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Abbot, Charles, baron Colchester 517 mechanics’ institute 507 Abbotsford House, Roxburghshire446, 477 New Church library (Swedenborgian) 500 Aberdeen Admiralty library519 church libraries 342 admission and access to libraries235–6 prison library 522 adult education378–87 Roman Catholic libraries 342 Advocates’ Library, Edinburgh119–20, 149, town library 65, 78 228, 361, 368, 482, 526 Aberdeen Grammar School61 architecture 463–6 Aberdeen Medical (Medico-Chirurgical) book selection 217 Society402 catalogues 120, 224–5 Aberdeen University103 damaged by fire 227 King’s College identification marks 233 architecture and buildings 364, 461 legal deposit 108, 348, 433, 487 Bentley bequest 353 librarians and staff 213–15, 367 legal deposit 109, 348, 350 lighting and heating 492, 493 librarians and staff 110, 367 medical collections 399 medical collections 402 opening hours 231 opening hours 231 rules 235 Marischal College 213 security 492 architecture and library buildings 364 shelving arrangement 220 legal deposit 109, 348 Advocates’ Library, Montreal503 library stock in 1827 347 Agarde, Arthur137 medical collections 402 Aglionby, William148 Aberdeen University Library agricultural societies527 gifts from East India Company 351 Aird, John231 legal deposit, see under King’s College and Albury Park, Surrey477 Marischal College, above alchemy in libraries165 staff (after union) 367 Aldershot Abingdon School51 Prince Consort’s Library 524 Academie´ Française32 Victoria Barracks library 524 Accademia della Crusca32 Aldrich, Henry104 Ackroyd, Edward380 Alexander, Sir Jerome107 Act anent Libraries in the Highlands, 170480 All Souls College, Oxford41, 114, 191, 202–3, Act for the Better Preservation of Parochial 229, 347, 352, 366 Libraries, 170974, 81 catalogues 357 Adam, Robert362, 461–3, 472, 474–6 Codrington Library 104, 115–16, 229, Adam, William206, 228–9, 364 365;fig. 6 Addison, Joseph34 Allestree, Richard133 Adelaide, South Australia Gentleman’s Calling 57

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Ladies’ Calling 57 Arundel, Thomas Howard, earl of29, 146, Whole Duty of Man 48, 63, 521 148, 153 Allott, William176 Arundel Castle, Sussex473 Alnwick Castle, Northumberland472 Ascham, Roger12 Alston, Thomas75 Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, grammar Althorp, Northamptonshire472, school375 476 Ashmole, Elias140, 160, 165 Ambrosian Library, Milan, see Biblioteca Ashmolean Museum, Oxford41, 140, 142, 149, Ambrosiana 160 Ancell, Richard519 Ashover, Derbyshire176 Anderson, James120 Ashridge, Hertfordshire208 Anderson, John345, 346 Ashworth, Henry380 Anderson’s (medical booksellers), London393 Asiatic Society of Bengal503 Anderson’s Institution (and University), Askew, Anthony441–2, 447 Glasgow345, 346, 348–50, 355, 356, 368, Assington, Suffolk75 381, 401, 507 Associates of the Late Dr Thomas Bray77, Angell, John89, 93 318, 324, 342, 499 Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, earl of188 Astle, Thomas397, 406 Anglo-Saxon studies and libraries37, 141 astronomical libraries, see Royal Astronomical Annesley, Arthur, earl of Anglesey, see Society; Royal Observatory; see also under Anglesey188 Hobart ; Parramatta; St Andrews Antigua (West Indies) University ecclesiastical libraries 500 Athenaeum, London470, 516 mechanics’ institute 507 Atterbury, Lewis104 medical and physical library 502 Atwater Library, see Montreal, mechanics’ Wesleyan school libraries 500 institute antiquarian studies and libraries134–57 Aubrey, John28, 149, 170, 184, 195 Antrim Auckland, New Zealand495, 506 presbyterian divinity school 62 auction catalogues, see book sales and auction presbytery library 277 catalogues Arbury Hall, Warwickshire189, 473 Audley End, Essex474 Archbishop Marsh’s Library, Dublin81, 86, Austen, Jane255 92–100, 118, 129, 207, 319, 369 Australia medical and scientiﬁc collections 402–3 early libraries 495 staff 214, 483 school libraries 500 thefts 132 see also Adelaide; Hobart; Melbourne; Archbishop Tenison’s Library and School, Sydney Westminster53, 70, 86, 89–100, 129, Australian Agricultural Company, Port 147, 156, 319 Stephens502 founder’s aims 2, 67, 200 Australian Club, Sydney503 Ware/Clarendon manuscripts 145 Australian Medical Subscription Library, Archer, Sir Simon96, 141 Sydney502 architecture of libraries190, 459–78; see also Australian Museum, Sydney505 lighting and heating of libraries; Australian Subscription Library, Sydney496 university libraries, buildings Ayscough, Samuel406, 410 Armagh Public Library (Primate Robinson’s)319 Baber, Henry409, 411–13, 486 Armstrong, David S., circulating library278 Bacon, Francis14, 16–17, 23, 29 Armstrong, William411 Advancement of Learning 25 Armstrong College, Newcastle346 New Atlantis 25, 158 Arniston, Midlothian211 Novum Organum 24 Arnold, Christoph232 Badham, Charles, circulating library254 Arthur, Archibald367 Badham, Charles, FRS432

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Bagford, John139, 148, 156, 186 mechanics’ institutes 280 Bagshaw, Edward334–5 medical libraries 280 Baillet, Adrien212, 224, 225 private libraries and book-collecting 277 Baillie, Matthew392 school libraries 280 Bain, Nicolson367 subscription libraries 278 Baker, Thomas37, 152 see also Linen Hall Library; People’s Baker and Leigh (auctioneers)442 Circulating Library; Queen’s College Balfour, Sir Andrew354 (University) Balfour, Sir James, of Denmilne149 Belfast Academical Institute280 Ballachulish, Argyllshire, parochial library342 Belfast Medical Society280, 404 Balliol College, Oxford104 Belfast Natural History (and Philosophical) undergraduate provision 114, 162 Society280, 404 Bamburgh Castle, public library320 Belfast Reading Society279; see also Linen Bandinel, Bulkeley353, 366 Hall Library Bangor Cathedral library127, 318 Belfast Society (1705)277 Bank of England, library for clerks525 Belfast Society for Promoting Knowledge, see Banks, Sir Joseph398, 408, 427, 432 Linen Hall Library Barbados, garrison library524 Belfast Working Classes Association for the Barbarigo, Giovanni442 Promotion of General Knowledge280 Barber-Surgeons’ Company171, 390 Bell, Andrew377 Baretti, Joseph440 Bell, Beaupre´ 329 Barker, Robert70 Bell, John, circulating library251, 255, 257 Barlow, Thomas39, 104, 115–16 Bell, Thomas181 as Bodley’s Librarian 5, 31, 112, 215 Belle Isle, Westmorland474 Barnard, Sir Frederick Augusta449, 480 Beloe, William481 Barnsley, Yorkshire, mechanics’ institute513 Bengal, ecclesiastical libraries500; see also Barnstaple, Devon, town library85 Calcutta; East India Company Barrow, Isaac161, 181, 198 Bennet, Henry357 Barry, James, circulating library257 Benolt, Thomas136 Barry, Sir Charles419, 470–1 Bentley, James M.353 Bateman, Christopher41 Bentley, Richard21, 233–4, 473 Bates, William131 as a librarian 215, 235, 236 Bath, circulating library252, 257; see also as textual scholar 187 Kingswood School on Cottonian ﬁre 227 Bath, Rachel Fane, countess of107 proposal for national library 32–3, 427 Bath, Thomas Thynne, marquess of457 Berkeley, George111, 113, 228, 235 Bathoe, William, circulating library251, 257 Berlin, Altes Museum465 Baudin, Nicolas495 Bernard, Edward103 Baxter, Richard55, 179–80 Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum 37, 112, Bayle, Pierre46 141–4, 147, 156 Bayly, Lewis63, 133 Bernard, Francis143 Bean, James411 Berry, Christopher, circulating library271 Beaumont, James381 Bever, Thomas357 Beccles, Suffolk, subscription library486 Bewdley, Worcestershire, parochial library342 Beche, Sir Henry de la, see De La Beche Bible Society, see British and Foreign Bible Beddoes, Thomas360, 480 Society Bedford bibliomania438–58 parochial library 69, 71, 85, 332 Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan190, 198 town library 85, 95, 96, 99, 100 Biblioteca Vaticana, see Vatican Library Bedford, Francis Russell, duke of476 Bibliotheque` de Montreal,´ see Montreal Bee, Cornelius138 Library Belfast Bickham, James336 libraries 276–81 Bilston, Warwickshire, parochial library75

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Birkbeck, George381, 507, 511 Gough 429 Birmingham Malone 351–2 mechanics’ institute 382 Nichols 42 parochial library (St Philip’s) 72, 88 Selden 113, 136 Birmingham Artizans’ Library379 coins 140 Birmingham Circulating Medical Book scientific & medical 159 Society396 stock in 1714 347 Birmingham Library250, 459 finance 428 Birmingham Medical Institute396 in Civil War 138 Birmingham Medical Library396 legal deposit and Stationers’ Company 108, Blackett, William68 217, 349, 433, 434, 487 Blackstone, Sir William365 librarians and staff 112, 215, 360–1, 366–7, Blairs, Aberdeenshire, see also St Mary’s 482–3, 484 College manuscripts 142, 226 Blandford, George Spencer, marquess of, Canonici 366 later duke of Marlborough, see Fairfax 103 Marlborough Hatton 37, 103 Blathwayt, William185 Junius 37, 103 Bligh, William495 Laud 159 Bliss, Philip453, 482 Rawlinson 38, 152, 428–9 Blithe, Samuel162 Tanner 104, 266 Blockley, Gloucestershire, Childe monument manuscripts (oriental) 103–4, 118, 357 57 opening hours 360 Blondel, Jacques François460 rules and admission 228, 232, 235, 358 Bluecoat School, Dublin62 sales 219 Bluecoat School, Kendal58 Uffenbach’s visit 233 Blundell, Nicholas58 Bodley, Sir Thomas38, 191, 213, 216–17, 225 Board of Customs, library518 Bohn, H. G. (publisher)419 Bobart, Jacob161 Bolton, Theophilus129, 319 Boccaccio, Giovanni, Decameron collected440, Bonhote, Daniel250 451–2 book-boxes, Bray libraries76 Bocking Factory Institute (Courtaulds)512 book clubs and book societies69, 100, 246 Bodleian Library3, 5, 24, 27, 39, 41, 103–4, 435, Australia 496 436 clerical 335 acquisitions 353–4 Huntingdon 249 and Ashmole’s library 140 medical, see under medical societies and Ussher’s library 130 Norwich 272, 274 benefactors’ books 149 Ulster 278 gifts from East India Company 351 book-collecting, see private libraries and and borrowing 361 book-collecting and chaining 232 Book of Homilies326 arrangement 222 bookplates185, 233 buildings book sales and auction catalogues44, 174, Arts End 193;fig. 2 187–8, 217, 219, 438–58 Duke Humphrey’s Library 96, 207, 428 scientific books 167 lighting and heating 365, 493 book-stacks433 refitting, 1598–1604 191 book trade and libraries181, 301–11; see also Selden End 193;fig. 2 Stationers’ Company catalogues 112–13, 160, 187, 223, 224, 225, 357, Boosey’s foreign musical library, London527 433, 488 Booth, Martin, circulating library271 collections Booth, William P., circulating library272 Clarendon 428 Boothby, Sir William173–5 Douce 357, 480 borrowing books233–4

