SNIPPET: "I, John LANGLEY, born in Wincanton, in Somersetshire, and settled in Ireland in the year 1651, now in my right mind and wits, do make my will in my own handwriting. I do leave all my house, goods, and farm at Black Kettle of 253 acres to my son, commonly called 'Stubborn Jack,' to him and his heirs forever, provided he marries a Protestant, but not Alice KENRICK, who called me 'Oliver's whelp.' My new buckskin breeches and my silver tobacco stopper with 'J. L.' on the top I give to Richard RICHARDS, my comrade, who helped me off at the storming of Clonmel when I was shot through the leg. My said son John shall keep my body above ground six days and six nights after I am dead; and Grace KENRICK shall lay me out, who shall have for so doing five shillings. My body shall be put upon the oak table in the brown room, and fifty Irishmen shall be invited to my wake and every one shall have two quarts of the best aqua vitae, and each one one skein, dish and knife bef! ore him, and when the liquor is out nail up the coffin, and commit me to the earth whence I came. This is my will; witness my hand this 3rd day of March, 1674." -- Excerpt, "The Irish, A Treasury of Art and Literature," ed. Leslie Conron Carola (1993)