Cambridge, the library of the faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, the libraries of the four Universities of Scotland, Trinity College library, and the King's Inns library at Dublin, or so many of such eleven copies as shall be respectively demanded on behalf of such libraries respectively, shall be delivered by the publisher or publishers thereof respectively, within one month after demand made thereof in writing as aforesaid, to the warehouse-keeper of the said Company of Stationers for the time being; which copies the said warehouse-keeper shall and he is hereby required to receive at the hall of the said Company, for the use of the library for which such demand shall be made, within such twelve months as aforesaid; and the said warehouse-keeper is hereby required within one month after any such book or volume shall be so delivered to him as aforesaid, to deliver the same for the use of such library: and if any publisher, or the warehouse-keeper of the said Company of Stationers, shall not observe the directions of this Act therein, that then he and they so making default in not delivering or receiving the said eleven printed copies as aforesaid, shall forfeit besides the value of the said printed copies, the sum of five pounds for each copy not so delivered or received, together with the full costs of suit; the same to be recovered by the person or persons, or body politic or corporate, proprietors or managers of the library for the use whereof such copy or copies ought to have been delivered or received; for which penalties and value such person or persons, body politic or corporate, is or are now hereby anthorized to sue by action of debt or other proper action in any Court of Record in the United Kingdom.

"And be it further enacted, that no such printed copy or copies shall be demanded by or delivered to or for the use of any of the libraries herein before mentioned, of the Second Edition, or of any subsequent edition of any book or books, so demanded and delivered as aforesaid, unless the same shall contain additions or alterations; and in case any edition after the first, of any book so demanded and delivered as aforesaid, shall contain any addition or alteration, no printed copy or copies thereof shall be demanded or delivered

as aforesaid, if a printed copy of such additions or alterations only, printed in an uniform manner with the former edition of such book, be delivered to each of the libraries aforesaid, for whose use a copy of the former edition shall have been demanded and delivered as aforesaid: provided also, that the copy of every book that shall be demanded by the British Museum, shall be delivered of the best paper on which such work shall be printed."

To the same purpose the rents of the University's estates at Ovingdon in Norfolk are applied. This estate was bought with the money given to the University in 1666, by Tobias Rustat, Esq. Yeoman of the Robes to King Charles II., to be laid out in land, the rents to be applied in the purchase of choice books for the Public Library.

William Worts, M.A. Fellow of Caius College, formerly one of the Esquire Bedells of this University, ordered by his will that the annual surplus of the rents and profits of his estate at Landbeach, in this county, after the discharge of the other outgoings, (See p. 47.) should be applied to the use of the Public Library. A quarterly contribution of one shilling and sixpence from each member of the University, excepting Sizars, is likewise made for the support of the Library.

The management of the Library is committed to Syndics, who are the Vice-Chancellor, the Heads of colleges, all Doctors in each faculty, the Orator, and all public Professors, the Proctors, and Scrutators. They meet in the Library on the first Monday after the division of every term, and oftener if necessary; and to them, or the major part, not less than five, of whom the Vice-Chancellor must always be one, full powers are committed for the better regulating of the same.

All members of the Senate, and Bachelors in Civil Law and Physic, are entitled to the use of the Library.

The Syndics have at various times issued regulations to the following effect:

That no person be allowed to have in his possession at any one time, more than ten volumes belonging to the Library, except by a dispensation from the ViceChancellor and the Librarians, if they shall be unani

mously of opinion that sufficient reasons have been assigned for the same; and that such dispensations continue in force no longer than to the end of the quarter in which they shall be granted; but upon fresh application may be renewed by the same authority.

That no one take or borrow any book out of the Library, without first delivering to one of the LibraryKeepers a note for the same, in his own hand-writing, expressing his name and college, and the year and day of the month on which such book is taken or borrowed, on pain of forfeiting five pounds, or double the value of such book, at the discretion and the judgement of the Vice-Chancellor.

That the Library-Keepers preserve carefully all such notes, till the book so taken out be returned again to the Library, duly entering the same in a book to be kept for that purpose, together with the day of the said return, and any damage done to any book, on pain of five shillings for every omission, to be paid by them, or any of them.

