.130).
[Wills and P.I.s, 147 abstracted, glossary. Abbotside, 1552-1688.
Archdeaconry Court of Richmond.]
TIERNEY, M.A.
"Discovery of the Remains of John, 17th Earl of Arundel (d.1435)."
Sussex Archaeological Collections 12 (1860) 232-239.
[Will of Fulk Eyton, 1454, printed. Gentry.]
TILLER, Kate
"Clergy and People in the Seventeenth Century: Some evidence from a
north Oxfordshire parish."
Cake and Cockhorse 7 (1979) 242-250.
[P.I.s, 2 printed, compared. Banbury area, 1623, 1679. Clergy.]
English Local History.
Wolfeboro Falls, N.Y.: Alan Sutton, 1992.
[P.I.s and wills discussed as sources; see pp.155-160 on P.I.s, index
for scattered use of wills.]
TIMMINS, T.C.B.
The Register of John Chandler, Dean of Salisbury 1404-1417.
Wiltshire Record Society #39 (1984).
[Wills, 41 abstracted in English. Salisbury deanery, 1414-1417. 19
clergy, 22 laypersons.]
The Register of John Waltham Bishop of Salisbury 1388-1395.
Rochester, N.Y.: The Boydell Press, 1994.
[Wills, 7 printed. Salisbury diocese, 1392-1394.]
TODD, Barbara
"Freebench and Free Enterprise: Widows and their property in two
Berkshire villages."
In English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk,
John Chartres and David Hey eds., New York: Cambridge University Press,
1990;
175-200.
[Wills studied and discussed. Women's property rights, roles as
witnesses, executors.]
TOMES, Robert Fisher
"Unpublished Documents Relating to the County of Warwick."
In Warwickshire Antiquarian Magazine. Warwick: H.F. Cokke and
Son, 1859; 334-339.
[P.I. printed. Stratford-upon-Avon, 1556. Gentry?]
TOWNE, Annie F.
"Francis Peabody's Will, and Inventory of His Estate, 1698."
Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society 10
(1905) 91-97.
[Will and P.I. printed. 1698. Colonist, "lieutenant".]
TRAUTMAN,
Patricia
COLONIAL
"Dress in Seventeenth-century Cambridge, Massachusetts: An
inventory-based reconstruction."
In Early American Probate Records, ed. by Peter Benes, Dublin
Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for 1987;
51-73.
[P.I.s: 122 studied. Cambridge, 1652-1704. Clothing, by occupation.]
TRAUTMAN, Patricia and DONNA BARTSCH
"Probate Documents: American costume, history research."
Clothing and Textiles Research Journal 6 (1988) 26-37.
[P.I.s and wills discussed; 6 facsimiles printed. Cambridge,
Massachusetts, mid-17th century. Sources for clothing, both in groups
and individually.]
TRENT, Robert
F.
COLONIAL
"The Chest of Drawers in America: A postscript."
Winterthur Portfolio 20 (1985) 31-48.
[Furtherance of B. Forman's article in same vol. on same topic.]
COLONIAL
"Matching Inventory Terms and Period Furnishings."
In Early American Probate Inventories, ed. by Peter Benes,
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Annual Proceedings for
1987; 17-22.
[Short methodological essay.]
TREVELYAN, W.C.
"Abstract of the Inventory of the Goods of William More, Esq., of Bank
Hall, Lancashire."
Archaeologia Aeliana 104-106.
[P.I. printed. Bank Hall, 1502. Gentry.]
TRINDER, Barrie
Miners and Mariners of the Severn Gorge: Probate Inventories for
Benthall,
Broseley, Little Wenlock, and Madeley, 1660-1764.
Chichester: Phillimore, 2000.
[PIs, 526 analyzed; transcripts of 196 printed. Lengthy intro;
statistical
analysis. Glossary.]
"Two Probate Inventories for Industrial Shropshire."
Industrial Archaeology Review 3 (1979) 239-242.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Shropshire, 1615 (tanner), 1723 (collier).]
"La vie d'une région en cours d'industrialisation: Le Bassin
houiller
du Shropshire, 1660-1760."
In CILAC, L'etude et la mise en valeur du patrimoine industriale
(Paris:
Editions di Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique, 1985) pp.
421-435.
[PIs, 1,372 studied. Some statistical analysis. Shropshire. Workers'
material
culture.]
“The Wooden Horse in the Cellar: Words and Contexts in Shropshire
Probate Inventories.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s
Head Press, 2000) pp. 268-284.
[PIs, 7000 studied. Words used for certain common objects in PIs;
material culture.]
TRINDER, Barrie, and COX, Jeff
Yeomen and Colliers in Telford: Probate inventories for Dudley,
Lilleshall, Wellington and Wrockwardine, 1660-1750.
London: Phillimore and Co., 1980.
[P.I.s, 265 printed, 846 studied, glossary, analyzed. Telford,
1660-1750.Yeomen and colliers.]
TRINDER, Barrie, and GIBSON, Jeremy
"Living in Banbury, 1660-1730: A foretaste."
Cake and Cockhorse 10 (1988) 225-237.
[Inv.s, 8 printed. Banbury, 1677-1722.]
TRINGHAM, Nigel J.
"A Staffordshire Man of Affairs: Ralph of New borough (d. 1294) and his
Will."
Transactions of the South Staffordshire Archaeological and
Historical Society 33 (1993) 11-13.
[Will printed. Lichfield, 1294. Bailiff.]
TURNER, Dawson
"The Will of Margaret Paston, widow of John Paston, Esq."
Norfolk Archaeology 3 (1852) 157-176.
[Will printed. 1481.Gentry.]
