is the strongest instance of affection your friends either desire or deserve. In mentioning your friends I must particularize Mr. Pope: he obeys your commands, and flings away much time upon me: Nec deficit alter aureus; Dr. King does the same. Thus deities condescend to visit and converse with mortals.

Poor lord Oxford is gone to those regions from whence travellers never return unless in an airy visit to faithless lovers, as Margaret to William; or to cities devoted to destruction, as Hector amidst the flames of Troy. The deceased earl has left behind him many books, many manuscripts, and no money: his lady brought him 500,000l., 400,000l. of which have been sacrificed to indolence, good-nature, and want of worldly wisdom: and there will still remain, after proper sales, and right management, 5000/. a-year for his widow.

Mr. Cæsar died about two months ago. Mrs. Cæsar is still all tears and lamentations, although she certainly may be numbered inter felices, sua si bona

norint.

Lord Bathurst is at Cirencester, erecting pillars and statues to queen Anne. Lord Bolingbroke lives in France: posterity, it is to be hoped, may be the better for his retirement. The duke of Argyll reigns, or ought to reign, in Scotland. Such is the state of Europe; but our disappointment in America has cast a gloomy face over London and Westminster. The citizens have

recourse to mum and tobacco, by which means they puff away care, and keep dismay at a proper distance. In the mean time my friends, the ducks and geese in the Park, cackle on, and join in chorus to the sounds of victory that are daily drummed forth on the parade, but reach no further than the atmosphere of Whitehall.What news next? The weather-but you certainly know it is hot; for in truth, notwithstanding this letter comes from my heart, and is written in the pleasure of thinking of you, yet I sweat to assure you how much I am, dear sir, your ever obliged and obedient humble servant, ORRERY.

FROM THE EARL OF ORRERY TO DEANE SWIFT, ESQ. Marston, December 4, 1742.

Sir, I am much obliged to you for the full, though melancholy, account you have sent me of my ever honoured friend. It is the more melancholy to me as I have heard him often lament the particular misfortune incident to human nature, of an utter deprivation of senses many years before a deprivation of life. I have heard him describe persons in that condition, with a liveliness and a horror, that on this late occasion have recalled to me his very words. Our Litany, methinks, should have an addition of a particular prayer against this most dreadful misfortune. I am sure mine shall. The bite of a mad dog (a most tremendous evil) ends soon in death; but the effects of his loss of memory may last even to the longest age of man; therefore I own my frendship for him has now changed my thoughts and wishes into the very reverse of what they were; I rejoice to hear he grows lean. I am sorry to hear his appetite is good. I was glad when there seemed an approaching mortification in his eyelid. In one word, the man I wished to live the longest I wish the soonest dead. It is the only blessing that can now befall him. His reason will never return; or, if it should, it will only be to show him the misery of having lost it. I am impatient for his going where imperfection ceases, and where perfection begins; where Wilsons cannot break in and steal, and where envy, hatred, and malice have no influence or power. While he continues to breathe, he is an example stronger and more piercing than he or any other divine could preach, against pride, conceit, and vain glory. Good God! doctor Swift beaten and marked

with stripes by a beast in human shape, one Wilson.a But he is not only an example against presumption and haughtiness, but in reality an incitement to marriage. Men in years ought always to secure a friend to take care of declining life, and watch narrowly as they fall, the last minute particles of the hour-glass. A bachelor will seldom find, among all his kindred, so true a nurse, so faithful a friend, so disinterested a companion, as one tied to him by the double chain of duty and affection. A wife could not be banished from his chamber, or his unhappy hours of retirement; nor had the dean felt a blow, or wanted a companion, had he been married, or, in other words, had Stella lived. All that a friend could do has been done by Mrs. Whiteway; all that a companion could persuade, has been attempted by Mrs. Ridgeway. The rest-but I shall run on for ever, and I set out at first only with an intention of thanking you for your letter, and assuring you that I am, sir, your most obedient humble servant, ORRERY.

