This is the last Will and Testamentof me Robert Abraham of N^o. 32 York Terrace Regents Park in the County of Middlesex Esquire I bequeath to the respective persons hereinafter named the following specific legacies namely to Mary Anne my present dear wife the painting by Guido of a Madonna and Child and also the painting by Vandyke of Christ Crucified now in the drawing rooms of my present residence also the Paintings of Tracey House in Devonshire the Miniature portraits of the late Harry Baines Lott Esquire of Colonel Buckland and of the said Colonel’s father. The Portraits in oil colors of Mrs. Gibsley and Miss Emma Lott in one frame the portrait of Miss Henrietta Lott The China Bowls and figures usually on the Choffonier in the drawing room of my personal residence in York Terrace aforesaid also the Clock with figure of Psyche and glass cover on the chimney slab in the same room the whole of her my said wife’s wardrobe books jewels plate ornaments and paraphernalia and the beds and wardrobes had from Tracey and the grand piano forte usually standing in the south drawing room in my aforesaid residence and the Newfoundland dog which I purchased of Mr. Phillips and which is now at the residence of my son Augustus Brown Abraham. To my dear daughter Ellinor Mary wife of Richard Bethell Esquire Queen’s Counsel the water color drawing by her deceased dear mother of Flowers Birds Nest etc. and the drawing to match of an enriched vase and fruit by her grandfather Mr. Brown and which drawings now usually hang opposite the windows in the dining parlor of my said present residence and the box formerly belonging to and used by her said mother and usually placed in my dressing room an engraving of the portrait of my esteemed friend and patron the late Duke of Norfolk and the model of the bust of my dear friend Henry Verelst Esquire to my dear daughter Louisa Sarah wife of John Bethell Gentleman the four miniature portraits of my own parents and of my said deceased wife’s parents the mounted fire
screens with water color drawings and a water color drawing of white and red roses by her mother and a water color drawing of a bird’s nest the small landscape with white horses by her grandfather Mr. Brown also the stuffed Arnndel Owl preserved in a glass vase now hanging in the hall of my said present residence. To my son Henry Robert Abraham one of his dear mother’s water color drawings of flowers to be selected by him from amongst those not previously bequeathed by me also the three drawings of or connected with the gardens at Alton Abbey or the Alton Towers consisting of  the Gardens by Purser the Pagoda by my said said son Henry Robert and the Geometrical view of the Conservatories by Paine and the perspective view of the proposed College of Arms and the drawing of the gothic window with stained glass also his said late brother Frederick Hanway Abraham’s drawing of the Westminster Bridewell the elevation and section of the Jews synagogue now hanging over the chimney piece in the library of my said present residence. Also the elevation by Beaumont of the Westminster Bridewell Gateway Entrance all in the library in my said present residence. To my son Edwin John Abraham such one of the drawings painted by his dear mother as may be allotted to him by his sisters or the survivor of them an Engraving of the Queen in York Cathedral from a drawing by his said brother Frederick Hanway Abraham and the small landscape with two boys by his grandfather Mr. Brown which at present hangs near the eastern Parlor window of my said present residence. Also the vase and ornaments drawn by his said brother Henry Robert and now being in the library in my house in York Terrace and my gold mounted glass and spectacles with the gold chain thereto belonging. To my son Augustus Brown Abraham my gold snuff box presented to me by some of my former pupils. The Engraving from a Painting by my said late wife of a red rose with an insect thereon emblematical of the death of the late Princess Charlotte. Another engraving of the Queen in York Cathedral from the said drawing by my said son Frederick Hanway Abraham. The two portraits by my dear old friends John Baron Esquire in pencil one of himself and the other of myself. Also the gold watch chains and odais which for many years I have usually worn. Also the furniture, pictures fixtures and other effects (except the boy bequeathed to my said wife / belonging to me and purchased of Mr. Phillips and now being in or about my house N^o. 11 Wellington Road St. John’s Wood in the County of Middlesex now occupied by my said son Augustus Brown Abraham and the Engraving of the portrait of my valued and dear friend Captain Hamilton. To my son Charles James Abraham one of the drawings of his dear mother should there be one left after satisfying the bequests hereinbefore made of her drawings. Another Engraving of the Queen in York Cathedral from the said drawing by my said son Frederick Hanway Abraham. The French daguerreotype portrait of his said brother Henry Robert Abraham. The Porphry Sarcophagus now on the chimney shelf of the library the plaster cast of the death of Abel and the two Etruscan vases with the pedestals now in the library of my said present dwelling. The life of and works in two volumes by my good friend Sir Edward Thomason now residing at Bath with drawings etc. of models and my Prayer book and Bible bound together with the leather cover for the same. And I request that my said present wife may if she should wish it have possession during her life of the portrait of myself now hanging in the library of my said present residence. And subject to such bequest or option to her I give the same
