A.D. 1621
A gift of £5 is noticeable as coming from the Girdlers’ Company, ‘Societas Zonariorum.’ Sir Francis Bacon occurs as a donor of books.
A.D. 1623
Delegates were appointed by Convocation to consider ‘de modulo frontispicii Bibliothecæ publicæ in parte occidentali versus collegium Exon77.’
Notes
77 Reg. Conv. N. ff. 167, 169.
A.D. 1624
‘Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and then Lord Chancellor of England, would have borrowed Paulus Benius Eugubinus De dirimend. Controvers. de Grat. et Lib. Arb., but was deny’d78.’
The first theft of a book from the Library occurred in this year. An account of it, with several others, will be found in a note to the year 1654.
Notes
78 Barlow’s MS. Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see post, sub anno 1659.