P.S. I beg to hear from you from time to time, if any new occurrence happens in the dean's unhappy state.

MR. FAULKNER TO MR. BOWYER.

Dublin, October 1, 1745.

DEAR SIR,-The bank-note for one hundred guineas came safe to hand. Enclosed you have part of the send it in. Fix your day of publication, and I will "Address to Servants." I wish I could get franks to wait until you are ready, that we may both come out the same day. I think the middle of November will do very well, as your city, as well as Dublin, will be full at that time. I shall finish the volume with a cantata of the dean's, set to music, which, in my opinion, will have a greater run with the lovers of harmony than any of the Corelli's, Vivaldi's, Purcell's, or Handel's pieces. When Arne, the famous composer, was last in Ireland, he made application to me for this cantata (which I could not then procure), to set it to music: perhaps he may do it now, and bring it on the stage; which, if he does, will run more than the "Beggars' Opera;" and therefore I would have you get it engraved in folio, with scores for bass, &c., which will make it sell very well. I believe you might get something handsome for it from Rich, or the managers of Drury-lane, for which I shall send you the original MS. I am thus particular that you may have the profit to yourself, as you will have the trouble. I was in daily expectation, for six weeks, of going to London, but was prevented by many accidents-I cannot

a Dr. Francis Wilson was prebendary of Kilmactolway, and rector of Clondalkin, in the diocese of Dublin, the great tithes of which belong to the deanery of St. Patrick's. Dr. Wilson, who lived in the centre of this prebend and parish, and was well acquainted with the country, farmed these titles of Dr. Swift on very reasonable terms, greatly to his own advantage. When the dean was much in the decline of life, he invited Dr. Wilson to accept of apartments for himself and his wife in the deanery-house at Dublin; where they had very good lodgings, with the benefit of his servants and stables. Dr. Swift's me. mory failing him greatly at this time, Wilson took the advantage of carrying him to his house at Newland, within four miles of Dublin, and endeavoured to intoxicate him with liquor, which he could not accomplish: and on their return to Dublin solicited Dr. Swift to make him sub-dean of St. Patrick's, and turn out Dr. Wynne, a very worthy and hospitable gentleman, which Dr. Swift refused; on which Dr. Wilson, in a most outrageous manner, insulted the dean, beat him severely, took him by the throat, and would have choked him had it not been for the dean's footman and coachman, who rescued him out of the hands of Wilson. This affair made a great noise; Wilson was forbidden the dean's house, and died soon after. To this same "beast in human shape," as lord Orrery justly calls him, Dr. Swift had bequeathed "the works of Plato in three folio volumes, the earl of Clarendon's History in three folio volumes, and my best Bible, together with thirteen small Persian pictures in the drawing-room, and the small silver tankard given to me by the contribution of some friends, whose names are engraved at the bottom of the said tankard."

say business, for I never had less, as Mr. Hitch well knows, having had no order from me for two months past. The "Advice to Servants" was never finished by the dean, and is consequently very incorrect; I believe you may see some Irishisms in it; if so, pray correct them. The dean's friends do not know the manner of an assignment, and desire you will send over the form. The story of the "Injured Lady" does not make above a sheet, and will vex your northern hardy neighbours more than the "Public Spirit of the Whigs," of which they complained to queen Anne. As you are famous for writing prefaces, pray help me to one for "Advice to Servants," for which I have not yet printed the title. My best compliments to our friends, and should be obliged to Mr. Dodsley for the two letters, which you may send, under cover, to Samuel Bindon, esq., at my house. I am whimsical, and send you the beginning of "Advice," &c., and the remainder to Mr. Hitch, that you may print it immediately. I think it might be printed without the "Injured Lady," as your volume will make the better figure with original pieces; but this I submit to your better judgment.

