Excerpt from Lincolnshire Wills: Second Series A. D. 1600-1617; With Notes and an Introductory Sketch The foregoing list of families, which is by no means a complete one, will help the reader to understand how extinct and decayed families at the beginning of the 17 th century were replaced. I turn now to another source which is, perhaps, more interesting, in some respects, to study. I have spoken of the enrichment of the yeomanry, the purchase of landed property by mercantile families, and the plunder of the monasteries poured into a few favoured individuals, as furnishing another source from whence the ranks of the county families were recruited. Let us now take note of some remarkable instances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.