portrait to my said oldest daughter and I give the portraits of my maternal grandfather and grandmother now hanging in the dining parlor of my present residence to my said oldest daughter for life after her decease to my said youngest daughter for life and after the death of the survivor of them to my oldest son then living absolutely. And I bequeath to my daughter the said Ellinor Mary the wife of the said Richard Bethell and to my said daughter Louisa Sarah the wife of the said John Bethell all that my one equal undivided moiety or half part of and in all those leasehold messuages or tenements and premises situate in Cambridge Square in the parish of Paddington in the said County of Middlesex and there numbered respectively 15.19. and 20. And also of and in the leasehold messuage or tenement and premises in Oxford Terrace in the same Parish and there N^o. 37 the entirety of which several messuages or tenements was lately purchased of Mr. Ponsford by the said Richard Bethell but as to our moiety in trust for me as appears by a declaration of trust of the same moiety executed by the said Richard Bethell to hold the same moiety unto them the said Ellinor Mary Bethell and Louisa Sarah Bethell in equal shares as tenants in common for the respective residences of the several terms for or during which the same premises have been respectively purchased as aforesaid and subject as hereinafter mentioned I devise and bequeath to my oldest son Henry Robert Abraham all my leasehold messuages or tenements and premises situate in Keppel Street in the Parish of Saint George Bloomsbury in the said County of Middlesex and there N^o. 27. And also all my leasehold messuage offices tenement and premises situate in Torrington Street in the same Parish and there N^o. 1. And also all those my leasehold coach house stables and premises situate and being in Torrington Mews East connected with the said last mentioned leasehold premises together with such tenants fixtures in the same messuages or tenements coachhouse stables and premises as shall belong to me at my decease and also all my third and other share estate and interest in a certain freehold cottage garden and premises situate and being in the west rents in or near the town of Worthing in the County of Desford (which cottage is there numbered 22) To hold the same last mentioned leasehold and freehold hereditaments and premises unto him the said Henry Robert Abraham his heirs executors and administrators for the respective estates terms and interests which I shall have therein at the time of my decease (but nevertheless as to the said leasehold premises subject and charged as hereinafter mentioned and I bequeath to my son Edwin John Abraham all my leasehold messuage or tenement and premises situate and being in Euston Square in the Parish of Saint Pancras in the said County of Middlesex and there numbered 33. And also all my leasehold messuage or tenement and premises situate and being in Euston Place in the said Parish of Saint Pancras and there numbered 23 together with such tenants fixtures in the same several last mentioned messuages or tenements and premises as shall belong to me at my decease to hold the same last mentioned messuages or tenements and premises unto him the said Edwin John Abraham his executors or administrators for the respective terms and interests which I shall have therein  at the time of my decease subject nevertheless and charged as hereinafter mentioned and I bequeath to my son Augustus Brown Abraham all those my two leasehold messuages tenements and premises situate and being in
Euston Place aforesaid and there respectively numbered 10 and 16 with such tenants fixtures in and about the said premises respectively as shall belong to me at my decease and also my leasehold messuage or tenement and premises situate in Wellington Road Saint John’s Wood aforesaid and there numbered 11 with such tenants fixtures in or about the same as shall belong to me at my decease to hold the said last mentioned messuages or tenements and premises unto him the said Augustus Brown Abraham his executors or administrators for the respective terms and interests therein which I shall have therein at the time of my decease (subject nevertheless and charged as hereinafter mentioned) and I give and bequeath to my son Charles John Abraham all those my two leasehold messuages or tenements and premises situate and being in Euston Place aforesaid and there respectively numbered 20 and 22 together with such tenants fixtures in or about the same last mentioned messuages or tenements and premises as shall belong to me at my decease and also all those four several messuages in tenements and premises situate and being on the east side of Osnaburgh Street and South side of Frederick Street Marylebone *(and in the several parishes of Saint Pancras aforesaid and Saint Marylebone) in the said County of Middlesex or one of them