“APPENDIX TO. CHRONICLE, 
253 
REMARKABLE TRIALS AND LAW CASES. 
TESTAMENTARY CAUSES. 
Prerogative Court, Doctors’ 
Commons.—Price and Kent v. 
Worthington—This was a_pro- 
ceeding relative to the validity of 
the will of the Rev. Hugh Worth- 
ington, late of Northampton- 
square, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, 
deceased, propounded on the part 
of Eliza Price and Wm. Kent, 
esq. the executors, and opposed 
by John Worthington, esq. the 
deceased’s brother, and only next 
relative. 
_ It appeared, that the deceased 
was a man of an advanced age, 
and a widower, without any re- 
lations but his brother and his fa- 
mily. He was minister of a sect of 
Protestant dissenters, and esteem- 
ed a man of great piety. He had 
from a very early period of life 
been acquainted with the Rev. 
Rees Price, also a dissenting mi- 
nister, and was much attached to 
him and his family, usually call- 
ing him brother, and his chil- 
dren calling the deceased uncle, 
and not knowing until late as 
they grew up that no such relation- 
ship subsisted. Upon the death 
of his wife in 1806, the deceas- 
ed (with their father’s permis- 
sion) received Miss Eliza and 
Miss Hannah Price into his house. 
They superintended his domestic 
arrangements, and . the former 
presided, at , his table, and _pos- 
sessed a very considerable por- 
tion of his regard. For about 
two years prior to his death, he 
was in avery declining state of 
health, and.on the 16th of J une, 
1813, appeared to have made his 
will, but which, notwithstanding 
due search was made at his death, 
could not be found. He was 
much in the habit of writing in 
short hand, and amongst some 
letters from Miss Eliza Price to 
him was found a paper in short 
hand, which on translation or ex- 
tension proved tobe to the fol- 
lowing effect :—‘* Northampton- 
square, June 16, 1813.—I, Hugh 
Worthington, give and bequeath 
to my dear Eliza Price, who is my 
adopted child, all I. do or may 
possess real and personal, to be at 
her sole and entire disposal. And 
I do appoint William Kent, Esq. 
of London-wall, my respected 
friend, with the said Eliza Price, 
to execute this my last will and 
testament.” Signed in the usual 
mode of handwriting, ‘ Hugh 
Worthington.” At the end ‘*Copy 
of my Will;” and on the back of 
the paper. this endorsement 10 
short hand, ‘ Most dearly be- 
loved, my Eliza, very small .as 
this. paper «is, it contains a copy 
of my last will. I.have put it 
with your letters, that it may be 
sure to-fall into, your hands, 
should accident or any other cause 
destroy the original. ‘Thaye taken 
