A STRANGE WILL.
The following extract is taken from " Curiosities of "the Search-room '' (page 106):—" I give and bequeath the annual sum of £10,- to be paid in perpetuity out of my estate, to the following purpose : It is my will and pleasure that this sum shall be spent in the purchase of a certain quantity of the liquor vulgarly called whiskey, and it shall be publicly given out that a certain number of persons, Irish only, not to exceed ' 20, who may choose to assemble in the cermtery in which I shall be interred on the anniversary of my death, shall have the same distributed to. them. Further, it is my desire that each shall receive,it by half a pint afc a time, till the whole is consumed, each being likewise provided with a stout oaken stick, and that they shall drink it all on the spot. Snowing what I know of the Irish character, my conviction-is that, with these materials given, they will not fail to destroy each other, and when, in the course of time, the race comes to be exterminated, this neighbourhood at least may, perhaps, be colonised by civilised and respectable Englishrueu. (17th March, 1791)." .v :
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3805, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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201A STRANGE WILL. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3805, 9 March 1881, Page 2
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