I CHARLES CORNER of Lower Berkeley Street in the Parish of Saint Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire a Lieutenant General in The Honorable East India Company’s Service do hereby revoke all wills Codicils and other testamentary dispositions by me at any time or times heretofore made and declare this to be my last Will and Testament I give and bequeath unto my reputed son FREDERICK CORNER [now] or late a Lieutenant in the first Regiment of Native Infantry on the Bengal Establishment my gold watch Chain and Seals and all my gold and silver [Couis] and the portrait of my late brother CAPTAIN CORNER and also my two [Sequitar] Target and [ ] which were taken at [ ] for his own proper use and benefit absolutely and I give and bequeath all my diamonds jewels trinkets and personal ornaments of every description (except my said watch Chain and Seals and also [ ] some of which are set in gold and others in small black frames unto my reputed daughter Miss EMMA CORNER for her own proper use and benefit absolutely but in case my said daughter shall depart this life under the age of twenty one years without having been married then I give and bequeath the same unto my said son FREDERICK CORNER for his own proper use and benefit absolutely and I give and devise unto BENJAMIN BRANFILL of Woodlands in the Parish of Chigwell in the County of Essex Esquire and GEORGE SMITH of Somerset Place Somerset House Esquire and their heirs and assigns for ever all that my copyhold Estate called Fuchers situate lying and being within and held of the Manor of [Bodmond] with Holmer in the Parish of Little Missenden in the County of Bucks and the copyhold field near or adjoining thereto called Gibbs Alley with the Cottages thereon held of the Manor Holmer with [Boamond] in the said County of Bucks and all other my copyhold messuages lands tenements and hereditaments situate lying and being in the said County of Bucks of or to which I or any person or persons in trust for me [ ] is or are seized or entitled in possession reversion remainder or expectancy or which I have power to dispose of or appoint by this my will with their rights [members] and appurtenances to have and to hold the said messuages lands tenements hereditaments and all and singular other the premises hereinbefore given and devised with their appurtenances unto and to the use of the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and their heirs and assigns for ever according to the customs of the Manors respectively whereof the said hereditaments are respectively holden and I direct my said trustees to be admitted tenants thereto accordingly the fines fees and other expenses incidental to their admittance to be paid out of my residuary personal Estate nevertheless upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes hereafter expressed or declared of or concerning the same (that is to say) upon trust in the first place that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor do and shall until the said herediatments and every part thereof shall be sold and disposed of under the trusts for that purpose hereinafter contained by and out of the rents iissues and profits thereof yearly and every year and at all other times and seasons duly pay satisfy and perform the several rents [ ] [rents] and services thereof due and of right accustomed and upon further trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor do and shall with the consent in writing of my said son FREDERICK CORNER during his life and after his decease at the discretion and of the proper authority of my said trustees or trustee for the time being absolutely sell and dispose of my said copyhold hereditaments and estates either entirely or altogether or in parcels and either by public auction or private contract to any person or persons willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof respectively for such price or prices sum or sums or money as to the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the heirs or assigns of such survivor shall [ ] meet with full liberty to buy in the premises or any part thereof at any auction or to rescind any contract and afterwards to resell the premises so bought in or comprised in any such contract without being answerable for any diminution or difference in price or other loss and do and shall enter into make and execute such contracts covenants agreements surrenders assurances acts deeds matters and things as to my said trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor shall seem [most] and do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the monies to arise or be produced from the sale or sales hereby by me directed to be made of my said copyhold hereditaments and estates upon trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall in the first place thereout retain pay satisfy and discharge unto themselves my said trustees and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor sll the costs charges and expenses which they or any of them shall incur sustain or be put unto in performing the [ ] to the said [ ] or otherwise in or about the aforesaid sale or sales or in anywise relating thereto and do and shall lay out and invest the surplus and residue thereof in the names or name of the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor in the purchase of a [competent] share of [competent] shares of the Parliamentary Stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon government or real securities in England or Wales to be from time to time altered and varied as occasion shall require and do and shall pay unto or will and sufficiently authorise and empower the said FREDERICK CORNER and his assigns during his natural life to receive and take the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities as and when the same shall from time to time become due and payable to and for his and their own proper use and benefit and from and immediately after the decease of the said FREDERICK CORNER do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the said trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof in trust for all and every the children and child of the said FREDERICK CORNER lawfully begotten or to be begotten who being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or marry under that age with the consent of her or their parents or parent or lawful guardian or guardians for the time being whichever shall first happen to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and if there shall be but one such child the whole to be in trust for such one child and to be paid transferred and assigned to such children or child on or at the ages days or times or age day or time so far as circumstance will permit accordingly and upon further trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors admors and assigns of such survivor do and shall after the decease of the said FREDERICK CORNER and in the meantime and until the shares or shares of his said children respectively of and in the said trust monies stocks funds and securities shall become vested under the trusts aforesaid pay and apply the whole or any part or parts of the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities in such manner as the said trustees or trustee