A calendar of the Inner Temple records . y and parliamentaryproceedings, did, the twelfth day of July in the fourth year of hernow Majestys reign, annoquc Domini 1705, make his last will andtestament in writing and therein and thereby among other thingsdid give and devise the said books of law, history, and antiquityand parliamentary proceedings (which cost him many years painsand study and stood him in much charge in collecting) to JosephOffley, esq., Richard Webb, esq., Humphrey Hetherington, esq.,John Anstis, esq., John Chamberlaine, esq., and his brother, SilvesterPetyt, his trustees, in t
A calendar of the Inner Temple records . y and parliamentaryproceedings, did, the twelfth day of July in the fourth year of hernow Majestys reign, annoquc Domini 1705, make his last will andtestament in writing and therein and thereby among other thingsdid give and devise the said books of law, history, and antiquityand parliamentary proceedings (which cost him many years painsand study and stood him in much charge in collecting) to JosephOffley, esq., Richard Webb, esq., Humphrey Hetherington, esq.,John Anstis, esq., John Chamberlaine, esq., and his brother, SilvesterPetyt, his trustees, in trust and to the intent and purpose that theywould use their utmost endeavours for preserving and keeping themsafe and entire for public use in such place or places as they, or themajor part of them, or the survivor or survivors of them, from timeto time should appoint, and not to suffer or permit them to be em-bezzled or sold ; for which purpose he did give one hundred andfifty pounds to buy or build a place and making it convenient for. <ZLtl/iau, ^e^u^. ^ II/•<•/- SA J. I JO I. fTieeaerirff/ie tAecori^ ai-iJt^ Jmifr /riiii f/ie pr-iijinalpaiilHiiy in t/ie ynner:Jiiiif}If 1709] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 419 preserving and keeping them, which is to be settled upon histrustees or the survivors of them, or the heirs of the survivor ofthem in fee simple in trust, for the purpose aforesaid, and in and byhis said will he did earnestly desire his trustees that they would inconvenient time after his decease (in justice to truth and his memory)procure such of his manuscripts, as they should think fit, to beprinted, to remain for public use to posterity. And in and by hissaid will he did give to the honourable society of the Middle Templefifty pounds to be laid out by his executor to buy books, for augment-ing their library, and he did give to this honourable society of theInner Temple, fifty pounds, to be laid out for buying books, towardsa library, here to be erected, and
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