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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 8. 1855. 



stitution, I am in hopes government or the supreme court 

 will devise the best institui ion for the public good; and 

 to have it, as I said above mentioned, the name of the 

 institutor ; after every article of my or this will and 

 testament is, or are fully settled, and every article pro- 

 vided and paid for the several pension, or other gift, 

 donation, institution, and other, any sum remaining may 

 be made to serve : first, buy or build a house for the 

 institution, as that it may be made permanent and per- 

 jtetual, by securing the interest by government paper, 

 either in India or Europe, that the interest annually may 

 support the institution ; for this reasons, I give and be- 

 queath one hundred and fifty thousand sicca rupees more, 

 according to the proportion that may remain after every 

 articles of this testament is fulfilled, then this sum to be 

 added for the permanency of that institution, making the 

 sum of three hundred and fiftj- thousand sicca rupees. 

 " (Signed) Cl. Martin." 

 Article 25th : 



" I give and bequeath the sum of two hundred thousand 

 sicca rupees, to be deposited in the most secure interest 

 fund in the town of Lyon, in France ; and the magistrates 

 of that town to have it managed under their protection 

 and control ; that above-mentioned sum is to be placed, 

 as I said, in a stock or fund bearing interest, that interest 

 is to serve to establisli an institution for the public benefit 

 of that town ; and the Academy of Lyon are to devise the 

 best institution that can be permanently supported with 

 the interest accruing of the above-named sum ; and if no 

 better, to follow the one devised in the Article twenty- 

 fourth, as at Lucknow ; the institution to bear the name 

 of ' Martinifere,' and have an inscription made at the 

 house of the institution, mentioning the same title as the 

 one of Calcutta; and this institution to be established at 

 the Place St. Pierre. St. Safurine being where I had 

 been christened, there at that place to buy or build a 

 house for that purpose ; and to marry two girls every 

 year, to each two hundred livres tournois, besides paying 

 about one hundred livres for the marriage and feast of each 

 of those who married ; or if the institution such as the 

 Lucknow one, educating a certain number of boy and girl, 

 then they are to have a sermon and a dinner for the school- 

 boys and those who are married, and they are to drink a 

 toast in memory of the institutor; and a medial is to be 

 given of the value of fifty livres, with a premium in cash, 

 or in kind, to be about two hundred livres, to the boy or 

 girl that has been the most virtuous and behaved better 

 during the course of the year; and also to have a pre- 

 mium of the value of one hundred livres for the second 

 that behave better; and also a third premium of about 

 sixty livres for a third that behave better. I am in hope 

 that the magistrate of the town will protect the institu- 

 tion ; and in case tlie sum above allowed, of two hundred 

 thousand sicca rupees, is not sufficient for a proper in- 

 terest to support the institution, and buying or building 

 the house, then I give and bequeath an additional sum 

 of fift}' thousand sicca rupees, making two hundred and 

 fifty thousand sicca rupees. One of my male relations 

 residing at Lyon may be made administrator or executor, 

 joined with any one appointed by the magistrate, to be 

 manager of the said institution ; and these managers are 

 to have an ceconomical commission for their trouble, 

 taken from the interest of the sum above mentioned. I 

 also give and bequeath the sum of four thousand sicca 

 rupees, to be paid to the magistrates of the town of Lyon, 

 for to lil>erate from the prison so man}' prisoners as it 

 may extend, such that are detained for small debt ; and 

 this liberation is to be made the day of month I died, as 

 that the remembrance of the donor may be known, and 

 my name, Major-general Martin, as the institutor; and 

 as given and bequeathed the sum of four thousand sicca 



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rupees, for to liberate some poor prisoners as far as that 

 sum can afforded. This I mention to have it made known, 

 as that if neglected that some charitable men ma}-^ ac- 

 quaint the magistrate of the town of Lyon, as that they 

 might oblige my executor, administrator, or assigns to 

 pay the sum above said, and be more regular in their 

 payments, 



" Signed by me, Cl. Martin." 



He desires to be buried at Lucknow, to be em- 

 balmed, to be afterward deposited in a leaden 

 coffin ; and this coffin to be put in another of 

 " Sisso-wood," and to be deposited in the cave of 

 " my monument or house at Luekperra, called 

 Constantia." He provides for the upholding of 

 the said tomb, and provision for two persons to 

 act as " Deroga," or the guardians of his tomb. He 

 makes further provision to keep Luekperra, or 

 Constantia House, as a college for instructing 

 young men in the English language, or English 

 religion, if they find themselves inclined ; and for 

 the taking care of " my tomb," and also serve to 

 lodge certain numbers of day-strangers coming to 

 Ijucknow ; but never to remain in it above two 

 months, and not to be permanent residents, but to 

 give room to other comers. 



Major-General Cl. Martin dying during the 

 war, large accumulations of property necessarily 

 took place; and, at the peace of 1815, legal in- 

 quiries were inevitable. They have been for some 

 years brought to a successful conclusion, and the 

 various institutions named in his will flourish at 

 Calcutta and Lyons, under the title of " La Mar- 

 tiniere." J- F. Y. 



MANUSCRIPTS RELATING TO ESSEX. 



(VoLxii., p. 362.) 



For the sake of Essex historians and' topo- 

 graphers it may perhaps be desirable to add 

 somewhat to the note of G., directing attention to 

 the MSS., formerly preserved at Stowe, and now 

 deposited in the library at Ashburnham. Morant's 

 own collections seem to have chiefly related to 

 Colchester ; and it is probable he contented him- 

 self Avith borrowing from the labours of his pre- 

 decessors for the history of the rest of the county. 

 Who these were he tells us himself, in the Preface 

 to his History of Essex, 1768, in the following 

 words : 



" The first person who laid the foundation of this his- 

 tory was Thomas Jekyll, Esq., son and heir of John 

 Stocker Jekyll, of Becking. He was born in the parish 

 of St. Helen's, London, 12 Jan., 1570 ; and lived to the 

 great age of eighty-two years [which will place his death 

 in or about the year 1651]. His profession was the law, 

 which he studied in Clifford's Inn ; and became Secondary 

 of the King's Bench, and one of the Clerks of the Papers. 

 By virtue of his profession and offices, he liad uncommon 

 opportunities of collecting materials for this History, which 

 he duly improved, bj' getting copies of the Inquisitiones 

 post Mortem, from the reign of Henry III. to their ceasing 

 iu the time of Charles I.; as also the pedigrees of the 



