Download or read book Index of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1558, Vol. 2 written by J. Challenor C. Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Index of Wills Proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1383-1558, Vol. 2: And Now Preserved in the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House, London A few words must be added in qualification of some of the statements made in the Introduction to Vol. I. In the first place the compiler of this Index is no longer officially occupied in antiquarian work, and he is therefore unable to carry out the intention to which allusion is made in Vol. I, p. Xxvii, note Should, however, the Society hereafter take in hand an Index to Grants of Administration, the ms. Referred to in the note will of course be dealt with. Again, it is necessary to supplement the paragraph (p. Xxix) which relates to Inventories. A small ms. Volume which had probably been hidden for the last twenty years has come to light, and forms an index to inventories brought in to the Prerogative Court of Canterbury between January Ist, 1522 and December, 1557. Inasmuch as the administration-act books referring to that period are lost, it follows that this ms. Supplies the names - not otherwise recorded - of some hundreds of intestates. In compiling, at any future time, an index to early Administration grants, these names would have to be in cluded similarly to those mentioned in the preceding paragraph. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.