prohibition,
I hold myself discharged from the father, and consequently from the son
of that father, the son having no interest in me but by the father. And
I hold it a good example, for the benefitt of the Commonwealth, that
matters of discouragement should be put upon such marriages, being
assured that their parents will not disinheritt or lessen them,
especially if they have but one son, and that which Solomon saith is to
be considered--an understanding servant shall have rule over a son that
maketh ashamed, and both that[1], and his son, and his son in Scotland
have both made ashamed, the one in his match, the other by a sad
mischief of dangerous consequence and fatal; and though his mother is
bound to maintain him, yet because I wish he might be a useful member
of Christ and the Commonwealth, towards which I think she is not well
able to give him an answerable education, I have in this my will taken
course for a competent maintenance for him towards a profession, and in
it utterly abhorring to give him an estate, as the heir of idleness.
Wherefore to the fore-mentioned purpose, I desire my executor to give
him 50l. a year, so long as he shall be in preparation towards a
profession, or shall really and seriously be in the practice of it; and
as many of my books as may be fitt for him in the profession he shall
undertake, and shall not be given to Pembroke College, I desire my
executor to give unto him: but if he, or a guardian, or any other,
shall sue or implead, or call my executor into question to his trouble
or cost, I leave it to my executor's choice whether he will pay his
maintenance of 50l. per annum, or any part of it.

I give to Mr. Ellford, my pastor at Acton, 20l. I give 5l. per annum
for ever to be disposed of in buying Bibles, catechisms, or for
encouraging poor children to learn to read and answer in catechising in
the parish of Dittisham, in the county of Devon, the place of my
nativity and baptism, which sum shall be bestowed according to the
direction of the minister there for the time being; and to the present
minister I give 20l. I give to the poor of Acton each five shillings; I
give to the poor of Westminster, Kensington, Knightsbridge, half a
year's rent of that which they used to receive. I give Mr. Bartlett of
Windsor 20l. I appoint 100l. to be lent to my neph