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1 .   Register 31 f.10 (recto) entry 5
Entry Type: Will, Last Will and Testament
Section Type: Register, Vacancy, Register, Sede Vacante
Summary: Will of James Pilkington, bishop of Durham (legatees, executors and supervisors named) (continues).
Marginalia: Entry is headed by invocation 'Jesus'
Language: English
Subjects: Testators, Bishops, Coal, Clergy, Last Wills and Testaments, Hay, Probate, Books, Paupers, University of Cambridge, Archbishops, Corn, Schools, Invocations, Servants, Wood, Notes, Wills
Note: Legacies include the testator's books at [Bishop] Auckland to be left to his school at Rivington (Lancashire) and to poor colleges in Cambridge and others.
Dates: Will date: 1572/02/04 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Pilkington, James, 1520-1576, Bishop of Durham (bishop)
Executor, guardian: Kingsmill, George, c 1539-1606, lawyer and Member of Parliament (son)
Guardian, executrix: Kingsmill, Constance, d c 1581, wife of Sir John Kingsmill (lady)
Legatee/s: Kingsmill, Sir, William, c 1526-1593, Sheriff of Hampshire (brother in law)
Legatee/s: Pilkington, Alice, d 1596, nee Kingsmill; wife of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (wife)
Legatee/s: Pilkington, Deborah, c 1564-0000, daughter of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (daughter)
Legatee/s: Pilkington, Ruth, c 1569-1627, daughter of James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham (daughter)
Supervisor: Grindal, Edmund, c 1516-1583, Archbishop of Canterbury (archbishop)
Supervisor: Kingsmill, Richard, c 1528-1600, Member of Parliament (unknown)
Supervisor: Layton, Thomas, 1520-1584, Chancellor of Durham (unknown)
Supervisor: Pilkington, Leonard, 1527-1599, Canon of the 7th Prebend, Durham Cathedral (brother (family relation))
Supervisor: Russell, Francis, c 1526-1585, 2nd Earl of Bedford (earl)
2 .   Register 31 f.180 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament, Will
Section Type: Archbishop Matthew
Summary: Will of Robert Dickson, M.A., rector of a moiety of the church of Darfield (legatees, executors and witnesses named), with grant of probate.
Language: Latin, English
Subjects: Money, Note books, Books, Godchildren, Wills, Last Wills and Testaments, Probate, Plate, Rings, Apprentices, University of Oxford, Notes, Sheep, Tuition
Note: The testator states that he made four of his sons apprentices in London. His son Robert Dickson to have twenty of the testator's books of his choice, as well as the testator's gold signet ring, notes and notebooks.
References: YAS 93, p. 22
Dates: Will date: 1614/05/30 (certain)
Probate date: 1615/01/31 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Master of arts, parson
Places: Place of person status: Darfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
3 .   Register 31 f.263 (recto) entry 2
Entry Type: Will, Grant of Probate, Last Will and Testament
Section Type: None recorded
Summary: Will of Robert Tomson, clerk, rector of Adel (legatees, executrix and witnesses named), with grant of probate.
Language: Latin, English
Subjects: Servants, Bonds, Wills, Students, Plate, Notes, Debts, Money, Probate, Household equipment, Last Wills and Testaments, Parish clerks, Furniture, Books, Pewter
References: YAS 93, p. 76
Dates: Will date: 1627/09/03 (certain)
Probate date: 1628/05/03 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Tomson, Robert, d ? 1628, Rector of Adel (clerk)
Places: Place of person status: Adel, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (rectory)
4 .   Register 32 f.32 (recto) entry 1
Entry Type: Last Will and Testament, Grant of Probate, Will
Section Type: Archbishop Neale, Archbishop Neile
Language: English, Latin
Subjects: Wills, Catalogues, Books, Apprentices, Probate, Bibles, University of Oxford, Notes, Scholars, Hebrew Bibles, Mayors, Last Wills and Testaments
References: YAS 93, p. 18
Dates: Will date: 1632/06/19 (certain)
1637/01/09 (certain)
People and Groups: Testator: Cook, Alexander, d ? 1632, Vicar of Leeds (vicar)
Places: Place of person status: Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (vicarage)
5 .   Register 31 f.156 (verso) entry 1
Entry Type: Note
Section Type: Archbishop Matthew
Summary: Notes of the contents of the registers, as those of the chapter following the translation of Edmund Grindal; of Edwin Sandys and John Piers, and other notes, not easily legible even as photographed under ultra-violet light.
Language: Latin
Subjects: Notes


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