THE LATE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE doctor's COMMONS. Showing how he hath disposed of his Commissioners, Doctors, Proctors, Surrogates. Messengers, Examinors, Parators and Promootors, and the rest of his Attendants, With a short deportment of his Legacies, and how he hath bequeathed them.  
 
I Doctors Commons, in the Parish of S. benedict's Pauls-Wharf, London, being very aged, and finding by general Computation, that my time draws to an end, and likewise much shaken both in Body and mind with a Westminster ague, yet of perfect mind and memory, to avoid all suits and controversies that hereafter may arise concerning my estate, or any part or parcel thereof, and to the intent and purpose that my contentious days may be consummated and ended in Peace, do constitute, ordain, declare and make this my last will and Testament in manner and form following, That is to say, Imprimis, for my soele, I bequeathe it to gunpowder Makers, to be made into gunpowder, which shall be employed only for the discharge of the new Canons: Item, I bequeathe my body to the earth, from whence it came, decently to be buried, but not sumptuously, in the Convocation house, in the cathedral Church of S. Paul's, London, aforesaid, according to the discrerion of my Executors hereafter named. Item, for my personal estate (having never been possessed of any lands, I willingly bequeathe the reverend Judges, vicarss-general, Chancellors, Commissaries, Arch-Deacons, Deans and Chapters, and their surrogates, and also all high Commissioners, Judges, delegates, Advocates, and Legum Doctores quoscunque, Og, the great commissary, alias Doctor Roan only excepted, to the high Court of Parliament, there to be cherished according to their merits and deservings. Item, I bequeathe all my Registers, Deputy Registers, Proctors, Examinors, and public notaries, to the court of Common-Pleas, at Westminster, to be admitted attorneys, (if no prohibition be granted to the contrary.) Item, I will and bequeathe all my fifty pound clerks, to their Friends in the Country, or to the Justices of the Peace and Quorum. Item, I will and bequeathe all my journeymen clerks, Hackney, and sub-hackney Clerks, to Chancery-lane, and Brittanick S. Hugh Prestar, to the Star-Chamber. Item, I will and bequeathe all my Pursuants, Apparators, promoters, &c. to undersheriffs, but in case they have no need of them, than I bequeathe them to their ghostly Father, unto whom they have most relation. Item, I will and bequeathe all my writings and records, as followeth: my bonds to large measuring tailors, my bills, Transmissions and the like, to retailing Tobacconists, my incontinent Articles to Bloomesbury, Long-Acre, and other like places of good fellowship, my libels of diffamation, to the penitential scolds, there to be ordered according to their discretions, all my Commissions of appeal to the party's appellant, for they have the most right unto them, in regard they have paid for them: Item, I will and bequeathe all my large books of Acts, to them of the Fortune playhouse, for I hold it a deed of charity, in regard they want good action; my decrees to the courts of Chancery, in case they want any; My sentences to those Orators that imitate Tully's quanquam te Marce sili, &c. for they are something long; And lastly, I will and bequeathe my Cannons, charged with &c. to the Tower, to defend him that made them, and all the rest of my writings, escripts, manuscripts, and superfluous papers whatsoever to cooks, Bakers, Grocers, and Chandlers. Item, I make the Scotchmen my Executors, (who I doubt not) but with all diligence will see the execution of this my last will and Testament, and desire they will see these my Legacies, paid and performed immediately after my decease: In witness whereof, I the said Doctors Commons have hereunto set my hand and seal this 26 of June, in the year of our Lord, 1641.  
Signed, sealed, published, and declared in the Presence of 

W. C.  
R. P.  
B. K.