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Boswell, James480 British Empire, see colonial libraries Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, see National British Geological Survey399 Botanic Gardens British Library449 Botanical Society of Edinburgh402 British Museum (and British Museum library) Botesdale Book Club246 3, 24, 322, 405–21 Botﬁeld, Beriah313, 316, 456 and UCL 348 Bouhereau,´ Elie96, 118, 129, 402 buildings 410–11, 419–20 Boullee,´ Etienne Louis460 Arch Room 415, 469 Bowdler, Thomas43 book-stacks 420 Bowle, John336–7 King’s Library Bowles, Joseph113, 235 lighting and heating 491, 493 Bowtell, John366 reading room (original) 406 Box, Henry and Mary53 reading room, condition in 1849 2 Boyle, Robert14, 17, 165, 168 Round Reading Room 419–20 Bradford, Yorkshire, chartist hall387 catalogues of MSS 410, 414 Bradley, Joseph176 catalogues of printed books (and Braintree and Bocking Mechanics’ cataloguing rules) 406, 409–10, 412, Institute512 416–17, 430, 487–8, 490–1 Brasenose College, Oxford114, 193 collections Bray, Thomas70, 73–7, 81, 324, 520 Banks 398, 412 Bibliotheca Parochialis 73 Burney 42, 407 his library 339 Grenville Library 419 Proposal for Erecting Parochial Libraries 76 King’s Library 405, 409, 411, 412, 431, 441, Brett, Joseph267 449; see also under buildings, above Brewster, William81, 162 Private Case 486 Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, earl scientiﬁc 389 of412 Thomason 39 Bridgnorth foundation 4, 295, 448 St Leonard’s parochial library 67 funding 408, 417 town lending library 72 impact on scholarship and society 422– see also Society of Clergymen in and about 37 Bridgnorth legal deposit 418–19, 487 Bridport, Alexander Hood, viscount477 librarians and staff 406, 411, 480–2, 484 Brighton Co-operative Society387 manuscripts 526 Brisbane, Queensland, mechanics’ Arundel 432 institute507 Cotton 405–6, 414, 428; see also Brisbane, Sir Thomas505 Cottonian Library Bristol Harleian 405–7, 428; see also Harleian libraries 291 Library medical book society 395 Lansdowne 407 parochial library (St Mary Redcliffe) 68 Sloane 142 town library 84, 88–9, 91, 93–100 security 492 Bristol Baptist Academy322 staff, see librarians and staff above Bristol Cathedral library, destroyed 1831313 subject arrangement (Horne) 355, 357 Bristol Library Society84, 246, 250, 254, 397, Britton, Thomas, chemical books165 483–6, 491 Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire476 British and Foreign Bible Society323 Bromley, William143 British and Foreign Sailors’ Society520 Bromley House Library, see Nottingham British and Foreign Schools Society343, 377 Subscription Library British and Foreign Seamen’s Friends520 Brompton British Archaeological Association433 medical book society 393 British Association for the Advancement of see also Dodd’s architectural lending Science433 library

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Brooke, Ralph136 cabinets of curiosities (in universities)354–5 Brooks’ (club), London515 Calcutta Brougham, Henry, baron Brougham and Hindu Sanskrit college 501 Vaux 378, 381–2 Madrassah 501 Brown, John510 see also Asiatic Society of Bengal; Fort Brown, Peter326 William College; Hurkam Circulating Brown, Robert408 Library Brown, Samuel342, 378–9, 510 Calcutta Public Library (subscription) Browne, Peter130 496 Browne, Sir Richard184 Callow’s (medical booksellers), London393 Browne family, of Townend, Westmorland Calvin, John, his Institutes in churches326 183 Cambridge, circulating libraries369 Bruce, James, of Kinnaird353 Cambridge Antiquarian Society511 Brunet, Jacques-Charles356 Cambridge Philosophical Society399 Brunton, Alexander366 Cambridge Union Society360, 363 Brussels, state library491 Cambridge University102 Bryant, Jacob450 and neo-platonism 11 Brydges, James, duke of Chandos, see college libraries, see under Christ’s College; Chandos Clare College; Clare Hall; Corpus Buckden, Huntingdonshire, archdeaconry Christi College; Downing College; library320 Emmanuel College; Gonville and Buckingham, George Grenville, marquess Caius College; Jesus College; King’s of473 College; Magdalene College; Buckingham, John Sheffield, duke of37 Pembroke College; Peterhouse; Buckingham House, London, King’s and Queens’ College; St Catharine’s Queen’s Library461, 473, 480 College; St John’s College; Trinity Bull, George181 College; Trinity Hall Bullen, George416 Senate House and University Library 197, Bullinger, Heinrich, his Sermons in 202 churches326 university archives 363 Bungay Book Club250 see also Fitzwilliam Museum Bunyan, John, Welsh translations60 Cambridge University Library104–6, 142, 191, Bure, Guillaume François de439–41, 446, 435 448 and Lambeth Palace Library 36, 105, 128 Burgess, Thomas320 arrangement 222 Burgh, Thomas, design for Trinity College, not chained 232 Dublin117 bookplates 233 Burkitt, William75 buildings 363, 460, 462, 469–70 Burn, William465 catalogues of manuscripts 357 Burnet, Gilbert74, 78 catalogues of printed books 113, 223–7, Burney, Charles42 356–7, 366, 488, 490 Burns, Robert342 collections Burton, Robert38 Holdsworth 104 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk manuscripts (oriental) 105 circulating libraries 512 ‘Royal Library’ (Moore’s) 105, 111–12, 143, parochial library 326 154, 160, 230, 352, 365, 481 see also King Edward VI School scientific and medical 160 Busby, Richard51, 125 Selden gift 36 Bute, John Stuart, earl of475 Ver ney 42 Butler, James, duke of Ormonde, see legal deposit 108, 349–50, 369, 409, 433, 434, Ormonde 487 Byram Hall, Yorkshire474–5 librarians and staff 111–12, 213, 215, 365–6, Byres, James461 481–2

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Cambridge University Library (cont.) Cassiobury House, Hertfordshire208 sales 219 Castiglione, Baldassare, Il Cortegiano11 scientiﬁc equipment 161 Castleton, Derbyshire, parochial library334–5, staff see librarians and staff, above 342 stock in 1830 347 Castletown, Isle of Man, public library78 thefts 481 Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum, see Camden Place, Kent474 Bernard, Edward Camden, William134 catalogues and cataloguing223, 487–90 Campbeltown, Argyllshire342 card catalogues 490 Campkin, Henry517 guard-book catalogues 490 Canada printed catalogues 187; see also book-sales circulating libraries 498 and auction catalogues legislative assembly, see Quebec Assembly university libraries 109, 356–8 Roman Catholic college libraries 500 cathedral libraries50, 122, 155, 313–18 see also Montreal; Newfoundland borrowing 131–2, 234, 316–17, 491 Canonici, Matteo Luigi366 catalogues 315 Canterbury medical collections 394 Eastbridge Hospital library 325 staff 315 prison library 522 see also under individual cathedrals:Bangor; probate inventories 178 Bristol; Canterbury; Carlisle; Chester; see also Friendly Society for the Cultivation Chichester; Cork; Durham; Ely; of Useful Knowledge Exeter; Gloucester; Hereford; Canterbury Cathedral library123, 125, 143, 213, Kilkenny; Lichﬁeld; Lincoln; Llandaff; 216, 227, 314, 317, 325, 493 Norwich; Peterborough; Ripon; borrowing 132 Rochester; St Asaph; St David’s; St catalogues 126 Paul’s; Salisbury; Southwell Minster; security 132 Waterford; Wells; Winchester; Cape Town Worcester botanic garden 505 Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829321 libraries 495, 497 Catholic University of Ireland347 see also South African Public Library Catlyn, John51 card catalogues, see under catalogues and Caulfeild, James, earl of Charlemont, see cataloguing Charlemont Cardiff Castle, burnt 1655127 Cavendish, William, earl of Devonshire, see Carlisle, Nicholas50, 411, 431–2, 484 Devonshire Carlisle workers’ reading rooms515 Cavendish-Holles, Henrietta, countess of Carlisle Cathedral library230, 317 Oxford153, 236 Carlyle, Thomas359, 421, 479, 482, 485 Caxton, William, his publications Carmarthen Diocesan Library128 collected450, 458 Carmarthen Grammar School59 Cecil, Robert, earl of Salisbury208 Carnegie, William513 Celotti, Luigi442 Caroline, Queen, consort of George II censorship381, 486 210 Cervantes, Miguel de71, 99 Carpenter, James, circulating library258 chained books54, 70, 95, 190–3, 231–2, 326 Carpenter, T. and S., works library, Archbishop Marsh’s Library 118 Birmingham379 at Cambridge 191 Carte, Thomas156 at Oxford 202, 207 Cary, Henry412 in churches 328 Carysfort, John Joshua Proby, earl of457 Hereford Cathedral Library 317 Casaubon, Meric158 Wimborne parochial library 74 Case, John11 Challoner, Richard, Garden of the Soul58 Cashel Diocesan Library81, 129, 319 Chamberlen, Paul167 Casley, David154 Chambers, Sir William461, 476

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Chandos, James Brydges, duke of145 Church in Wales, cathedral libraries317–18; Charing Cross Hospital, London393 see also under Bangor; Llandaff; St charity schools48, 132 Asaph; St David’s Ireland 63 Church of England, see cathedral libraries; Wales 60 ecclesiastical libraries; Lambeth Charlecote, Warwickshire56, 188 Palace Library; parochial libraries Charlemont House, Dublin476 Church of Ireland, cathedral libraries317–18; Charlemont, James Caulfeild, earl of476 see also under Cork; Kilkenny, Charlett, Arthur142–3, 214; see also Catalogi Waterford Librorum Manuscriptorum under Churchill, John (medical bookseller), Bernard, Edward London393 Chartism387 Chute, John473 Chase, William, circulating library271 Cicero11–12 Chateaubriand, François, vicomte250 circulating libraries (commercial)6, 100, 251, Chatham, Kent 261–3, 289, 298, 306 garrison library 524 architecture and buildings 459, 492 lack of town library 88 for music, see under musical libraries see also Royal Engineers, library in colonies 497–9 Chatsworth, Derbyshire175 staff 483 Chelmsford, Essex stock and selection 485 parochial library 338 Gloucestershire 290 see also King Edward VI Grammar School Scotland 514 Chelsea Physic Garden, London171, 390 see also under individual towns and Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, libraries cities:Bath; Belfast; Birmingham; 291 Bury St Edmunds; Cambridge; Chemical Society399, 420 Dublin; Dunbar; Edinburgh; Cheshunt College, Hertfordshire322 Glasgow; Greenock; Hastings; Chester, bookshops181 Hereford; Kendal; Lincoln; London; Chester Cathedral library316–17 Manchester; Margate; Matlock Bath; Chesterfield, Derbyshire176 Newcastle upon Tyne; Norwich; Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, earl Oxford; Salisbury; Sheffield; Stamford of456, 472 Cirencester, Gloucestershire, libraries291 Chetham, Humphrey85, 93, 232 Civil War, effects on libraries and Chetham’s Library, Manchester85, 90–100, book-collecting90, 122–4, 127, 137–8, 207, 236, 394 145, 148, 184, 230 librarians 216 Clare College, Cambridge72 Chetwynd, William143 Clare Hall, Cambridge191 Chichester Cathedral library123, 125, 226, 314, Clarendon, Edward Hyde, earl of19, 29, 30 316–17 Clarendon, Henry Hyde, earl of145 Chigwell, Essex, grammar schools90 Clarke, Edward52 Childe, Anne57 Clarke, Edward Daniel366 Chirbury, Shropshire, parish and school Clarke, George205 library55, 67 Clarke, Godfrey176 Christ Church, Oxford104, 191, 202, 205 Clarke, John51 heating 493 Clarke, Sir William40 librarians and staff 215 classical culture – 17th–18th centuries10–12 library building, 1779 365 classification of libraries, see subject undergraduate reading 115 classification Christ College, Hobart501 and shelf arrangement Christ’s College, Cambridge161 Clavel, Robert45 Christ’s Hospital, London232 Clegg, John236 Christian, Edward409 Clement,´ Claude221 Christies (auctioneers)458 Clerk, Sir James, of Penicuik472

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Clifford, Lady Anne56 Copyright Act, 1814350, 409, 430, 431, 433 Clockmakers’ Company528 Copyright Act, 1836348, 350, 434 Closeburn, Dumfriesshire342 Copyright Act, 1842418 clubs (gentlemen’s) copyright deposit, see legal deposit in colonies 503 Cork see also under London parochial library 81 coastguards, libraries for521 St Fin Barre’s Cathedral library 130, 318 Cochrane, John George483 see also Greencoat School Cockerell, Charles Robert363, 469–70 Cork Diocesan Library81 Codrington, Christopher115–16 Cork Library Society246 Codrington Library, see All Souls College Cork University College346–7 Coe, William58 Corke, William483 coffee-houses43, 67, 374 Corpus Christi College, Cambridge364 Lovett’s, Hatton Garden, London 514 Corpus Christi College, Oxford191, 232 Potter’s, Long Acre, London 514 Cosin, John90, 106, 128 Short’s, Oxford 115 Cosin’s Library, Durham106, 128, 236, 319, 353, West Indies 499 369 Coggeshall, Essex, mechanics’ institute Cotton, Catherine175 513 Cotton, Charles, the younger174 Coimbra University Library, Portugal231 Cotton, Edward125 Cokayne, Sir Aston174 Cotton, Sir John40, 143, 150 Colbert, Samuel, circulating library252 Cotton, Sir Robert135, 153 Colburn, Henry, circulating library255 Cotton, Sir Thomas158 Colchester, Essex Cotton des Houssayes, Jean Baptiste237, mechanics’ institute 513 479 parochial/town library, see Harsnett Cottonian Library36, 139, 143, 147–8, 150, 154, Library 228, 423 Cole, Thomas and Edward328 ﬁre, 1731 154, 227, 491 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor316 loan of MSS 234 Colfe, Abraham52 Uffenbach’s visit 232 Colfe’s School, Lewisham52, 54 see also under British Museum College` de Montreal´ 500 country house libraries College of Arms, London134, 136, 139, 145–8 architecture 459, 471–8 College of Physicians (London), see Royal see also private libraries and book-collecting College of Physicians of England Courtaulds, see Bocking Factory Institute; collieries, see miners’ libraries Silk Factory Mechanics’ Institute, Cologne, Charterhouse of St Barbara228 Halstead Colombo, Sri Lanka Courtybella, Monmouthshire, colliery school botanic garden 505 and library380 see also Royal Asiatic Society Coventry, Warwickshire colonial libraries494–508 mechanics’ institute 382, 513 Combe, Taylor431 town library 55 Comber, Thomas219, 224 Cowbridge, Glamorgan, grammar his Companion to the Altar in libraries 58 school59–60 Compton, Henry69, 126 Cowie, Benjamin Morgan357 Constable, Archibald446 Cowley, Abraham28, 214 convict ships and prison hulks504, 521, 523; see Coxe, Henry Octavius482 also prison libraries Cox’s (medical booksellers), Southwark392–3 Conway, Edward, viscount58 Crabb, Joseph233 co-operative movement387, 514 Cracherode, Clayton Mordaunt408 Copyright Act, 1709 (1710)108–9, 120, 402, 409, Craddock family483 428, 487 Cranston, Andrew3, 69, 79 Copyright Act, 1801348 Cranston Library, Reigate69, 70–1, 332

