faithfully obey these my Latest Directions. He shall take ship
and go unto Bombay in India, to the house of Elihu Sanderson,
Esquire, or his Heirs, and there, presenting in person this my
last Will and Testament, together with the Holy Bible now lying
in the third drawer of my Writing Desk, shall duly and
scrupulously execute such instructions as the said Elihu
Sanderson or his Heirs shall lay upon him.

"Also I command and enjoin, under pain of my Dying Curse, that
the Iron Key now hanging from the Middle Beam in the Front
Parlour be not touched or moved, until he who undertakes this
Task shall have returned and have crossed the threshold of
Lantrig, having duly performed all the said Instructions.
And furthermore that the said Task be not undertaken lightly or
except in direst Need, under pain of Grievous and Sore
Affliction. This I say, knowing well the Spiritual and worldly
Perils that shall beset such an one, and having myself been
brought near to Destruction of Body and Soul, which latter may
Christ in His Mercy avert.

"Thus, having eased my mind of great and pressing Anguish, I
commend my soul to God, before Whose Judgment Bar I shall be
presently summoned to stand, the greatest of sinners, yet not
without hope of Everlasting Redemption, for Christ's sake.
Amen.

"AMOS TRENOWETH."

Such was the Will, written on stiff parchment in crabbed and
unscholarly characters, without legal forms or witnesses; but all