"Will of Sir John Fastolf touching the Establishment of his College
at Caister."
Norfolk Archaeology 2 (1849) 225-233.
[Will printed. 1459 Noble.]
TURNER, Maurice
"Post-medieval Colonisation in the Forests of Bowland, Knaresborough
and Pickering."
PhD dissertation, University of Hull, 1987.
[P.I.s and wills. Forest-area colonists: who they were, what they did,
where they lived.]
TURNER, T.H.
"Original Documents."
Archaeological Journal 3 (1846) 65-66.
[P.I. printed. Hampshire, 1293. Farmer.]
"The Will of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, with
Extracts from the Inventory of His Effects."
Archaeological Journal 2 (1844) 339-349.
[Will printed (French, 1319), P.I. extracts printed (1322). Gosforth,
Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Nobility.]
TWEMLOW, Francis R.
The Manor of Tyrley, in the County of Stafford, down to the Outbreak
of the Great War in 1914.
Staffordshire Record Society, 1948.
[Wills, 9 printed, some with P.I.s. Tyrley Manor, 1553-1563.]
TYLER, Philip
"The Status of the Elizabethan Parochial Clergy."
Studies in Church History 4 (1967) 76-97.
[Wills and P.I.s, 500 studied. Oxfordshire, 1610-1638 and 1660-1688.
Shrinking values of wealth indicators.]
TYMMS, Samuel
Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury
St. Edmunds and the Archdeacon of Sudbury.
London: Camden Society, 1850; reprinted by AMS Press (New York, 1968).
[Wills, 54 printed with some P.I.s, some Latin. 1354-1566.]
ULRICH, Laurel
Thatcher
COLONIAL
Good Wives: Image and reality in the lives of women in northern New
England, 1650-1750.
New York: Knopf, 1982.
[P.I.s compared: Essex, York Co. Mass., 1670,1700, 1730. 1694
Portsmouth widow (p.72). See tables 1,2,3. Levels of wealth and
material culture.]
UPHAM. R.
"Raleigh of Fardell."
Devon Notes and Queries 1 (1900-01) 201-202.
[Will printed. Fardell, 1595. Step-brother of Sir Walter.]
UPTON, Anthony A.
Foleshill Probate Wills and Inventories, 1535-1599.
Lighthorne: A.A. Upton, 1993.
[Wills and PIs of 31 testators printed. Warwickshire. Glossary; index.]
USHER, Richard
An Historical Sketch of the Parish of Croxall.
London: Bemrose and Son, 1881.
[Wills, 4 printed (1525-1626); P.I. printed, Catton, 1627, gentry.]
"Inventory of the Goods of Sir William Wilmer, Knt., Preserved at
Catton Hall, Derbyshire."
The Reliquary 21 (1880-1) 176-178.
[P.I. printed. Catton Hall, 1646. Gentry.]
VAISEY, D.G.
"A Charlbury Mercer's Shop, 1623."
Oxoniensia 31 (1966) 107-116.
[P.I. printed. Charlbury, 1632 (despite the title). Mercer.]
"Probate Inventories and Provincial Retailers in the Seventeenth
Century."
In Probate Records and the Local Community, Gloucester: Alan
Sutton, 1985; 91-112.
[P.I.s as source for retail merchandise stocks, 17th century.]
Probate Inventories of Lichfield and District, 1568-1680.
Collections for a History of Staffordshire, 4th ser. 5
(1969).
[P.I.s, 190 printed, glossary and analytical intro. Lichfield region,
1568-1680.]
"Thomas Wood and His Workshop."
Oxoniensia 36 (1972) 55-58.
[P.I. printed. Oxford, 1694/5. Mason at Oxford University.]
VAISEY, D.G., and CELORIA, F.
"Inventory of George Ecton, `Potter' of Abingdon, Berks, 1696."
Journal of Ceramic History 7 (1974) 22-42.
[Very well annotated edition of his PI with intro and index.]
VALE, M.G.A.
Piety, Charity and Literacy among the Yorkshire Gentry, 1370-1480.
Borthwick Papers #50 (1976).
[Wills, 148 studied. Yorkshire, 1370-1480. Gentry, wives and widows.]
VALENCE, Aymer
"Lydden Church."
Archaeologia Cantiana 43 (1931) 1-27.
[Will printed in Latin. Swanton, 1474. Gentry.]
VALLANCE, Aymer
"Two Chalke Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 42 (1930) 57-60.
[Wills, 2 printed. Chalke, both 1473.]
VANN, Elizabeth, and DIXON, Margaret
Denny Genealogy. Second Book. 3 Vols.
Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1947.
[Will printed (vol.2). Chesthunt, 1546. Sir Anthony Denny.]
VANN, Richard T.
"Wills and the Family in an English Town: Banbury, 1550-1800."
Journal of Family History 4 (1979) 346-367.
[Wills, 747 studied. Banbury, 1558-1723. Wills ruling from beyond the
grave?]
VEALE, E.W.W. ed.
The Great Red Book of Bristol.
Bristol Record Society #2, #4, #8, #16, #18 (1931-1953).
[Wills printed: #4 (one, 1486); #8 (11, see index); #16 (16, see
index); #18 (2, see index).
Bristol, late 15th century.]
VERITY, T.E., HARRISON, J.V. and HUDLESTON, C.R.
"The Browns of Burnfoot: The decline and fall of a yeoman family."
Transaction of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society
n.s. 68 (1968) 169-191.
[Will printed. Burnfoot, 1639. Yeoman.]
VERNON, Thelma
"Inventory of Henry Sharington, Contents of Lalock House, 1575."
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 63 (1968)
72-82.