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Crevenna, Pierre Antoine442 Devon and Exeter Hospital395 Crewe, Nathaniel, lord428 Devon and Exeter Medical Library395 Cricket Lodge, Somerset477 Devonshire, William Cavendish, earl of175 Crieff, Perthshire, subscription library527 devotional libraries47–64 Critical Review as selection tool485 D’Ewes, Sir Simonds143, 153 Crockett, Martin, circulating library271 Dewey, Melvil491 Crofts, Thomas440–1, 448 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall440–1, 443, 451–2, Croker, John Wilson408 480, 487, 492 Croome Park, Worcestershire474 and cathedral libraries 317 Crossgar, Co. Down, Religious Reading on Althorp 472 Society297 on bibliomania 438, 444, 447, 449, 457 Crouch, Nicholas104 Diderot, Denis355, 490 Crow, John130 Disraeli, Benjamin2, 424 Crundale, Kent, parochial library75, 325 D’Israeli, Isaac407, 424 Crynes, Nathaniel149 dissenting academies and libraries53–4, 321–3; Cudworth, Ralph11 see also Manchester College, and under Currer, Frances Mary Richardson452 individual towns e.g. Northampton Curtis, William, botanical library398 Doagh Book Club278 Dobson, Isaac111 Dale, Robert146 Dr Shepherd’s Library, Preston394 Dale, Samuel390 Dr Steevens’s Hospital, Dublin, Worth Dale, Thomas250 Library118–19, 403 Dallin, James480 Dr Williams’s Library, London53, 131, 321–2, damp as a library hazard229–30 389 Dance, George, Jr.460, 474–5 Dodd, J. M., architectural lending library, Darling, John (bookseller), London497 Brompton527 Darton, Yorkshire331 Doddridge, Philip53 Darwin, Erasmus397 Family Expositor 58, 62 Davy, Sir Humphrey432, 516 Dodsworth, Roger138, 142 Dawson, George386 Doncaster, Yorkshire Day, William73 parochial library (St George’s) 68, 69–71, Deal, Kent, Bray library74 330–1 Deane, Sir Thomas363 town lending library 72 Dearle, John481 Donne, John226 De Bure, Guillaume Franc¸ois, see Bure Dorchester, Henry Pierrepont, marquess De La Beche, Sir Henry399 of37, 170, 389 De La Pryme, Abraham73 D’Orville, James Philip353 Dee, John24, 38, 158, 171 Douai, English College320 Defoe, Daniel52 Douce, Francis352, 429, 431, 444 Deighton, Robert481 Douglas, Lord George119, 150 Delany, Mary64 Dowlais, Glamorgan Delaval, Lady Elizabeth57 school libraries 380 Della Santa, Leopoldo460, 468 workmen’s library 380 Deptford, Chartist hall387 Dowling, Vincent, circulating library Derby House, London474 252 Derby Philosophical Society397 Downing College, Cambridge346, 361 Dering, Sir Edward58 Downside Abbey321 Derry Diocesan Library81, 129 Doyle, James510 Derwent Circulating Library, Hobart498 Drake, Francis155 Descartes, Rene´ 14 Drelincourt, Charles, his Christian’s Dessin, Johann Nikolaus von506 Consolations in libraries71 Dethick, Sir Gilbert147 Drummond, David (of Innerpeffray)341 Devey, Thomas182 Dryden, John15

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Dublin Dury, John26, 27, 89, 159, 213–14, 216, 219, 234, circulating libraries 251 236 Parliament House 145 Reformed Librarie-Keeper 27, 94, 109, 212 Royal Barracks library 524 Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire185 see also Archbishop Marsh’s Library; Dyson, Humphrey39, 42 Bluecoat School; Charlemont House; Dr Steevens’ Hospital; King’s Inns; Earl Sterndale, Derbyshire, parochial National Botanic Gardens; National library327 Library of Ireland; Physico- East India Company Chirurgical Society; Royal College of and military libraries 504, 523 Physicians of Ireland; Royal College gifts to university libraries 351 of Surgeons of Ireland; Royal Dublin ecclesiastical libraries122, 313–23 Society; Royal Irish Academy; Trinity in colonies 499–500 College, Dublin; University College, see also cathedral libraries; parochial Dublin libraries Dublin Castle (as records repository)145 Edgeworth, Maria64 Dublin Library Society246 Edinburgh Dublin Mechanics’ Institute513 circulating libraries 1, 252, 253, 255 Dublin Philosophical Society170 prison library 522 Dublin Society, see Royal Dublin Society town library 65, 78 Dublin University, see Trinity College, Dublin see also Advocates’ Library; Botanical Ducarel, Andrew Coltee318 Society of Edinburgh; George Duck, Stephen179 Watson’s College; Hill Street Dugdale, William138–42, 145, 146 seminary; Plinian Society; Register Monasticon Anglicanum 155 House; Royal Botanic Garden; Royal Dumfries Law Library523, 526 College of Physicians; Royal College Dun, Sir Patrick403 of Surgeons; Royal High School; Dunbar, East Lothian, circulating library Royal Inﬁrmary; Royal Medical 256 Society; Royal Physical Society; Royal Dunblane, Perthshire, subscription library131; Society of Edinburgh; Signet Library; see also Leighton Library Solicitors’ Library; Wernerian Dundas, Robert, Lord Arniston211 Natural History Society Dundee, ﬂoating chapel library520 Edinburgh Architectural Subscription Dunfermline, Fife Library527 grammar school 62 Edinburgh Mechanics’ Subscription mechanics’ institute 513 Library381 public library 513 Edinburgh Review, as selection tool485 subscription library 513 Edinburgh School of Arts345–6, 381, 507, 525 Dunfermline Trades Library513 Edinburgh Subscription Library246 Dunlop, William233 Edinburgh University Dunne, Andrew321 class libraries 114, 163, 360 Dunscore, Dumfriesshire342 Divinity School, see New College and Duport, James106 Theological Library, below Durand, Jean Nicolas Louis460, 465 Medical Faculty 103, 164, 400 Durham, see Cosin’s Library; Ushaw College natural history specimens 354 Durham Cathedral library126, 236, 314–15 New College 365 and University of Durham 369 Physiology Library 356, 360 borrowing 234, 317 students’ hall 468 buildings and restoration 124, 125, 315 Theological Library 360 during Civil War and Commonwealth 123 Edinburgh University Library106 Durham University, foundation, 1832346, acquisitions 354 369 gifts from East India Company 351 Durham University Library350, 353, 369 gifts from Gregory brothers 163

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legal deposit 349, 350 Enlightenment, in Britain33–4 Nairne bequest 106, 113 Entomological Society of London, see Royal Thomson bequest 352 Entomological Society stock in 1838 347 Erasmus, Desiderius12, 17, 326 buildings 362–3, 460, 462 Escorial Library190 reading room 362 Essex, Arthur Capel, earl of208 catalogues 490 Essex, libraries in 1850512 issue system 491 Este, Charles130 librarians and staff 110, 213, 216, 235, 366, Eton College40, 48, 51, 374 367–8, 481–2, 484 chained books 54, 232 medical collections 400 Evelyn, John11, 18–20, 28, 143, 165, 180, 186, rules 358, 359 208 staff, see librarians and staff above Instructions concerning erecting of a library state in 1827 361 198, 212, 214 student use 359 see also under Naude,´ Gabriel education, popular371–7, 387 Numismata 32 education and libraries47–64; see also school and Archbishop Tenison’s library 86 libraries and Royal Society 148 Edwards, Arthur405, 408 as theorist of libraries 28–33 Edwards, Edward487, 492 bindings 184 Edwards, George389 donor to Bodleian 234 Edwards, Jacob, circulating library272 manuscripts 143 Edwards, James (bookseller)442, 447 on classiﬁcation of libraries 221 Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, Artisans’ Everett, William434 Library515 Evora University Library, Portugal231 Egerton, Francis, earl of Ellesmere, see Exeter Ellesmere prison library 522 Egerton, Francis Henry, earl of Bridgewater, see also Devon and Exeter Hospital; Devon see Bridgewater and Exeter Medical Library Egerton, Thomas, baron Ellesmere, see Exeter Cathedral library122, 125–6, 314, 317 Ellesmere medical holdings 395 Ehrenbert von Moll, Karl Marie, baron, see Exeter College, Oxford114 Moll library destroyed by ﬁre 227 Elham, Kent, parochial library342 extra-illustration455 Ellesmere, Francis Egerton, earl of417 Ellesmere, Thomas Egerton, baron208 Fabri de Peiresc, Nicolas Claude18–19 Ellis, Clement57 Factory Act, 1833380 Ellis, Sir Henry409, 410, 411, 413, 414, 418, factory and works libraries379–80; see also 431–2, 482 Ackroyd, Edward; Bocking Factory Elphinstone, John228 Institute; Carpenter, T. and S.; Ely Cathedral library125, 314, 315, 317 Courtybella; Dowlais; Monkland Iron Emmanuel College, Cambridge106, 193, 232 Works; New Eagley Mills; Quarry Encyclopaedia Britannica355 Bank; Ransome and May (Ipswich); endowed libraries83–95, 101; see also parochial Rhymney Ironworks; Silk Factory libraries, and individual libraries, e.g. Mechanics’ Institute; Varteg Hill Iron Archbishop Marsh’s Library; Company Archbishop Tenison’s Library; Fairfax, Ferdinando, lord124, 138 Cranston Library, Reigate; Dr Fairfax, Thomas, lord103, 124, 138 Shepherd’s Library; Dr Williams’s Fancourt, Samuel, circulating libraries257 Library; Plume Library, Maldon; Fane, Lady Rachel, countess of Bath, see Bath Standfast Library, Nottingham Farmer (or Fermor), Henry143 English Catalogue486 Faussett, Brian433 engravings454–6; see also extra-illustration Faversham, Kent, probate inventories178

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Fawkner, John Pascoe, hotel library, Fry, Elizabeth, and prison libraries521 Melbourne499 Fulham Palace, London320 Featherstone, Henry, see Fetherstone furnishing and fittings of libraries, see library Fermor, Henry, see Farmer furnishing Ferrers, Henry141 Fysher, Robert113 Fetherstone, Henry37, 44 Fidler, Peter506 Gale, Thomas143 Fillingham, William452 Galignani (cabinet de lecture), Paris498 fire in libraries227–8, 469, 491 Galway libraries damaged, see under Advocates’ Amicable Society 527 Library; Cottonian Library; Exeter Franciscan friaries 63 College, Oxford; Harvard College; Galway University College346, 347 Houses of Parliament; Library of Garrick Club, London516 Congress; Middle Temple; Princeton Gascoigne, Richard146 University Library; Trinity College, Gassendi, Pierre18 Cambridge; Westminster Abbey Geelong, Victoria, mechanics’ institute507 Fire of London, 1666 Gentleman’s Magazine217, 228 and Royal College of Physicians 227 as selection tool 485 and St Paul’s Cathedral library 36, 123–4, 127 Gentlemen’s Society, Peterborough, see and Sion College 123, 127, 227 Peterborough Fishmongers’ Company52 Gentlemen’s Society, Spalding, see Spalding Fitzgerald, Emily, duchess of Leinster, see Geological Society398, 421 Leinster Geological Survey, see British Geological Fitzroy, Augustus Henry, duke of Grafton, see Survey Grafton George I, purchases Bishop Moore’s Fitzwilliam, Richard, viscount363 library105 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge358, 363, 482 George II Flamsteed, John168 and British Museum 409, 423 Fletcher, Joseph, circulating library253 his library (see also Royal Library) 154 Florence, see Accademia della Crusca; George III405, 408, 441–2, 449–50 Vieusseux (gabinetto litterario) purchase of Thomason Tracts 429 Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire474 see also British Museum, King’s Library Forbes, James53 George IV408, 429, 465 Foreign Office, library519 George Watson’s College, Edinburgh62 Forshall, Josiah411, 413–14, 418, 419, 432 German Circulating Library, London257 Forster, Nicholas129 Gibbs, James116, 203, 209, 477 Forster, Richard75, 325 Gibraltar494 Fort William College, Calcutta501 garrison library 519 Fortescue, George Knottesford491 libraries for soldiers 523 Foster, Marmaduke156 prison hulks 523 Foulis Academy, Glasgow368 Gibson, Edmund145, 229, 319 Foxe, John, his Book of Martyrs in churches326 Gifford, Andrew322 France, English colonies in494 Gilbert, Claudius107, 117 Freemasons’ Hall, Edinburgh528 Gillespie, Leonard520 French Revolution Glanvill, Joseph14 and growth of radicalism 371, 374 Glasgow effect on libraries 442 foreign circulating library 527 return of Roman Catholic colleges to grammar school 61 England 320 prison library 522 Friendly Society for the Cultivation of Useful see also Andersonian Institution Knowledge, Canterbury258 (University); Foulis Academy; Friends, see Society of Friends Macallan’s circulating library; Royal Frith, Philip183 College of Physicians and Surgeons

