Xl LIFE OF WALTON. 



the said rent, if care be taken to keep the barn and housing in repair ; 

 and I would have, and do give ten pound of the said rent, To bind out, 

 yearly, two boys, the sons of honest and poor parents, to be appren- 

 tices to some tradesmen or handy-craft men, to the intent the said 

 boys may the better afterward get their own living. And 1 do also 

 give five pound yearly, out of the said rent, to be given to some maid- 

 servant, that hath attained the age of twenty and one years, not less, 

 and dwelt long in one service, or to some honest poor-man's daughter, 

 that hath attained to that age, to be paid her at or on the day of her 

 marriage: and this being done, my will is, that what rent shall remain 

 of the said farme or land, shall be disposed of as followeth : first I do 

 give twenty shillings yearly, to be spent by the major of Stafford and 

 those that shall collect the said rent and dispose of it as I have and 

 shall hereafter direct ; and that what money or rent shall remain un- 

 M d of, shall be imployed to buy coals for some poor people, that 

 >h.ill most need them, in the said towne ; the said coals to be delivered 

 the /?**< iceeke in January, or in every first week in Februarys 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 said 

 major and others of the said towne of STAFFORD shall prove so neg- 

 ligent, or dishonest, as not to imploy the rent by me given as intended 

 and expreat in this my "ill. which God forbid, then I give the said 

 rent* and profits of the said farme, or land, to the towne, and chief 

 magistrates or governors, of ECLESHALL, to be disposed of by them 

 in such manner as I have ordered the disposal of it by the towne of 

 Stafford, the said farme or land being near the towne of Kelt-shall. 

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

 son; and to MY DAUGHTER, HIM WIFE; and my son IZAAIC; to each 

 of them a ring, with these words or motto ; " Lore my memory, I. \V. 

 obiit 



to the Lord Bishop of WINTON a ring, with this motto ; " A mite for 

 a im//ion, /. W. obnt " and to the friends hereafter- 



named, I give to each of them a ring with this motto ; A friend's 

 fareicett, 7. W. obiit " And my will is, the said rings 



be delivered within forty days after my death : and that the price or 

 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 

 beard preacht, and read with much content. To my son IZAAK, I 

 L-i\.- Doctor Sibbs his Soul's Conflict; and to MY DAUGHTER his 

 Bruited Reed, desiring them to read them so as to be well acquainted 

 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 linen, 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 books, not yet given, at Farnham Castell ; and adeske of prints 

 and pictures; also a cabinet! near my bed's head, in which are some 



(I; Thin book was an instrument in the conversion of Mr. Richard Baxter. 

 . CAlamy'a Life of him, \>*xe 7. 