[P.I. printed, intro. Wiltshire, 1575. Gentry.]
"VIATOR"
"Heath Family of Cheshire - The Lordship of Lache Malbank."
Cheshire Sheaf 14 (1918) 3-4, 26-26, 41, 45-46, 60, 69, 75-76.
[Wills, 4 printed and 2 extracted from; P.I.s, one extracted from and
one printed. Edge, 1685, yeoman; Moxhall, 1680, husbandman; Muncks
Coppenhall, 1685; Nantwich, 1688, yeoman; London, 1689, barber-surgeon;
Tushingham, 1691,
gentry; Darnall, 1698, widow, and 1696, yeoman.]
VICKERS, Noreen
A Yorkshire Town of the Eighteenth Century: The probate inventories
of Whitby, NorthYorkshire 1700-1800.
Studley: K.A.F. Brewin Books, 1986.
[P.I.s, 102 printed. Whitby, 1700-1800.]
VINCENT, Nicholas
"The Wonderful Will of William of Wendling (d.
1270)."
Nottingham Medieval Studies 45 (2001)
68-96.
[Will printed.] From Peter
Stewart
VIRGADAMO, Peter
Richard
COLONIAL
"Colonial Charity and the American Character: Boston, 1630-1775."
PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 1982.
[Will studied. Boston, Mass., 1630-1775. Charitable bequests.]
COLONIAL
Urban Poverty and Church Charity in Colonial Boston.
Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Research on
Poverty, 1989.
[Wills studied. Boston, Mass., 1630-1775. Charitable giving patterns
switch from "medieval" to "American".]
VIRGOE, Roger
"Hugh atte Fenne and Books at Cambridge."
Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 10 (1991)
92-98.
[Will discussed. London, 1476. Auditor of Exchequer; bequest to repair
books at Cambridge.]
"The Will of Hugh atte Fenne, 1476."
Miscellany Norfolk Record Society #56 (1991) 31-58.
[Will printed, Latin w/ Engl. summary. London, 1476. Royal
administrator.]
VOGT, Joan-Elizabeth
"Her One-third: women's real and personal property during the
proprietary period in East Jersey (1664-1702)."
Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 1994.
[Wills and testamentary practice: women's rights to inherit. East
Jersey, 1664-1702.]
WADLEY, Thomas P.
"Notes of Old Gloucestershire Wills."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 1 (1881) 97-98.
[Wills, 2 extracted from. Gloucestershire, 1537.]
"Notes of the Wills of Two Wotton-under-Edge Worthies."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 2 (1882) 19-20.
[Wills, 2 abstracted. Wotton-under-Edge, 1508. One a parson.]
Notes or Abstracts of the Wills Contained in the Volume Entitled
Great Orphan Book and Book of Wills.
Bristol: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeology Society, 1886.
[Wills, 449 abstracted (trans. where Latin). Bristol and region,
1381-1595.]
"The Will of John Daston, of Dumbleton, 1530."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 3 (1887) 668-669.
[Will extracted from. Dumbleton, 1530.]
"Will of Richard Rutter, of Alderton, 1545."
Gloucestershire Notes and Queries 4 (1890) 182-183.
[Will printed. Alderton, 1545.]
WADMORE, J.F.
"Thomas Smythe, of Westenhanger, Commonly Called Customer Smythe."
Archaeologia Cantiana 17 (1887) 193-208.
[Will terms described. Westenhanger, 1592. Royal Customs officer.]
WADSWORTH, Alfred P., and MANN, Julia de Lacy
The Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600-1780.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1930; reprinted 1965.
[Will and P.I.s used. Lancashire, 1600-1780. Agrarian background,
putting-out system.]
WAGNER, Anthony Richard
English Genealogy. 2nd ed.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
[Wills discussed as sources for genealogical study, pp.330-332.]
WAIT, Jean
"Seventeenth-century Lifestyle: Two probate inventories."
East London Record #3 (1980) 24-28.
[P.I.s, 2 printed. Hackney, 1663; Shoreditch, 1667, well-off country
woman.]
WALDRON, J.J.
"Locke's Account of Inheritance and Bequest."
Journal of the History of Philosophy 19 (1981) 39-51.
[Inheritance from a politico-philosophical point of view.]
WALFORD, W.S.
"Relation."
Archaeolgical Journal 3 (1846) 65-66.
[PI of Reginald Labbe (1293) printed in Latin. Of the "agricultural
class.
Short discussion.]
"Testamentary Documents Relating to Property at Totnes, Devon."
Archaeologcial Journal 8 (1951) 307-312.
[Latin texts of two wills printed: 1393, 1483. Discusses the wills as
examples
of such documents and their sealing practice.]
WALKER, T.E.C.
"Will of Richard Sutton of Cobham."
Surrey Archaeological Collections 68 (1971) 202-203.
[Will discussed. Cobham, c.1538.]
WALKER, Violet W.
"The Will of the Reverend John Whitlock, 1700."
In A Nottinghamshire Miscellany, Nottingham: Derry and
Sons, Ltd., 1962; 28-30.
[Will printed. Nottinghamshire, 1700. Clergy.]
WALL, Alison D.
Two Elizabethan Women: Correspondence of Joan and Maria Thynne
1575-1611.
Wiltshire Record Society #38 (1983).
[Will printed. Shropshire, 1612. Widow (Joan).]
WALL, Wendy
The Imprint of Gender.
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993.
WALLER, William Chapman
"Old Chigwell Wills."
Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society n.s. 10 (1909)
237-245, 312-319; 11 (1909/10) 10-18, 150-159, 335-476.
[Wills, 132 abstracted or extracted from. Chigwell, 1394-1587.]