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Glasgow Gas Workmen’s Library381 grammar schools48–53, 374 Glasgow Mechanics’ Institution382 Scotland 61 Glasgow Philosophical Society368 Grand Tour439, 494 Glasgow Public Library (subscription)246, Granger, James454–5 368 grangerisation, see extra-illustration Glasgow University Grantham, Lincolnshire, parochial library and Foulis Academy 368 68 class libraries 114, 360 Gravesend, Kent, Bray library74 anatomy and medicine 360 Gray, John418 humanities 360 Gray, Robert492 Divinity Hall library 114, 347, 360 Gray, Thomas161, 424 Hunterian Museum 355 Gray’s Inn, London36 students’ medical library 401 Great Exhibition, 1851399, 528 Glasgow University Library106–7, 163 great house libraries, see country house acquisitions 217 libraries legal deposit 109, 349, 350, 487 Great Saxham Hall, Suffolk474 stock in 1760 347–51 Greaves, John159 buildings Greencoat School, Cork63 Adam building 206, 228–9, 364 Greenfield, John183 reading room 362 Greenock, Renfrewshire, foreign circulating collections library527 Hunterian 347, 355 Greenock Library246 medical collections 401 Greenwich Smith collection 353 Chartist hall 387 identification marks 233 workhouse 515 librarians and staff 110, 213, 231, 367 see also Royal Observatory rules 231, 358, 359 Greg family (millers, Quarry Bank, staff, see librarians and staff above Cheshire)380 thefts from 230 Gregory, David163 Glasnevin, see National Botanic Gardens Gregory, James162 Glass, Thomas395 Grenville, George, marquess of Buckingham, Gloucester, libraries291 see Buckingham Gloucester Cathedral library124–5, 314, 315, Grenville, Thomas417, 448; see also British 317 Museum, Grenville Library Gloucestershire, libraries290–1 Gresham’s School, Holt52 Glover, John411 Grew, Nehemiah149 Glover, Robert134 Grey, Sir George, Bt.525 Glyde, John511–12 Grey, Sir George, kcb 495 Goddard, Mrs, circulating library253 Greycoat School, Lincoln123 Golius, Jacobus103, 116 Griffiths, John337–8 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge193, Grinfield, Edward William343 215, 364, 469 Groningen University Library228 Gordon, Duke367 Gronovius, Jacobus13 Gother, John, his Instructions in libraries58 guard-book catalogues, see under catalogues Gottingen¨ University Library360, 423, 435, Guernsey Seaman’s Friend Society520 482 Guest, Sir John380 Gouge, Thomas60 Guildhall Library, London528 Gough, Richard351, 428 Guinguene,´ Pierre Louis408 Govan, miners’ library526 Guinness, Sir Benjamin Lee403 government libraries517–19 Gutch, John366 in colonies 504–5 Gutenberg Bible, collected447 Graevius, Johannes Georgius13 Guy’s Hospital, London, Physical Society Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, duke of443 392

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Hacket, John105 Hartlib, Samuel25–7, 91, 159, 212 Hadderton, Samuel112 Harvard College Library220, 225, 232 Haddington, East Lothian293, 378 fire, 1764 491 Hafod, Cardiganshire491 Harvey, Gabriel14 Haig, John361, 367 Harvey, William159 Hale, Philip319 Harvington Hall, Worcestershire58 Hale, Sir Matthew, his Contemplations Moral Haslewood, Joseph452 and Divine58 Hastings, Francis Rawdon, marquess of523 Halifax, Charles Montague, lord144 Hastings, Selina, countess of Huntingdon, see Halifax, Yorkshire Huntingdon mechanics’ institute 483, 486 Hastings, Sussex, circulating library257 parochial library 232, 326 Hatchard, John306 works library 380 Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, parochial Hall, Thomas54 library69, 338 Hallam, Henry516 Hatfield House, Hertfordshire208 Halley, Edmond169 Hatt, Richard437 Halliwell-Phillipps, James368 Hatton, Christopher37, 103 Hall’s circulating library, Margate459 Hawksmoor, Nicholas116, 203, 205, 229, 365 halls of science387 Hay, John, circulating library278 Halstead, Essex, see Silk Factory Mechanics’ Hazard, Samuel, circulating library252, 257 Institute Hearne, Thomas151, 154, 231, 234 Ham House, Surrey209 and Bodleian Library 112, 223, 227, 235, 347 Hamilton, Thomas466 and Rawlinson collection 153, 438 Hampden Clubs386 as a librarian 236 Hanbury, William233 as bibliographer 139 Hanley, Staffordshire, Sunday school on Stillingfleet’s library 118 library377 on Trinity College, Dublin 111 Hanmer, Sir Thomas165 Heath Hall school, Wakefield375 Hanrott, Philip Augustus453 heating of libraries, see lighting and heating of Hardwick, Philip471 libraries Harewood House, Yorkshire474–5 Heber, Richard353, 443 Harleian Library35, 37, 46, 153–4, 156–7, 233 Henderson, Robert110, 235, 349, 366 loan of MSS 234 Henderson, William110 printed books Henley-on-Thames, parochial library81 sale 188 heralds’ libraries134–57 Harleian manuscripts, see also under British Herbert, Edward, earl of Powis, see Powis Museum Herbert, William (bibliographer)456 Harley, Edward, earl of Oxford38, 153–4, 156, Herbert, William (librarian at Guildhall)528 186, 209, 227, 228, 233, 235 Hereford Harley, Robert, earl of Oxford153–4, 186, 209 circulating library 254 Harleyford House, Buckinghamshire473 parochial library (All Saints) 81, 326 Harmony Hall, Hampshire (Owenite Hereford Cathedral library124, 314, 315, 317 community)514 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, see Harper, Samuel406, 407, 427, 481 Edinburgh School of Arts Harrington Hall321 Hermann, Johannes229 Harris, Howell357 Herring, Thomas328 Harrison, Richard183 Hertslet, Lewis and Edward519 Harrison, Sir Frederic488 Heyne, Christian Gottlob482 Harrod, William, circulating library249 Heythrop College, London59, 321 Harsnett, Samuel85, 89–99 Heywood, Lancashire, Chartist hall387 Harsnett Library, Colchester67 Heywood, Oliver53 Hartington, Derbyshire327 Hickes, George153 Hartlebury Castle, Worcestershire320 Higgs, Griffin91

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Hill, James327–8 Howard, Charles, duke of Norfolk, see Hill, Rowland, lord523 Norfolk Hill Street seminary, Edinburgh320 Howard, Henry, duke of Norfolk, see Norfolk Hoare, Sir Richard Colt432, 477 Howard, Thomas, earl of Arundel, see Hobart, Tasmania Arundel mechanics’ institute 507 Hubbard, Robert, rarities collection169 regimental schools 504 Huddersfield Mechanics’ Institution385 Total Abstinence Society 504 Hudson, Edward111 Wesleyan Library 499 Hudson, James William385 see also Christ College; Derwent Hudson, John104, 112 Circulating Library; Rossbank Hudson’s Bay Company502 Observatory Huguenot Church, London131 Hobbes, Thomas14, 175, 222 Huguenots and book collecting184, 188 Hoey, James, circulating library251, 253 Hull Hofbibliothek, Vienna, see Vienna floating chapel library 520 Holbeck, Nottinghamshire, Jesuit library parochial library (Holy Trinity) 70, 88 127 police station library 525 Holdsworth, Richard36, 104 see also Port of Hull Society Holkham Hall, Norfolk210–11, 471;fig. 8 Hull General Infirmary, library483 Holland, Henry476 Hull Grammar School51 Holles, Lady Henrietta Cavendish, see Hull Law Society526 Cavendish-Holles Hull Library246 Hollis, Thomas232 humanism and humanists (16th–17th Hollwood, Kent477 centuries)12 Holmes, John52, 487 Hume, David164, 213, 217, 233, 235, 360, 482, Holt, see Gresham’s School 484 Home Office, library518 Hume, Joseph517 Hong Kong, garrison library524 Hunt, J., circulating library272 Honywood, Michael126, 196 Hunter, John391 Hood, Alexander, viscount Bridport, see Hunter, William355, 401 Bridport Hunterian Library, see under Glasgow Hooke, Robert14, 167, 169, 181, 228 University Library Hookham, Thomas, circulating library251, Hunterian Medical Society, Edinburgh401 255, 257 Hunterian Museum, see under Glasgow Hookham, Thomas J., circulating library257 University Hoole, Charles47 Huntingdon, Robert103, 160, 235 Hopkins, Ezekiel129 Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, countess of Horne, John70 322 Horne, Thomas Hartwell355, 357, 490 Huntingdon archdeaconry library, see under Horner, Leonard381, 525 Buckden Horticultural Society of London, see Royal Huntingdon Book Club249 Horticultural Society Hurd, Richard320 hospital libraries390, 392; see also medical Hurkam Circulating Library, Calcutta498 libraries, and names of hospitals, e.g. Hyde, Thomas112, 160, 215 Hull General Infirmary; Leeds catalogue of Bodleian Library 113 General Infirmary; St Thomas’s Hospital Idmiston, Wiltshire336 Houghton Hall, Norfolk209 Imperial Library, Vienna, see Vienna, House of Commons, library470, 517–18 Hofbibliothek House of Lords, library470, 518 India, see Bengal; Calcutta; East India House of Lords, Irish, see Ireland, House of Company Lords Inner Temple, London36, 143, 232 Houses of Parliament, fire, 1834470, 518 Innerpeffray Library, Perthshire78, 341

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Inns of Court36; see also Gray’s Inn; Inner Jenny, John108 Temple; Middle Temple Jesuit College, Quebec501 insects and other enemies of books228 Jesuit colleges and Jesuit libraries59, 127, 229; Institut Canadien, Montreal503 see also Heythrop College; Holbeck, Institution of Civil Engineers, London398, Notts.; Royal University of Malta; St 421 Mary’s College, Stonyhurst; Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UniversiteLaval´ London399 Jesus College, Cambridge193, 492 intellectual life and culture (early Jesus College, Oxford41, 146, 202, 215 modern)9–22, 23 Jewel, John, his Apologie in churches326 inventories, see probate inventories Johnson, Michael, bookseller173–4 Ionian Islands494 Johnson, Samuel34, 317, 480 Ipswich, Suffolk511–12 Jolly, Alexander320 mechanics’ institution 511–12 Jones, Henry107 museum 511 Jones, Henry Longueville318 Scientiﬁc Book Society 511 Jones, Inigo193 subscription library 511 Jones, John Winter416, 417, 432, 487 town library 84, 89, 91 Jones, Nathaniel367 see also Ransome and May Junius, Francis37, 103 Ipswich Literary Institution511 Justice, Henry231 Ipswich Philosophical Society511 Juxon, William105, 125, 128 Ireland chapel libraries 510 Kaempfer, Engelbert166 civil commotion and libraries 492 Karlsruhe460 ecclesiastical libraries 129–30 Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire474–5 House of Lords library 517 Keighley Chartist Hall, Yorkshire387 mechanics’ institutes, see Dublin Kendal, Westmorland Mechanics’ Institute circulating library 263 medical and scientiﬁc societies 402–4 house of correction 522 parochial libraries 81 see also Bluecoat School private libraries and book-collecting 179 Kendal Economical Library379 public records 144–5, 526 Kendal Library250 school libraries 62–4 Kennet, Basil154 Ireland, Church of, see Church of Ireland Kennet, White, Parochial Antiquities71 Ireland, Richard267 Kent, William210 Isham, Sir Thomas185 Kenwood, London474–5 Isle of Man, parochial libraries65, 77–8 Ker, John167 Isle of Wight, seamen’s libraries520 Ker, Neil Ripley37 issue systems, see loans Kerrich, Thomas365 Italy, English colonies in494 Kilkenny itinerating libraries293, 342, 378, 381 barracks library 524 St Canice’s Cathedral library 130, 318 Jackson, T., circulating library252 Kilkenny Castle224 Jacobite Rising, 1715, effect on Highland library libraries80 see also Ormonde, James Butler, duke of Jamaica Kilkenny College62 circulating libraries 498 Kilkenny Diocesan Library81 see also St George’s Library Society King Edward VI Grammar School, James, Thomas (Bodley’s Librarian)38, 142, Chelmsford67, 90 216 King Edward VI School, Bury St Edmunds52 James, Thomas (printer)127 King, Gregory146 Jameson, Robert358 King, Henry226 Jeake, Samuel182–3 King, John (d.1671)125

