148 BRITISH PHYSICIANS. you ; nor shall I be at any other time from home, because I have received several letters that tlireaten me with being pulled to pieces, if ever I come to London. After such menaces as these, it is easy to imagine that the conversation of two such very good friends is not only extreamly desirable, but the enjoyment of it will be a great happiness and satisfaction to him who is, " Dear Sir, '* Your most obhged Past four in the " Humble servant, afternoon. " John Kadcliffe.'* Radcliffe survived only a few months the date of this letter, dying on the 1st Nov. 1714, in the 65th year of his age, and falling, according to his ear- liest biographer, " a victim to the ingratitude of a thankless world, and the fury of the gout." By his will he left his Yorkshire estate to the Master and Fellows of University College for ever, in trust for the foundation of two travelling fellow- ships ; the overplus to be paid to them, for the pur- pose of buying perpetual advowsons for the mem- bers of the said college. The choice of the two fellows was vested in the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Lord Chancellor, the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, the Bishops of London and Winchester, the two principal Secretaries of State, the Lord Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Master of the Rolls — all for the time being. To St. Bartholomew's Hospi- tal he gave, for ever, the yearly sum of 500/., towards mending their diet, and the further yearly sum of 100/. for buying of linen : 5000/. for the
