Court of the Peculiar of the Provost of the Collegiate Church of St John, Beverley

Yorkshire Probate Courts

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Jurisdiction
Beverley and 20 other parishes were under this court. Select from a jurisdiction table for your place to determine if this court was over it.

Probates
The records for this court are held in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.

The Family History Library has a copy of register copy wills, 1539-1552, on film number 98920 item 3. Films can be view in the library or in a family history center.

Indexes
The records for this court are held in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.

A printed index, 1539-1552, is in volume 60 of the Records Series of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society appendix II, pages 182-184. The Family History Library has a copy of this index on film number 402541.