David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Before all things I render to God my most humble thanks for all those graces which he has favoured me with in this world, and particularly that he has caused to be born, to be educated, and to persevere, in the Christian Protestant Reformed Religion, in which I declare I will live and die — with the assistance of the Holy Spirit, which I implore for that purpose with all my heart. ”

“ I, underwritten, Susanne De Beringhen, Duchess Dowager of La Force, considering the great age that it has pleased God to permit me to attain to, and the weak state of health that I have laboured under for a long time, I have thought proper, since God has granted me still the free liberty of my mind, to dispose of my temporal affairs, to the end that at the time of my decease nothing may interrupt rue from the thoughts of an Eternity, which I desire to be only employed in upon that important occasion. ”

“ I give and bequeath to my most dear and only son, Armand Nompar De Caumont, Duke of La Force, all the estate in general which I have left in France, and all my right, title, and lawful interest, as well present as to come, without any exception. More, I give and bequeath to my said son, Armand De Caumont, out of the little estate with which it has pleased God to bless me in England, 3 long annuities — 2 upon the Excise of £14 sterling per annum, each Nos. ”