This is the last Will and Testament of me Alexander 
Robertson of Hoebridge Place Woking in the 
County of Surrey I desire that all my debts funeral 
and testamentary expences be paid  I desire that all 
my obligations under my marriage settlement be 
discharged I give devise and bequeath unto Samuel 
Scott Esquire of Cavendish Square London James 
Newton Writer to the Signet Edinburgh and 
William Dockar of Broad Street Buildings London 
Gentleman their heirs executors administrators & 
assigns all my freehold and copyhold messuages lands 
tenements hereditaments and real estate whatsoever 
and wheresoever with their appurtenances except such 
estates as are vested in me in trust or by way of 
mortgage and also my goods chattels furniture effects 
money security for money debts bonds and personal 
estate of what nature or kind soever To hold the same 
upon the trusts and subject to the provisions and 
declarations hereinafter declared that is to say Upon 
trust that they the said Trustees & the Trustees for the 
time being of this my will do and shall call in sell and 
convert into money my aforesaid personal estate 
except such part as shall be invested in Cuban 
securities which shall remain so invested until paid off 
in due course and then receive the amounts and do 
and shall absolutely sell and dispose of my said 
freehold copyhold and real estates entirely altogether 
or in parcels by public auction or private contract to 
any person or persons for such price or prices as to my 
trustees shall seem reasonable and for facilitating such 
sale do and shall enter into and execute all contracts 
conveyances surrenders assurances acts and deeds  
And I declare that my said trustees do and shall stand 
possessed of the monies which shall come to their 
hands by virtue of this my Will Upon trust to pay all my 
just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to 
provide for and pay all the legacies and annuities 
hereinafter bequeathed and other trust purposes as are 
hereinafter declared and I direct that the trustees of 
this my Will do lay out in their names the sum of fifteen 
thousand pounds of money in the three per cent 
consolidated annuities and pay and apply the whole or 
such part of the dividends thereof as they shall think 
necessary from time to time during the life of my 
daughter Margaret Turnbull Robertson for her 
support and benefit in aid of the income arising from 
her own property at such times & in such manner only 
as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall deem for 
her advantage she being of unsound mind and 
incapacitated from managing herself and her affairs 
and that the disposal and application thereof for her 
benefit shall be conclusive upon her and all other 
persons and it shall not be necessary to produce her 
receipt for the said dividends or any part thereof And I 
direct that the whole of the said dividends if unapplied 
for her use & the surplus if any so unapplied shall be 
reinvested in the said Three percent consolidated 
annuities and after the decease of my said daughter 
the stock and accumulated dividends shall then sink 
into the residue of my estate and be subject to the 
trusts concerning the same and I bequeath the same 
accordingly  I direct that the trustees of this my will as 
soon as conveniently may be done to lay out and invest 
or set apart in their names upon the Mortgage security 
of Lands in England or Scotland both or either or in the 
three percent consolidated annuities the sum of twenty 
six thousand pounds and pay the interest or dividends 
thereof unto or permit the same to be received by Mrs 
Alice Robertson (the widow of my late brother the 
Rev.d James Maitland Robertson) and by his three 
daughters Alice Helen and Jane for their mutual and 
joint use maintainance and benefit and from and after 
the decease of the said Mrs Alice Robertson Widow pay 
the interest or dividends or permit the same to be 
received by the said Alice Helen and Jane equally share 
and share alike under the joint receipt of any two of 
them which receipt or receipts so signed shall be a 
good and sufficient discharge and on their death and 
on the death of either one of them the share of the 
deceased in the interest and dividends and what may 
be accruing due together with the proportion of capital 
upon which such share of interest and dividends are 
paid shall sink to all the trusts concerning the same 
and I bequeath the same accordingly but so that 
neither jointly nor individually they shall not have 
power to charge assigns or incumber the accruing 
payments thereof & I desire that the trustee or trustees 
