Reports from Commissioners (General)
by m p griffiths 
, Wednesday, August 07, 2013, 16:35 (4121 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.
Reports from Commissioners
by rhianonturrell , Thursday, August 08, 2013, 16:21 (4120 days ago) @ m p griffiths
Great resource-thanks for the link. A very brief search found the charity part- founded by brother of an Ambery ancestor. I knew about it already but more detail is always interesting.