zealous and profitable in som publick waies of Learning to advance the
same, or that should bee bound to certain tasks to bee prosecuted
towards that end, whereof a List might bee made, and the waie to trie
their Abilities in prosecuting the same should bee described, least in
after times, unprofitable men creep into the place, to frustrate the
publick of the benefit intended by the Doners towards posteritie. The
proper charge then of the Honorarie Librarie-Keeper in a Universitie
should bee thought upon, and the end of that Imploiment, in my
conception, is to keep the publick stock of Learning, which is in Books
and Manuscripts to increas it, and to propose it to others in the waie
which may bee most useful unto all; his work then is to bee a Factor and
Trader for helps to Learning, and a Treasurer to keep them, and a
dispenser to applie them to use, or to see them well used, or at least
not abused; And to do all this, First a _Catalogue_, of the Treasurie
committed unto his charge is to bee made, that is all the Books and
Manuscripts, according to the Titles whereunto they belong, are to bee
ranked in an order most easie and obvious to bee found, which I think is
that of Sciences and Languages; when first all the Books are divided
into their _subjectam materiam_ whereof they Treat, and then everie
kinde of matter subdivided into their several Languages: And as the
Catalogue should bee so made, that it may alwaies bee augmented as the
stock doth increas; so the place in the Librarie must bee left open for
the increas of the number of Books in their proper Seats, and in the
Printed Catalogue, a Reference is to bee made to the place where the
Books are to bee found in their Shelvs or repositories. When the stock
is thus known and fitted to bee exposed to the view of the Learned
World, Then the waie of Trading with it, both at home and abroad, is to
bee laid to heart both for the increas of the stock, and for the
improvement of it to use. For the increas of the stock both at home and
abroad, correspondencie should bee held with those that are eminent in