Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills

PREFACE

“Let’s choose executors, and talk of wills; And yet not so,--for what can we bequeath, Save our deposed bodies to the ground?”

An addition to the fifteen millions of books of which the world is now possessed demands an explanation, if not an apology.

In my experience as a lecturer on the Law of Wills, and in the practical administration of estates controlled by w...