| Description | Caveats (warnings) might be issued against ordination, institution, the grant of probate, etc. Almost all of the surviving caveats relate to probate causes (caveats in bonis). These are warnings that probate or administration of the goods of a specified deceased person is not to be granted without notification to the person entering the caveat or to his proctor [proxy]. Most of the caveats were entered by relatives or creditors of the deceased. They are in annual bundles, often together with routine grants of sequestration on vacancies of benefices (B/A/8). Bundle 21 relates solely to caeats against clergy or schoolmasters.
There is in addition: bundle of caveats mainly against admission to orders, licensing to curacies, 1768-1793 (Ex D and C B/C/14).
Documents which were separate from the main series were deposited as part of LD412. |