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MEMOIR OF JAMES BOSWELL. 185
appreazers, and the heir to keep it at that value and pay the
same to my younger children, excepting however all my
pictures which I dispose to the said successive heirs of Entail
under the same conditions and forfeiture as above mentioned,
and excepting also the furniture in my house at Edinburgh
which I bequeath to my dear wife. I bequeath one hundred
pounds sterling to my dear brother Thomas David Boswell
Esquire banker in London, to purchase a piece of plate to keep
in remembrance of me in his family and to my dear brother
Lieutenant John Boswell being a batchelor, I bequeath Fifty
Guineas to purchase a ring or whatever other thing he may
like best to keep for my sake. To my friends the Reverend
Mr. Temple in Cornwall, John Johnston Esquire of Grange,
Sir John Dick Baronet, Sir William Eorbes of Pitsligo,
Baronet, Captain John Macbryde of the Royal Navy, and Mr.
Charles Dilly of London, bookseller, Alexander Eairlie of
Fairlie, Esq. and Edmund Malone Esq. of the kingdom
of Ireland, The Hon. Colonel James Stewart and George
Dempster Esquire, I bequeath each a gold mourning ring, and
I hereby leave to the said Sir William Eorbes, the Reverend
Mr. Temple and Edmund Malone Esquire all my manuscripts
of my own composition, and all my letters from various persons
to be published for the benefit of my younger children, as they
shall decide, that is to say they are to have a discretionary power
to publish more or less. I leave to Mr. James Bruce my over-
seer Twenty Pounds yearly during his life and if he shall
continue to reside at Auchinleck I leave to him the house he
now possesses with his meal and all other perquisites. And to
Mrs. Bell Bruce my housekeeper I leave Ten pounds yearly
during her life with two pecks of meal weekly in case of her
not liveing in the family of Auchinleck. Lastly, as there are
upon the estate of Auchinleck several tenants whose families
have possessed their farms for many generations, I do by these
presents grant leases for nineteen years and their respective
lifetimes of their present farms to John Templeton in Hopland,
James Murdoch in Blackstown commonly called the Raw,
James Peden in Old Byre, William Samson in MlQ of Auchiu-