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The Reformed Librarie-Keeper (1650) by John Dury
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everie Science, to Trade with them for their profit, that what they want
and wee have, they may receiv upon condition, that what they have and
wee want, they should impart in that facultie where their eminencie doth
lie; As for such as are at home eminent in anie kinde, becaus they may
com by Native right to have use of the Librarie-Treasure, they are to
bee Traded withal in another waie, _viz._ that the things which are
gained from abroad, which as yet are not made common, and put to publick
use should bee promised and imparted to them for the increas of their
private stock of knowledg, to the end that what they have peculiar, may
also bee given in for a requital, so that the particularities of gifts
at home and abroad, are to meet as in a Center in the hand of the
Librarie-keeper, and hee is to Trade with the one by the other, to caus
them to multiplie the publick stock, whereof hee is a Treasurer and
Factor.

Thus hee should Trade with those that are at home and abroad out of the
Universitie, and with those that are within the Universitie, hee should
have acquaintance to know all that are of anie parts, and how their vein
of Learning doth lie, to supplie helps unto them in their faculties from
without and from within the Nation, to put them upon the keeping of
correspondencie with men of their own strain, for the beating out of
matters not yet elaborated in Sciences; so that they may bee as his
Assistants and subordinate Factors in his Trade and in their own for
gaining of knowledg: Now becaus in all publick Agencies, it is fit that
som inspection should bee had over those that are intrusted therewith,
therefore in this Factorie and Trade for the increas of Learning, som
tie should bee upon those Librarie-keepers to oblige them to
carefulness.

I would then upon this account, have an Order made that once in the
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