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Excerpt from An Index to the Wills and Inventories Now Preserved in the Court of Probate, at Chester, From A. D. 1701 to 1720: With an Appendix Containing the List of the "Infra" Wills (or Those in Which the Personality Was Under £40), Between the Same Years
Inventories at Chester, 1545 to 1620; Vol. IV., Index to the Wills and Inventories at Chester, 1621 to 1650; Vol. XV., Index to the Wills and Inventories at Chester, 1660 to 1680; Vol. XVIII, Index to the Wills and Inventories at Chester, 1681 to 1700. 'there is no necessity to repeat here the information which is contained in the several introductions to those four volumes, in which a full account of the wills now preserved at Chester will be found.
It will be noticed that this volume, although containing all the wills now extant for a period of twenty years - 1701 to 1720 - is not so large as the corresponding volume between the years 1681 and 1700. Why this is so is not easy to explain, especially when we consider that the population was increasing, and we can do no more than record the fact. The volume for the next twenty years, 1721 to -1 740, will, I think, be found larger than this one and more nearly approaching that for the years 1681 to 1700.
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