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VCCt.Wills 1-26

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Original wills, 1528 - 1765

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Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/VCCt.Wills 1-26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Fonds: The Chancellor had successfully claimed probate of the wills of members of the University and others, known as privileged persons, from at least the early fourteenth century. Although technically the Chancellor's Court, by the sixteenth century the Vice-Chancellor presided.The Act 20 and 21 Victoria c.77 abolished testamentary jurisdiction of all existing courts substituting for them a single Court of Probate in London with a Principal Registry and District Registries throughout the...
Dates: 1528 - 1765
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