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oods which belong to me in consequence of my having advanced to my sister Kingston the sum of twenty-five pounds in lieu of her share of the proceeds of my goods aforesaid_, _and deposited in the bank of Bolitho Sons and Co._, _Esqrs._, _of Chiandower_, _near Penzance_, _after the aforesaid sums and articles shall have been paid and deducted_, _shall be put into some safe bank or lent on good landed security_, _and there left to accumulate for the sole benefit of my four nieces_, _Charlotte Bronte_, _Emily Jane Bronte_, _Anne Bronte_, _and Elizabeth Jane Kingston_; _and this sum or sums_, _and whatever other property I may have_, _shall be equally divided between them when the youngest of them then living shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years_. _And should any one or more of these my four nieces die_, _her or their part or parts shall be equally divided amongst the survivors_; _and if but one is left_, _all shall go to that one_: _And should they all die before the age of twenty-one years_, _all their parts shall be given to my sister_, _Anne Kingston_; _and should she die before that time specified_, _I will that all that was to have been hers shall be equally divided between all the surviving children of my dear brother and sisters_. _I appoint my brother-in-law_, _the Rev. P. Bronte_, A.B., _now Incumbent of Haworth_, _Yorkshire_; _the Rev. John Fennell_, _now Incumbent of Cross Stone_, _near Halifax_; _the Rev. Theodore Dury_, _Rector of Keighley_, _Yorkshire_; _and Mr. George Taylor of Stanbury_, _in the chapelry of Haworth aforesaid_, _my executors_. _Written by me_, ELIZABETH BRANWELL, _and signed_, _sealed_, _and delivered on the_ 30_th_ _of April_, _in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three_, ELIZABETH BRANWELL. _Witnesses present_, _William Brown_, _John Tootill_, _William Brown_, _Junr_. _The twenty-eighth day of December_, 1842, _the Will of_ ELIZABETH BRANWELL, _late of Haworth_, _in the parish of Bradford_, _in the county of York_, _spinster (having bona notabilia within the province of York_). _Deceased was proved in the prerogative court of York by the oaths of the Reverend Patrick Bronte_, _clerk_, _brother-in-law_; _and George Taylor_, _two of the executors to whom administration was granted_ (_the Reverend Theodore Dur
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