and hold by me under a lease granted by the Crown and subject to an underlease to Mr. Abraham Day to hold the same last mentioned messuages or tenements and premises unto him the said Charles John Abraham his executors or administrators for the respective terms and interests which I shall have therein at the time of my decease subject nevertheless and charged as hereinafter mentioned) and where as under or by virtue of an indenture bearing date on or about the fifteenth day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven and expressed to be made between me the said Robert Abraham of the first part my said present wife Mary Ann Abraham (then Mary Ann Lott widow) of the second part and Thomas Edward Clarke Gentleman and the said John Bethell of the third part and an indenture bearing date on or about the        day of           one thousand eight hundred and forty five and expressed to be made between myself of the first part the said Mary Ann Abraham of the second part and Robert Fuller Graham Gentleman and the said John Bethell of the third part or by other means my said wife in case of her surviving me will become entitled to an annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds for her life payable quarterly and which annuity is by such indentures or out of them now charged upon and made payable out of such of the aforesaid leasehold messuages or tenements and premises hereinbefore bequeathed as are respectively mentioned or referred to as being N^o. 27 Keppel Street aforesaid N^o. 1 Torrington Street N^os. 10 and 20 Euston Place and N^o. 33 Euston Square and the said coach house stables and premises in Torrington Mews East. Now I do hereby declare my will and mind to be that the several bequests hereinbefore made by me to my said several sons of the aforesaid leasehold premises respectively charged with the aforesaid annuity to my said wife are upon the express condition that during the continuance of the said annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds they my said sons and their respective executors administrators or assigns shall respectively out of or with reference to the said leasehold premises so charged therewith and respectively bequeathed to them contribute towards the discharge of the same annuity in the proportions following (that is to say) the sum of fifty pounds per annum part thereof shall be paid by the said Henry Robert Abraham or his representatives. The sum of thirty five pounds per annum further part thereof shall be paid by the said *(Edwin John Abraham or his representatives the sum of forty five pounds per annum further part thereof shall be paid by the said) Augustus Brown Abraham or his representatives  and the sum of twenty pounds per annum residue of such annuity shall be paid by the said Charles
John Abraham or his representatives and I do hereby direct and declare that as between my said sons and their said respective representatives and without prejudice to the rights and remedies of my said wife and her trustees. the aforesaid several and respective proportions hereinbefore specified of the aforesaid annuity to my said wife shall be charged upon and payable out of the said several leasehold hereditaments and premises already charged with the said annuity and so cooperatively bequeathed to my said several sons as aforesaid provided always and I do hereby declare that if and as often as any one or more of them my said sons Henry Robert Abraham Edwin John Abraham Augustus Brown Abraham and Charles John Abraham or his or their respective executors administrators or assigns shall neglect or refuse to pay the proportion or proportions of the said annuity of one hundred and fifty pounds which I have hereinbefore required to be paid by him or them respectively and in consequence thereof any other or others of them my said sons his or their executors administrators or assigns shall pay or be called upon or become liable to pay more than the proportion which he or they ought to pay under this my will or any such greater proportion shall under the powers and trusts of the said indentures by which such annuity is secured be raised out of the said premises hereinbefore bequeathed to my said last mentioned son or sons then and in every such case it shall be lawful for the party or parties by whom or out of whose estate or respective estates such excessive proportion or proportions shall have been paid or become payable or have been raised respectively and who shall have previously paid his or their  own proportion or proportions of such annuity agreeably to the condition hereinbefore contained from time to time into and upon such of the said messuages or tenements and premises so charged with the aforesaid annuity as are hereinbefore given and bequeathed to the party or parties so in default to enter and distrain for the amount so hereinbefore required to be paid in respect thereof and all arrears thereof and the distress then and there found to detain manage sell and dispose of in like manner and with the like powers and authorities as to the nature taking management and disposal of such distresses as landlords are empowered either by the common or statute law to do or exercise in relation to distresses for each reserved upon leases for years to the intent that thereby or