Court of the Bishop (Consistory) of the Archdeaconry of Totnes

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Indexes
== Calendar of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall proved in the Consistory court of the Bishop of Exeter, 1532-1800, edited by Edward Alexander Fry. The calendars include the Archdeaconry of Totnes. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=235196&disp=Calendars+of+wills+and+administrations+r%20%20&columns=*,0,0 Calendars of wills and administrations relating to the counties of Devon and Cornwall : proved in the Court of the principal registry of the Bishop of Exeter, 1559-1799. And of Devon only, proved in the Court of the Archdeaconry of Exeter, 1540-1799]. The calendars include the Archdeaconry of Totnes. Records ==

Virtually all records were destroyed in 1942. Copies of some may have been deposited in the Estate Duty Registers.

Jurisdiction
This court covered many parishes in the south-west part of the county near Cornwall.