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King, John (of British Museum)481 Laughton, John232 King, William40, 46, 129, 130, 145 Launceston, Tasmania King’s Cliffe, Northamptonshire, parish ﬂoating bazaar and public baths 499 school and library375 mechanics’ institute 507 King’s College, Aberdeen, see under Aberdeen law libraries526–7 University in colonies 502 King’s College, Cambridge191, 364 see also Advocates’ Library; Dumfries Law King’s College, Newcastle upon Tyne345–6 Library; Hull Law Library; Inns of King’s College Hospital, London393 Court; King’s Inns, Dublin; Liverpool King’s College London346, 348 Law Library; Manchester Law King’s Inns, Dublin369, 526 Library; Newcastle upon Tyne and legal deposit 348, 487 Gateshead Law Library Institution; King’s Lynn, Norfolk, parochial or town Plymouth Law Society Library; library68, 70, 72, 85, 326 Signet Library; Sydney Law Library King’s Lynn Public (Subscription) Library258 Lawson, John389 King’s Norton, Warwickshire, parochial and Le Neve, Peter143, 156, 268, 269 school library55 Le Neve, Sir William147 Kingston, Jamaica, see Smith and Kinnear’s Le Tellier, Charles224 circulating library Leadhills Library, Lanarkshire379 Kingston-upon-Hull, see Hull Leathersellers’ Company52 Kingswood School, Bath53 Lee, Stephen432 Kinnaird Castle, Brechin473 Leeds Kinnear, Robert, circulating library255 mechanics’ institute 382 Kirkman, Francis, bookseller180 see also New Subscription Library; Temple Kirkpatrick, John268 Newsam Kirkwall, Orkney, public library78 Leeds General Inﬁrmary, library483 Kirkwood, James3, 79–81, 341 Leeds Grammar School55 Knight, Charles384 Leeds Library246, 250, 459, 480, 485–6 Knight, Gowin407, 427 catalogues 489 lighting and heating 493 Lackington, James56, 307, 374, 459 staff 483, 484–5 Laing, David368, 480–3 Leek, Staffordshire, mechanics’ institute512 Lambard, William452 Lefroy, John Henry524 Lambeth Palace Library150, 230, 318 legal deposit4, 108–9, 218, 409, 433, 434, 487 catalogue of manuscripts 318 university libraries 348, 350, 364; see also librarians 216 under individual universities moved to Cambridge 36, 128, 230 legal libraries, see law libraries return from Cambridge 105, 128 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm144, 217, 221, 235 Lampeter, see St David’s University College Leicester Lancaster, Joseph377 parochial library (St Martin’s) 84 Lancaster Amicable Library258 town library 84, 88–100, 216, 231, 509 Lane, William, circulating library251, 255, 261, Leicester Medical Book Society395 292, 307 Leicester Permanent Library395, 397 Langbaine, Gerard226, 228 Leicestershire, clergy libraries182 Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, Leiden University Library227, 231, 232 Kedermister Library208 Leigh, Thomas352 Lansdowne House, London475–6 Leighton, Robert131, 320 Lansdowne manuscripts, see under British Leighton Library, Dunblane131, 320 Museum Leinster, Emily Fitzgerald, duchess of64 Lansdowne, William Petty, marquess of (Lord Leland, John142 Shelburne)475, 511 Leslie, Norman78 Laud, William37, 159, 162 Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim482 Lauderdale, John Maitland, duke of188, 209 Lettsom, John Coakley390

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Lewes Library Society250 Liverpool Library246–58 Lewis, Edward, of Chirbury55, 67 Liverpool Lyceum484, 489 Lewis, George106 Liverpool Mechanics’ and Apprentices’ Lewis, H. K. (medical bookshop and library), Library381, 386 London393, 396 Liverpool Medical Institution395 Lewis, John (Kent antiquary)155, 325 Liverpool Medical Library394 Lewisham, see Colfe’s School livery companies528 Lhwyd, Edward160 probate inventories 179 librarians see also Barber-Surgeons’ Company; characteristics, qualifications etc. 213–16, Clockmakers’ Company; 236, 479–84 Fishmongers’ Company; salaries 484 Leathersellers’ Company; Stationers’ librarianship and library management212, Company 479–93 Llandaff Cathedral library127, 318 libraries Llandaff Diocesan Library128 acquisition and stock 485–7 Llandyssilio, Pembrokeshire337–8 collection-building (early modern) 36–46 loans and issue systems491 developing view of libraries, early modern effect on architecture 467, 468 period 23–4 Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Working Man’s relation to learning, early modern period Library342 23–5, 35 Locke, John12, 14, 15 library buildings, see architecture of libraries Lockey, Thomas39, 112, 213 library classification, see subject classification Lodge, John354 and shelf arrangement Loggan, David185 library furnishing190, 220–1 London library management, see librarianship circulating libraries 251, 253, 257, 424 Library of Congress, Washington, DC: fire, clubs (gentlemen’s) 461, 470–1, 515–17; see 1815491 also Athenaeum; Brooks’; Garrick Licensing Act, 166241, 66, 108, 409 Club; Oriental Club; Oxford and Lichfield Cathedral library122, 125, 314, 317, Cambridge Club; Reform Club; 491 Travellers’ Club; Union Club; United catalogue of MSS 230 Service Club St Chad’s Gospels 233 Lord Mayor’s Library 528 lighting and heating of libraries231, 365, 459, medical libraries 389–93; see also Chelsea 492–3; see also architecture of libraries Physic Garden; Medical and Limerick, garrison library524 Chirurgical Society; Royal College of Lincoln Physicians; Royal Veterinary College; circulating libraries 253 Royal Society of Medicine; Webb probate inventories 179 Street medical school; and names of see also Greycoat School individual hospitals Lincoln Cathedral library123, 126, 196, 314, prison libraries, see under Millbank; 317 Pentonville; Woolwich Lincoln’s Inn, London471, 479, 482–4, 492 probate inventories 179 Linen Hall Library, Belfast3, 246, 251, 280, 404 see also Archbishop Tenison’s Library; Linlithgow, West Lothian342 British Museum; British Museum Linnaeus, Carl355, 397 library; Buckingham House; Linnean Society, London397 Chemical Society; Dr Williams’s literacy and reading skills371–87 Library; Geological Society; Literary and Philosophical Society of Heythrop College; Huguenot Newcastle upon Tyne246, 397, 489 Church; Inns of Court; Institution of Liverpool, lack of town library86 Civil Engineers; Institution of Liverpool Farmers’ Library527 Mechanical Engineers; Lambeth Liverpool Law Library526 Palace Library; Lansdowne House;

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Montagu House; Mudie’s; Public McLeay, Alexander495 Record Office; St Bartholomew’s Maconochie, Alexander522 Hospital; St Paul’s Cathedral; St Paul’s Madden, Sir Frederic411, 413–15, 417, 432, 437, School; Sion College; Spitalfields; 526 Tower of London; Westminster and Anthony Panizzi 418 London Hospital390 and Sir Thomas Phillipps 454 London Institution510–11 on Cambridge libraries 480, 482, 492–3 London Library322, 398, 420, 479, 511, 513 magazines and journals as book-selection and British Museum 421 tools45–6 catalogues 488–9 Magdalen College, Oxford114, 191, 229 librarians and staff 483–4 Magdalen Hall, Oxford114 lighting and heating 493 Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepysian loans 491 Library106, 185, 209, 493 stock and selection 485, 486 Maidstone, Kent London Library Society246, 249, 262 parochial library (All Saints’) 70, 326, 339 London Mechanics’ Institution382, 386, probate inventories 178 507 Maitland, John, duke of Lauderdale, see London University Lauderdale and British Museum 420 Maittaire, Michael441 foundation, 1836 345–6 Major, Richard H.416 London University Library348, 350 Maldon, see Plume Library and School Londonderry (diocese), see Derry Malone, Edward42, 351, 456 Loudon, John Claudius478 Malta494 Loughborough, Leicestershire, parochial garrison library 504 library336 libraries for soldiers 523 Louvain University Library215 see also Royal University of Malta Lovett, William, coffee-house, Hatton Man, Isle of, see Isle of Man Garden514 Manchester Low, Sampson486 barracks library 524 Lownds, Thomas, circulating library251–3, mechanics’ institution 382, 384–5, 386 257 public library 527 Lubbock, William, circulating library271 Sunday school library 377 Lucas, Henry105 see also Chetham’s Library; New Lucy, Alice, lady56, 188 Manchester Mechanics’ Institute; Lucy, Sir Thomas188 Portico Library Lumley, John Lumley, baron207 Manchester Circulating Library246 Lumley, Richard75 Manchester College322 Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire474 Manchester Foreign Library527 Luttrell, Francis42 Manchester Grammar School51 Luttrell, Narcissus36, 40, 41–2 Manchester Law Library527 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Mabillon, Jean32, 187 Society396 Macallan’s circulating library, Glasgow368 Manchester Medical Society396 Macclesfield, George Parker, earl of426 Manchester Owenian Society514 McDowall, Thomas367 Mansell, Frances332 McGill College, Montreal Manual of Devout Prayers58 medical library 501 manuscripts medical students’ society 502 catalogues of 226; see also under individual Mackenzie, Sir George11 libraries Mackerell, Benjamin268–70 collected 452–4 Mackie, Charles352 in endowed libraries 99–100 MacLachlan, Ewart367 Mapletoft, Robert106, 125 MacLaurin, Colin103 Margate, circulating libraries252, 256, 459

561

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Mariner’s Church Society, London520 Medical and Chirurgical Society, London393, Marischal College, see under Aberdeen 396 University Medical Book Society of Newark, Southwell maritime libraries, see naval and maritime and Neighbourhood388 libraries medical libraries158–72, 388–404 Marks, Richard520 in colonies 502 Marlborough, George Spencer, duke of, see also hospital libraries; McGill College; marquess of Blandford451 Royal College of Physicians; Royal Marlborough, Wiltshire, parochial College of Surgeons, and under library72 individual towns and cities Marryat, Captain, works banned in medical societies and book clubs360, 388, 394 libraries514 Ireland 404 Marsh, Herbert480 Scotland 348, 360 Marsh, Narcissus81, 86, 118, 129, 207, 232, 369 see also under individual towns: Aberdeen; bequest to Bodleian 103, 118, 160 Birmingham; Bristol; Brompton; Marshall, John482 Edinburgh; Exeter; Leicester; Marshall, Thomas103 Liverpool; Manchester; Marsh’s Library, Dublin, see Archbishop Newark-on-Trent; Newcastle Marsh’s Library upon-Tyne; Norwich; Nottingham; Martin, Robert44 Westminster Maryland, Bray libraries73 medical specimens in libraries164 Marylebone Chartist Hall, London387 Megoe, Ephraim266, 267–70 masonic libraries, see Freemasons’ Hall, Melbourne, Victoria Edinburgh; United Grand Lodge mechanics’ institute 507 Massie, Andrew110 see also Fawkner, J. P.; Port Philip Medical mathematics, in private libraries168–9 Association Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, circulating Melbourne Club503 library253 Mellerstain House, Berwickshire475 Matthew, Tobias89, 91 Mercantile Library Association of Maty, Matthew407, 427 Montreal502 Maurice, Edward130, 318 Merchants’ Exchange and reading room, Maurice, Thomas411 Montreal502 Mauritius, garrison library524 Merton College, Oxford91, 190–1, 492 Maxwell, Arthur R.278 librarians 215, 218, 235 May, Thomas Erskine518 library rules 213 Maynooth, see St Patrick’s College Michael, Heimann Joseph354 Mead, Richard186, 390 Middle Temple mechanics’ institutes289, 344, 380–7, 492, library chained 232 512–15 fire, 1679 140 classes and lectures 383 Middlesex Hospital, London390 in colonies 507–8 Middleton, Conyers111, 215, 222, 365 Australia and New Zealand 507–8 Milan, see Bibliotheca Ambrosiana influence of dissenters 323 Milden, Suffolk, parochial library75 middle-class support 383–4 military libraries see also under individual towns and cities: for soldiers 523–4 Barnsley; Belfast; Birmingham; in colonies 504 Braintree; Coggeshall; Colchester; see also under Royal Artillery; Royal Coventry; Dublin; Dunfermline; Engineers; Gibraltar Garrison Edinburgh; Glasgow; Halifax; Library; War Office Halstead; Huddersfield; Ipswich; Mill, Walter167 Leeds; Leek; Liverpool; London; Millard, John410, 412 Manchester; Morpeth; Sheffield; Millbank Prison, London521, 522 Wareham Miller, George, circulating library256

