Many old wills have been transcribed by researchers over the years. It is pretty certain that some wills have been transcribed many times by different persons.

It has been suggested that a a common clearing house would be useful to everyone. I am willing to consider publishing any transcriptions on my web site.

Transcriptions usually take one of two forms. A straight rendering of the text with no attempt to show the original pagination or a line by line transcription.
An example of a will transcribed under both systems may be found at :

www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/manx/famhist/wills/1706_rl.htm

and

www.lawsons.ca/biography/bio_00311.html

anyone interested?