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of the said Museum, by Indentures of Lease 

 and Release, bearing Date respectively the 

 Fourth and Fifth Days of April, in the Year 

 One thousand Seven hundred and Fifty-five, 

 and made between the Right Honourable 

 George Dunk, Earl of Halifax, and William 

 Folkes, Esquire, (Trustees under the said last 

 mentioned Act for carrying the Trusts thereof 

 into Execution) of the one Part, and the 

 Trustees of the said Museum of the other 

 Part, and since that Time the said capital 

 •Messuage or Mansion House and its Appur- 

 tenances have been generally called or known 

 by the Appellation of the British Museum : 



And whereas Charles Townley, late of NovemUr 2 2 d, 



180^ W 1 of 



Townley, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, charUsTamiey, 

 Esquire, duly signed and published his last 

 Will and Testament, bearing Date the Twenty- 

 ninth of November, One thousand Eight hun- 

 dred and Two, and did thereby devise the 

 Manors and other Hereditaments situate in 

 the said County of Lancaster therein parti- 

 cularly mentioned, and distinguished by the 

 Name of The Townley Estates, to John Tr afford, 

 of Tr afford House, in the said County, and Ste- 

 phenTempest, oiBroughtonHall, in the County 



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