Excerpt from Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A. D. 1258-A. D. 1688, Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London, at the Guildhall, Vol. 2: A. D. 1358-A. D. 1688

The wills enrolled in the Court of Husting, London a calendar of which is brought to an end in the present volume substantially realize the words of Sir Harris Nicolas just cited in two respects, for in number they comprise several thousand, and they extend from the earliest period to the end of the seventeenth century. To have literally followed out his suggestion and to have printed the wills in extenso and in their original lan guage would have been at once exceedingly laborious and expen sive, and moreover would have been doing more than he himself practised when engaged on a similar, though far less voluminous, work. Enough of the wills has been set out in these two volumes to afford the reader an insight into the domestic lives of families and individuals intimately associated with the municipal history of London, and oftentimes prominent in the more public affairs of the nation, such as he is seldom able to acquire.

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