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Acts and Votes, fyc. 
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 that 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 
