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<NAME>Pip Willcox</NAME>
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<HEAD>THE LATE
WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF THE
DOCTORS COMMONS. 
Shewing how he hath di&s;po&s;ed of his Commis&s;ioners, Doctors, Proctors, Surrogates.
Me&s;&s;engers, Examinors, Parators and Promootors, and the re&s;t of his Attendants,
With a &s;hort deportment of his Legacies, and how he hath
bequeathed them.</HEAD>
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<P>I Doctors Commons, in the Pari&s;h of S. <HI>Benedicts</HI> Pauls-Wharf, London, being very aged, and finding by generall Com|putation,
that my time drawes to an end, and likewi&s;e much &s;haken both in Body and mind with a <HI>We&s;tminster</HI> ague, yet
of perfect mind and memory, to avoid all &s;uits and controver&s;ies that hereafter may ari&s;e concerning my e&s;tate, or any
part or Parcell thereof, and to the intent and purpo&s;e that my contentious days may be con&s;ummated and ended in Peace,
Doe con&s;titute, ordaine, declare and make this my la&s;t will and Te&s;tament in manner and forme following, That is to &s;ay,
<HI>Imprimis,</HI> for my &s;oele, I bequeath it to Gun-powder Makers, to be made into Gun-powder, which &s;hall be employed on|ly
for the di&s;charge of the new Canons: <HI>Item,</HI> I bequeath my body to the earth, from whence it came, decently to be buri|ed,
but not &s;umptuou&s;ly, in the Convocation hou&s;e, in the Cathedrall Church of S. <HI>Pauls,</HI> London, afore&s;aid, according
to the di&s;crerion of my Executors hereafter named. <HI>Item,</HI> for my per&s;onall e&s;tate (having never bin po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of any lands,
I willingly bequeath the reverend Judges, Vicars-Generals, Chancellors, Commi&s;&s;aries, Arch-Deacons, Deanes and Chap|ters,
and their &s;urrogates, and al&s;o all high Commi&s;&s;ioners, Judges, Delegats, Advocates, and <HI>Legum Doctores quo&s;cunque,
Og,</HI> the great Commi&s;&s;arie, alias Doctor <HI>Roan</HI> onely excepted, to the high Court of Parliament, there to bee cheri&s;hed
according to their merits and de&s;ervings. <HI>Item,</HI> I bequeath all my Regi&s;ters, Deputy Regi&s;ters, Proctors, Examinors, and
publike notaries, to the court of Common-Pleas, at We&s;tmin&s;ter, to be admitted Attournies, (if no prohibition be gran|ted
to the contrary.) Item, I will and bequeath all my fifty pound Clearks, to their Friends in the Country, or to the Ju&s;ti|ces
of the Peace and <HI>Quorum.</HI> Item, I will and bequeath all my Journey-men Clearks, Hackney, and &s;ub-hackney Clerks,
to <HI>Chancery-lane,</HI> and <HI>Brittanick S. Hugh Pre&s;tar,</HI> to the Star-Chamber. Item, I will and bequeath all my Pur&s;uants, Appara|tors,
Promooters, &amp;c. to under-Sheriffs, but in ca&s;e they have no need of them, then I bequeath them to their gho&s;tly Fa|ther,
unto whom they have mo&s;t relation. Item, I will and bequeath all my writings and records, as followeth: my bonds
to large mea&s;uring Taylors, my Bils, Tran&s;mi&s;&s;ions and the like, to retailing Tobacconi&s;ts, my incontinent Articles to
Bloomesbury, Long-Acre, and other like places of good fellow&s;hip, my libels of diffamation, to the penitentiall
&s;colds, there to be ordered according to their di&s;cretions, all my Commi&s;&s;ions of Appeale to the parties appellant, for
they have the mo&s;t right unto them, in regard they have paid for them: Item, I will and bequeath all my large Bookes of
Acts, to them of the Fortune Play-Hou&s;e, for I hold it a deed of charity, in regard they want good action; my decrees to
the courts of <HI>Chancery,</HI> in ca&s;e they want any; My &s;entences to tho&s;e Orators that imitate <HI>Tullies quanquam te Marce &s;ili,
&amp;c.</HI> for they are &s;omething long; And la&s;tly, I will and bequeath my Cannons, charged with &amp;c. to the Tower, to de|fend
him that made them, and all the re&s;t of my writings, e&s;cripts, manu&s;cripts, and &s;uperfluous papers what&s;oever to
Cookes, Bakers, Grocers, and Chandlers. Item, I make the Scotch-men my Executors, (who I doubt not) but with all
diligence will &s;ee the execution of this my la&s;t will and Te&s;tament, and de&s;ire they will &s;ee the&s;e my Legacies, paid and per|formed
immediately after my decea&s;e: In Witne&s;&s;e whereof, I the &s;aid Doctors Commons have hereunto &s;et my hand and
Seale this 26 of June, in the yeare of our Lord, 1641.</P>
<CLOSER>Signed, &s;ealed, publi&s;hed, and declared
in the Pre&s;ence of
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<ITEM>W. C.</ITEM>
<ITEM>R. P.</ITEM>
<ITEM>B. K.</ITEM>
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