The Archdeaconry Court of London was one of the London church courts that dealt with testamentary matters. The index of over 5,000 records, mainly from the first half of the 18th century, also contains numerous records of mariners.

The indexes in this collection show the names and dates of several million wills and other probate documents. Spanning more than five centuries across Britain, the indexes show you where to go to find the original documents.

Abstracts of wills, administrations, guardianships, and full inventories from the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society covering Cheltenham during the period 1660-1740.

The collection comprises the Chester Wills Index and the Cheshire Wills Images. The Chester Wills Index includes indexes to all wills proved at Chester up to 1858 and indexes to wills of Cheshire people from 1858-1940, plus, Lancashire wills proved at Chester. Cheshire Wills Images conists of digitised images of the probate documents held at Cheshire Record Office. The present index is the most comprehensive available for Cheshire probate records.

This volume contains indexed abstracts (summaries) to wills proved in the Court of Husting 1258–1688. This was a civil court, which had probate jurisdiction within the ancient City of London from medieval times through most of the 17th century when it became obsolete.

This collection, complied by the Gloucestershire Record Office, completes the calendar for Gloucester wills available on Origins.net, ending at 1858, the date on which probate was transferred to (civil) district registries.

This index embraces all wills, inventories, administration bonds, accounts and other related documents which survive among the records of the Archdeaconries of Huntingdon (Hitchin Division) and St Albans. Copies can be ordered online.

Kent has the largest collection of probate records of any English county but there are as yet no published indexes to much of this material. Indexes to all of these records will become available on the National Wills Index in 2012. Kent probate indexes currently available on the NWI include: 28,031 wills - West Kent Wills Index (1440-1857) and 27,812 inventories - Kent inventories (1571-1842).

The collection includes those records from the Chester Wills Collection which related to original records now deposited at Lancashire Record Office. The index covers a substantial proportion, though far from all, of Lancashire wills proved at Chester but which are now held at Lancashire Record Office. The images consists of digitised images of the indexed probate documents held at the Lancashire Record Office. The current contains references to over 40,000 Lancashire people.

An index from the Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society to Wills proved in the western deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond 1457-1812. It also contains the index to abstracts (summary) of wills 1531-1652 proved in the Archdeaconry of Richmond (mainly deanery of Amounderness) where the original wills no longer survive, and the peculiar of the Manor of Halton 1615-1812.

The medieval diocese of Lichfield and Coventry was vast, spanning an area from the Welsh border to the North Sea. By the 17th century it had been reduced somewhat, but still covered most of Derbyshire and Staffordshire, the northern half of Shropshire and a portion of Warwickshire.

These abstracts contain a complete summary of all details contained within each will. They are all taken from original wills and cover the following courts: Archdeaconry Court of Middlesex, Archdeaconry Court of London, Commissary Court of London, Consistory Court of London and Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral.

This dataset indexes all the surviving probate records of the bishop and archdeacon of Oxford, covering the period 1516 to 1857, and of the Oxfordshire Peculiars, covering the period 1547-1856. Images of original documents can be purchased, with pay per view credits, and viewed online.

Grants of probate for the period 1688 to January 1858. Original documents provide a great deal of valuable information to the family historian and copies of these can be ordered online.

These abstracts contain a complete summary of the details contained within each will and includes all names and places (testators, executors, witnesses and beneficiaries) plus incidental information such as relationships and occupations where found in the original documents.

Fully indexed abstracts of every Surrey will known to still exist, over 29,800 abstracts. The index includes names of over a half a million people mentioned in these wills. Free text search of the abstracts.

An index to Wills, Administrations and inventories in the Peculiar Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Deanery of Croydon (Surrey) 1660-1751, which included the Surrey parishes of Barnes, Burstow, Charlwood, Cheam, Croydon, East Horsley, Merstham, Mortlake, Church Newington, Putney, Roehampton, Walworth St Peter and Wimbledon.

Transcripts of original manuscript abstracts to wills for Surrey testators proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) 1736-1794. The PCC was the senior and most important of the pre 1858 ecclesiastical courts claiming over-riding jurisdiction over the whole of England and Wales. Wills of those dying overseas were also usually proved in the PPC.

Over 10,000 wills proved in the Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York between 1267 and 1500. Originals are held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives and copies can be ordered online.

Over 25,000 wills proved in the 54 peculiar courts of the Province of York from 1383 to 1883. Originals are held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives and copies of these wills can be ordered online.