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LAST WILL and TESTAMENT

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ALEXANDER POPE, Efq;

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N THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. I Alexander Pope, of Twickenham, in the county of Middlesex, make this my laft Will and Teftament. I refign my Soul to its Creator in all humble hope of its future happiness, as in the difpofal of a Being infinitely good. As to my Body, my will is, that it be buried near the monument of my dear Parents at Twickenham, with the addition, after the words filius fecit of thefe only, et fibi: Qui obiit anno 17-ætatis-and that it be carried to the grave by fix of the pooreft men of the parish, to each of whom I order a fuit of grey coarfe cloth, as mourning. If I happen to die at any inconvenient diftance, let the fame be done in any other parish, and the Infcription be added on the monument at Twickenham. I hereby make and appoint my particular friends, Allen lord Bathurst, Hugh earl of Marchmont, the honourable William Murray his Majesty's folicitor general, and George Arbuthnot, of the court of Exchequer, Efq; the furvivors or furvivor of them, Executors of this my last Will and Teftament.

But all the manufcript and unprinted papers which I fhall leave at my decease, I defire may be delivered to my noble Friend, Henry St. John, lord Bolingbroke, to whofe fole care and judgment I commit them, either to be preferved or deftroyed; or, in case he shall not survive me, to the abovesaid Earl of Marchmont. Thefe, who in the course of my VOL. X.

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life have done me all other good offices, will not refufe me this laft after my Death: I leave them therefore this trouble, as a mark of my trust and friendfhip; only defiring them each to accept of fome fmall memorial of me: That my lord Bolingbroke will add to his library all the volumes of my Works and Tranflations of Homer, bound in red morocco, and the eleven volumes of thofe of Erafmus: That my lord Marchmont will take the large paper edition of Thuanus, by Buckley, and that portrait of Lord Bolingbroke, by Richardfon, which he fhall prefer: That my lord Bathurst will find a place for the three ftatues of the Hercules of Furnefe, the Venus of Medicis, and the Apollo in chiaro ofcuro, done by Kneller: That Mr. Murray will accept of the marble head of Homer, by Bernini; and of Sir Ifaac Newton, by Guelfi and that Mr. Arbuthnot will take the watch I commonly wore, which the King of Sardinia gave to the late Earl of Peterborow, and he to me on his death bed; together with one of the pictures of Lord Bolingbroke.

Item, I defire Mr. Lyttleton to accept of the bufts of Spencer, Shakespear, Milton, and Dryden. in marble, which his royal mafter the Prince was pleased to give me. I give and devife my library of printed books to Ralph Allen, of Widcombe, Efq; and to the Reverend Mr. William Warburton, or to the furvivor of them (when thofe belonging to Lord Bolingbroke are taken out, and when Mrs. Martha Blount has chosen Threescore out of the number.) I alfo give and bequeath to the faid Mr. Warburton the property of all fuch of my Works already printed, as he hath written, or fhall write Commentaries or Notes upon, and which I have not otherwise difpofed of, or alienated; and all the profits which shall arife after my death from fuch editions as he fhall publifh without future alterations.