I put my head in my hands when I read that will, as I have proved that my ancestor was Elizabeth Shapleigh, nee Wise. However "my" Elizabeth Wise was born in 1601, married in 1620 to Robert Shapleigh and had at least eight children by 1641.
Luckily, none of the Victorian genealogists realised there were Shapleighs in my tree, so I ploughed a virgin furrow. Otherwise, I might have had a whole load of myths to dispell.
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