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Bequeath the like Sum of one hundred pounds which Several Sums afore said amounting in the whole to the Suma of five hundred pounds I desire may be vested by my Executors hereafter to be named in Government or other Securities bearing Interest and this as soon as is conveniently may be after my decease and my Will is that the amounts of principal and Interest of the said Several Sums of one hundred pounds above mentioned be paid to my said Nephew and Nieces when they shall Severally arrive at the age of Twenty and one years and not before and that if it shall please God that either of my two Neices daughter of my Brother Nathanael Chambers shall happen to dye before she attain to the age of Twenty one years then it is my Will that the hundred pounds and Interest which would have been due to her shall be given and payd to my Nephew Wood and the like I desire may be done in case of the death of either of my Nieces daughters of my Sister Casson videlicet that the hundred pounds and Interest which would have been due to her at her arrival at the age of Twenty one years shall be given to my said Nephew Wood and paid him when he arrives at the age of twenty one years and in case my said Nephew Wood shall dye before he arrive at the age of Twenty one years then my Will is that the hundred pounds and Interest which he would have been entitled to on his coming of age shall be given and payd to my Sister Wood her Self Item I give and bequeath to my Brother Zachary Chambers the Lease of my Chambers in Grays Inn with the furniture in it and also such of my Books as do not immediately relate to the use and Service of my Dictionary Item I give all such of my Books purchased with my own Money as immediately related to the use and Service of my Said Dictionary and are Indexed or abbreviated in some of the Twenty five Volumes in folio of Indexes in my Custody to the Booksellers proprietors of the copy of my Dictionary to be employd by them in correcting improving and continuing the said Dictionary The Residue of my Goods and Effects my just Debts and funeral expences being first payd, I give and Bequeath to my two Brothers and my two Sisters abovementioned to be divided among them share and share alike and I do nominate and appoint my two Brothers Nathanael and Zachary Chambers joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament desiring of them that my funeral be performed with the least ceremony possible without the parade of Coaches Horse pall bearers or the like half a dozen poor housekeepers of the Neighbourhood where I dye to whom ten Shillings a piece may be given will Convey me to my Grave in the manner I should most approve If I dye at Cambury House I know of no place where I should sooner chuse to have my body Interred than in Islington Church Yard against the