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<P>I <HI>CHRISTOPHER</HI> Duke of ALBEMARLE, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">+cellour of the Univer&s;ity of CAMBRIDGE, having peru&s;ed the&s;e following Orders and Rules, (for the more effectual &s;ecuring of the Publick Library there) drawn up and agreed upon by certain Per|&s;ons cho&s;en by the Senate to deliberate and determine in that affair; Do approve of them, and think it very rea&s;onable they be &s;trictly ob&s;erv'd by all, and particularly I am of Opinion that no Per&s;on be permitted the u&s;e of the &s;aid Library untill he fir&s;t take the Oath mentioned among&s;t the&s;e Orders.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>NEW-HALL,</HI> <DATE>June 26. 1684.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>ALBEMARLE.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>Orders and Rules agreed upon by the <HI>Syndics</HI> for the better &s;ecuring the Publick Library. <DATE><HI>June 20. 1684.</HI></DATE></HEAD>
<P N="1">I. THat all Per&s;ons (except Foreigners) be prohibited the u&s;e of the Publick Library unle&s;s they fir&s;t take the following Oath.</P>
<P><Q LANG="lat"><HI>Jurabis quod in Bibliothecam publicam admi&s;&s;us nihil quod ad ip&s;am pertinuerit &s;ciens volens corrumpes, aut imminues, nullum librum per mutabis, aufer&egrave;&s;ve, aut ip&s;e per te, aut per alium quemvis, ni&s;i eo modo, i&igrave;&s;que conditionibus, quae per &V;niver&s;itatis decreta requiruntur: Qu&ograve;dque &s;is jure i&s;to tuo &s;incer&egrave;, &amp; bona fide u&s;urus, atque omnino ita ut (quantum in Te e&s;t) nihil inde accre&s;cat Bibliothecae damni, Ita te Deus adjuvet &amp; haec &s;ancta Dei Evangelia.</HI></Q></P>
<P N="2">II. That no Per&s;on (except &s;uch as are at pre&s;ent members of the Senate, or &s;hall be at the next Commencement, or except &s;uch as are actually Batchelours of Law or Phy&s;ick, or &s;hall be at the next Commencement) be admitted to the &s;aid Oath, unle&s;s a Grace fir&s;t pa&s;s the Hou&s;e for his admittance to the Library.</P>
<P N="3">III. That none under the Degree of Ma&s;ters of Arts, Batchelours of Law or Phy&s;ick be permitted to put up &s;uch Grace.</P>
<P N="4">IV. That no Foreigner be permitted the u&s;e of the Library without &s;uch a Spon&s;or as the Vice-chancellour for the time being &s;hall allow of.</P>
<P N="5">V. That no one &s;hall borrow any Book without expre&s;s le<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">w vice-Chancellour for the time being, or his Lawfull Deputy, and a note under his own <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 span">ing the name of the Book or Books &s;o borrowed. The Books &s;o lent to be return'd <UNCLEAR>within</UNCLEAR> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 word">Month; the under Library-keeper or &s;ome other Per&s;on to bring the Note to the Vice-Chancellour for that purpo&s;e.</P>
<P N="6">VI. That the Library-keepers &s;hall have a Book wherein they &s;hall &s;et down the names of what Books are lent out, and to whom, and for how long.</P>
<P N="7">VII. That the Vice-Chancellour, or his Deputy with others that he &s;hall call to his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, do every Year (or oftner if he &s;hall think fit) in the long Vacation vi&s;it and &s;urvey all the Books in the Library, by the Cla&s;&s;ical Catalogue: And in ca&s;e they find any to be wanting, to deduct &s;o much out of the Library-keepers Salary as will be &s;ufficient to purcha&s;e the like again for the Library: according to a Decree of the Univer&s;ity made in the Year 1667.</P>
<P N="8">VIII. That every one who in the Opinion of the Library-keeper &s;hall return any Book con&s;iderably &s;oil'd, blotted or defac'd, &s;tand oblig'd to buy a new Book of the &s;ame kind, or el&s;e to pay double the value of &s;uch Book, and if he refu&s;e to do &s;o, that he be <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> depriv'd of the u&s;e of the Library for ever, by the Vice-Chancellour's declaring him &s;o to be at the next Congregation.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. James, <HI>Procan.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>J&s;ph Beaumont.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ra. Cudworth.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Cople&s;ton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Spencer.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humf. Gower.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Nath. Coga.</ITEM>
<ITEM>S. Blithe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>J. Peachell.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joh. Balder&s;ton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Rob. Brady.</ITEM>
<ITEM>R. Widdrington.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Humf. Babington.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tho. Smoult.</ITEM>
<ITEM>J. Go&s;tlin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Billers.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ben. Pulleyn.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joan. Ekins.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Ja. John&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Jo. Richard&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Joh. Wotton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Charles Beaumont.</ITEM>
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<OPENER><DATELINE><DATE>June 27. 1684.</DATE></DATELINE></OPENER>
<P>Lect. &amp; Publicat. in frequenti Congregatione Regentium &amp; non Regentium, per Venerab. Virum <HI>Johannem Ekins,</HI> Sen. P<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="damage" EXTENT="1 letter">ocuratorem.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jta te&s;tor <HI>Jac. Holman,</HI> Not. Publ. ac almae &V;niver&s;itatis <HI>Cantabr.</HI> Regi&s;trarius Principalis.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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