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Excerpt from Index of Wills and Administrations Now Preserved in the Probate Registry at Canterbury: 1396-1558 and 1640-1650
The second find was that of a number Of Office copies of wills, tied up in bundles, in a corner of the strong room. In some cases these had not been entered in the registers, while In others they differed in the wording from the copy in the register, although there is little doubt that the procedure usually followed was to enter the will in the register from the Office copy, as it was customary to hand the original will back to the executors. These Office copies were arranged and numbered and have been included amongst the references in this volume.
In going through the Act Books many Unfinished entries relating to wills were noticed. They appeared to be in the nature Of memoranda, and generally consisted Of the name of the testator and of the executor or executors. Possibly the wills were never proved or for some reason were not admitted, hence the unfinished entry but I thought it right that they should go into the Index, as the information they give. Might furnish the genealogist with a long-wanted Clue.
A Calendar of the Wills 'and Administrations at Canterbury, 1640-1650, hitherto unindexed, even in ms., having also been compiled, it was decided to print it at the end of the present volume, as its bulk scarcely justified its occupation Of a volume to itself, and many years are likely to elapse ere that period is reached were it reserved for printing in its proper chronological position. An Introduction to that portion will be found to preface it.
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