Note 597 — Chapter XXII
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This information respecting wills is drawn from Sir H. Nicholas' Notitia Historica, 144-205. In the month of November, 1644, an ordinance of Parliament appointed Sir Nathaniel Brent a Presbyterian master or keeper of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, in the room of Dr. Merrick, a Royalist Episcopalian.—Husband, 582.
In the Windsor churchwardens' accounts an instance occurs of money paid in 1651-2 for searching the Prerogative Court for the Countess of Devonshire's will, then lately deceased.—Annals of Windsor, ii. 267.