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all true Affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn, with which Name and Place I could willingly have contented myself, if God, and your Grace's Pleasure had been fo pleased. Neither did I at any Time fo far forget myself in my Exaltation, or received Queenship, but that I always looked for fuch an Alteration as now I find; for the Ground of my Preferment being on no furer Foundation than your Grace's Fancy, the leaft Alteration, I knew, was fit and fufficient to draw that Fancy to fome other Subject. You have chofen me, from a low Eftate, to be your Queen and Companion, far beyond my Defert or Defire. If then you found me worthy of fuch Honour, Good your Grace let not any light Fancy, or bad Counsel of mine Enemies, withdraw your Princely Favour from me; neither let that Stain, that unworthy Stain of a Difloyal Heart towards your Good Grace, ever caft fo foul a Blot on your moft Dutiful Wife, and the Infant Princefs your Daughter: Try me, good King, but let me have a lawful Trial, and let not my fworn Enemies fit as my Accufers and Judges; yea, let me receive an open Trial, for my Truth fhall fear no open Shame; then shall you fee, either mine Innocency cleared, your Sufpicion and Confcience fatisfied, the Ignominy and Slander of the World stopped, or my Guilt openly declared. So that whatsoever God or You may determine of me, your Grace may be freed from an open Cenfure; and mine Offences being fo lawfully proved, your Grace is at Liberty, both before God and Man, not only to execute worthy Punishment on me as an unlawful Wife, but to follow your Affection already fettled on that Party, for whofe Sake I am now as I am, whofe Name I could fome good While fince

have pointed unto: Your Grace being not ignorant of my Sufpicion therein.

But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my Death, but an infamous Slander muft bring you the enjoying of your defired Happiness; then I defired of God, that he will pardon your great Sin therein, and likewife mine Enemies, the Inftruments thereof; and that he will not call you to a ftrict Account for your unprincely and cruel Ufage of me, at his General Judgment-Seat, where both You and Myfelf muft fhortly appear, and in whofe Judgment, I doubt not, (whatsoever the World may think of me), mine Innocence fhall be openly known, and sufficiently cleared.

My laft and only Request shall be, That myself may only bear the Burthen of your Grace's Difpleasure, and that it may not touch the innocent Souls of thofe poor Gentlemen, who (as I underftand) are likewife in ftrait Imprisonment for my Sake. If ever I have found Favour in your Sight; if ever the Name of Anne Boleyn hath been pleafing in your Ears, then let me obtain this Request: and I will fo leave to trouble your Grace any longer, with mine earnest Prayers to the Trinity, to have your Grace in his good Keeping, and to direct you in all your Actions. From my doleful Prifon in the Tower, this 6th of May.

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Sir BERKELEY LUCY Bart.

SIR,

IN. farther Juftice to the Memory of Mr. Collins, as well as to obviate fome Mifreprefentations which have been made, concerning it, I here fend you a true Copy of his Laft Will and Teftament, viz.

ANTHONY COLLINS of Great Baddow, in the

County of Effex, do, this 24th of Auguff 1728, make this my Laft Will and Teftament, in Manner and Form following, writing it all with my own Hand, I conftitute and appoint my dearest Wife, Elizabeth Collins, for whom I have the utmoft Affection, and to whom I cannot be fufficiently grateful, for the Pleafure and Happiness I have conftantly enjoyed with her, my fole Executrix. I give to my Wife for the Augmentation of her Jointure, for the Term of her Life, all my Manor of Hatfield-Peverel, alias HatfieldBury, in the County of Effex, and all Courts, Fines, Herriots, Profits, Perquifites, and QuitRents thereof, as alfo all that Wood, called SouthWood, lying in Hatfield-Peverel, aforefaid, and all the Wood, and Underwood, from Time to Time, growing thereon, with full Power, for my faid

Wife and her Affigns, at all Times during her Life, to fell, and take fufficient Timber within the faid Wood-Land, for the neceflary Repairs of my Farms in Hatfield-Peverel, and the Bridges there, and alfo all my Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and Eftate, in the Occupation of, and Let unto Mrs. Deekes, at the yearly Rent of Thirty two Pounds, and lying, and being in the Parish of Ulting, in the County of Effex. To have. and to hold the faid Manor, Lands, Tenements, Wood-Lands, and all, and fingular the Premiffes in Hatfield-Peverel, and Ulting aforefaid, with their Appurtenances, unto the faid Elizabeth Col lins, my Wife and her Affignis, for, and during the Term of her Life. And my Will is, that my faid Wife fhall have, and I give unto her, full Power, from Time, to Time, to Let the faid Lands and Tenements in Ulting, to any Perfon.or Perfons, by Leafe in Writing, for any Term or Terms of Years, not exceeding One and Twenty Years in Poffeffion, and not in Reverfion, and fo as the prefent Rent, or the best and most improved yearly Rent that can be got for the fame, be referved and made payable yearly, by half yearly Payments, and fo as fuch Leafe or Leafes be not made difpunishable of, or for Wafte. Alfo I give to my Wife, Elizabeth Collins, all my DwellingHoufe in Cavendish or Oxford-Square, within the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone, alias Mary Bone, in the County of Middlefex, with all the Buildings, Backfide, and Appurtenances thereto belonging, and all Eftate, Ufe, Truft, Term, and Terms of Years, to come, Claim and Demand in Law, and in Equity of, in, and to the fame laft mentioned Premifes, with all the Leafes, Evidences, and Writings concerning the fame. To have,

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and to hold the faid Dwelling House and Premiffes, with the Appurtenances unto the faid Elizabeth Collins my Wife, her Executors, Adminiftrators, and Affigns, for, and during all the Refidue and Remainder of the Term of Years, in the Premiffes which I purchased, and now remain unexpired, to her and their own fole and proper Use and Benefit for ever. I give and bequeath all my Meffuages and Tenements, and Leafe and Leafehold Eftate and Eftates, lying in St. Clement's-Lane, within the Parish of St. Clement's Danes, in the County of Middlefex; And all my Estate, Right, Title, Intereft, Úfe, Truft, Term, and Terms of Years therein, to come, Claim and Demand in Law and in Equity, of, in, and to, the last mentioned Premiffes, unto my two Daughters, Elizabeth and Martha Collins, equally between them and their Executors, Administrators, and Affigns refpectively, Share and Share alike, nevertheless charged with, and subject to, as well with the Payment of Eleven Hundred Pounds unto the faid Elizabeth Collins my Wife, as also with the yearly Payment of five and fifty Pounds unto my faid Wife, Elizabeth Collins, during the Term of her Life, in fuch Manner and Form, as the fame are already duly fettled in Writing. And for all the Refidue of my Manors, Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and real Eftate and Eftates whatsoever, and wherefoever within the Kingdom of Great Britain, not hereby, or otherwife, by me difpofed of; I do will, and leave to defcend to my two Children Elizabeth and Martha Collins, and their several and refpective Heirs. equally in Copartners as Tenants in common. give to my two Daughters, Elizabeth and Mar

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