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son-in-law Richard Lord Luxnley, of Sir John 
Morris, and of Isaac Casaubon, some of the 
volumes of the latter deriving* considerable 
value from the MS. notes of the learned pro¬ 
prietor. This library also contains, among 
other most valuable articles, the venerable 
Alexandrian Codex of the Bible, several splen¬ 
did MSS., chiefly biblical and chronicles ; and 
among the printed books abundance of old and 
rare editions, many of them being presentation 
copies from their respective authors. 
His present Majesty, equally desirous to con¬ 
tribute to the enlargement of an institution so 
useful and ornamental to his dominions, availed 
himself of anopportunity, which presented itself 
soon after his accession, of making a very ample, 
and, in an historical point of view, a most valu¬ 
able addition. A numerous collection of pam¬ 
phlets and periodical papers, published in the 
convulsive interval between the years l6'40 and 
l 66 o, after having passed through the hands of 
various persons, some of whom were at times 
obliged to secrete it with uncommon care and 
circumspection, was at length offered for sale in 
the year 1762 ; and His Majesty, being apprized 
of the circumstance, immediately ordered the same 
to be purchased, and to be deposited in the Mu- 
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George III. 
Collection of 
Pamphlets , 
seunia 
