It is a wonderful book, isn't it?
I cannot remember when it was published, but the information must have been extracted before the second world war. I don't know what finding aids would have been in place for Pcc wills at that date, but the SoG didn't produce a calendar until the 1950s. I presume that before then we would have had to search handwritten annual calendars, arranged simply by initial letter of surname - rather like death duty indexes. These are not impossible to use, but very time consuming.
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