AN ECCENTRIC WILL.
The will of Aliss Charlotte Rosa ? Raine is a very eccentric one. She \ died worth £86,000, and after dis- . posing of this, she refers in tones of 3 endearment to her cats. She gives 3 her dear old white puss Titiens, and 3 her pussies Tabby Rolla, Tabby ! Jen nef cc, and black and white Ursula, j to Ann Elizabeth Matthews, and she • directs her executors to pay her £12 ' a year for the maintenance of each [ cat so long as it shall live ; her long- ' haired white puss Louise, and her » black and white puss Dr. Clausman, I to her hand-maiden Elizabeth Wil- [ loughby, and her black Ebony and white Oscar to Miss Lavinia Sophia t Beck ; and her executors are directed E to pay them also £12 a year for each ! of their pussies so long as it shall live. [ All the remainder of her pussies she , gives to the said Ann Elizabeth Mat- , thews, and she directs her executors to pay her out of the balance of the ' dividends of her late father's Lambeth . Waterworks shares £150 a year for their miiiiitonanca so long as any of them shall live, '• hut this U i.ot to ; extGUfl to kittens af.terwnr»ta born " , Miss Raine leaves her estate in Oxi fordahire toJjOrd Randolph Ciiurchhill.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 131, 1 December 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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217AN ECCENTRIC WILL. Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 131, 1 December 1894, Page 1 (Supplement)
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