The Preservation of Parish Registers, by
T. P. Taswell-Langmead.
Parish Registers, by the Rev. F. Procter,
of Wilton.

Observations on Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials, as preserved in Parochial Registers, with sundry Specimens of the Entries of Marriages, Baptisms, &c., in Foreign Countries. Interspersed with divers Remarks concerning proper Methods necessary to preserve a

Remembrance of the several Branches of Families, &c., by Ralph Bigland. Lond. 1764, 4o. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the State, Custody, and Authenticity of Registers or Records. of Births or Baptisms, Deaths or Burials, and Marriages in England and Wales, other than the Parochial Registers. Lond. 1838, fol. Parish Registers and Chapelry Registers extant in the year 1831. 6 vols. folio.

Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 9555-9560. Printed Parish Registers, by Geo. W. Marshall. See The Genealogist. New Series, vol. 2. Lond. 1885, 8°.

A large number of Baptismal and other Registers, prior to the Registration Act of 1837, has been deposited in the Registrar General's Office, Somerset House, London, where information respecting them may be obtained, and search allowed on payment of a small fee. Lists of Non-Parochial Registers and Records in the Custody of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. Lond. 1859, fol. Registrum Ecclesiæ Parochialis.

The

History of Parish Registers in England, also of Scotland, Ireland, the East and West Indies, foreign countries, Dissenters, the Fleet, Kings Bench, Mint, Chapel Royal, etc., by John Southerden Burn. Lond. 1829, 8". Second edition, 1862. The Fleet Registers, including May Fair, the Mint, Chapel Royal, St. James, Savoy, and Kings Bench, are deposited in the Office of the Registrar General, Somerset House, London. They consist of 239 volumes and about 1000 pamphlets or pocket-books, dating from 1682 to 1754, only a few of them are indexed,

The Fleet Registers; comprising the history of Fleet Marriages and some account of the Parsons and marriagehouse keepers; with extracts from the Registers; to which are added notices of the May Fair, Mint, and Savoy Chapels, by J. S. Burn. Lond. 1833, 89. Second edition, 1834, 8". Registers of Births kept by various Dissenting Ministers and deposited in Dr. Williams's Library, are now deposited in the Office of the RegistrarGeneral, Somerset House, London. These registers date from 1730 to 1805. Births, Deaths, and Marriages. The Registrar's Kalendar and Compendium, by Chas. A. Cocke. Lond. 1852, single sheet.

A Summary of the Population, with a statistical chart of the marriages, births and deaths from 1839, by Chas. A. Cocke. Lond. 1852. Two sheets. Parish Registers, reprinted from the Home and Foreign Reviews, by R. Edm. Chester Waters. London, 1870, 8°. Printed for private circulation. Parish Registers in England: Their History and Contents. With Suggestions for securing their better Custody and Preservation, by Robert Edmond Chester Waters. Α new edition, rewritten throughout and enlarged. Lond. 1883, 12o.

The Register of Baptisms, Marriages, Admissions, into the Confraternity of the Rosary, etc., kept by the Rev. Fr. James Dominic Darbyshire O. P. Roman Catholic Chaplain at Standish Hall, in Lanc., Gifford Hall, in Suff., and Ugbrooke Park, Devon, from 1727 to 1755. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 32,632. Extracts from Registers of Abbeys, and other Records, concerning Pedigrees, with Drawings of Seals, in 1598, 1611, and 1691, by Ralph Brooke. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 4757. A duplicate of a MS. in the Heralds' College. Register of marriages and deaths of acquaintances and persons of rank, by Robert Dalrymple, 1805-1820. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 22,151.

Chronicon Mirabile: Extracts from Parish Registers, principally in the North of England, by Sir C. Sharpe. Sunderland, 1825, 8°.

Extracts from parish and other registers, pedigrees, etc., collected by Joseph Hunter in various parts of England, but chiefly in Yorkshire and the neighbouring counties, 1802-1859. Thirtyseven volumes. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 24,568—24,604.

Extracts from Parish Registers, by Reginald Stewart Boddington. Lond. 1879, 42. Privately printed.

The Nonconformist Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1644-1702,

1702-1752, compiled by the Revs. O. Heywood and T. Dickenson, generally known as the Northowram or Coley Register, of Puritans and Anti-Puritans in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, London, etc. Edited by J. Horsfall Turner. Brighouse, 1881, 8".

Official List of the Registrar-General of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, to 1st Jan. 1881.

Catalogue of Wills among the MSS. in the British Museum, by J. Bruce, 19th cent. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 28,201, B. Munimenta antiqua. Index to Letters of Administration. Edited by Fred. A. Crisp. Lond. 1888, &c. fol.

