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The following are extracts from Sir William Penn's will:

"In the name of God: Amen!-I, Sir William Penn, of London, knight, being of perfect mind and memory, do make this my last will and testament, this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and nine, (1669-70), and in the one-and-twentieth year of our sovereign lord, Charles the Second, &c. &c. &c. My soul, I humbly recommend into the merciful hands of my ever blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, beseeching him that, through his merits, I may be made partaker of life eternal. My body, I commit to the grave, to be buried in the parish church of Redclyffe, within the city of Bristol, as near unto the body of my dear mother deceased (whose body lies there interred) as the same conveniently may be. And my will is, that there shall be erected in the said church, as near unto the place where my body shall be buried as the same can be contrived, a handsome and decent tomb, to remain as a monument, as well for my said mother as for myself, the charges thereof to be defrayed by my executor hereafter

I Works, Life, fol. vol. i. p. 124; 8vo, vol. i. p. 86. CLARKSON'S Life of W. Penn, vol. i. pp. 351, 352. Mr. Clarkson, not being aware of the allusion in the first sentence, has omitted it in his extract from this letter. During the years 1768-70, when Viscount Weymouth was secretary of state for the plantations, the late Mr. Thomas Penn, last surviving son of the Quaker (my father), often observed in his family, that, in transacting the business of his province with that noble lord, he could rarely avoid the reflection, that if his father had not been a Quaker, he should have borne the title then borne by the noble secretary. It is certain, that the title of Weymouth did not issue from the crown until after the execution of the grant of the province of Pennsylvania, as its equivalent, in 1680; which province was erected, by its charter, into a Seignory, and the grant made to rest on the same ground on which the title would have stood; viz." The Merits of Sir William Penn in divers ser"vices," &c.-See above, page 359.

named, out of my personal estate. And as for and concerning my personal estate, I do hereby devise the same as followeth: and first, I do will and devise unto my dear wife, Dame Margaret Penn, to be paid unto her immediately after my decease, the sum of three hundred pounds sterling, together with all my jewels, other than what I shall hereinafter particularly devise. And I do also give and bequeath unto my said dear wife, the use and occupation, during her life, of one full moiety of all my plate and household stuff, &c. &c., as I shall happen to have at the time of my decease.

"I do also will and devise unto my eldest son, William Penn, my Gold Chain and Medal,' with the rest and residue of all my plate, household stuff, &c., not herein before devised, &c. And I do hereby constitute and declare, nominate and appoint, my said son William, sole executor of this my last will and testament, &c.

"And though I cannot apprehend that any differences can fall out or happen between my said dear wife and my said son William, after my decease, in relation to any thing by me devised or limited by this my will, or in relation to any other matter or thing whatsoever; yet, in case any such differences should arise, I do hereby request and desire, and, as far as in me lieth, require, conjure, and direct my said dear wife and my said son William, by all the obligations of duty, affection, and respect which they have, and ought to have, to me and my memory, that all such differences, of what nature or kind soever they shall be, by the joint consent and submission of my said dear wife and my said son William, be at all times, and from time to time, referred to the arbitration, and final judgment and determination, of

1 See above, vol. i. p. 518. His gold chain and medal remain with his family. An engraving of the medal is given in Vertue's Collection of the Works of Simon, the eminent artist who executed it, facing page 27; a correct engraving of the same is also published, as a frontispiece, in one of the volumes of CHARNOCK'S Biographia Navalis.

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my worthy friend, Sir WILLIAM COVENTRY, of the parish of St. Martin's in the Fields, in the county of Middlesex; whom I do hereby entreat to take upon himself the determination of all and every such difference and differences, as shall from time to time, or at any time after my decease, be referred unto him by my said dear wife and my said son, William Penn; for the total prevention of all suits in law or equity, which, upon any occasion or misunderstanding, might otherwise happen between them."1

His remains were conveyed, according to his directions, to his native city, Bristol, and were honourably interred in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe,2 where his flags and trophies are still carefully preserved, and where his monument records, briefly and chronologically, the dates of his several commissions and appointments, both under the parliament and under the king. The following account of his funeral, from a document preserved in the Heralds' College, shews the averseness of the high cavalier party of that day to honour, or recognise, even professional merit, displayed during the suspension of the crown.

"This day, Sir William Penn was interred in this city, at Ratcliffe Church. The manner of the solemnity was thus:

Sir William Coventry survived his friend sixteen years, and died at Somerhill, near Tunbridge-Wells, on the 24th of June, 1686, aged sixty. His remains were interred in the neighbouring parish-church of Penshurst.

2 "Redcliffe Church, Bristol," observes the author of the Antiquities of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, is, as Leland calls it, by far the most beautiful of all churches-ecclesiarum omnium longe pulcherrima;' and, as "Camden, the most elegant of all parish-churches that I have ever seen