Prerogative Will Office, Doctor's Commons

This office dealt with disputed wills worth £500 or greater within the see of Canterbury.

Doctor's Commons was the colloquial name for the College of Advocates and Doctors of Law. It contained both ecclesiastical and Admiralty courts, as well the barristers needed to run them (an entirely separate group of barristers than those associated with the Inns of Court). With new parliamentary legislation in the mid-nineteenth century turning responsibility for the ecclesiastical and admiralty courts over to civil courts (most notably regarding divorce) Doctor's Commons ceased to function and the buildings were demolished in 1867.