WALNE,
Peter
WALES, SCOTLAND, IRELAND
English Wills: Probate records in England and Wales with a Brief
Note on Scottish and Irish Wills.
Richmond, Virginia: Virginia State Library, 1964.
[Wills and probate records: an introduction to courts and records.]
WALSH, Lorena
S.
COLONIAL
"Land, Landlord, and Leaseholder: Estate management and tenant fortunes
in southern Maryland, 1642-1820."
Agricultural History 59 (1985) 373-396.
[P.I.s, 5 pre-1700 studied. Cedar Point Neck, 1670-1700. Wealth,
material culture.]
COLONIAL
"Questions and Sources for Exploring the Standard of Living."
William and Mary Quarterly 45 (1988) 116-123.
[P.I.s (etc.) as sources; methodological intro to forum on standard of
living in British North America.]
COLONIAL
"Urban Amenities and Rural Sufficiency: Living standards and consumer
behavior in thecolonial Chesapeake, 1643-1777." Journal of Economic
History 43 (1983) 109-117.
[P.I.s: c.4,000 studied. Anne Arundel, Somerset, York counties,
1643-1777. Material culture, wealth.]
WALSH,
Micheline
IRELAND
"The Will of John O'Neill, Third Earl of Tyrone."
Seanchas ard Mhacha 7 (1974) 320-325.
[Will printed, translated from Spanish. c.1640. Nobility.]
WALTON,
Julian
IRELAND
"The Household Effects of a Waterford Merchant in
1640."
Journal of the Cork Historical and
Archaeological Society 23 (Nov. 1893) pages?).
WALTON, Julian
C.
IRELAND
"Kilkenny Will Abstracts by Edmund Walsh Kelly."
Old Kilkenny Review 3 (1988) pages?
[Wills, 67 abstracted. Kilkenny.]
WARD,
Alan
IRELAND
"`Will' and `Testament' in Irish."
Eriu 24 (1973) 183-185.
WARD, Joseph P.
"Religious Diversity and Guild Unity in Early Modern London."
In Religion and The English People, 1500-1640, edited by Josef
Carlson
(Kirksville: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1998) pp. 77-97.
[Wills studied. Grocers' Company, London. Religious preambles and
bequests.]
WAREHAM, Andrew
"The Transformation of Kinship and the Family in
Late Anglo-Saxon England."
Early Medieval Europe 10 (2001) 375-399.
[Discusses kinship values and preparation for
death. 4 wills summarized.] From Peter Stewart.
WARREN, Ann K.
Anchorites and their Patrons in Medieval England.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
[Wills studied, uses indexed. 1301-1520. Support by gentry and
merchants; see Chapters 6 and 7, tables 9-18, Appendix 4.]
WATERS, Eleanor Louise
"Probate Records Relating to Topsfield (1658-1680)."
Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society 25
(1920) 101-120.
[Wills and/or P.I.s: 18 printed. Topsfield, 1658-1680.]
WATERS, John
T.
COLONIAL
"The Traditional World of the New England Peasants: A view from
seventeenth-century Barnstable."
New England Historical and Genealogical Register 130 (1976)
3-21.
[Wills, 65 studied. Barnstable, 1685-1703. "Peasants".]
WATERS, Robert Edmond Chester
"The Chesters of Blaby."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological
Society 6 (1886) 176-200.
[Wills, 12 printed. Family, 1566-18th century.]
Genealogical Memoirs of the Extinct Family of Chester of Chicherly.
2 vols.
London: Robson and Sons, 1878.
[Will, 199 printed. Family. Scattered through text.]
WATKIN, Hugh R.
"Draft Will of Thomas Harris of Ashburton."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 11 (1920-1) 49-50.
[Will draft printed. Ashburton, 1619. Tanner.]
WAUGH, Scott L.
"Women's Inheritance and the Growth of Bureaucratic Monarchy in
Twelfth- and Thirteenth-century England."
Nottingham Medieval Studies 34 (1990) 71-92.
[Inheritance by women and escheat as factors in the reversion of power
and titles to the crown.]
WAY, Albert
"Extract from the computus role of the executors of Henry Bowet,
Archbishop of York, deceased October 20, 1423: Garderoba."
The Archaeological Journal 19 (1862) 164-165.
[P.I. discussed. York, 1423. Clergy; arms.]
"Inventory of the Effects of Roger de Mortimer at Wigmore Castle and
Abbey Herefordshire Dated 15 Edward II, A.D. 1322." Archaeological
Journal 15 (1858) 354-362.
[P.I. printed (Latin). Roger de Mortimer, 1322. Nobility.]
WEATHERILL, Lorna M.
Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain 1660-1760.
New York: Routledge, 1988.
[P.I.s, 2900 studied. See Appendix 2, "Occupations and status in
inventories." Blind sample taken from eight regions, middle years of
each decade, 1675-1725.]
The Growth of the Pottery Industry in England, 1660-1815.
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1986.
[P.I.s discussed; 33 before 1700, 74 after. Potters; material culture,
wealth.]
"A Possession of One's Own: Women and consumer behaviour in England,
1660-1740."
Journal of British Studies 25 (1986) 131-156.
[P.I.s, 430 analyzed. Women, 1660-1740. Multivariant analysis.]
"Probate Inventories and Consumer Behaviour in England, 1660-1740."
In The Records of the Nation, G.H. Martin and Peter Spufford
eds., Woodbridge, NH: The Boydell Press, 1990; 251-272.
[P.I.s, c.3,000 analyzed. 8 regions studied, 1660-1740. Material
culture, ownership patterns.]
WEAVER, F.W.
