[228] The salaries being miserably insufficient, the recognised duties of the officers appear to have been simply the cataloguing the few books that were received in ordinary course, and attending upon the readers. Consequently for any other work, for arranging or cataloguing any new collections, &c., special payments were always made. A somewhat amusing instance of this occurs under the year 1722, when the Librarian craved payment for making with his own hand certain new hand-lists, &c., but was refused. However, he carried on his claim from year to year until it was admitted to the amount of £5 15_s._ 6_d._ in 1725. And as the funds were insufficient to defray in this way the extra cost of cataloguing such a collection as Rawlinson's, hence, doubtless, came the neglect which it experienced. Such work was so clearly understood to form no part of the Librarians' regular duties, that Rawlinson says, in a letter to Owen, Apr. 15, 1751 (MS. C. 989), 'I think large benefactors should pay the expense of entries into the Bodleian, as their books are useless till so entered.' [229] It was chiefly from these that the two volumes published in 1841 under the title of _Life, Journals, and Correspondence of S. Pepys_ were compiled. Unfortunately the editor, or his copyist, appears to have been sometimes unable to read the MSS., and at other times very careless; his book therefore abounds with errors. The following is one of the worst, as it libels the memory of a statesman who deserved better treatment: Sir R. Southwell is represented as saying in a letter to Pepys (vol. i. p. 282) that he has lost his health 'by sitting many years at the _sack_-bottle,' whereas the poor man had lost it by sitting many years 'at the _inck_-bottle.' A line or two farther on, Southwell's occupation with 'some care and much sorrow,' is changed into 'love, care and much sorrow.' Certain '_Novelles_,' or newspapers, which Mr. Hill sends to Pepys are explained (vol. ii. p. 135) to have been the _Novellæ_ of Justinian! Throughout the book proper names are frequently made to become anything but proper to their owners. [230] Letter from Rawlinson to T. Rawlins, Jan. 25, 1749/50; Ballard MS. ii. 115. [231] The same volume (now A. 139^b) also contains Monmouth's acknowledgment, written and signed by himself on the day of his execution, that Charles II had declared that he was never married to his mother; witnessed by Bishops Turner and Ken, together with Tenison and Hooper. This is now exhibited in the glass case at the entrance to the Library. [232] In his delight at his new purchase, Rawlinson seems to have exaggerated the interest of these volumes. [233] Letter to T. Rawlins, Feb. 24, 1742/3; Ballard MS. ii. 78. [234] To the same; _Ibid._ 59. [235] Gough, _Brit. Topogr._ i. 370, 345. [236] Letter, June 24, 1741; Ballard MS. ii. 59. [237] Including some letters from Ken while Chaplain to Princess Mary. These papers of Compton are in class C.