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kirby’s wonderful museum.
IN THE WILL OF CHARLES PARKER, OF NEW BOND-STREET;
IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, BOOKSELLER. PROVED,
MARCH 1785.
I give to Elizabeth Parker, (the sum of fifty pounds),-
whom through my foolish fondness, I made my wife,
without regard to family, fame, or fortune; and who, in
return, has not spared, most unjustly, to acctise me of every
crime, regarding human nature, save highway robbery.
THE WILL OF SAMUEL JEFFERYj PURSER OF HIS MAJESTY’S
SHIP AMPHION,
Considering well, perils, and dangers of the seas, viz. that a
chance shot may kill the devil;
To my friends, Jack Dalling, Joe Cape, and Tom Board-
man, the sum of 101. between them, to pay for a good dinner,
which I wish them to have, in remembrance of me,anct request
they will drink a speedy and safe passage to me to the other
world. My rings, &c. to my brother William Henry Jef-
fery, to do with them, as his own saucy fancy may direct:
I particularly wish him to get a bit of my hair, (from what
part of me I don’t care), to put into a locket; and my
grand request is, that when it shall please God to call me
aloft, that some good fellow will stow my piciolo corpo in-
to my great strong chest:—If I die strait, they will, I know,
have occasion to force me in ; but, never mind, I ’ll pro-
mise not to sing out and then, after securing it well, to
keep me safe from all intruders, launch me overboard, in
good deep water, with plenty of ballast. And now, as I
have nothing more to give, bequeath, or request, I will
finish, by putting my hand and seal to this, my royal will,
10 o’clock, 10th January, 1810.
Proved, 2d July, 1812, by the oath of William Ely
Cook, Esq. the uncle of the said deceased.
kirby’s wonderful museum.
IN THE WILL OF CHARLES PARKER, OF NEW BOND-STREET;
IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, BOOKSELLER. PROVED,
MARCH 1785.
I give to Elizabeth Parker, (the sum of fifty pounds),-
whom through my foolish fondness, I made my wife,
without regard to family, fame, or fortune; and who, in
return, has not spared, most unjustly, to acctise me of every
crime, regarding human nature, save highway robbery.
THE WILL OF SAMUEL JEFFERYj PURSER OF HIS MAJESTY’S
SHIP AMPHION,
Considering well, perils, and dangers of the seas, viz. that a
chance shot may kill the devil;
To my friends, Jack Dalling, Joe Cape, and Tom Board-
man, the sum of 101. between them, to pay for a good dinner,
which I wish them to have, in remembrance of me,anct request
they will drink a speedy and safe passage to me to the other
world. My rings, &c. to my brother William Henry Jef-
fery, to do with them, as his own saucy fancy may direct:
I particularly wish him to get a bit of my hair, (from what
part of me I don’t care), to put into a locket; and my
grand request is, that when it shall please God to call me
aloft, that some good fellow will stow my piciolo corpo in-
to my great strong chest:—If I die strait, they will, I know,
have occasion to force me in ; but, never mind, I ’ll pro-
mise not to sing out and then, after securing it well, to
keep me safe from all intruders, launch me overboard, in
good deep water, with plenty of ballast. And now, as I
have nothing more to give, bequeath, or request, I will
finish, by putting my hand and seal to this, my royal will,
10 o’clock, 10th January, 1810.
Proved, 2d July, 1812, by the oath of William Ely
Cook, Esq. the uncle of the said deceased.