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)

SINGULAR WILLS.

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The first, ten pounds; the other, twenty 5
And girls, I hope, that will content ye.
In seventeen hundred sixty-nine,
This with my hand I write and sign,
The sixteenth day of fair October,
In merry mood, but sound and sober ;
Past my three-score and fifteenth year,
With spirits gay and conscience clear,
Joyous and frolicsome, tho’ old,
And like this day, serene, but cold ;
To foes well-wishing, and to friends most kind,
In perfect charity with all mankind.
For what remains, I must desire,
To use the words of Matthew Prior :
Supreme 1 All-wise ! eternal Potentate 1
Sole Author ! sole Disposer of my fate ’
Enthroned in light and immortality 1
Whom no man fully sees, and none can see I
Original of Beings ! Power Divine !
Since that I think, and that I live, is thine 1
Benign Creator ! let thy plastic Hand
Dispose of its own effect I Let thy command
Restore, Great Father, thy instructed son,
And in my act, may thy great will be done !”
Proved, with second codicil, 11th April, 1774, by the
oaths of the Right Honourable Vere, Earl Poulett,
formerly the Honourable Vere Poulett, and James
Henckell, Esq. the executors.
OF ELIZABETH ORBY HUNTER, LATE OF UPPER SEYMOUR*
STREET, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, WIDOW, DECEASED.
I give and bequeath to my beloved parrot, the faithful
companion of twenty-five years, an annuity for its life, of
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