Useful links to reference material (General)
The following links were sent to us by Nicola.
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On the American Libraries Internet Archive, I have found online copies of "Abstracts of Gloucestershire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of Chancery" parts 1-3 and "Gloucestershire Notes and Queries (Volume 5" which may be of interest to other users. They are free to access diogital copies.
"A calendar of wills proved in the consistory court of the Bishop of Gloucester : with an appendix of dispersed wills and wills proved in the peculiar courts of Bibury and Bishop's Cleave. With indices nominum et locorum" Vol 12
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=phillimore%20gloucestershire
together with a few of the Gloucestershire volumes of Phillimore.
Gloucestershire Biographic Notes by Joseph Stratford
http://www.archive.org/stream/gloucestershireb00straiala#page/236/mode/2up
Memorials of old Gloucestershire by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson),
contains an article on the Forest of Dean
http://www.archive.org/stream/memorialsofoldgl00ditc#page/n51/mode/2up
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