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y lamented the errors fhe had falinto. Alas! faid fhe, how have hurried myself out of my exiftence, om a rage to live! I feel, now it is olate, how infufficient externals are give contentment to a rational ind. Friendship and Virtue, with all eir delightful train, never once capvated my imagination, until the rave was yawning to receive me; and must be fatisfied with becoming a roverb to the giddy and misjudging, tead of answering one worthy end f my creation. O, my husband! an you pardon the grofs diffimulation have practifed? Or will my God raciously erafe the formidable regif. er of my daring perjury? I only met you at the altar to intitle myfelf to your poffeffions, and had I beheld you expiring the next inftant at my feet, I hould have confidered my happiness as completed; but my punishment is death, unpitied and unlamented.

I will not, fir, add any reflections of my own, but inform your readers, that at three-and-twenty this lively, this beautiful girl fell a victim to her own folly; and admonish the ambitious and the vain to fhun the rock of her deftruction, and early correct every improper inclination. I am, fir, &c, FERDINAND,

To the AUTHOR of the LONDON

SIR,

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MAGAZINE,

N the outfide of two pieces of paper, where tea had been brought from a grocer's fhop, was found the following codicil to the late Sir Andrew Chadwick's will, written by himself, and figned the 11th day of March, three days before his death, As it contains fome things not a little whimsical, your infertion of it may oblige many befides

Your Conftant Reader. MEMORANDUM by way of additional codicil to my laft will and teftament, fecured from the two-handed ferrets, in the cheft in my back garret, Having forgot to give legacies to feverals, whom I defire to remember in my will, and made a codicil to my faid laft will and teftament, detached from it, which (from a defire to conceal at prefent) perhaps I may have loft or mislaid, as upon fearching for it I cannot find it; but it is more than probable, that the rats, who have

427 been following the fcent that way for fome time paft, have defroyed it; and therefore for my own fatisfaction this fhall fupply its place, and be fafer lodged than the faid codicil, detached from my faid laft will and teftament. I therein bequeathed five thousand pounds at my decease, and the like fum at the decease of my wife Margaret Lady Chadwick, to my executors mentioned in my faid will, in truft, that they, or either of them, should pay the fame in equal proportions to each of fuch, as could prove themselves of confanguinity to me; which claufe or claufes of the faid codicil I have more seriously weighed and deliberate ly confidered, as alfo the propriety of all my donations, with the merits of each particular legatee,

And first, I premife, that if in case it fhould pleafe God to take me by death, in the mean time, before I can find a convenient opportunity to have my faid laft will and teftament fairly copied and properly executed according to the ftatutes, then in fuch a cafe, I do hereby cancel and annul that claufe, or claufes, of my faid last will and teftament, which bequeaths the fum of ten thousand pounds to thofe of confanguinity to me; as the hungry Lacreafshir Kites, to whom I owe nothing either by the ties of blood, gratitude, nor natural affection, may attempt to run away with more, contrary to my inclination, than they deferve at my hands, or can make a good ufe of; in which cafe the fum of 10,000l, to go to the refidue of my eftate, chargeable as before, and herein after-mentioned, with the ufe of all the annual profits iffuing from what remains to my faid wife, for and during the term of her natural life, upon condition, and to the intent that the, my faid wife, ftrictly complies with the whole of my faid laft will and teftament, as before mentioned; otherwife to go immediately from her to thofe in remainder, except fo much as before excepted. The future good of my wife, and her happiness, is the fole motive for my restricting her from Mrs. G-'s company: I have no enmity to Mrs. G. nor any body; God blefs her, and every body, fay I, and fend her foon a good husband, a thing he has more need of than he has of her; though her late directions Hhh2

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given to my madam, and the glibfpring of her mouth, has given me no fmali vexation and perplexity for fome time paft, and almost deprives me of doing as I would in my own houfe. My eftate is my own, and all of my own getting, and I will difpofe of it as I pleafe, and therefore do hereby declare that my faid wife, Lady Chad wick, fhall have no power whatever to give by will, or otherwife, any fum, or fums of money, iffuing by virtue of this my laft will, or from all, or any, of my faid eftate, to the faid Mrs. Caroline Glover, her children, or any person, or perfons, in truft for her, or them, as witness my hand this 8th day of March, 1768.

A. CHADWICK. Horfes taken care of. Eftate not expofed to public fale, 2001. more to Mr. Keightly Paxten of the Exchequer. 500l. and the reverfion of 1000l. at the death of Mrs. Wakes. gool. to Captain Compton, and ditto to his two daughters, if they furvive Lady Chadwick. Fenoulhet's children gool. each.

Item, I give and bequeath to my old acquaintance Mrs. Betty Chudleigh of Knightsbridge an hundred guineas for a remembrance of me. Mrs. Hanrott 100l. William Roberts, fervant, 30l. per annum.

