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A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court (City and Deanery of Bristol Division) of the Bishop of Bristol, 1572-1792
Excerpt from A Calendar of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court (City and Deanery of Bristol Division) Of the Bishop of Bristol, 1572-1792: And Also a Calendar of Wills in the Great Orphan Books Preserved in the Council House, Bristol, 1379-1674 The Bishopric of Bristol was one of the six Sees founded about the year (the others being Chester, Gloucester, Oxford, Peterborough and Westminster) by Letters patent, authorised by Act of Parliament, 31 Henry VIII. C. 9, a.d. 1539-40. Until this date it had formed part, as did also Gloucester, of the Diocese of Worcester. From 1561 for a period of twenty-eight years it was held in commendam by the Bishops of Gloucester. From 1589 to 1836 the See was...
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