CHAPTER CV.
He performs the last Offices to his Father, and returns to London,
upon a very interesting Design.
Suits of mourning being provided for himself, his friends and
adherents, and every other previous measure taken suitable to the
occasion, his father was interred, in a private manner, in the
parish church; and his papers being examined, in presence of many
persons of honour and integrity, invited for that purpose, no will
was found, or any other deed, in favour of the second son, though
it appeared by the marriage settlement, that the widow was entitled
to a jointure of five hundred pounds a year. The rest of his papers
consisted of East India bonds, South Sea annuities, mortgages, notes,
and assignments, to the amount of four score thousand seven hundred
and sixty pounds, exclusive of the house, plate and furniture,
horses, equipage, and cattle, with the garden and park adjacent,
to a very considerable extent.
This was a sum that even exceeded his expectation, and could not
fail to entertain his fancy with the most agreeable ideas.
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