If there is a codicil, the contents, date of signature, and names of witnesses to it should also be given.
The contents of all deeds, leases, and other documents should, as far as this is practicable, be noted in a somewhat similar manner.
CHAPTER X
AN ADDITIONAL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS WHICH MAY BE USEFUL WHEN TRACING A PEDIGREE
Chamberlain’s Angliæ Notitia; or, The Present State of Great Britain, commenced in 1663, and was continued nearly every year until 1755. If information is required between these dates as to the professional or official classes, this will be found a valuable work to consult.
The London Gazette supplies still more comprehensive records with regard to the professions, learned and otherwise. Public appointments are here notified, the conferment of honours, promotions in the Church, Army, and Navy, etc. It commenced in 1665, and is now issued twice weekly.
The records of local societies and local magazines may often profitably be consulted.
Of the former the following are the most useful:—
The Antiquarian Societies of Batley and Bradford (Yorkshire), also of Beverley, Heckmondwicke, Lancashire and Cheshire, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Isle of Man.
The Archæological Societies of Bristol and Gloucestershire, Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire, Durham, Essex, Kent, London and Middlesex, Northamptonshire, St. Albans, Scarborough, Shropshire, Somerset, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Wilts, Worcester, and Yorkshire; the Cambrian Archæological Society, the Somerset Record Society, and the Surtees’ Society, Durham.
The following local magazines may also be referred to:—