Here lyeth the body of Sir Richard Levinge late of
High Park in the County of Westmeath Bart son of
Sir Richard Levinge Knight and Bart Lord Chief
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland
He departed this life the 25th of February 1747 in the
64th year of his age without issue and directed that
his body should be buryed in this church near the
remains of his wife Dame Isabella Levinge daughter
of Sir Arthur Rawdon of Moyra in the county of Down Bart
Besides many previous legacies to his relatives
and friends he devised the following to public uses
To the Dublin Society for promoting Husbandry
and other useful arts the interest for 21 years of £2000
To the Incorporated Society for promoting Protestant Schools £1000
To the Hospital for Poor Lying in Women £600
To Dean Swift Hospital for Lunatics £500
To Mercers Hospital £300
To the Infirmary on the Inns Quay £200
To the Hospital for Incurables £500
To bind out poor protestant boys to protestant masters £200
He devised the lands of Lacken in the county
of Westmeath to trustees for the perpetual
support of a charter school for poor children
to be bred protestant worth yearly 90
Quadis quantusque fuit exinde collige
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