It was sometimes even necessary to forbid nuns to make wills and bequeath their property.
And I give and bequeathto Elizabeth, daughter of John FitzRichard, nun of Appleton, to her own use, 40s.
And I give and bequeath to dame Margaret Depeden, nun of Barking, to her own use, 5 marks and one salt cellar of silver.
Burnham, thus provides for all the inmates of Swine: Item I bequeath to the Prioress of Swine, 3s.
I solemnly bequeath my Bones Unto my second sonny, Although I know they'll quickly be Converted into money.
Such creatures usually bequeath their property to Charitable Institutions at the expense of deserving relatives, who have, at any rate, in Equity, a claim to at least some small share thereof.
First, I bequeath my soul to all souls Sav'our, And will my body to be buried At Wakefield, underneath the abbey wall; And in this order make my funeral.
They could possess no private property; they could bequeath nothing; they could own nothing; but that which they owned in common with the rest of their body.
What rude things I had said to her, among others that I would bequeath to her my lungs, preserved in spirits of wine.
Is it not expedient then to exchange one's last bequests, especially if each is disposed to bequeath body and soul to the other.
I fearlessly represented to him that heing without children he would have no one to whom to bequeath the throne--that, doubtless, from the opinion which he entertained of his brothers, he could not desire to erect it for them?
If fall I must, I will notbequeath France to the Revolution from which I have delivered her.
Nobody doubted that it was the purpose of the queen, in default of immediate issue of her own, to bequeath the crown to her husband, whose descent from a daughter of John of Gaunt had been already much insisted on by his adherents.
To the people at large also, his instability on so momentous a point was harassing and alarming, and they became as much at a loss to conjecture what successor, as what religion, he would at last bequeath them.
Where the wife has separate real estate she may sell, mortgage or bequeath it as if she were "sole.
During the six years that he lived in our house, he frequently pressed us to go to America, offering us all that he should be able to do for us, and saying that he would bequeath his property to our children.
It may be that in the far future some brother of Boccace will bequeath to Paris as sweet a legend of the garden where beside the plague of blood the prophet of the universal Republic realized his dream in microcosm.
Howsever, if ye can persuade Jamie to bequeath and dispone to me his right to the damage, which I mean to assess at a thousand pounds, I'll implement Mr. Whitteret to pursue.
Luke 22:30] As though He said: Behold, man, in these words I promise and bequeath thee forgiveness of all thy sin and eternal life.
If he did not think it too much to bequeath to me, why should I so despise myself and not claim and take it?
I give and bequeath unto my sister Elizabeth Wellyfed 40l.
I give and bequeath to my parish church for my tithes forgotten, 20 shillings.
I give and bequeath to my nephew Christopher Wellyfed 40l.
I give and bequeath to 60 poor maidens in marriage, 40l.
I give and bequeath to every the five orders of Friars within the City of London, to pray for my soul, 20 shillings.
The parliament, therefore, with as much boldness as good sense, cut the knot, by granting Henry the power to bequeath the crown by will.
I give and bequeathto Hugh Whalley, my servant, 6l.
And of this my present testament and last will I make Roger More mine overseer; unto whom and also to every of the other mine executors I give and bequeath 6l.
I give and bequeath to my nephew William Wellyfed the younger 20l.
I give and bequeath to Stephen Vaughan, sometime my servant, 100 marks, a gown, jacket, and doublet.
I give and bequeath to William Brabazon, my servant, 20l.
And at the years of 24 the said lease and farm of Carberry, I do give and bequeath to my son Gregory, to have the same to him, his executors and assigns.
To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly.
Wilt thou forsake thy fortune, Bequeath thy land to him and follow me?
And yet Matthias's intention to bequeath to him the succession, met with little or no opposition in the elective states of Austria.
If he would bequeath to his successors a firmly established throne, and a durable prosperity to his subjects, this dangerous power must be for ever disarmed.
Besides this, does their property, which they can neither render as valuable as they wish, nor sell or bequeath as they may think proper, belong to them sufficiently to give them any pleasure or profit in its improvement?
Without hands could he bequeath to posterity the fruit of his labours, and the memory of his deeds?
