Mr.
CONGREVE
's Last
Will
and
Testament,
WITH CHARACTERS OF HIS WRITINGS.
BY Mr. DRYDEN, Sir RICHARD BLACKMORE, Mr. ADDISON and Major PACK.
To which are added, Two Pieces,
viz.
I.
Of rightly Improving the present Time.
An Epistle from Mr. CONGREVE to the Right Honourable RICHARD Lord Viscount COBHAM.
II. The GAME of QUADRILLE. An ALLEGORY.
LONDON:
Printed for E. CURLL in the
Strand,
1729. (Price One Shilling.)
A TRUE COPY OF THE Last Will and Testament of
William Congreve,
Esq
E' Registro Curiae Praerogat. Cantuar. Extract.
In the Name of God, Amen.
THIS is the last Will of me
William Congreve,
of the Parish of St.
Clement-Danes, Westminster,
in the County of
Middlesex,
Esq
made the twenty-sixth Day of
February, Anno Dom.
1725; And first I desire, and direct, that my Funeral shall be privately performed, without the least Ostentation, and the Place where, I refer to my Executor to appoint.
I give to the several Persons herein after named, the respective Legacies following (that is to say) To * * * * * * * * * *
Sic Orig.
my Intention is, that the following Legacies be given to the respective Persons herein named, as if they were inserted in the blank Space left in this Will for that purpose.
IMPRIMIS, I give and bequeath to
Anne Jellet,
twenty Pounds a Year during her Life.
Item,
To
William Congreve,
Son of Colonel
William Congreve
of
Highgate,
and my Godson, three hundred Pounds.
To Mrs.
Anne Congreve,
Daughter to my late Kinsman Colonel
Ralph Congreve
of
Clarges-street,
two hundred Pounds.
To Mrs.
Anne Bracegirdle,
of
Howard-street,
two hundred Pounds.
To Mrs.
Francis Porter,
fifty Pounds.
Item,
To Mrs.
Deborah Rooke,
one hundred Pounds, with all my Linnen and Apparel; for other less Legacies, I leave them as specified in a Codicil inclosed in the Duplicate of this Will, and left in the Custody of the Dutchess of
Marlborough
* * * * * * *
Sic Orig.
ALL the Rest and Residue of my Estate, the same consisting in personal Things only (not having any Lands, or other real Estate) I give and bequeath to the Dutchess of
Marlborough,
the now Wife of
Francis
Earl of
Godolphin
in the County of
Cornwall;
but not so as to vest in him the said Earl of
Godolphin,
the equitable Right and Interest of such Rest and Residue, but that the same and every Part thereof; and the Interest, Produce, and Benefit thereof; shall and may, at all times, from and after my Decease, be had and received by her the said Dutchess, namely,
Henrietta,
Dutchess of
Marlborough,
to her sole and separate Use, and wherewith her said Husband, or any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
shall not intermeddle, or have any controuling Power over, nor shall the said Rest and Residue, or the Interest and Produce thereof, be liable to the Debts and Incumbrances of the said Earl of
Godolphin,
or of any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
in any wise; but shall be had and received, issued and paid, as she the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
shall by writing under her Hand, from time to time direct and appoint; and her own Acquittance shall be a sufficient discharge for all, or any Part of the Estate so given to her as aforesaid. And in Confidence of the Honesty and Justice of him the said
Francis
Earl of
Godolphin,
I do hereby constitute and appoint him, the sole Executor of this my Will, in Trust, for his said Wife, as aforesaid. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my Name, and set my Seal, the Day and Year aforesaid.
William Congreve (L. S.)
Signed, sealed, and declared by the, said
William Congreve
Testator, to be his last Will, in the Presence of Us,
TIMO. KIPLIN,
THOMAS SWAN.
THE Duplicate WILL and CODICIL.
In the Name of God, Amen.
THIS is the last Will of me
William Congreve,
of the Parish of St.
Clement-Danes, Westminster,
in the County of
Middlesex,
Esq
made the twenty-sixth of
February, Anno Dom.
1725. And first I desire and direct, that my Funeral shall be privately performed without the least Ostentation, and the Place where, I refer to my Executor to appoint. I give to the several Persons herein after-named, the respective Legacies following (that is to say) To * * * * * * * * *
Sic Orig.