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Miller, Sanderson473 Morton, Charles407, 427 Millers, George315 Mudie, Charles Edward497 Millner, Thomas483–4 Mudie’s Select Circulating Library293 Milton, John13, 134 Muirhead, Lockhart367 miners’ libraries378, 525 Muncaster, John Pennington, baron474 Minerva Press255, 292, 307 Munk, William392 Moll, Karl Marie Ehrenbert, Baron von408, Murray,John305, 349, 516 410 Murray, Mungo106 Molyneux, Samuel170 Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh Molyneux, William170 354 Monkland Friendly Society342 museums and libraries31 Monkland Iron Works, Lanarkshire, Musgrave, Sir William408 library526 musical libraries, circulating527 Monmouth Farmers’ Club527 Monsell, Frances70 Nairne, James (or Nairn)106, 113, 163 Montagu House, London405, 408, 422–3 Nalson, John104 Montfaucon, Bernard de13, 187 Nantwich, Cheshire, parochial library73 Montgomeryshire Agricultural Society527 Napier, Macvey361, 480–1, 483 Monthly Review as selection tool485 Naples, library of the Girolamini224 Montreal Nasmith, James214 mechanics’ institute, Atwater Library 507 National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, regimental library 504 Dublin403 see also Advocates’ Library and Library of National Library of Ireland524, 527 the Bar of Lower Canada; College` de National Society for the Education of the Montreal´ ; Institut Canadien; McGill Poor according to the Principles of College; Mercantile Library the Church of England343, 377 Association; Merchants’ Exchange Naude,´ Gabriel212, 217, 221, 224, 234 and reading room; Quebec Assembly Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque` (Evelyn’s Library; Quebec Literary and translation) 19, 29–30, 33, 109 Historical Society; Shakespeare naval and maritime libraries520, 524; see also Dramatic and Literary Club under Admiralty Montreal Library496 Naval and Military Bible Society520 Montrose grammar school61 Nelson, New Zealand, public library506 Moore, Giles182 Nelson, Robert74 Moore, John34, 37–8, 44, 142, 148, 154, 186, 230, Nelson, Thomas268 352 New College, Edinburgh, see under Edinburgh and Ely Cathedral library 125 University and Norwich libraries 265, 268 New College, Oxford114, 191 see also Cambridge University Library, New Eagley Mills, Bolton, works library ‘Royal Library’(Moore’s) 380 Moore, Sir Jonas168 New Manchester Mechanics’ Institute386 Moore, William106 New South Wales Moore Theological College, Sydney, Bishop barracks library 504 Broughton Memorial Library499 legislative council 505 More, Hannah377 New Subscription Library, Leeds485 More, Henry11 New Zealand, public libraries506 More, Richard67 Newark-on-Trent More, Shropshire, parochial library67 parochial library 68, 74 More, Sir Thomas11 see also Medical Book Society of Newark, Morley, Stephen126 Southwell and Neighbourhood Morpeth, Northumberland, mechanics’ Newby Hall, Yorkshire474 institute513 Newcastle Philosophical and Medical Society Morton, Anne Douglas, countess of57 250

563

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Newcastle upon Tyne Norwich and Norfolk United Medical Book circulating libraries 485 Society274, 395 medical book society 395 Norwich Cathedral library264–6, 315, 316 medical libraries 250 Norwich City Library266, 267–70 school of medicine and surgery 345–6 Norwich Public (Subscription) Library84, Thomlinson Library (town/parochial) 68, 273, 397 70, 84, 88–100 Nostell Priory, Yorkshire474–5 see also Armstrong College; King’s College; Nottingham Literary and Philosophical Society of lack of town library 86 Newcastle upon Tyne; Society of medical book society 395 Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne operatives’ libraries 289, 298 Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead Law prison library 522 Library Institution526 see also Standfast Library Newdigate, Sir Roger189, 473 Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society395 Newfoundland, see St Johns Nottingham Subscription Library (Bromley Newman, A. K., circulating library255 House Library)395, 459 Newman, Henry76, 81 Numismatic Society433 newspapers374, 384 Newton, Sir Isaac14, 17, 165, 168, 170, 181 Oldenburg, Henry217 Nichols, John Bowyer528 Oldys, William35, 151, 154, 156, 212 Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron488 Oley, Barnabas72, 81 Nicol, George and William (auctioneers)442, operatives’ libraries, see under Nottingham 444 Oppenheimer, David353 Nicoll, Alexander357 Oregon, clergy libraries500 Nicolson, William19, 73, 105, 144, 230, 233, 492 Oriel College, Oxford231 Nidd, John161, 162 Oriental Club, London516 Noble, Francis and John, circulating Ormonde, James Butler, 1st duke of63; see library251–3, 257, 306, 493 also Kilkenny Castle Noble, Samuel, circulating library252 Orrery, Charles Boyle, earl of104 Noel, Nathaniel153–4 Oscott College, Sutton Coldﬁeld58, 321 nonconformist libraries, see dissenting Osterley Park, Middlesex474 libraries Otway, Thomas130 non-jurors and library use150–2, 188 Ouseley, Sir William353 Norfolk, Charles Howard, duke of473 Outwell, Cambridgeshire329 Norfolk, Henry Howard, duke of148 Owen, Robert387 Norfolk, Thomas Howard, duke of389 Oxford Norfolk and Norwich Hospital396 circulating libraries 369 Norfolk and Norwich Library485 see also coffee-houses, Short’s Norfolk Island, as penal settlement504, 522 Oxford, earls of, see Harley Northampton, dissenting academy53 Oxford, Henrietta Cavendish-Holles, Northumberland, Elizabeth Percy, duchess countess of, see Cavendish-Holles of: her Meditations and Prayers57 Oxford and Cambridge University Club, Norton, Derbyshire, parochial library335 London516 Norwich Oxford Philosophical Society160 book clubs 272, 274 Oxford University11, 102, 141 libraries 264–74 archives 482 circulating libraries 271–2 college libraries 103, 142, 357; see also under medical libraries 274 All Souls College; Balliol College; parochial libraries 91, 266–7 Brasenose College; Christ Church; subscription libraries 273 Corpus Christi College; Exeter town library 83, 88–99, 100, 228 College; Jesus College; Magdalen see also Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; College; Magdalen Hall; Merton Norfolk and Norwich Library College; New College; Oriel College;

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Pembroke College; Queen’s College; Stansted Mountfitchet; St Edmund’s Hall; St John’s College; Stanton-in-Cleveland; Sunderland; Trinity College; University College; Swaffham; Tiverton; Westerham; Worcester College Wimborne; Wisbech; Witham Divinity School 193 Parochial Libraries Act, 1709334 Physic Garden 161 Parramatta, New South Wales, see also Ashmolean Museum; Bodleian observatory505 Library; Radcliffe Library and Parris, Francis Sawyer365 Camera Parry, John Humffreys487 Parry,Sir Edward502 Page, John482 Patrick, Simon, his The Devout Christian Paine, James476 Instructed in libraries58, 125 Paine, Thomas374 Payne and Foss (booksellers)454, 457 Palliser, William107, 117 Peace, John484 pamphlets and ephemera in libraries38–44, Peachey, Robert111 104, 107, 109, 319, 352–3 Pearson, Robert, circulating library271 Panizzi, Sir Anthony4, 412, 413–14, 487 Peel, Sir Robert437 and Royal Society library 398, 432 Pelham. Henry423 and Sir Henry Ellis 411 Pellet, Thomas167 and Sir Frederic Madden 415 Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, earl of107, 148, catalogues and cataloguing rules 416–20, 186 487–8, 517 Pembroke College, Cambridge161, 193 vision of a national library 431, 434, 435–6 Pembroke College, Oxford232 Parent, abbe´ 479 Pembroke Society490 Paris, see Academie´ Française; Galignani Penicuik, Midlothian472 (cabinet de lecture) Penneck, Richard427 Park, William367 Pennington, Sir John, baron Muncaster, see Parker, George, earl of Macclesfield, see Muncaster Macclesfield Penshurst, Kent230 Parker, Matthew364 Pentonville Prison, London522 Parkhurst, IOW,garrison library524 Penzance, see Royal Geological Society of Parne, Thomas112, 213 Cornwall parochial libraries65–82, 324 People’s Circulating Library, Belfast280 and school libraries 54–5 Pepys, Samuel18–19, 32, 41, 106, 168, 185–6, borrowing and use 54–5, 70–1, 76 208, 212 medical books 329 his manuscript collection 143, 148 see also endowed libraries and under Pepysian Library, see under Magdalene individual places: Ballachulish; College, Cambridge Bedford; Bewdley; Bilston; Percy, Thomas444–5 Birmingham; Bridgnorth; Bristol; periodicals, scientific168 Bury St Edmunds; Castleton; Perry, William169 Chelmsford; Colchester; Cork; Perth Library246 Crundale; Doncaster; Earl Sterndale; Peterborough, Gentlemen’s Society155 Elham; Grantham; Halifax; Hatfield Peterborough Cathedral library314, 480 Broad Oak; Henley-on-Thames; Peterhouse, Cambridge106, 161, 191 Hereford; Hull; King’s Lynn; King’s Petty, Sir William25–6 Norton; Leicester; Loughborough; Petyt, Sylvester86 Maidstone; Marlborough; Milden; Petyt, William134–57 More; Nantwich; Newark-on-Trent; Petyt Library, see under Skipton Newcastle upon Tyne; Norton; Phillipps, Sir Thomas453–4, 456 Norwich; Reigate; Repton; Phillips, Joseph481 Rotherham; Sheffield; Sible Phillips, Thomas380 Hedingham; Skipton; Spalding; Physico-Chirurgical Society, Dublin403

565

Index

Pinelli, Maffeo442 Prideaux, Humphrey264, 268 Pinkerton, Andrew277, 279 Priestley, Joseph492 Pitt, William477 Primate Robinson’s Library, Armagh, see Place, Francis515, 517 Armagh Public Library Planta, Andrew407 Prince Consort’s Library, see Aldershot Planta, Joseph407–8, 410, 414, 426–7, Princeton University Library, fire, 1802491 430–1 prison libraries520–3 Plaw, John474 Wales 60 Playfair, William Henry362, 462, 464, private libraries and book-collecting173–89, 465–8 438–58 Plinian Society, Edinburgh401 18th century 247 Plot, Robert132 and mathematics 168–9 Plume, Thomas53, 66–7, 70, 86 and medicine 166 Plume Library and School, Maldon53, 55, 66, and science 164–6 69, 86, 89–99, 332, 338, 394 compared with institutional libraries 37 Plutarch, Lives71 devotional use, see devotional libraries Plymouth, Devon, town library74 manuscripts 136–8, 142 Plymouth Law Society Library526 see also country house libraries Pococke, Edward103, 160 probate inventories178–9 Pointer, John, herbarium164 Proby, John Joshua, earl of Carysfort, see police, libraries for524–5 Carysfort Pomeroy, John81, 130 proprietary libraries, see subscription and Pontypool, Glamorgan, see Varteg Hill Iron proprietary libraries Works Pryme, Abraham de la, see De La Pryme Pope, Alexander15, 21, 227 Public Institutions Bill, 1835509 Popish Plot41 public libraries (rate-supported)510 popular literature374 and school libraries 50 Port Arthur, Tasmania, as penal in colonies 506 settlement504 see also endowed libraries Port Jackson, see Sydney Public Libraries Act, 18505, 342, 387, 509–10 Port Nicholson, see Wellington Public Record Office, London526 Port of Hull Society520 public records134–57, 526 Port Philip Medical Association502 Puckering, Elizabeth57 Port Stephens, New South Wales, see Pugin, Augustus Welby470 Australian Agricultural Company Punch magazine1, 515, 528 Porteus, Beilby320 Puritans and libraries89, 92, 98, 122 Portico Library, Manchester459 Pusey, Edward Bouverie357 Portland, Dorset, prison officers’ library Pyle, Edmund328 522 Portsmouth Quakers, see Society of Friends garrison library 524 Quarry Bank, Cheshire, works library380 lack of town library 88 Quarterly Review, as selection tool485 Potter, Isaac, coffee-house, Long Acre514 Quebec Assembly Library, Montreal505 Povey, Thomas185 Quebec Literary and Historical Society503 Power, Joseph366 Queen Anne’s Bounty74 Powis, Edward Herbert, earl of527 Queen Elizabeth’s School, Wakefield52 Prescott, Henry181 Queen’s College (University), Belfast280, Preston, Lancashire 347 prison officers’ library 522 Queens’ College, Cambridge357 see also Dr Shepherd’s Library Queen’s College, Cork, see Cork University Price, John366, 480–1 College Price, Thomas523 Queen’s College, Galway, see Galway Prideaux, Edmund269 University College

