ye Royall Exchainge vnto wch Executors I giue full
power & aucty to vse theire owne discrecons in paying
theire Charges in my behalfe out of the rest of my
good And if my Bookes wth other goods doe in value
Come to more then I haue afore supposed First I desire
them to bestowe soe much vppon ye poore not exceeding
twenty poundes as they shall thincke Convenient somee
pte whereof I giue vnto the poore of the hospitall
in Christes Churche in Lond, Some pte vnto the said
pishe of St Xpofors where I nowe lye, and some pte
wch I would haue the greater) vnto the poore of the
píshe of Isleworth neere Syon in the Countie of Midd
Secondly out of the said residue of my good, my will
is, That the said Executors take some pte thereof
for theire owne vses according to theire discretions
Lastly my will and desire is that they bestowe the
value of the rest vppon Sr Thomas Bodleyes Library
in Oxford, or imploy it to such Charitable & pious
vses as they shall thincke best Item my will and desire
is that Robert Hughes gentleman and nowe attendant
vppon th’afore said EARLE OF NORTHUMBERLAND
for matters of Learning bee an ouseer at the prizing
of my Bookes, and some other thinges as my Executors
and hee shall agree vnto Item I ordayne and Constitute
the aforesaid NATHANIELL THORPERLEY first to be Ouseer
of my Mathematicall Writinges to be receiued of my
Executors to pvse and order and to sepate the Cheife
of them from my waste papers, to the end that after
hee doth vnderstand them hee may make vse in penninge
such doctrine that belonges vnto them for publique
vses as it shall be thought Convenient by my Executors
and him selfe And if it happen that some manner of
Notacons or writinges of the said papers shall not
be vnderstood by him then my desire is that it will
please him to Conferre wth Mr Warner or Mr Hughes
Attendants on the aforesaid Earle Concerning the aforesaid
doubte. And if hee be not resolued by either
of them That then hee Conferre wth the aforesaid JOHN
PROTHEROE Esquior or the aforesaid THOMAS ALESBURY
Esquior. (I hoping that some or other of the aforesaid
fower last nominated can resolue him) And when hee
hath had the vse of the said papers see longe as my
Executors and hee have agreed for the vse afore said
That then he deliu them againe vnto my Executors to
be putt into a Convenient Truncke with a locke & key
and to be placed in my Lord of Northumberlandes Library
and the key thereof to be delifted into his Lordpps
hands And if at anie tyme after my Executors or the
afore said NATHANIELL THORPERLEY shall agayne desire
the vse of some or all of the said Mathematicall paps
That then it will please the said Earle to lett anie
of the aforesaid to haue them for theire vse soe long
as shall be thought Convenient, and afterwards to
be restored agayne vnto the Truncke in the afore said
Earle’s Library Secondly my will & desire is
that the said NATHANIELL THORPERLEY be alsoe Ouseere
of other written bookes & papers as my Executors and
hee shall thincke Convenient. Item Whereas I