This is a fascinating picture of a widow writing what we'd today call a 'living will', in the 1780s. PROB 11/1143/398 at The National Archives
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'if it shall please God to afflict me before my Death’.
Emily explores the will of Mary Young, who anticipated that she might lose mental or physical capacity at the end.
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