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SEVENTH ROOM. 
THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS, 
Deposited in XXXIII. Presses. 
THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS, 
Deposited in XXI Presses. 
room vii.] These two libraries are not classed in a strict 
Mss * scientific order*. 
In the press under No. XIX. of the Cottonian 
library are deposited ninety-four volumes of ex¬ 
tracts, transcripts, and notes, chiefly relating to 
the Exchequer, collected by Thomas Madox, Esq. 
historiographer to Queen Anne and King George 
I. and bequeathed by his widow, as an addition 
to the Cottonian library. 
On the table, in a glazed frame, is the original 
of the Magna Charta , belonging to the Cottonian 
library; and on the side of it is a fac-simile en¬ 
graving of it, by Pine .—Against press XXI. of 
the Cottonian library is the original of the articles 
preparatory to the singing of the great Charter, 
perfect with the seal: presented Anno 1769 by 
Earl Stanhope. 
* Of the King’s Library, a Catalogue compiled by Mr. David 
Casley was printed in the year 1734, in quarto: and of the Cottonian 
Library, there are no less than three Catalogues extant; the first by 
Dr. Thomas Smith, printed 1696, folio; the second, being an attempt 
towards a classical arrangement, printed in 1777, octavo; and the 
third, improved and considerably enlarged by Mr. Planta, printed by 
His Majesty’s command in the year 1802, folio. 
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