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ElizabethHerts
26-09-19, 13:29
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D625683



Will of Philip Hawkins of Trewithan, Cornwall

Reference: PROB 11/707/391
Description: Will of Philip Hawkins of Trewithan, Cornwall
Date: 23 February 1741
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
ElizabethHerts
26-09-19, 13:32
It mentions

Spurway Quire Numbers: 1 - 43.

I know we have had a discussion about Quire Numbers before.
Phoenix
26-09-19, 13:36
Here you are:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/5111/40611_311199-00185/168588?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=40611_311199-00180
Phoenix
26-09-19, 13:37
It does appear to be indexed as Hawkins.
ElizabethHerts
26-09-19, 13:39
The Spurway Quire Numbers on Ancestry only go as far as 374.
ElizabethHerts
26-09-19, 13:40
Phoenix, you are a genius! I couldn't find it. The search didn't bring it up at all. I'm not sure how you found it!
Phoenix
26-09-19, 13:40
Only difference is that NA, inexplicably, have chosen to date it New Style.
Phoenix
26-09-19, 13:43
Found it by finding the next will and working backwards. (When I think of the old days, when you got the microfilm, and then scrolled through, hoping you'd got the numbering right, this is easy-peasy)
ElizabethHerts
26-09-19, 13:44
Is the Ancestry search still playing up? Perhaps that's why I couldn't find it. I tried every way I could to find it.
Phoenix
26-09-19, 13:48
Could well be. I've done searched for Johns born in Surrey and got zero results.
Merry
26-09-19, 15:02
I've never learned what those Quire numbers are about. Found the entry by entering the probate date on Ancestry and when it didn't come up I tried changing the year to 1740. Didn't read that Phoenix mentioned TNA had used the new style date until afterwards!
Phoenix
26-09-19, 15:40
You have your large piece of vellum (or whatever) and you fold it in half 3 times. One quire, of 16 modern pages.

Helpfully, the top right hand side is numbered as well. This does not happen in the older will registers. :(

And don't get me started on recto and verso. I have several completely useless and very expensive photocopies because I got it wrong! ;(