Darlington Wills and Inventories, 1600-1625

Forty-six deathbed wills and fifty-seven inventories of fifty-eight persons, seven of whom were women. Introduction covers areas such as the documents, the making of the wills and inventories, family and executors, the religiouspreamble, charitable bequests, valuations, the house and its contents, occupations, the clergy, the land and its occupiers and funerals. Includes glossary and list of the books of Isaac Lowden (priest, d. 1612).