Eastnor Probate Material 1501-1540

There are 12 probate records for Eastnor people during the first forty years of the 16th century. Eleven of them are listed in Calendar of Probate and Administration Acts 1407-1541 and Abstracts of Wills 1541-1581 in the Court Books of the Bishop of Hereford, edited by M.A. Faraday and E.J.L. Coles with introduction and index compiled by M.A. Faraday British Record Society, London, 1989. The twelfth is that of John Clinton in 1502. He was a wealthy man and held the manor of Barton in Henmarsh, Worcestershire, as well as an estate in Eastnor. As he held property in more than one diocese his will had to be proved at the Prerogative Court of Canterbury and the enrolled copy of this is preserved at the National Archives.

John Clinton, 1502, will

Richard Tippyng, 1514, Calendar entry

Richard Fowle, 1523, Calendar entry

Thomas Dogmor, 1523, Calendar entry

Agnes Pole, 1530, Calendar entry

Alice Bache, 1530, Calendar entry

Elizabeth West, 1530, Calendar entry

Thomas Dugmore, 1530, Calendar entry

William Woodward, 1534, Calendar entry

Henry Braynche, 1535, Calendar entry

William Clynton, esquire, 1535, Calendar entry

Roger Turnor, 1540, Calendar entry