The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . nd Robert of Hingham, in theyear 1556, upon his child then unborn. The will of 1540is, in fact, the will of that Roberts father, and it ignoresthe testators lands because those lands had already been set-tled, by means of the convenient surrender to uses in theManor Court, in accordance with his wish and intent. Inframing this, his last will, he saw no reason to disturb orvary that arrangement. This deduction tallies exactly withthe view of the case advanced by Edward Lincoln when,in the Chancery suit of 1621, he declares the lands that de-scended to his fathe
The ancestry of Abraham Lincoln . nd Robert of Hingham, in theyear 1556, upon his child then unborn. The will of 1540is, in fact, the will of that Roberts father, and it ignoresthe testators lands because those lands had already been set-tled, by means of the convenient surrender to uses in theManor Court, in accordance with his wish and intent. Inframing this, his last will, he saw no reason to disturb orvary that arrangement. This deduction tallies exactly withthe view of the case advanced by Edward Lincoln when,in the Chancery suit of 1621, he declares the lands that de-scended to his father Richard to have been the inheritanceof Robert Lincoln, father of the said Richard. Under theactual will Robert got only his fathers harness. His interestin the lands was already secure. Arch. Norfolk, Book 23 : 158. * Arch. Norfolk, Book 9 : 276, » Up to the reign of Henry VIII, no Englishman could leave his lands bywill away from his eldest son. Hence they were rarely mentioned, the eldestson succeeding as a matter of r-i
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