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by Renee Bernard


  I give and bequeath to my sister Octavia North Barrows the cameo that belonged to our mother.

  I give and bequeath to Daniel Goodenham, Viscount North Barrows, the sum of one thousand pounds of Lawful money of Great Britain.

  I give and bequeath to my nephew Peter Priske, Earl of Widcombe, my 1721 edition of The Works of Geoffrey Chauceras.

  I give and bequeath to my niece Gwnedolyn Beck, Marchioness of Halesworth, the blue and gold porcelain tea service.

  I give and bequeath to Blade Hambly, controlling interests in two cooper mines and my collection of papers by astronomers William Wolleston, William Herschel, Pierre Simon Laplace and John Goodricke.

  I give and bequeath to Lucien De Roye, my holdings of stock in the East India Dock Company.

  I give and bequeath to Clive DeLisle, the red, orange, blue, green, gold and silver monstrosity of a vase.

  I give and bequeath to Christopher Deering, Marquess of Brauning, my marbled clay pipe.

  I give and bequeath to Jane Hawkins, the Kirkbourne estate.

  I give and bequeath to Viscount Sutton, my 1725 edition of Homer’s Odyssey.

  I give and bequeath to Baron Dinedor, ten thousand pounds of Lawful money of Great Britain.

  I give and bequeath to Mr. Gryffyn Cardew, the parcel of Lancarrow land as laid out in the original sale.

  I give and bequeath to Adam Vail, the land currently occupied by the Boswell gypsies.

  I give and bequeath to St. David’s Church in the village of Bocka Morrow, two thousand pounds of Lawful money of Great Britain, for their roofing fund.

  I give and bequeath to my servant and valet, Mr. Simpkins if he lives with me at the time of my Death all my wearing apparel and one years wages above what may be due to him at my Decease.

  Likewise I give to my servants, Mrs. Bray, Mr. Drake, Mrs. Woodead and Mr. Morris, if they live with me at the time of my Death, one years wages above what may be due them at my Decease.

  All the residue of my personal Estates of what nature or kind whatsowever and wheresoever I give to Allan Hambly and I Hereby Charge both my Real and personal Estates with the payment of my Just Debts and Legacies.

  Lastly, I nominate and appoint Allan Hambly as Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament revoking all other wills made by me.

  In Witness whereof I, the said, Jonathan Hambly, Earl of Banfield, to this my Last Will and Testament have set my Hand and Seal this 11th Day of August in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eleven.

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