I long much to see London, although I have no other business than to visit my friends, and do them any service in my power; and if I can be useful to you in England or Ireland, pray let me know, and I will do it. I would not have you advertise until two or three days before you publish, in which I wish you all imaginable success; and am, dear sir, your faithful friend, and obliged humble servant,

GEORGE FAULKNER.

for fame and immortality, scorning the mean paths of interest and lucre: and surely in an age so mercenary as ours, men should not be so sparing to give public marks of their gratitude to men of such virtue, dead, however they may treat them living; since in so doing they bespeak, and almost insure to themselves a succession of such persons in society. It was with this view that I have determined to throw in my mite.

In a fine lawn below my house I have planted a hippodrome. It is a circular plantation, consisting of five walks; the central of which is a horse-course, and three rounds make exactly a mile. All the lines are so laid out that, from the centre, the six rows of trees appear but one, and form 100 arches round the field; in the centre of which I have erected a mount, and placed a marble column on its proper pedestal, with all the decorations of the order; on the summit of which I have placed a Pegasus, just seeming to take flight to the Heavens; and on the die of the pedestal I have engraved the following inscription, written by an ingenious friend :

IN MEMORIAM JONATHAN SWIFT, S. T. P. VIRI SINE PARI.
AONIDVM FONTES APERIS, DIVINE POETA,

ARTE NOVA: ÆTHEREAS PROPRIIS, UT PEGASVS, ALIS
SCANDE DOMOS: ÆTERNVM ADDET TVA FAMA COLVMNÆ
HVIC MEMORI DECVS. HIC, TANTI QVAM POSSVMVS VMBRAM
NOMINIS IN MENTEM, SACRO REVOCARE QUOTANNIS
LVDORVM RITV IVVAT; HIC TIBI PARVVS HONORVM
OFFERTVR CVMVLVS: LAVDVM QVO FINE TVARVM
COPIA CLAVDATVR QVI QUÆRIT, GENTIS IERNÆ
PECTORA SCRVTETVR, LETVMQVE INTERROGET ORBEM.

MDCCL.

I have also appointed a small fund for annual premiums to be distributed in the celebration of games at the monument yearly. The ceremony is to last three

MEMORY OF DR. SWIFT, IN IRELAND.

TO MR. GEORGE FAULKNER.a

Neale, February 14, 1750. SIR,-I have at last finished what you have often heard me wish I might be able to do, a monument for the greatest genius of our age, the late dean of St. Patrick's. The thing in itself is but a trifle; but it is more than I should ever have attempted had I not, with indignation, seen a country (so honoured by the birth of so great a man, and so faithfully served by him all his life) so long and so shamefully negligent in erecting some monument of gratitude to his memory. Countries are not wise in such neglect, for they hurt themselves. Men of genius are encouraged to apply their talents to the service of their country when they see in it gratitude to the memory of those who have deserved well of them. The ingenious Père Castle told me at Paris, that he reckoned it the greatest misfortune to him that he was not born an Englishman; and when he explained himself, it was only for this, that, after two hundred years, they had erected a monument to Shakspeare; and another to a modern, but to the greatest of them, sir Isaac Newton. Great souls are very disinterested in the affairs of life; they look

a By sir John Browne, of the county of Mayo.

young maids and men in the neighbourhood are to assemble in the hippodrome, with their garlands and chaplets of flowers, and to dance round the monument, singing the praises of this ingenious patriot, and strewing with flowers all the place: after which they are to dance for a prize; the best dancer among the maids is to be presented with a cap and ribbons; and, after the dance, the young men are to run for a hat and gloves.

The second day, there is to be a large market upon the ground: and the girl who produces the finest hank of yarn, and the most regular reel and count, is to have a guinea premium; and the person why buys the greatest quantity of yarn is to have a premium of two guineas.