otherwise the party or parties exercising such power of distress may be fully satisfied and paid the sum or sums of money which he or they is or are hereby authorized to raise and all arrears thereof and all costs charges and expenses to be occasioned by reason of the nonpayment thereof and it shall otherwise be lawful for the person or respective persons to whom the aforesaid power or respective powers of distress is or are hereinbefore given in his or their discretion and either before he or they shall have exercised such power or respective powers of distress and whether the same shall or shall not be exercised by him or them unto or upon all and every the messuages and premises so charged with the aforesaid annuity and hereinbefore bequeathed to the party or parties by whom or by whose representatives such default shall have been made or any part thereof respectively to enter and the same to have held and enjoy and the rents and profits thereof and of every part thereof to receive and take to and for his or their own use and benefit until thereby or otherwise the proportion or proportions of the said annuity in respect whereof such default as aforesaid shall have been made and all arrears thereof respectively and also all such further payments of such last mentioned
proportion or proportions as shall accrue or grow and during such time as the party or parties so in possession as last aforesaid shall continue in such possession of the same messuages and premises after such entry as aforesaid shall have been fully paid and satisfied and also all such costs damages and expenses as shall be sustained or occasioned by reason of the refusal or neglect to pay their said last mentioned proportion or proportions of the said annuity or and part or parts thereof respectively at the days or times upon which such proportion or proportions ought to be paid as aforesaid and such possession when taken shall be without impeachment of waste. Provided always and I do hereby expressly direct that each of the several legatees hereinbefore named of the said leasehold hereditaments and premises hereinbefore respectively bequeathed and the respective executors administrators and assigns of the same legatee shall as from the time of my decease and in exoneration of or by way of indemnity to my executors and the remainder of my estate be subject to the payment performance and observance of the respective rents and lessees covenants affecting the said leasehold premises hereby bequeathed to the same legatee or such proportion thereof or such liability in respect of the same as I if living should have been liable unto and I further direct that each or either of the aforesaid legatees his or her executors administrators or assigns or the husband of each or either of my said daughters shall at his her or their expense but at the request of my executors or either of them execute a bond binding his her or their respective heirs and in a reasonable penalty for indemnifying my executors and other personal representatives for the time being from or against the said respective rents and covenants or proportion of rents and covenants from or in respect of which I have hereinbefore directed the same legatee and his or her representatives to exonerate or indemnify my executors and estate but I expressly declare that my executors or any of them shall not be in any manner answerable for any executional failure of such indemnity or be bound to require such bond which they any or either of them shall in their or his discretion then see fit and whereas the said messuage or tenement and premises in which I now reside and being N^o 32 York Terrace Regents Park aforesaid and held by me under a lease granted thereof by Edward Vernon Utterson Esquire for a term of twenty one years from Lady Day one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight determinable at the end of the first seven or fourteen years thereof and in the event that I or my executors give six calendar months previous notice for that purpose now I do hereby direct my executors in the event of my death during the currency of the first fourteen years of the said term and before such notice shall have been given but whilst the same shall be capable of being given to give the requisite notice to determine the aforesaid term of twenty one years at the end of the said first fourteen years and subject to the aforesaid direction and any consequent determination of the said term I direct my executors to permit my said wife to have the personal occupation and use of but not any right of property in the said last mentioned messuage or a tenement and premises and the fixtures therein including such as shall belong to me and also of all the household furniture plate and plated articles linen china glass pictures printed books and other household effects therein which shall belong to me at my decease and including the articles and other effects hereby specifically bequeathed and also any carriage and carriage horses and harness which I shall be possessed of at the time of my decease until the expiration
