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The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on…
The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremiah 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherein is showed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.The last will and testament of Thomas Gataker (B.D., author of the Annotations on Jeremy 10. ver. 2 and the Vindications of them, as also of the new-come out discourse apologetical) : wherin is shewed the manner and order of the disposing of his estate, with the certain legacies given to friends, together with the manner of burial of his aged corps without superficial rites or ceremonies.
S.l. : s.n., 1654
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Joseph Blaiklock (a broken Presbyterian Book binder) the remains of my chopped Logic, and entreat M. Rowland to make him amends for the over-worn Pamphlets he paraphrased on, and caused him to print in one volum against Astrology, which hath almost cracked the Stationer, and ruined the Binder, that being the causa ⟨p. 3⟩sine quâ non of his present testiness, to make him amends (I say) by attending him once a day at his house, (because he dares not walk abroad so far as a Hen, for fear of Gods judgments, nam inter malleum & incudem versatur) and after a use or two of consolation, to instruct him so far therein, as may enable him to prove black to be white, or (which is all one) his wife an honest woman: But now I remember, I heard the Sheriff had return'd a non est inventus for Mr. Rowland, and therefore I shall desire Mr. Gaule will supply the place, perhaps he may jumble a syllogism or two more then ordinary out of Mrs. Blaiklock, who being singularly free natured, (especially when she whitens her linen at the bank side) is more then shrewdly suspected to ramble in the predicament of a bad quality.
Item, I give and bequeath unto Joseph Blaiklock (a broken Presbyterian Book binder) the remains of my chopt Logick, and entreat M. Rowland to make him amends for the over-worn Pamphlets he paraphrased on, and caused him to print in one volum against Astrology, which hath almost cract the Stationer, and ruined the Binder, that being the causa ⟨p. 3⟩sine quâ non of his present testiness, to make him amends (I say) by attending him once a day at his house, (because he dares not walk abroad so far as a Hen, for fear of Gods judgments, nam inter malleum & incudem versatur) and after a use or two of consolation, to instruct him so far therein, as may inable him to prove black to be white, or (which is all one) his wife an honest woman: But now I remember, I heard the Sheriff had return'd a non est inventus for Mr. Rowland, and therefore I shall desire Mr. Gaule will supply the place, perhaps he may jumble a syllogism or two more then ordinary out of Mrs. Blaiklock, who being singularly free natur'd, (especially when she whitens her linnen at the bank side) is more then shrewdly suspected to ramble in the praedicament of a bad quality.