in it, according to the usage of the Church of England, within ten years after my decease. And in case at the end of the said ten years no such Church or Chapel shall be there erected and made use of, my will is, that the said two hundred pounds shall be then immediately given to the widow, child, or children of the Rev. Thomas Adam aforesaid, in case the said Thomas Adam be dead, and any such widow, child, or children of his alive. And in case at the expiration of the aforesaid term of ten years, either the said Thomas Adam shall be alive, or if dead, leave no widow, child, or children, my will is, that the aforesaid two hundred pounds be then immediately given to the Corporation of Clergymen's sons, for the use and service of the widows and orphans of poor Clergymen. Item, I give to the Right Reverend Doctor Richard Osbaldeston, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, the sum of fifty pounds, in trust, and to the intent that he pay the same to the treasurer for the time being of a voluntary society, commonly called or known by the name of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge; which said sum of fifty pounds, I desire may be applied toward carrying on the charitable designs of the said society. Item, I give to the said Right Reverend Doctor Richard Osbaldeston, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, the farther sum of fifty pounds in trust, and to the intent that he give the same to the Society for propagating the Gospel in foreign parts; which said sum of fifty pounds, I desire may be applied toward carrying on the charitable designs of that Society. Item, I desire the aforesaid Lord Archbishop of York will do me the honour to accept the Picture of Pope Gregory the first, which has been commended, and was a legacy to me from the painter, Mr. John Settrington. Item, I desire the aforesaid Lord Bishop of Carlisle will do me the honour to accept my own Picture, drawn by the same hand. Item, I give to Barnabas Legard Esq., the sum of forty pounds in trust, to be by him paid to the Trustees for the time being of the Amicable Society in Scarborough aforesaid. Item, I desire the aforesaid Lord Archbishop of York, the &c. &c. will each of them do me the honour to accept a Ring, with this motto, Serus in cœlum redeas. Item, I desire Dr. Peter Shaw, Dr. Isaac Schomberg, physicians in the city of London, Dr. John Jolson, in the city of York, and Mr. John Travis, Surgeon, of Scarborough, will do me the honour to accept a

Ring with this motto, Vale et fac valere. Item, I desire my Executor will buy a Ring for himself, with this motto, Cognatus amicus omnibus. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this first day of August, in the year of our Lord 1749.

"And now having, I hope, made a proper disposition of my Lauds and Money, those pearls of great price in the present esteem of men, let me take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to the Grand Original Proprietor. And here I must direct praise to that benign Being, who through all the stages of my life hath encompassed me with a profusion of favours, and who, by a wonderful and gracious Providence, hath converted my very misfortunes and disappointments into blessings. Nor let me omit (what the business just finished seems more particularly to require from me) to return Him my unfeigned thanks, who, to all the comforts and conveniences of life, hath super-added this also, of being useful in death, by thus enabling me to dispose of a double portion, viz. one of love to the Poor, and one of gratitude to my Friends. All my faults and follies (almost infinite as they have been) I leave behind. me, hoping that as they had here their birth and origin, they may here be buried in everlasting oblivion. My infant graces and little embryo virtues are, I trust, gone before me into heaven, and will, I hope, through the mediation of my Redeemer, prove successful messengers to prepare my way. Thither, O Lord, let them mount up. with an unintermitting constancy, while my soul, in the mean time, feasts herself with ecstatic reflexions on that ravishing change, when from the nonsense and folly of an impertinent, vain, and wicked world, she shall be summoned to converse with her kindred spirits, and admitted into the blissful society of angels and men made perfect; when instead of sickness, gloominess, and sorrow (the melancholy retinue of sin, and a house of clay) glory and immortal youth shall be her attendants, and her habitation the palace of the King of Kings. This will be a life worth dying for indeed! Thus to exist, though but in prospect, is even at present joy, gladness, transport, ecstacy! Fired with a view of this transcendent happiness, and triumphant in hope, (those noble privileges of a Christian!) how is it possible to forbear crying out, "O Death, my friend, why art thou so long in coming; why tarry the wheels of thy chariot !"—To that

E e

Supreme Being, whose treasures of goodness are thus infinite and inexhaustible, be all honour and glory for ever. Amen. Amen.

"The testator apprehends that several of his actions will be esteemed singular.-Be it so: but if they are good, he gives a legacy of his blushes to the world. 'Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not’—’Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more.""