Francis Collins

Francis Collins, Shakespeare's lawyer, didn't make a fair copy of his client's will.It was written in two stages, in January and in March, and he patched the versions together.

It appears that in or shortly before January 1616, Shakespeare set out to finalize his last will and testament with the help of his lawyer, Francis Collins of Warwick.Collins, who served as Shakespeare's attorney for at least eleven years, was likely also a close friend of his client.