Acts and Votes, 8$c 



Rent of Five Pounds issuing thereout by his 

 last Will and Testament, bearing Date the 

 21st Day of August, 1707, devised the same 

 among his other Estates in England to his 

 Son John then Marquis of Monthermer, and 

 afterwards Duke of Montagu, for his Life 

 with remainder, &c. &c. &c. 



And whereas by an Act of Parliament 

 passed in the 26th Year of your Majesty's 

 Reign, intituled, An Act for the Purchase of 

 the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Shane, 

 and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, 

 and for providing one General Repository 

 for the better Reception and more convenient 

 Use of the said Collections, and of the Cot- 

 tonian Library, and of the Additions thereto, 

 it was enacted, That, within the Cities of 

 London or Westminster, or the Suburbs there- 

 of, one General Repository should be erected 

 or provided in such convenient Place, and in 

 such Manner as the Trustees, in the said Act 

 named and appointed, or the major Part of 

 them, at a General Meeting assembled, should 

 direct for the Reception not only of the said 

 Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, but 

 also of the Cot tonian Library, and of the Ad- 

 ditions which had been or should be made 