for the time being shall in their or his discretion think fit for or towards the maintenance education and benefit of the children or child for the time being of the said FREDERICK CORNER provided always and I declare my will and mind to be that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor at any time or times after the decease of the said FREDERICK CORNER or in his lifetime if he shall so direct by any writing or writings under his hand to levy and raise the whole or any part or parts of the portion or respective portions intended to be hereby provided for his child or children respectively as aforesaid and to pay and apply the monies so to be raised for the preferment advancement or benefit of such child or children respectively in such manner as the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor shall in their or his discretion think fit notwithstanding the portion or portions of such child or children shall not then have become vested or having become vested shall not be payable and upon this further trust in case there shall be no child or children of the said FREDERICK CORNER lawfully begotten or to be begotten who under or by virtue of the trusts hereinbefore declared shall become absolutely entitled to the said trust monies stocks funds and securities that then and in such case they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall from and after the decease of my said son FREDERICK CORNER and such default or failure of his issue as aforesaid (but subject and without prejudice to the trusts hereinbefore declared or any of them ) stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the said trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisos and declarations as are hereinafter by this my will expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the monies to arise and be produced from my residuary real and personal estate hereinafter given devised and bequeathed unto and to the use of the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their heirs executors administrators and assigns and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same monies shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof or upon for with under and subject to such and so many of the same trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and my will is that the legacy duly (if any) payable in respect of the provisos shall be defrayed out of my residuary personal estate provided always and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that it shall any may be lawful to and for the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor with the consent in writing of my said son FREDERICK CORNER during his life and after his decease at the discretion and of the proper authority of the said trustees or trustee for the time being by any deed or instrument in writing to be by them respectively legally executed to limit and appoint by way of lease or demise so far as proper licences can be obtained or the customs of the said several manors permit my said copyhold hereditaments or the unsold part of parts thereof for the time being or any part or parts thereof to any person or persons for any term or number of years not exceeding fourteen years to take effect in possession and not in reversion or by way of future or concurrent interest so as there shall be reserved in every such appointment by way of demise or lease the best and most improved yearly rent or rents to be [ ] to the immediate reversion of the hereditaments so to be demised that can or may be reasonably had or gotten for the same without taking any fine premium or [foregift] or any thing in the nature of a fine premium or [foregift] and so that there be contained in every such appointment by way of demise or lease a condition of reentry for non-payment of rent or rents thereby respectively to be reserved and so as the lessee or lessees do execute a counterpart or counterparts thereof respectively and do thereby covenant for the due payment of the rent or rents thereby respectively to be reserved and not by any clause or words therein to be contained made dispunishable for waste or exempted from punishment for committing waste (anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding) provided nevertheless that during the present or any future absence of my said son FREDERICK CORNER from England any such appointment by way or demise or lease may be made by my said trustees or trustee for the time being at their or his discretion and of their or his own proper authority without the consent in writing of my said son (anything hereinbefore contained to the contrary thereof notwithstanding) and I give and bequeath unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns the sum of five thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain upon trust that they my said trustees and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of a competent share or competent shares of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon government or real securities in England or Wales to be from time to time altered and varied as occasion shall require and do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the said sum of five thousand pounds and the stocks fund and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations hereinafter expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the same (that is to say) upon trust that they my said trustees and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall during the natural life of my said daughter EMMA CORNER receive the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities as and when the same shall from time to time be received unto such person or persons only for such intents and purposes only as she my said daughter EMMA CORNER shall from time to time whether covert or sole and notwithstanding any coverture by any writing under her hand direct or appoint but not so as to dispose of or affect the same by sale mortgage charge or otherwise in the way of anticipation and in default of such direction or appointment into her own hands for her own sole separate and peculiar use and benefit exclusively of any husband or husbands with whom she may intermarry so that the same shall not be subject to his or their or any of their debts control interference or engagements and the receipts in writing of my said daughter EMMA CORNER and her appointees for the same interest dividends and annual produce or any part thereof to be from time to time whether my said daughter shall be covert or sole and notwithstanding any coverture sufficient and effectual discharges for the money therein respectively expressed or acknowledged to be received and from and immediately after the decease of my said daughter EMMA CORNER do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the same trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof in trust for all and every the children and child of my said daughter EMMA CORNER lawfully to be begotten who being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or marry under that age with the consent of her or their parents or parent or lawful guardian or guardians for the time being whichever shall first happen to be divided between or amongst them if more than one