THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF john Bradshaw, Precedent of the High Court of justice..  
WITH A CODICILL Thereunto Annexed:  Hell from beneath is moved to meet thee at thy coming, Psal. 14.9. Furor est ne moriare mori. 
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1659.   

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF John Bradshaw.  
IN the Name of the DEVIL and his DAM, The Good Old Cause, Amen. I John Bradshaw, the most impious Villain the earth ever groaned under, being tormented in Body, with the apparent Symptoms of the Plagues of Hell; but thanks to an evil and affrighted Conscience of bloody Mind, and accursed Memory, do make and ordain this my last WILL and TESTAMENT, in manner and form following.  
First, I most unwillingly surrender my Loathed Soul into his hands that seduced it to the Perpetration of so hideous a Murder, being well assured to be for ever tormented in HELL, and for that trusting solely to my own Merits.  
Secondly, my wretched body I require to be laid on a Hearse, alias a Hurdle, and to be drawn from Westminster through the Streets of London to Tower Hill, to be most ignominiously there Interred in the Grave of Miles Sindercombe (his Corpse being first thence removed) since being too honest and noble company for such a caitiff. And for my Worldly Goods and Preferments with which it hath pleased the Devil and his faithful Servants the Parliament, to store me, I do herein dispose of them as followeth.  
First, I give and bequeath unto the Heirs of my Lord Cottington, the Reversion of his Manor of Hanworth and Freemantle, when neither the State nor my Assigns can hold it any longer.  
Item, I give and bequeath my Manors and Lands in Cheshire, descended to me from my Ancestors to my good Friend and Countryman Sir Georg Booth (whom I hearty thank for frighting me to this natural Death) towards the reparation of his Fortune's, or to any one else that can find them.  
Item, I give and bequeath my new made Lodgings at the West end of Westminster Abbey to any of the present Grandees that are climbing and aspiring to be highest, (though I cannot wish well to my Cousin Lambert.)  
Item, I give one Hundred Groats to Alderman Ireten, in a grateful remembrance of the damnable advice I had from his Brother, and in respect of his own mischievous service, to the Commonwealth.  
Item, I give and bequeath to my Fellow Labourer the Lord Chief Baron Wild, my wrought Nightcap wherein I slept so secure and dreadless of any direful apparitions, being exceedingly useful to him against the ●aunting of the Ghost of innocent Captain Burleigh.  
Item, I give and bequeath unto my familiar and close Friend Mrs. Lenthall the Speakers Lady, as much Scarlet of my High Court of Justice Robes, as will make her a Petticoat, to be worn against the next Thanksgiving day to be solemnised at Grocer's Hall, and the remainder of it to be burnt to powder to cure the sore throats that Squire DUN will shortly make among my Consorts.  
Item, I give and bequeath to the silent Speaker my Gold trimmed Gloves being used and accustomed to Bribes, being a suitable qualification for a Master of the Rolls.  
Item, I give and bequeath unto the Dishonourable William Earl of Salisbury my black Silk Garters, that will be fit for his Neck, than his blue Garter is for his Leg.  
Item, The rest and residue of my Apparel I give unto the Hangman to whom of due right they only do belong.  
Item, I give all my Preferments to my Brother Lisle, having been my Successor in my grand facinorous employment; excepting only the Judgeship of the Sheriff's Court, which I would request the Londoners for the great good I have done them, to confert again upon Mr. Proctor.  
Item, I Will and Require my Executors hereafter named, for the perpetuating that most infamous and abominable Fact of Regicidium to dispend annually one hundred Pound Sterling on an Anniversary Oration in the Elegy of that Monk that stabbed Henry the 3d. of France.  
Item, I give one thousand Marks to any one that will assume and bear the name of Ravilla in that Kingdom, and so Continuis vicibus, as often as the wheel shall bruise any of them.  
Item, Five hundred Marks more to the erecting of a stately Monument to the glorious memory of Guy Fawks, to be placed in the room of the late Tyrant and Traitor Oliver.  
Item, I give one thousand pounds more for the redemption of Turkish and Infidel Slaves, taken by Piratical Christians, and that Alderman Pack be Treasurer for it, to whom I Will and Require my Executors to pay the same, taking Security that he pay it within ten days after he hath cleared his account with the Piedmont Protestants.  
Item, I do by all means desire, and I do hereby straight charge my Executors that Peter St●rry Preach my Funeral Sermon, and that he may (if possible) regain his credit. I do command him to lay, That I am placed at the right hand of the Devil.  
The rest and residue of all my Goods and Chattels, Lands and Hereditariments, my Especial and Singular Virtues, my Religion, my Charity, my Mercy, I give to my dearly beloved Pimp Mr. Nedham, desiring him, that if he hangs not for his own sake, he would hang for mine, requesting my other Mercury Mr. Will. Lily, and the above mentioned Esquire Dunne, to be aiding and assisting to him in the execution of the premises. Bequeathing unto Mr. Lilly a Hempon Chain, which he may either make use of himself, or send as a return to the King of Sweden.  
Signed, Sealed, and Declared by the aforesaid John Bradshaw to be his last Will and Testament. In presence of 

JOHN BRADSHAW.  
Hugh Peter's:  
Philip Nye.  
John Can.     

A CODICILL. The Testator adds (which through impenitency, or incogitancy he had omitted in the WILL hereto annexed) these following Bequests and Legacies.  
I●em, I give and bequeath unto the Solicitor Cook the High Court of Justice-Man my broad Beaver Hat (it being G●ll ●y ●aw to give it after the Psalm is sung) to hid 〈◊〉 ●●int 〈◊〉; and because I have no better J●wel● 〈◊〉 ●e, I ●iv ●nd beque● h unto him the Millstone mentioned in the Gospel, to be worn as a special Ornament in his Hatband.  
Item I giv●●nd bequeath a timely Item unto the brood of Doristan, that they forthwith departed this Kingdom, lest they su●●●● the same at London, which their villainous Father deservedly underwent in the Hague.  
Item, I give and bequeath unto the Executors of Edm●●d P●●●●aux my Attorney General this ensuing Caution, Th●t they reserve the sixty thousand pound Bribe-Gold in their Hands for the rebeautifying of Cheapside-Cross: And for that I will speak with him myself.  
Item, (〈◊〉 there can be any conclusion) as my last Beques●●● Legacy, would the Small Pox, the French Pox, the P●ague h●d befallen Mr. Recorder Steel, and the rest o● them, b●f●● I had meddled with them, or their Good Old Cause. So I begun, and so I have ended.  
For th● validity and more certain truth of this Codicil, I have desired th● Credentials of Secretary Thurloe, together with a true Copy of Summoner's Plot, to be labeled hereunto.  
Sic Testator, 

JOHN BRADSHAW.  
JOHN THUREN    
FI●IS.