hereby Impower my said wife to dispose by her Will in writing or by any other instrument or writing to be attested by two Credible Witnesses, to or amongst all or any one of our Children as she pleases after her decease the sum of one hundred pounds Sterling, part of the said Six hundred pounds so appropriated as a fund for payment of the said yearly Interest thereof to her in manner as aforesaid. And the remaining sum of five hundred pounds I give and bequeath to my three sons Garrett, Edmund, and Richard Burke to be equally divided between them share and share alike. And if it should happen that my said wife should not dispose of the said one hundred pounds by Deed or Will as aforesd. I give and bequeath the same unto my said Son Richard Burke. And in case the said fund of Six hundred pounds or any part thereof should be paid in, my will is that the same shall be paid to such persons as my said Wife shall direct or appoint to be placed out at Interest so as my said wife may receive the yearly interest of such sums so paid in by half yearly paymts as aforesd. Thirdly I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Julia or Juliana Burke the sum of Six hundred pounds sterling to be paid to her as her marriage portion. Two hundred pounds whereof remain undisposed of principal money due to me by the said Mr. Harding and Mr. Piggott by two separate Judgements obtained by me against them for the penalty of four hundred pounds sterling debt besides Cost, and four hundred pounds part of the money due to me by Anthony Malone, Esqr. and Company Bankers to Compleat the said Sum of Six hundred pounds to be paid to her in one intire payment without any deduction whatsoever to be by her given to such husband as she shall chuse to Marry and until such marriage shall happen she is to receive and be paid the yearly Interest of the said Six hundred pounds by half yearly payments without any Let, Suit, trouble or deduction of any sort or kind whatsoever by my Executor. And if it should happen that she should remain unmarried, I do hereby impower her to dispose by Will or any other instrument in writing to be by her duly executed and attested by two Credible Witnesses the sum of one hundred pounds part of the said fund of Six hundred pounds to be paid after her decease to any one or more of her Brothers as she shall Judge most deserving from her of such favour. And further give and bequeath unto her the sum of twenty pounds and further sum of five pounds to be paid to her in three months next after my decease but to Chuse to be paid her with all convenient Speed after my decease out of such money as I shall have by me at my decease. But if so much money I should not have by me, to be paid to her out of the money arising by Sale of my Effects as aforesaid. And I further bequeath unto her the Watch, I gave her, the Silver Coffee pott and dish which is her own together with the furniture of her Room of what kind or nature soever two Silver Salts and Salt Spoons and two Silver Table Spoons all to be disposed of as she thinks proper. And if my said Daughter should happen to dye unmarried and should not dispose of the one hundred pounds which I have given her power to dispose of, I give and bequeath the said Six hundred pounds in manner following. That is to say, I give and bequeath one hundred pounds thereof to her Brother Richard. And
if she should dispose of the said one hundred pounds as aforesaid I give and bequeath the sum of five hundred pounds remaining undisposed of to her said brothers to be equally divided between them share and share alike. And I give and bequeath unto my son Edmund the Sum of twenty pounds and ten pounds to my son Richard to buy them Mourning they being before otherwise provided for by me. I give and bequeath unto Son Ned Burke's Children Richard and Christopher the sum of twenty pounds. I further give and bequeath unto Docter Patrick Nagle my Cane and Baylys Dictionary and to his Mother my Silver Snuff Box to my Kinsman Walter Burke my Watch to my Brother in Law Patrick Nagle one Guinea to buy him a mourning ring, to my Brother in Law Athans. Nagle one Guinea to buy a mourning ring, and to my Servant Mary Lacy I give and bequeath the sum of forty Shillings to buy her Mourning over and above such wages as shall be due to her at the time of my decease provided she be then in my service and not otherwise. And to my son Garrett Burke my Silver mounted Pistolls together with all my fire Arms And I give and bequeath unto my said Wife all my wearing Apparel Linnen and Woolen to be disposed of as she shall think proper and after payment of all the debts I shall owe at the time of my decease and of the Legacies herein before devised by me the rest and residue off all my worldly Substance or Estate of what kind or nature soever I give and bequeath unto my Son Garrett And I do hereby nominate and Appoint my Son Garrett Burke Sole Executor of this my last Will and testament hereby revoking all former Wills by me heretofore made. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seal this fourth day of November one thousand seven hundred and Sixty
Signed Sealed and published by the Testator as his last Will and testament in presence of us who subscribed our names as Witnesses hereunto in his presence and of each other.
EDMUND BOURKE.
FRAS. KIERNEN.
9th. Day of November, 1763.
On which day Garret Burke Gent. the Sole Executor named in the above Will of Richd. Burke Gent. deceased was sworn as well to his belief of the Truth of the said Will as to the due Execution thereof and & soforth.
