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and my shirt studs, shirt pins, and sleeve buttons. AND I BEQUEATH unto
my said son Charles and my son Henry Fielding Dickens, the sum of L8000
upon trust to invest the same, and from time to time to vary the
investments thereof, and to pay the annual income thereof to my wife
during her life, and after her decease the said sum of L8000 and the
investments thereof shall be in trust for my children (but subject as to
my daughter Mary to the proviso hereinbefore contained) who being a son
or sons shall have attained or shall attain the age of twenty-one years
or being a daughter or daughters shall have attained or shall attain
that age or be previously married, in equal shares if more than one. I
GIVE my watch (the gold repeater presented to me at Coventry), and I
give the chains and seals and all appendages I have worn with it, to my
dear and trusty friend John Forster, of Palace Gate House, Kensington,
in the county of Middlesex aforesaid; and I also give to the said John
Forster such manuscripts of my published works as may be in my
possession at the time of my decease. AND I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my
real and personal estate (except such as is vested in me as a trustee or
mortgagee) unto the said Georgina Hogarth and the said John Forster,
their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns respectively, upon
trust that they the said Georgina Hogarth and John Forster, or the
survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor, do
and shall, at their, his, or her uncontrolled and irresponsible
direction, either proceed to an immediate sale or conversion into money
of the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), or defer
and postpone any sale or conversion into money, till such time or times
as they, he, or she shall think fit, and in the meantime may manage and
let the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), in such
manner in all respects as I myself could do, if I were living and acting
therein; it being my intention that the trustees or trustee for the time
being of this my Will shall have the fullest power over the said real
and personal estate which I can give to them, him, or her. AND I DECLARE
that, until the said real and personal estate shall be sold and
converted into money, the rents and annual income thereof respectively
shall be paid and applied to the person or persons in the manner and for
the purposes to whom and for which the annual income of the mon