![[Product Image]](images/fhp-033.jpg) Words from Wills
and Other Probate Records
By Stuart A. Raymond. 114 pages. ISBN 1-86006-181-8.
Wills and other probate records of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries are
vital sources for family and local historians, and have been used for a wide variety
of purposes by modern researchers. They provide genealogists with much information
on particular families, they enable local historians to reconstruct the culture
of the people who wrote them, and they give the basic data from which studies can
be made of topics as diverse as furniture, literacy, and agriculture.
The words used in them are, however, often no longer used in modern English,
and may be difficult to understand for newcomers to historical research. Andirons,
beres, and winding sheets were all very familiar terms to our seventeenth-century
ancestors, but the average person today would have no idea what they were. The purposes
of this book is to provide definitions for words commonly found in early modern
probate records.
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