│ │Sloane and of│ │_Collected_ by =Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel and of │the Harleian │ │Norfolk=; Earl Marshal of England; K.G. (Born in 1586; │Collection of│ │succeeded as XXIII^{rd} Earl of Arundel in 1603; died 4│MSS.; and for│ │October, 1646.) [See CLASS II, § 33.] │providing one│ │ │General │ │ IV. THOMASON TRACTS (Printed and Manuscript). [See │Repository │ │ CLASS II, § 3.] │... for the │ │ │said │ │ V. HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPTS. │Collections │ │ │and for the │ │_Collected_ by =Robert Harley, Earl Of Oxford= (born in│Cottonian │ │1661; died 21 May, 1724). _Augmented_ by incorporation,│Library and │ │at various times, of the Collections, severally, or of │additions │ │considerable portions of the Collections of =Sir │thereto_;’ │ │Humphrey Gilbert= (died 1584), =John Foxe= (1581), │ │ │=Daniel Rogers= (1590), =John Stowe= (1605), =Sir Henry│Opened, for │ │Savile= (1622), =Sampson Lennard= (1633), =Sir Henry │Public Use, │ │Spelman= (1641), =Sir Symonds D’Ewes= (1650), =Sir │on Monday the│ │James Ware= (1666), =William Sancroft=, Archbishop of │15th January,│ │Canterbury (1693), =Peter Séguier=, Chancellor of │=1759=; and │ │France (1696), =John Bagford= (1716); and others. [See │subsequently │ │BOOK I, c. 5.] │AUGMENTED, │ │ │from time to │ │ VI. ‘SLOANE MUSEUM’ OF NATURAL HISTORY AND OF │time, by │ │ ANTIQUITIES; AND LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTED │numerous │ │ BOOKS. │additional │ │ │Collections; │ │_Collected_ by =William Courten= [known during part of │and, MORE │ │his life as ‘William CHARLETON’] (born in 1642; died 26│PARTICULARLY,│ │March, 1702); _continued_ by =Sir Hans Sloane=, Baronet│by the │ │(born in 1660; died 11 January, 1752); _bequeathed_, by│following— │ │the Continuator, to the British Nation,—conditionally │ │ │on the payment to his executors, by authority of │ │ │Parliament, of the sum of £20,000,—in order that those │ │ │his Collections—to use the words of his last Will—being│ │ │things ‘tending many ways to the Manifestation of the │ │ │Glory of God, the Confutation of Atheism and its │ │ │consequences, the Use and Improvement of the Arts and │ │ │Sciences, and benefit of Mankind, may remain together │ │ │and not be separated, and that chiefly in or about the │ │