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356 KIRBY’S WONDERFUL MUSEUM,
- own evident injury, and that of their distressed relatives. It is
a fact, that 20Z. was sent by a tradesman confined in the
King’s Bench prison, and who afterwards took the benefit
of the Insolvent Act.
When we consider Joanna Southcott’s incapability of
writing, what Ann Underwood and Mrs. Townley have as-
serted at the end of her prophecies in 1806, cannot be cor-
rect. Indeed, Joanna’s Will is a proof that much artifice
has been employed. We shall conclude this article with a
copy of the Will, against which Joanna’s brother put in a
caveat, on the ground of his sister’s insanity, but it is sup-
posed that the persons concerned, have by some means or
other persuaded him (who is also a religious character), to
withdraw his opposition.
Although these persons held back several papers men-
tioned in the Will and Codicil, they have reluctantly brought
a few forward, by which it appears that some are to receive
gifts of trifles, and others to have those presents which they
sent on the supposed accouchement, returned,
THE WILL.
(( I Joanna Southcott, now resident at No. 17, Weston-
place, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex,
do make this my last Will and Testament, in manner and
form following :—First, I resign and commend my soul into
the hands of my merciful Creator, Almighty God. I request
to be decently interred by my executor, hereafter named;
having no other property to leave at my death, only my share
in the houses left to me by the late Mr. Cosins, out of
which share, I give and bequeath to my brother William
Southcott, the sum of ten pounds a-year, during his life,
but not to his heirs : I give and bequeath to my sister, Su-
sannah Carter, the sum of ten pounds a-year, during her
life : I likewise give and bequeath to each of them, the sum
pf ten pounds for mourning, at my death : I give and be-
- own evident injury, and that of their distressed relatives. It is
a fact, that 20Z. was sent by a tradesman confined in the
King’s Bench prison, and who afterwards took the benefit
of the Insolvent Act.
When we consider Joanna Southcott’s incapability of
writing, what Ann Underwood and Mrs. Townley have as-
serted at the end of her prophecies in 1806, cannot be cor-
rect. Indeed, Joanna’s Will is a proof that much artifice
has been employed. We shall conclude this article with a
copy of the Will, against which Joanna’s brother put in a
caveat, on the ground of his sister’s insanity, but it is sup-
posed that the persons concerned, have by some means or
other persuaded him (who is also a religious character), to
withdraw his opposition.
Although these persons held back several papers men-
tioned in the Will and Codicil, they have reluctantly brought
a few forward, by which it appears that some are to receive
gifts of trifles, and others to have those presents which they
sent on the supposed accouchement, returned,
THE WILL.
(( I Joanna Southcott, now resident at No. 17, Weston-
place, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex,
do make this my last Will and Testament, in manner and
form following :—First, I resign and commend my soul into
the hands of my merciful Creator, Almighty God. I request
to be decently interred by my executor, hereafter named;
having no other property to leave at my death, only my share
in the houses left to me by the late Mr. Cosins, out of
which share, I give and bequeath to my brother William
Southcott, the sum of ten pounds a-year, during his life,
but not to his heirs : I give and bequeath to my sister, Su-
sannah Carter, the sum of ten pounds a-year, during her
life : I likewise give and bequeath to each of them, the sum
pf ten pounds for mourning, at my death : I give and be-