The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-01 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(Fro»: the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Right lion. Sir John William

Spencer Brownlow Egerton Cust, Earl Brownlow,
of Belton House, Lincoln, was proved in her Ma-
jesty's Court of Probate, on the 20th inst., by the

Hon. Peregrine Francis Cust, the great-uncle, and
the Right Hon. Adelbert Wellington, Earl .t3rown-

[ow, the brother, heretofore the llon. A. W. B
[Tonle Cust, power being reserved to the Right
Ron. Lady Marianne Margaret Alford, his lord-

ship's mother, to prove hereafter. The personalty
was sworn under £160,000. His lordship's will, and
a codicil, bear date respectively Oct. 11, 1864 ; and
his lordship died Feb. 20, 1867, at Mentone, in
France, aged twenty-five. He has left liberal be-
quests and annuities to his servants and atten-
dants, stewards, housekeepers, valet, gardeners,
huntsmen, and labourers. To his mother,
Lady Alford, besides other provision, his lordship
has left a legacy of £6,500 and the Ellesmere estate
for her life. All diamonds, jewellery, pictures,

plate articles of virtu, books, and furniture at the
mansions at Ashridge and Belton, or elsewhere, and
the carriages, horses, farming stnck, timber, stone
marble, &c., he leaves to his brother, the present
Earl, to whom he bequeaths the whole of his real
estates and the residue of the personalty absolutely.
He leaves a legacy of £6OO to the West Herta Hos-
pital.
The will of James Taylor, Esq., of Furnival's
Inn, and Ravenswood, Croydon, was proved in the
London Court, under £BO,OOO personalty, by his
relict, the sole acting executrix, power being re-
served to Sir Robert Lush, Knight, one of the
Judges of her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench,
and Stephen Cave, Esq., of Threadneedle-
street, banker, the other executors and trustees. Tke
will comprises upwards of 200 folios, and bears date

November 6, 1866, and a codicil in December fol-
lowing. The testator died March 27, aged seventy-
nine. He has left annuities to some members of his
family, and legacies to various parties and to his

clerks and servants. To his wife he leaves an im-
mediate legacy of £2,000, and a life interest in the
bulk of his property, with a power of disposition by
will over a certain portion. The residue at her de-
cease is to be divided into nine equal parts amongst
his sons and daughters.
The will of Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., R.A., was
proved in the London Court, on the 7th inst., by
his relict, the sole executrix, and the personalty was
sworn ander £20,000. This distinguished artist
died at the age of seventy-three, at his residence at
Hampstead, on May 1G last, having executed his
will August 14, 1854, and a codicil March 30, 1867 ;
the signature to the latter is very feebly written.
By the will he bequeaths the whole of his property,
real and personal, to his wife absolutely. By the
codicil he directs that his sketches and drawings,
and his collection of engravings and other works of

arts, shall be disposed of, his wife reserving for her
own keeping, or for the members of his family,
what she may think proper to select, and from the
proceeds to pay and divide amongst his seven sons
and daughter, in various proportions, a sum of
£5,500, if the sale will admit thereof, otherwise to
abate proportionately.
The will of Thomas Corbett, of The Mythe,
Witherley, was proved, in the court at Leicester, by
Mrs. Corbett, his relict ; William Power, of Bran-
cote ; and Charles Phillips, of Atherstoue, the
executors and trustees. 'The personalty was
sworn under £12,000. The testator died in
March last, aged 71. The will is dated 1863, and
a codicil 1866. There are numerous bequests to
his cousins and other relatives and to his executors
and servants. 11e, leaves to the churchwardens of
Witherley and Ratcliffe, for each parish a legacy of
£lOO, free of duty, the dividends to be expended
•in coals for the poor ; also £lOO free of duty, the
dividends to be applied for the benefit of the Sab-
bath school of the Protestant church at Ratcliffe
Culey ; £lOO to the Leicester Infirmary, and £lOO
to the British and Foreign Bible Society. 'The
residue of his property, real and personal, he leaves
to his wife absolutely.
The late Miss Olivia More, of Bath, has left to
the British and Foreign Bible Society, £5OO ; to the
Moravian Missions, £5OO ; Church Missionary So-
, ciety for Africa and the East, £lOO ; Irish Church