The third day, the farmer who produces the best yearling calf of his own breed is to have two guineas premium; and he that produces the fairest colt or filly, of his own breed likewise, not over two years old, shall receive a premium of two guineas also. Thus the whole will not exceed 107.; and all these useful branches of our growth and manufacture will be eucouraged, in remembering the patron who with so much care and tenderness recommended them to others, and cherished them himself. I am, dear sir, your humble servant, J. B.

DR. SWIFT'S WILL, AND HIS DIRECTIONS TO MRS. MARTHA WHITEWAY.

As soon as you are assured of my death, whether it shall happen to be in town or the country, I desire you will go immediately to the deanery; and if I die in the country, I desire you will send down a strong coffin, to have my body brought to town, and deposited in any dry part of St. Patrick's cathedral. Then you are to take my keys, and find my will, and send for as many of my executors as are in town, and in presence of three of them have my will read; and what you see therein that relates to yourself, and is to take place after my death, you are to do in their presence, first delivering my keys to my executors, and then demanding those keys to search where my ready money lies, and take it for your own use, as my will empowers you. But upon their notes you are to lend the money to them, for the charges of my funeral, as directed in my will. Then you are to see that one or more of my said executors shall order my plate and household goods, and other things of value, and what are locked up in my scrutoires, cabinets, &c., to be entered in a list, and secured in their several places, for my executors to dispose of them as my will provides.

You are likewise to deliver the keys of all the rooms and cellars to my said executors, and often to entreat them to come to the deanery, and pursue the directions in my will.

You are also to deliver to my executors all the bonds, mortgages, and papers relating to money, &c., when they shall have agreed where to deposit them with security, taking their receipts. JONATHAN SWIFT. Deanery-house, March 25, 1737.

As soon as Mrs. Martha Whiteway hears of my decease, she is to come immediately to the deanery, and first take all the keys of my cabinets, and seal them up in a place, in the presence of Mrs. Anne Ridgeway, Roger Kenrick, my verger, and Henry Laird, if any of them be then alive, and in the neighbourhood. Then Mrs. Martha Whiteway is to send for as many of my executors as are in town; and, opening my scrutoires, deliver them my will, and let one of the said executors read my will and codicils: there should be three of my executors present at least; they are all in number nine. Then, Mrs. Martha Whiteway is to take all the ready money she can find, if there be 2007., but no more, which likewise she may lend to the said

William, Jout issue.

Leicester, Willoughby;

died April Three other sons.
27, 1710.
Four daughters.

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executors upon their notes. In case I should happen to have not cash enough, or bankers' bills, to pay the charges of transporting my body to Holyhead, and for my burial in the church of that town, as directed in my will, then she is to assist my executors in sending my plate to some banker, together with my valuable curiosities, which she knows where to find, many of which are bequeathed to John Whiteway, younger son to Mrs. Martha Whiteway, and sent to the said Martha to be kept for the use of her said son, except some books bequeathed in my said will or codicils.

I have written the names of my executors in the page on the right hand of this paper.

Mrs. Martha Whiteway is to secure the broad paperbook, in quarto, wherein the debts due to me, and debts I owe, entered to this present month of April, 1737-seven, together with the whole state of my fortune, as debts, mortgages, &c., and plate, and valuable curiosities, household goods, arrears of tithes, and interest, &c., which my executors are to have a copy of; and Mrs. Martha Whiteway knows where to find all my mortgages, bonds, &c., which she is to give to my said executors, taking their receipt, in order to receive the several interests or principals to purchase lands, as declared in my last will, which when my said executors have entered in form in the proper courts, they are humbly desired to fulfil as soon as they conveniently can.

Signed and sealed, April 22nd, 1737-seven, JONATHAN SWIFT.

En the name of God, Amen. I, JONATHAN SWIFT, doctor in divinity, and dean of the cathedral church of St. Patrick, Dublin, being at this present of sound mind, although weak in body, do here make my last will and testament, hereby revoking all my former wills.

