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