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as also all Coins, Medals, and other Rarities 
* and Curiosities in the said Library contained, 
should be lodged and there remain to all 
Posterity ; and that the said Room when 
built, should for ever be called and known 
by the Name of the Cottonian Library ; and 
that from the Building thereof, the said Li- 
brary should be managed and directed by 
the Trustees therein named, as Trustees to 
and for the Use of the Publick for ever ; 
And whereas although the publick Faith hath 
been thus engaged to provide for the better 
Reception and more convenient Use of the 
Cottonian Library, a proper Repository for 
that pui^pose hath not yet been prepared; for 
the want of which, the said Library did, in the 
Yearof our Lord One thousand seven hundred 
and thirty-one, suffer by aFire, which consumed 
the House wherein the same was then placed, 
and what remains of the said Library still 
continues in the Room, to which upon the 
Occasion of the said Fire it was removed ; 
and Persons desirous to view and consult the 
Treasure of Books and Manuscripts therein 
contained, cannot conveniently resort there- 
Recitai of Part U nto : And whereas Arthur Edwards, late of 
of the Will of 
ArthurEdwards, Saint George Hanover Square, in the County 
