Excerpt from A Handbook to the Ancient Courts of Probate and Depositories of Wills I have attempted in these pages to form a calendar of all the Courts exercising Testamentary Jurisdiction prior to 1858, when their records were, by an Act of Parliament, 20 and 21 Victoria, cap. 77, transferred to the Court of Probate. The information here given is based upon the Returns of Courts empowered to grant Probates of Wills, made to Parliament, and ordered to be printed 30 May, 1828, 16 April, 1829, 26 March, 1830, and 27 February, 1832; and also upon the Index of Courts of which the Records, etc., have been transmitted to the Court of Probate; also a List of the Registries of the Court of Probate, etc., March, 1862, a work, so far as I know, only issued to the Registrars of the District Registries created by the Act of '1858. The form of this book is similar to that Index. The number of Courts noticed in this book is about 32 5. 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.

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