He was buried, purfuant to his own Directions, in a covered Paffage, leading from a private Door of the Palace to the North Door of Lambeth Church; and he forbade any Monument or Epitaph to be placed over him.

By his Will he appointed the Reverend Dr. DANIEL BURTON, Canon of Christ Church, and Mrs. CATHERINE TALBOT above-mentioned, his Executors; ad left thirteen thoufand Pounds in the three per Cent. Annuities, to Dr. PORTEUS and Dr. STINTON, his Chaplains, in Truft; to pay the Intereft thereof to Mrs. TALBOT and her Daughter, during their joint Lives, or the Life of the Survivor; and after the Deceafe of both thofe Ladies, then eleven thoufand of the faid thirteen thousand are to be transferred to the following charitable Purpofes; viz.

1000 O O

To the Society for the Propaga- £. s. d.
tion of the Gofpel in Foreign
Parts, for the general Uses of
the Society

To the fame Society, towards the
Establishment of a Bishop or
Bishops in the King's Domi-
nions in America

To

the Widows and Children of the poor Clergy

To the Society of the Stewards

of the faid Charity To Bromley College in Kent

To the Hofpitals of the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Croy

500 0 0

200 O

500 0 0

don, St. John at Canterbury, 1500 0 0 and St. Nicholas Harbledown,

To St. George's and the London

Hofpitals, and the Lying-in
Hofpital in Brownlow-freet,
£.500 each

To the Afylum in the Parish of
Lambeth

To the Magdalen Hofpital, the
Lock Hofpital, the Small-Pox
and Inoculation Hofpital, to
each of which his Grace was
a Subfcriber, £.300 each

To the Incurables at St. Luke's
Hofpital
Towards repairing or rebuilding?
the Houses belonging to poor
Livings in the Diocese of
Canterbury

£.11000 0 0

Befides these Benefactions, he left £.1000 to be diftributed amongst his Servants; .200 to fuch indigent Perfons as he had affifted in his Life-time; £.5000 to the two Daughters of his Nephew Mr. FROST; .500 to Mrs.

SECKER, Widow of his Nephew Dr. GEORGE SECKER; and .200 to Dr. DANIEL BURΤΟΝ. After the Payment of these and some other smaller Legacies, he left his real, and the Refidue of his perfonal, Eftate to his Nephew Mr. THOMAS FROST, of Nottingham.

Out of his private Library, he left to the archiepifcopal one at Lambeth all fuch Books as were not there before, which comprehended much the largest and most valuable Part of his own Collection; and a great Number of very learned MSS. written by himself on various Subjects,

Subjects, he bequeathed to the Manufcript Library in the fame Palace. His Lectures on the Catechifm, his Manufcript Sermons, &c. he left to be revised and published by his two Chaplains, Dr. STINTON and Dr. PORTEUS. His Options he gave to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, and the Bishop of Winchester, for the Time being, in Truft; to be difpofed of by them (as they become vacant) to fuch Perfons as they fhall in their Confciences think it would have been moft reasonable and proper for him to have given them, had he been living.

Such were the last Bequests of Archbishop SECKER; of which it is enough to fay, that they kept up the noble Uniformity of his Character to the End, and formed a very proper Conclufion to the Life of a truly great and good Man.

His Grace was in his Perfon tall and comely; in the early Part of Life slender, and rather confumptive, but as he advanced in Years, his Conftitution gained Strength, and his Size encreased, yet never to a Degree of Corpulency that was difproportionate or troublesome.

The

The Dignity of his Form correfponded well with the Greatness of his Mind, and inspired at all Times Respect and Awe, but peculiarly fo when he was engaged in any of the more folemn Functions of Religion; into which he entered with fuch devout Earneftness and Warmth, with fo juft a Confcioufnefs of the Place he was in, and the Bufinefs he was about, as feemed to raise him above himself, and added new Life and Spirit to the natural Gracefulness of his Appearance.

His Countenance was open, ingenuous, and expreffive of every Thing right. It varied easily with his Spirits and his Feelings; fo as to be a faithful Interpreter of his Mind, which was incapable of the leaft Diffimulation. It could fpeak Dejection, and on Occafion, Anger, very ftrongly. But when it meant to fhew Pleasure or Approbation, it foftened into the moft gracious Smile, and diffufed over all his Features the moft benevolent and reviving Complacency that can be imagined.

His intellectual Abilities were of a much higher Clafs than they who never had any Opportunities of converfing intimately with him, and who form their Opinion of his

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