to be appointed in the room of such as shall die or not 
act be first approved by two of my said deceased 
brothers children Andrew excepted I direct my trustees 
as soon as convenient and practicable to lay out and 
invest the sum of fifteen hundred pounds in the 
absolute purchase of a government annuity for the life 
of my nephew Andrew Robertson for his support 
and maintainance during his life  I bequeath to my 
nephew John Robertson the sum of seven thousand 
pounds for the maintainance and support of himself 
and his family I direct my trustees to lay out in such 
securities as they and my niece Mrs Elizabeth 
Turnbull shall approve and I do expressly so that the 
interest thereof only shall be paid to the said Elizabeth 
Turnbull for her use during her life provided she 
continues a Widow and so that she shall not have 
power to anticipate charge sell assign or incumber the 
same or any part thereof & that the receipts of the said 
Elizabeth Turnbull for the interest shall be a good and 
sufficient discharge for the same to my trustees and 
from and after the marriage or decease of the said 
Elizabeth Turnbull whichever may happen first the 
securities stock and accruing interest therein shall then 
and thereafter sink into and form part of the residue of 
my estate and be subject to the trusts concerning the 
same  I gibe and bequeath to each of my three nieces 
Alice Helen and Jane Robertson or such of them as 
shall be alive after my decease the sum of one 
thousand pounds stg absolutely to Alexander 
Chrystic of The Lodge Fifeshire five thousand 
pounds stg absolutely to the aforesaid William Dockar 
of Broad Street Buildings London Two thousand pounds 
Stg absolutely to Patrick Denchar R.N. of Edinburgh 
one thousand pounds absolutely to Miss Alice 
Jemima Turnbull daughter of my aforesaid niece One 
thousand pounds absolutely to her brother John 
William Turnbull Two thousand pounds Stg to 
Robertson Melville the son of John Melville one 
thousand pounds to Mrs Mary Edwards the daughter 
of the late William Tate five hundred pounds 
absolutely to Miss Josephine Dockar the daughter of 
the aforesaid William Dockar Two hundred pounds Stg 
for which his receipt shall be a good discharge all which 
legacies and bequests are to be paid free of Legacy 
duty and I direct my trustees to invest the sum of two 
thousand pounds Stg in such securities and in the 
names of such Trustees as shall be directed in writing 
by Charlotte Soley the daughter of the Rev.d 
Francis Laing of the Myth Tewkesbury 
notwithstanding her coverture to be held by such 
Trustees upon such Trusts for her sole and separate 
use and benefit independently of her present or any 
future husband and for the use and benefit of her child 
and children as she shall in writing direct and declare 
that the separate receipt of the said Charlotte Soley 
alone shall be a good discharge to my Trustees and 
after such investment my Trustees shall not be 
responsible for the principal or income or application 
thereof and after the payment of all the aforesaid 
Legacies and bequests and after the investment of the 
sums hereinbefore directed to be made I direct that my 
trustees do and shall so soon as practicable invest the 
rest residue and remainder of my real and personal 
estate and effects in the three pounds pcent 
Consolidated annuities and the dividends arising 
therefrom to be invested in the same security until my 
Grand nephew Alexander Robertson second son of 
my said nephew John Robertson shall have attained the 
age of twenty five years and my trustees shall then 
make over and transfer to the said Alexander 
Robertson the stock and accumulation so invested to 
be possessed by him absolutely and in the event of the 
said Alexander Robertson dying before he shall have 
attained the age of twenty five years then in his stead 
unto and for such other male issue of my said Nephew 
John Robertson born after the said Alexander 
Robertson on attaining the said age and if there be no 
such male issue living on the death of the said 
Alexander Robertson I direct that the said consolidated 
3 Pcent annuities be sold and the proceeds of such sale 
and of my residuary estate be divided among the 
Grandchildren of my late Brother the Rev.d James 
Maitland Robertson share and share alike and I direct 
my Trustees to apply annually a reasonable sum out of 
the residuary consolidated 3 Pr cent annuities fund to 
educate and support the  said Grandnephew Alexander 
Robertson and of any and every other male issue of my 
said Nephew John Robertson and I direct that the 
income arising from any portion of my real and 
