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TESTAMENT
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XXI
The last Will and Testament of Dr. Robert
Erskine 1
In the name of the Holy Trinity. Amen.
Inasmuch as by the Will of Almighty God, I have been
visited by grievous bodily weakness, which has so increased
that to all appearance my life will be ended and I shall
exchange this temporary for an eternal existence, in which case
may the Almighty in His mercy help me.
And because, according to the usage of Christians and for
the satisfaction of my conscience, I am resolved to bequeath
my property, moveable and immoveable, to my rightful heirs,
I being in sound mind, acting of my free will and acting
without constraint, so that if by the will of God, I depart
from this world, there may be no disputes or quarrels among
my heirs, and therefore what is here written will be righteously
observed ; and whoever shall act contrary to this will and my
last desires shall be entirely excluded from benefitting by this
bequest.
And in order that this my last will may be truly and in the
best way carried out, on this account I have requested the
following gentlemen, George William Kecking, a Colonel in
his Imperial Majesty’s Artillery and Commandant Olonetski, Let this i
together with the witnesses who are mentioned and have
signed below to be present at the execution of this my last
Will and Testament, so that all may be done in a straight¬
forward way without trickery or fraud.
I determine and bequeath as follows :
My money and cash in hand in England to my mother; and
if it happen that she is dead, then to the next heirs; the
money which I have in St. Petersburg, and the jewels, gold So be it.
1 The original will, which is in old Russian, is preserved in the Imperial
Archives in St. Petersburg. A copy of it will be found in the Russian work, The
History of the First Medical Schools in Russia, by Professor James Chistovich,
St. Petersburg, 1883, pp. 366-67. The above accurate translation has been
obligingly furnished by the accomplished Russian scholar, Professor W. R.
Morfill, of Oxford.
2 Marginal notes in the Czar Peter’s own handwriting.
425
XXI
The last Will and Testament of Dr. Robert
Erskine 1
In the name of the Holy Trinity. Amen.
Inasmuch as by the Will of Almighty God, I have been
visited by grievous bodily weakness, which has so increased
that to all appearance my life will be ended and I shall
exchange this temporary for an eternal existence, in which case
may the Almighty in His mercy help me.
And because, according to the usage of Christians and for
the satisfaction of my conscience, I am resolved to bequeath
my property, moveable and immoveable, to my rightful heirs,
I being in sound mind, acting of my free will and acting
without constraint, so that if by the will of God, I depart
from this world, there may be no disputes or quarrels among
my heirs, and therefore what is here written will be righteously
observed ; and whoever shall act contrary to this will and my
last desires shall be entirely excluded from benefitting by this
bequest.
And in order that this my last will may be truly and in the
best way carried out, on this account I have requested the
following gentlemen, George William Kecking, a Colonel in
his Imperial Majesty’s Artillery and Commandant Olonetski, Let this i
together with the witnesses who are mentioned and have
signed below to be present at the execution of this my last
Will and Testament, so that all may be done in a straight¬
forward way without trickery or fraud.
I determine and bequeath as follows :
My money and cash in hand in England to my mother; and
if it happen that she is dead, then to the next heirs; the
money which I have in St. Petersburg, and the jewels, gold So be it.
1 The original will, which is in old Russian, is preserved in the Imperial
Archives in St. Petersburg. A copy of it will be found in the Russian work, The
History of the First Medical Schools in Russia, by Professor James Chistovich,
St. Petersburg, 1883, pp. 366-67. The above accurate translation has been
obligingly furnished by the accomplished Russian scholar, Professor W. R.
Morfill, of Oxford.
2 Marginal notes in the Czar Peter’s own handwriting.
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| Description | Contents: The Scottish king's household and other fragments from a 14th century manuscript / Mary Bateson -- The Scottish nation in the University of Orleans, 1336-1538 / John Kirkpatrick -- Muster-roll of the French garrison at Dunbar, 1553 / Robert S. Rait -- The antiquity of the Christian religion among the Scots, 1594 / Henry D.G. Law -- The apology for William Maitland of Lethington, 1610 / Andrew Lang -- Some letters and correspondence of George Graeme / L.G. Graeme -- A Scottish journie, being an account in verse of a tour from Edinburgh to Glasgow in 1641, by P.J. / C.H. Firth -- Narratives illustrating the Duke of Hamilton's expedition to England in 1648 / C.H. Firth -- Certain papers of Robert Burnet ... Gilbert Burnet ... and Robert Leighton / H.C. Foxcroft -- Letters and documents relating to Robert Erskine, physician to Peter the Great, 1677-1720 / Robert Paul -- The will of Charlotte Stuart, Duchess of Albany, 1789 / Francis Steuart -- Index. |
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