The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790

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Will of the Month: A Huguenot Refugee and ‘Master Weaver of Stepney’

This month’s post explores the will of Daniel Godfroy, a Huguenot and ‘Master Weaver of Stepney’, who died in 1726 and whose will was ‘Translated from the French’.[1] Stepney, an ancient parish which included the Spitalfields area, was the heart of the London Huguenot community in the early eighteenth century: indeed some Londoners ‘complained that […]


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