“The body of Lord B. to be buried in the vault of the garden of Newstead, without any ceremony or burial-service whatever, or any inscription, save his name and age.  His dog not to be removed from the said vault.

“My library and furniture of every description to my friends Jn.  Cam Hobhouse, Esq., and S.B.  Davies, Esq. my executors.  In case of their decease, the Rev. J. Becher, of Southwell, Notts., and R.C.  Dallas, Esq., of Mortlake, Surrey, to be executors.

     “The produce of the sale of Wymondham in Norfolk, and the late Mrs.
     B.’s Scotch property[23], to be appropriated in aid of the payment
     of debts and legacies.”

[Footnote 22:  “If the papers lie not (which they generally do), Demetrius Zograffo of Athens is at the head of the Athenian part of the Greek insurrection.  He was my servant in 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, at different intervals of those years (for I left him in Greece when I went to Constantinople), and accompanied me to England in 1811:  he returned to Greece, spring, 1812.  He was a clever, but not apparently an enterprising man; but circumstances make men.  His two sons (then infants) were named Miltiades and Alcibiades:  may the omen be happy!” —­MS. Journal.]

[Footnote 23:  On the death of his mother, a considerable sum of money, the remains of the price of the estate of Gight, was paid into his hands by her trustee, Baron Clerk.]

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In sending a copy of the Will, framed on these instructions, to Lord Byron, the solicitor accompanied some of the clauses with marginal queries, calling the attention of his noble client to points which he considered inexpedient or questionable; and as the short pithy answers to these suggestions are strongly characteristic of their writer, I shall here give one or two of the clauses in full, with the respective queries and answers annexed.

“This is the last will and testament of me, the Rt.  Honble George Gordon Lord Byron, Baron Byron of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster.—­I desire that my body may be buried in the vault of the garden of Newstead, without any ceremony or burial-service whatever, and that no inscription, save my name and age, be written on the tomb or tablet; and it is my will that my faithful dog may not be removed from the said vault.  To the performance of this my particular desire, I rely on the attention of my executors hereinafter named.”

"It is submitted to Lord Byron whether this clause relative to the funeral had not better be omitted.  The substance of it can be given in a letter from his Lordship to the executors, and accompany the will; and the will may state that the funeral shall be performed in such manner as his Lordship may by letter direct, and, in default of any such letter, then at the discretion of his executors."

     “It must stand.  B.”