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QUEEN CRISTINA'S WILL..
The will (dated December 31, 1874) with a codicil (dated September 6, 1875), both made at Paris, of her Majesty the Queen Doña Maria Cristina de Borbon y Borbon, who died in August 22 of last year, at the Pavilion de Mondesir Le Havre, France, was
proved in London on the 13th ult. by Don Lino Munoz, the acting executor, a power being reserved to Don Francisco de Cardenas, Don Pedro de Egana, and Don Luis Pidal, Marquess de Pidal, the other executors named in the will, to prove hereafter should they de- sire to do so. The personal estate in Eng- land Í8 sworn under £6000. The testatrix directs that 5000 recited masses shall be per- formed for her soul, 5000 for the souls of her late husbands, 1000 for the souls of her deceased children, and 500 for the souls of her deceased grandchildren, to be performed by poor priests in churches to be selected by her executors, the alms for each mass to be 10 reals. She bequeaths 50,000 reals vellon to the needy poor and sick of the towns of Tarancoon, Saelices, Villarrubia, and Belinchon, in the province of Cuesta, in Spain, and of the town of Rueil, in France, viz., 20,000 reals to Tarancon ; 15,000 reals between Saelices, Villarrubia, and Belinchon ; and
15,000 reals to Rueil. The deceased, who , was a daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies had for her first husband King Ferdinand VII. of Spain, and for her second husband the Duque de Riansares, who also predeceased her. By the former she had two children (Queen Isabella and the Duchess de Mont- pelier), and by the latter eight children.