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But all the manuscript and unprinted papers which I shall leave at my decease, I desire may be delivered to my noble friend Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to whose sole care and judgment I commit them, either to be preserved or destroyed; or, in case he shall not survive me, to the abovesaid Earl of Marchmont. Those who in the course of my life have done me all other good offices, will not refuse me this last after my death: I leave them therefore this trouble, as a mark of my trust and friendship; only desiring them each to accept of some small memorial of me: That my Lord Bolingbroke will add to his library all the volumes of my Works and Translations of Homer, bound in red morocco, and the eleven volumes of those of Erasmus: That my Lord Marchmont will take the large paper edition of Thuanus, by Buckley, and that portrait of Lord Bolingbroke, by Richardson, which he shall prefer: That my Lord Bathurst will find a place for the three statues of the Hercules of Farnese, the Venus of Medicis, and the Apollo in chiaro oscuro, done by Kneller: That Mr. Murray will accept of the marble head of Homer, by Bernini; and of Sir Isaac Newton, by Guelfi: and that Mr. Arbuthnot will take the watch I commonly wore, which the King of Sardinia gave to the late Earl of Peterborough, and he to me on his death-bed; together with one of the pictures of Lord Bolingbroke.

Item, I desire Mr. Lyttelton to accept of the busts of Spenser, Shakespear, Milton, and Dryden, in marble, which his royal master the Prince was pleased to give me. I give and devise my library of printed books to Ralph Allen, of Widcombe, Esq., and to the Reverend Mr. William Warburton, or to the survivor of them (when those belonging to Lord Bolingbroke are taken out, and when Mrs. Martha Blount has chosen threescore out of the number). I also give and bequeath to the said Mr. Warburton the property of all such of my works already printed, as he hath written, or shall write commentaries or notes upon, and which I have not otherwise disposed of, or alienated; and all the profits which shall arise after my death from such editions as he shall publish without future alterations.

Item, In case Ralph Allen, Esq. abovesaid, shall survive me, I

order my executors to pay him the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds, being to the best of my calculation, the account of what I have received from him; partly for my own, and partly for charitable uses. If he refuses to take this himself, I desire him to employ it in a way, I am persuaded he will not dis-. like, to the benefit of the Bath-hospital.

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I give and devise to my sister-in-law, Mrs. Magdalen Racket, the sum of three hundred pounds; and to her sons, Henry and Robert Racket, one hundred pounds each. I also release and give to her all my right and interest in and upon a bond of five hundred pounds due to me from her son Michael. I also give her the family pictures of my father, mother, and aunts, and the. diamond ring my mother wore, and her golden watch. I give to Erasmus Lewis, Gilbert West, Sir Clement Cotterell, William Rolinson, Nathaniel Hook, Esqrs., and to Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot, to each the sum of five pounds, to be laid out in a ring, or any memorial of me; and to my servant John Searle, who has faithfully and ably served me many years, I give and devise the sum of one hundred pounds over and above a year's wages to himself and his wife; and to the poor of the parish of Twickenham, twenty pounds, to be divided among them by the said John Searle; and it is my will, if the said John Searle die before me, that the said sum of one hundred pounds go to his wife or children.

Item, I give and devise to Mrs. Martha Blount, younger daughter of Mrs. Martha Blount, late of Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square, the sum of one thousand pounds immediately on my decease and all the furniture of my grotto, urns in my garden, household-goods, chattels, plate, or whatever is not otherwise. disposed of in this my will, I give and devise to the said Mrs. Martha Blount, out of a sincere regard and long friendship for her. And it is my will, that my abovesaid executors, the survivors or survivor of them, shall take an account of all my estate, money, or bonds, etc. and, after paying my debts and legacies, shall place out all the residue upon government or other securities, according to their best judgment: and pay the produce thereof, half-yearly, to the said Mrs. Martha Blount during her

natural life: and, after her decease, I give the sum of one thousand pounds to Mrs. Magdalen Racket, and her sons Robert, Henry, and John, to be divided equally among them, or to the survivors or survivor of them; and after the decease of the said Mrs. Martha Blount, I give the sum of two hundred pounds to the abovesaid Gilbert West: two hundred to Mr. George Arbuthnot; two hundred to his sister, Mrs. Anne Arbuthnot; and one hundred to my servant, John Searle, to which soever of these shall be then living: And all the residue and remainder to be considered as undisposed of, and go to my next of kin.

