THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULTOBUM MANIBTTS GEANDE LETATtTE ONUS," — Ovtd. 



C|e §^ast Will of Ojomas 6ore, % ^ntiquarg. 



By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F.S.A. 

 ^^ ^^HESAURIZAT et ignorat cui congregabit ea" — "Man 



.-^ ifjKR i heapeth up riches and cannot tell for whom he gathers 

 them/^ — is a truth much older than the Psalm in which it is found. 

 It is surely as old as the time of the very first antediluvian (who- 

 ever he may have been) who had the opportunity of heaping up 

 riches. As with money, so with " Collections " of all sorts, books, 

 MSS., pictures, china, &c. : witness the auctioneers' advertisements 

 every London " Season." 



The following document, being the Last "Will and Testament of 

 Thomas Gore, Esq., of Alderton, an amateur Herald and Genealogist 

 of the seventeenth century, is not a bad instance of the wonderful 

 pains that collectors sometimes take to keep together articles very 

 precious to themselves, but which a very few years are enough to dissi- 

 pate. His name is well known to Wiltshire Archaeologists : and other 

 readers may find some account of him in vol. iv. p. 107, and vol. 

 viii. p. 282, of this Magazine, as well as a Pedigree of his family 

 and further notices in the volume of " Wiltshire Collections, Aubrey 

 and Jackson," pp. 46, 51. John Aubrey and Thomas Gore were 

 for a long time great friends ; and in the work just referred to, 

 there are frequent " mems." by Aubrey in difficulty, " Quaere T. G. 

 de hoc." But at last they fell out : and then, just as Anthony k 

 Wood after quarrelling with Aubrey, spoke of him as "maggotty- 

 headed ; " so, in his turn, Aubrey, when his friendship with T. G . 

 was broken up, stigmatizes his quondam crony as " a fidling peevish 

 fellow." 



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