Shoreham Deanery
Medieval & Tudor Wills
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Wills Introduction
The following list of mediaeval
wills for the Shoreham Deanery, which was a peculiar of the Archbishop of
Canterbury, was compiled by Leland L. Duncan and recorded in six quarto
volumes around 1895. The wills at the time of his writing were all that remained prior to 1600 in the
Registers of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and in the Lambeth Palace
Registers.
The 34 parishes which made up the Shoreham Deanery were as follows:-
Bexley, Brasted, Chevening, Chiddingstone, Crayford or Eard, St. Mary Cray,
Darenth, Downe, Eynsford, East Farleigh, Farningham, Gillingham, The Isle of
Grain, Halstead, Hayes, Hever, Hunton, Ifield, Ightham, Keston, Knockholt,
Lydsing, East Malling, Meopham, Northfleet, Orpington, Otford, East Peckham,
Penshurst, Sevenoaks, Shoreham, Stansted, Sundridge, and Wrotham.
L. L. Duncan : Will Transcriptions in quarto exercise books held at the
Kent Archaeological Society's Library in Maidstone. Examined by me, Zena Bamping, in March 2001, who made the
following list of wills extracted by Mr Duncan. The originals are written in
pencil and seem to be almost complete transcriptions with a few abbreviations,
e.g. P for Parish.
Book
1 Book 2
Book 3 Book 4
Book 5 Book 6
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