A collection of concise precedents of Wills, by Chas. Weaver. Lond. 1882, So.

Copies of Wills of various persons, 1499 -1693. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 31,151. The last Will and Testament of Alfred the Great. Brit. Mus. Stowe MS. 296. Royal Wills, and other matters relating to Heraldry, &c. Brit. Mus. Stowe MS. 429.

A collection of all the Wills, now known to be extant, of the Kings and Queens of England, etc., from William the Conquerer to Henry the Seventh, by John Nichols. Lond. 1780. 4o. Collection of Wills of the 16th and 17th centuries, 3 vols. Brit. Mus. Stowe MSS. 294.

Testamenta Vetusta: being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, &c., as well as of the Descents and Possessions of many Distinguished Families, from the reign of Henry II. to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth, by Nicholas Harris Nicolas. 2 vols. Lond. 1826, 8°.

Extracts from Wills, etc. in support of English Pedigrees of the 15th and 16th centuries. Brit. Mus. Stowe MS. 430.

Abstracts of Wills recorded in the Registry of the University of Cambridge, from 1500-1590. Brit. Mus. Harl. MSS. 7030, f. 307; 7033, f. 200. Abstracts of Wills proved in the Registry of the Bishop of Ely, at Cambridge, from 1478-1551. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 7043, ff. 153-177, 265. Extracts from the Registers of Wills in the Diocese of Ely. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 5861.

Copies of Cheshire Wills. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 1991.

Wills copied from the "Great Register Book," in the Will Office within the Abbey Court of the City of Chester. 1520 to 1660. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 2067.

An Index to the Wills and Inventories now preserved in The Court of Probate at Chester, from A.D. 1621 to 1650. With two appendices, of Lanc. Ches. Will and Administrations, from 1650 to 1660, by J. P. Earwaker. Record Society, 1881. 8°.

An Index to the Wills and Inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester, from AD. 1660 to 1680.

Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories. Chetham Society, vols. 33, 51, 51. Manchester, 1853-60. 4o. Wills and Inventories relating to Cumberland, etc. Edited by James Raine. Surtees Society. Durham, 1853, 8°. Notes on the Wills in the Great Orphan Book and Book of Wills in the Council House at Bristol, by the Rev. T. P. Wadley. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaological Society. Bristol, 1812,

8.

Index of Wills at Gloucester, by Sir Thomas Phillips. Privately printed. Early Kentish Wills. By James Greenstreet. Lond. 1857, 8°. See also Archæologia Cantiana, XI.

Extracts from the Registers of Wills in the Diocese of Canterbury, temp. Hen. VII.—1731. 4 vols. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 32,660-32,663.

Abstracts and copies of Wills in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 18th cent. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 24,583; 25,467.

Kentish Administration Grants A.D.
1559-1603. Epitomized by Leland L.
Duncan. Kent Archæological Society.
Lancashire Wills and Inventories.
Chetham Society, vols. 33, 51, 54.
Manchester, 1853–60, 4o.
Wills and Inventories relating to
Lancashire, etc. Edited by James
Raine. Surtees Society. Durham, 1853,

89.

A List of the Lancashire Wills proved within the Archdeaconry of Richmond and now preserved in Somerset House, London, from A.D. 1457 to 1748 and of Abstracts of Lancashire Wills belonging to the same Archdeaconry, from A.D. 1531 to 1652. Edited by Lieut.-Col. Henry Fishwick for the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society. Vols. 10, 13. Manchester 1881, 86, 8°.

An Abstract of all the Wills and Administrations recorded in the Episcopal Registers of the Old Diocese of Lincoln, 1280-1547, by Alfred Gibbons. Privately printed, 1888, 8°.

the Court of Husting, A D. 1258 to A.D. 1688. Preserved among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall. Edited by Reginald R. Sharpe. Part I. A.D. 1258 to A.D. 1358. Printed by the Corporation, 1889, 8°. In progress. Notes out of Wills in the Prerogative Office. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 6148, ff. 12, 17, 63, 100, 123, 138, 144. Extracta ex Testamentis in Prærogat. Officio. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 972, f. 110.

Abstracts of various Wills from the Registry in Doctors' Commons. Brit. Mus. Lans. MS. 938.

Collections out of the Wills in the Prerogative Office. Ashm. Lib. Wood MS. 8584.