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Queen’s College, Oxford104, 191 Richmond, Yorkshire library building 115, 202, 365 barracks library 524 students’ library 114, 162 Richmond Penitentiary, Dublin521 Queen’s Library, see Royal Library Ridgeway, W.K.482 Ridpath, George349 Radcliffe, John116, 394 Rieu, Charles416 Radcliffe Library and Camera, Oxford116, Ripon Cathedral library317 202, 205–6, 394, 461;ﬁg. 7 Rivington family (booksellers)497 as reading room for Bodleian 361 Robberds, William T., circulating library272 Rae, William Fraser517 Roberts, Nicholas59 Raikes, Robert375 Robertson, George61 railways and libraries310, 528 Robertson, James366 Raine, James315 Robertson, William367 Raines, Edward John315 Robinson, George307 Raleigh, Sir Walter14 Robinson, James, circulating library271 Ramsay, Allan, circulating library1, 252 Robinson, Richard319 Ramus, Petrus12 Robinson, Sir William, design for Marsh’s Ransome and May (foundry)380, 511 Library81, 96, 118, 207 Raphoe Diocesan Library81, 129 Rochdale, Lancashire, Chartist hall387 Ratcliffe, John447, 455–6 Roche, Michael de la46 Rawdon, Francis, marquess of Hastings, see Rochester Cathedral library315 Hastings Rolandi’s circulating library, London516, 527 Rawlinson, Richard37, 38, 152–3, 167, 319 Roman Catholic libraries Rawlinson, Thomas188, 438 England, private 58 Ray, John14, 15, 166, 222 Ireland 63 Reading, William224 Rome, see Vatican Library reading skills, see literacy Roper, Abel45 Record Commission316 Rose, Joseph476 recusant libraries, see Roman Catholic Rossbank Observatory, Hobart505 libraries Rotherham, Yorkshire, parochial library70–1, Red River Colony, Canada506 331–4 Redwood, Robert84, 93 Rouse, John38 Reed, Isaac456 Routh, Martin353 Reform Club, London471, 517 Roxburghe, John Ker, duke of (and Reformation, the Roxburghe sale)440, 450–1, 456 and antiquity 12–13 Roxburghe Club452 and cathedral libraries 122 Royal Academy of Arts, London422, 431 Register House, Edinburgh461, 526 Royal Artillery, library519 Reid, John354 Royal Asiatic Society, Colombo branch503 Reid, Robert463 Royal Astronomical Society, London398 Reid, Thomas213 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh402 Reigate, Surrey, parochial library, see Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Cranston Library Glasgow119, 171, 401 Religious Tract Society343–4, 376, 510 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh119, and school libraries 378 170, 400 Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire175 Royal College of Physicians of Ireland403 Repton, Derbyshire, parochial library326 Royal College of Physicians of London36–7, Repton, Humphrey472 159, 170–1, 213, 389, 392, 424, 431 Rhymney Ironworks, reading room and buildings 191, 200;ﬁg. 3 library380 and Fire of London 227 Rich, Mary, countess of Warwick, see librarians 215 Warwick Pharmacopoeia 167 Richard, Edward60 rules 228

567

Index

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh119, Royal University of Malta501 400–1 Royal Veterinary College, London393 Royal College of Surgeons of England232, RTS, see Religious Tract Society 391–3 Rud, Thomas126 Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland403 Ruddiman, Thomas120, 235 Royal College of Surgeons of London, see Rumford, Benjamin Thompson, count397 Royal College of Surgeons of England Rushworth, John39–40 Royal Commission on the British Russell, Lord John509 Museum417–18, 436 Russell, Thomas, of Linen Hall Library Royal Commission on the Universities of (executed 1803)3, 277, 279 Scotland349, 356, 361 Russell Institution, London511 Royal Dublin Society403, 527 Rye, Sussex, dissenting congregations183 Royal Engineers, library, Chatham519 Rye, William B.416 Royal Entomological Society of London399 Rymer, Thomas144 Royal Geological Society of Cornwall399 his Foedera presented to Scottish Royal High School, Edinburgh61, 466 universities 351 Royal Horticultural Society398 Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh164, 401 Sadler, Laurence138 Royal Institute of British Architects421 St Andrews Literary and Philosophical Royal Institution, London397, 489, 510 Society355 Royal Institution of Cornwall511 St Andrews University, observatory163 Royal Institution of South Wales511 St Andrews University Library364, 402 Royal Irish Academy404 donations 106, 231 Royal Lancasterian Association, see British legal deposit 350 and Foreign Schools Society librarians and staff 367 Royal Library27, 34, 36, 147–8, 154, 159, 207, museum 355 210, 234, 424 St Asaph Cathedral library317 legal deposit 108, 348, 487 St Asaph Diocesan Library128 see also Buckingham House; British St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London171, 390, Museum, King’s Library; George II; 392 George III; George IV; Windsor Medical and Philosophical Society 392 Castle St Bees School52 ‘Royal Library’ (i.e. Bishop Moore’s in St Catharine’s College, Cambridge357 Cambridge University Library), see St David’s Cathedral library127, 318 under Cambridge University Library St David’s College, Lampeter43, 320, 346 Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh164, 360, St Edmund’s College, Ware321 400–1 St Edmund’s Hall, Oxford202 Royal Observatory, Greenwich168 St George’s Library Society, Buff Bay, Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh401 Jamaica496 Royal Scottish Museum, see Museum of St John’s, Newfoundland, mechanics’ Science and Art institute507 Royal Society, see Royal Society of London St John’s College, Cambridge191, 193, 200;fig. Royal Society of Edinburgh352, 400 1 Royal Society of London9, 14, 156, 158, 398, catalogue of MSS 357 424, 433 manuscripts room 493 Arundel Collection 29, 148–9, 169, 389, 398 St John’s College, Oxford149, 191, 230 and British Museum 426–7, 431–2 Baker collection 152 early plans for development and reform scientific instruments 164 28–31, 33, 195 St Martin’s Subscription Library, London319 library 169–70, 432 St Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, see Royal Society of Medicine391; see also Medical Archbishop Tenison’s Library and Chirurgical Society St Mary’s College, Blairs321 Royal Statistical Society421 St Mary’s College, Oscott, see Oscott College

568

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St Mary’s College, Stonyhurst59, 321 Scott, Sir Walter256, 446, 477 St Patrick’s College, Maynooth321 popularity in libraries 513–14, 523 St Paul’s Cathedral library, London126, 200, SDUK, see Society for the Diffusion of Useful 314, 319, 424;fig. 5 Knowledge borrowing 317 Seaman, Lazarus53 Evelyn’s proposal for public library 32 Seaman, Thomas53 Fire of London, 1666 36, 123–4, 127 seamen, libraries for, see naval and maritime Wanley’s advice 214, 228, 231 libraries St Paul’s School, London48, 51 Secker, Thomas81 St Thomas’s Hospital, London390, Sedbergh School, Yorkshire374 392–3 Seghill, Northumberland, colliery library526 Salford, prison officers’ library522 Selden, John36, 139–40, 232 Salisbury, circulating library257 bequest to Bodleian 103 Salisbury, Robert Cecil, earl of, see Cecil Select Committee on Public Libraries386, Salisbury Cathedral library125, 314, 315 510, 514, 527 Saltoun, East Lothian78 Select Committee on the British Saltram, Devon474 Museum412–13, 434 Sancroft, William37, 104, 106, 230 seminaries, see Hill Street seminary, Sanderson, Robert144 Edinburgh; Oscott College; St Mary’s Sandes, Thomas58 College, Blairs; St Patrick’s College, Sandy, George481 Maynooth; Ushaw College Santa, Leopoldo della, see Della Santa Senebier, Jean452 Savile, Sir Henry17, 51 Shakespeare, William Scarborough Agricultural Library527 and school libraries 49 Schellhorn, Johann Georg444 his works collected 448 Schinkel, Karl Friedrich465 Shakespeare Dramatic and Literary Club, school libraries47–64, 377–8, 525 Montreal503 in colonies 500 Shardeloes, Buckinghamshire476 see also grammar schools; Sunday schools; Sharp, John320 and under individual towns and schools Sheffield school-books, 17th century47–8 mechanics’ institution 489, 491 Schumacher, Johann232 parochial library 71, 327 scientific equipment and specimens in under-school 327 university libraries160–1 see also Todd, William, circulating library scientific libraries158–72, 388–404 Sheffield Library246, 260, 493 Belfast 280 Sheffield Literary and Philosophical scientific societies170 Society399 Scotland Sheffield Mechanics’ and Apprentices’ agricultural clubs 527 Library381, 513 education and libraries 378–9 Shelburne, William Petty, earl of, marquess of probate inventories 179 Lansdowne, see Lansdowne public records 144 Sheldon, Gilbert105, 128 see also Register House Sheldon, Ralph146 circulating libraries, see under circulating shelf arrangement, see subject classification libraries and shelf arrangement ecclesiastical libraries 130–1 Shepherd, Richard394 medical and scientific libraries 399–402 Sherard, William217 parochial and presbytery libraries 65, 78–81 Sherborne School52 prison libraries 522 Sherburne, Sir Edward169, 185 school libraries 61–2 Sherlock, William, Practical Discourse university libraries 351 concerning Death58 legal deposit 487 Short’s Coffee House, Oxford115 workers’ libraries 513 Shrewsbury, Welsh books in60

569

Index

Shrewsbury School52, 55, 83 Smith and Kinnear’s circulating library, borrowers’ registers 55 Kingston, Jamaica498 chained books 54 Snell, John, gift to Glasgow University Sibbald, James, circulating library252, 253 Library107 Sibbald, Sir Robert119, 120, 170, 354, 400 Soane, Sir John470, 473–4, 477, 518 Sible Hedingham, Essex, parochial library338 his library 527 Sibthorpe, Colonel Henry56 Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge Signet Library, Edinburgh120–1, 480, 481, 482, 56, 67, 73–4, 132, 292, 297, 324, 343–4 483, 526 and Bengal 500 architecture 463–4 and school libraries 377–8 medical collections 399 diocesan libraries 318 Silk Factory Mechanics’ Institute, Halstead Scotland 79–80; see also Society in Scotland (Courtaulds)512 for Propagating Christian Knowledge Silver, Samuel, circulating library252, 256 tracts for soldiers and sailors 520, 523 Sims, James391 Wales 60, 77, 128 Simson, John110 Society for the Diffusion of Useful Singapore Library496 Knowledge293, 383, 385 Sion College, London36, 127–8, 156, 225, 319, Society for the Improvement of Working 424 Men of Glamorgan, Cowbridge381 and Fire of London, 1666 123, 127, 227 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in and Ussher’s library 130 Foreign Parts73, 319 as chained library 232 Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian catalogues 224, 226 Knowledge61, 324 legal deposit 108, 348, 350, 433, 487 Society of Antiquaries of London155, 426–7, librarians 215 429, 431–4, 511 medical collections 389 Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon not available to non-jurors 150 Tyne 511 Sitwell, George175 Society of Antiquaries of Scotland352 Skipton, Petyt Library (town/parochial)86, Society of Apothecaries, London171, 390 96, 97, 99 Society of Clergymen in and about Sledmere House, Yorkshire476 Bridgnorth67 Sloane, Sir Hans33–4, 142, 148, 166, 186, 389, Society of Friends131, 322 405, 422–3 anti-Quaker literature at Reigate 69 gift to Bodleian 104 Belfast 276 gift to Royal College of Physicians 171 Ireland, schools 62 medical ephemera in his library 43–4 Society of United Friars, Norwich272 will 157, 427 Soissons, St Jean des Vignes abbey library231 see also British Museum soldiers, libraries for, see military libraries Small, John, junior366 Solicitors’ Library, Edinburgh526 Small, John, senior367 Somers, John, lord148 Smart, Christopher161 Somerset, William Seymour, duke of125 Smart, William84 Somner, William143 Smellie, William355 Sothebys (auctioneers)458 Smiles, Samuel510 South African Public Library, Cape Town506 Smirke, Sir Robert408, 419, 431, 467–9 Southey, Robert322 Smith, John, of Crutherland (bookseller) Southill Park, Bedfordshire476 353 Southwell, Lady Anne56 Smith, Joseph (1674–1770)440–1 Southwell, Nottinghamshire, see Medical Smith, Richard (1590–1675)188 Book Society of Newark, Southwell Smith, Samuel (bookseller) and Neighbourhood Smith, Sir James Edward397 Southwell Minster library317 Smith, Thomas (1638–1710)143, 147, 150, 156 Spalding, Lincolnshire, parochial library326 Smith, W.H. (bookseller)311 Spalding Gentlemen’s Society155, 170, 216, 329

