The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-21 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

The will of the lien. Caroline Handley, of Boxley
House, Kent, and of 37, Lowndes-street, Belgrave-
square, was proved in London, on the 4th of April,
by Sir William Miles, Bart., of Leigh Court, Bristol.
The Hon. and Rev. Thomas Edwardes, M.A., Rec-
tor of Brougham, Westmorland, the brother, and
Miss Caroline Edwardes Handley, the eldeist
daughter, the acting executors. The personalty,
valued at £14,000, she has given principally
amongst her eight daughters and youngest son,
the eldest son being amply provided for by the
real estates under marriage settlement. The
youngest sea receives a further and distinct
r
legacy of £2,000. 1, here is also a sum of
£15,000 under settlement, and disposed of
by the will of her late husband, to be divided
among their younger children. There is, however,
a peculiarity in the case of the youngest son, who
appears to have been born after the execution of
her late husband's will ; it is therefore her desire
that he should reap the same benefit as the rest of
their children enumerated under his will to be paid
out of her estates. She bequeaths to her unmarried
daughters all the plate, linen, china, furniture, wine,
and other effects. The will is dated July 14, 1849,
and was witnessed by S. Amory, solicitor, Throg-
morton-street, and Charlotte Quelch. The deceased
was
and married, in 1825, Henry
Esq., of Culverthorpe Hall, Lincoln, who
died Handley,iborn
in 1799,
r 111846. She was the eldest daughter of the
second Lord Kensington (William Edwardes), and
is descended from Francis Edwardes, Esq., of
Trefgarue, Pembrokeshire, of an ancient Welsh
family.
Sir John Barker Mill, Bart., of Mottisfont Abbey,
near Romsey, Hants, had executed his will (by
making a cross) on the 13th of February, 1860,
only one week before his death, and has left per-
sonalty estimated at £90,000. Lady Mill, his re-
lict, is the sole executrix, and has administered
thereto. Sir John has bequeathed to his wife, for
her life, all his freehold and leasehold estates, which
he became possessed of under the will of his uncle,
the late Sir Charles Mill, Bart. (Barker Mill's
Estate Act) ; and after her decease he has be-
queathed
the freehold and leasehold estates to Mary
Ann Ibbetson, the daughter of his cousin, Captain
Barker. Sir John makes the following bequests
to his servants :—To his steward a legacy of
£3OO, free of legacy duty; to his gamekeeper,
Henry Powell, an annuity of £25; and a like
annuity to his butler; one year's wages to all his
other servants, woodmen, and gamekeepers. He
appointed his wife residuary legatee; Sir John
Barker Mill, Bart., heretofore the Rev. John
Barker, M.A., was formerly Vicar of Sambourn
Kings with Stockbridge, and Sambourn Little,
of which livings he became the patron.
The late Mrs. Catherine Ball, of Cheltenham,
Gloucester, widow, who died on the 26th of January,
1860, besides her estates in Ireland, has died pos-
sessed of personalty in England valued at 20,0001.
Her will, with two codicils, was proved in London
by her executors, Henry Samuel Close, Esq., of
Dublin, and Joshua Wigley Bateman, Esq., of
the Duchy of Cornwall Office, London ; to each
she leaves £4OO. She has bequeathed her
residence at Cheltenham, and all the furniture,
plate, &c., and carriage and horses, to her niece,
Charlotte, the wife of Colonel the Hon. George
Augustus Spencer, and has bequeathed her mesuage
at Tvickenham, with the nursery grounds and pre-
mises, to her nephew, the Rev. Maxwell Blacker.
There are nutr.erous legacies to her sister, nephews,
nieces, cousins, as well as to her friends and neigh-
bours. To two of her servants she leaves £3O each,
and £lO each to three others. The residue of her
property she leaves among her grand-nieces. The
following are the charitable bequest :—To the
poor of Drumholme, Ireland, £100; Irish
Church Missions, £lOO ; Irish Church Edu-
cation, £lOO ; Reformation Society, £100; Scrip-
ture Readers, Ireland, £100; British and Fo-
reign Bible Society, £lOO ; Society for Distribut-
ing
lltAni
ah,a 1
01(3)raneh each; Cchhuerlethen
hAaltnissmi oonsapriy_
and Teaching the Bible in the Irish Language,
aln1(010P;astCoil-lam
tal, £50.; Female Refuge, Cheltenham, £5O; to
the ministers of St. Paul's, St. Peter's, and other
churches in Cheltenham for the poor, £5O for each
district. Leaves £3OO towards the erection of
almshouses for poor widows of St. Paul's, Chelten-
ham, and £3OO for the endowment thereof. To a
Scripture-reader she has left a freehold house, and
to the widow of another Scripture-reader, £lOO.—
Illustrated London News.

HORSES FOR TIIE FRENCH GOVERNMENT.—Mr.
Munyard, sen., of Woolwich, who was employed during
the Crimean war to assist in the purchase of horses for the
War Department, has just returned from a six weeks' tour
in Yorkshire, Leicestershire, and the Midland counties,
where he accompanied an agent of the French Government,
on whose behalf 800 of the finest horses procurable have
been pureb.ased and shipped.