Produced by David Starner, Linda Cantoni, and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY THE REFORMED LIBRARIE-KEEPER (1650) JOHN DURY _Introduction by_ RICHARD H. POPKIN _and_ THOMAS F. WRIGHT Publication Number 220 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY University of California, Los Angeles 1983 GENERAL EDITOR DAVID STUART RODES, _University of California, Los Angeles_ EDITORS CHARLES L. BATTEN, _University of California, Los Angeles_ GEORGE ROBERT GUFFEY, _University of California, Los Angeles_ MAXIMILLIAN E. NOVAK, _University of California, Los Angeles_ NANCY M. SHEA, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ THOMAS WRIGHT, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ADVISORY EDITORS RALPH COHEN, _University of Virginia_ WILLIAM E. CONWAY, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ VINTON A. DEARING, _University of California, Los Angeles_ PHILLIP HARTH, _University of Wisconsin, Madison_ LOUIS A. LANDA, _Princeton University_ EARL MINER, _Princeton University_ JAMES SUTHERLAND, _University College, London_ NORMAN J.W. THROWER, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ ROBERT VOSPER, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ JOHN M. WALLACE, _University of Chicago_ PUBLICATIONS MANAGER NANCY M. SHEA, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY BEVERLY J. ONLEY, _William Andrews Clark Memorial Library_ EDITORIAL ASSISTANT FRANCES MIRIAM REED, _University of California, Los Angeles_ INTRODUCTION This work, with its quaint sentiments and its grim picture of what librarians were like in the mid-seventeenth century, is more than a curiosity. John Dury was a very important figure in the Puritan Revolution, offering proposal after proposal to prepare England for its role in the millennium. _The Reformed Librarie-Keeper_ is an integral part of that preparation. To appreciate it one must look at it in terms of the plans of Dury and his associates, Samuel Hartlib and Johann Amos Comenius, to reform the intellectual institutions of England so that the prophecies in the books of Daniel and Revelation could be fulfilled there.