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Draft will of Edward Lane, Witney, Oxon., baker. All real and personal estate to trustees : James Clinch, Witney, banker; James Long, younger, Witney, builder. To convert personal estate to money and invest, and use rents from real estate:- To testator's brother John Lane for life, then to sell real estate and invest and pay legacies:- £1500 to niece Sarah Robinson £ 500 to James Long Jr., husband of testator's late niece Eliza. £2000 equally between Maria, Mary Ann, Annie and Ellen Sarah Walker, daughters of niece Hannah Maria Pritchard, wife of William Thomas Pritchard, Handborough Mill, Oxon., miller (formerly H.M. Walker, widow) at age 21. £1000 and interest to James Colegrave Long, son of deceased niece Eliza and James Long the younger, at 21. £200 to provide annuity for niece Sarah Ford, widow. Residue to James Long the younger. Witnesses: John Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, solicitor and Henry C Salmon, Witney, banker's clerk.