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ROOM VI. 
MSS' 
Forty-one volumes, containing the decisions of 
the commissioners for settling the City estates after 
the fire of London : presented by Thomas Cow- 
per, Esq. 
Twenty-four volumes relating to the history of 
Music, which together with a considerable collec¬ 
tion of printed books on the same subject, were 
bequeathed by Sir John Hawkins. 
Twenty-seven volumes of music, chiefly mot- 
tets, and other church music, by old composers, 
(Prenestini, Palestrina, Pergolese, Steffani, Han¬ 
del, &c.) bequeathed by James Mathias, Esq. 
Thirty-eight volumes of manuscripts, and nine 
of drawings, being a copious collection towards a 
topography and history of the county of Sussex : 
bequeathed by Sir William Burrell. 
Forty-four volumes, thirty-two of which contain 
an obituary kept by the donor, and the rest, being 
a collection of autographs, original warrants, and 
other documents, catalogues of portraits, ccc. be¬ 
queathed, together with a considerable library of 
printed books, by Sir William Musgrave, Bart. 
A numerous collection of manuscripts, chiefly 
relating to the County and University of Cam¬ 
bridge, bequeathed by the Rey. William Cole, 
M. A. 
In the presses i and XVI. are two rolls of the 
Pentateuch on vellum, the former of considerable 
antiquity, and the latter much more recent : this 
latter together with a considerable number of 
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