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Worcester sources extracted for CCEd
Worcestershire Record Office
| b 716.093-BA.2648/9(ii) | Episcopal register
1536–9 Extracted two institutions of 1545 and 1550 (pp. 40–2). |
| b 716.093–BA.2648/9b(iii) | Episcopal register
1539–43 Extracted evidence from 1 January 1540. |
| b 716.093–BA.2648/9b(iv) | Episcopal register 1544–63 |
| b 716.093–BA.2648/10(i) | Episcopal register
1571–1625 Includes sede vacante business 1576–7, 1583–4, 1610. |
| b 716.093–BA.2648/10(ii) | Episcopal register
1625–46 Includes sede vacante business in 1641. |
| b 732.2–BA.2049 | Ordination papers 1559–1657 |
| 732.4–BA.2337/1–23 | Presentation deeds
1540–1603 Extracted nos 48, 51, 74, 89, 154, 303, 568, 571, 582, 585, 633, 641, 644, 666a, 667, 697, 720, 755, 767, 798, 823, 827, 831–2, 843, 869, 872, 886, 890, 894, 909, 915, 929, 956, 961, 967, 974, 1020, 1038, 1066, 1067, 1073, 1105–6, 1141, 1144, 1152, 1154, 1167, 1171, 1198, 1222, 1238, 1275, 1316. |
| 732.4-BA.2337/2 Box 24 | Presentation deeds
1649–62 Extracted nos 626, 632–3, 635. |
| b 732.6–BA.2511 | Register of mandates
1544–1632 Extracted those relating to gaps in the episcopal registers (fos 4r–15r, 253r–4r). |
| b 744–BA.2729 | Letters testimonial
for schoolmasters Extracted nos 1–7, 9–11, 13, for the years 1602–56 |
| b 736–BA.2006 | Bishops’ transcripts
boxes 1–59, 62 Details of the parishes to follow. |
| 802–BA.2764 | Visitation book 1540 Extracted pp. 229–66, 269–372 of a larger volume. |
Worcester Cathedral Library
| A45 | Chapter act book 1605–45 |
| A 65 | Register of installations and admissions 1589–1640 |
| A116 | Subscription book
1604–1884 Extracted for 1604–45. |
| D366 | Cathedral miscellany
16–17th century Extracted ordination details of clergy in 1584 (fo. 18r). |
| A14 | Canon’s book 16¬–17th
century Extracted names of curates, 1613 (fos 107r–111r). |
The National Archives, Kew
| PRO, E179/59 | Clerical subsidy
returns 1550–97 Extracted nos 204–5, 210, 222–4, 226–9, 231–2, 234–5, 237, 240. |
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
| MS 97, fos 128r–132r | Archbishop Parker’s survey of Worcester diocese, 1561 |
Printed sources
| Canterbury Sede Vacante | Kent Records. Calendar of Institutions by the Chapter of Canterbury sede vacante, ed. C. E. Woodruff and I. J. Churchill (1924), pp. 13. |