Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy.
- Thomas Duffus Hardy
- Date:
- 1866
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report to the Right honourable the master of the rolls upon the documents in the archives and public libraries of Venice / by Thomas Duffus Hardy. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![Reveale it to any person liuing, it being a thing entrusted to them upon Confession, and for other neither can nor ought to be revealed. And therefore, with all humility, Reuerence, and submiss, I beseech his most X'ian Ma'*1 so to act with his Ma1' of Brittaine, that all Legacyes and disposalls made by me as aboue sayd, or shall be conteind afterwards in this my Testament, may be satisfyed and putt in Execution very punc- tually, besides the hundred and Eighty thousand Crowns of Rent disposed of to my sayd heires as it ought according to the will of me, the present Testator, who beggs it from his magnanimous blood, and for this cause, with all possible deuotion, I leave to their most Sacred X'ian and Brit- taine MatJS, beseeching them to grant it to me, and to execute all the sayd desires and disposalls wch I haue made, being all of them just and reasonable, haueing not demanded any thing but what is due to me, and so I end, repeating my prayers and Entreaties to theyr sayd most Serene Ma'1'* for the Loue of the liuing God, the supreme, omnipotent, just, and rigorous Judge, to doe me theyr just fauo18 wrh I have desired, and to fair' theyr owne blood. And for the abouesayd Legacyes made by me, wcb alltogether amount to the summe of 291m ducats, I will and beseech from the bottom of my heart his Ma'7 of Brittaine that he would giue some Regalo to my sayd Legataryes, that they may be disposed of to my wiue's kindred to whom I am oblidged, and on the other side to be expended for my soule and other things of that importance to me, that if 1 were liuing I ought to make them other demonstrac'ons of greater concernment, and all this over and aboue the sayd yearly Rent of 180m Crowns giuen to my heyrs, that is to say, my wife and the posthumous birth male or female, web ought to come intire into their hands without any dimunic'on. More over I desire his most X'ian Ma,y, with all humility and submis- sion, to use all meanes for and to procure from his Britannick Ma1' satis- faction of the sayd Legacyes in the manner abouesayd according to his accustomed generosity; and in case it be otherwise, to the End the said 291' Crownes may be secured and satisfyed with that punctuality woh I desire, I assigne and giue up with full and ample power my land and Marquisate de Duuignis to the value of 300m Crownes, and the surpusage of the sayd 291' to goe to the benefit of my wiue's said Father and Mother and brothers already borne or hereafter to be borne. Also I order and expressely com'and that the sayd Lady D. Teresa, my wife, shall for euer preserue her selfe a widdow, of wcb I am well secured. Also I desire withall Earnestnesse the sayd Sigr Fran00 Corona, in acknowledgm' of what I have disposed of to his benefit and to his house, that after any death he shall, assoone as he can after being con- fessed, haueing communicated, goe bare footed to the Archiepiscopall Church of Naples, where, being prostrate on his face to the Earth before the most holy Sacrament, he shall withall humility and deuotion pray the divine Ma'r to pardon me my sins, and afterwards to goe with the same mortification to the Chappell of St. Aspremo, where I espoused his daughter, and doe the same deuotions, and then in the same manner to goe [to] the monastery of St. Franco di Paula, into the Chappell where is to be erected my Tombe, in the same manner abouesJ to make the same prayers, wch are to continue at the least a quarter of an hour in euery place, and to be done with feruent deuotions of all the heart. I order that presently after the receipt of the said Legacyes my wiue's kindred shall place the sayd Ohiara Corona, my wiue's sister, in a monas- tery qualif}red for noble Ladyes, and give the sayd monastery 5,000 Crowns as her portion, prouided that the monastery shall neuer pretend to any further legacy then the 50m Crownes given by me to the said Chiara ; but of the rest the sayd Chiara shall haue the usu fruit during her life, to do wth it w' shee pleases, so that the monastery shall haue nothing to doe with it, and at her death the disposall of it shall be hirs, to giue to wcb of her kindred she pleases, to renunciate at the Renunciation she shall make at her profession. Also I order that if, perhaps, the posthumous issue wch shall be borne of my wife, now greate with child, shall not be borne aliue, woh God forbid,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21021284_0093.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
