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Cliddesden

Footnote: 

Content derived from research undertaken as part of the Victoria County History project

Extant probate material from this period includes four wills, two of which have inventories attached, and two separate inventories.

One will, one inventory and a will with inventory attached have been transcribed from this period.

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

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.

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

Thirty-two wills and twenty-nine inventories from the parish of Cliddesden from 1541-1700, have been transcribed by the Wills Group of the New Vict

In the winter of 1830 unrest amongst agricultural workers spread across southern England in the face of ‘grinding poverty’.[1]  Wages were low, the

Audleys Wood lies in the northeast corner of Cliddesden parish, its grounds separated from Hackwood Park by the road from Basingstoke to Alton.

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