I looked at wills for long period this morning. My own conclusion is that the situation was a mixture. Some wills were officially rewritten and some were kept in their original form and basically notarized at the bottom. The same for inventories. The 1628 Wiseman inventory gives every impression (to me) as being an original document with a notarization at the bottom in another ink and hand. It would seem that the possibility the inventory was from the hand of William Carpenter are high. Bruce Carpenter Clinton, WA