Mr. Sidney H. Preston, writing upon a strange piece of good fortune which has befallen a Lambeth pauper named Sheridan, says that £19,000 has been paid out of the state of Mrs. Helen Blake, of which £1,000 went to Mr. Gladstone. If testators frequently leave legacies to statesmen, the world seldom hears of it. The most notable instance, perhaps, was that of Sir Thomas Pynsent (sic) a Somersetshire baronet, who left the Earl of Chatham an estate in gratitude of his opposition to a tax of cider. A tower was erected to his memory at Burton Pynsent, which overlooks Sedgmoor.
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