Legacies intended to be inserted in the blank Space of this Will, and which I desire may be paid, tho' any Thing should prevent my inserting them with my own Hand, in Manner as I have filled up the other Blanks in the same.
IMPRIMIS, To
Anne Jellet,
twenty Pounds a Year for her Life.
Item,
To my Godson
William Congreve,
Son of Colonel
William Congreve
of
Highgate,
three hundred Pounds.
Item,
To
Anne Congreve,
Daughter of the late Colonel
Ralph Congreve
of
Clarges-street,
two hundred Pounds.
Item,
To Mrs.
Anne Congreve,
Her Mother, and to Colonel
William Congreve
of
Highgate,
each twenty Pounds.
Item,
To Mrs.
Anne Bracegirdle
of
Howard-street,
two hundred Pounds.
Item,
To Mrs.
Deborah Rook,
one hundred Pounds, and all my wearing Apparel and Linnen of all Sorts.
Item,
To Mrs.
Francis Porter,
fifty Pounds.
Item,
To
Peter Walter,
Esq
of St.
Margaret Westminster,
twenty Pounds.
Item,
To
Richard
Lord Viscount
Cobham,
and
Richard
Lord Viscount
Shannon,
twenty Pounds each.
Item,
To
Charles Mein,
Esq
and Mr.
Edward Porter,
and Mr.
Joshua White,
twelve Pounds each.
Item,
To her Grace
Henrietta
Dutchess of
Newcastle,
I give and bequeath the Dutchess of
Marlborough's
Picture, by
Kneller.
Item,
To the Lady
Mary Godolphin,
youngest Daughter to the Dutchess of
Marlborough,
I give and bequeath her Mother's Picture Enamelled, in Miniature, together with my white Brilliant Diamond Ring.
Item,
To Colonel
Charles Churchill,
twenty Pounds, together with my Gold-headed Cane.
Item,
To all and each of my Domestick Servants, a Year's Wages, and proper Mourning.
Item,
To the Poor of the Parish, ten Pounds.
ALL the Rest and Residue of my Estate, the same consisting in personal Things only (not having any Lands, or other real Estate) I give and bequeath to
Henrietta,
Dutchess of
Marlborough,
the now Wife of
Francis
Earl of
Godolphin
in the County of
Cornwall;
but not so as to vest in him the said Earl of
Godolphin,
the equitable Right and Interest of such Rest and Residue, but that the same and every Part thereof; and the Interest, Produce, and Benefit thereof; shall and may, at all times, from and after my Decease, be had and received by her the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
to her sole and separate Use, and wherewith her said Husband, or any aftertaken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
shall not intermeddle, or have any controuling Power over, nor shall the said Rest and Residue, or the Interest and Produce thereof, be liable to the Debts and Incumbrances of the said Earl of
Godolphin,
or of any after-taken Husband, of her the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
in any wise; but shall be had and received, issued and paid, as she the said Dutchess of
Marlborough,
shall by writing under her Hand, from time to time direct and appoint; and her own Acquittance shall be a sufficient Discharge for all, or any Part of the Estate so given to her as aforesaid. And in Confidence of the Honesty and Justice of him the said
Francis
Earl of
Godolphin,
I do hereby constitute and appoint him, the sole Executor of this my Will in Trust, for his said Wife as aforesaid. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my Name, and set my Seal, the Day and Year aforesaid.
William Congreve, (L. S.)
Signed, sealed, and declared by the, said
William Congreve
the Testator, to be his last Will, in the Presence of Us,
WILLIAM HUMPSTONE,
GEORGE THORPE,
JONATHAN WHITE.
WHEREAS I
William Congreve,
did by my last Will and Testament, bearing Date the sixth Day of
February
1725; affix a Schedule of Legacies, written in my own Hand, over a blank Space left for that Purpose in the said Will; I do hereby revoke and annual those Legacies, excepting such as are bequeathed to Persons related to me, and bearing my own Hand; as also what is therein bequeathed to Mrs.
Anne Jellet,
and Mrs.