in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and if there shall be but one such child the whole to be in trust for such one child and to be paid transferred and assigned to such children or child on or at the same ages days or times age day or time so far as circumstances will permit accordingly and upon further trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall after the decease of the said EMMA CORNER and in the meantime and until the share or shares of her said children respectively of and in the said trust monies stocks funds and securities shall become vested under the trusts aforesaid pay and apply the whole or any part or parts of the annual produce of the said trust moneys stocks funds and securities in such manner as the said trustees or trustee for the time being shall in their or his discretion think fit for or towards the maintenance education and benefit of the children or child for the time being of the said EMMA CORNER provided always and my will and mind is that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor at any time or times after the decease of the said EMMA CORNER or in her lifetime if she shall so direct by any writing or writings under her hand to levy and raise the whole or any part or parts of the portion or portions intended to be hereby provided for her child or children respectively as aforesaid and to pay and apply the money so to be raised for the preferment advancement or benefit of such child or children respectively in such manner as they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor shall in their or his discretion think fit notwithstanding the portion or portions of such child or children shall not then have become vested or having become vested shall not be payable and upon this further trust in case there shall be no child or children of the said EMMA CORNER lawfully to be begotten who under or by virtue of the trust hereinbefore declared shall become absolutely entitled to the said trust monies stocks funds and securities then and in such case that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall from and after the decease of the said EMMA CORNER and such default or failure of her issue as aforesaid (but subject and without prejudice to the trusts hereinbefore declared or in any of them) stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the said trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisos and declarations as are hereinbefore expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the monies to arise or be produced from the sale or sale hereinbefore by me directed to be made of my said copyhold estate called Fuchers and other my copyhold hereditaments aforesaid and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same are hereinbefore directed to be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof or upon for with under and subject to such and so many of the same trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and my will is that the said sum of five thousand pounds shall be paid without any deduction for legacy duty or otherwise and shall have priority and preference of payment in all respects over all other legacies and annuities given and bequeathed by this my will or by any Codicil hereafter to be executed by me and shall not be liable to abate in case of a deficiency of assets and shall be invested within one calendar month after my decease and my will is that my said trustees or trustee for the time being do and shall so long as my said daughter EMMA CORNER shall be under the age of twenty one years and unmarried pay and apply the whole or any part of the interest dividends and annual produce of the said sum of five thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested for or towards her maintenance and education and accumulate the residue thereof by investment from time to time in the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or upon real securities in the way of compound interest for the benefit of the person or persons who shall ultimately under or by virtue of this my will become entitled to the fund from which the said accumulations shall proceed and I give and bequeath unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns the sum of two thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid at the expiration of twelve calendar months from my decease upon trust that they my said trustees and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of a competent share of competent shares of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon government or real securities in England or Wales to be from time to time altered and varied as occasion shall require and do and shall stand possessed of and interested in the said sum of two thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the powers provisos and declarations hereinafter expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the same (that is to say) upon trust that my said trustees and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall during the natural life of my Niece Mrs JESSEY HANNAH CREED the wife of RICHARD CREED Esquire receive the interest dividends and annual produce of the said last mentioned trust monies stocks funds and securities and when the same shall become due and payable and pay the same as and when the same shall from time to time be received unto such person or persons only for such intents and purposes only as she the said JESSEY HANNAH CREED shall from time to time whether covert or sole and notwithstanding any coverture by any writing under her hand direct or appoint but not so as to dispose of or affect the same by sale mortgage charge or otherwise in the way of anticipation and in default of such direction or appointment into her own hands for her own sole separate and peculiar use and benefit exclusively of her present or any further husband or husbands with whom she may intermarry so that the same shall not be subject to his or their or any of their debts control interference or engagements and the receipts in writing of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and of her appointees for the same interest dividends and annual produce or any part thereof to be from time to time whether my said Niece shall be covert or sole and notwithstanding her coverture sufficient and effectual discharges for the money therein expressly expressed or acknowledged to be received and from and immediately after the decease of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in the same trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof in trust for all and every the children and child of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED lawfully begotten or to be begotten who being a son or sons shall attain the age of twenty one years or being a daughter or daughters shall attain that age or marry under that age with the consent of her or their parent or parents or lawful guardian or guardians for the time being whichever shall first happen to be divided between or among them if more than one in equal shares and proportions as tenants in common and if there shall be but one such child the whole to be in trust for such one child and to be paid transferred and assigned to such children and child on or at the same ages