British Museum Act 1700

II. The said Premises and Library free from Judgments, Sale, Forfeiture, &c.

The Trustees named; How new Trustees appointed in the Room of any of the last Four named Trustees.

And it is hereby further enacted That the said House with the Appurtenances and the Library and other Particulars aforesaid shall never be subject or liable to any Judgments Statutes Recognizances or any other Incumbrances nor shall ever be sold or aliened forfeited or forfeitable upon any Account or Pretence whatsoever And further That the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper for the Time being The Honourable Robert Harley Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons and the Honourable the Speaker of the House of Commons for the Time being The Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench for the Time being Sir Robert Cotton of Hatley S[en]t George in the County of Cambridge Knight Philip Cotton of Connington in the said County Esquire Robert Cotton of Giddin in the County of Huntington Esquire and William Hanbury of the Inner Temple London Esquire shall be the Trustees to and for the Purposes aforesaid And in case of the Decease of any of the said last recited Four Persons the said John Cotton or other Heir Male of the said Family who shall be in Possession or entituled to the Possession of the Mansion House by the Limitations above recited shall nominate and appoint One or more fit Persons to succeed him or them and supply the Place of him or them so dying