Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
about fifty shillings a yeare in or for Bacon and Cheese (not more) and
paying four pound a yeare toward the boarding of her sonnes dyet to
M^{r.} John Whitehead; for his Aunt Ken I desire him to be kind to her
according to her necessity and his own abilitie and I commend one of her
children to breed up (as I have said I intend to do) if he shall be able
to doe it, as I know he will, for they be good folke. I give--to M^{r.}
John Darbishire the Sermons of M^{r.} Anthony Faringdon or of Do^{r.}:
Sunderson, which my Executor thinks fitt: to my servant, Thomas Edghill,
I give five pound in mony and all my Clothes linnen and wollen (except
one sute of Clothes which I give to M^{r.} Holinshed and forty
shillings) if the said Thomas be my servant at my death, if not my
Clothes only; and I give my old friend, M^{r.} Richard Marriot, tenn
pound, in mony to be paid him within three Months after my death, and I
desire my sonne to shew kindness to him if he shall neede and my son can
spare it; and I doe hereby will and declare my sonn Izaak to be my sole
Executor of this my last will and testament and doctor Hawkins to see
that he performes it, which I doubt not but he will. I desire my burial
may be neare the place of my death and free from any ostentation or
charge but privately: this I make to be my last will (to which I shall
only add the Codicell for rings) this sixteenth day of August, One
Thousand Six hundred eighty three. Izaak Walton. Witnesse to this will
“The Rings I give are as on the other side.
“To my brother, Jon Ken; to my sister, his wife; to my brother, Doctor
Ken; to my Sister Pye; to M^{r.} Francis Morley; to M^{r.} George
Vernon; to his wife; to his three daughter; to Mristris Nelson; to
M^{r.} Richard Walton; to M^{r.} Palmer; to M^{r.} Taylor; to M^{r.} Tho
Garrard; to the Lord Bp of Sarum; to M^{r.} Rede, his servant; to my
cozen Dorothy Kenrick; to my Cozen Lewin; to M^{r.} Walter Higgs; to
M^{r.} Charles Cotton; to M^{r.} Rich: Marryot 22; to my brother
Beacham; to my Sister, his wife; to the Lady Anne How; to M^{rs.} King
Doctor Philips wife; to M^{r.} Valentine Harecourt; to M^{rs.} Eliza:
Johnson; to M^{rs.} Mary Rogers; to M^{rs.} Eliza: Milward; to M^{rs.}
Dorothy Wallop; to M^{r.} Will Milward of Christ church, Oxford; to
M^{r.} John Darbesheire; to M^{rs.} Unedvill; to M^{rs.} Rock; to M^{r.}
Peter White; to M^{r.} John Lloyde; to my Cozen Greinsells widdow,
M^{rs.} Dalbin, must not be forgotten 16; Izaak Walton note that
severall lines are blotted out of this will for they were twice repeated
and that this will is now Signed and Sealed this twenty and fourth day
of October, One thousand Six hundred eighty three, in the presence of us
Witnesse Abra: Markland, Jos: Taylor, Thomas Crawley.”
WILL OF DUKE OF WELLINGTON
Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington, died September 14, 1852: he
was probably born in Dublin, though both the place and date of birth are
uncertain. He is buried in St. Paul’s Cathedral, London.
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