"The Heyron Chantry in the Church of All Saints, Langport."
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History
Society 40 (1894) 70-75.
[Wills, 3 printed. Heyron family, 1490, 1501, 1507. Clergy, vintner.]
"Some Early Wills at Wells District Probate Registry."
Downside Review 13 (1894) 273-279; 14 (1895) 10-21.
[Wills, 48 abstracted in vol. 14; discussed in vol. 13. Wells area,
1524-1534. Preambles, bequests, other terms.]
Somerset Medieval Wills.
Somerset Record Society, #16, #19, #21 (1901, 1903, 1905).
[Wills, 1,040 abstracted. Somerset, 1383-1558.]
"Thomas Overay, Precentor of Wells (1472-93)"
Reliquary n.s. 7 (1893) 218-222.
[Will printed with biographical notes. Wells, 1493. Clergy.]
Wells Wills.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner et co., Ltd., 1890.
[Wills, "about 600" register copies printed. Wells, most c.1528-1536.]
"Wells Wills."
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History
Society 61 (1916) 54-104.
[Wills, 150 abstracted. Wells, 1539-1541.]
WEAVER, J.R.H. and BEARDWOOD, A.
Some Oxfordshire Wills ... 1393-1510.
Oxfordshire Record Society #39 (1958).
[Wills, 122 printed from registered copies. Oxfordshire, 1393-1510.]
WEBB, Cliff, ed.
Index to Surry Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,
1650-1700.
Woking: West Surrey Family History Society, 1989.
Union Index of Surrey Probate Records Which Survive from before
the
Year 1650.
London: British Record Society, 1990.
WEBSTER, Margaret
"John Dabernon and His Will, 1368."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 36 (1989) 176-184.
[Will translated and printed, discussed. Landlord; Calstock, Cornwall.]
WEINER, Edmund
“The Language of Probate Inventories.”
In When Death Do Us Part, ed. by Tom Arkell (Oxford: Leopard’s
Head Press, 2000) pp. 255-266.
[Language and spelling found in PIs for Warwickshire and Yorkshire,
1500-1700.]
WELBY, Alfred E.
"Will of Master Matthew Wotton, S.T.B., 1551."
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries 15 (1918) 14-16.
[Will discussed. Salisbury Cathedral, 1550].
"Will of Richard Wellyngore of Denton - Proved 1482."
Linconshire Notes and Queries 10 (1909) 99-101.
[Will discussed. Denton, 1482 or before. Tenant.]
WELFORD, Richard
"Cuthbert Gray, Merchant."
Archaeologia Aeliana n.s. 11 (1886) 65-81.
[Wills printed (1623, 1656); P.I. of 1673 printed. Newcastle- on-Tyne.
Merchants; family.]
History of Newcastle and Gateshead. 3 vols.
London: Walter Scott, 1884-1887.
[P.I.s and/ or wills: 189 abstracted (vols. 2 and 3). Newcastle,
1501-1640. See index.]
"Local Muniments: Wills."
Archaeologia Aeliana 3rd ser. 12 (1915) 70-79.
[Wills, several, but 2 pre-1720 printed. Stokoe, 1662; joiner, Hexham,
1690.]
WENTWORTH, G.E.
"History of the Wentworths of Wolley."
The Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal 12 (1893)
4-5.
[P.I. printed. Wolley, 1603. Gentry.]
WENTWORTH, Thomas
The Office and Duty of Executors.
1614. Reprinted by J. and W.T. Clarke (London, 1829).
WEST, John
Village Records.
London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1962.
[Will and P.I.s discussed as sources on pp.92-131, "Probate Records:
inventories and wills." Short essay with illustrative extracts,
emphasis on P.I.s]
"WEST COUNTRY"
"Will of Captain John Bonython of Pendennis Castle, Cornwall."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 9 (1917) 187-178.
[Will printed. Falmouth, 1626. Lieutenant governor of castle.]
WESTMAN, Annabel
"Francis Lapiere's Household Inventory of 1715."
Furniture History 30 (1994) 1-14.
[P.I. printed with glossary. London, 1715. French upholsterer.]
WHATMORE, L.E.
"The Will of Cardinal Pole."
Kent Recusant History #2 (1979) 32-42.
[Printed in Latin w/English trans. and notes. Archbishop of Canterbury.
Lambeth
Palace, London, 1558.
WHETTER, James A.C.
Cornwall in the Seventeenth Centry: An economic history of Kernow.
Padstow: Lodenek Press, 1974.
[P.I.s used. Kernow, 17th century. Wealth levels.]
WHITELOCK, Dorothy
Anglo-Saxon Wills.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930.
[Wills, 32 printed (O.E. with trans.), intro and notes.]
English Historical Documents. Vol.1 c.500-1042.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.
[Wills, 10 printed (trans. only). Includes King Alfred, King Eadred,
Theodred, bishop of London.]
The Will of Aethelgifu, a Tenth-century Anglo-Saxon Manuscript.
Oxford: Oxford University Press 1968.
[Will printed, Anglo-Saxon with English translation, running facsimile
and full facsimile. Also, 8 short studies of the will.]
WHITESIDE, Don
List of Earliest Whiteside Lancashire Wills and Letters of
Administration, 1557-1748.
Ottowa: D. Whiteside, Consultant and Associates, 1979.
WHITING, Robert
Blind Devotion of the People: Popular religion and the English
Reformation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
[Wills, 398 studied. Cornwall, Devonshire, 16th century. Clerical
roles, bequests to, religious affiliation.]
"`For the Health of my Soul': Prayers for the dead in the Tudor
South-west."
Southern History 5 (1983) 68-79.
