_Whimsical Bequest._--Is the following cutting from the _Ipswich Journal_
of January 8th, 1853, worth preserving in your pages?
WHIMSICAL BEQUEST.--On Saturday last, the unmarried of whatever age and
sex, numbering between 800 and 900 residents in the parish of St.
Leonard's, Colchester, received their new year's gift in the shape of
'a penny roll,' bequeathed to them in days of yore, under the following
singular circumstances:--Many years ago, a piece of waste land, called
'Knave's Acre,' in the parish of St. Leonard's, was used as a
playground by the boys of this and the adjacent parish of St. Mary
Magdalen; but one day, the young gentlemen falling out, the affair
ended in a regular 'fight;' and the result was that the boys of St.
Leonard's vanquished their opponents, and ever after remained victors
of the field. The ground was subsequently let for gardening purposes;
but the owner, in perpetual remembrance of the juvenile victory,
whimsically bequeathed its annual rent of 4l. to be appropriated in the
manner above mentioned."