_Sir!_

In my last I gave you som incident thoughts, concerning the improvement
of an Honorarie Librarie-keeper's place, to shew the true end and use
thereof, and how the keepers thereof should bee regulated in the Trade,
which hee is to drive for the Advancement of Learning, and encouraged by
a competent maintenance, and supported in extraordinarie expences for
the same. Now I wish that som men of publick Spirits and lovers of
Learning, might bee made acquainted with the Action, upon such grounds
as were then briefly suggested; who know's but that in time somthing
might bee offered to the Trustees of the Nation, with better conceptions
then these I have suggested.

For, if it bee considered that amongst manie Eminencies of this Nation,
the Librarie of Oxford is one of the most considerable for the
advancement of Learning, if rightly improved and Traded withal for the
good of Scholars at home and abroad; If this (I saie) bee rightly
considered and represented to the publick Reformers of this age, that
by this means this Nation as in other things, so especially for Pietie
and Learning, and by the advancement of both, may now bee made more
glorious then anie other in the world; No doubt such as in the Parlament
know the worth of Learning will not bee avers from further overtures,
which may bee made towards this purpose. What a great stir hath been
heretofore, about the Eminencie of the Librarie of Heidelberg, but what
use was made of it? It was ingrossed into the hands of a few, till it
became a Prey unto the Enemies of the Truth. If the Librarie-keeper had
been a man, that would have traded with it for the increas of true
Learning, it might have been preserved unto this daie in all the
rarities thereof, not so much by the shuttings up of the multitude of
Books, and the rareness thereof for antiquitie, as by the understandings