Excerpt from A Selection of Wills From the Registry at York, Vol. 6 The other statute, called the Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. VIII, Cap. 1, is still in operation. The preamble is so good an example of the language habitually used at that period in speaking of or to the King, that it seems worth while to give it at length. When it is remembered that only three years before the Pilgrimage of Grace had been put down with the utmost cruelty, and that at the very time this Parliament was sitting the greater religious houses were ...
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Excerpt from A Selection of Wills From the Registry at York, Vol. 6 The other statute, called the Statute of Wills, 32 Hen. VIII, Cap. 1, is still in operation. The preamble is so good an example of the language habitually used at that period in speaking of or to the King, that it seems worth while to give it at length. When it is remembered that only three years before the Pilgrimage of Grace had been put down with the utmost cruelty, and that at the very time this Parliament was sitting the greater religious houses were being suppressed against the desire of the great bulk of the people, it will be possible to estimate the truthfulness of these inflated periods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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