Copy of the last will of Louis XVI. In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Amen. I, Louis the XVI. king of France, having been for better than four months detained with my family in the tower of the temple of Paris, by those who were my subjects, and deprived of all communication, even […]
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In the name of the most merciful Allah, This is the testament of Abubeker Ebn Abu Kohafa, which he made at that time when he was just going out of this world, and entering into the other; a time in which the infidel shall believe, and the wicked person shall be assured, and the liar shall speak truth. I appoint […]
And I entrust to my School in perpetuity the task of aiding Amynomachus and Timocrates and their heirs to preserve to the best of their power the common life in the garden in whatever way is best, and that these may help to maintain the garden in the same way as those to whom our successors in the School may bequeath it.
I ADAM GIFFORD, sometime one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Scotland, now residing at Granton House, near Edinburgh, being desirous to revise, consolidate, alter, and amend my trust-settlements and testamentary writings, and having fully and maturely considered my means and estate, and the circumstances in which I am placed, and the just claims and expectations of my son and relatives, and the modes in which my surplus funds may be most usefully and beneficially expended, and considering myself bound to apply part of my means in advancing the public welfare and the cause of truth, do hereby make my Trust-deed and latter Will and Testament
“Napoleon. “This 15th April, 1821, at Longwood, Island of St. Helena. This is my Testament or act of my last will. “1. I die in the Apostolical Roman religion, in the bosom of which I was born, more than fifty years since. “2. It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the […]
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