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Cash, Margaret. Devon Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Devon and Cornwall Record Society - New Series, vol. XI (1966) 206pp.
Margaret Cash, who edited and provided an introduction to this listing, was Deputy County Archivist of Devon.

A Probate Inventory is a list and valuation of the 'movable' goods and chattels of a deceased person. It had to be produced in the Court of Probate before a will could be proved. This book contains 256 entries, but a few other inventories survive among the papers of families and estates and files of diocesan records. There are also some inventories among the records of the Peculiar of Uffculme - these are in the Salisbury Diocesan Record Office (included in the index to source UFWI), and over two hundred inventories of citizens of Exeter which can be found in the City Library, Exeter (to be included in the index to source WCI). Originals of the inventories printed in this DCRS publication can be found at the Devon Record Office, Exeter. Copies of Devon Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries are held at the Westcountry Studies Library in Exeter, the Society of Genealogists, London, and at other major reference libraries.

Last updated: 17 Jan 2010 - Brian Randell

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