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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42463	The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremy 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherin is shewed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1654 (1654)	Wing G322; ESTC R40882	5,091	9

THE Last will and Testament OF THOMAS GATAKER B. D. Author of the Annotations of Jeremy 10. ver. 2. and the Vindications of them as also of the new-come out discourse APOLOGETICAL WHER IN Is shewed the manner and order of the disposing of his Estate with the certain Legacies given to Friends together with the manner of Burial of his aged corps without superstitious Rites or Ceremonies Printed in the year 1654. Mr. Thomas Gatakers last will and Testament IN the name of the Flock-paced Synod and Synagogue of Presbyters Amen I Thomas Gataker Parson Rector or rather receiver of the Tythes of Reddriffe neer London being aged 79. years and by the course of nature am now in vesperâ vitae the evening of my life do here ordain this to be my last will and Testament being in perfect remembrance that no contention or strife may arise after my decease concerning my ill-gotten estate in manner and form following Imprimis I Bequeath my soul brim-full of corruption into the merciless clutches of Old-Nick the Bellows mender and his well-beloved son Dr. Holms that man of sin and shame by whose only merits in railing against Astrology belching out sedition and Heresie amongst the people and sowing cushions under the elbowes of iniquity my hope is to be saved from the sad fate of the Scotch colours and to be shortly wrapt up into Jenkins his third heaven prepared him of old for his constant perseverance in the Doctrine and Faith of Mr. Love there for to sing Geneva Jiggs to the delicate tune of O Priests monstrous Priests what do you mean to do And for my body in regard it hath patiently sustained and run through the fiery trial of a Bawdy-house and been but lately parboyl'd in Cornelius his Tub it is my desire that Alexander Kinsey dwelling at the Woolsack in Ivy-lane may have the burial thereof in his Petits my ears only excepted and hereafter otherwise disposed and that the Silkmen and Mercers Apprentices and others my well-disposed Proselites in Pater-noster-Row will accompany it to the grave and there to see it decently interred without any Popish Rites superstitious prayers or ceremonies other then what the Directory of their Morning and Evening stomacks shall admit of by which means my intent is that Alexander may save some moneys towards the payment of his Daughters portion who is now upon the prick of preferment which would otherwise be laid out on Hogs Grease and cleansing scraps usually by him bought at Pye-corner and this out of the meer good will I bear him for that he formerly went out as if he would have fought the battels of the Lord against the Mighty under the conduct of Sir William Waller aliàs William the Conquerour howbeit he never durst fight as being not perswaded of the lawfulness of fighting with any body but his wife yet to give the Devil his due continues a fiery hot and so zealous a Presbyterian that for some moneths last past he has never been without a Priapisme and the complexion of a pickled Oyster notwithstanding some of the ungodly scandalize and call him the nineteenth part of no Religion Having thus disposed of my soul and body which I fear will cause old tugging on some sides when I am dead but that all things may be carried fairly without fraud and deceipt and that the Devil may have his due I have began thus and shall persist in the setting my house in order and then come what will come Dives torments or the joyes of Lazarus which later that little conscience I have tells me I have not been worthy of Item I give and bequeath unto Nicolas Bourn a trundle-tail'd Stationer neer the Exchange my books or bundle of impertinencies lyes forgeries and non-sense commonly known by the name of Tho. Gataker B. D. his Vindications of his Annotations c. upon condition that where my envy hatred malice and uncharitableness against the society of Christian Astrology and its harmless Professors hath been too weak he shall make good and where the sparks of my rage are dying I injoyn him as having the only Bellows of Presbyterian zeal to re-inkindle it against such a Cerberian crew who have I may well say by their dismal writings drove me out from among them wretched man that I was to meddle with them One thing more I desire of my friend Bourn that he take the pains to view all and every my works since 1651. at which time I began to defame the Science of Astrology and blot or cause to be blotted out every English word therein concerning that subject lest after-Generations begin to espy the opened vein that let in death and write it in an Hebrew character in which language I have good skill and then get tooting Mun. Calamy to warrant it Authentique Item I give and bequeath unto Joseph Blaiklock a broken Presbyterian Book binder the remains of my chopt Logick and entreat M. Rowland to make him amends for the over-worn Pamphlets he paraphrased on and caused him to print in one volum against Astrology which hath almost cract the Stationer and ruined the Binder that being the causa sine quâ non of his present testiness to make him amends I say by attending him once a day at his house because he dares not walk abroad so far as a Hen for fear of Gods judgments nam inter malleum incudem versatur and after a use or two of consolation to instruct him so far therein as may inable him to prove black to be white or which is all one his wife an honest woman But now I remember I heard the Sheriff had return'd a non est inventus for Mr. Rowland and therefore I shall desire Mr. Gaule will supply the place perhaps he may jumble a syllogism or two more then ordinary out of Mrs. Blaiklock who being singularly free natur'd especially when she whitens her linnen at the bank side is more then shrewdly suspected to ramble in the praedicament of a bad quality Item I give and bequeath unto Edmund Calamy the hooping Preacher of Alderma●bury my exquisite art of lying wherein as it is not deny'd but I have excel'd all that ever wore a Whetstone so I hope he will in short time make a great improvement thereof and bring the art to absolute perfection if Mrs. L. say but amen to it and I desire that in lieu thereof he will perpetuate my Name in an Hebrew Annagram which language I have been honored for in Essex to be fixed upon the Grave-stone of his affection and to preach my Funeral Sermon upon the text in Eccl. 22. 12. Seven daies do men mourn for him that is dead but the lamentation for the fool and ungodly should exdure all the daies of their life Item I give unto Leonard Cook the Proverbial Pulpiteer of Istington all and singular my spiritual impostures and tricks of Leigerdemain together with the G●llimawfry of my extempory long-winded prayers beseeching in the bowels of a