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Many county record offices and archives have published indexed volumes transcribing some of their original records. The Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, for example, has published many of its counties’ wills, royalist composition papers, freemen records and much else. Trawling through these can throw up all sorts of treasures.

The easiest way of finding out what has been published is through E. L. C. Mullins’ Texts and Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications, Vol. I (RHS, 1958) and Vol. II, 1957–1982 (RHS, 1983), D. and W. B. Stevenson’s Scottish Texts & Calendars: An Analytical Guide to Serial Publications (Royal Historical Society, London) and Scottish Royal Historical Society (Edinburgh, 1987). These may save you very lengthy searches through original records.