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JOHN    BOLTER         1551   APR 26CHOLSEY                     0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0                                     3BACON AT ROOF KIT      26  5  0.00
JOHN    BURGMAN        1556   APR 26HARWELL                     1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                     0                       17  5  4.00
RICHARD BEWE           1556   DEC 26DIDCOT                      0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0                                     2                        8  5  0.00
KRYSTENEBROODWATTER    1557         LONG WITTENHAM  WOMAN       1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                     0                       25  8  0.00
RICHARD BULKER         1557   APR 25DIDCOT                      0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0                                     2                       18  2  4.00
STEVEN  BAKER          1557   MAY 04HAGBOURNE                   0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0SHOP                                 4                       21  6  4.00
THOS.   BUTTON         1558   APR 17CHOLSEY . . .
										
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        NOTES ON DATABASE OF INFORMATION FROM SELECTED BERKSHIRE PROBATE
                             INVENTORIES, 1550-1670

                            COMPILED BY C.R.J. CURRIE


                                      ORIGINS 

             The data were collected in 1971 as part of research for a
        doctoral thesis [C.R.J. Currie, 'Smaller Domestic Architecture
        and Society in North Berkshire,  c . 1300-- c . 1650' (Oxford
        University D. Phil. thesis, 1976)]. It was in addition to other
        more detailed transcripts and extracts of inventories which have
         not  been computerized.  Th probate and administration
        inventories of the Archdeaconry of Berkshire (then in the
        Bodleian Library, MSS. Wills Berks., but in 1984 in Reading:
        Berkshire County Record Office), were searched to find, for the
        periods 1550-60, 1570-80, 1600-10, 1620-30, and 1660-70,  all . . .