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 Bolingbroke 
 Last will and testament
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 T H E 
 
 LAST Wi LL and TESTAMENT 
 
 Of the Late 
 
 Rt. Hon. Henry St. John, 
 Lord Vifcount Bolingbroh. 
 
 To which is added, 
 
 A Copy of an Original' Letter from 
 his Lordftiip to a Nolle Teer.
 
 THE 
 
 Eaft WILL andTESTAMENT 
 
 Of the Late 
 
 Kt. Hon. HENRY ST. JOHN; 
 
 Lord Vifcount BALING BROKE. 
 
 Extracted from the 
 
 Regiftry of the ^Prerogative Court 
 of CANTERBURY* 
 
 To which is added,. 
 
 A Copy of an ORIGINAL LETTER 
 
 From his LordfWp to a NOBLE PfeER, 
 
 Giving his Reafons for leaving the Kingdom 
 in March 1715. 
 
 L N<D N: 
 
 Printed for JAMES CROKATT, in Pru/ean- Court, 
 oppofite Surgeons- Hall in the 
 
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 T H 
 
 LAST WILL and TESTAMENT 
 
 Of the Late 
 
 Rt. Hon. HENRY ST. JOHN, 
 
 Lord Vifcount BOLINGBROKE. 
 
 JN THE NAME OF GOD, whom I humbly 
 adore, to whom I offer up perpetual 
 Thankfgiving, and to the Order of 
 whofe Providence I am chearfully 
 refigned. This is the Laft Will and Teftament of 
 me, Henry Saint John* in the Reign of Queen 
 
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 Ann, and by her Grace and Favour Vifcount Bo- t 
 lingbroke, after more than Thirty Yea Profcrip- 
 tion, and after the immenfe Lofles I have fuftained 
 by unexpected Events ill the Courfe of it; by the 
 Injuftice and Treachery of Perfons neareft- to me ; 
 by the Negligence of Friends* and by the Infidelity 
 of Servants j as my Fortune is fo reduced at this 
 Time, that it is impofllble for me to make fuch 
 Difpoftion, and to give fuch ample Legacies as I 
 always intended, I content therefore to give as- 
 follows : 
 
 My Debts, and the Expences of my Burial in a ' 
 decent and private Manner at Batferfea, in the 
 Vault where my laft Wife lies, being firft paid, 
 I give to William Cbetwynd of Stafford, Efq; and 
 Jofeph Taylor of the Inner-Temple, London^ Efqj 
 my two aftured Friends, each of them One Hun- 
 dred Guineas to be laid out by them, as to each of 
 them fhali feem beft in fome Memorial, as the 
 Legacy of their departed Friend, and I conftitute 
 them Executors of this my Will. The Diamond 
 
 my
 
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 Ring wiiich I wear upon my Finger, I give to 
 my old and long approved Friend the Marquis of 
 Mat/gnon, and after his Deceafe, to his Son the 
 Count de Gace, that I may be kept in the Re- 
 membrance of a Family whom I love and honour 
 above all others. 
 
 It em, 'I give to my faid Executors, the Sum 
 of Four Hnndred Pounds in Truft, to place out 
 -the fame in fome of the Pablick Funds, or Govern- 
 merit Securities, or any other Securities as they 
 fliall think proper, and to pay the Intereft or In- 
 come thereof, to Francis Arbontau my Valet dj 
 -Chambre* and Ann his Wife, and the Survivor of 
 them ; and after the Deceafe of the Survivor of 
 them, if their Son John Arboneau (hall be living, 
 and under the Age of Eighteen Years, to pay the 
 faid Intereft or Income to him, until he (hail at- 
 tain his faid Age, and then to pay the principal 
 Money, or affign the Securities for the fame to him j 
 but if he fliall not be living at the Deceafe of his 
 Father and Mother, or fliall afterwards die before 
 
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 his faid Age of Eighteen Years, in either of the 
 faid Cafes, the faid Principal Sum of Four Hundred 
 Pounds, and the Securities for the fame, {hall fink 
 into my Ptrfonal Eftate, and be accounted Part 
 thereof* 
 
 Item, I give to my two Servants Marianne 
 fribon and Remi Charnet commonly called Ticardy 
 each One Hundred Pounds, and to every other Ser- 
 vant living with me at the Time of my Deceafe, 
 and who fhall. have lived me Two Years or lon- 
 ger, I give One Years Wagers more than what fhall; 
 be due to them at my Death. 
 
 And, whereas I am the Author of the feveral 
 Books or Traces following, viz. 
 
 Remarks on the Hiftory of England, from the 
 Minutes of Humphrey Oldcaftlev In Twenty-four 
 letters. 
 
 A Dtf
 
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 A Differ fat ton upon Parties. In Nineteen Let 
 
 ters, to Caleb Danvers, Efq; 
 
 Occafional Writer. Numb, i, 2, $\ 
 
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 fum of Camilick; 
 
 An Anftxer to the London Journal of Decem- 
 ber 21, 17289 ty John Trot, 
 
 An Anfocer to the "Defence of the Enquiry into 
 the Reafons of .the Conduft of Great-Britain. 
 