days or times age day or time so far as circumstances will permit accordingly and upon further trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall after the decease of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and in the meantime and until the share or shares of her said children respectively of and in the said trust monies stocks funds and securities shall become vested under the trusts aforesaid pay and apply the whole or any part or parts of the annual produce of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities in such manner as the same trustees or trustee for the time being shall in their or his discretion think fit for and towards the maintenance education and benefit of the children or child for the time being of the said JESSEY HANNAH CREED provided always and my will and mind is that it shall and may be lawful to and for the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor at any time or times after the decease of the said JESSEY HANNAH CREED or in her lifetime if she shall so direct by any writing or writings under her hand to levy and raise the whole or any part or parts of the portion or respective portions intended to be hereby provided for her child or children respectively as aforesaid and to pay and apply the money so to be raised for the preferment advancement or benefit of such child or children respectively in such manner as the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor shall in their or his discretion think fit notwithstanding the portion or portions of such child or children shall not then have become vested or having become vested shall not be payable and upon this further trust that in case there shall be no child or children of the JESSEY HANNAH CREED lawfully begotten or to be begotten who under or by virtue of the trusts hereinbefore declared shall become absolutely entitled to the said trust monies stocks funds and securities then and in such case that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns or such survivor do and shall from and after the decease of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and such default or failure of her issue as aforesaid (but subject and without prejudice to the trusts hereinbefore declared or any of them) stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the said last mentioned trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisos and declarations as and hereinafter by this my will expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the monies to arise or be produced from my residuary real and personal estate and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof or upon for with under and subject to such and so many of the same trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking effect and I give and bequeath unto my sister Mrs MARY WHITTALL Widow of the late RICHARD WHITTALL Esquire one annuity or yearly sum of one hundred pounds and unto Miss MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY of Nottingham Terrace New Road in the Parish of Saint Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Spinster Daughter of the late Mr WILLIAM KELLEY of Herenden in the Parish of Eastry in the County of Kent one annuity or yearly sum of two hundred pounds the same annuities or yearly sums of one hundred pounds and two hundred pounds respectively to be paid and payable by two even and equal half yearly payments on the twenty fifth day of March and twenty ninth day of September in each and every year the first half yearly payment thereof to begin and be made on such of the said days or times as shall first and next happen after the expiration of twelve calendar months from my decease and I give and bequeath unto my Godson JOHN CHARLES CORNER GAMBLE son of my Niece FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD the wife of NEPTUNE BLOOD Esquire by her former husband the late Reverend JOHN GAMBLE deceased the sum of one hundred pounds to be an interest vested in and to be paid to him on his attaining the age of twenty one years the same to be in addition to any other provision made for him by this my will and I give and bequeath unto my Goddaughter Miss MARY ANN CHITTENDEN daughter of GEORGE CHITTENDEN and ANN his wife the sum of three hundred pounds to be an interest vested in and to be paid to her on her attaining the age of twenty one or marrying under that age with the consent of her parents or parent or lawful guardian or guardians for the time being whichever shall first happen and I direct that each of the said legacies of one hundred pounds and three hundred pounds as shall not be vested interests at my decease under this my will shall at the expiration of twelve calendar months from my decease be laid out and invested by my trustees and executors in their names in some or one of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon government or real securities in England or Wales to be from time to time altered and varied as occasion shall require in order that the same and the resulting income therefrom may accumulate in the manner hereinafter directed for the benefit of the person or persons who under or by virtue of this my will shall become absolutely entitled to the fund from which such accumulations shall respectively proceed and I give and bequeath into each of my said trustees and Executors BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH the sum of one hundred pounds as an acknowledgement for the care and trouble they will have in the execution of the trusts of this my will and I give and bequeath unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns my leasehold messuage or tenement and premises Number 9 Nottingham Terrace New Road in the Parish of Saint Marylebone and County of Middlesex wherein the before named MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY now resides with the fixtures therein (but all the furniture place books pictures china and other effects in which said premises are the absolute property of the said MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY) to have and to hold the same unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns for all the estate and interest which I shall have therein at my decease upon trust to permit and suffer the said MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY to have hold occupy and enjoy the same and the rents issues and profits thereof for her own proper use and benefit for and during the term of her natural life she paying the ground rent taxes and other outgoings in respect thereof and keeping the same insured from loss or damage by fire in the sum of seven hundred pounds at the least in some or one of the public Insurance Offices in London or Westminster and keeping the same premises in good and tenantable repair and from and after the decease of the said MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY to stand possessed of the same premises upon the trusts hereinafter declared of my general residuary personal estate and dispose of the same accordingly and I give and bequeath to the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their heirs and assigns all and every my freehold and copyhold messuages lands tenements and hereditaments and all other my real estate whatsoever and