The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Will of the Month: Mary Andrews – from the Bubble to the Baltic

In this month’s post, one of our Expert Volunteers shares her research into one of the wills she came across when transcribing pages for our project. Liz Wood, archivist and project volunteer There is a formula, a routine, to official copies of probate records. The same impersonal clerical hand, standard phrases about mind, bodily health […]


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