This is my last will and testament, written with my own hand, and sealed with my seal, this twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and forty-three.

Signed, sealed, and declared by the

testator, as his last will and testa

ALEX. POPE.

ment, in presence

of us,

RADNOR.

STEPHEN HALES, Minister of Teddington.

JOSEPH SPENCE, Professor of History in the University of
Oxford.

END OF VOL. I.

INDEX TO THE LIFE.

A.

ADDISON, Joseph, acquaintance with Swift, 55. A member of
the Kit-cat club, 57. Swift's account of him, 59. His re-
marks on Pope's Essay on Criticism, 69. His first acquaint-
ance with Pope, 74. His tragedy of Cato performed, 92. En-
courages Pope to translate the Iliad, 114. Dissensions be-
tween him and Pope, 138. Reconciliation, 145. Pope addresses
an Epistle to him on his Dialogues on Medals, ib. His opi-
nion of Tickell's translation of the Iliad, 154. His quarrel with
Pope, 158. Interview between him and Pope, 166. Charac-
terised by Pope under the name of Atticus, 169. Commends
Pope's Iliad in the Freeholder, 171. Eulogy on his writings
by Pope, 178. Appointed Secretary of State, 201. His cha-
racter of Rowe, 250.

Alcander, a poem, suppressed by Pope, 18. Lines from it pre-
served, 20.

Allen, Ralph, Pope visits him at Bath, 504.

Description of his
house at Prior Park, 512. Breach between him and Pope, 525.
Reconciliation, 531.

Anne (Queen) her death, 123.

Arbuthnot (Dr.) a member of the October Club, 58.

Writes to

Swift at Upper Letcombe, 126. Letter to Pope on the publi-
cation of the Iliad, 154. Celebrated by Gay as a friend of
Pope, 240. One of the authors of Martinus Scriblerus, 329.
Admonishes Pope on his Satires, 428.
Atterbury, Dr. Bishop of Rochester, attempts to convert Pope to
the Church of England, 208. Correspondence with Pope, 252.
Arrested on a charge of high treason, 263. Bill of Pains and
Penalties against him, 265. ~ Banished, 268. Vindicated

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against the charge of infidelity, 271. Correspondence with
Pope, 273.

Ayres, celebrated as a friend of Pope, 243.

B.

Banister, Mr. Pope's first tutor, 10.

Bathurst, Allen, Lord, 58, 237, 488, 492, 499. Pope addresses

to him his Epistle on the Use of Riches, 384:

Bellenden, two Misses, celebrated as friends of Pope, 236.

Bembo, Cardinal, 69.

Berkley, Dean, writes to Pope on the publication of his Iliad, 156.
Bethel, his character, 307. Pope addresses to him his Second
Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 433. Original letter from
Pope to him, 553.

Bickford, Mr. celebrated as a friend of Pope, 242.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Lord, a member of the October

Club, 58. His dissensions with Lord Oxford, 123. Escapes
to France, ib. Celebrated by Gay as a friend of Pope, 238.
Returns to England, 274. Corresponds with Swift, 277. His
account of Pope's writing the Essay on Man, 398. Commence-
ment of his philosophical writings, 401. Account of his mode
of life in France, 489. Accuses Pope after his death of a breach
of faith, 557.

Boulter, Archbishop, patronises Ambrose Philips, 103.

Blackstone, Sir William, his observations on the quarrel between
Pope and Addison, 172.

Blount, Edward, Esq. invites Pope to emigrate with him, 184.
Celebrated by Gay as a friend of Pope, 239. His death, 304.

Martha and Teresa, their first acquaintance with Pope,
106. Celebrated by Gay as friends of Pope, 236.

Martha, Epistle from Pope to her, 107. Letter to her on
the death of his father, 205. She quarrels with Mr. and Mrs.
Allen, 525. Her conduct on Pope's death, 556. Defended
against the imputations on her character, 578,

Broome, Rev. Mr. a coadjutor of Pope in the Iliad, 133. In the
Odyssey, 281.

Browne, Sir George, the Sir Plume of the Rape of the Lock, 73.
Bruce, Mr. celebrated by Gay as a friend of Pope, 238.

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, commends Pope's Iliad,

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231. Celebrated by Gay as a friend of Pope, 237.

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