wheresoever of or to which I or any person or persons in trust for me am or are seized or entitled for any estate of freehold or inheritance or of freehold only in possession reversion remainder or expectancy or which I have power to dispose of or appoint by this my will and which are not hereinbefore by me otherwise disposed of or intended so to be with their rights members and appurtenances (save and except the estates which are vested in me in trust or by way of mortgage) to have and to hold the said messuages lands tenements and hereditaments and all and singular other the premises [ ] hereinbefore give and devised with their appurtenances unto and to the use of the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their heirs and assigns upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed or declared of or concerning the same and I give and bequeath all my leasehold estates lands and tenements and all my horses carriages live and dead stock goods and chattels monies and securities for money debts and other personal Estate and Effects in England or elsewhere of or to which I shall be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease (except what I otherwise dispose of by this my will or any Codicil thereto) unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared of or concerning the same and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors executors administrators and assigns respectively shall stand and be seized possessed of and interested in all and singular my residuary freehold copyhold real leasehold and personal estates lastly hereinbefore devised and bequeathed to them as aforesaid and also of and in the said leasehold premises Number 9 Nottingham Terrace aforesaid and the fixtures therein (subject and without prejudice to the interest hereinbefore given and limited to the said MARY ELIZABETH KELLEY [ ]) upon the trusts hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) upon trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease call in and convert into money my said personal estate or such part thereof as shall not consist of money and do and shall absolutely sell and dispose of my said last mentioned freehold copyhold and real and my said leasehold estates but subject and without prejudice as aforesaid either entirely and altogether or in parcels and either by public auction or by private contract to any person or persons willing to become the purchaser or purchasers thereof respectively for such price or prices sum or sums of money as to the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the heirs executors administrators or assigns of such survivor shall seem most with liberty to buy in the premises or any part thereof at any auction and to rescind any contract for sale either by public auction or private contract and afterwards to resell the premises so bought in or comprised in any such contract without being answerable or accountable for any diminution or difference in price or other loss and for promoting and facilitating the sales lastly hereinbefore by me directed to be made I do authorise and direct the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor to enter into make and execute all such covenants contracts agreements conveyances surrenders assignments assurances acts deeds matters or things whatsoever as to them or him shall seem [meet] and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their executors administrators and assigns respectively shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the monies to arise from the sales lastly hereinbefore directed to be made of my said freehold copyhold real and leasehold estates or to arise or be produced from that part of my personal Estate which I have directed to be called in and converted into money and of or in the money of or to which I shall be possessed or entitled at the time of my decease upon trust that they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor do and shall by and with and out of the same monies pay my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies given and bequeathed by this my will with such priority as to the said legacy or sum of five thousand pounds as aforesaid and do and shall lay out and invest the surplus or residue thereof in the name or names of them the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH or the survivor of them or the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor in the purchase of a competent share or competent shares of the parliamentary stocks or public funds of Great Britain or at interest upon government or real securities in England or Wales to be from time to time altered and varied as occasion shall require and do and shall stand and be possessed of and interested in all and singular the said last mentioned trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof subject to the said several annuities of one hundred pounds and [ ] which I [ ] to be paid out of such interest dividends and annual produce upon and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisos and declarations as are hereinbefore expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the said sum of five thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof and upon this further trust in case there shall be no child or children of my said daughter EMMA CORNER and my said son FREDERICK CORNER or either of them who by virtue of or under the trusts hereinbefore expressly or by reference declared shall become absolutely entitled to the said last mentioned trust monies stocks funds and securities that then and in such case from and immediately after the decease of the survivor of them the said EMMA CORNER and FREDERICK CORNER and such default or failure of issue of their respective bodies as last aforesaid the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators or assigns of such survivor do and shall (subject and without prejudice to the trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations hereinbefore expressly or by reference declared and every or any of them) stand and be possessed of and interested in the said last mentioned trust monies stocks funds and securities and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof upon and for the trusts intents and purposes hereinafter expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the same that is to say as to for and concerning one equal third part thereof in trust for my Nephew Sir JOHN BENJAMIN GORDON Baronet and as to for and concerning one other equal third part thereof upon and for such and the same trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the same powers provisos and declarations as are hereinbefore expressed or declared of or concerning the said sum of two thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof or upon for with under and suvject to such and so many of the same trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations as shall be then subsisting undetermined and capable of taking of taking effect and upon this further trust that in case no child or children of the said JESSEY HANNAH CREED shall under or by virtue of the trusts hereinbefore declared or referred to become absolutely entitled to the said last mentioned one third the same shall (subject and without