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fifty pounds a year in eightyears ; ahd as it is paid 5 I would have it lent to poore young tradesmen by fifty pounds a piece for ten years , they giving good securitie to repay it at ten yeares , and to pay furty
shillings per anftum consideration * and the money paid for consideration I would have it laid out in bidding young poore children , boys vr girls , apprentices , allowing to bind every one apprentice
eight pounds a piece . But my will is that none shall be capable of this charity , but those that are really poore ; and none of those that are indeed so I would have excluded from the participation of it . And therefore as often a&
such summe comes in , I would h ^ ave t he names of all the poore children in Oxford ., and the suburbs . of it , put into a lr > tterye > % nd whosoevers name is drawn
oi ^ t , him or her I would have par * taker of iu Always provided , that they are between twelve and sixteen years of age , and that they can repeat perfectly theCatecbisme qf the Church of England : which if he that fortunes to bedrawne
out cannot do , I would have him put by for that time , and other drawne who can perform this perfectly . 44 All the rest of my goods t give to my brothers and sisters chil * dreh .
< CI make my deare sister my $ ole executrix : and my deare father Doctour Sheldon , and Mr * r Xiniothy Carter , ^ versefcrs , to - > vhom 1 give five pounds a piece . " Item ) ray will is that my
late deare brothers Will , though hot sealed by him , the copy iWhereof lyes in nay deskein my studye , should be exactly « and punc ^ klly perfofftea *
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** This ifcuiy fask * m \ h * tixtfc testament . In witfefess it * 4 terief > f ^ bav ^ set my hand , < . ^ ^* William Gfuik * $ cNroifcTH ^* To this vriih GhiJ ^ ingwortk * &n his deathsbeci ^ irde ^ d & dod * ciM $ *
be annexed , in tohieh heleffetfci * pounds to Lit&itefkarifc * Golledge , the parliamentary ^ fftc ^ ir to whofce charge he was entrusted , and the same sum to Mrs- Mason , who
kept the episcopal p&tetee in which he vvas lodged , and waited on him in his illness ;* a pleasing jproof both of the huf » a * Hty of theto persons and of his own gratitutte *
Chillingworth was a man of little staturfe ; btrt , adds Woodj ^ needlessly , of greftt souls Clarendon descri bea Aim &s * of a sta *
ture little superior to Mr . Hahes r and quaintly reittaris tlr ^ t it was an age in which there were tnariy great and wonderful men of thraf size . J
There is a portrait of Chillifcgworth in an oval of palms , engraved with the heads of th ^ EaTrt of Shafte » b « ry Mn Locke atid Mr . Woola $ ron ; 1 T " He w ^ s a man / ' says Lord
Clarendon ^} of excellent parts * and of a cheerful disposition i ^ oid of all kind of vice , and endued with many notable virtues ; of A very public hearty and iarv indefatigable desire to do goofd ; his
? iThit is stated dn the authority of Chcyncl ! , who on such a point is ' iin unexceptionable witness * ChUlingmmthi NovUHnt ^ . Sraali 4 to 1644 , Nctt p ^^ d . The particular heie referred to is in the fourth page of u A BrieFe and Plainc Relation , 8 u . " ^
t tJbi sop . | f- col . &St . % Clareiadon ' * ti * e > I , \ %$ * ,,-% < 5 ^ ng « r Biog . M iat . « f E » gJ If 1 $ 9 . iVO . 4 th cd . ] 804 . W Ubifup .
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212 BrUf Memoir ef Mr . Ckillingvottii
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1814, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2439/page/12/
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