Collectanea quædam ex Registris Testamentorum in Curia Prærog. Lond. anno 1651. Bodl. Lib. MS. 4164. Wills out of the Prerogative Office. Her. Coll. Vincent MS. 31, p. 139. The Fifty Earliest English Wills in the Court of Probate, 1387-1439. Edited by F. J. Furnival for the Early English Text Society. London, 1882, 8°. Wills from Doctors' Commons, 1495 to 1695. Camden Society, Lond. 1863, 4o. Notes of unpublished Wills at Somerset House, by W. S. Ellis. "The Genealogist," new series, vol. iv. Lond. 1887, 8°. Hackney Wills. 19 vols. Tyssen Lib. Hackney.

Copies of London and Surrey Wills, 1542

—1545. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 24,925. Testamenta Lambethana, being a complete list of all the Wills and Testaments recorded in the Archiepiscopal Registers at Lambeth, from A. D. 1312 to 1636. Extracted by Dr. Ducarel, etc. Privately printed by Sir Thos. Phillipps. Typis Medio-Montanis, 1854, fol.

Calendar of Lambeth Wills. "The Genealogist," vols. v. VI. Lond. 1881-82. 8°. Calendar of Lambeth Administrations. "The Genealogist," vol. VII. Lond. 1883, 8°.

Calendar of Wills relating to the Counties of Northampton and Rutland, 1510 to 1652. Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore, for the Index Library. Lond. 1888, 8°.

An Index to Wills proved in the Court of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and to such of the Records and other Instruments and Papers of that Court as relate to Matters or Causes Testamentary, by the Rev. John Griffiths. Clarendon Press. Oxford, 1862, 8o.

Some Collections out of the Will Office
in Oxford, by Anthony à Wood. Ashm.
Lib., Wood MS. 8562, f. 223.
Lichfield Wills, 1510-1652, relating to
the counties of Salop, Stafford, Derby,
Warwick and Cheshire. "The Index
Library." vol. IV. Lond. 1889, 8°.
Somersetshire Wills, by Fred. Wm.
Weaver.

Abstracts of Somersetshire Wills, from
the collections of Rev. Fred. Brown,
privately printed for Fred. A. Crisp.
Two series, 1887-88, fol.
Wills, partly copies and partly original,
of Suffolk testators. Brit. Mus. Add.
MSS. 19,190, 19198.

Wills and Inventories from the Registers of the Commissary of Bury St. Edmund's and the Archdeacon of Sudbury. Edited by S. Tymms. Camden Society. Lond. 1850, 8°. [The first will is dated 1370, and the last 1649.] Abstracts of Wills from the Registry of

the Archdeacon of Sudbury, between 1354 and 1560. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 294, ff. 156-162.

Collectanea ex Registris Testamentorum, in Cur. Archid. Sudburiensis, anno 1633, remanentibus. Brit. Mus. Harl. MS. 639, f. 121.

Extracts from the will-books at Ipswich, 1437-1530; relating chiefly to bequests to churches and religious houses, by John Wodderspoon. 1818. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 25,345.

Abstract of Wills relating to Ipswich, Co. Suffolk, 1437-1547, by William Stevenson Fitch. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 23,964.

Wills and Inventories relating to Westmoreland,etc. Edited by James Raine. Surtees Society. Durhain, 1853, 8o. Abstract of Wills from the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Richmond in Yorkshire, from 1522. Brit. Mus Harl. MS. 7029.

Copies of Yorkshire wills, and of the will of Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1517-1784. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 24,476. Abstracts of Wills from the Archdeaconry of Richmond, by Christopher Towneley. Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 32115. Extracts from Wills relating to Yorkshire, 1389-1802; made from the registers at York by William Paver and others. 10 volumes. Brit. Mus. Add. MSS. 29,677--29,686. Indexes to the foregoing Extracts of Wills, 29,687, 29,688.

Testamenta Eboracensia, or Wills registered at York, illustrative of the History of the Province of York, from 1300 downwards. Vols 4, 30, 45, 53. Surtees Society. Edited by J. Raine. 5 vols Newcastle, 1836-84, 8°. Wills and Inventories from the Registry of the Archdeaconry of Richmond. Edited by J. Raine. Surtees Society, vol. 26. Durham, 1853. 8°.

Report of the Sepulchral Monuments
Committee. Antiquarian Society.
Society.
Lond. 1872, fol.
Notices and drawings of monumental
brasses, effigies, etc., will be found in
The Archeological Journal, and in the
Journal of the British Archæological
Association.

The following Collections of Rubbings of Sepulchral Brasses are in the Dept. of MSS. of the British Museum; an index has recently been made, and may be consulted in the Department. Rubbings of Sepulchral Brasses in various parts of England, collected by Craven Ord. 32,478. Large folio.

Rubbings of Sepulchral Brasses, collected |

Paper Rolls.

scriptions in the County of Suffolk, collected by David Elisha Davy. In two cases, arranged under Hundreds :

the