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Item, I give and bequeath unto the said John Brooking out of the Moneys that shall be raised of the Sale of the said Lands and Tenements, called Apple-tree Ducy aforesaid, the Summ of Five hundred Pounds: And all the rest and residue of the Moneys that shall be thereby raised. I do hereby give and bequeath unto the said VVilliam Davies Senior, and Thomas Cullin Senior, to be equally divided between them and the Survivor of them.

Item, I give and bequeath unto Alice Cullin, Wife of the said Thomas Cullin Senior, the Sum of Six hundred Pounds to her own proper Use and Disposal.

Item, I give and bequeath in like manner the Summ of Six hundred Pounds unto Jane Davis, the Wife of the said VVilliam Davis.

Item, I give unto the said Robert Croker and VVill. Croker, the Summ of Ten Pounds a-piece to buy them Mourning: and also to each of them a Ring of Twelve Shillings.

Item, I give unto Jane Croker and Mary Croker; and also to the said Robert Peniston, and Jane Peniston, and all other my Legatees herein before-mentioned, and to every of them the Summ of Ten Pounds a-piece to buy them Mourning, and a Ring of Twelve Shillings.

Item, Whereas I have the Sum of Seven hundred Pounds, lying at Interest in the hands of Mr. Ambrose Holbitch, in the name of Oliver Charles, my Servant, I do hereby give and bequeath the same to and amongst my Four Servants, Oliver Charles, John Harbert, Sarah VVinn, and Margery Smith, and the Survivor of them, to be equally divided amongst them, share and share alike.

Item, I give and bequeath my Three Geldings, and all my Accoutrements belonging to them unto the said John Brookeing, VVilliam Davis Senior, and Thomas Cullin, Sen. viz. my Bright Bay Gelding to the said Thomas Cullin, and my Black Gelding to the said VVilliam Davis, and my Dapple-grey Gelding to the said John Brooking. All the Arrears of Rent in my Tenants Hands at the time of my Decease I do hereby freely acquit and discharge. And all the rest and Residue of my Personal Estate, not herein before devised, after my Debts, Legacies and Funeral Expences, paid and discharged, I do hereby give and bequeath unto my said Kinsman VVilliam VVickham.

And, lastly, I do hereby nominate, constitute and appoint the said VVilliam VVickham, John Brooking, VVilliam Davis Senior, and Thomas Cullin Senior, Executors of this my Will; hereby revoking and making void all other, and former Will or Wills by me made.

In Witness whereof I the said Humphrey VVickham have to this my last Will, containing one side of a Sheet of Paper, and almost half the back thereof, set my Hand and Seal this Twenty seventh day of December, Anno Dom. 1691.

Humphrey Wickham.

Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared in the presence of us, with the Words (VVill. VVickham) being first interlined, Rob. Smith, Jo. Chapman, Rich. Chapman, Mart. Pinckard.

I, the above named Humphrey VVickham, having omitted out of my Will above-mentioned, the Disposition of my Estate in Huntingtonshire, do hereby make this Addition to, and part of my said Will, in manner following. I give and bequeath all my Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, called Pryor's Farm, and all other my Estate in Hollywell and Needingworth, or else where, in the said County of Huntington, unto the above named John Brooking, VVilliam Davis Senior, and Tho. Cullin Sen. and the Survivor of them, and their Heirs, and the Heirs of the Survivor of them, under this special Trust and Confidence, that the said Jo. Brooking, VVilliam Davis, and Thomas Cullen, shall sell and dispose of the same; and out of the Moneys thereby raised, pay, or Cause to be paid the respective Legacies hereafter named, viz. I give and bequeath to Humphrey Longford the sum of six hundred pounds, and to his Sister Mary Longford the like sum of six hundred pounds.

Item, I give and bequeath unto the said Tho. Cullin Sen. the further Summ of 800l.. and all the Remainder of the Moneys thereby raised, I give and bequeath unto the said Will. Davis Sen. and Jane his Wife, and the Survivor of them.

Item, Whereas I have by Will above-said, given unto John Cullin, Son of the said Thomas Cullin, the impropriated Parsonage of Sowgrave; my true meaning is, That I do give and devise the same to the said John Cullin, and his Heirs for ever. In Witness whereof, I the said Humphrey Wickham have to this Condicil Addition, or further part of my said Will, set my Hand and Seal, this Twenty eighth Day of December, Anno Dom. 1691.

Humphrey Wickham.