That every one who shall borrow or take any book out of the Library, return it thither again on or before the next of the four following days, viz. Michaelmasday, St. Thomas, Lady-day, and Midsummer-day, or oftener, if the Syndics see occasion and require it, under the penalty of two shillings for every folio or quarto, and one shilling for every book of less size; the penalty to be repeated every month till the book be returned, or another of the same edition and equal value placed in its room.

That a list of the books omitted to be returned at the end of the quarter, together with the name of the borrower, be suspended in some public place in the Library.

That no person shall have more than five volumes out of the lock-up classes of the Library, by a note counter-signed by the Vice-Chancellor; and that such books be returned at the end of each quarter, as all other books are, under double penalties.

That for the purpose of allowing the Librarians sufficient time to inspect the books at the end of each quarter, all books be kept in the Library on the day

appointed for their return, and the whole of the day following.

That no manuscript whatever be taken out of the Library, without a grace for its removal being obtained from the Senate.

That no volume containing a collection of prints or drawings, shall be taken out of the Library on any account whatever.

That every year, on the Friday next after the Commencement, or oftener if they see occasion, the Syndics shall meet in the Senate-House, or elsewhere, at the appointment of the Vice-Chancellor, to give orders and appoint inspectors, for a general survey of the Library the Monday following. These inspectors, with the Librarians, shall make a full and true catalogue of all books wanting or much damaged, expressing in whose custody such books are, or by whom damaged, and deliver the same, signed by them, to the ViceChancellor.

That all books in this catalogue be returned to the Library perfect and undamaged, or others of the same edition and equal value, placed in their room there within thirty days after notice given, on pain of forfeiting five pounds for every volume not so returned, or the full value of the same, at the discretion and in the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor, to be paid by him who stands charged with it; or, in case no one shall be charged with it, by the Library-Keepers or their deputies, or any of them; unless it shall appear to the Vice-Chancellor that such loss or damage has not happened through any neglect or default of the said Library-Keepers, or their deputies.

That if, after the said thirty days, on inquiry and report to be made by the said inspectors, or otherwise, it appears to the Vice-Chancellor, that any books be still wanting in the Library, or much damaged, he shall order others, without delay, to be procured, at the expence of the public chest, and put in their places.

That strangers or persons in statu pupillari may be admitted into the Library, if attended by one of the Library-Keepers, or accompanied by some member of the University not under the degree of Bachelor of Law or Medicine, and not otherwise.

That in future a list of the books omitted to be returned at the end of the quarter, together with the name of the borrower, be suspended in some public place in the Library.

That all the penalties above-mentioned shall be levied as other penalties are, by the Queen's statutes, chap. 50, and go one-third to the Bedells who collect them, the rest to the public chest.

The Library is closed on Sundays, and on the following days; Christmas-Day; the Epiphany; the Purification; Ash-Wednesday; Good Friday; Easter Monday and Tuesday; Holy Thursday; Whit Monday and Tuesday; November 5. Appointed Fast days and Thanksgivings; the day after each Quarter-day; and the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, in the week after the Commencement.

On Saturdays it is open from ten till one; on Saints' days from twelve till three; and on other days from ten till three.

THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The management of the University Press is committed by the Senate to Syndics, who meet to transact business in the Parlour of the Printing-office, and cannot act unless five are present, the Vice-Chancellor being always one. The Syndics are, the Vice-Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, the Lord Bishop of Bristol, Dr. Turner, Dr. Cory, Dr. Procter, Dr. Wordsworth, Dr. Davy, Dr. Chafy, Dr. G. Thackeray, Dr. Wood, Dr. Webb, Dr. French, Dr. Frere, Mr. Lamb, Master of Corpus, Dr. Godfrey, Dr. J. W. Geldart, Mr. Veasey, Mr. Wm. Hustler, Mr. Bridge, Mr. Crawley, Mr. R. Tatham, Mr. Turton, Professor Scholefield, Professor Musgrave, Mr. Tillbrook, Mr. Duffield, Mr. Griffith, Mr. Turnbull, and Mr. Graham.

THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM.

Richard, Viscount Fitzwilliam, formerly of Trinity Hall, (M.A. 1764,) who died 5th February, 1816, be