Anne Bracegirdle;
which said Legacies, I do hereby confirm, and do hereby revoke and annul, all other Legacies therein mentioned, or in the Counter-part of the said Will, more at large set down; which Counter-part is by me left in Custody of her Grace,
Henrietta,
Dutchess of
Marlborough,
my sole Executrix, as is specified in the said Will and Counter-part thereof; be it understood, that my Intention is by this Writing to revoke those Legacies, not herein confirmed as above-mentioned, in such manner only as to leave them absolutely in the Power and Determination of the abovenamed
Henrietta
Dutchess of
Marlborough,
my sole Executrix, either to pay, or refuse to pay to them, to take from them, or add to them, as she shall judge the Persons therein named, especially my Domestick Servants, therein mentioned, or not mentioned, may have merited of me,
William Congreve, (L. S.)
Signed and sealed, in Presence of,
JOSEPH LEE.
WILLIAM HUMPSTONE.
PROBATUM Londini
cum quatuor Codicillis sive schedulis testamentis, annex: tertio Die Mensis
Februarij 1728.
Coram venli viro
Georgio Paul,
legum Doctore surrog: &c. Jurato prenobilis, & honli viri
Francisci
Comitis: de
Godolphin,
Extris unici, &c. Cui, &c. De bene & Jurat. Lata prius sententia definitiva pro valore, & validitate dicti testamenti prout, ex actis curiae liquet.
LINTHWAITE FARRANT,
Registrar: Deputat: Assumpt.
Mr. CONGREVE died about five o'Clock, on
Sunday
Morning,
January
the 19th 1728-9, at his House in
Surrey-street
in the
Strand,
in the 57th Year of his Age; and on the
Sunday
following,
January
26th, his Corps lay in State in the
Jerusalem
Chamber; from whence, the same Evening, between the Hours of Nine and Ten, it was carried, with great Decency and Solemnity, into King HENRY the VIIth's Chapel in
Westminster-Abbey,
and Interred near the late Earl of
Godolphin.
The PALL was supported by, I. the Duke of
Bridgewater.
II. Earl of
Godolphin.
III. Lord
Cobham.
IV. Lord
Wilmington.
V. The Honourable
George Berkeley,
Esq
VI. BrigadierGeneral
Churchill.
And Colonel
Congreve
followed the Corps as Chief Mourner.
CHARACTERS OF Mr.
CONGREVE.
IN
easy Dialogue
is FLETCHER's Praise:
He mov'd the
Soul,
but had not Power to
raise.
Great JOHNSON did by
Strength of Judgment
please,
Yet doubling FLETCHER
's Force,
he wants his
Ease:
In diff'ring Talents,
Both
adorn'd their Age;
One for the
Study,
t'other for the
Stage.
But
Both
to CONGREVE justly shall submit,
ONE match'd in
Judgment,
BOTH o'er-match'd in
Wit.
In
Him,
All Beauties of this Age we see;
ETHEREGE
's Courtship,
SOUTHERN
's Purity;
The
Satire, Wit,
and
Strength,
of manly WYCHERLEY.
DRYDEN.
Mr.
Addison
's Character OF THE Old
BATCHELOR.
See,
The TATLER, No 9.
IN the Character which gives Name to this Play, there is excellently represented the Reluctance of a battered Debaucheé to come into the Trammels of Order and Decency: He neither languishes, nor burns, but frets for Love. The Gentlemen of more regular Behaviour, are drawn with much Spirit and Wit; and the
Drama
introduced by the Dialogue of the first Scene, with uncommon, yet natural Conversation. The Part of
Fondlewife
is a lively Image of the unseasonable Fondness of Age and Impotence.
Sir
Richard Blackmore
's CHARACTER OF THE Mourning Bride.
See,
His
Preface
to
Prince
ARTHUR, Fol. 1697.
THIS
Poem
has received, and in my Opinion, very justly, universal Applause; being look'd on as the most perfect
Tragedy
that has been wrote in this Age. The
Fable,
as far as I can judge at first Sight, is a very artful and masterly Contrivance; the
Characters
are well chosen and well delineated; that of ZARA is admirable. The
Passions
are well touch'd, and skilfully wrought up. The
Diction,
proper, clear, beautiful, noble, and diversified agreeably to the Variety of the Subject.
Vice,
as it ought to be, is punish'd; and
oppressed-Innocence
at last rewarded.
Nature
appears very happily imitated (excepting one or two doubtful Instances) thro' the whole Piece; in which there are no immodest Images or Expressions; no wild unnatural Rants, but (some Exceptions being allowed) all Things are chaste, just, and decent.
