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<HEAD>MEMORIAL To be Di&s;pers'd thorow the KINGDOM, For Collecting of <HI>MANUSCRIPTS</HI> IN TO THE Advocates Library.</HEAD>
<P>ALL Polite Nations, at this Time, acting in a manner by Concert, in the De&s;ign of Re&s;cuing their <HI>Antiquities</HI> from Oblivion; and in Collecting and Dige&s;ting into <HI>Catalogues</HI> &s;uch <HI>Manu&s;cripts</HI> and Ancient <HI>Monuments,</HI> as may conduce to clear their Origine, and e&s;tabli&s;h the Truth of their Hi&s;tories.</P>
<P>In like manner, the <HI>Faculty of Advocates,</HI> for that, and other Ends, have Erected their <HI>Library,</HI> which, in a &s;hort time, is very much Advanc'd; and of late, has had a con&s;iderable Ad|dition of <HI>Manu&s;cripts.</HI></P>
<P>But there being many <HI>Manu&s;cripts</HI> and <HI>Monuments of Antiquity,</HI> in the Hands of &s;everal Per&s;ons, or in the Charter Che&s;ts of An|cient Families, which, if &s;till keep't Latent, will be U&s;ele&s;s to the Publick, and expos'd to many Accidents, that are preven|ted by their lying in a publick <HI>Library.</HI> Therefore it is earne&s;t|ly de&s;ired, That the Havers of any &s;uch, whether <HI>Hi&s;tories, Char|tularies of Mona&s;teries, Old Charters,</HI> or other <HI>Manu&s;cripts</HI> what&s;oe|ver, would be pleas'd to &s;end them in to the <HI>Advocates Library;</HI> where &s;uch Benefactors, and their Donatives, &s;hall be Faith|fully Recorded, and Honourable Mention al&s;o made of Them, in publick <HI>Catalogues,</HI> to be Printed by the <HI>Faculty.</HI></P>
<P>All other Per&s;ons likewi&s;e, who are Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors of, and who de&s;ign to Sell, any &s;uch <HI>Manu&s;cripts,</HI> are al&s;o Invited to bring them in; And the <HI>Curators</HI> of the &s;aid <HI>Library</HI> will Pay them therefore, to their Satisfaction.</P>
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