[Wills, 177 studied. Cornwall and Devonshire, 1520-1569. Religious
affiliation/history.]
WHYTE, Ian D. and Kathleen
A.
SCOTLAND
"Comissary Court Testaments: A neglected source for Scottish local
history."
The Local Historian 17 (1986) 4-10.
[P.I.s related to these documents, equivalence as sources.]
WICKENDEN, J.F.
"`Joyalx' of John of Gaunt, Bequeathed to the Cathedral Church of
Lincoln."
Archaeological Journal 32 (1875) 317-325.
[Will and bequests discussed. Lincoln, John of Gaunt.]
WILKINSON, Barbara
"The Poore of the Parish."
The Local Historian 16 (1984) 21-23.
[Wills, 46 studied. Coney Weston, 16th and 17th century. Who got the
testators' bequests?]
WILKINSON, T.T.
"Manchester Wills and Inventories during the Sixteenth Century."
Reliquary 14 (1873-4) 221-224; 15 (1874-5) 21-24.
[Wills and P.I.s, 26 abstracted. Manchester, 1524-1598. Gentry,
merchant, widow, etc.]
WILLAN, Thomas Stuart
Elizabethan Manchester.
Chetham Society ser.3 #27 (1980).
[P.I.s, 57 used and listed in appendix. Manchester, 1570-1602. See esp.
Chapters 6, "Wealth and Family, and 7, "House and Home."]
Muscovy Merchants of 1555.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1953.
[Wills studied. See Chapter 4, "Wealth". Merchants, wealth, legacies,
social relationships.]
WILLIAMS, Ann
"Some Notes and Considerations on Problems Connected with the English
Succession, 860-1066."
In Proceedings of the Battle Conference, 1978. Totowa, N.J.:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1979; 144-167.
[Wills and royal inheritance, succession discussed. Anglo-Saxon.]
WILLIAMS, C.H.
English Historical Documents Vol.5 1485-1558.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.
[Wills, 3 printed??????????????????]
"Nicholas Stathum's Will."
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 3 (1925/6)
47-50.
[Will printed (English). London, 1472. Lawyer.]
WILLIAMS, Charles
"The Will of Thomas Browne, Mercer, Cheapside, London, Father of Sir
Thomas Browne of Norwich..."
Norfolk Archaeology 126 (1907) 132-146.
[Wills, two printed in modern English. Father, 1613; son, 1679. Mercer
and merchant.]
WILLIAMS, Daniel
"The Hastily Drawn-up Will of William Catesby, esquire, 25 August
1485."
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical
Society 51 (1977) 43-51.
[Will printed. Counselor of Richard III, executed after Bosworth.]
WILLIAMS, Gareth
Haulfryn
WALES
"Caernarfonshire House Interiors 1660-1690."
Transactions of the Historical Society of Caenarfonshire 38
(1977) 60-92.
"Farming in Stuart
Caernarfonshire."
WALES
Transactions of the Caernarfonshire Historical Society 42 (1981)
49-79.
"Probate Records: a source for folk life studies."
Folk Life. A Journal of Ethnological Studies 20 (1981/2) 7-15.
[Wills and P.I.s. Caernarfonshire, 17th century. Overview, caveats,
statistical approaches.]
WALES
"A Study of Caernarfonshire Probate Records, 1630-1690."
M.A. thesis, University of Wales, 1972.
WILLIAMS, H. Fulfird
"Will of John Cole, 1532."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 29 (1962-4) 69-70.
[Will extracted from. London, 1532. Royal chaplain.]
WILLIAMS, I.L.
"An Isle of Wight Community in the Seventeenth Century: The evidence
from probate inventories."
The Hatcher Review 4 (1992) 10-29.
[P.I.s, 109 used. Isle of Wight, 1660-1699. Social and economic
history.]
WILLIAMS, J. Anthony
Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire 1660-1791.
Newport (Eng.): Catholic Record Society, 1968.
[Wills used. See Chapter 6, "The Catholic Society of Wiltshire." Social
history.]
WILLIAMS, John F.
"Some Norfolk Churches and their Old-time Benefactors."
Norfolk Archaeology 27 (1941) 333-344.
[Wills, "some 300" studied and some extracted from. Norfolk, 15th and
16th centuries. Religious bequests.]
WILLIAMS,
M.I.
WALES
"A General View of Glamorgan Houses and their Interiors in the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries."
Glamorgan Historian 10 (1974) 157-176.
[P.I., one used anecdotally. Glamorgan, 17th century.]
WILLIGAN, J. Dennis, and Katherine A. LYNCH
Sources and Methods of Historical Demography.
New York: Academic Press, 1982.
[See pp. 142-149 on use of wills, especially in secondary studies.]
WILLIS, Arthur J.
Wills, Administrations and Inventories with Winchester Diocesan
Records.
Self-published, 1968.
[Document index, with relations listed. Genealogical.]
WILSHERE, Jonathan
Braunstone Probate Inventories, 1532-1778.
Leicester: Leicester Research Department of Chamberlain Music and
Books, 1983.
[P.I.s, 48 printed with glossary. Braunstone, 1532-1778.]
Evington Probate Inventories, 1557-1819.
Leicester: Leicester Research Services, 1982.
Glenfield Probate Inventories, 1542-1831.
Leicester: Leicester Research Services, 1983.
[PIs, 51 printed. Short glossary, no discussion. Husbandmen, widows,
weaver,
yeoman.]
Great Stretton: History, parish registers, probate inventories
1585-1837.
Self published, 1984.
[P.I.s, 12 printed, glossary. Great Stretton, 1541-1706.]
Kirby Muxloe Probate Inventories, 1547-1783.
