Reports from Commissioners (General)

by m p griffiths , Wednesday, August 07, 2013, 16:35 (4120 days ago)

Found this book on

Google Books

http://www.books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZTZbAAAAQAAJ

Covers the Forest of Dean area - re: peoples Wills left to Charity (snippets of 17 & 18th century Wills)

Search for e.g. Flaxley - up comes part of a page - click on this to get the full pages etc.

It's readable page by page - lots of local surnames and places

Hundred of Blidesloe, Awre, Aylburton, Bream, Hundred of St Briavells, English Bicknor, Little Dean, Flaxley, Hewlesfield, Mitchell Dean, Newland, Bream, Ruardean, Staunton, Newnham, Tidenham, Westbury on Severn, Woolastone, Lea (with a Thomas NOURSE) etc.