Him Janet, The Palatine and Consistory Court of Durham covered almost all of these two counties, and a database and images of the calendars together covering 1540-1858 is available online, but only within the University of Durham. The North East Inheritance project is underway to re-index and scan all wills and make them available to download. The manuscript calendars are available on microfilm at the NDFHS Library at Bolbec Hall, Newcastle. Origins Network has indexed all the records of the Peculiar of the Archbishop of York in Hexham and Hexhamshire 1593-1602, and the Peculiar of the Prebend of Tockerington 1741-1744 in it's York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883. These were the only peculiars in Northumberland, and there were none in Durham. http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/probate.php See also http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=168 Stan