Kirby, R. S. [Editor]; Kirby, R. S. [Oth.]: Kirby's Wonderful And Eccentric Museum; Or, Magazine Of Remarkable Characters: Including All The Curiosities Of Nature And Art, From The Remotest Period To The Present Time, Drawn from every authentic Source. Illustrated With One Hundred And Twenty-Four Engravings. Chiefly Taken from Rare And Curious Prints Or Original Drawings. Six Volumes (Vol. V.) (London: R.S. Kirby, 1820)

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of envious performers., has retired from publicity, when
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SINGULAR WILLS:
(extracts from.)
THE WILL OF DAVID DAVIS, LATE OF CLAPHAM, IN SURRY,
PROVED, JANUARY 1788.
I give and bequeath to Mary Davis, daughter of Peter
Delaport, the sum of 5s. which is sufficient to enable her
to get drunk with, for the last time, at my expence; and I
give the like sum of 5s. to Charles Peter, the son of the said
Mary, whom I am reputed to be the father of; but never
had, or ever shall have any reason to believe.
IN THE WILL OF JOHN BASKERVILLE, LATE OF BIRMINGHAM,
IN THE COUNTY OF WARWICK. PROVED, MARCH 1775.
My further will and pleasure is, and I hereby declare, that
the devise of all my goods and chattels, as above, is upon
this express condition: that my wife, in concert with my
executors, do cause my body to be buried in a conical build-
ing, in my own premises, heretofore used as a mill, which
I have lately raised higher, and painted, and in a vault
which I have prepared for it. This, doubtless, to many
will appear a whim :—Perhaps it is so ; but it is a whim for
many years resolved on, as I have a hearty contempt of all
superstition, the farce of consecrated ground, the Irish bar-
barism of sure and certain hope, &c. I also consider
Revelation, as it is called, (exclusive of the scraps of mo-