Excerpt from Somerset Medieval Wills, 1501-1530: With Some Somerset Wills Preserved at Lambeth The volume now issued to the subscribers is a continuation of vol xvi, and provides a further instalment of Wills from 1501 to 1530, with an Appendix of Wills of various dates preserved in the Archiepiscopal Registers at Lambeth Palace. The original intention was to have included all the Wills at Somerset House before 1558, at which date the collections of the late Rev. F. Brown (Somerset Wills, 6 vols., 1887-1890) begin; but their number and size rendered this impracticable. If possible, the gap still remaining will be filled up by volume xx, to be issued in 1904. Unfortunately the steady shrinkage in the number of subscribers renders it more and more difficult to find the money for the necessary expense of transcribing the records waiting to be printed. The issue of the Blue Book containing the report of the Commission on Local Records, with the Appendix of what may fairly be called "Awful Revelations" as regards their present condition, has drawn public attention to the wealth of records which relate to the everyday life of the people from the dawn of the seventeenth century, to be found in nearly every County and Ancient Borough. Few seem to be aware of their existence, and fewer still of their value. 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.