A Description of the County of Middlesex; Containing a Circumstantial Account of Its Public Buildings, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, Places of ... the Whole Forming a Complete Guide - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1775 Excerpt: ... lected at the expence of fifty thousand pounds, and which he directed to be offered to parliament for twenty thousand pounds, which they accepted. As these number of natural and artificial curiosities, with the addition of the Cotton library, and many other things, required an extensive building for the repository of so valuable a treasure,. Montague House in Bloomsbury, was purchased for that purpose, and repaired and fitted up accordingly; the expence attending it is as follows: By Parliament for the purchase of Sir i y. . Hans Sloane's collection-.».» Paid for the Manuscripts of Lord Oxford 10,000 Ditto for Montague-House--10,000 Repairs, alterations, &c.--15,000 Vested in the public funds for salaries for officers and other necessary ex-30,000 pences. £.85,000 And in the year 1772, in order to secure to the public Sir William Hamilton's large collection of Etruscan, Grecian and Roman antiquities, brought from Italy; the sum of eight thousand four hundred and ten pounds was granted his majesty to make that purchase, and eight hundred and forty pounds for the trustees to provide a proper repository. These valuable antiquities were likewise deposited here. This noble and curious collection is open for public inspection, without any expence. The method to gain admission, is, for those persons who have an inclination to fee them, to fend their Christian and Surnames, and places of abode, to the porter's lodge; when they are entered in a book, and in a few days the tickets are made out, in which the day and hour are specified for your admittance, and delivered on being sent for.. The: time allotted for your stay in the Museum is two hours. Fifteen are allowed to view it in one company, and there is always a gentleman acquainted with, the colle...

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