The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-27 00:00:00

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of the Rev. Hastings Robinson, D.P.,
rector of Great Warley, near Brentwood, Essex,
was proved in London by his brothers, the Revs'
W. W. Robinson, M.A., and Disney Robinson,
M.A. ; and the Rev. Charles J. F. Clinton, M.A.'
the joint acting executors. The personalty was
sworn under £20,000. Dr. Robinson had held the
living of Great Warley since 1827, and died on
May 18, 1866, having executed his will iu February
preceding. The will contains numerous small
legacies and some annuities, and he has been very
liberal to his servants. To one of them, John
Crofts, he has left a copyhold cottage in which be
dwelt and also some land adjoining. To his exe-
cutor Mr. Clinton he leaves £2OO, and £lOO to his
wife. There are many specific bequests, including
plate ; the residue of the plate he divides be-
tween his brothers-in-law, Henry and John Clay,
and the residue of his household furniture he leaves
to his brother William. A dwelling-house, caned
the Hulmers, he leaves to his cousin, the Rev.
Thorpe. • The residue of his freehold property he
leaves to his brother William and Catherine his wife
during their lives ; the residue of his personal pro-
perty between his brothers and the wife of bis
brother William for their lives. His real estates,
when for sale, are to be offered to John's Colleges
Cambridge. The ultimate residue of his property
is to he distributed as follows :---£2,000 towards the
endowment of a new district church in Christchurch,
Great Warley ; £2OO, a moiety of the interest
thereof, is to be expended in an annual entertain-
ment of the children of Christchurch National
School, and the other moiety in the purchase of books
or rewards to the most deserving scholars ; £2OO,
in like manner, for the Schools at Great IVarlel;
To Brentwood Grail-mar School £2OO, the interest
for annual prizes. To the trustees of Rugby Scheel'
for the divinity prize founded by him, £lOO. 1-1°
bequeathes £l,OOO for two annual exhibitions f°r.,
undergraduates of Cambridge and Oxf ord,to be callea
Dr. Robinson's Exhibitions. He bequeaths to the
Society for Poor Pious Clergy, . £1,000; Church
Aid
Society, Society, £l,OOO ; Church Pastoral AA
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Society, £1,000; London City Mission, £100;
Mission to Roman Catholics, £lOO ; London Asso-
ciation in Aid of Missions to the Moravians, £lOO
Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the
Jews, £lOO ; Religious Tract Society, £5O ; Esse
Clothing Charity, £lOO ; Royal Hospital for In-
curables, £100; Governesses' Benevolent Institutions
£lOO ; London Hospital, £lOO, and a further Oil
of £3OO to purchase two annual governorships t°,
said hospital, to be enjoyed by the incumbents!:
Great Warley and Christchurch. All these legaele
free of duty. The residue of the trust fund he leaves
between the children of his brothers-in-law, Henry'
John, and Joseph Clay.
The will of John Ashbury, Esq., of Manchester
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and London, has just been proved in the prinee
uncle
registry, and the personal property sworn
£400,000, by his son, James Ashbury, Esclt;
the sole executor. The will is brief, and bears da.".4
Sept. 2, 1866, being the day before his death, whledo
event took place at his residence, Sussex-place, ØY •
Park-gardens, after a short illness, in the 61st year
w,
of his age. The testator has left to his nephe
Thomas Ashbury, a legacy of £2,000, and to ea
of his other nephews £5OO, and a like bequest
each of his nieces. He bequeaths to his brother.;
Thomas Ashbury, an annuity of £lOO, and t° hahousekeeper a legacy of £lOO free of duty,
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mourning to all his servants. The rest of his Pro-
perty, real and personal, he bequeaths to his sci
James Ashbury, confiding in him that he will oat°

it make an ample provision for his mother.
The will of Mrs. Charlotte Williams, otheolo
Countess Dowager of Barrymore, formerly the "10
of Richard, Earl of Barrymore, deceased, and
the widow of John Matthew Williams, En./ "Di
proved in the London Court, on the 18th inst.,
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her daughter, Frances Mona Williams, the ie
executrix, to whom she has bequeathed the v71168°
of her property. The will is dated March 20, 18