From Jackson's Oxford Journal ( Oxford, England ), Saturday, August 21, 1824; Issue 3721. CURIOUS WILL. - John Aylett STOW , late of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, deceased, proved the 8th of June, 1781:- " I hereby direct my executors to lay out five guineas in the purchase of a picture of the viper biting the benevolent hand of the person who saved him from perishing in the snow ( if the same can be bought for that money), and that they do, in memory of me, give it to Edward BEARCROFT ,Esq., a King's Counsel, whereby he may have frequent opportunities of contemplating, and by a comparison between that and his own virtues, be able to form a certain judgment which is best and most profitable, a grateful remembrance of past friendship and almost parental regard, or ingratitude and insolence - this I direct to be presented to him in lieu of £3,000, I had by a former will ( now revoked and burnt ) left him. "