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A29221 The last will and testament of Richard Brandon, Esquire, heads-man and hang-man to the pretended Parliament with his severall legacies to the Parliament and Counsell of State ... : with divers instructions left to his executors, William Lowe and Sheeps-head Rafe : justifyed by one Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Carpenter, and divers of his neighbors. Brandon, Richard, d. 1649. 1649 (1649) Wing B4254; ESTC R21058 4,209 10

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THE Last Will and Testament Of RICHARD BRANDON Esquire Heads-man and Hang-man to the Pretended PARLIAMENT With his severall LEGACIES to the Parliament and COUNSELL of STATE With a true Relation of all his good Quallities also his ungodly life and sudden Death and how before his end the Devill appeared ununto him putting him in minde of the late good service he did for his Masters the Regicides in murdering their most gracious Soveraigne Lord King Charles the First with one Tench that provided Hooks Pullyes and Roaps to force him now grievously troubled with a Devill and consumes and rotts away With divers Instructions left to his Executors William Lowe and Sheeps-head Rafe Justifyed by one Mr. Reynalds and Mr. Carpenter and divers of his Neighbors The Cities new Mark of Honor Printed for the good of the STATE 1649. THE Last Will and Testament Of RICHARD BRANDON Esquire Heads-man and Hang-man to the Pretended PARLIAMENT IN the Name of the Parliament and Councel of State Amen I Richard Brandon Esquire being sore sick in Body but in perfect Memory Do make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and forme following Imprimis I give and bequeath my Soul to the Parliament to be disposed of as they shall think fit For my Body That I desire may be Entombed in Westminster Abbey neer Doctor Dorrislaw and to be attended thither by the Supream Authority and Councel of State I give and bequeath 500 yards and a half of a Mourning Ribband called Gallow-grass to all and every Member of Parliament that they may wear the same or otherwise use it at their own discretions Also I desire my Wife that every Member of the late Court of Iustice for tryal of the King that attends me to the grave may have close mourning out of my Wardroabe I also give and bequeath to all and every Member of Parliament a precious Receit called a Hempen Cawdle to cure them of any disease I give unto Iohn Bradshaw Lord President of the Councel of State a Receit of Choak-wort to cure his Conscience Like wise I give and bequeath to him and his heirs Parliament everlasting my Mannor House of Newgate that he and his Family may live in it and enjoy it to their lives ends and in case the present Parliament shall adjourn if the people shall think fit it may be thither where each one may take his place according to his Degree And in case it be too little that they may have egress and regress to a House known by the name of the Sessious-House scituate in the Old Bayly London with all and every the Appurtinances belonging thereto to have use and occupy at their own discretions life everlasting Parliament without end I give and bequeath to the ●a●e House of Lords and to all and every Member belonging to the same my Mannor House known by the name of Traytors Reward scituate on Tower-hill for them and their heirs for ever but that none shall make entry thereon under the degree of a Lord except it be the Speaker of the House of Commons the Lord President of the Councel of State upon forfeiture of their heads I give and bequeath to Col. Poppum Col. Doan and Colonel Blague the Parliaments Admirals at Sea my Honor of Wapping-Dock towards the Reparations of their late losses at Sea provided they enter not thereon till the King return into England and then after his return it shall be lawful for one or all three to enter thereon provided that they stay not there longer then the next Spring-Tyde and then it go directly in their Line to the heirs Male of their own bodies from one generation to another Par●iament without end I give and bequeath unto the Iuncto and all Rebels in general whether distinguished by the names of Supream●sts Commons Committees Sequestrators Excise-men Pursuivants c. my Mannor of Tyburn in the County of Middlesex with one parcel of Land lying by Mary-bone Park to build a Chappel on and one piece of Ground lying by the Kings high-way for a burying place for them and their heirs for ever with all the Wood and Timber thereon for their Lives Provided that they build a Colledge on the said percel of Ground known by the name of Doctor S●●ries-●app and that Dr. Fairfax Dr. Cromwel Mr Goodwyn and Mr Owen shall be heads thereof take their degrees there and Commence accordingly I give and bequeath several Classes of Bloud to these persons following I give a Glass of Straffords bloud to cure the three Kingdoms of the Plague commonly called the Bloudy-Issue I give a Glass of Canterburies bloud to seroboams-Calves I mean the Presby torian Ministry Dr Burgess Mr Calamy Sedgwick Gouge c. to cure the Church of all Heresies Schismes Blasphemies Treasons Non-sense and Contradictions I give a Glass of Tomkins and Challoners bloud to the wisdom of Gui●d hal I mean the Major and wise Aldermen of the City A G●ass of Burleighs bloud to the consideration of all Loyal hearts A Glass of commixed bloud of Lucas and Lisle to Tom Lord Fairfax and his heirs I give and bequeath a Viol of the late Kings Bloud to his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax General of the Forces raised for the defence of the King and Kingdom the Priviledge of Parliament the true Protestant Religion and the Laws of England to be shared between him and his Lievtenant Gen. Cromwel and desire that this Viol may be retain'd and intayl'd on them and their Children ayders assi●ters or abbetters for ever and ever Parliament everlasting I give a Glass of the Lord Capels bloud to comfort all drooping Loyalists that are afraid to suffer death for the testimony of a good Conscience I give both my eyes to the Cōmon-wealth that they may see how they are cheated and deluded by perjur'd rogues villains I give my Members to Harry Martin with a proviso that he provide for my Daughters his worships sinners in the suburbs I commend my Wife aged Mother to the care protection of the Councel of State and to live with my Lady Fairfax and Mistris Cromwel all their dayes I give my Curtains and Hangings to the Judges of the High Court of Iustice I give to Alderman Atkins all the old Shirts and Smocks in my Wardroabe to make him clean that he may be no more called Shit-breech I commit the keeping of all my ●lipps and Gibbets to the two Sheriffs to be used hereafter for the good of the Aldermen and City I bequeath my Neck-verse to all those that take upon them to Preach before they can reade I freely give and bequeath into the hands of the Army and every member of them my Burning-Iron with the mark T because they shall be known to Tom T their General till they T troop T to T tyburne Lastly I for want of an Heir of my own Body to enjoy my Office do Will and Ordain William Loe and Sheeps-head-Ralph my Executors to see this my last Will and