Excerpt from Curious, Eccentric, and Benevolent Du Cange mentions Wills written on wood or bark; the latter in 699. Church chests were the depositories of Wills. From the Norman Conquest they had been generally written in Latin; but in the reign of Edward III. The English was used. Wills were made so far back as the reign of Henry I. (says another writer), in 1100, there was no law, however, to make them binding. 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.