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Can anyone tell me if there is an online Buckinghamshire wills index, please?  I have been unable to find one so far.  I'm trying to ascertain whether John Franklin, buried in Stoke Hammond in 1707, and his son Richard, buried in 1727, left wills.  I'm also wondering if anyone else is researching the Stoke Hammond Franklins?
Thankyou,
Carolyn

Thanks to you both for your helpful replies.  I've just spent a fascinating evening exploring Google Books.  It hadn't occurred to me to try that.  I was very pleased to see a drawing of the gravestone of Jeremiah Clark, as he is a member of my Clarke family.  I'd never heard of yields as being divisions within a parish.  Very interesting.  I was thinking Burnford was a hamlet, so that has been clarified.
Thanks again for responding.
Carolyn

How fascinating!  I'd never heard of John Byng before.  Cobbett, Young, Fiennes, yes, but not Byng.  I'd love to see his whole entry for Warwick, as this is the exact time John Plant arrived in the town.  I suspect he was also a publican between 1786 and 1795 before he took on the Brown Bear, likely in the St Nicholas area, as this is  the church where he and Rhoda baptized their children.  I know he had a garden on Southam St (1806 Survey of Warwick) but I'm not sure where this is/was.  I need to ascertain what inns/public houses were in the St Nicholas area, I think.

I found Byng's description of Stratford on Avon on the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust website.  This shows pages from his diary.  Beautiful.  The website also has this to say about Byng:
The Honourable John Byng, later fifth Viscount Torrington, was an aristocrat who had strong opinions on a wide array of subjects.  He hated injustice, cruelty, had no time for new-fangled fashions and loathed social pretenses.  His diaries offer his thoughts on everything from absentee parsons and landlords, landscape gardening, food, inns, and enclosures - all of which he seems to detest!  His candour and attention to detail give us a fascinating insight into life, travel and tourism of the times.  He may not have been able to take to Trip Advisor to voice his opinions, but he knew what made a good inn and a good breakfast.

He sounds quite a character, but being an aristocrat, perhaps his opinions about the Swan Inn at Warwick were somewhat biased to start with.  Thank you for bringing him to my attention.
Carolyn

So, I have had two replies from the help desk, and it's a cautionary tale.  The first one said I had made a mistake with the registry.  It should be Principal Registry, not Worcester, they said.  They sent me a screen shot of my order, which showed that I had stated the Principal Registry!  The second response was a form letter:

Dear Customer.  We are currently experiencing some technical issues with our online ordering service, which are causing some customers to receive an error message when attempting to change their passwords.  Our IT team is currently investigating this problem, and it appears to be a temporary glitch that has affected a limited number of customers.  In the meantime, we recommend ordering a hard copy whilst we are trying to solve the issue.

Of course, as I pointed out to them, I have had this problem since 2022, so it is not a temporary glitch in my case.  Nor am I trying to change my password!   I will not be ordering a hard copy, because I live in Canada and cannot write them the cheque they say is how I must pay.  A banker's draft would make this expensive too.  I am not at all impressed with this service, I'm afraid!