Leicester: Leicester Research Services, 1983.
[PIs, 46 printed. Leicestershire. Glossary and short intro.]
Ratby Probate Inventories, 1621-1844.
Leicester: Leicester Research Services, 1984.
WILSON, Edward
"Testament of the Buck and the Sociology of the Text."
Review of English Studies n.s. 45 (1994) 157-184.
[Traces history of literary wills from Langland to c.1565.]
WILSON, J.H.
Wymondham Inventories 1590-1641.
Norwich: Center for East Anglian Studies, 1983.
[P.I.s, 22 printed; organized by class, glossary. Wymondham, 1590-1641.]
WILSON, John
"Mangotsfield Wills."
Journal of the Bristol and Avon Family History Society 2 (1975)
8;
3 (1976) 24; 7 (1977) 22.
[List of wills proved in Bristol Diocese Court, 1593-1671.]
WILSON, Keith
"The Will and Inventory of James II."
The Historian 7 (1985) 16A-16D.
[Will printed and facsimile of P.I. James II, 1703. Royalty.]
WILSON, Rowland Alwyn
The Register of Walter Reynolds Bishop of Worcester 1308- 1313.
London: The Dugdale Society, 1928.
[Wills, 2 printed, indexed. Berewye (1310), London (1311). Canon,
knight.]
WILSON, Thomas L.
"Domestic Economy at Upminster Three Centuries Ago."
Essex Review 15 (1906) 67-69.
[P.I. printed. Upminster, 1626.]
WINDEATT, Edward
"Legge, Robert of Grete Totton, Devon."
Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries 9 (1917) 202-203.
[Will extracted from. Grete Totton, 1508 (proved). Bequest for bell.]
WINTON
"An Old Inventory"
Hampshire Notes and Queries 5 (1890) 13-14.
[P.I. Printed with glossary. Kings Worthy, 1636. Yeoman.]
WISE, Charles
Rockingham Castle and the Watsons.
London: Elliot Stock, 1891.
[Wills, 2 and P.I.s, 2 printed. Stoke and Dry Stoke, 1600-1658.
Gentry.]
WOOD, Herbert Maxwell
Wills and Inventories form the Registry at Durham.
Surtees Society #142 (1929).
[Wills, 256 printed, many with P.I.s. Durham and region, 1603-1649.]
WOOD, R.A.
"A Fourteenth-century London Owner of Piers Plowman."
Medium Aevum 53 (1984) 83-90.
[Will printed with translation. London, 1400. Books.]
WOOD, William
The History and Antiquities of Eyam.
Sheffield: L&A Wilkinson, 1903.
[Will and PI of Rowland Mower printed. Eyam, 1666. Cooper.]
WOOD-LEGH, Kathleen L.
Perpetual Chantries in Britain.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965.
[Wills used sparingly and anecdotally.]
WOODMAN, A. Vere
"The Goods of a Sixteenth-century Parson."
Records of Buckinghamshire 15 (1952) 311-313.
[P.I. printed. Buchinghamshire, 1521. Clergy.]
"Seventeenth-century Inventory at Crafton."
Records of Buckinghamshire 14 (1946) 354-360.
[P.I. and will abstract printed. Crafton, 1680. Gentry.]
WOODRUFF, C. Eveleigh
"Some Early Kentish Wills."
Archaeologia Cantiana 46 (1935) 27-35.
[Wills, 4 printed. Kent, 1278, 1349, 1361, 1441.]
"The Will of Peter de Aquablanca, Bishop of Hereford (1268)."
Camden Miscellany 3rd ser. #14 (1926); v-xi, 1-13.
[Will printed. Savoyard bishop of Hereford, 1278.]
WOODRUFF, Charles E.
Sede Vancantes Wills.
Canterbury: Cross and Jackman, 1914.
[Wills, 16 printed, from Aetheric (997) to Edward Storey of Chichester
(1503). Clergy.]
WOODWARD, D.M.
"The Chester Leather Industry, 1558-1625."
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
119 (1968) 65-111.
[Wills and P.I.s used. Chester, 1558-1625. Leatherworkers, debt,
wealth, tools, stock; other interests e.g. cattle, farming.]
"Wage Rates and Living Standards in Pre-industrial England."
Past and Present 91 (1981) 28-46.
[P.I.s studied (previously published). Building craftsmen, c.1550-1736.
Economic history.]
WORTHY, Charles
Devonshire Wills: a collection of anotated testamentary abstracts....
London: Bemrose and Sons, 1896.
[Wills, abstracts and P.I.s, 309 pages. Numerous sources including PCC,
Dean and Chapter at Exeter. 1537-early 19th century.]
"The Will of Henry Marwood."
Western Antiquary 9:5 (1889) 77-78.
[Will printed. Halberton, 1547. Lawyer.]
WRIGHT, H.G.
"Will of Francis Hall, Comptroller of Calais."
In his The Life and Works of Arthur Hall of Grantham, New York:
Longmans, Green and Co., 1919.
[Will printed. 1551.]
WRIGHT, J. Robert
"The Testament or Last Will of Archbishop Walter Reynolds of
Canterbury, 1327."
Medieval Studies 47 (1985) 445-473.
[Will printed and annotated. Canterbury, 1327. Clergy.]
WRIGHT, Susan
The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century.
Derbyshire Record Society #8 (1983).
[Will making discussed. See pp. 51-59, "Family, Household and Social
Relationships."]
WRIGHTSON, Keith
"Kinship in Terling, Essex 1550-1700."
In Land, Kinship and Life-style, Richard M. Smith ed., New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1984; 313-332.
[Inheritance and kinship; executors who are kin.]
