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that lie may meet his neighbour afterwards and talk 

 over, if he likes, the merits and demerits of his old 

 master, as none — next to his Maker — know them 

 better. The provisions in the will of the old Squire, 

 in which he left his estates to his cousin Cecil, 

 afterwards Lord Forester, father of the present 

 Eight Hon. Lord Forester, made about five years 

 before his death, were evidently made in this 

 spirit. 



He became ill at one of his cottages on Shirlot, 

 was taken home, attended by Dr. Thursfield (grand- 

 father of the present Greville Thursfield, M.D.), and 

 died whilst the doctor was still with him, on the 

 13th of July, 1811, in the seventy-third year of his 

 age. 



Extracts from the last Will and Testament {dated the 3rd day of 

 November, 1805) of George Forester^ late of Willey, in the County 

 of Salop, Esquire, 



" I desire that all my just detts and funeral expenses, and the 

 charges of proving this my Will, may be paid and discharged hy 

 my Executors hereinafter named, with all convenient speed after 

 my decease, and that my body may be interred in a grave near the 

 Communion table in the Parish Church of Willey aforesaid, or as 

 near thereto as may be, in a plain and decent manner. And it is 

 ray Will that eight of my Servants or Workmen be employed as 

 Bearers of my body to the grave, to each of whom I bequeath the 

 sum of One Guinea, and I desire my Cousin Cecil Forester, of Ross 



