John O’Gaunt’s Will
Perhaps the shortest deed of land by a will in the world is the following:—
“I, John of Gaunt,
Do give and do grant
To John of Burgoyne
And the heirs of his loin,
Both Sutton and Potton
Until the world’s rotten.”
It is by this tenure, it is said, that the estates of Sutton and Potton, in the county of Bedford, England, are now held by the house of Burgoyne.