were present in addition to myself, the following:

1. Ernest Halbard Melton, J.P, nephew of the testator.

2. Ernest Roger Halbard Melton, son of the above.

3. Rupert Sent Leger, nephew of the testator.

4. Major-General Sir Colin Alexander MacKelpie, Bart., co-executor
with myself of the Will.

5. Andrew Rossiter, my clerk, one of the witnesses of the testator's
Will.

6. Alfred Nugent, stenographer (of Messrs. Castle's office, 21,
Bream's Buildings, W.C.).


When the Will had been read, Mr. E. H. Melton asked the value of the
estate left by the testator, which query I did not feel empowered or
otherwise able to answer; and a further query, as to why those
present were not shown the secret clauses of the Will. I answered by
reading the instructions endorsed on the envelopes of the two letters
marked "B" and "C," which were sufficiently explanatory.

But, lest any question should hereafter arise as to the fact that the
memoranda in letters marked "B" and "C," which were to be read as
clauses 10 and 11 of the Will, I caused Rupert Sent Leger to open the
envelope marked "B" in the presence of all in the room. These all
signed a paper which I had already prepared, to the effect that they