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MEMOIR OF 
Mr Willughby left five executors of liis will, 
Sir Thomas Wendy, Mr Barnard, Mr Phillip 
Skippon, (afterwards Sir Phillip,) Mr Jessop, and 
Mr Ray ; to the latter, as an additional mark of 
his esteem, he also bequeathed an annuity of £60 
per annum, some say £70,* intrusting him also 
with the education and care of his sons, Francis 
and Thomas, the eldest not being four years of 
age. Francis, the eldest, was created a baronet by 
King Charles at ten years old, as an honour, no 
doubt, to the memory of his father. He died 
before he was twenty. Thomas, the younger son, 
was one of the ten peers created all on the same 
day by Queen Anne, and received the title of 
Lord Middleton. Their sister afterwards married 
the Duke of Chandos. Mr Willughby was buried 
in Middleton church. The following is a trans- 
lation of the epitaphs over his parents, himself, 
and his son Francis, made by a late minister of the 
parish. The original Latin is said to have been 
written by Mr Ray, and to have all the charac- 
* This discrepancy of statement may, perhaps, he ac- 
counted for by a circumstance mentioned in a letter from 
Thomas Willughby to Dr Sloane, dated Thurgunby, 
Mar. 27, (the year is not added,) contained in Ayscough’s 
Collection in the British Museum. 
“ Sr. Having not been at Wollaton for some time, I 
had not your’s till lately. I am very sorry Mr Ray left 
his family in so very ill a condition ; every body, 1 believe, 
had a great value for him, and, knowing my father had 
so particular one, I have always paid him £12 more than I 
was obliged to do,” &c. &c. 
