So much of the will of Colonel Edmund Martyn as relates to the Poet and his sister has been already cited, but the testator’s situation in life and the respectability of his family are best shown by other parts of that document. He describes himself as a lieutenant-colonel in his Majesty’s service, lying sick in the city of Chichester. To his niece Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Napper, of Itchenor in Sussex, he bequeathed 100l. His copyhold estates of the manors of Selsey, and Somerly, in that county, to his nephew, Abraham Martyn, the youngest son of his late only brother, Henry Martyn, and to his servant, John Hipp, he gave his wearing apparel and ten pounds.
Dyce’s edition of Collins, 1827, p. 39.
In the Persian tongue, Abbas signifieth “the father of the people.”
The gulf of that name, famous for the pearl fishery.
That these flowers are found in very great abundance in some of the provinces of Persia, see the Modern History of the ingenious Mr. Salmon. C.