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EXTRAORDINARY WILL.
leagues distant from Lake Maggiore. They appeared not
so fresh as the former, and rather salty, like an egg a
week old. The shells had likewise lost something of
their whiteness.
Proofs were adduced that, for a period of 300 years,
nothing had been done to the vestry, of which the wall,
containing the eggs, made a part, excepting at the top,
for the purpose of repairing the roof. It was visited by
St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, who held
meetings there. In the same place there was a press for
holding the decorations and plate belonging to the altar ;
which piece of furniture was made on the spot, in the
year 1569, and which could not have passed through the
present small door, and no traces whatever of a larger
are to be seen. It therefore appears that these eggs were
preserved for about three centuries in this extraordinary
situation.
EXTRAORDINARY WILL.
On the 10th of February, 1798, a singular cause was
tried in the Court of Delegates, Doctors’ Commons. It
was instituted by the relations of Mrs. Hannah White,
against a paper, purporting to be her last will and testa-
ment; by which it appeared, that the testatrix left to the
mother of one of her servants 25Z. per annum, in trust
for the maintenance of five favourite cats, during the
course of their natural lives. She likewise bequeathed
to St. George’s and Middlesex hospitals 1000Z. each, a few
legacies to her domestics, and the residue of her estate,
which was very considerable, to the apothecary attending
her person. This extraordinary will was witnessed by an
attorney, and the clerk of the parish.
The Court, after hearing the arguments of Sir William
Scott,
EXTRAORDINARY WILL.
leagues distant from Lake Maggiore. They appeared not
so fresh as the former, and rather salty, like an egg a
week old. The shells had likewise lost something of
their whiteness.
Proofs were adduced that, for a period of 300 years,
nothing had been done to the vestry, of which the wall,
containing the eggs, made a part, excepting at the top,
for the purpose of repairing the roof. It was visited by
St. Charles Borromeo, Archbishop of Milan, who held
meetings there. In the same place there was a press for
holding the decorations and plate belonging to the altar ;
which piece of furniture was made on the spot, in the
year 1569, and which could not have passed through the
present small door, and no traces whatever of a larger
are to be seen. It therefore appears that these eggs were
preserved for about three centuries in this extraordinary
situation.
EXTRAORDINARY WILL.
On the 10th of February, 1798, a singular cause was
tried in the Court of Delegates, Doctors’ Commons. It
was instituted by the relations of Mrs. Hannah White,
against a paper, purporting to be her last will and testa-
ment; by which it appeared, that the testatrix left to the
mother of one of her servants 25Z. per annum, in trust
for the maintenance of five favourite cats, during the
course of their natural lives. She likewise bequeathed
to St. George’s and Middlesex hospitals 1000Z. each, a few
legacies to her domestics, and the residue of her estate,
which was very considerable, to the apothecary attending
her person. This extraordinary will was witnessed by an
attorney, and the clerk of the parish.
The Court, after hearing the arguments of Sir William
Scott,