 A final Anfaer to the '"Remarks on the Craftf- 
 tnaris Vindication^ 
 
 ; 
 
 All which Books or ;Tra6ts have been printed 
 and publifhed, and I am alfo the Author of 
 
 Four Letters on Hiftoty, &c. 1 
 
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 Which have been privately printed and not pub* 
 lifhed ; but I have not afligned to- any Perforj or 
 Perfons whatfoever the Copy, or the Liberty, of. 
 Printing or Reprinting, any of the faid Books, or 
 Tracts, or Letters.. Now I do hereby, as far as by 
 Law I can, give and afllgn to David Mallet of 
 Putney, in the County of Surry, Efquire, the Copy 
 and Copies of all and each, of the before-men- 
 tioned Books or. Tracts, and Letters,, and the Li^ 
 berty of Reprinting the fame. I alfo give to the 
 faid David Mallet, the Copy and Copies of all 
 the Manufcript Books, Papers, and. Writings, 
 which I have written or cqmpofed,. or fliall write 
 or compofe, and leave at the Time of my Deceafe. 
 And I further give to the faid. David Mallet, all 
 my Books which at the Time of my Deceafe, fhalL 
 be. in the Room called my Library. 
 
 All the reft a#d refidue of my Perfonal. Efiate r 
 whatfoever and wherefoever, I give to my faid 
 Executors, -and hereby revoking all former Wills, 
 I declare this to be my Laft Will and Teftament* 
 
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 In Witnefs thereof, I have hereunto fet ftiy Hand 
 and Seal the Twenty-fecond Day of November ; 
 in the Year of Our Lord One Thoufand Seven 
 Hundred and Fifty One. 
 
 Henry Saint John, Bolingbroke* 
 
 Signed, Sealed, Publijhed, and 
 Declared by the fald Tefta- 
 tor, as and for his Lajl Will 
 and Teftament, in the Pre- 
 face of 
 
 OLIVER PRICE. 
 
 THOMAS HALL. 
 
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 Proved at London, the Fifth Day of March> 
 1752, before the Worfliipful Robert Chap- 
 man, Dodtor of Laws and Surrogate, by the 
 Oaths of William Chetwynd and Jofepb 
 Taylor^ Efquires, the Executors iwmed ia 
 ihe Will, to whom Adminiftration was 
 
 granted
 
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 granted, being firft fwbrn duly to Admi 
 nifler. 
 
 WILLIAM LEGARD>" 
 March 1752. PETER ST. ELOY, 
 HENRY STEVENS, 
 
 A COP
 
 C O P Y 
 
 OF AN 
 
 ORIGINAL LETTER 
 
 From the Right Hon. the 
 
 Lord Vifcount/fo///^r0J^, 
 
 To a NOBLE PEER, 
 
 } ' ' ''.''*" 
 
 Giving his REASONS for Leaving the 
 Kingdom in March 1715. 
 
 My LORD, Dover, March 17, 1715. 
 
 Left the Town fo abruptly, that I had 
 not Time to take leave of You, or any 
 of my Friends. You will exeufe me, 
 \vhen You know, that I had certain and repeated
 
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 Informations, from fome, who are in the Secret of 
 Affairs.; that a Rcfolution was taken by thofe, 
 who have Power to execute, to puriue me to <hc 
 Scaffold. My Blood was to have been the Cement 
 of a New Alliance 5 nor cou'd my Innocence be 
 any Security, after it had once -been demanded from 
 Abroad, and refolvcd on at Home ; that it was 
 neceflary to cut me Off. Had there been the leaft 
 Reafon to hope for a fair and open Tryal, after 
 having been already Prejudged, unheard, by the 
 two Houfes of Parliament, I fhould -not have de- 
 clined the ftrideft Examination. I challenge the 
 moil inveterate of my Enemies, to produce any 
 one Inftance of Criminal Correfpondence, or the 
 leaft Corruption, in any Part of the Adminiftratioa 
 in which I was concerned. If my Zeal for the 
 Honour and Dignity of my Royal Miftrefs, and the 
 true Intereft f my Country, has any where tran- 
 fported me, to let flip a^ warm or .unguarded Ex- 
 preflion ; I hope the mofl favourable Interpretation 
 will be put upon it. It is a Comfort, that will 
 t-emain with me in all Misfortunes, that I ferved 
 
 Her
 
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 Her Majefly faithfully and dutifully, in that efpe- 
 daily, which fhe had moft at Heart, relieving Her 
 People from a bloody and expenfive War; and 
 that I have always been too much an Englift>man r 
 to facrifice the Intereft off my Country, to any 
 Foreign Ally whatfoever. And it is for this Crime 
 only, that I am now driven \ from thence.. 
 
 You will hear more at large from me fiiortly r 
 
 Tours, &c.
 
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