personal estate remaining unsold or not converted into 
money shall be applied in the same manner as the 
income to arise from the investment of the proceeds of 
such sale as would have been applicable if the same 
had been actually then sold and I give and bequeath all 
estates vested in me upon trusts or by way of 
Mortgage to the said Samuel Scott Esquire James 
Newton W.S. and William Dockar their heirs executors 
administrators and assigns according to the nature 
thereof respectively upon and for the same trusts and 
purposes that the same were vested in me  And I 
nominate and appoint the said Samuel Scott Esquire 
James Newton and William Dockar the Executors of this 
my Will And I give and bequeath unto each of my said 
Executors the sum of Five hundred pounds Stg free of 
Legacy duty Provided always and I do hereby declare 
that the receipt or receipts of the Trustees for the time 
being of this my will shall effectually discharge the 
person or persons paying from being accountable for 
the misapplication or nonapplication thereof and from 
being bound to enquire into the necessity or propriety 
of any sale or disposition that may be made under or 
by virtue of this my will Provided always and I do 
hereby declare if the Trustees appointed in this my will 
or to be appointed as hereinafter mentioned or any or 
either of them shall happen to die or be desirous of 
being discharged from or refuse or decline or be 
incapable to act in the trusts hereby in such reposed it 
shall be obligatory upon and I do herby direct and 
empower the then surviving or continuing trustee or 
trustees by any writing to be by them sealed and 
delivered in the presence of and attested by two 
witnesses from time to time to nominate and appoint a 
person or persons to be a trustee or trustees in the 
stead or place of the trustee or trustees so dying or 
desiring to be discharged or refusing declining or 
becoming incapable to act subject nevertheless to 
approval as hereinbefore declared and I direct that the 
number of the trustees shall not in any way be allowed 
to be reduced below the number of two and all the said 
trust estates monies and premises shall be thereupon 
vested ion the person or persons so to be appointed as 
aforesaid either solely or jointly with the surviving or 
continuing  trustees or trustee as occasion shall require 
and the person or persons so to be appointed shall 
have all the powers and authorities of the trustee or 
trustees in whose room he or they shall be substituted 
provided always and I further declare that the said 
several trustees & each and any of them shall be 
charged and chargeable only for such monies as they 
respectively shall actually receive by virtue of the 
trusts hereby in them reposed notwithstanding their or 
any of their giving or signing or joining in giving any 
receipt for the sake of conformity and any one or more 
of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the 
other or others or for involuntary losses and also it 
shall and may be lawful for them with and out of the 
monies which shall come to their respective hands by 
virtue of the trusts aforesaid to retain to and reimburse 
themselves respectively and also to allow their 
respective cotrustees or cotrustee all costs charges 
damages and expenses which they or any of them shall 
or may suffer sustain expend disburse be at or be put 
unto in or about the execution of the aforesaid trusts 
and I do hereby revoke all former wills and Codicils by 
me at any time heretofore made and I declare this to 
be my last Will and Testament  In Witness whereof I 
the said Alexander Robertson have to each sheet of 
this my last Will and Testament which is contained on 
six sheets of paper set and subscribed my hand this 
twenty first day of November in the year one thousand 
eight hundred and fifty five Alex.r Robertson
Signed by the said Alexander Robertson The Testator in 
the presence of us who in his presence at his request 
and in the presence of each other have hereunto 
subscribed our names as witnesses  Cha.s Ritchie 38 
Broad St. Buildings Accountant to Royal Santiago 
Mining Co. _ Jabella Brake House keeper to the 
Royal Santiago Mining Co. 38 Broad St. Buildings.

Proved at London 29th of Jan.y 1857 before the Judge 
by the Oaths of Samuel Scott Esq.r James Newton and 
William Dockar Esq.r the Exors named to whom Admon 
was granted having been first sworn to wit the said 
Samuel Scott and William Dockar before the Worshipful 
Frederic Thomas Pratt Doctor of Laws and Surrogate & 
the said James Newton by Comon duly to administer.

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