Imprimis, I bequeath my soul to God, (in humble hopes of his mercy through Jesus Christ,) and my body to the earth. And I desire that my body may be buried in the great aisle of the said cathedral, on the south side, under the pillar next to the monument of primate Narcissus Marsh, three days after my decease, as privately as possible, and at twelve o'clock at night, and that a black marble of feet square, and seven feet from the ground, fixed to the wall, may be erected, with the following inscription in large letters, deeply cut, and strongly gilded.

Item, I give and bequeath to my executors all my worldly substance, of what nature or kind soever, (except such part thereof as is hereinafter particularly devised,) for the following uses and purposes, that is to say, to the intent that they, or the survivors or survivor of them, his executors, or administrators, as soon as conveniently may be after my death, shall turn it all into ready money, and lay out the same in purchasing lands of inheritance in fee simple, situate in any province in Ireland, except Connaught, but as near to the city of Dublin as conveniently can be found, and not incumbered with, or subject to, any leases for lives renewable, or any terms, for years longer than thirty-one; and I desire that a yearly annuity of 201. sterling, out of the annual profits of such lands, when purchased, and out of the yearly income of my said fortune, devised to my executors, as aforesaid, until such purchase shall be made, shall be paid to Rebecca Dingley, of the city of Dublin, spinster, during her life, by two equal half-yearly payments, on the feast of All Saints, and St. Philip and St. Jacob, the first payment to be made on such of the said feasts as shall happen next after my death. And that the residue of the yearly profits of the said lands, when purchased, and, until such purchase be made, the residue of the yearly income and interest of my said fortune devised as aforesaid to my executors, shall be laid out in purchasing a piece of land, situate near Dr. Stevens's hospital; or, if it cannot be there had, somewhere in or near the city of Dublin, large enough for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and in building thereon an hospital large enough for the reception of as many idiots and lunatics as the annual income of the said lands and worldly substance shall be sufficient to maintain; and I desire that the said hospital may be called St. Patrick's Hospital, and may be built in such a manner that another building may be added unto it, in case the endowment thereof shall be enlarged; so that the additional building may make the whole edifice regular and complete. And my further will and desire is, that when the said hospital shall be built, the whole yearly income of the said lands and estate shall, for ever after, be laid out in providing victuals, clothing, medicines, attendance, and all other necessaries for such idiots and lunatics as shall be received into the same; and in repairing and enlarging the building from time to time, as there may be occasion. And, if a sufficient number of idiots and lunatics cannot readily be found, I desire that incurables may be taken into the said hospital to supply such deficiency; but that no person shall be admitted into it that labours under any infectious disease; and that all such idiots, lunatics, and incurables as shall be received into the said hospital shall constantly live and reside therein, as well in the night as in the day; and that the salaries of agents, receivers, officers, servants, and attendants, to be employed in

