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‘You think there’s a surviving will?’ Jay’s voice oozed scepticism.
‘There could be. There really could be. People’s wills are a great source of historical info, especially from the early modern period. It’s the one kind of document anyone with any property at all would create, and since they were important they tended to be cared for. Lots of last-will-and-testaments have survived, relatively speaking. And Cicily was an Elvyng. We know that family line has survived, and if they’ve managed to hang on to the same house all these centuries, surely they’ve hung onto a lot of family papers too.’
Jay began to look revived. And thoughtful.
‘The difficulty is getting hold of them,’ I said. ‘I already conducted a search of the Academy’s attics and didn’t find anything like that.’
‘Attics?’
