William Shakespeare's
Last Will & Testament
25th March 1616

My Shakespearian Links
One of our main aims for this web site is to promote some of the wonderful organisations that publish fascinating and remarkable information about our rich English history. If you've a little time to spare please follow some of our links ­ if like us you enjoy wills, history and things Shakespearian ­ we promise you won't be disappointed.
Books:
Elizabethan Life: Home, Work and Land edited by F.G. Emmison
Elizabethan Life: Essex Gentry’s Wills edited by F.G. Emmison
Essex Wills — 14 volumes for different time periods
Published by the Essex Record Office in collaboration with The Friends of Historic Essex
How Much Is That Worth? By Lionel Munby
Reading Tudor and Stuart Handwriting by Lionel Munby

Internet:

The Public Record Office — where they have numerous wills, books, manuscripts, maps and records of people great and humble, and of life in general in England going back hundreds of years.








The BBC WebGuide to Shakespeare — at the BBC WebGuide Home Page enter Shakespeare into the Search box.




The three page last will and testament of William Shakespeare has been faithfully reproduced and is folded along the original crease lines, ribbon-tied and beautifully presented in a satin-lined, leather-grained card finished burgundy gift box. Only a limited number of the wills can be printed before 31st March 2002. Each set has been produced under a license issued by the British National Archives. The box measures 13.5 inches x 5.5 inches (340 x 140 mm) and contains the will plus a 34 page companion booklet providing translation and understanding of the will plus insights into life in Elizabethan England.

The Shakespeare Booklet contains:

The Shakespeare family tree, bequest information explaining the will's contents, transcript of the will, conservation and repair of the will and how they were carried out, how much Shakespeare was worth when he died, British currency from 13th century to present day, how to read 17th century handwriting, entertaining facts from Did You Knows? of England - the origins of 'frog in the throat' 'humble pie' 'tips' 'posh' etc, information about home life, work, crime and weapons in Elizabethan England, extracts from the wills of Elizabethan knights, yeomen, servants, widows and gentlemen, lists of popular Elizabethan names, trades and occupations ... plus much more!


Special Limited Edition Price:  Within the UK GB£19.99.  Overseas USD $39.99

Gift Box Set

We also have No-Frills-Wills – which consist of the will and the booklet without the satin-lined gift box. The price for these are: Within the UK GB£14.99 Overseas USD $34.99 or a foreign cheque equivalent to GB£25

Basic WIll Set

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