ABSTRACT
I esteeme wills ... to be of the noblest sort of recordes; for yt they acquaint us wth more circumstances (and at the least wth no lesse certainty) then other recordes comonly do. As namely, the substance of the deceased especially in his personall estate, his wife, children, kindred, servants and his esteemed freindes (for of such consist his executors, supervisors, and legatees) his inclinations to piety, charity and bounty, the circumstantiall time (for the most part) of his death and the place of buriall; all wch give much light and satisfaction to such as listen after the memory of their ancestors.
