The will, with one codicil, of the late Alderman Henry Naish, of Oldenhurst, Ashley-hill, who died on the 23rd December last, has been proved in the Bristol District Registry of the Court of Probate, by Elizabeth Mary Pinsent Naish, widow, Alfred Brittan, solicitor, and Henry Grace, accountant, the net value of the personalty being £50,043 14s. 10d. After bequeathing £100 to the Bristol General Hospital, in which institution he took an active interest for many years, the testator directs that the sum of £200 shall be paid at once to his widow, who is to occupy the house at Ashley-hill for two years and have the whole of the household effects. The premises belonging to the testator in Castle-street are left to his son, Henry Thomas Naish. The five children of the said Henry Thomas Naish are to have the sum of £5,000 equally divided amongst them on attaining a certain age. On the expiration of two years the whole of the real and personal estate is to be realised, and the proceeds held in trust, the provisions of which are that the sum of £10,000 is to be set aside for the widow, and the interest thereon paid to her during her widowhood in case of remarriage, the capital sum is to be reduced to £6,000 and £4,000 is to be added to a trust fund in favour of the five children of the testator, to each of whom he has left a sum of £5,000. At the decease of the widow it is provided that the whole of the residuary estate is to be divided amongst the five children.
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