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COPY OF TILE WILL AND TESTAMENT OF HIS LATE ROYAL

HICHINISS THE DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY.

This is the last Will and Testament of me, his Royal Highness
Frederick, Duke of York and Albany :—I direct all my just
Debts, Funeral and Testamentary Expences, to be paid and satis-
fied with all convenient speed after my decease; and I charge all
my Real and Personal Estate with the payment of my Debts ; and
I most sincerely and confidefitly hope that the produce of my Real
and Personal Estate will supply a Fund amply sufficient for that
purpose. I give, devise, and bequeath, all my Freehold, Copy-
hold, and Leasehold Estates, and all my Personal Estate whatso-
ever and wheresoever (except Letters and Manuscripts not being
Contracts, Securities, or Muniments of Title), unto and to the use
of Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor, G.C.H., and Colonel
Benjamin Charles Stephenson, Surveyor-General of his Majesty's
Board of Works, their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and
Assigns, according to the nature and quality thereof respectively,
upon trust that they, and the Survivor of them, and the Heirs,
Executors, Administrators, and Assigns of such Survivors, shall,
and do with all convenient speed, after my decease (but subject
and without prejudice to any contracts that may have been entered
into by me for the Sale of any of my Estates), and with full power
to carry or join in earrying ail or any of such Contracts into exe-
cution, or to rescind, or join in rescinding the same, or any of
them, if it shall be deemed advisable so to do, without incurring
any loss or responsibility by so rescinding, or joining in rescind-
ing, the same, and make sale and absolutely dispdse of by public
sale or private contract, all and singular my said Freehold, Copy-
hold, and Leasehold Estates, and such parts of my Personal Estate
as shall IA saleable, and collect, get in, and receive such parts of
my Personal Estate as shall not be saleable ; and do and shall
stand and be possessed of, and interested in the Monies to arise by
such sales, and to be collected, got in, and received, as aforesaid ;
and the Rents, Issues, and Profits, Dividends, Interest, and Pro-
ceeds of my said Real and Personal Estates,, until the same shall
be sold, collected, got in, and received, upon trust thereout to pay all
the Costs, Charges, and Expences whatsoever, attending such Sales,
collection, and getting in, and all other the Costs, Charges, and Ex-
pences ofmy said Trustees, or any of them, in or about the perform-
ance of all or any of the Trusts hereby in them reposed ; and in
the next place thereout to pay all my just Debts, Funeral and
Testamentary Expences, and the Interest of ouch Debts as
carry interest, and to pay all the residue (if any) of the afore-
said Trust Monies unto my dear Sister the Princess Sophia,
her Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for her and their
own absolute use and benefit; and my will is, that the receipts in
writing of my said Trustees, or the survivor of them, or the
Heirs, Executors, Administrators, or Assigns of such survivor,
shall be good and effectual discharges to the person or persons
purchasing, paying in, or delivering, all or any part of my
Freehold, Copyhold, Leasehold, or Personal Estate, for so much
of the purchase or other monies or effects, as in such receipts
respectively shall be expressed or acknowledged to be received,
paid in, or delivered; and that the person or persons to whom
such receipts shall be given, shall not afterwards be answerable
or accountable for any loss, misapplication, or nonapplicaAion of
the money or. effects, which in such receipts, respectively, shall be
expressed or acknowledged to be received, paid in, or delivered,
or- be bound or concerned to see to the application thereoL I
give and bequeath unto the said Sir Herbert Taylor, all my
Letters and Manuscripts (not being Contracts, Securities, or
Muniments of Title), and I request him to preserve and dispose
of the same respectively, according to such directions as I may
have given to him for that purpose. I hereby constitutb and
appoint the said Sir Herbert Taylor, and Benjamin Charles Ste-
phenson, Executors of this my Will ; and hereby revoking all
former Wills and Testamentary dispositions by me at any time
made, I hereby declare this to be my last Will and Testament,
in witness whereof I, the said- Frederick, Duke of York and
Albany, the Testator, have, to this my last Will and Testament,
and to a duplicate thereof, of the same tenor and date, set
my hand and seal, this 26th day of December, in the year of
our Lord, ISM FREDERICK. (Seal).
Signed,' sealed, published, and declared, by the abovesl named
Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the Testator, as and for
his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us, who at his
request, i„ his presence, and in the presence of each other, here-
uuto subscribe our names as witnesea.

PATRICK MACGREGOR.
FRANCIS DIGHTON.
JOHN PARKINSON.
This is a Codicil to my Will. I desire my Executors, in
all matters in which they may have occasion for legal aid and
advice, to resort to my Solicitor, John Parkinson, Esq. of Lin-
coln's-Inn-Fields. Written in my hand, this twenty-sixth day
of December, ISO. FREDERICK.

This Will has been proved in Doctors' Commons, and the Exe-
cutors have sworn the effects to be under One Hundred and Eighty
Thousand Pounds.