prejudice to the trusts aforesaid) from and after the decease of the said JESSEY HANNAH CREED and such default or failure of her issue as last aforesaid go and be in trust for the person or persons who would then be my next of kin and entitled to my personal estates under or by virtue of the Statutes for the distribution of the Estates and Effects of Intestates in case I had died intestate and in the same proportions and manner in all respects and as to for and concerning the remaining one third part thereof upon and for such and the like trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to such and the like powers provisos and declarations to for or for the benefit of my said Niece FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD her present and future children whether by her late her present or any future husband or husbands as are hereinbefore expressed or declared of or concerning the said sum of two thousand pounds and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof to for or for the benefit of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and her present or future children in such and the same manner in all respects as if the same trusts intents and purposes powers provisos and declarations were here repeated and adapted accordingly and upon this further trust that in case there shall be no child or children of the said FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD who by virtue of or under the trusts hereinbefore expressly or by reference declared of or concerning the said last mentioned one third shall become absolutely entitled thereto the same shall from and after the decease of my said Niece FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD and such default or failure of her issue as last aforesaid (subject and without prejudice to the trusts aforesaid and every of them) go and be in trust for the person or persons who would then be my next of kin and entitled to my personal estate under or by virtue of the Statutes for the distribution of the estates and effects of intestates in case I had died intestate and in the same proportions and manner and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that in the meantime and until all and singular the trust monies stocks funds and securities the trusts whereof are by this my will respectively declared and every part thereof shall vest absolutely in some person or persons under the trusts hereinbefore declared of or concerning the same respectively they the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the executors administrators and assigns of such survivor shall (but subject and without prejudice to the trusts hereinbefore declared and every or any of them) receive the interest dividends and annual produce of the said trust monies stocks funds and securities respectively or the invested share or shares thereof respectively and lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of or upon such stocks funds or securities as aforesaid to be from to time altered or declared at their or his discretion and do and shall receive the dividends interest and annual produce of the said last mentioned stocks funds and securities and lay out and invest the same in their or his names or name in the purchase of or upon the like stocks funds or securities so that the same and the resulting income and produce thereof may during such suspense as aforesaid accumulate in the way of compound interest and that the said dividends interest and annual produce stocks funds and securities and the accumulations thereof respectively shall belong to and be in trust for the person or persons who under the trusts of this my will shall become absolutely intitled to the funds from which such accumulations shall have respectively proceeded and I do hereby declare by will and mind to be that in the meantime and until my first mentioned copyhold estates and all other my copyhold freehold and leasehold estates in and by this my will respectively devised and bequeathed as aforesaid and every part thereof respectively shall be sold and disposed of in pursuance of the trusts created by this my will the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH and the survivor of them and the heirs executors administrators and assigns of such survivor respectively do and shall receive the rents issues and profits of the said copyhold freehold and leasehold estates or such part or parts thereof as shall from time to time remain unsold and pay and apply the same in the manner in which the interest and annual produce of the monies to arise from the sale of my said copyhold freehold and leasehold estates respectively in case the same were then sold would for the time being be applicable under the trusts herein declared and I give and bequeath unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively all the estates which at the time of my decease shall be vested in me upon any trust or by way of mortgage and of which I have power to dispose by this my will with their rights members and appurtenances to have and to hold the said estates unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH their heirs executors administrators and assigns respectively according to the nature and quality of the same premises respectively upon the trusts and subject to the equity of redemption which at the time of my decease shall be subsisting or capable of taking effect therein respectively but the money secured on such mortgages shall be considered and taken as part of my personal estate and I do hereby nominate and appoint the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH Executors of this my last Will and Testament and do hereby authorise and empower them my said Executors to pay any debts owing by me or claimed from me upon any evidence they shall think proper to admit and to accept any security real or personal for any debt or debts owing to me and also to compromise and compound any debts owing to me or claimed by me or for my estate and to allow such time for the payment thereof as to them or him shall appear reasonable with full power and authority for them to retain authorise and employ all necessary agents for the purpose of getting in and realising my outstanding debts and effects provided always and I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the receipt or receipts in writing of the trustees or trustee for the time being acting in the execution of the trusts of this my last Will for any sum or sums of money payable to them or him under or by virtue of this my will shall be a sufficient and effectual discharge or sufficient and effectual discharge for the same respectively or so much thereof respectively as in such receipt or receipts respectively shall be expressed or acknowledged to be received and that the person and persons to whom the same respectively shall be given his her or their heirs executors administrators or assigns shall not afterwards be answerable or accountable for any loss misapplication or nonapplication or be in anywise obliged or concerned to see to the application of the money therein expressed or acknowledged to be received provided also and my will and mind is that if the said trustees hereby appointed or to be appointed as hereinafter is mentioned or any