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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 o£ Nwmier 
180 W V of 
Townley, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Char: , Townley, 
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 Trafford, 
of Trafford House, in the said County, and Ste- 
phen'Jempest, of Brought on Hall, in the County 
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