Canterbury Probate Registry Records
Calendar of Wills and Administrations (1396-1558) & (1640-1650)
Henry R. Plomer (1856-1928) -  Kent Archaeological Society 1920

Transcribed & edited by M. J. & D. G. Cozens.
 June 2005 - December  2010 Update 7

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Plomer part 1 (1396-1558)  -  Surnames
A-ay Ba-bay Be-bix Bl-boy Bra-by Ca-ch Ci-con Coo-cu D-dy E-ey Fa-fo
Fr-Glo Go-gy Ha-hay He-hon Hoo-Iv J-K La-ly Ma Me-my N-O Pa-pe
Ph-Q R-ry Sa-sh Si-sta Ste-sy T-ty UV-We Wh-wi Wo-Y

Plomer part 1 (1396-1558) - Places
A-ay Ba-be Bi-bou Box-bu Ca-can Can-cas Ch-co Cr-D E-ey F- fr
G-Har Has-her Hi-hy Ic-Lin Lit-ly Ma-mil Min-mu N- no OPQ R-ry
Sa-sel Sev-sn St. j-p Sta-sw T-U Wa-wil Win-Ya

Plomer Part 2  (1640-1650) Surnames                                                 Plomer Part 2  (1640-1650) Places
A-E F-L M-R S-Z
A-C D-K L-R S-W

Our thanks to Canterbury Cathedral Library staff for access to the original Volume
  
Transcrition Notes
Henry R Plomer, borne 13th December 1856 Guernsey - died 20th August 1928 London
Henry Plomer used name groups to cope with multiple spellings, these have been retained but are not always obvious. In the period  1396-1558 some surnames had a prefix  (a, at, att, atte, ap) these he included after the forename. i.e. Bere, Henry a - indexed as Henry a'Bere
Double dates have been removed, during the period covered by this database all years begin on 25th March and end on 24th March, not 31st  December

When Plomer indexed the information the various series of documents had no common root reference. Now all Probate Records of Canterbury (PRC) are listed under the common series of PRC numbers, those included in this index are shown below with their Plomer prefix

PRC 3 Archdeaconry Court Act. books (A.Act.) - Volumes since renumbered before filming
PRC 16 Archdeaconry and Consistory Office Copy wills (O.C.) before 1559
PRC 17 Archdeaconry Registered  wills (A.)
PRC 22 Consistory Court Act. books (C.Act.)
PRC 31 Consistory Court Office Copy wills (O.C.) after 1558
PRC 32 Consistory Court Registered wills (C.)
PRC 33 Wingham Peculiar Wills (W.) - Court closed 1547

 Abbreviations - AD Administration,  NU Nuncupative will, W. A. S.  Will, Attestation, Sentence,  AWW - Administration with Will.  I or Inv - Inventory.

 O.C. Copies in Part 1 - All the Original wills included in Plomer part 1 are filed in the DCb/PRC16 series for both the Archdeaconry (ADC) and Consistory Courts (CCC). Consistory court original wills DCb/PRC31 start in 1559.  By 1920 when Plomer completed his index of the Civil War Wills 1640-1650, the Office Copy Wills were numbered in the 2 separate series ADC. & CCC but they still had a unique identifying No. within the year by year series.

We have done all we can to minimize errors in transcribing Plomer's original into our database, but in 28,500 entries errors are inevitable.  We have integrated Plomer's Addenda & Corrigenda into the database and corrected any original errors found during the transcription.  Some long fields have been edited to bring pages to a reasonable width, the information removed relates to status/profession, a few alternative name spellings.  In addition long place names have also been abbreviated.  The deleted information is available in the will.   If you find any errors, and have found the correction, please advise us so that the database can be corrected.

M. J. & D. G. Cozens December 2010