Wills, Probates and Inventories

A number of wills of the yeoman classes still exist in the archives which, together with the accompanying inventories, provide a remarkable glimpse of what went to make up material wealth of their day.  Here is a list of those we have uncovered with links to copies of the originals and to our transcriptions.

1530    John More

1531    William Wright

1535    John More (son of the above John More)

1558    Hew Frankis

1579    Thomas Pilkington

1661    Elias Petley

1683    Vincent Crispo Welfitt

1714    George Scrivener

1715    William Welfitt

1813    John Brown