WRIGHTSON, Keith and LEVINE, David
"Death in Whickham."
In Famine, Disease and the Social Order in Early Modern Society,
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989; 129-165.
[Wills used anecdotally (see pp. 157-165).]
Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700.
New York: Academic Press, 1979.
[Wills, 192 used. Terling, 1525-1700. Reconstruction of village piety
and social history.]
WUNDERLI, Richard M.
London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the Reformation.
Cambridge, Mass.: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1981.
[Probate jurisdiction and practice; see pp. 113-118.]
WYNNE, W. Watkin
E.
WALES
"Inventory of the Goods of Ievan ap Kenric Vaughan, dated A.D. 1363 ...
to which is appended his will."
Archaeological Journal 22 (1865) 267-272.
[Intervivos inv. and will printed. Gentleman, 1363.]
XYZ
WALES
"Thomas Edwards, L.L.D."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and Field
Club
35 (1934) 36.
[Will abstracted. London, 1683. Lawyer.]
"Thomas Harriott's Will."
WALES
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and Field
Club
35 (1934) 62-63.
Will discussed. Mathematician, astronomer. Year? London.]
"The Will of Constance Rudd."
WALES
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and
Field
Club 34 (1933) 76.
[Will abstracted. Aberglasney, 1672. Spinster.]
"Will of Rees Owens, of Myddfai. 1647."
WALES
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and Field
Club
37 (1937) 66.
[Will abstracted. Brother of Morgan Owen. 1645.Mothvey, Wales.]
"Will of Sir Rhys ap Thomas, K.G."
WALES
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and Field
Club
33 (1932) 82.
[Will printed. 1525, Carmarthen. Noble.]
WALES
"Will of William Thomas, Bishop of St. David's, 1677-83; Bp. of
Worcester,
1683-89."
Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Archaeological Society and Field
Club
33 (1932) 82-83.
[Will outlined. Worcester, 1688. Clergy.]
YATES, John
"Will of John Yates, 1657."
East Anglian Miscellany (1934) 18-19, 23-24.
[Will printed. Great Yarmouth, 1657. Physician.]
YAXLEY, David
The Prior's Manor-houses: Inventories of eleven of the manors of the
prior of Norwich made in the year AD 1352. Dereham: Larks Press,
1988.
YELLING, James A.
"Changes in Crop Production in East Worcestershire, 1540-1867."
Agricultural History Review 21 (1973) 18-34.
[Part 2 of following article: ]
"The Combination and Rotation of Crops in East Worcestershire,
1540-1660."
Agricultural History Review 17 (1969) 24-43.
[P.I.s used. East Worcestershire, 1540-1660. Agricultural history; see
previous entry.]
Common Field and Enclosure in England, 1450-1850.
Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1977.
[P.I.s, 2,200 studied. 1550-1739. Agricultural history; balance of
crops and livestock, herd sizes.]
"The Great Age of Yeoman Famers."
In Man Made the Land, A.R.H. Baker and J.B. Harley eds.,
Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1973; 118-126.
[P.I.s used anecdotally. 16th and 17th centuries. Agricultural
history.]
"Probate Inventories and the Geography of Livestock Farming: A study
of East Worcestershire 1540-1750."
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 51 (1970)
111-126.
[P.I.s studied. East Worcestershire, 1540-1750. Rural history,
livestock raising.]
YENTSCH, Anne
Elizabeth
COLONIAL
"Expressions of Cultural Diversity and Social Reality in
Seventeenth-century New England."
Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1980.
[P.I.s used. Watertown, Rowley, Sciutate, Weymouth, Maine, 17th
century. Material culture, customary behavior and procedures attending
testamentary practice.]
YONGER,
Thomas
COLONIAL
"Will of William Sherwood, of Jamestown."
William and Mary Quarterly 13 (1904) 138-139.
[Will abstracted. Jamestown, 1697. Planter.]
YOUNG, H.W.
SCOTLAND
"Notice of the Testament Dative of Sir Peter Young, knt., of Seaton,
dated 1628."
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 23 (1889)
262-269.
[P.I. and will printed. 1628. Former tutor of James VI.]
YOUNG, William
The History of Dulwich College.
London: T.P. Bumpus, 1889.
[Will printed. Edward Alleyn of Surrey. 1626. With statutes of his
foundation.
Theater entrepreneur.]
ZELL, Michael L.
"Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Wills as Historical Sources."
Archives 14 (1979) 67-74.
[Wills discussed as sources.]
"Fisher's Flu and Moore's Probates: Quantifying the mortality crisis
of 1556-1560."
Economic History Review 47 (1994) 354-358.
[Criticizes John S. Moore's work on demographic drop in later 1550s;
demographic/methodological.]
Industry in the Countryside: Wealden society in the sixteenth
century.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
[Wills and P.I.s used extensively and statistically. Material culture
and social history.]
"The Social Parameters of Probate Records in the Sixteenth Century."
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 57 (1984)
107-113.
[P.I.s (78) and wills (45) used. Staplehurst, 1566-1601. Role of social
status in probate recordings and proceedings.]
"The Use of Religious Preambles as a Measure of Religious Belief in
the Sixteenth Century."
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 50 (1977)
246-249.
[Wills, 69 used. Kent, 1535-1565. Religious preambles need to be
correlated with material in body of will.]
"Wealth, Trades and Agriculture in the Elizabethan Weald."
In Studies in Modern Kentish History, Alec Detsicas and Nigel
Yates eds., Maidstone: Kent Archaeological Society, 1983, 1983; 203 ff.
[P.I.s, 1,500 studied. Kent, 2nd half of 16th century. Social,
agricultural and economic history.]
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