Examples of testator

• Attitudes varied amongst testators in a single locality, suggesting that this is not simply a reflection of scribal preferences.

• Executors probably acted as part of their responsibility to benefit the soul of a testator, although no grants obtained by them are specifically identified.

• Even where the law admitted free choice on the part of the testator, the eldest son was always preferred.

• If the testator wishes to leave the disposable part to a spouse, he or she must make a will.

• These wills are included in the post-married women's property acts group because the testator could have made changes after the passing of the law.

• However, it does refer, as is evident from the subsequent anaphor his which refers back to the dependent (a testator).

• An associated and similarly striking change concerns testators' relative indifference to burial.

• The status of about a quarter of the testators was not identified.

• Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.

• Nor does the register of names give a lot of help, for it just lists the 47 testators.

• Dissecting the documents she shows their structural components, draws out general trends concerning the age and origins of the testators, and discusses their legal context.

• How far could the wishes of the testator be overridden in the wider public interest?

• Finally, the only beneficiary named by 3 per cent of testators was a spouse (no kinship link).

• Indeed, in most instances, the number and size of the saints possessed by the testator had a direct correlation with the individual's wealth and status.

• The last three cases are unusual in that, although the testators had children of their own, they preferred their estate to be inherited by others.