books for the honour and credit of learning, and particularly for the reputation of the foresaid University, am very sorry that by my declining to say anything but what I knew to be true in any of my writings, and especially in the last book I published, intituled, _Henrici Dodwelli de Parma Equestri Woodwardiana Dissertatio, &c_, I should incurr the displeasure of any of the Heads of Houses, and as a token of my sorrow for their being offended at truth, I subscribe my name to this paper, and permitt them to make what use of it they please[184].' [180] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. lxxi. May 20. [181] _Ibid._ vol. xlvii. p. 89. [182] In an account of a visit to Oxford by an American tourist, which appeared very recently in the _New York Times_, and was copied into English journals, written with the warm-hearted tone of one who could rightly appreciate the interest of the place, although (like most Transatlantic visitors) he spent but twenty-four hours in it, the following comment is made upon the smallness of this Bodleian fee:--'The gentleman [_i.e._ the present Janitor, Mr. John Norris] who showed me through this noble collection, and gave me the most interesting explanations, politely informed me that the charge was 3_d._ It went against my conscience to give a gentleman of his civility and erudition the price of a pot of beer, and I added a small testimonial, for which he seemed more than sufficiently grateful.' [183] This was the room which is now attached to the Library under the name of the _Auctarium_. [184] Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xlviii. 22. The retractation and apology which Hearne afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this. But he was not allowed to read it. _Ibid._ lxxi. 3 May. A.D. 1714. An evidence of the increased intercourse which sprang up between Denmark and England, in consequence of the marriage of Queen Anne, is probably to be found in the number of Danish readers who frequented the Library in the interval between her marriage and her death. Between the years 1683 and 1714, forty-nine Danes are entered in the _Liber Admissorum_, besides many from Sweden, Norway, and the North of Germany. The total number of foreigners admitted within the same period was no less than 244. 'In the year 1714 were in the Bodleian Library:-- 30169 pr. vols. 05916 MSS. vols. ----- In all 36085.' (Hearne's _MS. Diary_, vol. xci. p. 256.) It is strange that, notwithstanding Selden's and Laud's large additions, the Library had therefore very little more than doubled since 1620.