This
Tragedy,
as I said before, has mightily obtained, and that without the unnatural and foolish Mixture of
Force
and
Buffoonery;
without so much as a
Song,
or a
Dance,
to make it more agreeable. By this it appears, that as a sufficient Genius can recommend itself, and furnish out abundant Matter of Pleasure and Admiration, without the paultry Helps above named; so likewise, that the Taste of the Nation is not so far deprav'd, but that a regular and chaste Play will not only be forgiven, but highly applauded.
Major
PACK
's SENTIMENTS IN His
Essay
on
Study.
CONGREVE of all the Moderns, seems to me, to have the rightest Turn for
Comedy.
In all his Plays there is a great deal of
lively
and
uncommon Humour,
and such as yet, for the most Part, is a
Picture
of
true Life.
Besides, he hath raised the Vein of
Ridicule,
and made the STAGE, which had been too much prostituted to the Mob,
edifying
to Persons of the first Condition. And as his
Fable
is
Diverting,
so is it wrought according to the
strictest Rules.
The following EPISTLE,
Of rightly improving the present Time,
written to Lord
Cobham,
is here printed from a Manuscript of the Author, with which I was obliged by a Person of the first Rank: The Public having been notoriously abused, by a very erroneous Copy, surreptitiously obtained, by one LEWIS in
Covent-Garden,
and vended under the Cover of A. DODD, and E. NUTT.
VERSES To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount
Cobham.
Of Improving the present Time.
SINCEREST Critic of my Prose, or Rhime,
Tell how thy pleasing STOWE
The Name of his Lordship's SEAT in
Buckinghamshire.
employs thy Time.
Say, COBHAM, what amuses thy Retreat?
Or Stratagems of War, or Schemes of State?
Dost thou recal to Mind with Joy, or Grief,
Great
MARLBRO
's Actions? That immortal
Chief,
Whose slightest Trophy rais'd in each Campaign,
More than suffic'd to signalize a Reign?
Does thy Remembrance rising warm thy Heart,
With Glory past, where Thou thy self hadst Part,
Or dost thou grieve indignant, now to see,
The fruitless End of all thy Victory?
To see th' Audacious Foe, so late subdu'd,
Dispute those Terms for which so long they su'd,
As if BRITANNIA now were sunk so low,
To beg that PEACE she wonted to bestow,
Be far that Guilt! be never known that Shame!
That ENGLAND shou'd retract her
rightful Claim,
Or ceasing to be dreaded and ador'd,
Stain with her Pen the Lustre of her Sword.
Or dost thou give the Winds a-far to blow,
Each vexing-Thought, and Heart-devouring Woe,
And fix thy Mind alone on rural Scenes,
To turn the level'd Lawns to liquid Plains,
To raise the creeping Rills from humble Beds,
And force the latent Springs to lift their Heads,
On watry Columns, Capitals to rear,
That mix their flowing Curls with upper Air.
Or dost Thou, weary grown, these Works neglect,
No Temples, Statues, Obelisks erect,
But catch the morning Breeze from fragrant Meads,
Or shun the Noon-tide Ray in wholsom Shades,
Or slowly walk, along the mazy Wood,
To meditate on all that's wise and good,
For Nature bountiful, in Thee has join'd,
A Person pleasing with a worthy Mind,
Not given the Form alone, but Means, and Art,
To draw the Eye, or to allure the Heart.
Poor were the Praise in Fortune to excel,
Yet want the Way to use that Fortune well.
While thus adorn'd, while thus with Virtue crown'd,
At Home, in Peace; Abroad, in Arms renown'd;
Graceful in Form, and winning in Address,
While well you think, what aptly you express,
With Health, with Honour, with a fair Estate,
A Table free, and elegantly neat.
What can be added more to mortal Bliss?
What can he want that stands possest of This?
What can the fondest wishing Mother more,
Of Heaven attentive for her Son implore?
And yet a
Happiness
remains
unknown,
Or to
Philosophy
reveal'd
alone;
A
Precept,
which unpractis'd renders vain,
Thy flowing Hopes, and Pleasure turns to Pain.
