The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on…

And for my body, in regard it hath patiently sustained, and run through the fiery trial of a Bawdy-house, and been but lately parboiled in Cornelius his Tub, it is my desire that Alexander Kinsey (dwelling at the Woolsack in Ivy-lane) may have the burial thereof in his Petits, my ears only excepted, and hereafter otherwise disposed; and that the Silkmen and Mercers Apprentices (and others my well-disposed Proselites) in Pater-noster-Row, will accompany it to the grave, and there to see it decently interred, without any Popish Rites, superstitious prayers, or ceremonies, other then what the Directory of their Morning and Evening stomachs shall admit of, by which means, my intent is, that Alexander may save some moneys (towards the payment of his Daughters portion, who is now upon the prick of preferment) which would otherwise be laid out on Hogs Grease, and cleansing scraps, usually (by him) bought at Pie-corner, and this out of the mere good will I bear ⟨p. 2⟩him, for that he formerly went out (as if he would have fought the battles of the Lord against the Mighty) under the conduct of Sir William Waller (aliàs William the Conqueror) howbeit he never durst fight, as being not persuaded of the lawfulness of fighting with any body but his wife, yet (to give the Devil his due) continues a fiery hot, and so zealous a Presbyterian, that (for some months last past) he has never been without a Priapism, and the complexion of a pickled Oyster, notwithstanding some of the ungodly scandalize, and call him the nineteenth part of no Religion.

And for my body, in regard it hath patiently sustained, and run through the fiery trial of a Bawdy-house, and been but lately parboyl'd in Cornelius his Tub, it is my desire that Alexander Kinsey (dwelling at the Woolsack in Ivy-lane) may have the burial thereof in his Petits, my ears only excepted, and hereafter otherwise disposed; and that the Silkmen and Mercers Apprentices (and others my well-disposed Proselites) in Pater-noster-Row, will accompany it to the grave, and there to see it decently interred, without any Popish Rites, superstitious prayers, or ceremonies, other then what the Directory of their Morning and Evening stomacks shall admit of, by which means, my intent is, that Alexander may save some moneys (towards the payment of his Daughters portion, who is now upon the prick of preferment) which would otherwise be laid out on Hogs Grease, and cleansing scraps, usually (by him) bought at Pye-corner, and this out of the meer good will I bear ⟨p. 2⟩