LIFE OF WALTON. 59 



Jirst week in February ; I say then, because I take 

 that time to be the hardest and most pinching times 

 with poor people ; and God reward those that shall 

 do this without partiality, and with honesty, and a 

 good conscience. And if the same major and others 

 of the said towne of STAFFORD shall prove so negli- 

 gent, or dishonest, as not to imploy the rent by me 

 given as intended and exprest in this my will, which 

 God forbid, then I give the said rents and profits of 

 the said farme or land to the town, and chief magistrates 

 or governors, of ECLESHALL, 10 be disposed of by 

 them in such a manner as I have ordered the disposal 

 of it by the town of Stafford, the said farme or land 

 being near the town of Ecleshall. And I give to my 

 son-in-law, Dr. HAWKINS, whom I love as my own 

 son; and to MY DAUGHTER, HIS WIFE; and my son 

 IZAAK ; to each of them a ring, with these words or 

 motto,- " Love my memory, 1. W* obiit 



' to the Lord Bishop 



of Winton a ring, with this motto ; a A mite for a 

 " million, I. W. obiit " and to his friends 



hereafter named, I give to each of them a ring with 

 this motto; " A friend's farewell, I. W. obiit 

 And my will is, the said rings be delivered within forty 

 days after my death : and that the price and value of all 

 the said rings shall be thirteen shillings and four pence 

 a piece. I give to Dr. HAWKINS Doctor Donne's 

 Sermons , which I have heard preacht, and read with 

 much content. To my son IZAAK, I give Doctor Sibbs 

 his Souls Conflict ; and to MY DAUGHTER his Bruised 

 Reed *, desiring them to read them so as to be well ac- 

 quainted with them. And I also give unto HER all my 

 books at Winchester and Droxford, and whatever in 

 those two places are, or I can call mine, except a trunk 

 of linnen, which I give to my son IZAAK : but if. he 

 do not live to marry, or make use of it, then I give the 

 same to my grand-daughter, ANNE HAWKINS. And I 

 give MY DAUGHTER Doctor Hall's Works, which be 

 now at Farnham. To my son IZAAK I give all my 



* This book was an instrument in the conversion of Mr. Richard Bax- 

 ter. See Dr. Calamy's Life of him, page 7. 



