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Sir Richard Levinge
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        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