the like sum of Five hundred livres (French money), payable three months after his decease, and which shall be distributed unto the said poor by the Committy of the said City. Moreover he hath bequeathed and doth bequeath to the High and Mighty Lord Frederick Count de Schonberg, his Brother, the summe of a thousand Crowns, which he will to be paid unto him by his Heire, hereafter named, within six months after his decease, and that in consideration of that summe he shall not, nor may not, pretend or demand any other thing upon his goods and estate by him left. Being askt by me underwritten Notary if he will bequeath any thing to the Poor of the Hospitall of the Lords Knights of St Maurice and Lazarus, and to the Poor Orphan Maidens of this City, he answered that he doth bequeath to each of the said bodyes tenn Crowns for each, payable after his decease; reserving to himself, if he hath time, by way of Codicill, to make such other bequests as he shall think fitt. In all and every other his estate, actions, names, or titles, rights, and pretensions, in whatsoever they doe or may consist, my said Lord Duke de Schonberg, testator, hath named, and doth name, with his own mouth, for his heire universall, the High and Mighty Lord Menard De Schonberg, Duke of Leinster, Grandee of Portingall, and General of the Forces of England and Scotland, his brother, by whom he will that what he hath above ordered be fully executed. And what is above my said Lord Duke de Schonberg hath declared to be, and that he doth will the same to be, his last Testament and Disposition of last Will nuncupative without writing, which he willeth shall availe by way of testament, codicill, gift by reason of death, and by all other the best means, [by] which it may or can be valid and subsist — revoking, annulling, and making void all other Testaments and Dispositions of Last Will which he might have heretofore made, willing that this present shall take place of all others, ordering me Notary underwritten to draw this present in the manner as above done, and pronounced in the place as above, and in the presence of the above said witnesses who after my said Lord have signed.
| John De Bordieu, Witnesse. | Cornelius De Nassau D’averquerque, Witnesse. |
| Du Teron, Witnesse. | Paul Sancerre, Witnesse. |
| Loyd, Witnesse. | David Castres, Witnesse. |
| Paul Artand, Witnesse. | John Jaubert, Witnesse. |
The above said Will was by me James Paschalis, Notary Ducall Royall and Proctor Collegiate of the Soveraign Senate of Piemont, faithfully passed, caused to be extracted of its Originall, with which I have duly compared the same, and entred it in the tenth book of this present year, in folio, and paid the fees of the entring as by acquittance of the said Register to me. In Testimony whereof I have here notarially subscribed (Paschalis, Not.). Substantialiter translatum per me Johem Jacobum Benard Norium Pubeum.
Proved by Menard, Duke of Schonberg and Leinster, at London, 13th November 1693.
Chapter I., Section 3, (pp. 112 to 121) The Third Duke of Schomberg was Mainhardt, second son of the first duke. He married in 1683 Caroline Elizabeth, Countess Rangraff Palatin. On becoming a refugee in Prussia, he was made a General of Cavalry. He came to England with his wife, his only son, and his three daughters in 1690, and “Mainhardt Count de Schonburg (so he spelt the name) and Charles his son” were naturalized. He was created Duke of Leinster in the Peerage of Ireland, was enrolled as a General in our army, and in 1692 he obtained the chief command of our home troops. In 1693 he succeeded his brother as Duke of Schomberg, and adopted the signature of “Schonburg and Leinster.” In 1695 he was made a Privy Councillor. In 1696 his Duchess died. In 1698 Schomberg House was built for him. In 1703 he was made a Knight of the Garter. In 1710 his daughter Lady Carolina died of small-pox, aged 23. His only son Charles, Marquis of Harwich, died in 1713, and was buried in King Henry VII.’s Chapel on Oct. 14, beside his mother and sister. The heirs of the Duke of Schomberg were his two surviving daughters Frederica, Countess of Holdernesse, and by a second marriage, Countess Fitzwalter (she died in 1751), and Mary, Countess de Degenfeldt. The former is represented by the Duke of Leeds and the Marquis of Lothian.
