There are five elected Commissioners of the Trust Funds who manage and control all funds left, given, bequeathed or devised to the town, and distribute the income in accordance with the terms of the respective trusts.

Matilda of Tuscany was said to have bequeathed all her allodial lands to the Church upon her death in 1115, but the donation was neither publicly acknowledged in Rome nor is any documentary record of the donation preserved.

Burr bequeathed his estate to Robert Benevides and excluded all relatives, including a sister, nieces, and nephews.

He had bequeathed a great part of his fortune for the building and endowment of a museum in Copenhagen, and left instructions to fill it with all his collection of works of art and the models for all his sculptures, a very large collection, exhibited to the greatest possible advantage.

This shameless and scandalous boy died in Egypt when the court was there ; and forthwith his Imperial Majesty issued out an order or edict strictly requiring and commanding his loving subjects to acknowledge his departed page a deity and to pay him his quota of divine reverences and honours as such: a resolution and act which did more effectually publish and testify to the world how entirely the Emperor's unnatural passion survived the foul object of it ; and how much his master was devoted to his memory, than it recorded his own crime and condemnation, immortalised his infamy and shame, and bequeathed to mankind a lasting and notorious specimen of the true origin and extraction of all idolatry.

Larentia later inherited all his property and bequeathed it to the Roman people.

It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.

In 1950 George Bernard Shaw died and bequeathed one third of all his royalties to RADA.

It is related that, during his stay in Rome, Akiva became intimately acquainted with the Jewish proselyte ḳeṭia ' bar Shalom, a very influential Roman — according to some scholars identical with Flavius Clemens, Domitian's nephew, who, before his execution for pleading the cause of the Jews, bequeathed to Akiba all his possessions ( Ab.

The first, dated January 24, 1729, bequeathed all his tools to Giovanni Ferrini.

He bequeathed a strong administrative system that all later Pagan kings followed until the dynasty's fall in 1287.

His books and manuscripts relating to Anglo-Saxon and northern literature, all his collections in the department of British topography, and a large number of his drawings and engravings of other archaeological remains, were bequeathed to the University of Oxford.

We only know that it fell within a gift of a large expanse of land bequeathed to the Old Monastery at Winchester in 940 AD, which included all of what is now Crookham and Hawley.

Nathaniel was bequeathed two parcels of land and all of his father ’ s blacksmithing tools.

When Winchester died, all of her possessions ( apart from the house ) were bequeathed to her niece and personal secretary.

On March 25, 1196, Stefan Nemanja summoned a Council in Ras, where he officially abdicated in favour of his second son, Stefan, to whom he bequeathed all his earthly possessions.

However, after her assassination in 1898, her will specified that outside of a large bequest of the sale of her jewels to benefit charities and religious orders, all of her personal property was bequeathed to Erszi, her namesake and, of course, Rudolph's only child.

The long-uncertain question of his connection to the more-famous William Rowley was perhaps clarified by the discovery of his will in the 1960s: in this document, a brother named William is bequeathed all of Samuel's books.

However, it was found that, a few days before Fastolf's death, he had executed a fresh will in which Fastolf had named ten executors, of whom two only, John Paston and another, were to act ; and, moreover, that Fastolf had bequeathed all his lands in Norfolk and Suffolk to Paston, subject only to the duty of founding the college at Caister, and paying 4, 000 marks to the other executors.

Upon her death in 1943, she bequeathed fifteen farms – approximately a total sum of 4, 000 acres ( 16 km² )-to the National Trust, and per her instructions all continue to graze Herdwick flocks.

He never married ; it is often written that he bequeathed all his property to the federal government of the United States, but this is disputed.

Alfred Güterbock ( d. 1916 ) first deposited and then bequeathed a small but very fine collection of Greek gold, silver and copper coins, 380 in all, together with some Roman coins.

Gibson was elected R. A. in 1836, and bequeathed all his property and the contents of his studio to the Royal Academy, where his marbles and casts are open to the public.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Having devoted her life to the independence of her duchy, she bequeathed Brittany to her younger daughter Renée when her elder daughter was betrothed to the future Francis I of France.

The psychological – and hence also the moral – constitution which had been bequeathed to the present generation by our ancestors, and which we in turn would hand on to future generations, was in the process of gradual adaptation to the requirements of living in society.

Hopkins died in 1657 and bequeathed money to found a school dedicated to " the breeding up of hopeful youths for the public service of the country in future times.

The Messiah was bequeathed by the Hill family to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England for preservation for future violin makers to learn from.

At her death in 1969, Ailsa Bruce bequeathed 153 paintings, primarily by French artists, to the National Gallery of Art, as well as establishing a fund for future acquisitions.

He also bequeathed money for supporting his daughter and in the case that his daughter did not marry within five years, Catherine was to take £ 30 per annum out of the income to support her step-daughter.

His share was based in the centre of the Frankish Kingdom, with his capital at Soissons, and consisted of the Parisian basin, the Massif Central, the Languedoc, Provence, Burgundy, southern Austrasia, Alsace and Alemannia ; the regions were poorly integrated and surrounded by those bequeathed to Charlemagne, and, although Carloman's territories were easier to defend than those of Charlemagne, they were also poorer in income.

Apart from some small sums to various charities, Gresham bequeathed the bulk of his property ( consisting of estates in London and around England giving an income of more than 2, 300 pounds a year ) to his widow and her heirs, with the stipulation that after her death his own house in Bishopsgate Street and the rents from the Royal Exchange should be vested in the Corporation of London and the Mercers Company, for the purpose of instituting a college in which seven professors should read lectures, one each day of the week, in astronomy, geometry, physic, law, divinity, rhetoric and music.

A chemist, whom Francke had visited on his deathbed, bequeathed to him the recipe for compounding certain medicines, which afterward yielded an annual income of more than $ 20, 000, and made the institution independent.

Lucas also bequeathed his collection of 4, 000 books ( including Galileo's Dialogo of 1632 ) to the University Library at Cambridge, along with enough land to give an income of £ 100 a year, which was to be used to fund a professorship of " mathematick " ( now the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics ).

In addition, he bequeathed to her the income from a trust fund of $ 5 million and the use during her life of the house on Fifth Avenue.

Monasteries or similar institutions were often bequeathed selions and then derived an income from them by letting.

He bequeathed his library to the Connecticut Historical Society and left $ 70, 000 in trust to the city of Hartford as a charity fund, the income of which he directed to be annually distributed to the poor.

Sir Thomas Dunk, a wealthy clothier, who died in 1718, bequeathed enough money to build almshouses for six ' decayed housekeepers ' ( three men and three women ) and a village school, plus enough money to buy lands to generate a steady income.

When Caroline Lloyd died in 1946, she bequeathed Hall a home, $ 15, 000 in cash, and " a roughly $ 10, 000 portion of her estate's annual income from shares in the world's largest oil companies for 38 years.

* L. S. Pickard was a book steward of Methodist Book Depot who bequeathed all the income from his residuary estate to Mfantsipim for as long as the school remained under the control of the Methodist Church.

His copyrights passed to Thomas Hailes Lacy, theatrical publisher, who in September 1873 bequeathed them to the Royal General Theatrical Fund.