X. When long we have ferv'd, For his Friend, that's no better, XI. For 'tis Cause of grieving Which our Thoughts had long been fixt on, With no more Religion, XII. Nor yet let Matrimony, The worst Sort of Simony, Be the Price of our Presentations: Nor to wed a caft Miftrefs When fhe's in great Distress, Our requifite Qualification. XIII. And if it be our Chance At Sea, on the Rhine, or in Flanders; That exempt from all Duty We may dine with our pious Commanders. XIV. Then Brandy good Store, With feveral Things more, Which we Sons o'th'Church have a right in: But chiefly w' intreat, You'll never forget To excufe us from Preaching and Fighting. C 2 XV. Let XV. Let not a Commiffion XVI. Nor when the War's done, To be left to be ftarv'd, XVII. May it therefore you please, XVIII. Then on us take Pity, And chufe a Committee, Let no other Bufinefs prevent ye; Our Request do not fpurn, Nor vote it to burn With a Nemine Contradicente. XIX. To this if you yield, Our Mouths fhall be fill'd With Encomiums of your Piety; Whofe excellent Fame We will loudy proclaim, And worship next that of the Deity. XX. When XX. When thus you remove We all, down to Z from the Letter A, Will fervently pray, As in Duty bound, &c. a. A DIALOGUE between a SHEP. HERDESS and SHEPHERD. T SHEPHERDESS. O me y'ave made a Thousand Vows, The naked Pleasure of the Bed: Yet now my Eyes have loft their Charms, You dream y'ave Celia in your Arms, Aloud you name her in your Sleep, That charming Celia I admire, Then while you raife this vain Difpute, The The LAST WILL and TESTAMENT of I DOCTORS-COMMONS. Doctors-Commons, in the Parish of St. Benedict, Paul's-Wharf, London, being very aged, and finding by general Computation that my Time draws to an end, and likewife much fhaken both in Body and Mind with a Westminster Ague, yet of perfect Mind and Memory; to avoid all Suits and Controverfies that hereafter may arife concerning my Estate, or any Part or Parcel thereof, and to the Intent and Purpose that my contentious Days may be confummated and ended in Peace, Do conftitute, ordain, declare, and make this my laft Will and Teftament in Manner and Form following: That is to fay, Imprimis, For my Soul, I bequeath it to Gunpowder Makers, to be made into Gunpowder, which fhall be employed only for the Discharge of the new Canons. Item, I bequeath my Body to the Earth, from whence it came, decently to be buried, but not fumptuously, in the Convocation-Houfe, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London, aforefaid, according to the Difcretion of my Executors hereafter-named. Item, For my Perfonal Estate (having never been poffeffed of any Lands, I willingly bequeath the Reverend Judges, Vicars-Generals, Chancellors, Commiffaries, Arch-deacons, Deans and Chapters, and their Surrogates; and alfo all High Commiffioners, Judges, Delegates, Advocates, and Legum Doctores quofcunque. Qg, the great Commiffary, alias Dr. Roan only excepted, to the High Court of Parliament, there to be cherish'd according to their Merits and Defervings. Item, I bequeath all my Regifters, Deputy-Regifters, Proctors, Examiners, and Public Na taries, to the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, to be admitted Attornies (if no Prohibition be granted to the contrary) Item, I will and bequeath all my Fifty Pound Clerks to their Friends in the Country, or to the Juftices of the Peace and Quorum. Item, I will and bequeath all my Journeymen Clerks, Hackney and Sub hackney Clerks, to Chancery-Lane, and Britannick S. Hugh Preftar, to the Star-Chamber. Item, I will and bequeath all my Pursuivants, Apparators, Promooters, &c. to Under-Sheriffs, but in cafe they have no Need of them, then I bequeath them to their ghoftly Father, unto whom they have most relation. Item, I will and bequeath all my Writings and Records as followeth, my Bonds to large measuring Taylors, my Bills, Tranfmiffions and the like, to retaling Tobacconifts, my incontinent Articles to Bloomsbury, Long-Acre, and other like Places of good Fellowship; my Libels of Defamation to the penitential Scolds, there to be ordered according to their Difcretions; all my Commiffions of Appeal to the Parties appellant, for they have the most Right to them, in regard they have paid for them. Item, I will and bequeath all my large Books of Acts to them of the Fortune Play-Houfe, for I hold it a Deed of Charity, in regard they want good Action; my Decrees to the Courts of Chancery, in cafe they want any; my Sentences to those Orators that imitate Tullies quanquam te Marce fili, &c. for they are fomething long: And lastly, I will and bequeath my Cannons, charged with &c. to the Tower, to defend him that made them: And all the rest of my Writings, Efcripts, Manufcripts, and fuperfluous Papers whatfoever to Cooks, Bakers, Grocers, and Chandlers. Item, |