96 MEMOIR OF 



Mr Willugliby left five executors of his will, 

 Sir Thomas Wend} 7 , Mr Barnard, Mr Phillip 

 Skippon, (afterwards Sir Phillip,) Mr Jessop, arid 

 Mr Ray ; to the latter, as an additional mark of 

 his esteem, he also bequeathed an annuity of 60 

 per annum, some say 70,* intrusting him also 

 with the education and care of his sons, Francis 

 and Thomas, the eldest not being four years of 

 age. Francis, the eldest, was created a baronet by 

 King Charles at ten years old, as an honour, no 

 doubt, to the memory of his father. He died 

 before he was twenty. Thomas, the younger son, 

 was one of the ten peers created all on the same 

 day by Queen Anne, and received the title of 

 Loft Middleton. Their sister afterwards married 

 the Duke of Chandos. Mr Willughby was buried 

 in Middleton church. The following is a trans- 

 lation of the epitaphs over his parents, himself, 

 and his son Francis, made by a late minister of the 

 parish. The original Latin is said to have been 

 written by Mr Ray, and to have all the charac- 



* This discrepancy of statement may, perhaps, be ac- 

 counted for by a circumstance mentioned in a letter from 

 Thomas Willughby to Dr Sloane, dated* Thurgunby, 

 Mar. 27, (the year is not added,) contained in Ayscougb's 

 Collection in the British Museum. 



" Sr. Having not been at Wollaton for some time, I 

 had not your's till lately. I am very sorry Mr Ray left 

 his family in so very ill a condition ; every body, I believe, 

 had a great value for him, and, knowing my father had 

 so particular one, I have always paid him 12 more than 1 

 was obliged to do," &c. &c. 



