Cia Ri AC EER SS, 
Bble to execule my intentions. If 
1 do this in my life-time, this re- 
commendation goes for nothing. 
As to my other friends, relations, 
and companions through life, and 
efpecially to the friends and com- 
panions of my fon, who were the 
deareft of mine, I am not unmind- 
ful of what [owe them; If I do 
not name them all here, and mark 
them with tokens of my remem- 
brance, I hope they will not attri- 
bute it to unkindnefs, or to a want 
of a due fenfe of their merits to- 
wards me. My old friend and faith- 
ful companion, Will. Burke, knows 
his place in my heart. I do not 
mention him as executor or affift- 
ant. I know that he will attend to 
my wife; but I chofe the two I 
have mentioned, as from their time 
of life of greater activity. I recom- 
mend him to them in the political 
world. I have made many con- 
nections, and fome of them among 
perfons of high rank. Their friend- 
thip from political became perfonal 
to me, and they haye fhewn it in 
a manner more than to fatisfy the 
utmoft demands that could be made 
from my love: and. fincere attach- 
ment to them. ‘They are the 
worthieft people. in the kingdom. 
Their intentions are excellent ; and 
I wifh them every kind of fuccefs. 
I bequeath my _ brother-in-law, 
Jchn Nugent, and the friends in 
my poor fon’s lift, which is in his 
mother’s hands, to their protection, 
As to them, and to the reft of my 
‘companions, who conftantly ho- 
_noured and cheered our houfe as 
-Ouz inmates, I have put down their 
names in a lift, that my wife fhould 
‘fend the ufual memorial of lit- 
“tle mourning rings, asa token of 
My remembrance. 
In {peaking of my. friends, to 
363 
whom I owe fo many obligations, 
I ought to name, fpecially, Lord 
Fitzwilliam, the Duke of Portland, 
and the Lords Cavendifhes, with the 
Duke of Devonfhire, the worthy 
head of that family. If the intima- 
cy which I have had with others has 
been broken off by a political dif- 
ference on great queftions, con- 
cerning the ftate of things exifting 
and impending, I hope they will 
forgive whatever of general human 
frailty, or of my own particular 
infirmity, has entered into that con- 
tention; I heartily entreat their 
forgivenefs. I have nothing furs 
ther to fay. 
Signed and fealed, as my lait will 
and teftament, this 11th day of 
Auguft, 1794, being written all 
with my own hand. 
Epmunp Burxg,L. S. 
In prefence of Du Pont, | 
Wii. WessteER, 
Wa tker Kine. 
On reading over the above will, 
I have nothing to add, or effentially 
to alter; but one point may be 
wanted to be perfected and explain- 
ed. In leaving my lands and here- 
‘ditaments to my wife, I find that I 
have omitted the words which in 
deeds create an inheritance in law. 
Now, though I think them hardly 
neceffary in a will, yet, to obviate 
all doubts, f explain the matter ina 
codicil which is annexed to this. 
EpmuNp Burke. 
Jan. 22d, 1797. 
I, Edmund Burke, of the parith 
of Beaconsfield, in the county of 
Bucks, being of found and difpof- 
ing judgment and memory, make 
this my laft will and teftament, in 
no fort for revoking, but explain- 
ing and confirming a will made by 
me, 
