The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692)Settle, Elkanah
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The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692)
Settle, Elkanah
Morrell, William, -1692 -- Fiction
_Signed, Sealed, Published and Declared in the presence of us, with the
words_ (Will. Wickham) _being first interlined_, Rob. Smith, Jo.
Chapman, Rich. Chapman, Mart. Pinckard.
_I, the above-named_ Humphrey Wickham, _having omitted out of my Will
above-mentioned, the Disposition of my Estate in_ Huntingtonshire, _do
hereby make this Addition to, and part of my said Will, in manner
following: I give and bequeath all my Lands, Tenements and
Hereditaments, called_ Pryor'_s Farm, and all other my Estate in_
Holly-well _and_ Needingworth, _unto the above-named_ John Brooking,
William Davis senior, _and_ Tho. Cullin senior, _and the Survivor of
them, and their Heirs, and the Heirs of the Survivor of them, under
this special Trust and Confidence, that the said_ Jo. Brooking, William
Davis, _and_ Thomas Cullin, _shall sell and dispose of the same; and
out of the Moneys thereby raised, pay, or cause to be paid the
respective Legacies hereafter named_; viz. _I give and bequeath to_
Humphrey Longford _the sum of six hundred pounds, and to his Sister_
Mary Longford _the like sum of six hundred pounds_.
Item, _I give and bequeath unto the said_ Tho. Cullin _Sen. the further
Sum of_ 800 l. _and all the Remainder of the Moneys thereby raised, I
give and bequeath unto the said_ Will. Davis _Sen. and_ Jane _his Wife,
and the Survivor of them_.
Item, _Whereas I have by Will above-said, given unto_ John Cullin, _Son
of the said_ Thomas Cullin, _the impropriated Parsonage of_ Sowgrave;
_my true meaning is, That I do give and devise the same to the said_
John Cullin, _and his Heirs for ever. In Witness whereof, I the said_
Humphrey Wickham _have to this Codicil Addition, or further part of my
said Will, set my Hand and Seal, this Twenty eighth Day of_ December,
_Anno Dom._ 1691.
Humphrey Wickham.
_Signed, Sealed, Published, and Declared, in the Presence of us_,
Robert Smith, John Chapman, Rich. Chapman, Martin Pinkard. Probatum
fuit, _&c._
This stupendious confidence of a dying man is very amazing, nay he
drove on the Masquerade at that strange rate, that he may be truly
said to have ended as he began, having received the blessed
Sacrament, pretended the settlement of his Conscience, and making
peace with Heaven with that seeming sincerity, as if he had
resolved to prevaricate with God with the same assurance he had all
along done with Mankind. The credulity of these deluded persons his
Landlord, and the rest, is not much to be wonder'd at, when the
last Gasps of Death could carry so fair an Hypocrisie, and their
Transports for his extravagant Legacies bequeathed 'em are rather
to be pittied then rediculed. And if they have been faulty in any
little over-fondness of their imaginary good fortune, the Jests and
Gibes they have received, have been their sufficient punishment;
besides Mr. _Cullin's_ being run out of above 30_l._
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