82 A HISTORY OF 



promote the welfare of his native country. Every 

 manufacture, every branch of Husbandry will declare 

 this truth. Every useful Institution will lament its 

 Friend and Benefactor. He died alas ! too soon for 

 Ireland. October the 21st, 175 1, aged 70. 



In June 1752, the Society was called on to take 

 into consideration a Bill exhibited against it by Charles, 

 archbishop of Dublin, and Richard Levinge, surviving 

 executors of the will of Sir Richard Levinge, bart., 

 deceased, which had been filed in Chancery on the 1st 

 of April. Sir Richard had bequeathed to them ^2000 

 on trust to lay it out at interest, and pay the accruing 

 profits for a period of twenty-one years to the trea- 

 surer for the time being of the Dublin Society, to be 

 disposed of yearly in premiums, as the Society should 

 think proper, for the encouragement of husbandry 

 in Ireland. At the expiration of that term, or if 

 the Dublin Society should, for three years together, 

 cease to act, or discontinue its proceedings, then the 

 principal sum was to go to the younger children of 

 testator's nephew. He appointed the Archbishop of 

 Dublin, Richard Levinge, and Thomas Prior, executors. 

 The testator died in 1747, and from that date, until 

 his own death in 175 1, Prior managed everything. It 

 was ordered, under a decree of the Lord Chancellor of 

 the 4th of July 1758, that the £2000 should be paid 

 into the hands of Thomas Stopford, one of the Masters 

 in Chancery, to be by him laid out at interest, to the 

 uses in the will of Sir Richard Levinge. On the 8 th 

 of July 1756, the money had been mortgaged to the 

 Viscountess Allen. The testator, Sir R. Levinge, 2nd 

 baronet, was son of Sir Richard, 1st baronet, and he 

 married Isabella, daughter of Sir Arthur Rawdon, bart. 



Among those who had joined the Society within 



