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• Sheffield and Rotherham from the 12th to the 18th century. A descriptive catalogue of miscellaneous charters and other documents relating to the districts of Sheffield and Rotherham with abstracts of Sheffield wills, proved at York from 1554 to 1560 and 315 genealogies deduced therefrom (J. W. Northend, 1916), by T. Walter Hall, Eng Rotherham, and Sheffield (England) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sheffield, 1297 to 1554. A catalogue of the ancient characters belonging to the Twelve capital burgesses & commonalty of the town and parish of Sheffield, usually known as the Church burgesses, with abstracts of all Sheffield wills proved at York prior to 1554 ... (J.W. Northend, 1913), by Sheffield (England) and Thomas Walter Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Descriptive catalogue of charters, copy court rolls and deeds, forming part of the Wheat collection at the Public reference library, Sheffield, also others from private collections with abstracts of Sheffield wills proved at York from 1560 to 1566 and 285 genealogies deduced therefrom: (J. W. Northend, ltd., 1920), by Sheffield (England). Free Public Libraries and Museum and T. Walter Hall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• The descendants of John Backhouse, yeoman, of Moss Side, near Yealand Redman, Lancashire (Priv. print. at the Chiswick press, 1894), by Joseph Foster, William Farrer, and Church of England. Archdeaconry of Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wills of their own, curious, eccentric, and benevolent (W. Tegg & co., 1876), by William Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Lincoln wills. An abstract of all the wills & administrations recorded in the Episcopal registers of the old diocese of Lincoln, comprising the counties of Lincoln, Rutland, Northampton, Huntington, Bedford, Buckingham, Oxford, Leicester, and Hertford, 1280-1547. (J. Williamson, printer, 1888), by Church of England. Diocese of Lincoln and Alfred W. Gibbons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The will of a certain northern vicar (The Author, 1765), by William Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wills of their own, curious, eccentric, and benevolent (W. Tegg & co., 1879), by William Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendars of wills & administrations in the Consistory court of the bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, 1516-1652 : also those in the "Peculiars" now deposited in the probate registries at Lichfield, Birmingham and Derby, 1529-1652; 1675-1790; 1753-1790 (British Record Society, 1892), by Church of England. Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. Consistory Court and W. P. W. Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Donne's Last will and testament, July 21, 1657 ([London : s.n.], February 23, 1662), by John Donne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The orphans legacy, or, A testamentary abridgement in three parts ... : wherein the most material points of law, relating to that subject, are succinctly treated, as well according to the common and temporal, as ecclesiastical and civil laws of this realm : illustrated with great variety of select cases in the law of both professions, as well delightful in the theorie, as usefull for the practice of all such as study the one, or are either active or passive in the other / John Godolphin. (London : Printed by E.T. and R.H. and are to be sold by Joseph Nevill ..., and Christopher Wilkinson ..., 1674), by John Godolphin (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The office and dutie of execvtors, or, A treatise of wils and executors, directed to testators in the choise of their executors and contrivance of their wills with direction for executors in the execution of their office, according to the law, and for creditors in the recovery of their debts : expressing the duty, right, interest, power and authority of executors, and how they may behave themselves in the office of executorship : with divers other particulars very usefull, profitable, and behovefull for all persons, be they either executors, creditors or debtors : compiled out of the body of the common-law, with mention of such statutes as are incident hereunto. (London : Printed by T. C. for Andrew Crooke, Laurence Chapman, William Cooke, and Richard Best, 1641), by Thomas Wentworth and John Doddridge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A true copy of a popish vvill made in the xixth. year of King Henry the Eighth, &c.: The original whereof, with the probate, may be seen at the sign of the Bull in the Mint, Southwark, in the custody of Mr. Merrial; and published onely to set forth the ignorance of the papists. ([London : s.n., 1680]), by Thomas Cony (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An ordinance for the reviving of an act of Parliament,: entituled, An act for probate of wills, and granting administrations. Saturday the 24. of December 1653. Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, that this ordinance be forthwith printed and published. Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council. (London : Printed by Hen. Hills, Printer to His Highness the Lord Protector, MDCLIII. [1653]), by England and Wales. Lord Protector (1653-1658 : O. Cromwell) and England and Wales. Council of State (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Wills, registers and monumental inscriptions of the parish of Barwick-in-Elmet, Co. York. (Priv. print. for subscribers, 1908), by Eng. Barwick in Elmet and George Denison Lumb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Wills and administrations, archdeaconry of Berks, 1508 to 1652 (For the British record society, 1893), by Berkshire (England). (Archdeaconry), W. P. W. Phillimore, British Record Society, and England) Oxford Historical Society (Oxford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index to wills proved and administrations granted in the court of the archdeacon of Berks, 1508 to . (For the British record society, limited, 1893), by Berkshire (England), Jasmine S. Howse, and W. P. W. Phillimore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A calendar of wills proved in the Consistory court (city and deanery of Bristol division) of the bishop of Bristol, 1572-1792. And also a calendar of wills in the Great orphan books preserved in the Council house, Bristol, 1379-1674. (British record Society, 1897), by England Bristol and Edw. Alex. Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes or abstracts of the wills contained in the volume entitled the Great orphan book and Book of wills, in the council house at Bristol. (Bristol and Gloucestershire Society, 1886), by Thomas Procter Wadley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bury wills and inventories (Printed for the Camden society, 1850), by Samuel Tymms, Camden Society (Great Britain), Church of England. Archdeaconry of Sudbury, and Bury Saint Edmunds (England). Commissary Court (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calendar of wills proved in Vice-chancellor's court at Cambridge, 1501-1765 ... (Cambridge, 1907), by University of Cambridge. Vice-chancellor's court (page images at HathiTrust)

• Abstracts of Probates and Sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1620-24 (1911), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court, ed. by John Matthews and George F. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Index of wills and administrations now preserved in the Probate registry at Canterbury ... (The British record society, limited, 1920), by Eng. Canterbury, C. Harold Ridge, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogical abstracts of wills, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury.: Register "Wootton" 1658. (Printed for the author by J. Laycock and sons, 1894), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court and William Brigg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sede vacante wills: a calendar of wills proved before the Commissary of the Prior and Chapter of Christ Church, Canterbury. During vacancies in the primacy, with an appendix containing transcripts of archiepiscopal and other wills of importance. (Printed for the Records Branch by Cross & Jackman, 1914), by C. Eveleigh Woodruff and Irene Josephine Churchill (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "Year books of probates" from 1630. Abstracts of probate acts in the Prerogative court of Canterbury. (London, 1902), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court and John Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wayman wills and administrations preserved in the Prerogative court of Canterbury, 1383-1821 (W. Gandy, 1922), by J. Harvey Bloom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentences and complete index nominum (probates and sentences) for the years 1630-1639. (London, 1907), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court, George Frederick Matthews, and John Matthews (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Genealogical abstracts of wills, proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Register "Wootton" 1658. vol. I- . (Printed for the author by J. Laycock and sons, 1894), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court and William Brigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Administrations in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1559-[1580] ... (Pollard, 1912), by Church of England Province of Canterbury Prerogative Court, Beric Lloyd, and James Reginald Morshead Glencross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genealogical abstracts of Parry wills, proved in the Prerogative court of Canterbury down to 1810 with the administrations for the same period (G. Sherwood, 1911), by Gilbert Sidney Parry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Testamenta karleolensia. The series of wills from the præ-reformation registers of the bishops of Carlisle. 1353-1386. (T. Wilson; [etc., etc.], 1893), by England Carlisle and Richard Saul Ferguson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories : from the ecclesiastical court, Chester (Printed for the Chetham Society, 1857), by Church of England. Diocese of Chester and George John Piccope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories at Chester, with an appendix of abstracts of wills now lost or destroyed (Printed for the Chetham society, 1884), by Church of England. Diocese of Chester, J. P. Earwaker, and George John Piccope (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories, 1563 to 1807, now preserved at Chester (Printed for the Chetham society, 1897), by Chester (England). (Diocese), J. P. Earwaker, and J. Paul Rylands (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories, 1572 to 1696, now preserved at Chester. With an appendix of Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories proved at York or Richmond, 1542 to 1649 (Printed for the Chetham society, 1893), by Eng. Chester, J. P. Earwaker, Church of England. Archdeaconry of Richmond, and Church of England. Province of York (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of Lancashire and Cheshire wills not now to be found in any probate registry. 