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The two Refurrections, the New-Heavens
and New-Earth; the Millenary-Reign
of CHRIST, and Of the Future Restaura.**
tion of the JEW S.

Published from the AUTHOR's Latin Original. By FRANCIS WILKINSON, Esq;

Translated by Mr. FOXTO Ν.

LONDON:

Printed for E. CURLL, in the Strand. 1729.
Price 2 5. 6 da

1. b. 165.

and Plate she brought him, together with all her PARAPHARNALIA*, his Coach, Chariot and Calash, and two hundred Pounds for Mourning.

II. As to his Literary-Legacies, he leaves Mr. Simpson the Civil, Canon and Common Law Books in his Library, with all his respective Manufcripts thereto belonging, under this Obligation, That he does not permit any of them to be Copied. He likewise leaves him his Historical Books, the Pictures of Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Dr. Burnet, as alfo the Latin-Works of the latter, but takes no Notice of the English (fuppressed) Edition of the Archeologia, now in Mr. Simpson's Custody, which, as I was lately informed by one of the Proprietors, Mr. Chapman a Bookfeller in Pall-Mall, the said Simpson faid he would burn; tho' to my own Knowledge Terms have been stipulated by a certain Attorney for the faid Impression, both in Mr. Wilkinson's Life time, and fince his Decease. But indeed your Performance has now condemned that Impression ad ficum & piperem, being a very faulty Translation.

III. Mr. Wilkinson has left all his Books relating to Physic, Husbandry and Gardening, to one Mr. Milbank. All his Books of Devotion to his Wife, in a Walnut-Tree Cafe, with Liberty to take any other Books out of his Library, she shall like, to fill up the Shelves of the faid Book-Cafe.

IV. To Dr. Wintringham he has bequeathed his large Diamond-Ring, confifting of nine Diamonds, which was given him by Dr. Burnet.

V. He defires to be privately Buried, without any Efcocheons, in a Vault, if permitted, to be made for him at Teddington in the County of Middlesex. If his Relatives intend him any monumental Inscription, he defires it may be affixed in the faid ChurchWall; and, that a Brace of Ecclefiafticks may Praise him in the Gates, he has left to Dr. Mangey Mr. Selden's Works in fix Volumes, Folio, and to Mr. Hale of Teddington, Bishop Stillingfleet's Works in five Volumes.

* Alias her Wedding-Cloashs.

VI. He defires, that all his Family-Pictures may go together, but having two of his own, leaves a Tmall one to his Kinsman, and a large one painted in his Bar-Gown to his Wife. For which Reafon I think Dr. Burnet's Picture, his Diamond-Ring, and his Works might have been with more Propriety bequeathed to some of that Gentleman's Relations, than any of his own, as being consistent with his own Observation abovementioned.

VII. He does not, either in his Will, or in any of the four Codicils thereunto annexed, make any mention of his being impowered by Dr. Burnet to publish any of his Posthumous Latin Pieces, or to concern himself with any English Versions that shall be made of those he printed in his Life-time. Which fully confirms what I have before observed relating to the Archeologia, that he had no more Power of disposing of the Latin Copy of that Work, than he had of his Theory which Hooke was obliged to purchase of Mr. Kettilby's Executors, and to them only the Copy-Right of the Archeologia belongs.

I cannot conclude without taking some Notice of the term Parapharnalia, which I think is much more pedantically applied by Mr. Wilkinson to his Widow, than it was lately done by Mr. Cibber to Mrs. Oldfieldt, but whether the Player borrowed it from the Lawyer, or the Lawyer from the Player I will not take upon me to determine.

* See the Address, Ad Populum, prefixed to Mr. Foxton's Verfion. † See the Preface to the Provoked Husband, a Comedy 8°. 1728.

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