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1 .   Register 31 f.258 (verso) entry 2
Entry Type: Last Will and Testament, Will, Grant of Probate
Section Type: Archbishop Matthew
Summary: Will of Alexander Stock, clerk, rector of Kirkheaton (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate (commencing on fol. 258v and ending on fol. 260v).
Language: Latin, English
Subjects: Preaching, Schoolhouses, Lands, Trusts, Probate, Wardens, Servants, Money, Sermons, Chapels, Books, Deeds, Farms (lands/property), Last Wills and Testaments, Clergy, Vicars, Pasture, Wills, Annuities, Fruits and Profits, Feoffees, Rents, Paupers, Provosts, Concordances, Leases, Churchwardens, Boys
Note: Mentions property lately purchased of Sir Henry Savile, knight, Provost of Eton and Warden of Merton College, Oxford. Also mentions a schoolhouse recently built near the church of Kirkheaton by the testator and others.
References: YAS 93, p. 71
Dates: Document date: 1611/08/07 (certain)
Document date: 1619/05/15 (certain)
Document date: 1619/06/24 (certain)
Will date: 1619/08/17 (certain)
Probate date: 1627/03/08 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Stock, Alexander, d ? 1626, Rector of Kirkheaton (parson, clerk)
Places: Place of person status: Kirkheaton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
2 .   Register 31 f.207 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Last Will and Testament, Will, Grant of Probate
Section Type: Archbishop Matthew
Summary: Will of William Brogden, clerk, rector of Burnsall (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate (commencing on fol. 207v and ending on fol. 209v).
Language: English, Latin
Subjects: Leases, Probate, Books, Barns, Tithes, Sermons, Inventories, Corn, Wheels, Last Wills and Testaments, Lands, Old age, Waterfalls, Bills, Servants, Rectors, Barrels, Bonds, Debts, Paupers, Schoolhouses, Legacies, Annuities, Wagons, Clerks (Administrators), University of Cambridge, Wills, Pasture, Furniture, Wages, Agricultural equipment
Note: The testator refers to a lease of 'Malham waterfell'; also money paid to an individual for 'clerkwage' and paid to another while his son was 'at Cambridge', presumably at the University.
References: YAS 93, p. 11
Dates: Will date: 1619/08/30 (certain)
Probate date: 1620/03/10 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Brogden, William, d ? 1619, Rector of Burnsall (clerk)
Places: Place of person status: Burnsall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
3 .   Register 32 f.101 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type: Archbishop Williams
Language: English, Latin
Subjects: Wills, Annuities, Trustees, Manors, Houses, Lands, Grammar Schools, Probate, Fellows, University of Oxford, Deeds, Tenants, Scholars, Money, Mills, Last Wills and Testaments, Paupers, Schoolmasters, Rents, Schoolhouses, Defeasances, Leases, Manorial rights, Enfeoffments
References: YAS 93, p. 32
Dates: Recited document date: 1632/10/29 (certain)
Will date: 1642/07/14 (certain)
Codicil date: 1642/12/12 (certain)
Codicil date: 1643/04/00 (certain)
Probate date: 1643/11/25 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Greenwood, Charles, d 1643, Rector of Thornhill (churchwarden)
Places: Subject of deed: Mixenden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (hamlet)
Subject of deed: Rothwell, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (parish)
Subject of deed: Bradshaw (hamlet)
Subject of deed: Thornhill, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Subject of deed: Ovenden, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (township)
Place of person status: Thornhill, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
Subject of deed: Heptonstall, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (manor)
4 .   Register 32 f.107 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type: Archbishop Williams
Language: English, Latin
Subjects: Wills, Pious preambles, Plate, Rents, Schoolhouses, Houses, Books, Household equipment, Presentations, Apprentices, Probate, Maps, Neighbours, Deeds, Tenants, Lay Patrons, Forests, Funerals, Last Wills and Testaments, Curates, Paupers, Pictures, Friends, Schoolmasters, Fixtures and fittings, Courtiers, Rings, Clerks (Administrators), Lands, University of Cambridge, Money, Furniture, Enfeoffments
Note: Written over the first line of the will are the words: 'Da Domine perficere. Velle dedisti', part of a verse from the New Testament (Phil. 2, 13). This will gives much biographical information and describes religious controversies of the times.
References: YAS 93, p. 52
Dates: Will date: 1642/07/22 (certain)
Probate date: 1644/10/07 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Moore, Robert, d ? 1644, Rector of Guiseley (preacher, master of arts)
Places: Place of person status: Guiseley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)


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