A.D. 1655
The stipends of the Librarian and Assistants at this time amounted jointly to £51 6s. 8d. Of this it appears from the account for 1657 that the Librarian received £33 6s. 8d., the Second Keeper, then H. Stubbe, £10, and [the janitor] S. Rugleye (?), £8. A volume of curious tracts, published during the early part of the reign of Charles I, now marked 4o F. 2 Art. B. S., furnishes the name of a preceding janitor, by bearing the inscription, ‘Liber Thomæ Roch, defuncti, quondam janitoris bibliothecæ.’ The janitor originally appointed by Bodley appears to be mentioned in the following passage in a letter from him to James: ‘There is one Thomas Scott, Under-butler of Magdalen College, that hath made means unto me for the Porter’s place, whom I propose to elect122.’
John Evelyn appears in this year, as well as subsequently, as a donor of books. Nineteen MSS. were given by Peter Whalley, of Northamptonshire.
Notes
122 Reliquæ Bodl. p. 263.