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Lincoln Wills: Volume 2, 1505-1530. Originally published by British Record Society, London, 1918.

'Abbreviations used', in Lincoln Wills: Volume 2, 1505-1530, (London, 1918) pp. xxvi-xxvii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/lincoln-wills/vol2/xxvi-xxvii [accessed 26 April 2024]

ABBREVIATIONS AND EXPLANATIONS



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)