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Extract of the Will of His Most Excellent Majesty King William the Fourth dated 3rd May 1837

His Majesty first gives to His Royal Consort Queen Adelaide the furniture and effects at Bushey and gives and confirms to her, her Jewels unclear And then makes the following bequests viz:

"His Majesty doth hereby give and bequeath unto His Executors "hereinafter named their executors and administrators All the live and "dead Stock of every description or the value thereof and the surplus balance "of Account in the Home Park Windsor (inherited or acquired in part - "from His late Majesty) the Stock of the Stud and all other live and dead "Stock of every description or the value thereof in Hampton Court and "Bushy Park (inherited or acquired in part underline from /underline His late Majesty) "And also all the live and dead Stock of every description on the "Farms in Windsor Great Park and which have been acquired by "His said Majesty as and out of His private Property and monies and the Balance of Account in His Majesty's Privy Purse underline And all such "Articles of Plate not hereinbefore bequeathed to His Royal Consort "as are not inserted and included in the Official Lists of Plate of "The Lord High Steward although they may happen to be in his custody /underline "And all monies stocks funds and securities for money and all Policies "of Assurance and monies and shares of money payable on any Policies "of Assurance Subject to His Majesty's private debts and such other "payments as in the ordinary course may be payable out of His "Majesty's Privy Purse at the time of His Majesty's Demise including "apportionments of Salaries private pensions and annual donations to the "same day and to the Legacies hereby given and which may be given "by any Codicil to this His Majesty's Will Upon Trust to convert the "whole thereof into money And after payment of all His Majesty's "said debts and legacies to divide the same into nine equal parts or "shares and to pay one equal ninth part or share thereof unto "The Right Honorable George Earl of Munster Or in case he shall "die in His Majesty's lifetime leaving a Child or Children living "at His Majesty's decease then to such Child or Children and 1