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Two pair of marbled wings.

Two pair of bower wings, all in bad order.

Four pair of boat wings, the painting much damaged. Two pair of marble palace wings, long used.

Two pair of back cloud wings.

One pair of back town and wood wings.

Two pair of rock wings.

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Juliet's balcony.

Outside of a Chinese temple in the Orphan of China. Three small bower wings with hinges on them. Balcony in the Suspicious Husband, old.

An old tree.

Two pair of wood frames for flats, not covered.
Padlock scene.

The bridge in King Arthur.

Two small trees.

A green stage cloth.

Juliet's bier.

Jobson's bed.

Five palace borders.

Five sky borders.

Mill house in the Maid of the Mill, torn very much.

Rostrum in Julius Cæsar.

July 22, 1776, properties.

Three pieces of black cloth.

Four gentlemen's turbans.
Six common ditto.

Three white hats.

Bow, quiver, and bonnet for Douglas!

Four gentlemen's helmets.

Five soldier's ditto.

Five forester's caps.
A small map, for Lear.
One shepherd's hat.
Four small paper tarts.
One green table cloth.
An old pedlar's box.
Four single chains.
One do. for the hall door.

Two green covers for stage forms,

One settee cover and two pillows.

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One large press with four doors.

Three shelves and nine drawers in ditto.

An old press with three shelves, the back broke, no doors.
One ditto without back or doors, one shelf.

One ditto with four shelves, pannel out of the back, with one door.

One ditto with one drawer, the back broke, with one door.
One large clothes chest, bound with iron, no top.

Three lesser chests, bound with iron, all without tops.*
One form and two old chairs.

Two grates in the men's wardrobe.

Two pieces of scantling to hang clothes on.

Four very small racks to hang clothes on.

July 23, continued.

Twelve oak chairs, very good.

Six washing basins, one broke, four black pitchers.
Twenty-eight candlesticks for dressing.

Eleven metal thunder-bolts, sixty-seven wood ditto, five stone ditto.f

Three baskets for thunder balls.

One canopy.

The honesty of the concern is beautifully proved by this mark of security-No tops to the chests for stage apparel!

Here is great penury in most theatrical properties, except in the arti cle of thunder. Eighty-three hot and sulphurous bolts, of metal, wood, and

stone.

"Merciful Heavens! nothing but Thunder."

The pedestal and horse in the Sorcerer, out of repair.
Hob's well, two water wheels, boat in the Dargle.
Two sets of fly grooves with barrels.

Four long barrels with multiplying wheels.

Two short barrels not movable, curtain barrel.
Rack in Venice Preserved.

Elephant in the Enchanted Lady, very bad.
Alexander's car, some of it wanting.

The star King Arthur cut across.

Three pair of cut drapery drops with figures and back, made for the Enchanted Lady.

Midas's scaffold, and barrel, with balance weight.

One short barrel at the back of the stage.

One frame with three barrels, in the Carpenter's Gallery. One pair of sea horses, two small barrels in the Carpenter's Gallery.

Two old scene barrels in Carpenter's Gallery.

A small ship curtain, two old trussels.

A flag and mullet for painters.

Five pair of arches and back in Mother Shipton.
Three pair of wings in Mother Shipton, changeable.

July 24, 1776, continued.

Four pair of small wheels, a back drop palace.
Six small traps with cords, no balance weights.

One grave trap with cords, no weight.

Two barrels under the stage not in use, with one ring only. The scaffold in Venice Preserved, a small cabinet.

Four buckets, iron bound.

Total-twenty-four foot-lights.

Total-seventy-six wing-lights.

Several old pantomime tricks and useless pieces of scenes.

Sept. 28, 1776, THOMAS RYDER.

Left in the trunk in Mrs. Barry's room, at Crow-Street Theatre.

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A white ditto.

Ten white linen dresses.
A brown poplin dress.
Seven shepherdesses' ditto.

Two stuff petticoats and a jacket.

A red puckered dress.

A white tread satin dress, covered with gauze.
Four dresses in Artaxerxes.

A pair of shepherd's breeches.*

For the dear woman's own Rosalind, no doubt.

MR. KEMBLE'S WILL;

EXTRACTED FROM THE REGISTRY OF THE PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY.

The last important act of existence is sometimes a melancholy record of our prejudices, and should, therefore, in charity, be veiled from the general gaze. In the case of MR. KEMBLE, like every other meditated act of his life, it is honourable to his mémory.

The clearness of his intentions, or the intelligence of his friendly solicitor, seems, in his case, to have somewhat unclouded the mystery of legal expression, and it may be read by the unlearned without much difficulty, and even with considerable pleasure.

Among the provisions of MR. KEMBLE's will, there is no lurking vanity, pressing in by idle legacies upon the recollections of the great. All that he had is given exactly where it should be given; and the aids that he had rendered silently during his life are solicitously continued by him during the existence of the parties.

That the public might have an authentic copy of this interesting document, I requested my proctor to obtain the extract from the Prerogative Registry of Canterbury, and cheerfully paid the serious stamp duty attending the transcript.

THIS IS THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT of me, JOHN PHILIP KEMBLE, late of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, and at present residing in Argyle Street, in the county of Middlesex, Esquire, made the twenty-second day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty, in manner following; that is to say, I do give, devise, and bequeath unto my most excellent and beloved wife, Priscilla Kemble, her executors, administrators, and assigns, all that annuity or clear yearly rent-charge of One thousand Pounds sterling, which hath been granted, and now stands secured to be paid and payable to me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during

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