Acts and Votes, fyc 
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 Sloane, 
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 Cottonian Library, and of the Ad- 
ditions which had been or should be made 
