ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
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| Admin | Administration |
| L. | Henry Litherland (see p. xxvii) |
| L.C.C. | Lincoln Consistory Court |
| L.R.S. | Publications of the Lincoln Record Society |
| Lyle | A bundle of wills labelled Lyle in a portfolio of
sixteenth century wills in the Lincoln District
Probate Registry |
| N.E.D. | A New English Dictionary |
| P. | John Pryn (see p. xxvii) |
| Pope | John Pope (see p. xxvii) |
| R. | John Rayne (see p. xxvii) |
| Stow | Court of the Archdeacon of Stow |
| Subsidy | Subsidy collected in the Diocese of Lincoln in 1526,
ed. Rev. H. Salter |
| Var. | A book labelled Various in the Lincoln District
Probate Registry |
| Volume I | Lincoln Wills, volume I, being the fifth volume of the
publications of the Lincoln Record Society |
For the use of square brackets see page ix.
JUDGES AND OFFICIALS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS
BEFORE WHOM THE WILLS WERE PROVED
Warham, William, archbishop of Canterbury (p. 4)
Smith, William, bishop of Lincoln (p. 4)
Litherland, Henry, bachelor in decrees, commissary and official of the
archdeaconry of Stow (pp. 94, 102)
Pope, John, official of the archdeaconry of Lincoln (pp. 72, 82, 212,
214)
Pryn, John, doctor of decrees, commissary and official of the archdeaconry of Lincoln (passim)
Rayne, John, ll.d., vicar general and official principal of the Bishop of
Lincoln (pp. 123, 147)
Smythe, John, bachelor in decrees, commissary of master Simon Grene
alias Foderby, official of Lincoln and guardian of the spiritualities,
sede vacante (p. 8)
Smythe, William, ll.b., archdeacon of Stow (p. 5)
Thorneton, Thomas, dean of the deanery of Louthesk and Ludborough,
and deputy of master John Pryn (p. 212)