And I do hereby revoke, cancel, and annul, a claufe or claufes in my faid laft will and teftament, which bequeaths to John Wilkes, Efq; the fum of 1000l. and do hereby give and bequeath the faid fum of 1000l. to another patriot of equal zeal and pub. lic fpirit, though lefs experienced with court fineffe and intrigues, I mean boneft Scot, befides my former donations, including the fum of two thou fand pounds in money at prefent, not doubting that his good fenfe, and happy turn of mind, will enable him to make a proper use of it, and induce him to difpofe of it with the fame circumfpection and moderation with which I gathered it together: and I defire, that he will always continue a loyal fubject to his fovereign, and friend to his country, and speak his mind with freedom and independency, and with that candour he has fo often entertained me formerly in private; for though public virtue has been ba pished by the Foxes, I hope it will

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never defert thofe whom I wish well, and I believe there is as little in molt places now-a-days where it ought to be moft confpicuous, as there is at Holland Houfe. St. Stephen's Chapel is grown fo very dirty, I with it could be brushed a little; and I do hope, that one day or other, a dose will be given to it, which will pub out the plug, and thoroughly purge it from its proftituted venality and corruption. Alas! the ftruggles for liberty of one poor Cato in our age (deprived of enjoying the bounties of friends to the caufe by rafcally perfecution and oppreffion) is like the wren piffing in the fea.

As fecond thoughts are best, I have changed my mind, which I think is enough. Col. Wells has often difguft. ed me, honeft Scott never did offend me, unlefs by his being other people's friend more than his own, and debarring me of the pleasure of his company when I ftood moft in need of it, for these fourteen months and upwards paft: but as I now know the cause, I overlook it in him, and therefore do hereby revoke, cancel, and annul, that claufe, or claufes, in my faid laft will and teftament, which be queath to the faid Colonel John Wells the half of the refidue of my estate at the decease of my faid wife, and do hereby give and bequeath the whole refidue of all and every my estate, real and perfonal, as before mentioned, to Alexander Scott, chargeable with the payment of two thoufand pounds, at the decease of my faid wife, to Colonel Wells, if he shall furvive her, otherwife, if not, to revert to Alexander Scott, upon condition, and to the intent, that he never knuckles, or cringes, or becomes the fycophantical tool of any imp whatever of abufed power, infolence of office, and nominal greatness.

I did intend to have countenanced, in fome meafure, public charities, but the many private abuses, which have lately crept in among them, like many other things, have rendered them worthy of the notice and attention of the well-difpofed.

For the phyfical tribe must be in the fashion, and are all of a piece with their brothers in iniquity; the parfons, the lawyers, political conjurors, and our wife (or rather otherwife) leaders

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A. CHADWICK.

I Philip, Inte earl of Pembroke and

Montgomery, now knight for the county of Berks, being (as I am told) very weak in body, but of perfect me. mory; for I remember this time five years I gave the cafting voice to dif. patch old Canterbury, and this time two years I voted no addrefs to be made to my mafter, and this time twelve month faw him brought to the block; yet because death doth threaten and ftare upon me, (who ftill have obeyed all thofe that threatened me) I now make my laft Willand Teftament. Imprimis, For my foul, I confefs I have heard very much of fouls, but what they are, or whom they are for, God knows, I know not; they tell me now of another world, where I never was, nor do I know one foot of the way thither. While the king ftood, I was of his religion, made my fon wear a callock, and thought to make him a bishop; then came the Scots and made me a prefbyterian; and finçe Cromwell entered, I have been an independant. These (I believe) are the kingdom's three eftates, and if any of thefe can save a foul, I may claim one therefore if my exe

429 cutors do find I have a foul, I give it him that gave it me.

Item, I give my body, for I cannot keep it, you fee the furgeon is tearing off my flesh, therefore bury me, I have church lands enough; but do not lay me in the church-porch, for I was a lord, and would not be buried where Colonel Pride was born.

Item, My will is, that I have no monument, for then I must have epi taphs and verfes, but all my life long I have had too much of them.

Item, I give my dogs (the best curs that ever man laid leg o'er) to be divided among the council of ftate, Maný a fair day have I followed my dogs, and followed the ftate both night and day; went whither they fent me, fat where they bid me, fometimes with lords, fometimes with commons, and now can neither go nor fit: yet whatever becomes of me, let my poor dogs not want their allowance, nor come within the ordinance of one meal a week.

Item, I give two of my best faddle horses to the earl of Denbigh, for I fear e'er long his own legs will fail him ;

tables taive and strongelt in all my

ftables I give to the academy, for a vaulting-horfe for all lovers of virtue. All my other horfes I give to the lord Fairfax, that when Cromwell and the ftates take away his commiffion, his lordship may have fome horse to command.

Item, I give my hawks to the earl of Carnarvan; his father was master of the hawks to the king, and he has wit fo like his father, that I begged his wardship, left he in time fhould do fo by me.

Item, I give all my deer to the earl of Salisbury, who I know will preferve them, because he denied the king a buck out of one of his own parks.

Item, I give my chaplains to the earl of Stamford, in regard he never used to have any but his fon the Lord Grey, who being thus both fpiritual and carnal, may beget more moniters.

Item, I give nothing to the Lord Say, which legacy I give him, because I know he will bestow it on the poor.

Item, To the counteffes (my fifter and my wife) I now give leave to enjoy their eftates; but my own estate I give to my eldest fon, charging him

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