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ing and enlarging the Building, from Time to Time, as there may be Occafion. And, if a fufficient Number of Idiots and Lunaticks cannot readily be found, I defire that Incurables may be taken into the faid Hofpital to supply fuch Deficiency: But that no Perfon fhall be admitted into it, that laboureth under any infectious Disease: And that all fuch Idiots, Lunaticks and Incurables, as shall be received into the faid Hofpital, fhall conftantly live and refide therein, as well in the Night as in the Day; and that the Salaries of Agents, Receivers, Officers, Servants, and Attendants, to be employed in the Business of the faid Hofpital, fhall not im the Whole exceed one Fifth Part of the clear yearly Income, or Revenue thereof. And, I further defire that my Executors, the Survivors or Survivor of them, or the Heirs of fuch, shall not have Power to demife any Part of the faid Lands fo to be purchased as aforefaid, but with Confent of the Lord Primate, the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Dean of Chrift-Church, the Dean of St. Patrick's, the Physician to the State, and the Surgeon-General, all for the Time being, or the greater Part of them, under their Hands in Writing; and that no Leafes of any Part of the faid Lands, fhall ever be made other than Leafes for Years not exceeding Thirty-one, in Poffeffion, and not in Reverfion or Remainder, and not difpunishable of Wafte, whereon fhall be referved the best and most improved Rents, that can reasonably and moderately, without

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racking the Tenants, be gotten for the fame, without Fine. Provided always, and it is my Will and earnest Defire, that no Leafe of any Part of the faid Lands, fo to be purchased as aforefaid, fhall ever be made to, or in Truft for any Perfon any way concerned in the Execution of this Truft, or to, or in Truft for any Perfon any way related or allied, either by Confanguinity or Affinity, to any of the Perfons who fhall at that Time be concerned in the Execu¬ tion of this Truft: And, that if any Leafes fhall happen to be made contrary to my Intention above expreffed, the fame fhall be utterly void and of no Effect. And I further defire, until the Charter herein after mentioned be obtained, my Executors, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, his Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, fhall not act in the Execution of this Truft, but with the Confent and Approbation of the faid feven additional Truftees, or the greater Part of them, under their Hands in Writing, and fhall, with fuch Confent and Approbation as aforefaid, have Power, from time to time, to make Rules, Orders, and Regulations for the Government and Direction of the faid Hospital. And, I make it my Request to my faid Executors, that they may in convenient Time apply to his Majefty for a Charter to incorporate them, or fuch of them as fhall be then living, and the faid additional Trustees, for the better Management and Conduct of this Charity, with a Power to purchase Lands; and to fupply by Election fuch Vacancies happen

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ing in the Corporation, as shall not be supplied by Succeffion, and fuch other Powers as may be thought expedient for the due Execution of this Truft, according to my Intention herein before expreffed. And when fuch Charter fhall be obtained, I defire that my Executors, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, or the Heirs of fuch Survivor, may convey to the Ufe of fuch Corporation in Fee-fimple for the Purpofes aforefaid, all fuch Lands and Tenements, as fhall be purchased in manner above mentioned. Provided always, and it is my Will and Intention, that my Executors, until the faid Charter, and afterwards the Corporation to be hereby incorporated, fhall out of the yearly Profits of the faid Lands when purchased, and out of the yearly Income of my faid Fortune devised to my Executors as aforefaid, until fuch Purchase be made, have Power to reimburse themselves for all fuch Sums of their own Money, as they shall neceffarily expend in the Execution of this Truft, And that until the faid Charter be obtained, all Acts which shall at any Time be done in Execution of this Truft by the greater Part of my Executors then liveing, with the Confent of the greater Part of the faid additional Trustees, under their Hands in Writing, shall be as valid and effectual, as if all my Executors had concurred in the fame.

Item: Whereas I purchased the Inheritance of the Tythes of the Parish of Effernock near Trim in the County of Meath, for Two Hun

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dred and Sixty Pounds Sterling; I bequeath the faid Tythes to the Vicars of Laracor for the Time being, that is to fay, fo long as the prefent Episcopal Religion fhall continue to be the National Established Faith and Profeffion in this Kingdom: But whenever any other Form of Christian Religion shall become the Established Faith in this Kingdom, I leave the faid Tythes of Effernock to be bestowed, as the Profits come in, to the Poor of the faid Parish of Laracor, by a weekly Proportion, and by fuch Officers as may then have the Power of distributing Charities to the Poor of the said Parish, while Christianity under any Shape shall be tolerated among us, ftill excepting profeffed Jews, Atheifts and Infidels.

Item: Whereas I have fome Leafes of certain Houfes in St. Kevin's-ftreet, near the DeanryHouse, built upon the Dean's Ground, and one other House now inhabited by Henry Land, in Deanry-lane alias Mitre-alley, fome of which Leafes are let for forty-one Years, or forty at least, and not yet half expired, I bequeath to Mrs. Martha Whiteway my Leafe or Leases of the faid Houfes; I alfo bequeath to the faid Martha, my Leafe of forty Years of Goodman's Holding, for which I receive Ten Pounds per Annum; which are two Houses, or more lately built; I bequeath alfo to the faid Martha the Sum of Three Hundred Pounds Sterling, to be paid her by my Executors out of my ready Money, or Bank Bills, immediB 4

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ately after my Death, as foon as the Executors meet. I leave, moreover, to the faid Martha, my repeating Gold Watch, my yellow Tortoife Shell Snuff Box, and her Choice of four Gold Rings, out of feven which I now poffefs.

Item: I bequeath to Mrs. Mary Swift alias Harrison, Daughter of the faid Martha, my plain Gold Watch made by Quare, to whom alfo I give my Japan Writing Desk, bestowed to me by my Lady Worfeley, my fquare Tortoife Shell Snuff Box, richly lined and inlaid with Gold, given to me by the Right Honourable Henrietta now Countess of Oxford, and the Seal with a Pegafus, given to me by the Countefs of Granville.

Item: I bequeath to Mr. Ffolliot Whiteway, eldeft Son of the aforefaid Martha, who is bred to be an Attorney, the Sum of Sixty Pounds, as alfo Five Pounds to be laid out in the Purchafe of fuch Law Books as the Honourable Mr. Juftice Lyndsay, Mr. Stannard, or Mr. McAullay fhall judge proper for him.

Item: I bequeath to Mr. John Whiteway, youngest Son of the faid Martha, who is to be brought up a Surgeon, the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, in order to qualify him for a Surgeon, but under the Direction of his Mother; which faid Sum of One Hundred Pounds is to be paid to Mrs. Whiteway, in Behalf of her faid Son John, out of the Arrears which shall

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