the business of the said hospital, shall not in the whole exceed one-fifth part of the clear yearly income e revenue thereof. And I further desire that my executors, the survivors or survivor of them, or the hein of such, shall not have power to demise any part the said lands so to be purchased as aforesaid, but with consent of the lord primate, the lord high-chancellor, the lord archbishop of Dublin, the dean d Christ-church, the dean of St. Patrick's, the physician to the state, and the surgeon-general, all for the time being, or the greater part of them, under their hands in writing; and that no leases of any part of the said lands shall ever be made other than leases for years not exceeding thirty-one, in possession, and not in rever sion or remainder, and not dispunishable of waste, whereon shall be reserved the best and most improved rents that can reasonably and moderately, withou racking the tenants, be gotten for the same without fine. Provided always, and it is my will and earnest desire that no lease of any part of the said lands, so to be purchased as aforesaid, shall ever be made to, or in trust for, any person any way concerned in the execution of this trust, or to, or in trust for, any person any way related or allied, either by consanguinity or affinity, to any of the persons who shall at that time be concerned in the execution of this trust: and that, if any leases shall happen to be made contrary to my intention above expressed, the same shall be utterly void and of no effect. And I farther desire, until the charter hereinafter mentioned shall be obtained, my executors, or the survivors or survivor of them, his heirs, executors, or administrators, shall not act in the execution of this trust, but with the consent and approbation of the said seven additional trustees, or the greater part of them, under their hands in writing, and shall, with such consent and approbation as aforesaid have power, from time to time, to make rules orders, and regulations, for the government and di rection of the said hospital. And I make it my request to my said executors, that they may, in convenient time, apply to his majesty for a charter to incorporate them, or such of them as shall be then living, and the said additional trustees for the better management and conduct of this charity, with a power to purchase lands; and to supply, by election, such vacancies happening in the corporation, as shall not be supplied by succession, and such other powers as may be thought expedient for the due execution of this trust, according to my intention hereinbefore expressed. And, when such charter shall be obtained, I desire that my executors, or the survivors or survivor of them, or the heirs of such survivor, may convey to the use of such corporation in fee simple, for the purposes aforesaid, all such lands and tenements as shall be purchased, in manner above mentioned. Provided always, and it is my will and intention, tha' my executors, until the said charter, and afterwards the corporation to be hereby incorporated, shall, out of the yearly profits of the said lands when purchased. and out of the yearly income of my said fortune devised to my executors as aforesaid, until such purchase be made, have power to reimburse themselves for all such sums of their own money as they shall necessarily expend in the execution of this trust. And that, until the said charter be obtained, all acts which shall at any time be done in the execution of this trust by the greater part of my executors then living, with the consent of the greater part of the said additional trustees, under their hands in writing, shall be as valid and effectual as if all my executors had concurred in the same.

Item, Whereas I purchased the inheritance of the tithes of the parish of Effernock, near Trim, in the county of Meath, for 2607. sterling: I bequeath the

said tithes to the vicars of Laracor, for the time being, that is to say, so long as the present Episcopal religion shall continue to be the national established faith and profession in this kingdom: but, whenever any other form of Christian religion shall become the established faith in this kingdom, I leave the said tithes of Effernock to be bestowed, as the profits come in, to the poor of the said parish of Laracor, by a weekly proportion, and by such other officers as may then have the power of distributing charities to the poor of the said parish, while Christianity under any shape shall be tolerated among us, still excepting professed Jews, atheists, and infidels.

Item, Whereas I have some leases of certain houses in Kevin's-street, near the deanery-house, built upon the dean's ground, and one other house now inhabited by Henry Land, in deanery-lane, alias Mitre-alley, some of which leases are let for forty-one years, or forty at least, and not yet half expired, I bequeath to Mrs. Martha Whiteway, my lease or leases of the said houses; I also bequeath to the said Martha my lease of forty years of Goodman's Holding, for which I receive 107. per annum; which are two houses or more lately built: I bequeath also to the said Martha the sum of 3001. sterling, to be paid her by my executors out of my ready money, or bank-bills, immediately after my death, as soon as the executors meet. I leave, moreover, to the said Martha, my repeating gold watch, my yellow tortoiseshell snuff box, and her choice of four gold rings, out of seven which I now possess.

Item, I bequeath to Mrs. Mary Swift, alias Harrison, daughter of the said Martha, my plain gold watch made by Quare, to whom also I give my japan writing-desk, bestowed to me by my lady Worsley, my square tortoiseshell snuff-box, richly lined and inlaid with gold, given to me by the right honourable Henrietta, now countess of Oxford, and the seal with a Pegasus, given to me by the countess of Granville.

seal of Julius Cæsar, as also another seal, supposed to be a young Hercules, both very choice antiques, and set in gold; both which I choose to bestow to the said earl, because they belonged to her late most excellent majesty queen Anne, of ever glorious, immortal, and truly pious memory, the real nursing-mother of her kingdoms.

Item, I leave to the reverend Mr. James Stopford, vicar of Finglass, my picture of king Charles I., drawn by Vandyck, which was given to me by the said James; also, my large picture of birds, which was given to me by Thomas, earl of Pembroke.

