Index to wills proved in the Peculiar Court of Banbury, 1542-1858 / edited by J.S.W. Gibson ; custumal, 1391, and Bye-laws, 1386-1540, of the Manor of Islip / edited by Barbara F. Harvey.

  • Banbury (Oxfordshire, England). Peculiar Court.
Date:
1959
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Credit: Index to wills proved in the Peculiar Court of Banbury, 1542-1858 / edited by J.S.W. Gibson ; custumal, 1391, and Bye-laws, 1386-1540, of the Manor of Islip / edited by Barbara F. Harvey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS Introduction to Wills Index Vv Notes on Testamentary Procedure | vii Map of North Oxfordshire | x Parishes within the Peculiar xi Index to Places xii Index to Trades and Professions | xiv Index to Banbury Wills I Introduction to Islip Custumal and Bye-laws | 80 Islip Custumal | 82 Islip Bye-laws 104 List of Members of O.R.S. 121 PREFACE This volume is a double one, an dits finance is interesting. The Banbury index is a joint publication and is the first records publication of the Banbury Historical Society. Its Hon. Secretary, our member Mr Gibson, not only extracted relevant entries contained in the larger manuscript now at the Bodleian, but has also generously subsidised its production with that of Miss Harvey’s edition of the Islip Custumal and Bye-laws.’The Council has long wished to see the Islip docu- ments printed, but they were too short alone to justify the issue of a special volume. This action is enabling the Society to print much more of the Henley Borough Records in a single volume, for 1960, than we could have afforded in 1959, and has more than offset in this year the action of the Inland Revenue in refusing to repay income tax on covenanted subscriptions. It is paradox- ical to see that enthusiasm in the extreme north of the county will thus make possible the publica- tion of important mediaeval records in the extreme south, where a consciousness of local history is less evident. W. O. Hassall, Hon. Secretary.
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