collections falling into the hands of an incompetent heir, and thereby being sold, dissipated, or embezzled.  And since it has pleased God to visit me in a manner that leaves little appearance of being myself restored to a condition of concerting the necessary measures for attaining these ends, I must and do with great confidence rely upon the sincerity and direction of my executor and said nephew for putting in execution the powers given them, by my forementioned will relating hereto, requiring that the same be brought to a determination in twelve months after my decease, and that special regard be had therein to the following particulars which I declare to be my present thoughts and prevailing inclinations in this matter, viz.: 

     “1.  That after the death of my said nephew, my said library be
     placed and for ever settled in one of our universities, and rather
     in that of Cambridge than Oxford.

     “2.  And rather in a private college there, than in the public
     library.

     “3.  And in the colleges of Trinity or Magdalen preferably to all
     others.

     “4.  And of these too, ‘caeteris paribus’, rather in the latter, for
     the sake of my own and my nephew’s education therein.

     “5.  That in which soever of the two it is, a fair roome be provided
     therein.

     “6.  And if in Trinity, that the said roome be contiguous to, and
     have communication with, the new library there.

     “7.  And if in Magdalen, that it be in the new building there, and
     any part thereof at my nephew’s election.

     “8.  That my said library be continued in its present form and no
     other books mixed therein, save what my nephew may add to theirs of
     his own collecting, in distinct presses.

     “9.  That the said room and books so placed and adjusted be called
     by the name of ‘Bibliotheca Pepysiana.’

“10.  That this ‘Bibliotheca Pepysiana’ be under the sole power and custody of the master of the college for the time being, who shall neither himself convey, nor suffer to be conveyed by others, any of the said books from thence to any other place, except to his own lodge in the said college, nor there have more than ten of them at a time; and that of those also a strict entry be made and account kept, at the time of their having been taken out and returned, in a book to be provided, and remain in the said library for that purpose only.

“11.  That before my said library be put into the possession of either of the said colleges, that college for which it shall be designed, first enter into covenants for performance of the foregoing articles.

“12.  And that for a yet further security herein, the said two colleges of Trinity and Magdalen have a reciprocal check upon one another; and that college which shall be in present possession of the said library, be subject to an annual visitation from the other, and to the forfeiture thereof to the life, possession, and use of the other, upon conviction of any breach of their said covenants.

“S.  Pepys.”