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property was divided mainly between his numerous 

 nephews and nieces, who were to receive about 1000 

 each, or in some cases a small annuity, after the death 

 of his sister, to whom the life interest and the residue 

 were bequeathed. There were many legacies and annui- 

 ties to his servants past and present, and to Ackworth 

 School. 1 



The sale of Fothergill's library occupied eight days 

 after the leisurely manner of those times. It was well 

 stocked, especially with variorum classics, books of travel 

 and accounts of foreign countries, Persian manuscripts, 

 portraits, maps, views, drawings of flowers, shells, eggs 

 and insects, and works on botany, zoology and conchology. 

 Some of the large volumes of coloured illustrations of 

 flora fetched considerable sums. 2 



1 Copy of Will in Fds. Ref. Lib. ; Tuke, Sketch, p. 75 ; Gent. Mag. 1802, 

 ii. 692. Fothergill's French eulogist, Vicq d'Azyr (followed by Chaumeton), 

 avers with pardonable imagination that the epitaph was placed over his tomb : 

 " Ci gtt le docteur Fothergill, qui depensa deux cents mille guineas pour le 

 soulagement des malheureux." 



2 A copy of the printed Catalogue, 52 pp., is in Fds. Ref. Lib., Leigh and 

 Sotheby, Auctioneers ; many of the items are priced. 



