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Wolley Manuscripts, Matlock : Abbreviations & Conventions |
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A Major Collection of pre 1828
Pedigrees, Charters, Documents, Deeds & Wills
 Abbreviations for sources
Abbreviations used in the
catalogue
Conventions used in the
catalogue
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 Abbreviations
for Sources |
(c/chlsl) |
Catalogues of the County Hall Local Studies Library, Matlock. |
| (DARJ) |
From series of articles published in the
Derbyshire Archaeological Society Journals written and material
abstracted from the manuscripts by J. Charles Cox |
| (uc/chlsl) |
Unpublished catalogues of the County Hall
Local Studies Library, Matlock |
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| Abbreviations used
in the catalogue |
a. - acre or acres [of land]
 Explanations
of measurements of land included in FAQ |
| A. - Queen Anne (reigned 1702-14) |
| b. - Cox uses this to indicate the back
of a document, though most of the references use the letter
d (i.e. dorse). See dorse |
c - century (e.g. 18thc. = 18th century)
c. - (if before a date) circa, meaning about |
| Ch. - King Charles |
| co. - County of |
| d. - dorse (back of) a document, though
the page is not marked as such. So, for example, there is a
f.16 that is marked but not a folio marked f.16d. |
| def(s) - defendant |
| Ed. - King Edward |
| Eliz. - Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558-1603) |
| esq. - esquire |
| et. al - and the rest |
| f. or ff. - folio, folios |
| gent. - gentleman |
| G. - King George |
| H. - King Henry |
| Hen. - King Henry |
| Ja. - King James |
| M. - Queen Mary |
| n.d. - no date |
| P. - King Philip (Spanish husband of Queen
Mary, who reigned 1553-8) |
| p.a. - per annum |
| Ph and M - Philip and Mary |
| pl. - complainant (also qu. or quer.) |
| temp. - tempore (in the time of e.g. temp
H means in the time of King Henry) |
| qu. - complainant (also pl. or quer.) |
| quer. - complainant (also pl. or qu.) |
| q.v. - quantum vis (Latin, = as much as
you wish) |
| v. - versus |
| W. - King William |
| yeo. - yeoman |
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| Conventions
used in the catalogue |
[ ] Square brackets |
Information within square brackets will not be found in the
actual documents. They contain additional information to aid
research. |
| Dates |
A slash in the date [year] indicates that
it was a date using the old calendar. The 'old calendar' format
applied to dates before January 1752.
What is meant by the term 'old calendar' is that the church
year did not begin on the first of January before that time.
Prior to 1752 the church year began on Lady Day, which was 25th
March. Parish registers, therefore, ran from the March of one
year to the March of the following year and the calendar applied
to legal documents as well.
The Wolley Manuscript Indexes on this site are presented using
the 'modern calendar', with the year beginning on 1st January.
So some of the dates have been adjusted to avoid confusion.
You will notice this for all dates between the months of January
and March for the years before 1752. For these dates there will
be a slash [/] shown in the year (e.g. 15 Feb 1741/2 shows it
was an old calendar date for the year 1741, but acknowledges
the modern calendar where the actual year would have been 1742).
See
Dates: Old and New Calendar in the Notes on Phillimore's
Marriage Indexes
There has been no attempt to distinguish between dates of original
documents and dates of copies of documents that are held in
the manuscripts.
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| Names |
1. Before end of reign of Henry VIII (1547):
Names of both people and places are given as found in original
documents, though Christian names have been translated from
Latin into English.
It is sometimes difficult to tell whether the surname is referring
to the place. For example, whether Ann de Matlock would be Ann
of Matlock or whether it would be Ann Matlock. Please
note that these names are only an example and are not found
in the documents
See the
Surnames Index
2. Reign of Edward VII onwards (post 1547):
Names of both people and places generally show modern spelling,
unless indicating a different pronunciation. However, surnames,
smaller places (eg. farms, fields, manors) are as in the documents.
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