Item, I bequeath to the reverend Mr. Robert Grattan, prebendary of St. Audoen's, my gold bottle-screw which he gave me, and my strong box, on condition of his giving the sole use of the said box to his brother, Dr. James Grattan, during the life of the said doctor, who hath more occasion for it, and the second-best beaver hat I shall die possessed of.

Item, I bequeath to Mr. John Grattan, prebendary of Clonmethan, my silver box in which the freedom of the city of Cork was presented to me; in which I desire the said John to keep the tobacco he usually cheweth, called pigtail.

Item, I bequeath all my horses and mares to the reverend Mr. John Jackson, vicar of Santry, together with all my horse furniture: lamenting that I had not credit enough with any chief governor (since the change of times) to get some additional church preferment for so virtuous and worthy a gentleman. I also leave him my third-best beaver hat.

Item, I bequeath to the reverend Dr. Francis Wilson the works of Plato in three folio volumes, the earl of Clarendon's History,' in three folio volumes, and my best Bible; together with thirteen small Persian pictures in the drawing-room, and the small silver tankard given to me by the contribution of some friends, whose names are engraved at the bottom of the said tankard.

Item, I bequeath to Mr. John Whiteway, youngest son of the said Martha, who is to be brought up a surgeon, the sum of 1007. in order to qualify him for a surgeon, but under the direction of his mother: which said sum of 1007. is to be paid to Mrs. Whiteway, in behalf of her said son John, out of the arrears which shall be due to me from my church livings, (except those of the deanery tithes, which are now let to the Rev. Dr. Wilson,) as soon as the said arrears can be paid to my executors. I also leave the said John 5. to be laid out in buying such physical or chirurgical books as Doctor Grattan and Mr. Nichols shall think fit for him.

Item, I bequeath to Mrs. Anne Ridgeway, now in my family, the profits of the leases of two houses let to John Cownly for forty years, of which only eight or nine are expired, for which the said Cownly payeth me 91. sterling for rent, yearly. I also bequeath to the said Anne the sum of 1007. sterling, to be paid her by my executors in six weeks after my decease, out of whatever money or bank-bills I may possess when I die; as also three gold rings, the remainder of the seven above mentioned, after Mrs. Whiteway hath made her choice of four and all my small pieces of plate, not exceeding in weight one ounce and onethird part of an ounce.

Item, I bequeath to my dearest friend Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, esq., my picture in miniature, drawn by Zinck, of Robert late earl of Oxford.

Item, I leave to Edward, now earl of Oxford, my

room.

Item, I bequeath to Alexander M'Aulay, esq., the gold box in which the freedom of the city of Dublin was presented to me, as a testimony of the esteem and love I have for him on account of his great learning, fine natural parts, unaffected piety and benevolence, and his truly honourable zeal in defence of the legal rights of the clergy, in opposition to all their unprovoked oppressors.

Item, I bequeath to Deane Swift, esq., my large silver standish, consisting of a large silver plate, an ink-pot, a sand-box and bell of the same metal.

Item, I bequeath to Mrs. Mary Barber the medal of queen Anne and prince George, which she formerly gave me.

Item, I leave to the reverend Mr. John Worrall my best beaver hat.

Item, I bequeath to the reverend Dr. Patrick Delany my medal of queen Anne in silver, and on the reverse, the bishops of England kneeling before her most sacred majesty.

Item, I bequeath to the reverend Mr. James King, prebendary of Tipper, my large gilded medal of king Charles I., and on the reverse, a crown of martyrdom, with other devices. My will, nevertheless, is, that if any of the above-mentioned legatees should die before me, that then, and in that case, the respective legacies to them bequeathed, shall revert to myself, and become again subject to my disposal.

Item, Whereas I have the lease of a field in trust for me, commonly called the vineyard, let to the reverend Dr. Francis Corbet, and the trust declared by the said