Omissions from calendars.—A large number of names that are omitted, through inadvertence or other causes, from the old calendars will be found here. Amongst these omissions there are about 59 names of persons whose wills were proved before the prior and chapter of Canterbury during two vacancies of the archbishopric, and a few names of testators whose wills were found on the file under the circumstances related in the foot-note on the first page of the text.
Testatrix married more than once.—Whenever it was observed, in the process of making this index, that a testatrix in her will alluded to more husbands than one, such will was indexed under the several surnames of the husbands. Varied forms of surnames.—If the testator's surname, in any particular will, was variously spelt, that which appeared to be the prevailing form was adopted ; but if the variation seemed
