Court of the Commissary of the Bishop of St Edmunds

Suffolk Probate Records

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Indexes
The Family History Library has a film copies of

An index to wills, administrations and other testamentary records registered in monastic or commissary courts of Bury S. Edmunds or the Archdeaconry Court of Sudbury, Suffolk. The years covered are 1354-1652 and 1660-1858.

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Archive Location
The original records are held in Cambridge University Archives.

Family History Library Records

 * Wills and inventories from the registers of the commissary of Bury St. Edmunds and the Archdeacon of Sudburyby Samuel Tymms.

Jurisdiction
West Suffolk with the addition of Stow and Hartismere Deaneries in East Suffolk (to 1837 only), also those parishes in Cambridgeshire in the jurisdiction of the Consisotry Court of Norwich and after 1837, only, in the Deanery of Camps....