TO-DAY IN HISTORY

Southland Times, Issue 20617, 16 October 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY IN HISTORY

OCTOBER 16. Born: Dr Albert Von Haller, physiologist, Berne, 1708; John G. Sulzer, writer on fine arts, Winterthur, 1720. Died: Bishops Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, martyred at Oxford, 1555; Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery, politician, 1679; Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Edinburgh, 1774; Marie Antionette, guillotined, Paris, 1793; John Hunter, anatomist, London, 1793; Victor Amadeus HL, of Sardinia, 1796; Joseph Strutt, antiquary, London, 1802; Sharman Crawford, Irish politician, 1861; Henry Martyn, oriental missionary, Tokat, 1812; Thaddeus Kosciusko, Polish patriot, Soleure, 1817. .Nathaniel Lloyd’s Will—Odd Bequests. On the 16th of October, 1769, Nathaniel Lloyd, of Twickenham, Middlesex, Esquire, completed his testament in the following terms:— z What I am going to bequeath, When this frail spark submits to death; But still I hope the spark divine With its congenial stars shall shine; My good Executors, fulfil, « I pray ye, fairly, my last will, With first and codicil. First, I give to dear Lord Hinton, At Tyrford school—not at Winton, One hundred guineas for a ring, Or some such memorandum thing; And truly, much I should have blundered, Had I not given another hundred To Vere, Earl Poulett’s second son, Who dearly loves a little fun. Unto my nephew Robert Longden, Of whom none say he ever has wrong x done, Tho’ civil law he loves to lash, I give two hundred pounds in cash. One hundred pounds to my niece Tuder (With loving eyes one Matthew viewed her) And to her children—just among ’em A hundred more, ancLnot wrong ’em, In equal shares I freely give it, Not doubting but they will receive it. To Sally Crouch and Mary Lee, If they with Lady Poulett be, Because they would the year did dwell In Twickenham House, and served full well, When Lord and Lady both did stray Over the hills and far away: The first, ten pounds: the other twenty; And girls, I hope that will content ye. In seventeen hundred,, sixty nine, This with my hand I write and sign, The sixteenth day of fair October, In merry mood, but sound and sober; Past my three score and fifteenth year, With spirits gay and conscience clear, Joyous and frolicksome, though old, And like this day, serene but cold; To foes well-wishing, and to friends most kind, / In perfect charity with all mankind. For what remains, I must desire, To use the words of Matthew Prior: “Supreme! All-wise! Eternal Potentate! Sole Author! Sole Disposer of my Fate! Enthron’d in Light and Immortality! Whom no man fully sees and none can see! Original of Beings! Power Divine! Since that I think, and that I live is thine! Benign Creator! Let thy plastic hand Dispose of its own effect. Let thy command Restore, Great Father thy instructed son, And in my act, may Thy great will be done!”