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of Middlefex, make this my laft Will and Testament. I refign my Soul to its Creator in all humble hope of its future happiness, as in the disposal of a Being infinitely good. As to my Body, my will is, that it be buried near the monument of my dear Parents at Twickenham, with the addition, after the words filius fecit of thefe only, et fibi: Qui obiit anno and that it be carried to the grave by fix of the poorest men of the parish, to each of whom I order a fuit of grey coarse cloth, as mourning. If I happen to die at any inconvenient distance, let the fame be done in any other parish, and the Infcription be added on the monument at Twickenham. I he reby make and appoint my particular friends, Allen lord Bathurst, Hugh earl of Marchmont, the honourable William Murray his Majesty's folicitor general, and George Arbuthnot, of the court of Exchequer, Efq. the furvivors or furvivor of them, Executors of this my last Will and Teftament.

But all the manufcript and unprinted papers which I fhall leave at my deceafe, I defire may be delivered to my noble Friend, Henry St. John, lord BoTingbroke, to whofe fole care and judgment I commit them, either to be preferved or deftroyed; or, in cafe he fhall not furvive me, to the abovefaid Earl of Marchmont. Thefe, who in the courfe of my life

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have done me all other good offices, will not refuse me this last after my Death: I leave them therefore this trouble, as a mark of my truft'and friendship; only defiring them each to accept of fome small memorial of me: That my lord Bolingbroke will add to his library all the volumes of my Works and Translations of Homer, bound in red morocco, and the eleven volumes of those of Erafmus: That my lord Marchmont will take the large paper edition of Thuanus, by Buckley, and that portrait of Lord Bolingbroke, by Richardfon, which he fhall prefer: That my lord Bathurst will find a place for the three statutes of the Hercules of Furnese, the Venus of Medicis, and the Apollo in chiaro ofcuro, done by Kneller: That Mr. Murray will accept of the marble head of Homer, by Bernini; and of Sir Ifaac Newton, by Guelfi: and that Mr. Arbuthnot will take the Watch I commonly wore, which the King of Sardinia gave to the late Earl of Peterborow, and he to me on his death - bed; together with one of the pictures of Lord Bolingbroke.

Item, I defire Mr. Lyttelton to accept of the bufts of Spencer, Shakespear, Milton, and Dryden, in marble, which his royal master the Prince was pleased to give me. I give and devise my library of printed books to Ralph Allen, of Widcombe, Efq. and to the Reverend Mr. William Warburton, or to the furvivour of them (when those belonging to Lord BoJingbroke are taken out, and when Mrs. Martha Blount has chofen Threefcore out of the number.) I alfo give and bequeath to the faid Mr. Warburton the property of all such of my Works already printed, as he hath written, or shall write Commentaries or Notes upon, and which I have not otherwife difpofed of, or alienated; and all the profits which shall arise after my death from fuch editions as he fhall publish without future alterations.

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Item, in cafe Ralph Allen, Efq. abovefaid fhall furvive me, I order my Executors to pay him the fum of One hundred and fifty pounds, being, to the best of my calculation, the account of what I have received from him; partly for my own, and partly for charitable uses. If he refuse to take this himself, I defire him to employ it in a way, I am perfuaded, he will not dislike, to the benefit of the Bath hofpital. " I give and devife to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Magdalen Racket, the fum of Three hundred pounds; and to her fons, Henry, and Robert Racket, One hundred pounds each. I also release, and give to her all my right and interest in and upon a bond of Five hundred pounds due to me from her fon Michael. I also give her the family pictures of my Father, Mother, and Aunts, and the diamond ring my Mother wore and her golden watch. I give to Erasmus Lewis, Gilbert Weft, Sir Clement Cotterell, William Rollinson, Nathaniel Hook, Efqrs. and to Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot, to each the sum of Five pounds, to be laid out in a ring, or any memorial of me; and to my fervant, John Searl, who has faithfully and ably ferved me many years, I give and devise the fum of One hundred pounds over and above a year's wages to himself, and his wife; and to the Poor of the parish of Twickenham, Twenty pounds, to be divided among them by the faid John Searl: And it is my Will, if the said John Searl die before that the said sum of One hundred pounds go to his wife or children,

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Item, I give, and devise to Mrs. Martha Blount, younger daughter of Mrs. Martha Blount, late of Welbeck - Street, Cavendish - Square, the fum of One thousand pounds immediately on my decease: and all the furniture of my grotto, urns in my garden, houfhold goods, chattels, plate, or whatever is not otherwise difpofed of in this my Will, I give and de

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vife to the faid Mrs. Martha Blount, out of a fincere regard, and long friendship for her. And it is my will, that my abovefaid Executors, the furvivors or furvivor of them, fhall take an account of all my eftate, money, or bonds, &c. and, after paying my debts and legacies, shall place out all the refidue upon government, or other fecurities, according to their best judgment; and pay the produce thereof, half-yearly, to the said Mrs. Martha Blount, during her natural life: And after her decease, I give the fum of One thousand pounds to Mrs. Magdalen Racket, and her fons Robert, Henry, and John, to be divided equally among them, or to the furvivors or furvivor of them; and after the decease of the faid Mrs. Martha Blount, I give the fum of Two hundred pounds to the abovesaid Gilbert Weft; Two hundred to Mr. George Arbuthnot; Two hundred to his fifter, Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot; and One hundred to my fervant, John Searl, to which foever of these fhall be then living; And all the refidue and remainder to be confidered as undifpofed of, and go to my next of kin.

This is my laft Will and Teftament, written with my own Hand, and fealed with my Seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord, One thousand, feven hundred and forty-three.

ALE X. POPE.

Signed, Sealed, and Declared

by the Teftator, as his last Will and Teftament, in Prefence of us, RADNOR.

STEPHEN HALES, Minifter of Teddington. JOSEPH SPENCE, Profeffor of History in the University of Oxord.