Court of the Commissary of the Sacrist of St Edmunds

England Suffolk Probate Records

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Archive Location
Suffolk Record Office - Ipswich Gatacre Road

Ipswich IP1 2LQ

Telephone: 01473 584541 (Searchroom)

Telephone: 01473 584560 (Public Service Manager)

Fax: 01473 584533

Email: ipswich.ro@suffolk.gov.uk

Archive Records
See the Court of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury.

Family History Library Records
See the Court of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury.

Jurisdiction
The Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury included also the records of the Court of the Sacrist of St. Edmund’s Abbey for the Peculiar of Bury St. Edmunds, 1354-1539, which then became the Episcopal Commissary Court for Bury St. Edmunds and was officially annexed to the Archdeaconry of Sudbury in 1844. For practical purposes, however, the probate business of the two courts was largely merged from 1566 and there are no separate registers after that date.