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Over the years, I have read and analysed many hundreds of sets of probate records. The earliest I’ve used date from the later Middle Ages, the most recent from only a couple of decades ago. There have been wills aplenty of course, and also many grants of administration and probate inventories, as well as the less usual types of documentation – tuition bonds, renunciations of