The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Month: December 2024


Will of the Month: Mary Partridge, an orchard, but no pear tree

Our project is analysing a sample of 25,000 wills, and when writing each ‘Will of the Month’ post, it can be difficult to know how to select just one to write about. For December’s post, we wanted to write about a will with a loosely ‘Christmassy’ theme. Because the names of all the testators whose […]


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