PEDIGREE OF THE YOUNGER BRANCH OF THE SWIFTS OF YORKSHIRE. ARMS: Or, a chevron nébulé, Argent and Azure, between three bucks in full course, Vert. Thomas Smith, collated to the territory of St. Andrew;: Canterbury, 1569; died June 12, 1592: aged 57. William Swift, married Oct. 5, 1592, at Kingston, in Kent; in that year succeeded to his father's rectory; in 1602, was rector of Harbledown; and died Oct. 24, 1624. Margaret, who (with nine of her children) was buried in the cathedral churchyard. Mary, an heiress of the house of Philpott; died March 5, 1626, aged 58. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, and also of Bridstowe,Elizabeth Dryden. both in Herefordshire; died 1658. Godwin Swift, a student of Gray's Inn. Catherine Margaret Thomas Witflerde, gent. Henry Atkinson, apothecary and citizen of London. Willoughby Swift, mer chant at Lisbon. Deane. Thirteen other sons, and three daughters. Thomas, rector of Puttenham, in Surrey; died 1752, in his 87th year. 1. Jane, born in 166€. 2. JONATHAN SWIFT, the celebrated dean of St. Patrick's: born Nov. 30, 1667; died Oct. 19, 1745. DR. SWIFT'S WILL, AND HIS DIRECTIONS TO MRS. MARTHA WHITEWAY. As soon as you are assured of my death, whether it shall happen to be in the town or the country, I desire you will go immediately to the deanery; and if I die in the country, I desire you will send down a strong coffin, to have my body brought to town, and deposited in any dry part of St. Patrick's cathedral. Then you are to take my keys, and find my will, and send for as many of my executors as are in town, and in presence of three of them have my will read; and what you see therein that relates to yourself, and is to take place after my death, you are to do in their presence, first delivering my keys to my executors, and then demanding those keys to search where my ready money lies, and take it for your own use, as my will empowers you. But upon their notes you are to lend the money to them, for the charges of my funeral, as directed in my will. Then you are to see that one or more of my said executors shall order my plate and household goods, and other things of value, and what are locked in my scrutoires, cabinets, &c., to be entered in a list, and up secured in their several places, for my executors to dispose of them as my will provides. You are likewise to deliver the keys of all the rooms and cellars to my said executors, and often to entreat them to come to the deanery, and pursue the directions in my will. You are also to deliver to my executors all the bonds, mortgages, and papers relating to money, &c., when they shall have agreed where to deposit them with security, taking their receipts. DEANERY-HOUSE, March 25, 1737. JONATHAN SWIFT. As soon as Mrs. Martha Whiteway hears of my decease, she is to come immediately to the deanery, and first take all the keys of my cabinets, and seal them up in a place, in the presence of Mrs. Anne Ridgeway, Roger Kenrick, my verger, and Henry Laird, if any of them be then alive, and in the neighbourhood. Then Mrs. Martha Whiteway is to send for as many of my executors as are in town; and, opening my scrutories, deliver them my will, and let one of the said executors read my will and codicils: there should be three of my executors present at least: they are all in number nine. Then, Mrs. Martha Whiteway is to take all the ready money she can find, if there be 2007., but no more, which likewise she may lend to the said executors upon their notes. In case I should happen to have not cash enough, or bankers' bills, to pay the charges of transporting my body to Holyhead, and for my burial in the church of that town, as directed in my will, then she is to assist my executors in sending my plate to some banker, together with my valuable curiosities, which she knows where to find, many of which are bequeathed to John Whiteway, younger son to Mrs. Martha Whiteway, and sent to the said Martha to be kept for the use of her said son, except some books bequeathed in my said will or codicils. |