|
Type
|
|
|
Ref
|
(where held) |
|
A
|
Administration |
BDF
|
held at Bedfordshire Archives |
|
a/c
|
account |
BKM
|
held at Buckinghamshire Archives |
|
aff
|
affidavit |
Bod.L
|
Bodleian Library, Oxford |
|
agreemt
|
agreement |
HUN
|
Huntingdonshire Record Office |
|
alleg
|
allegation |
LEI
|
held at Leicester Archives |
|
B
|
bond |
N
|
Northampton & Rutland Wills at NRO |
|
C
|
codicil |
NRO
|
Northamptonshire Record Office reference |
|
comm
|
Ccommission |
P
|
Peterborough Wills (includes many Rutland) at NRO |
|
D
|
deposition |
P(CCp)
|
Peterborough Consistory Court Papers |
|
G
|
guardianship |
|
|
|
I
|
Inventory |
|
|
|
mar lic
|
marriage licence |
|
|
|
Marr Sett
|
marriage settlement document |
|
|
|
O
|
oath |
MW
|
microfilm of wills (NRO) |
|
Ob
|
obligation |
|
|
|
P
|
petition |
|
|
|
presents
|
patron presenting his choice to a living |
|
|
|
R
|
renunciation |
Notes
|
|
|
S
|
some other document - see notes column for further explanation |
tr
|
transcript at NRO |
|
unpW
|
unproved Will |
*
|
known to have existed - now lost |
|
V
|
valuation |
p
|
photograph (often negative) at NRO |
|
W
|
will |
pc
|
photocopy at NRO |
|
X
|
deleted |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Note:
|
Wills before 1725 are in large volumes - folded singly after 1725. |
|
|
Sometimes inventories and related papers are with the will and sometimes separately filed. |
