Register Of Wills And Inventories Of The Diocese Of Dublin In The Time Of Archbishops Tregury And Wa

Author : Henry F. Berry
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ISBN 13 : 9781331866510
Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin written by Henry F. Berry and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Register of Wills and Inventories of the Diocese of Dublin: In the Time of Archbishops Tregury and Walton, 1457 1483 It is a remarkable fact that, while the sister country of England can boast of numberless collections of old wills and testaments, Ireland, which has such a wealth of ancient churches, crosses, and monuments scattered over the length and breadth of the land, should possess so few documents of a testamentary character prior to the middle of the sixteenth century. Since the appearance, in 1780, of the volume of Royal and Noble Wills, edited by Ducarel and Nichols, and the publication of the Testamenta Vetusta of Sir Harris Nicolas, various learned and archaeological societies in England, especially in more recent years, have printed collections of wills, stored in the Diocesan Registries and other repositories. To the Camden Society we are indebted for some, notably the Bury Wills; the Surtees Society has printed some volumes of Yorkshire testaments; and the Chetham Society has published several collections of wills and inventories. Besides these there are the Essex, Oxford, Exeter, Lincoln, and Carlisle Wills, with others too numerous to mention; while Dr. Furnivall has edited, for the Early English d104 Society, a volume of the Fifty Earliest English Wills; and Mr. Reginald Sharp was entrusted, by the Corporation of London, with the task of preparing a Calendar of the wills proved and enrolled in the Court of Hustings, 1258-1688. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.