North Country Wills


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Selby Wills


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This volume contains full abstracts of 695 wills, administration acts, tuitions and bonds and 97 marriage licences and bonds, all copied from original documents belonging to the Peculiar Court of Selby.
















Women and Property


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This ground-breaking book reveals the economic reality of ordinary women between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. Drawing on little-known sources, Amy Louise Erickson reconstructs day-to-day lives, showing how women owned, managed and inherited property on a scale previously unrecognised. Her complex and fascinating research, which contrasts the written laws with the actual practice, completely revises the traditional picture of women's economic status in pre-industrial England. Women and Property is essential reading for anyone interested in women, law and the past.




A Calendar of Wills and Administrations Relating to the County of Dorset, Proved in the Consistory Court (Dorsetshire Division) of the Late Diocese of Bristol, 1681-1792, and in the Archdeaconry Court of Dorset, 1568-1792, and in the Several Peculiars, 1660-1799, All Now Preserved at the Probate Registry, Blandford


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