Old Basing (Basing) Probate Material 1521-40
Only one will survives for this period, that of John Mulford. The will is typically Catholic with provision for prayers for his soul, dirge and masses at his month mind.
Wills and inventories survive for Old Basing in Hampshire Record Office (HRO) and The National Archives (TNA). These are being transcribed by the Wills Group of the New Victoria County of Hampshire project based in Basingstoke and will be published in the near future. These transcriptions have been made from copies of original probate documents supplied by HRO and TNA. Words have been modernized and punctuation added to make reading easier but names have been transcribed as written. Words in italics indicate omissions in the original document which have been added to make sense of the text. Words in square brackets indicate that they have been transcribed as seen but where the meaning is unclear. Old Basing is described as Basing being in the county of Southampton, the old name for Hampshire.
A glossary is attached of unusual words and a link to the document is below.
Content derived from research undertaken as part of the Victoria County History project
