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• Ancestry Court, Land, Wills & Financial Records      (Source: Find your ancestors today with a FREE 14 day trial to Ancestry.co.uk - Click here!)     ($)
• And an appendix of Lancashire and Cheshire wills and inventories proved at York of Richmond 1542-1649      (Source: Google Books)
• Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury: Sandhurst wills at the Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone  List of 243 wills from Sandhurst, Kent, 1449-1712; now available by paid subscription only     ($)
• British Record Society volumes in work, and longer-term prospects      (Source: British Record Society)
• The Buxton Papers, Cambridge University Library  Index of wills among the papers of the Buxton family of Norfolk; 15th century and later
• Fifty earliest English wills in the Court of Probate, London: A. D. 1387-1439, and one priest's of 1454  Searchable text, from F.J. Furnivall's edition of 1882 (reprinted 1964) Early English Text Society, Original Series, vol. 78
• Index of Testators in Testamenta Vetusta, collection of 807 wills from the late 12th to 16th centuries 
• List of wills in the Buxton Papers 
• Medieval & Tudor Kent PCC & CCC Wills, indexed in name and place order      (Source: Kent Archaeological Society)
• More about Testamenta Vetusta 
• Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858 - Images of registered wills available as pay-per-view, with a free index  The PCC was the highest probate court in England, and most of those with higher social status tended to have their wills proved there     (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
• Recent Indexes to English and Scottish Probate Records 
• Testamenta Vetusta, volume 1 (1826): a collection of 807 wills from the late 12th to 16th centuries      (Source: Google Books)
• Testamenta Vetusta, volume 2 (1826): a collection of 807 wills from the late 12th to 16th centuries      (Source: Google Books)
• Transcript of William Shakespeare's will, 1616      (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
• William Shakespeare's will, 1616  Image, in PDF format (659KB); transcript also available     (Source: The National Archives (England and Wales))
• Wills and inventories illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, &c., of the northern counties of England, from the eleventh century  Transcripts, some in Latin, from the 11th century to 1581, mainly from the Durham diocesan registry
• Wills and inventories illustrative of the history, manners, language, statistics, etc., of the northern counties of England, 11th century-1581  Mainly from the Durham diocesan registry. 30 MB PDF file

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