"in little, well resembling the famous "D. Leonardo Donato, in a time which "needed a wife and conftant man. Item, "The picture of a Duke of Venice, hang"ing over against the door, done either "by Titiano, or some other principal "hand, long before my time. Most hum"bly befeeching his Majefty, that the "faid pieces may remain in fome corner "of any of his houfes, for a poor me"morial of his moft humble vaffal.

"Item, I leave his said Majesty all the

papers and negociations of Sir Nicholas "Throgmorton, Knight, during his fa

mous employment under Queen Eliza"beth, in Scotland and in France; which " contain divers fecrets of ftate, that per"chance his Majefty will think fit to "be preferved in his Paper-office, after "they have been perused and forted by "Mr. Secretary Windebank, with whom "I have heretofore, as I remember, con"ferred about them. They were com"mitted to my difpofal by Sir Arthur "Throgmorton his fon, to whose worthy

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"memory I cannot better discharge my "faith, than by affigning them to the "highest place of truft. Item, I leave to "our most gracious and virtuous Queen "Mary, Diofcorides, with the plants na"turally coloured, and the text translated "by Matthiolo, in the best language of "Tuscany, whence her faid Majesty is li"neally defcended, for a poor token of "my thankful devotion for the honour "she was once pleased to do my private "study with her prefence. I leave to the "most hopeful Prince, the picture of "the elected and crowned Queen of "Bohemia, his aunt, of clear and re

fplendent virtues through the clouds of "her fortune. To my Lord's Grace of "Canterbury now being, I leave my pic"ture of Divine Love, rarely copied from "one in the King's galleries, of my pre"sentation to his Majefty; befeeching ❝him to receive it as a pledge of my "humble reverence to his great wisdom. "And to the moft worthy Lord Bishop of "London, Lord High Treasurer of Eng❝land, in true admiration of his Chrif❝tian

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"tian fimplicity and contempt of earthly "pomp, I leave a picture of Heraclitus bewailing, and Democritus laughing at, "the world: moft humbly befeeching "the faid Lord Archbishop his Grace, "and the Lord Bishop of London, of "both whofe favours I have tafted in my "life-time, to intercede with our most "gracious Sovereign after my death, in "the bowels of Jefus Chrift, that out of "compaffionate memory of my long fer❝vices, (wherein I more ftudied the pub"lic honour, than mine own utility,) "fome order may be taken out of my ar"rears due in the Exchequer, for fuch "fatisfaction of my creditors, as those "whom I have ordained fupervisors of "this my laft will and teftament shall "present unto their Lordships, without "their farther trouble; hoping likewife "in his Majefty's most indubitable good"ness, that he will keep me from all pre"judice, which I may otherwise suffer "by any defect of formality in the de"mand of my faid arrears. Το -for

a poor addition to his cabinet, I leave,

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as emblems of his attractive virtues " and obliging noblenefs, my great Load"ftone, and a piece of Amber of both "kinds naturally united, and only differ"ing in degree of concoction, which is "thought fomewhat rare. Item, a Item, a piece "of Crystal Sexangular (as they grow "all) grafping divers feveral things with"in it, which I bought among the Rhæ"tian Alps, in the very place where it

grew; recommending most humbly "unto his Lordship, the reputation of my cc poor name in the point of my debts, as "I have done to the forenamed Spiritual “Lords, and am heartily forry that I have

no better token of my humble thank"fulness to his honoured perfon. Item, "I leave to Sir Francis Windebank, one "of his Majesty's principal Secretaries of "State, (whom I found my great friend "in point of neceffity,) the four Seasons "of old Baffano, to hang near the eye in "his parlour, (being in little form,) which "I bought at Venice, where I first enter"ed into his moft worthy acquaintance.

"To the abovenamed Dr. Bargrave, "Dean of Canterbury, I leave all my Ita"lian books not disposed in this will. I "leave to him likewise my Viol de Gam"ba, which hath been twice with me in "Italy, in which country I firft contract"ed with him an unremoveable affection. "To my other fupervisor, Mr. Nicholas "Pey, I leave my Cheft, or Cabinet of "Inftruments and Engines of all kinds of "ufes in the lower box whereof are "fome a fit to be bequeathed to none but "fo entire an honeft man as he is. I "leave him likewife forty pounds for his "pains in the folicitation of my arrears; "and am forry that my ragged estate can "reach no further to one that hath taken "fuch care for me in the fame kind, dur"ing all my foreign employments. To "the Library at Eaton College I leave "all my Manuscripts not before disposed, ❝and to each of the Fellows a plain ring

a In it were Italian locks, pick-locks, screws to force open doors, and many things of worth and rarity, that he had gathered in his foreign travel.

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