[22] II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, p. 326. [23] II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, p. 327. [24] _Ante idem._; Beame’s Glanville, p. 118. [25] I. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 313. [26] I. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 313. [27] I. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 314. [28] III. Reeve’s History English Law, 215. [29] III. Reeve’s History English Law, 125. [30] IV. Reeve’s History English Law, 123, 124. [31] II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, p. 335. [32] Nicholas’ “Testamenta Vetusta.” [33] II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, pp. 334, 335. [34] II. Pollock and Maitland’s History English Law, p. 337. [35] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 22. [36] Maine, Ancient Law, ch. 7, p. 217; III. Essays in Anglo-American Legal History, pp. 780, 781. [37] IV. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 115. [38] IV. Reeve’s History English Law, 117. [39] V. Reeve’s History English Law, pp. 81, 82. [40] V. Reeve’s History English Law, p. 82. [41] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 25. [42] King Richard II., Act II., Scene I. [43] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 25. [44] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 29. [45] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 39. [46] Published by Little, Brown & Co., 1911. [47] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 87. [48] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 94. [49] _Ante idem._, 101. [50] Schutt’s Memorabilia Judaica, lib. iv, cap. 18. [51] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 105. [52] _Ante idem._, p. 105. [53] _Ante idem._, p. 107. [54] _Ante idem._, p. 111. [55] _Ante idem._ p. 123. [56] _Ante idem._ p. 139. [57] For collection of the many beautiful prayers in the plays, see the interesting book by Mary A. Wadsworth, “Shakespeare and Prayer,” by The Welch Publishing Co., Chicago. [58] White’s “Law in Shakespeare,” p. 5. [59] Harris, Ancient Wills, pp. 305, 309. [60] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 369. [61] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 407. [62] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 427. [63] Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 439. [64] Dixon’s “Life of Penn”; Stoughton’s “William Penn”; Harris, Ancient Wills, p. 291. The will of Penn, and other of the earlier patriots of the United States who drew their own wills, in such manner as to cause protracted litigation, suggests the old poem, tuned to the toast of a century ago, “The lawyer’s best friend—the man who makes his own will,” inscribed to “The jolly testator who makes his own will.”