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Will at centre of legal battle over Shakespeare’s home unearthed after 150 years
Document from 1642 made by husband of Shakespeare’s granddaughter found in unlabelled box at National Archives
A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s family over who owned the playwright’s final home has been unearthed in an unlabelled box at the National Archives. The Nash will has now been rediscovered in a box of unlabelled chancery documents from the 17th century and earlier by Dr Dan Gosling, a principal legal records specialist at the National Archives. Though Shakespeare’s will had left his land and the property to his daughter and granddaughter, “it is possible Thomas Nash was making this will in the expectation that he would outlive Susanna and Elizabeth”, said Gosling.
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