Shou'd Hope, and Fear thy Heart alternate tear,
Or Love, or Hate, or Rage, or anxious Care,
Whatever Passions may thy Mind infest,
(Where is that Mind which Passions ne'er molest?)
Amidst the Pangs of such intestine Strife,
Still
think the
PRESENT DAY,
the
LAST
of
LIFE;
Defer not till to
Morrow
to be
Wise,
To
Morrow's
SUN, to
Thee
may never
rise.
Or shou'd to
Morrow
chance to cheer thy
Sight,
With her enliv'ning and unlookt-for
Light,
How grateful will appear her
dawning Rays!
As Favours
unexpected
doubly
please.
Who thus can think, and who such Thoughts pursues,
Content may keep his Life, or calmly lose;
All Proofs of this Thou may'st thy self receive,
When Leisure from Affairs will give thee Leave.
Come, see thy Friend, retir'd without Regret,
Forgetting Care, or striving to forget;
In easy Contemplation soothing Time
With Morals much, and now and then with Rhime,
Not so robust in Body, as in Mind,
And always undejected, tho' declin'd;
Not wond'ring at the World's new wicked Ways,
Compar'd with those of our Fore-fathers Days,
For Virtue now is neither more or less,
And Vice is only vary'd in the Dress:
Believe it,
Men
have ever been the
same,
And
Ovid
's GOLDEN AGE, is but a
Dream.
WILLIAM CONGREVE.
THE TRUE COPY OF AN
AFFIDAVIT,
Made before one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the City of
Westminster.
THAT
four
LADIES, whom the Deponent does not care to Name, repair nightly to a certain convenient Place, near St.
James
's, to meet their GALLANTS of the first Rank; whom your Deponent will not Name, but so far describe them, that
two
of them are
Sallow,
and
two
of the
ruddy
Complexion; and that he verily believes, they were most abominably painted.
The LADIES when they begin their Gambols, call their GALLANTS by the fond Nick-names of
Hercules, Cupid, Pit,
and the
Gardiner.
After a plentiful Service of the most costly Fare, they begin their
Tricks
which they play like the
Tumblers
in
Bartholomew-Fair
upon a Carpet,
strip is the Word;
nay, your Deponent has known them strip a Gentleman who came accidently into the House. At
first,
they begin pretty courtly, at least in their Expressions, as,
Madam, by your leave,
or so; which the LADIES are so good as
seldom to deny.
Afterwards, it is shameful to describe the
Tricks
that are play'd by this
lewd Pack.
By
an established
Rule,
each
Lady
has the Choice of her
Gallant
in her
Turn,
and some have been known so unreasonable, after they have had
Three,
to call for a
Fourth.
Your Deponent has seen a
Lady
on her
Back,
a
Man
o'Top of
her,
and a
Lady
o'Top of
him;
and he avers, it has been known, that a
Court Valet
has
stript them all.
Sometimes they are thrown on their
Backs,
sometimes on their
Bellies
now higgledy piggledy, and anon, they are
all
o'Top of
one another;
and if
any one
is call'd upon, they are oblig'd
to show
ALL. Of the same Nature is their Discourse, your Deponent has often over-heard them talking of their
A—es,
with the same Familiarity as their
Faces; I have a Black
one, says one, and named the
Thing
directly;
mine is better than yours,
says the other, and Names her
Thing; must I be laught at,
says a Third,
because I have a red one.
There is
one monstrous Thing
that your Deponent is almost ashamed to mention; after
Six,
a
Lady
has asked
if they could do no more;
nay, a certain
Lady
has been known to play all the
Tricks over
by
her self.
Your Deponent likewise avers, that he has full Proof, after the LADIES have been tired with their GALLANTS, they have called for
fresh ones:
In short the aforesaid LADIES, have not only,
spent their Pin-Money, but their Husband's Estates,
upon
Hercules, Cupid, Pit,
and the
Gardiner,
and when they want more Money, they commonly
Pawn
their
Jewels,
&c.
Westminster ss.
Jurat. Coram me,
T. T.
P.S.
The above
Information
is a faithful Description of the GAME of QUADRILLE, not to be
Litterally,
but
Allegorically,
understood.
THO. WOOLSTON.
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MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS and Familiar Letters. By
William Congreve,
Esq
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Esq
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Esq
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WILLS of the,
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Wood,
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