Sir Walter Manney, on St. Andrew’s day, in 1371, in London, provided for his interment, “at God’s pleasure,” in the midst of the Quire of the Carthusians, near Smithfield, in the suburbs of London, without any great pomp. He directed twenty masses be said for his soul and that every poor person attending his funeral, be given a penny to say a prayer for his soul and the remission of his sins. He left ten pounds to his sister, the nun, Mary; left a provision for each of his two bastard daughters and to his dear wife, the plate which he bought of Robert Francis, also a girdle of gold, a garter of gold and all of his beds and girdles, except his folding bed, which he left to his daughter of Pembroke. He willed that a tomb of alabaster with his own image thereon, as a knight and his arms thereon should be constructed, like unto that of Sir John Beauchamp, at Paul’s London, and that prayers should be said for his soul and also for that of Alice de Henalt, the Countess Marshal and Sir Guy Bryan, Knt., was appointed executor of his will.[44] Queen Katherine of Aragon, wife of Henry VIII., who died in 1536, after providing for the burial of her body in the Convent of Observant Friars, supplicated the King in her last will,[45] to return the property that she had brought to him from Spain, out of which she stipulated for the payment of the annual wages due her physician, her druggist, her laundress, goldsmith and tailor; she left the collar of gold she had brought from Spain to her daughter and provided for masses for her soul and legacies to different priests and lady friends. Harris, in his recent book on “Ancient, Curious and Famous Wills,”[46] reproduces, verbatim, many curious and strange testaments, evidencing the weaknesses, humors, whims and caprices, and sometimes, even the vengeance of the various testators, whose wills he has collected. William Pym, for instance, a gentleman of Somerset, England, who crept to his long sleep of death on January 10’, 1608, after providing for different charitable behests, thus speaks of his wife, in his will:[47] “I give to Agnes, which I did a long time take for my wyfe—till she denyd me to be her husband, all though wee were marryd with my friends’ consent, her father, mother, and uncle at it; and now she sweareth she will neither love mee nor evyr bee perswaded to, by preechers, nor by any other, which hath happened within these few years. And Toby Andrewes, the beginner, which I did see with mine own eyes when he did more than was fitting and this, by means of others, their abettors. I have lived a miserable life this six or seven years, and now I leve the revenge to God—and ten pounds to buy her a gret horse, for I could not, this menny years, please her, with one gret enough.”