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Wills made before or shortly after this statute, how to be taken.
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X. And for as much as great ambiguities and doubts may arise by the validity and invalidity of wills heretofore made of any lands, tenements and hereditaments, to the great trouble of the King’s subjects; The King’s most royall Majestie, minding the tranquillity and rest of his loving subjects, of his most excellent and accustomed goodnesse, is pleased and contented, that it be enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that all manner of true and just Wills and testaments heretofore made by any person or persons deceased, or that shall decease before the first day of May, which shall be in the year of our Lord, one thousand sixe Hundred thirty and five, of any lands, tenements or other hereditaments, shall be taken and accepted good and effectuall in the law, after such fashion, manner and forme, as they were commonly taken and used, at any time within forty years next before the making of this act; any thing contained in this act, or in the preamble thereof, or any opinion of the common law, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
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