Fictions of the early modern english probate inventory

The Culture of Capital: Property, Cities, and Knowledge in Early Modern England

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 51-83

  Orlin, Lena Cowen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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4. Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham, Part 3, ed. J. C. Hodgson, Publications of the Surtees Society,112 (1906), 148-49.
5. A Book of Precedents Exactly Written in Männer of а Register... for all Such Persons to Know... How to Make all Männer of Evidences and Instrumentsis excerpted in Erickson, Women and Property,22.
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18. G. H. Dannatt cites the inventory of Robert Dingley, listing only "his lodging chamber" but then mentioning also (floor) "boards over the hall and shop."
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53. Erickson, Women and Property, emphasizes that by law, "The property а woman brought to marriage-her dowry or portion-all came under the imme-diate control of her husband. The moveables she lost permanently" (24).
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84. Alcock, People at Home, discusses the Tuter inventories, 35-36.
85. Dyer, "Urban Housing," 208.
86. Spufford, "Limitations," 156, 158-59.
87. Alcock, People at Home,3.