DIOCESAN Episcopal Court Records 1598(1577)-1634 including wills

 

The box with the above title is held at the Manx National Heritage Library in Bay 4 Shelf 12 Level 5 under reference MS10216. It contains original documents organised into folders. I have assigned folio numbers to each double page within a folder for ease of reference, although no such numbers appear within the original archive. The different folders are summarised below, followed by links to high-resolution images of each of the folios in order. Folio number 000 is used only for an image of the folder itself. (The folder title's are written in pencil which can make them hard to read.) Folio numbers appended with a letter (eg 003a) are typically used when a small note or other insert appears between two folios.

 

All of the images here are provided by kind permission of Manx National Heritage.

 

 

1577-1598

 

This large bundle contains about 320 wills spread over 380 pages of Chapter Court records. It appears to have been formed by concatenating Court documents from 1598-1599 (folios 1-37), 1587-1588 (folios 38-114), 1577-1578 (folios 114-128), loose pages from 1594-1599 (folios 128-169) and 1607 (folios 169-187). The preambles to will abstracts are written in a mixture of Latin and English.

 

000 001 001a 002 003 004 005 006 007 008
009 010 011 012 013 014 015 015a 015b 016
017 018 019 020 020a 021 022 023 024 025
026 027 028 028a 029 030 031 032 033 034
035 036 037 038 039 039a 040 041 042 043
044 045 046 047 048 049 050 051 052 053
054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 062 063
064 065 065a 066 067 068 069 070 071 072
073 074 075 076 077 078 079 080 081 082
083 084 085 085a 086 087 088 089 090 091
092 093 094 095 096 097 098 099 100 101
102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111
112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121
122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131
132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 139a 140
141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150
151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160
161 161a 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169
170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179
179a 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188
189 190

 

1604

 

This bundle contains just a single page which is a note associated with the proving of the will of the wife of James Heyes waterbaliff.

 

000 001

 

1609-1610

 

This bundle contains 45 wills and testaments over 94 pages.

 

000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009
010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 017a 017b
018 019 020 021 021a 022 023 024 025 026
027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 034a 035
036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 045
046 047

 

1610-1611

 

This bundle contains about 25 wills and testaments over 64 pages. It also includes some non-testamentary Court business, mostly relating to disputes over tithes.

 

000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009
010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019
020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029
030 031 032

 

1610-1611 including 1608

 

This bundle contains about 50 wills and testaments over 136 pages. These are occasionally intermixed with other (non-testamentary) Court business.

 

000 001 002 003 003 004 005 006 007 008
009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018
019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028
029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038
039 040 041 042 043 044 045 046 047 048
049 050 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058
059 060 061 062 063 064 064a 065 066 067
068 068a

 

1627-1634

 

This folder contains 56 pages nearly all of which correspond to causes (Libri Causarum). It contains just one will.

 

000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009
010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019
020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028

 

1633

 

This folder contains 36 pages which are a mixture of non-testamentary Court business (Liber Causarum) and a few wills.

 

000 001 002 003 004 004a 005 005a 005b 006
007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016
016a 017 018

 

1634-1635

 

This folder contains 58 pages of wills intermixed with other Court business.

 

000 001 002 003 004 005 006 006a 007 008
009 010 011 012 012a 013 014 014a 015 016
017 018 019 020 021 022 022a 023 024 025
026 027 028 029