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Testament, after having expressed his Will 

 and Desire that his Collection, in all its 

 Branches, might be, if it were possible, kept 

 and preserved together Whole and Intire, in 

 his Manor House in the Parish of Chelsea, 

 give, devise, and bequeath, to certainTrustees 

 therein named, all chat his Collection or 

 Museum, at, in, or about, his said Manor 

 House, consisting of all his Library of Books, 

 Drawings, Manuscripts, Prints, Medals, and 

 Coins, ancient and modern, Seals, Cameas, 

 and Intaglios, Precious Stones, Agates, 

 Jaspers, Vessels of Agate and Jasper, Chrys- 

 tals, Mathematical Instruments, Drawings, 

 and Pictures, and all other Things in the 

 said Collection or Museum, more particu- 

 larly described and numbered, with short 

 Histories or Accounts of them, with proper 

 References in certain Catalogues by him 

 made, containing Thirty- eight Volumes in 

 Folio, and Eight Volumes in Quarto, (except 

 such Pictures as are not marked with the 

 Word Collection), to have and to hold to 

 them and their Successors and Assigns for 

 ever, for such Purposes, and with such Powers, 

 and under such Restrictions, as in the said 

 Codicil are expressed, willing and desiring 

 thereby, that the said Trustees, or any Seven 