of four calendar months from the day of my death and I direct my executors during such period to pay the rent and perform the covenants in respect of my said leasehold residence and also the rates and taxes thereon out of my estate and also to pay the wages of the servants and the expense of keeping my said carriage horses and I direct that after the determination of the said right of occupation and enjoyment by my said wife or immediately after my decease if she should not accept or avail herself of such right the aforesaid messuage furniture effects and premises as to which such right of occupation and enjoyment is hereby given to her shall fall into and constitute part of my residuary personal estate and shall be sold and disposed of accordingly but the trustees or trustee for the time being under this my will may in their or his discretion postpone or omit the sale or conversion of the same leasehold messuage and other premises comprised in the said lease from the said Edward Vernon Utterson and may during the whole or any part of the residue for the time being of the said first fourteen years of the said term let the same to any person or persons who shall be willing to take the same and either together with or without the use of such of the fixtures therein as belong to me for such rent and upon such terms as the said trustees or trustee shall think fit and if the rent arising therefrom shall be insufficient for the discharge and satisfaction of the said rent and lessees covenants under the said subsisting lease the deficiency shall be made up out of my residuary personal estate but any surplus of the rents to arise from such letting after satisfaction of the said reserved rent and lessees covenants shall form part of the income of my said residuary personal estate and I give to each of my dear brothers Captain Abraham and George Frederick Abraham the sum of five guineas for the purchase of a ring and to each of my dear sisters Sarah Kinnard and Frances Charlotte Hunter and to each of my children and to the husband of each of my daughters and to the wife of each of my sons the sum of three guineas for the like purpose and I give to my niece Sarah Kinnard the sum of ten guineas and I bequeath to the said Richard Bethell George Frederick Abraham and my friend James Lockyer of Southampton Street Fitzroy Square in the County of Middlesex the yearly sum of eighty five pounds long annuities terminating on the fifth day of January one thousand eight hundred and sixty and now standing in my name in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England upon the trusts and subject to the provisions hereinafter declared and contained concerning the same (that is to say) upon trust for all my grandchildren being now and daughters of my said oldest son Henry Robert Abraham by Harriet his present wife who shall be living at my decease or shall be afterwards born before the expiration of the said term for which such annuity is payable and I hereby direct that the said Richard Bethell George Frederick Abraham  and James Lockyer and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor shall or may in their or his discretion and during the minority of each such grandchild as last aforesaid pay over to the said Harriet Abraham the share to which such grandchild shall be entitled for the time being in the said annuity to be by her the said Harriet Abraham and in her sole and absolute discretion applied for or towards the maintenance and education of such grandchild and the receipt of the said Harriet Abraham for the monies to be
 so paid to her shall be a sufficient discharge for the same to the said trustees or trustee for the time being hereunder but in the event of her death during the continuance of the aforesaid annuity the said trustees or trustee shall have the like discretion as to the application of the said respective shares of the said infant children for the time being as the said Harriet Abraham would if living have had. And I declare that such application may be made without reference to the ability of the said Henry Robert Abraham to provide such maintenance and education out of his own funds I give unto the respective persons hereinafter named in that behalf the following life annuities (that is to say) unto my said sister Sarah Kinnard during her life an annuity of ten guineas and unto my said sister Frances Charlotte Hunter during her life a like annuity of ten guineas and I direct that each of the aforesaid annuities shall be paid free from legacy duty and every other deduction the same to be paid by annual payments of which the first shall be made at the expiration of twelve calendar months from my decease and then a proportionate part of each or either of such annuities shall be paid in the event of determination thereof during the currency of any one year and I hereby direct the trustees or trustee for the time being hereunder as soon as conveniently may be after my decease to purchase or appropriate and set apart in their or his names or name and out of the proceeds of my personal estate not specifically bequeathed an amount of three pounds per cent consolidated bank annuities sufficient by the dividends thereof to pay and satisfy the said several annuities or such one of them as shall for the time being be payable and when and as the said several annuities shall respectively determine a corresponding proportion of the funds so to be appropriated and set apart shall fall into and be applied as part of my residuary