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Extant probate material from these years includes two wills and three inventories.

Twelve wills and eleven inventories, one court paper survive for this period for the two manors of Upton Grey and Hoddington within the parish of U

Three wills and inventories from this period have survived. All three testators were prosperous farmers, two yeomen and probably one husbandman.

Five wills and four inventories are extant from this period and contain examples of testators who had considerable wealth; goods and property value

The three surviving wills and inventories, all from the 1570s, reflect a mixed agricultural community.

Loddington is a very small rural settlement and civil parish in east Leicestershire with a population of less than 100.

Eight wills and eight inventories together with one set of accounts survive for this period.

Five wills and four inventories survive for this period, all from HRO, reflecting a mixed farming economy of sheepa nd crops.

The rural parish of Upton Grey is located on the north-east edge of the Hampshire chalk downland some 20 miles (32 km.) north-east of Winchester an

The first tranche of this probate material from the years 1544-1560 is posted here and includes 10 wills and 7 inventories.

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