Curious, Eccentric, and Benevolent (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Curious, Eccentric, and Benevolent

Du Cange mentions Wills written on wood or bark; the latter in 699. Church chests were the depositories of Wills. From the Norman Conquest they had been generally written in Latin; but in the reign of Edward III. The English was used. Wills were made so far back as the reign of Henry I. (says another writer), in 1100, there was no law, however, to make them binding.

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In this little Volume I have placed before my readers a number of very curious Wills and Bequests - some very singular, and others very benevolent in their nature; but Time, which alters all things, does not pass over Wills. The purposes for which Bequests are made, alter with time and circumstance - in fact, many Bequests outlive the object for which they are intended; for instance, we hear of one man leaving money to redeem "Christian Slaves from African captivity;" another, to "promote bull-baiting;" and another leaving so much "for whipping dogs out of church." Some one oddly remarked, "That man's a fool who writes a letter, but he's a greater who destroys one."

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.