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the sacrament to him ; which he said he would take : 

 .go accordingly I gave orders for it, and two other 

 honest gentlemen received with him ; Mr. Gibson 

 and Colonel Liston, an old servant of his Grace's. 

 At first he called out three or four times ; for he 

 thought the ceremony looked as if death was near : 

 which, for the strength of his noble parts (they not 

 being yet affected,) he could not easily believe : for 

 all this time he was not willing to take death to him ; 

 but in a few moments after he became calm, and 

 received the sacrament with all the decency imag- 

 inable, and in an hour afterwards he lost his speech, 

 and continued so till eleven at night, when he died. 

 The confusion he has left his affairs in, will make 

 his heir, whoever he be, very uneasy. To tell you 

 truly, I believe there is no other will in being, but 

 what they say is in the trustees' hands; for all the 

 servants say, they knew there was a parchment 

 sealed, which my Lord said he would alter, which 

 they looked upon to be his will : whether he has 

 cancelled it, I cannot find : some say one Mr. Bur- 

 rell has it ; but nobody here can give any distinct 

 account of it: but my Lord himself said positively, 

 in the presence of several, that he had no will in 

 being ; so what to make of this t cannot tell you- 

 We supposed that it might be Sir William Villiers, 

 that he intended for his heir ; but he said several 

 times, before us all, No ; so that I cannot imagine 

 if he has any will, to whom he has given it, I myself 

 being as nearly related to him as any by full blood. 

 Mr Brian Fairfax, and Mr Gibson, have been wit- 

 nesses of my proceedings since my being here : I 



