Court of the Bishop of London

England Kent  Kent Probate Records

Jurisdiction
Also known as the Episcopal Consistory Court of London, this court had jurisdiction over the whole of the diocese of the Bishop of London expect in the peculiars. The diocese covered the whole of London city and the county of Middlesex and most of the county of Essex (until 1846). It also had concurrent jurisdiction with the archdeaconries of St. Albans, Colchester, Essex, London and Middlesex, as well as both divisions of the Commissary Court (London and Essex &amp; Herts.), exercised through the Bishop's Vicar General.

This court also had post-1846 jurisdiction over the following parishes in Kent county: