106 GILBERT WHITE OF SELBORNE 1759 



whose estate of Up Park it seems to have joined. 

 The Trustees of the settlement seem to have bought 

 another property with the purchase money. This 

 Mrs. John White dealt with by her will, as to which 

 Gilbert White consulted one " Counsellor Wright," 

 who wrote from Oxford on March 12th, 1759 : — 



"If you allow of the will, and pay the money charged 

 on the estate there will be no occasion to prove it anywhere. 

 When you pay the money it will be proper to take a con- 

 veyance of the estate from the heir of the surviving Trustee, 

 and the younger children must join in it, and acknowledge 

 the receipt of the money given to them respectively by your 

 mother's will." 



The four remaining properties were strictly entailed 

 upon the eldest son of the marriage, subject, how- 

 ever, to a charge of £1,500 if there should be only 

 one or two children, and of £2,000 if (as was, of 

 course, the case) three or more younger children, for 

 their portions. Power was reserved to the husband 

 and wife to revoke the trusts of, and resettle by deed 

 the Hawkley and Eogate lands (properties Nos. 1 

 and 5). This power they exercised in 1730, when 

 these properties were resettled by them on their 

 younger children. 



Under the wills of his grandmothers, Mrs. White 

 and Mrs. Holt, Gilbert White received no benefit 

 whatever. 



The reader is now generally in a position to 

 understand how utterly different Gilbert White's 



