“In witness whereof I have to this my last will and testament contained in six sheets of paper set my hand this twenty eighth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and ninety six. “FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.” Then follows the attestation clause. There are three codicils to this unusual will; the first making slight changes in legacies, but of no particular interest to the general reader. There are two items in the second codicil worthy of reproduction and they are here given: “4. I revoke the paragraph numbered 6 of my said will and bequeath the letters, papers, manuscripts and books which I thereby requested might be destroyed and the majority of which I believe should be destroyed, to my said cousin, Henry Bonham Carter. “5. I bequeath to Elizabeth Mary Wiggins the sum of twenty pounds and my cats; and to my maid Ellen Kate Tugby, if she shall be in my service at the time of my death, my parrot and the sum of two hundred and five pounds with my best thanks for her loving service; and to my messenger, William Magee, if he shall be in my service at the time of my death, the sum of forty five pounds with my best thanks for his faithful service.” The third and last codicil contains nothing which is of special importance. WILL OF PHILIP, FIFTH EARL OF PEMBROKE Those who possess leisure and patience for the research might find in the pigeon holes of will offices some remarkable evidences of human malignity. Among the most capricious, perhaps, is the specimen we subjoin, penned by an Earl of Pembroke, who lived during the political turmoils of the seventeenth century; it testifies to a shrewd knowledge of character, and is expressed with a considerable amount of dry humor which considerably softens its severity. The copy from which this is taken bears the signature of the then keeper of these records--Nathaniel Brind--beneath the words “Concordat cum originali.” “I, Philip, V Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, being, as I am assured, of unsound health, but of sound memory--as I well remember me that five years ago I did give my vote for the despatching of old Canterbury, neither have I forgotten that I did see my King upon the scaffold--yet as it is said that Death doth even now pursue me, and, moreover, as it is yet further said that it is my practice to yield under coercion, I do now make my last will and testament.