Part 5

_Imprimis_, I do give, devise, and bequeath to my Kinsman _William Wickham_, Son of _George Wickham_, of _Gazington_ in the County of _Oxon_, all that my Mansion-House of _Swaclift_ aforesaid; and all the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments thereunto belonging, to hold unto him the said _William Wickham_, and his Heirs forever.

_Item_, I give and bequeath unto _John Cullin_, Son of _Thomas Cullin_, of the Parish of St. _Clement Danes_, in the County of _Middlesex_, Baker, all that my impropriated Parsonage of _Sowgrate_, in the County of _Northampton_, with the Rents, Issues, and Profits thereof.

_Item_, I give unto _Anne Cullin_, Sister of the said _John Cullin_, the Summ of Two hundred and fifty Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Thomas Cullin_, Son of the said _Thomas Cullin_, the Summ of Three hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Dorothy Halford_, Daughter of _Thomas Halford_ of _Halford_, in the County of _Warwick_, the Summ of Two hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Richard Davis_, Son of _William Davis_ of the said Parish of St. _Clement Danes_, the Summ of Four hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _William Davis_, Son of the said _William Davis_, the Summ of Two hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Anne Fowkes_, for her Care and Diligence in Looking after me in my Sickness, the Summ of One hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Robert Croker_, Son of _William Croker_ of _Sanford_, in the said County of _Oxon_ (being my God-son) the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto the said _William Croker_, the Summ of Five hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto _Robert Penniston_, Son of Sir _Thomas Penniston_, and younger Brother to Sir _Farmalis Penniston_ of _Cornhill_, in the said County of _Oxon_ the Summ of Three hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I give unto Mrs. _Jane Penniston_, Sister of the said Mr. _Robert Penniston_, the Summ of Two hundred Pounds.

_Item_, I do hereby give, devise, and bequeath, all my Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments whatsoever, called by the Name of _Apple-tree Ducy_, in _Cropridee_, in the County of _Northampton_, unto _John Brooking_ of _Rashly_, in the County of _Devon_, Esquire, and the said _William Davis_ Senior, and _Thomas Cullin_ Senior, and the Survivor of them, and their Heirs, and the Survivor of them upon Trust and Confidence: Nevertheless, that they the said _John Brooking_, _VVilliam Davis_, and _Thomas Cullin_, shall sell and dispose of the same; and out of the Money thereby raised, pay, or cause to be paid, the respective Legacies herein before bequeathed unto the said _Anne Cullin_, _Thomas Cullin_ Jun. _Dorothy Halford_, _Richard Davis_, _VVilliam Davis_ Jun. and _Anne Fowkes_. And whereas I have herein before bequeathed unto my Kinsman _VVilliam VVickham_, and his Heirs, all my Mansion-House at _Swaclift_ aforesaid, with the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments thereunto belonging; my true Will and Meaning is, That the same Devise is upon this special Trust and Confidence, That the said _VVilliam VVickham_ shall pay, or cause to be paid, the several Legacies herein before bequeathed unto the said _Rob. Croker_, and _VVil. Croker_, _Robert Penniston_, and _Jane Penniston_; and also pay and discharge one Bond for the Principal Sum of five hundred Pounds, with Interest, which I became bound for and with _Thomas VValker_, to one _Thomas Irons_, any thing herein before-contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding; and also that he the said _VVilliam VVickham_, shall out of his Legacy, and Lands, and Premises aforesaid, to him devised, pay, or cause to be paid unto my Executors hereafter named, the Sum of Five hundred Pounds, to be by them bestowed, distributed, or employed for the use and benefit of the Poor of the Parish of _Swaclift_ aforesaid, in such manner as they, or the major part of them shall think fit and convenient.

_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 800_l._. 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.