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to the Removal of the said Museum or Col- 

 lection from the Manor House at Chelsea, to 

 any proper Place within the Cities of London 

 or Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof, if 

 such Removal shall be judged most advan- 

 tageous to the Publick, so as the said Collec- 

 tion be preserved intire without the least 

 Diminution or Separation, and be kept for 

 the Use and Benefit of the Publick, with free 

 Access to view and peruse the same, at all 

 stated and convenient Seasons agreeable to 

 the Will and Intentions of the Testator, and 

 under such Restrictions as the Parliament 

 shall think fit : And whereas the said Museum 

 or Collection of Sir Hans Shane is of much 

 greater intrinsick Value than the Sum of 

 Twenty thousand Pounds : And whereas all 

 Arts and Sciences have a Connection with 

 each other, and Discoveries in Natural Phi- 

 losophy,, and other Branches of speculative 

 Knowledge, for the Advancement and Im- 

 provement whereof the said Museum or Col- 

 lection was intended, do and may, in many 

 Instances, give Help and Success to the most 

 useful Experiments and Inventions ; therefore 

 to the End that the said Museum or Collec- 

 tion may be preserved and maintained, not 