personal estate and I give and bequeath unto the said Richard Bethell George Frederick Abraham and James Lockyer all my money securities for money goods chattels and Personal Estate and Effects whatsoever and wheresoever and of what nature or kind soever not hereinbefore specifically bequeathed and also all the personal estate over which I have a power of disposition which I can hereby exercise for the purposes hereinafter expressed to hold the same unto the said Richard Bethell George Frederick Abraham and James Lockyer their executors or administrators upon trust that they the said Richard Bethell  George Frederick Abraham and James Lockyer and the survivors and survivor of them and the executors or administrators of such survivor shall as soon as conveniently may be after my decease but at such times or time as the said trustees or trustee shall in their or his discretion think fit sell and dispose of collect get in and convert into money so much and such parts of the same residuary personal estate as shall not consist of such securities of the nature hereinafter directed for the investment of any trust monies hereunder as the said trustees or trustee shall think fit to retain upon such investments and I direct such sale to be made either by public auction or private contract or partly by public auction and partly by private contract  and subject to such conditions and stipulations of sale as to title or otherwise and generally in such manner in all respects as my executors or other the trustees or trustee for the time being shall think fit with power in their or his irresponsible discretion to buy in the same premises or rescind or vary any contract for the sale thereof and to resell the same and I hereby
declare that my said trustees or trustee shall stand possessed of the monies to arise and be produced from my said residuary personal estate aforesaid or of which any part thereof shall at the time of my decease consist upon trust by with or out of the same monies to pay and satisfy or retain all my just debts in funeral and testamentary expenses and all expenses incident to the execution of the trusts hereby created and the pecuniary legacies hereby bequeathed as and when the same shall become payable and upon further trust that the said trustees or trustee for the time being shall divide the net residue of my said personal estate and effects after such deductions or payments as are hereinbefore directed but expressly including any such investments as shall have been so retained as aforesaid into eight equal parts or shares and shall pay or transfer one of such eighth parts or shares to my said son Henry Robert Abraham absolutely two other of such eighth parts or shares to my said son Edwin John Abraham absolutely two other of such eighth parts or shares to my said son Augustus Brown Abraham absolutely  and two other of such eighth parts or shares to my said son Charles James Abraham absolutely and as to the remaining one eighth part ** ** ** thereof upon trust that they my said trustees or trustee for the time being shall retain the same and lay out and invest or appropriate the amount thereof in the purchase in their or his names or name of stock or bank annuities in some or one of the public stocks funds or annuities of Great Britain or place out the same at interest in their or his names or name in or upon government or parliamentary securities or on any real security or securities in England or Wales (but not in Ireland) with power for the said trustees or trustee for the time being in their or his discretion and when and as often as they or he shall think expedient to alter vary and transpose the said stocks funds and securities so to be purchased taken or appropriated as aforesaid respectively for any other stocks funds or securities of the description hereinbefore directed for the investment of the trust monies constituting the said last mentioned eighth share and I direct that they my said trustees or trustee for the time being shall stand possessed of the said last mentioned eighth part or share and the stock funds and securities for the time being constituting the investments thereof but subject and without prejudice to the discretionary powers in relation thereto which are hereinafter expressed upon trust for the benefit of Charlotte Abraham the widow of my said late son Frederick Hanway Abraham and her now surviving four children by him and to be divided in equal fifth shares between them the said Charlotte Abraham and her said children as tenants in common and not as joint tenants and so that each of them shall be entitled to one of the said fifth shares and to be respectively paid assigned or transferred when and as soon as the youngest of such children or the youngest surviving child for the time being shall have attained his or her age of twenty one years or as soon as all such children shall have died under that age but if the said Charlotte Abraham shall die during the minority of her said youngest or youngest surviving child for the time being then as concerning as well the said original share of her the said Charlotte Abraham as any accruing or presumptive share or shares to which she shall or might have become entitled under the provisions herein contained and the annual income thereof to which