Author : Henry Kingsley
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ISBN 13 : 9781331197294
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (972 download)
Book Synopsis Reginald Hetherege and Leighton Court (Classic Reprint) by : Henry Kingsley
Download or read book Reginald Hetherege and Leighton Court (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Kingsley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reginald Hetherege and Leighton Court He appointed Geoffry Talbot and William Hetherege his executors, leaving them 10,000 a-piece. "In order to secure my faithful servants, Robert and Anne Dicker, from any possibility of legal troubles, I have already provided for them by deed of gift during my lifetime. In the same manner I have done all which I intend to do for my illegitimate son, who at present bears my name, and for his half-sister. Robert and Anne Dicker are appointed his guardians, and the boy will bear the name which I have given to them in my instructions. If the boy does well, he has my blessing; if he does badly, I love him far too well to give him my curse." The whole of his estate was then to be realised and placed in the English funds. No one of his four principal relations, Hetherege, Talbot, Simpson, or Murdoch, or any of their male descendants living at the time of his death., were to take any further benefit from his property. After the death of his last living relation in either of the four families named, that was to say, after the death of Alfred Hetherege, son of William Hetherege (who being now twenty-four, might last to sixty-four), possibly in the year 1820, a settlement was to take place. The eldest male descendant of the Hethereges, not alive at his death, was to take one-half of the property then existing; the other half was to be divided equally among the living male descendants of the Simpson, Talbot, and Murdoch who were alive at his death. Such was the will. It entirely prevented any one save the executors from touching a penny, and left them exactly as they had been before. Not very long afterwards, Lord North was speaking to Lord Thurlow, of course about indifferent matters, for they were no longer colleagues. "Have you seen this lunatic merchant's will?" he asked. "Who would have thought that Digby would have gone mad at last?" "It is," said the great lawyer, "one of the cleverest wills I ever saw. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."