of them shall depart this life or decline or become incapable to act in the trusts hereby reposed in them respectively then and so often as it shall so happen it shall and may be lawful for the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees for the time being or the executors or administrators of the last surviving or continuing trustee for the time being by writing under their his or her hands or hand to appoint one or more person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the room of the trustee or trustees so dying or refusing or becoming incapable to act therein as aforesaid and thereupon the said trust estate monies and premises shall be vested in the new trustee or trustees jointly with the surviving or continuing trustee or trustees or solely as occasion shall require and every such new trustee shall have all the same powers and authorities and discretions to all intents and purposes whatsoever as if he had been originally nominated a trustee in this my will provided also and I do hereby declared my mind and will to be that the said several trustees hereby nominated and appointed or to be nominated and appointed by virtue of the proviso lastly hereinbefore contained and each and every of them shall be charged and chargeable respectively only for such monies as they respectively shall actually receive by virtue of the trusts hereby in them reposed notwithstanding his her or their giving or signing or joining in giving or signing any receipt or receipts for the sake of conformity and that any one or more of them shall not be answerable for the other or others of them but each and every of them only for his and their own acts receipts neglects or defaults only respectively and that they or any of them shall not be answerable or accountable for any banker broker or other person with whom or in whose hands any part of the said trust monies stocks funds or securities shall or may be deposited or lodged for safe custody or otherwise in the execution of the trust hereinbefore mentioned and that they or any of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security or securities stocks or funds in or upon which the said trust monies or any part thereof shall be placed out or invested nor for any other misfortune loss or damage which shall or may happen in the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereunto (except the same shall happen by or through their own wilful defaults respectively) and also that it shall and may be lawful to and the trustees in this my will named and such future trustee or trustees to be appointed as aforesaid and every of them their and every of their heirs executors administrators and assigns by and out of the monies which shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse himself and themselves and also to allow to his and their Cotrustee or Cotrustees all costs charges damages and expenses which they or any of them shall or may suffer sustain disburse be at or be put unto in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts or in relation thereunto In Witness whereof I the said CHARLES CORNER have to this my last Will and Testament contained in nineteen sheets of paper set my hand and seal (that is to say) my hand to the first eighteen sheets thereof and my hand and seal to this nineteenth and last sheet this fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine – C. CORNER L.S. – Signed sealed published and declared by the said CHARLES CORNER the Testator as and for his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto the word “to” in the seventh line of the third page the word “or” in the twenty fifth line of the fourth page the word “real” in the fourteenth line of the thirteenth page the word “entirely” in the twenty sixth line of the said thirteenth page and the word “or” in the tenth line of the sixteenth page having all been first written on [ ] and the word “such” in the twenty eighth line of the tenth page the words “in England” in the thirty sixth line of the eleventh page the word “rent” in the nineteenth line and “lastly” in the last line of the twelfth page and the words “to see” in the tenth line of the eighteenth page having been first severally interlined – JOSEPH STEPHENS ALDERSEY Bisford Square – MARY PERRING Servant to Mr Ward Bisford Square – JNO. TUCKER Clerk to Mr Aldersey

Whereas I CHARLES CORNER Lieutenant Gernal in the Honorable E. I. Company’s Service have made and duly executed my last Will and Testament bearing date the 4th day of November 1820 do hereby ordain and declare this present writing to be a Codicil to my said will and that the same shall be annexed thereto and taken as a part thereof that is to say I hereby constitute and appoint FREDERICK CORNER Captain in the Honble E. I. Company’s Service to be an Executor and Trustee to my said will and I do give to Captain FREDERICK CORNER the sum of one hundred pounds for the trouble he may have in executing the trusts hereby reposed in him and I do again declare the above writing to be a Codicil to my said will and that the said shall be annexed to my said will as a part thereof and I do confirm my said will in every particular thereof In Witness whereof I to this Codicil set my hand and seal this 24th day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirty five – C. CORNER (L.S.) – Witness WM STRUGNELL Genl. Agint. Knightsbridge – ALFRED EAMES – SARAH ANN STRUGNELL

This is a Codicil to the last Will and Testament of me CHARLES CORNER of Lower Berkeley Street in the Parish of Saint Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire a Lieutenant General in the Honorable East India Company’s Service which will bear date on or about the fourth day of November one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine whereas I have for many years past experienced much kind attention form Miss MARY STAINTON who is residing with me Now in order to testify my grateful [ ] of her kindness I give and bequeath unto her the said MARY STAINTON an annuity or yearly sum of five hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to her during her life by equal quarterly payments on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth day of December in every year free and clear of and from the legacy duty (which I direct my executors to pay out of the general residue of my personal estate) and all other deductions whatsoever and I direct that the trustees and executors of my said will and of this my Codicil (hereinafter named) shall make due and ample provision out of my general residuary estate and effects for the regular payment of the said annuity the first payment whereof is to be made on such one of the aforesaid quarterly days as shall happen first and next after my decease and I do hereby declare that the provision hereby made or intended for the said MARY STAINTON is to be in lieu and full satisfaction of the bequest or provision made to or for her in and by a former Codicil which I have mislaid and which I hereby revoke and I give and bequeath unto my son FREDERICK CORNER (named in my said will) an annuity or yearly sum of one hundred pounds of lawful money of Great Britain to be paid to him during his life (in addition to all other legacies bequests or other benefit given or bequeathed