570

Index

SPCK, see Society for Promoting Christian Stratford, William104, 215 Knowledge Strathclyde University, see under Andersonian Spelman, Sir Clement72 Institute (and University) Spelman, Sir Henry138 Strathearn Society, Perthshire527 Spencer, Charles, earl of Sunderland, see Strawberry Hill, Middlesex414, 473 Sunderland Stroud, Gloucestershire, libraries291 Spencer, George John, earl397, 451, 457, 476 Stuart, George (of Edinburgh University Spencer, George, marquess of Blandford, Library)366 duke of Marlborough, see Stuart, John, earl of Bute, see Bute Marlborough Stukeley, William424, 427 Spencer, John127 subject classification and shelf SPG, see Society for the Propagation of the arrangement30–1, 219–23, 355–6, Gospel in Foreign Parts 490–1; see also under individual libraries Spitalfields, London, mathematical society subscription and proprietary libraries5, 100, 170 245–51, 258–61, 273 Spotswood, William, circulating library255 architecture 459 Sprat, Thomas14 catalogues 489 Squier, John40 for law, see legal libraries Stackhouse, Hugh67 for medicine, see medical libraries Stamford, circulating libraries249 for workers 379 Stamford Subscription Library249 in colonies 496–7 Standfast, William, see Standfast Library, lighting and heating 492 Nottingham staff 482 Standfast Library, Nottingham55, 395 stock and selection 485 Stanhope, Philip Dormer, earl of see also under individual towns and cities: Chesterfield, see Chesterfield Beccles; Belfast; Crieff; Dunblane; Stanley, James90 Dunfermline; Edinburgh; Glasgow; Stanley, Thomas, History of philosophy11 Ipswich; King’s Lynn; Leeds; London; Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, parochial Norwich; Nottingham; Scarborough; library338 Stamford; Warwick; Westminster; Stanton in Cleveland, Yorkshire, parochial Whitby; York library75 Sudbury, John125 Stark, William463–5 Suffolk, libraries in 1850512 State Paper Office (Whitehall)2, 144, 148, Sunday School Union343–4, 376–7 470 Sunday schools375–7 Stationers’ Company108, 217, 348, 409, 428, Sunderland 433, 487 lack of town library 86 Statistical Society, see Royal Statistical Society parochial library 68 Stearne, John96, 107, 129 Sunderland, Charles Spencer, earl of38, 153, Steevens, George444, 450, 456 186 Steuart, Robert, class library163 Sussex, Augustus Frederick, duke of398, 414, Stewart, George (bookseller)349 457 Stewart, Sir Nicholas126 Sutherland, Alexander Hendras352 Stillingfleet, Edward96, 118, 129, 207, 402 Sutherland, James (1638?–1719)120 Stirling, George69 Sutherland, Sir James150 Stockport, Cheshire, Sunday school library Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, see Oscott 377 College Stonyhurst, Lancashire, see St Mary’s College Swaffham, Norfolk, parochial library72 Stopford, James318 Swan River, Western Australia507 Stourhead, Wiltshire477 Swansea, see also Royal Institution of South Stowe, Buckinghamshire473 Wales Strachey, John154 Swansea Grammar School59 Strahan, William349 Swedenborgian Society, London528

571

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Swift, Jonathan15, 145, 234 Tillotson, Thomas, his Sermons in libraries58, Battle of the Books 9, 22, 32, 234 71 his library 225, 230 Tiverton, parochial library332 Sydney, New South Wales495 Todd, Henry John315, 318 botanic garden 505 Todd, Hugh151 commercial reading room and library 502 Todd, William: circulating library, mechanics’ institute 507 Sheffield489 Port Jackson Lending Library 499 Tomkyns, John74 see also Australian Club; Australian Medical Tower of London (as records repository)134, Subscription Library; Australian 136–7, 143–4, 148 Museum; Australian Subscription Townend, Westmorland183 Library Townshend, Charles, viscount68 Sydney Jewish Library500 Townson, Robert495 Sydney Law Library502–3 Tradescant, John, the younger140 Sykes, Sir Christopher476 Tranent, East Lothian342 Synge, Alicia64 Travellers’ Club, London470, 516 Syon Park, Middlesex475 Travers, Robert403 Syston Hall, Lincolnshire477 Treasury, library518–19 Trefecca, Breconshire, Countess of Tamworth, Staffordshire, school library55 Huntingdon’s college, see Cheshunt Tanner, Thomas45, 104, 218, 265–6, 268, 269 College322 Tasmania, libraries497 Trinity College, Cambridge143, 329, 480 Tasmanian Public Library506 buildings Taylor, Jeremy, his Great Exemplar in design for circular library 103, 116, 197–8 libraries58 shelving pattern 220 Taylor, John112 Wren Library 115, 197–200, 362, 364, 460, Taylor, Sir Robert473 462;fig. 4 Tegg, Samuel Augustus498 fire, 1665 227 Tegg family (booksellers)497 librarians 215 Temple, Sir William9, 11, 14–15, 22 loans 234 Temple Newsam, Leeds493 scientific equipment 164 Templeman, Peter424, 427 stock in 1740 347 Tenison, Thomas2, 53, 67, 70, 86, 126, 129, 147; unchained c. 1604 232 see also Archbishop Tenison’s Library undergraduate provision 114, 161–2, 361 and School Wanley’s visit 232 Term Catalogues45, 217 Trinity College, Dublin62, 102–3, 492 Tewkesbury, libraries291 acquisitions Thames Rivermen’s Society520 bequests 107 theft from libraries230–2, 481 legal deposit 348, 362, 433, 487 Thomason, George39, 44 buildings (library and Long Room) 116–18, Thomason Tracts429 202–3, 362, 363 Thomlinson, Robert68, 85 damp 228 Thomlinson Library, see under Newcastle students’ library 114, 162 upon Tyne catalogues 113, 357 Thompson, Sir Benjamin, count Rumford, see collections Rumford Fagel collection 362 Thomson, Christopher515 manuscripts, Books of Kells and Durrow Thomson, William352 107 Thoresby, Ralph212, 218, 227, 234–5 medical and scientific collections 402 Thornton, Samuel477 Ussher’s library 130, 139 Thorpe, Thomas (bookseller)448 librarians and staff 110–11, 214 Thurlin, Thomas70 Trinity Hall, Cambridge191 Thynne, Thomas, marquess of Bath, see Bath Trotter, William465

572

Index

Truro, see Royal Institution of Cornwall Vatican Library190, 208, 232 Trustees for Erecting Parochial Libraries74, Vaux, William S.W.432 75, 324 Verney, John42–3 Tryon, Thomas179 veterinary libraries, see Royal Veterinary Tubingen¨ University Library224 College Turku University Library215, 491 Vickerman, Joseph483 Turner, Dawson455 Vienna, Hofbibliothek468 Turner, Thomas58 Vieusseux (gabinetto litterario), Florence498 Twyne, Brian135 Vilvaine, John122 Twysden, Sir Roger139 Vincent, Augustine136, 146 Tyson, Richard389 Volney, Constantin François, books banned516 Uffenbach, Zacharias Konrad von213, 219, 231, Voltaire, books banned516 232, 233, 235, 390 Vulliamy, Lewis477 Ugbrooke House, Devon474 Ulster Medical Society404 Waddington, Edward40 Union Club, London516 Wake, William104, 216, 320 Unitarian libraries, see Manchester College Wakefield, see Queen Elizabeth’s School United Grand Lodge, London528 Walch family (booksellers), Hobart498 United Service Club, London516 Wales Universal Catalogue485 diocesan libraries 128 UniversiteLaval,Quebec´ 501 iron and steel works libraries 380 universities102–21, 159–64 parochial libraries 65, 77–8 Universities (Scotland) Act, 1858359 school and devotional libraries 59–61 University College, Cork, see Cork University see also Church in Wales College Walker, Sir Edward147 University College, Durham, see Durham Wall, William, his Infant Baptism in libraries71 University Walpole, Horace336, 445–6, 451–2, 454–6, 473 University College, Galway, see Galway Walpole, Sir Robert68, 209 University College Walton, Brian17, 173, 316 University College, Oxford151, 202 Wanley, Humfrey38, 186, 218, 219, 230, 234, University College Hospital, London393 235, 428 University College, London346, 348, 369 as a librarian 213, 216, 233–4, 236 university libraries102–21, 345–70 advice to St Paul’s Cathedral library 214, buildings 115–18, 362–5 228, 231 catalogues 109, 356–8 and Royal Library 234 donations and bequests 113, 351–4 and Trinity College, Cambridge 232 in colonies 501 catalogues 223, 226, 227 librarians and staff 110–12, 365–8 his bible collection to St Paul’s 126 undergraduate provision 114–15, 161, 358–62 his collection of MS fragments 148 see also under individual universities and Wanlockhead Library, Dumfriesshire379 colleges War Office, library519 Upcott, William528 Ward, Samuel89 Upper Canada, legislative assembly505 Ward, Seth125, 160 Uri, John357 Ward,T.A.381 Ushaw College, Durham321, 369 Wardlaw, William, circulating library271 Ussher, James107, 117, 127, 130, 139 Ware, Hertfordshire, see St Edmund’s College Ware, Isaac471 Van Diemen’s Land, see Tasmania Ware, Sir James145 Van Mildert, William345, 346, 353 Wareham, Dorset, mechanics’ institute512 Vardon, Thomas518 Warner, John125 Varteg Hill Iron Company, Pontypool, Warrin, Hugh, circulating library278 libraries380 Warton, Thomas428, 444

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Warwick, Mary Rich, countess of184 William, Thomas60 Warwick Public (Subscription) Library Williams, Daniel53, 131; see also Dr Williams’s 258 Library Wase, Christopher50, 55 Williams, George410–11 Waterford Cathedral library130 Williams, John, and St John’s College library, Waterford Diocesan Library81 Cambridge191, 193 Waterland, Daniel70 Williamson, Sir Joseph104 Watt, Robert401 Willis, Robert391 Watts, Thomas415–17, 487 Willoughby, Charles107, 170 Webb, John195 Willughby, Francis166 Webb Street medical school, London393 Wilson, Thomas (bookseller)484 Wedderburn, Sir John106, 165 Wilson, Thomas (bishop of Sodor and Weller, Samuel339 Man)77–8, 81 Wellington, New Zealand Wimborne, Dorset, parochial library74 mechanics’ institute 507 Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire153, 209, 218, public library 506 477 Wells, Somerset, St Catherine’s Church Winchester Cathedral library54, 123, 126, 123 317 Wells Cathedral library123, 125, 216, 221, 230, Winchester College48, 51, 54, 123, 374 232 Windsor, Thomas396 Welsh Trust60 Windsor Castle, royal library450 Wendy, Sir Thomas104 Winter Jones, John, see Jones Wentworth, Hon. Thomas331 Winthrop, John, Jr.165 Wernerian Natural History Society, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Edinburgh402 book club 84 Wesley, John53, 322 parochial/town library 68, 70, 84, Wesley, Samuel330 328–9 West, Charles325 Wisbech Literary Society329 West, James426, 447 Witham, Essex, parochial library70, 338–9 West Indies, see Antigua; Jamaica Witney Grammar School53 Westerham, Kent, parochial library325 Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire476 Westerkirk Library, Dumfriesshire379 Wodhull, Michael443 Westminster Abbey library36, 147–8, 314, 424 Wodrow, Robert1, 110, 213, 217, 235 MSS destroyed by ﬁre 227 Wolfenbuttel,¨ Herzog August Bibliothek228, not available to non-jurors 150 482 Westminster Medical Society391 Wolfreston, Frances56 Westminster Public (Subscription) Library Wollaston, William Hyde432 258 women Westminster School48, 51 and libraries 254, 257, 339–40 books chained 232 private libraries 56–7 Wharton, Henry132, 145 Wood, Anthony40–1, 44, 139, 142, 213 Wheatcroft, Leonard176–7 Athenae Oxonienses 40, 184 Wheatcroft, Titus177 Woodward, Benjamin363 Whitbread, Samuel476 Woodward, John161, 167 Whitby Subscription Library250 Woolwich, London White, Thomas68, 74 prison hulk 523 White, William72 workhouse 515 Whiting, John226 Wootton, Charles Nathaniel483 Wight, Isle of, see Isle of Wight Wootton Wawen, Warwickshire326 Wight, Osborne351 Worcester (diocese), probate inventories Wigton Gentlemen’s Library254 178 Wilkins, John160, 222 Worcester Cathedral library124, 317 Wilkins, William364 Worcester College, Oxford40, 202, 203

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workers’ libraries, see Birmingham, Artizans’ York88 Library; Edwinstowe, Artisans’ St Mary’s Tower (as record repository) 4, Library; mechanics’ institutes; 230 Nottingham, operatives’ libraries see also Manchester College works libraries, see factory and works libraries York Farmers’ Club527 Worrall, John151 York Minster library219, 233, 314, 317 Worth, Edward118, 403 as public library 83, 88 Worthington, John105, 227 borrowing 155–6, 317 Wotton, William9, 16, 18, 20–1 catalogues 223, 315 Wren, Sir Christopher195–200, 229, 365 in Civil War and Commonwealth 124 and Archbishop Tenison’s Library 67, 129 librarians and staff 316, 480 and Lincoln Cathedral library 126 York Subscription Library485 and Royal College of Physicians 171 Yorkshire, mechanics’ institutes512 and Trinity College, Cambridge 115, 116, Yorkshire Philosophical Society399 460 Young, James230 Wright, Stephen462 Young, John230 Wyatt, James476 Young, Thomas397 Wyatt, Samuel476 Ystradmeurig, Cardiganshire, school library Wynne, Sir Owen, of Gwydir165 60 Yule, William414 Yate, Lady Mary58 Yelloly, John396 Zoological Society of London398

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