INTRODUCTION. XXV 
Thomas Tyrwhitt, Esq., a gentleman whos,e Thamas 
name will ever be revered, as long as true taste 
and learning are held in estimation, was pleased 
to bequeath to the Museum all the books in his 
select library, which were not already in that 
Repository; by which means about nine hundred 
volumes, chiefly classics, were, in the year 17 ^ 6 , 
added to the collection. And soon after, in the 
year 1800 , his example was followed by Sir Wil“ 
liam Musgrave, Bart., who, by a similar bequest, sir wiiiiam 
enriched the Museum library with near two 
thousand volumes of printed books, among which 
are a great number of biographical tracts, many 
of them of great rarity and curiosity ; and about 
forty volumes of manuscripts, the greater number 
of them being an obituary kept by himself, 
during the whole period of his active career. 
For the greatest and though not the most TheCrachero- 
• ^ dism collection. 
conspicuous, yet no doubt the most valuable of 
the accessions by gift, the public is indebted 
to the spontaneous and splendid munificence 
of a private individual, upon whom, were this 
a place for panegyric, the greatest encomiums 
ought in justice to be bestowed. The Rev. 
Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode, M. A.; a gentle¬ 
man equally eminent for knowledge, taste, and 
urbanity, had, during the whole course of his 
too 
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