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When death do us part : understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England / edited by Tom Arkell, Nesta Evans and Nigel Goose.

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When death do us part : understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England / edited by Tom Arkell, Nesta Evans and Nigel Goose.
Publication
Oxford : Leopard's Head Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Arkell, Tom
  • Evans, Nesta
  • Goose, Nigel
  • Arkell, Tom.
  • Evans, Nesta.
  • Goose, Nigel.
Description
xii, 422 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Archives > history
  • Records > history
  • Probate records > England
  • Records > History
  • Wills > history
  • England > Genealogy > Sources
  • England > Genealogy > Methodology
  • England > History, Local
  • England
  • England > Sources
Genre/Form
  • Local history
  • Local history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The probate process / Tom Arkell -- Probate 1500-1800: a system in transition / Jeff and Nancy Cox -- Wills as an historical source / Nigel Goose and Nesta Evans -- Interpreting probate inventories / Tom Arkell -- Using probate accounts / Amy Erickson -- Prices from probate inventories / Mark Overton -- Religious preambles and the scribes of villagers' wills in Cambridgeshire, 1570-1700 / Margaret Spufford -- Attitudes to will-making in early modern England / Christopher Marsh -- Occupations and status of male testators in Cambridgeshire, 1551-1750 / Nesta Evans -- Fertility and mortality in pre-industrial English towns from probate and parish register evidence / Nigel Goose -- Long-term rural credit in sixteenth- and seventeenth- century England: the evidence of probate accounts / Peter Spufford -- Understanding probate accounts and their generation in the post-restoration Diocese of Lichfield and Coventry to 1700 / Ann Tarver -- The language of probate inventories / Edmund Weiner -- The wooden horse in the cellar: words and contexts in Shropshire probate inventories / Barrie Trinder -- Merchants and retailers in seventeenth-century Cornwall / Christine North -- Widows of the 'middling sort' and their assets in two seventeenth-century towns / Mary Hodges -- Beyond the probate line: probate evidence and related sources in early modern Yorkshire / Bernard Jennings.
ISBN
0904920429
OCLC
46476776
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library