to or in trust for him in and by my said will) by equal quarterly payments on the twenty fifth day of March the twenty fourth day of June the twenty ninth day of September and the twenty fifth day of December in every year free and clear of and from the legacy duty (which I direct to be paid out of my general residuary estate and effects) and all other deductions whatsoever the first payment thereof to be made on such one of the said quarterly days as shall happen first and next after my decease and whereas I have in and by my said will given to the trustees therein named the sum of two thousand pounds sterling upon and for certain trusts intents and purposes therein expressed and declared in favor of my Niece Mrs JESSEY HANNAH CREED and her children now I do hereby revoke and made void the said bequest of two thousand pounds and in lieu thereof I give and bequeath unto the trustees and executors of my said will and this my Codicil thereto (hereinafter named) the sum of five thousand pounds sterling upon and for such and the same or the like trusts intents and purposes as are in and by my said will expressed declared and contained of and concerning the said sum of two thousand pounds thereby bequeathed I give and bequeath to my Servant DUNCAN DAVIDSON if living in my service at the time of my decease (but not otherwise) the sum of one hundred pounds sterling for his own use and benefit in addition to such arrears of wages as may be due or owing to him at my decease and to each and every of the other Servants who may be living with me or in my service at the time of my decease I give and bequeath the amount of six months wages in addition to what may be then owing to them respectively and whereas I have in and by my said will directed that in certain events therein mentioned (in case the same should happen) my residuary estates and effects of every description or the net proceeds thereof after payment of my debts funeral and testamentary expenses and legacies and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof should go to or be held by my said trustees as to one third part thereof in trust for Sir JOHN BENJAMIN GORDON Baronet and as to one other third part thereof upon and for certain trusts and purposes in and by my said will expressed and contained or deferred to of or concerning the same in favor of my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and her children and as to the remaining one third part thereof upon and for certain other trusts and purposes in and by my said will expressed and contained or referred to of or concerning the same in favor of my Niece Mrs FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD and her children and whereas the said Sir JOHN BENJAMIN GORDON is now dead and whereas my said Niece the said FRANCES MARY HANNAH BLOOD and her children are amply provided for now therefore in the events mentioned in my said will and hereinbefore referred to (in case the same shall happen) I will and direct that all my said residuary Estates and Effects whatsoever or the proceeds thereof after payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses and the legacies and annuities given and bequeathed in and by my said will and this present Codicil thereto and the stocks funds and securities in or upon which the same shall be laid out and invested and the interest dividends and annual produce thereof shall go and be held by the Trustees and Executors of my said will and this my Codicil (hereinafter named) upon and for such and the same or the like trusts intents and purposes as are hereinbefore expressed declared and contained or referred unto of or concerning the sum of five thousand pounds sterling hereinbefore bequeathed to or in trust for my said Niece JESSEY HANNAH CREED and her children and I do hereby revoke the appointment in my said will contained of GEORGE SMITH Esquire (therein described) to be a trustee and executor of my said will and I hereby also revoke the legacy of one hundred pounds by my said will given to him as an acknowledgement for the care and trouble he would have in the execution of the trusts of my said will and all other the devises legacies and bequests whatsoever made to him in and by my said will and I hereby nominate and appoint RICHARD CREED of Walthamstow in the County of Essex Esquire and WESTERN WOOD of Baker Street in the Parish of Saint Marylebone in the County of Middlesex Esquire to be the trustees and Executors of my said Will and this my Codicil in conjunction with my friend BENJAMIN BRANFILL Esquire in my said will named and I give devise and bequeath all and singular the messuages lands tenements hereditaments monies stocks funds securities and other real and personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever by my said will given and bequeathed unto the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL and GEORGE SMITH unto and to the use of the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL RICHARD CREED and WESTERN WOOD their heirs executors administrators and assigns according to the nature and quality of the same premises respectively upon and for the trusts intents and purposes and with under and subject to the power provisos and declarations respectively in and by my said will expressed or declared of or concerning the same respectively and that as fully and effectually to all intents [constrictions] and purposes whatsoever as if the said RICHARD CREED and WESTERN WOOD had been originally named and appointed as such trustees and executors in and by my said will in conjunction with the said BENJAMIN BRANFILL instead of the said GEORGE SMITH and I hereby give and bequeath unto each of them the said RICHARD CREED and WESTERN WOOD the legacy or sum of one hundred pounds sterling as an acknowledgement for the trouble they will have (in conjunction with said BENJAMIN BRANFILL) in the execution of the trusts hereby reposed in them and in all other respects I hereby ratify and confirm my said will and direct this to be added to and taken as part thereof In Witness whereof I the said CHARLES CORNER the Testator have to this Codicil to my last Will and Testament set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight – C. CORNER (L.S.) – Signed sealed published and declared by the said CHARLES CORNER the Testator as and for a Codicil to his last Will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses – JOSEPH STEPHENS ALDERSEY 8 Gower Street – JOHN HUGH BURGESS his Clerk

Proved at London with two Codicils the 22nd January 1839 before the Worshipful Frederick Thomas Pratt Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oaths of BENJAMIN BRANFILL Esquire the Executor named in the will and RICHARD CREED and WESTERN WOOD Esquires the Executors named in the second Codicil to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to administer Power reserved of making the like Grant to FREDERICK CORNER Esquire the Executor named in the first Codicil when he shall apply for the same

Proved at London with two Codicils the 6th October 1845 before the Worshipful John [Dewbury] Doctor of Laws and Surrogate by the Oath of FREDERICK CORNER Esquire the Executor named in the first Codicil to whom Admon was granted having been first sworn duly to Administer