All is left to you with the fullest formality, so that no question can arise as to your right to take it; indeed, foreseeing my end, I have of late called in my moneys, and for the most part the gold lies in strong boxes in the secret cupboard in the wall yonder that you know of.

It would have been more had I known you some years ago, for then, thinking that I grew too rich who was without an heir, I gave away as much as what remains in acts of mercy and in providing refuge for the homeless and the suffering.

Thomas Wingfield, for the most part this money has come to me as the fruit of human folly and human wretchedness, frailty and sin.

Use it for the purposes of wisdom and the advancing of right and liberty.

May it prosper you, and remind you of me, your old master, the Spanish quack, till at last you pass it on to your children or the poor.