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vice to Despondency, Much-afraid, and Feeble-mind. Ready- 
to-halt in his testament leaves his crutches to his son, together 
with his good wishes. Feeble-mind makes no will. He will 
leave his feeble mind, but will not bestow it upon anyone. De¬ 
spondency and his daughter Much-afraid direct in their testa¬ 
ment that no man receive their desponds and slavish fears. 
They advise all to shut their doors against such unwelcome 
guests. Honest makes no will; he will take his honesty with 
him. Valiant makes a confession of his faith in the worth of 
the life he has led. His sword he gives to him who shall come 
after him, and his courage and skill to him who can acquire 
it. Stand-fast leaves his wife and live children to the care of 
Great-heart. He has nothing to leave his family but his pray¬ 
ers and tears. He concludes by confessing his faith in God 
and his hope in immortality. 
The testament as political satire comes to light again in The 
Last Will and Testament of the Charter of London (1683). 1 
In this satirical bequests are left to several politicians of the 
day, and a hope expressed that a new charter may succeed 
which shall be better than the one now passing away. 
In the catalogue of Francis Edwards is mentioned The Last 
Will and Testament of Anthony, King of Poland, (1682), a 
political satire upon the Earl of Shaftesbury, by S. Ward . 2 
John Bull's Ijast Will and Testament, a prose tract belong¬ 
ing to Queen Anne’s reign, is a very clever political satire . 3 It 
seems to have been called out by Dr. Arbuthnot’s History of 
John Bull. 'It is written by a Whig to satirize certain meas¬ 
ures of the Tories. The preface occupies three folio pages, and 
isan appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury to set aside the will 
which the writer of the preface believes to have been made by 
John Bull while in a state of insanity. He adduces facts of 
the testator’s life to prove this point and then submits the will 
which he claims is itself the best evidence of the testator’s in¬ 
sanity. John Bull is made to bequeath his life and spirit to 
Jacobitism and Infatuation, and his body is given to be buried 
1 Somers' Tracts, VIII, 392. 
2 P. 24, No. 433. 
3 Somers' Tracts, XIII, 140. 
