The Romance of Wills and Testaments

The Romance of Wills and Testaments is a book by Edgar Vine Hall. It delves into the wills of deceased people of the past, using a romanticizing and poetic approach. Excerpt: "Strange histories, it will be seen, lie behind wills, dull and similar as at first sight the majority appears. The history may not always be explicit, but the suggestion conveyed by some gift or revocation, some phrase or fact, may often be completed by the reader's imagination. So Dorothy Skipwith, of Catesby, in Lincolnshire (will dated 1677), «did revoke and declare void the legacy of twenty guineas mentioned to be given to Mr. Shomoon, a Frenchman living in Whitehall, which she said she so revoked in regard he refused to come to her in the time of her sickness.»