I would then upon this account, have an Order made that once in the
year, the Librarie-keeper should bee bound to give an account of his
Trading, and of his Profit in his Trade (as in all humane Trades Factors
ought, and use to do to their principals at least once a year) and to
this effect I would have it ordered, that the chief Doctors of each
facultie of the Universitie, should meet at a Convenient time in a week
of the year, to receiv the Accounts of his Trading, that hee may shew
them wherein the stock of Learning hath been increased, for that year's
space; and then hee is to produce the particulars which he hath gained
from abroad, and laie them before them all, that everie one in his own
facultie may declare in the presence of others, that which he thinketh
fit to bee added to the publick stock, and made common by the Catalogue
of Additionals, which everie year within the Universities is to bee
published in writing within the Librarie it self, and everie three
years (or sooner as the number of Additionals may bee great, or later,
if it bee smal) to bee put in Print and made common to those that are
abroad. And at this giving up of the accounts, as the Doctors are to
declare what they think worthie to bee added to the common stock of
Learning, each in their Facultie; so I would have them see what the
Charges and Pains are whereat the Librarie-Keeper hath been, that for
his encouragement, the extraordinarie expences in correspondencies and
transcriptions for the publick good, may bee allowed him out of som
Revenues, which should bee set a part to that effect, and disposed of
according to their joint-content and judgment in that matter. Here then
hee should bee bound to shew them the Lists of his correspondents, the
Letters from them in Answer to his, and the reckoning of his
extraordinarie expence should bee allowed him in that which hee is
indebted, or hath freely laid out to procure Rarities into the stock of
Learning. And becaus I understand that all the Book-Printers or
Stationars of the Common-wealth are bound of everie Book which is
Printed, to send a Copie into the Universitie Librarie; and it is
impossible for one man to read all the Books in all Faculties, to judg
of them what worth there is in them; nor hath everie one Abilitie to
judg of all kinde of Sciences what everie Autor doth handle, and how
sufficiently; therefore I would have at this time of giving accounts,
the Librarie-keeper also bound to produce the Catalogue of all the Books
sent unto the Universitie's Librarie by the Stationars that Printed
them; to the end that everie one of the Doctors in their own Faculties
should declare, whether or no they should bee added, and where they
should bee placed in the Catalogue of Additionals; For I do not think
that all Books and Treaties which in this age are Printed in all kindes,
should bee inserted into the Catalogue, and added to the stock of the
Librarie, discretion must bee used and confusion avoided, and a cours
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