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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

Holland Smock he will decently dress and set out the same in a large charger of hypocrisie fit for a deluded Auditories appetite and so present them to the poor hungry people on the slick table of his deceitful tongue bid them all welcom to be cheered Item I give unto Mr. Kelly a Scotch Presbyter now or lately Reader of Cripplegate my Lottry for which very thing could I have wished my self hung up to the ears in a Scotch Ordinary when I was writing it and part of my Vindications of my Annotations which I bequeath'd to Bourn wherein I have comprized two irrefragable reasons plainly proving Presbytery Tythes Railing and Non-sense to be all alike Jure Divin● Item I Bequeath the whole stock of my Impudence unto Ralph Farmer the Lay-Levite of Bristoll which together with his owne will surely enable him Proteus-like to assume all shapes and to run through as many professions as the wandring Jew is said to have done Countryes here to play the Scribe there the Chimist in a third place the Priest to be Aliquis in omnibus nullus in singulis A Saint in one place a Devill in another a Cheat every where alwayes Impudeus innocuum quotidiè persequitur yet glory himself in the title of a godly Minister a painfull Pastor a powerfull teacher notwithstanding he never saved the soule of a louse and deserved the tythe of a Nit for his Quacking Item I bequeath my matchless gift of Poetry unto Justice George Wither as the only man I know that hath dabled his dirty Genius not in Helicon for that 's heathenish but in the Ducking-Pond of phansie and who alone is capable of my Soule-saving strains provided that he return unto the faith from whence he is fallen and resolve hereafter to burn rather then turn any more with the times and shall not hackney out his broken-winded Muse to be any more drain'd of Hymns or Ballads for victories obtain'd against the godly but that the offal of his invention may for the future be set and sung to the melodious Bag-pipes of Presbitery in their Galloping Gamboll of a Scotch list the better to awaken the Bell-weathers of the faction and to quicken the dull spirits of their drooping Proselites now in these better times of persecution Item To the intent the world may take notice I was never so great an Enemy to the persons as I was to the function of Bishops because not capable of being one my self I give unto Dr. Vsher late Primate of Armagh all my private Notes and Collections the heavy fruits of my forty two years drowsy Contemplation against that devillish black-Art which neither he nor I understand to wit Astrologie together with all the Ribbaldry Drollery Billingatism Hopkinism Ands Ekes So still Most ills Viles and Guiles Hells and Fells Bases and Disgraces of which see more in my new come out Apologie Item My Learning such as it is together with my malice vaine-glory Pride and Hypocrisie I give unto the late Synod of Divines and the rest of the Mountebank Ministers of London the better to uphold them in their learned Barracadoes against the gathered Independent Churches reserving onely for Vavasor Powell and Mr. Simpson so much of my pride and malice as may strengthen them in these times of persecution the one being an exile and the other a close prisoner to Windsor for Treason that now having time to contemplate when they come to their thrones they may suppress that Monstrous Art of Astrologie and doom those Heathen English using of it to perpetual silence with three pounds in money the which I desire may be speedily laid out upon an Umbrella whereunder to hide and preserve these dow-bak'd Levites in their Assemblies from the direful influence of the Suns Eclipse in August next least when they seem to laugh in their sleeves they sorrow in their hearts for the mischiefes then impending by the means of those Sorcerers and Wizzards who we know do oftimes speak truth by the help of the Devil the Father of lyes although we confesse it stands not with our interrest to acknowledge so much And now whil'st I am a giving let me not be unmindfull of my people of Reddriff whom I so basely we●t to Law with while Prelacie was high and by eager pursuing and unjust bribing and many other Iesuiticall under-hand tricks I overthrew and by the aforesaid devillish meanes got all gleabes and tythes to the value of 200. l. per annum though in my brass-faced late come out Apology I have utterly denied it because I would not give those cursed Astrologers who have brought me even to death any colour of ground against me But now to make all amends I desire all people of my Congregation of Reddriff to take notice of this my real intention to them and that this my will should not be taken in Sermo pedestris in foot-language I thus proclaim my desire in choice and unctious words in form following Item I bequeath to my Reddriff Congregation my Executors year of Tythes to buy them all Gloves and Ribbands to mourn for me their painful Pastor who have so immensly blessed be the Lawyers taught them to part with the Ministers due truly and without trouble for which I question not but my Successors will sing Hallelujahs to my name and manners saying Blessed be Tho. Gataker who hath committed iniquity with greediness even to the great advantage of the Ministery but the total and absolute undoing of the people And lastly my fortitude long-suffering and patience gaudet patientia duris I bequeath to Mr. Jenkins Case Jagg●r c. because I fear they shall have most need thereof the remainder of my good qualities especially my wit and honesty my debts being first paid by the late Act for Release of poor Prisoners c. and my Funeral expences defraid by my Parish I freely give to my kind friends R. Ibbi●son Printer to the Queen of Sheba and J. Hunscot Basket-Beadle to the Society of Stationers whom I make the formidable Executors of this my last will and Testament And moreover I do aptly appoint and constitute in cheveral conscienced friends J. Rothwell the pygmy Stationer and S. Theu●brand the Supravisors thereof on whom I bestow a silver pair of Tooth-picks and Claspers being all the Plate that escaped the jaws of Guild-hall which I desire them to accept of in remembrance of me and my sufferings for the cause and I do hereby revoke and renounce all former wills by me heretofore made as being but the effects of a religious lunacy in witness whereof I have hereunto set my per Antiphrasin innocent hand and seal the twelfth day of the first moneth in the sixth year of the Presbyterian justly deserved slavery Anno 1654. Thomas Gataker I shall desire also at the hands of my Executors that they cause to be engraven on my Tomb-stone this following Epitaph An Epitaph OLd Gataker is gone Jove speed him well And safely whether unto heav'n or hell But into heav'n the Varlet goes not sure For there be stars and stars hee 'l not endure Or if to hell thrice wretched is his fate For ev'n the devil himself doth calculate And read the stars ha's clearer eyes then we Far more experience in Astrology Perhaps as when alive so when he 's dead Heo'l be with stars and Planets tortured Only the diff'rence is here could he rail In hell the fashion is to weep and wail And gnash the teeth but charity I have To wish his hell may only prove his grave Or if it be in Limbo it 's fit 〈◊〉 stay There till his filth be throughly purg'd away And may all others of his dirty Faction Have like success whil'st they have such like action FINIS