Absentees, 169, 218, 252, 307, 317 Adair, Foster, wounded in T.C.D., 145 Addison, 48, 149, 248, 314; tragedies, 167, 302, 303 (see Spectator)
"Æ," a signature of Burke in Reformer, 160, 305, 314, 317, 326
Aimée, Louis, 30, 55
All for Love, Dryden's, 174, 320 Annual Register, 216
Anson, Admiral, 249
Aram and Helim, letters, 61-63 Ardesoif, Abraham, member of Club, 140, 208; see Club Minutes, passim, Appendix I, 225-290
Aristides, Lucas, compared to, 197, 198, 371
Arran Quay, I
Astrology, 68
Astronomical devilments, 37, 39, 40, 42 Astronomy, Burke's poem on, 40; de- bate, 257-263
"B," initial signature of Burke, 160, 163, 299, 302, 312, 320, 390, 394, 395 Baldwin, Rev. Richard, D.D., Provost,
Ballitore School, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 77, 95; village, 11, 19
Ballitore, Annals of, Mrs Leadbeater's,
Ballitore, Burke's poem, 17, 156 Ballyduff, 1, 2, 77
Barnard, Mrs, 58
Barnard, Thomas (afterwards Dean and Bishop), wounds Foster Adair in T.C.D., admonished; Goldsmith's Retaliation; "Slyboots," 145 Barrett, Rev. John, D.D. (Jacky), Vice- Provost, 205
Battersby, T. S. F., K.C., 138 Beaumont and Fletcher, 167, 302 Beauties of Burke, by Wilson, 13, 46 Beauty, 40
Belinda, Miss E. Fuller, 45, 151, 153,
164; marries R. Shackleton, 178 Bellamy, Mrs, 113; Smock Alley Theatre riot, 116, 120
Berkeley, Bishop, 49, 135 Berwick, Judge, 206
Bissett, Robert, LL.D., Life of Burke, 17; originates legend that Burke attacked Lucas, 180, 183, 195, 196 Black Dog Prison, 69, 143; riot, Burke and Dennis describe, 142; Gold- smith's part in; entry in T.C.D. register, 144; debate in Club, 247, 251 Blackwater, Burke's poem, 9, 10, 19, 111 Boccalini, 315
Boeotia (Ireland), Burke repudiates ap- pellation, 157, 162, 297
Boeotia, Dunkin's poem, 129, 130 Bolingbroke's Patriot King, 198, 373 Booth, John, his lectures, 26, 27, 30, 64, 65, 66
Boswell, Rev. John, F.T.C.D., 77 Boulter, Primate, 74, 184 Boyle, Henry, speaker, 103
Brennan, Beaumont, 25, 26, 104, 108,
109, 128, 129, 143, 155, 177, 212, 213 Brooke, Henry, The Farmer's Letters, 182; groundless legend that Burke satirised him as Diabetes, 180, 198; his Gustavus Vasa, 222, 224 Brugh (or Burgh), a sizar, 69, 70 Brutes, have they souls? 67, 70 Brutus, letter to Cicero, 390
Brutus, Letter to the Town, Dennis' pamphlet, 119, 128, 209
Buck, Andrew (see Club Minutes, App. I, passim, 225-295), 140, 202; his career, 207; on the Ecliptic, 257; commonplace on Numbers xxiii. 10, 277; faulty keeping of minutes, 285; on Regulus, 295
Buckley, John, cobbler, 49, 54 Burgersdyck, F., the Ramist logician, 28; Burke's detestation of, 29; the 'sprightly," 52; 71
Burke, spelled also Bourke, and Burk, 2, 3, 20
Burke, Edmund: parentage and birth- place, 1; date of birth, 1-5; brothers and sisters, 3-6; early delicacy, 8; at a dame's school, and hedge school, 8, 215; residence at Ballyduff, 8, 9; in- fluenced by Spenser, 9, 10; poem on Blackwater, 9, 10, 19, 111
Schooldays: goes to Ballitore School with brothers Garret and Richard, 10; friendship with Richard Shackleton, 14; his studies, 16; school anecdotes, 16, 17; admiration for Abraham Shackleton, 17, 18, 44, 58, 76, 94, 159, 213; revisits Ballitore, 18, 19; idyll from Theocritus, 19
In Trinity College: matriculation, 20; describes T.C.D. entrance, 22; Cambridge compared, 23, 24; Oxford, 25; acquaintanceship with Herbert, Brennan and Sisson, 25, 26; their correspondence" Club," 26; describes the junior freshman course, 28; his detestation of Burgersdyck, and the Ramist philosophy, 29; fortifies him- self with Epictetus, 30; verse non- sense," 31; poem on his Daily Life,