Signed, Sealed, Published, and Declared, in the Presence of us, Robert Smith, John Chapman, Rich. Chapman, Martin Pinkard,

Probatum fuit hum. Testium. cum Codicillo eidem annex. coram Venerab. Vir. Henrico Fauconberge Legum Doctore, Surr. Venerab. & Egregii Viri Dom. Richardi Raines Militis, Legem etiam Doctoris Curiæ Prærogativæ Cantuar. Magist. &c. Quarto die Mensis Januarii, Anno Dom. (Stilo Angliæ, 1691.) Juramentis Willielmi Davis, & Thomæ Cullen, duorum ex Executor. &c. Quibus, &c. de bene & fidel. Administrand. eadem ad Sancta Dei Evangelia Jurat. Reservata potestate similem Com. faciendi Willielmo Wickham & Johanni Brooking, alteris Executor. eum venerint seu eorum a'ter venerit eand. petitur.

FINIS

PUBLICATIONS OF THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

First Year (1946-1947)

Numbers 1-6 out of print.

Second Year (1947-1948)

7. John Gay's The Present State of Wit (1711); and a section on Wit from The English Theophrastus (1702).

8. Rapin's De Carmine Pastorali, translated by Creech (1684).

9. T. Hanmer's (?) Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet (1736).

10. Corbyn Morris' Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, etc. (1744).

11. Thomas Purney's Discourse on the Pastoral (1717).

12. Essays on the Stage, selected, with an Introduction by Joseph Wood Krutch.

Third Year (1948-1949)

13. Sir John Falstaff (pseud.), The Theatre (1720).

14. Edward Moore's The Gamester (1753).

15. John Oldmixon's Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley(1712); and Arthur Mainwaring's The British Academy (1712).

16. Nevil Payne's Fatal Jealousy (1673).

17. Nicholas Rowe's Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespeare (1709).

18. "Of Genius," in The Occasional Paper, Vol. III, No. 10 (1719); and Aaron Hill's Preface to The Creation (1720).

Fourth Year (1949-1950)

19. Susanna Centlivre's The Busie Body (1709).

20. Lewis Theobold's Preface to The Works of Shakespeare (1734).

21. Critical Remarks on Sir Charles Grandison, Clarissa, and Pamela (1754).

22. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750).

23. John Dryden's His Majesties Declaration Defended (1681).

24. Pierre Nicole's An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in Which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams, translated by J. V. Cunningham.

Fifth Year (1950-1951)

25. Thomas Baker's The Fine Lady's Airs (1709).

26. Charles Macklin's The Man of the World (1792).

27. Out of print.

28. John Evelyn's An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661).

29. Daniel Defoe's A Vindication of the Press (1718).

30. Essays on Taste from John Gilbert Cooper's Letters Concerning Taste, 3rd edition (1757), & John Armstrong's Miscellanies(1770).

Sixth Year (1951-1952)

31. Thomas Gray's An Elegy Wrote in a Country Church Yard (1751); and The Eton College Manuscript.

32. Prefaces to Fiction; Georges de Scudéry's Preface to Ibrahim (1674), etc.

33. Henry Gally's A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings (1725).

34. Thomas Tyers' A Biographical Sketch of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1785).

35. James Boswell, Andrew Erskine, and George Dempster. Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch (1763).

36. Joseph Harris's The City Bride (1696).

Seventh Year (1952-1953)

37. Thomas Morrison's A Pindarick Ode on Painting (1767).

38. John Phillips' A Satyr Against Hypocrites (1655).

39. Thomas Warton's A History of English Poetry.

40. Edward Bysshe's The Art of English Poetry (1708).

41. Bernard Mandeville's "A Letter to Dion" (1732).

42. Prefaces to Four Seventeenth-Century Romances.

Eighth Year (1953-1954)

43. John Baillie's An Essay on the Sublime (1747).

44. Mathias Casimire Sarbiewski's The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils (1646).

45. John Robert Scott's Dissertation on the Progress of the Fine Arts.

46. Selections from Seventeenth Century Songbooks.

47. Contemporaries of the Tatler and Spectator.

48. Samuel Richardson's Introduction to Pamela.

Ninth Year (1954-1955)

49. Two St. Cecilia's Day Sermons (1696-1697).

50. Hervey Aston's A Sermon Before the Sons of the Clergy (1745).

51. Lewis Maidwell's An Essay upon the Necessity and Excellency of Education (1705).

52. Pappity Stampoy's A Collection of Scotch Proverbs (1663).

53. Urian Oakes' The Soveraign Efficacy of Divine Providence (1682).

54. Mary Davys' Familiar Letters Betwixt a Gentleman and a Lady (1725).

Tenth Year (1955-1956)

55. Samuel Say's An Essay on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers (1745).

56. Theologia Ruris, sive Schola & Scala Naturæ (1686).

57. Henry Fielding's Shamela (1741).

58. Eighteenth Century Book Illustrations.

59. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part I.

60. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. I, Comedies, Part II.

Eleventh Year (1956-1957)

61. Elizabeth Elstob's An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities (1715).

62. Two Funeral Sermons (1635).

63. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787).

64. Prefaces to Three Eighteenth Century Novels (1708, 1751, 1797).

65. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. II, Histories, Part I.

66. Samuel Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare. Vol. II, Histories, Part II.