who shall during my life time or after my decease die or desire to be
discharged or refuse or become unfit or incapable to act shall be
exercisable by the surviving or continuing trustees or trustee for
the time being or the acting executors or executor administrators or
administrator of the last surviving and continuing trustee or by the
last retiring trustees or trustee and upon every or any such appoint-
ment the number of trustees may be augmented or reduced (yet so as
not to reduce their number to less than two) and (in addition to the
ordinary powers indemnity and right to reimbursement by law given to
trustees) the trustees for the time being of this my will shall be at
liberty to dispense wholly or partially with the investigation or pro-
duction of the lessors title on lending money on leasehold securities
or otherwise to lend on any security with less than a marketable
title and either with or without receiving payment of any part of
the money for the time being charged or secured by way of mortgage
or otherwise on any property absolutely to release any part of such
property if in their his or her uncontrolled discretion my said trus-
tees or trustee for the time being shall consider the residue of such
property a sufficient security for the money so charged or secured
as aforesaid or the surplus thereof after any such partial payment
as aforesaid I devise all the hereditaments which at my death shall
be vested in me for an estate of inheritance or for an estate pur
autre vie which would devolve on my heirs Upon any trusts or by way
of mortgage and of which I shall at my death have power to dispose
unto my said wife and the said William Wright Thomson and Maurice
Powell and their heirs upon the trusts and subject to the equity of
redemption which at my death shall be subsisting or capable of taking
effect therein respectively but the money secured on such mortgages
shall be taken as part of my personal estate And I hereby appoint my
said wife so long as she shall continue my widow and the said William
Wright Thomson and Maurice Powell and from and after the future mar-
riage of my said wife the said William Wright Thomson and Maurice
Powell alone EXECUTORS of this my will and Guardians of my infant
children during their respective minorities and authorize and empower