35; nicknamed "Cowshed," 38, 41, 42; meets Josey Delaney and John Slater, 38; Huguenot "boobies," 39; verses on Astronomy, 40; astrono- mical devilments,' 37, 40, 42; on Beauty, 40; "E. Burke, Esquire," 41; an infanticide case, 42; distrusts his conversational powers, 44, 48; studies romances of chivalry, 45; Don Bel- lianis, 45, 48; referred to in Sublime and Beautiful and in debate on Hessian Subsidy, 45, 46; tar water, 49; makes granasty with cobbler's wax, 49, 54; on Dick's cleanliness, 50; signature "Colley Cibber," 50; dancing, 50, 99; a lover's suicide, 51; on "Love," 51; panegyric on Damer, 52, 54, 104, 107, 147; 'sprightly Burgersdyck and syllogisms, 52; verses on Self Love, 53; Pope's Ethic Epistles, 53; elogium on Aimée, 55; diligence at Greek lectures, 55; religious impressions, 56-60; on Schism, 59; Mirza (Burke) to Zelim (R. Shackleton), 59, 60; verses on Absence, 59; on Voiture, 60, 106; Montesquieu, 61; describes the Liffey floods, 63, 83; navigates in a tub, 64; Booth's lectures on natural philosophy, 64, 65; "Doctor" Taylor an "Arrant Quack," 65, 85; Burke proposes to form "Club," 65; "Have brutes souls?" 67, 70; "astrological ascendancies," 68; works in father's office, 69, 77, 84, 104; 'Can God sin?" syllogism, 70, 71; a joint letter with Herbert, 72; duel between Dillon and Keatinge, 76; complains of Wilder as examiner, 76; premium for good answering, 76; puns, 77; the "Tri- umvirate," 78; Cork assizes, 78; Mallow races, 78; complains of Shackleton's silence, 79, 93; sympa- thises with his love trouble, 81, 82, 88; Burke's poem on Taylor, 87; the Pretender's defeat, leniency to the rebels, 91, 217, 244; reads for scholarship, 91; translation of Second Georgic, 92, 93, 153; praises the feed- ing and teaching at Ballitore, 94; gains scholarship, 94; describes the examination, 94; goes into residence, 95; his father's opposition, 95; Wm Dennis his chum, 95; relations with father, 96; love for his mother, 97; anxiety in her illness, 97, 98; "killing thought" in T.C.D. library, 98; his wide reading, 99; groundless asser- tions of biographers that he was an idler, 99, 134, 137; on studying and teaching classics, 100; advises Shackle- ton on course of reading, 100; "my favourite Shakespeare," 100; Mur- dering sleep," 100, 101; reads for
Little-go, 101; Sisson's portraits, 102; Tully's offices "a blameless piece,' 104; admiration for Waller's poetry, 104, 107; character drawing, 105; advises Dick to read Xenophon and Juvenal, 106; narrow escape in great storm, 106; Blacklock, the blind poet, 106, 126; Voiture's genius, 106; "Will Shine," 107, 132, 134; Shackleton's Phaeton, 108, 109, 122, 127; prophecy that their letters "may become most valued pieces," 110; disagrees with Pope on Wit's advantages, 111; ode to the Blackwater, 111; acquaintance with Thomas Sheridan, 113; theatre riots, 115-118; Sheridan's apology; a "pitiful fellow," 121; Dublin indif- ferent to literature, 126; his four furors, 128, 129; views on Sallust, Terence, Plautus, Tully's orations, 129; Dunkin's Boeotia a "bad piece," 129; Burke on Dennis Turning Critick, 131-133; Burke as Maevius, 133, 134; inaugurates "The Club" in T.C.D., 134, 146, 203; origin of College His- torical Society, 134, 203; his diligent college career, 135-137; The Sublime and Beautiful, 45, 52, 136, 141, 178, 248; influence on Lessing and Kant, 137; cautioned for neglect of lectures, 137; entered in the Temple, 146; his views on his Bar studies and poems, 146; Shackleton's admiration of Damer, 147; Shackleton's contribu- tions for Poems on Several Occasions, 150-153; Burke suffers from "old pain in hip," 151; criticism of Julia and Belinda, 151, 164; admiration of Shackleton's Dedicatory Ode, 152, 154; shortsighted, 18, 107, 153; poem on Ballitore, 156; repudiation of name of Boeotia for Ireland, 157-162, 297; publishes the Reformer, 160; intro- duction to, 161-163, 297; "wretched productions" of England, 162; en- treats prayers for our fallen brethren in England, 162, 297; proclamation, poem, 162, 298; writes to Shackleton about Reformer, 163; criticises the Restoration dramatists, 166, 290; Ben Jonson, 166, 301; Shakespeare's divine genius, 167, 302; Beaumont and Fletcher, 167, 168, 302; Dryden, Otway, 167, 302; witches' scene in Macbeth, 168, 303; stage decorum, 168, 304; the audience, 168, 305; Irish manufactures, 169, 307, on absentees, 169, 316; takes B.A. degree, 171; on destitution of the peasantry, 172, 314; the Riches of a Nation, 172, 315; art and literature in Dublin, 172, 312; Foote, 173, 174, 320; Sheridan's All for Love, 174, 320;
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