1301-1752. (Printed for the Record Society, 1896), by Church of England. Diocese of Chester and William Fergusson Irvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Court of probate, at Chester. (Printed for the Record Society, 1879), by Church of England. Diocese of Chester, J. P. Earwaker, Chester (England). Probate court, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Probate Registry, at Chester. (Printed for the Record Society, 1898), by Chester (England). Probate Registry and Wm. Fergusson Irvine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An index to the wills and administrations (including the "infra" wills) now preserved in the Probate Registry at Chester, for the years 1801-1810, both inclusive. (Printed for the Record Society, 1911), by Chester (England). Probate Registry and Ronald Stewart-Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index to the wills and inventories now preserved in the Probate registry, at Chester (Printed for the Record society, 1898), by England. Probate registry Chester and William Fergusson Irvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index of the wills, inventories, administration bonds, and depositions in testamentary suits, now preserved at the diocesan registry, Chester, from 1487 to 1620 inclusive. (Printed for the Record Society, 1896), by Eng. Chester and William Ferguson Irvine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An index to the wills and administrations (including the "infra" wills) now preserved in the Probate registry at Chester : for the years 1811-1820, both inclusive (1928), by Chester (England). Probate Registry and William Asheton Tonge (page images at HathiTrust)

• An index to the wills and administrations (including the "infra" wills) now preserved in the Probate Registry at Chester, for the years 1811-1820, both inclusive. (Printed for the Record Society of Lancashire and Chester, 1928), by Chester (England). Probate Registry and William Asheton Tonge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calendar of wills in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Chichester. 1482-1800. (Issued to the subscribers by the British Record Society, limited, 1915), by Church of England. Diocese of Chichester. Consistory court and Edw. Alex. Fry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the court of the principal registry of the bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799. And of Devon only, proved in the court of the archdeacontry of Exeter, 1540-1799. All now preserved in the Probate Registry at Exeter (William Brendon & Son Ltd., 1908), by Literature and Art Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Edw. Alex. Fry, Church of England. Archdeaconry of Exeter. Court, and Exeter (England). District Probate Registry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532-1800, now in the Probate registry at Exeter. (Issued to subscribers by the British record society, limited, 1914), by England District probate registry Exeter, Josephine Streate Moir, Edw. Alex. Fry, and Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Consistory Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the Court of the Principal registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799. And of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799. All now in the Probate registry at Exeter. (Issued to subscribers by the British record society, limited, 1908), by England District probate registry Exeter, Edw. Alex. Fry, Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Consistory Court, and Church of England. Diocese of Exeter. Principal Registry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall ... (Plymouth, 1908), by Exeter (England). District Probate Registry and Edw. Alex. Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall proved in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532-1800 : now preserved in the Probate registry at Exeter (Issued to the subscribers by the British record society, limited, 1914), by Exeter (England). District probate registry, Josephine Streate Moir, Edw. Alex. Fry, and Eng. Exeter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the Court of the Principal Registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799. And of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799. (W. Brendon & Son, 1908), by Exeter (England). District Probate Registry, Edw. Alex. Fry, Literature and Art Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Eng. Exeter, and Eng. Exeter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall, proved in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532-1800, now preserved in the Probate Registry at Exeter. (W. Brendon, 1914), by Exeter (England). District Probate Registry, Edw. Alex. Fry, Literature and Art Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, and Eng. Exeter (page images at HathiTrust)

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