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The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
Wills and will-making. In the London Quarterly Review for October, we have a long article upon two publications which have lately been made in England, one of them a collection of Royal wills, by John Nichols, and the other a collection of ancient wills, by Sir Harris Nicholas. Both these authors are processed antiquarians, and these publications were made with the avowed object of assisting those genealogical researches which are so frequent in England, and are becoming every year more difficult to conduct with success, as we recede from the time in which the wills were made. The first confines himself to wills made by the Kings, Princes, Queens, Princesses, and other sprigs of royalty, commencing with that of Alfred the Great, the oldest on record in England. The other deals with wills generally. The writer of the review under consideration says, that "for the performance of one of the great functions of history, the stripping off the mask, and discovering the real inten