in dicta ecclesia
cathedrali, et iterum ab hora prima post meridiem quosque
completorium in eadem ecclesia cathedrali finiatur, per
praefatos capellanos, seu eorum alterum et successores suos
custodes dictae librariae debite et diligenter aperta,
custodiatur, nisi causa racionabilis hoc fieri impediat. Ita
quod nullum dampnum eidem librariae aut in libris, aut in
hostiis, seruris vel fenestris vitreis ejusdem, ex
negligencia dictorum capellanorum aut successorum suorum
custodum dictae librariae evenire contingat. Et si quid
dampnum hujusmodi in praemissis, seu aliquo praemissorum, per
negligenciam ipsorum capellanorum, seu eorum alterius, aut
successorum suorum quoque modo imposterum evenerit, id vel
ipsa dampnum aut dampna recompensare, emendare et
satisfacere, tociens quociens contigerit, de salariis seu
stipendiis suis propriis, auctoritate et judicio dictorum
Decani et Capituli, debeant et teneantur, ut est justum.
Ceteris vero diebus, noctibus et temporibus hostia praedicta,
cum eorum seruris et clavibus, omnino sint clausa et secure
serata." _Id._: p. 193.]

We now enter upon the reign of an active and enterprising monarch;
who, though he may be supposed to have cut his way to the throne by
his sword, does not appear to have persecuted the cause of learning;
but rather to have looked with a gracious eye upon its operations by
means of the press. In the reign of EDWARD IV., our venerable and
worthy Caxton fixed the first press that ever was set to work in this
country, in the abbey of Westminster. Yes, Lorenzo; now commenced more
decidedly, the aera of BIBLIOMANIA! Now the rich, and comparatively
poor, began to build them small _Book Rooms_ or _Libraries_. At first,
both the architecture and furniture were sufficiently rude, if I
remember well the generality of wood cuts of ancient book-boudoirs:--a
few simple implements only being deemed necessary; and a three-legged
stool, "in fashion square or round," as Cowper[274] says, was thought
luxury sufficient for the hard student to sit upon. Now commenced a
general love and patronage of books: now (to borrow John Fox's
language) "tongues became known, knowledge grew, judgment increased,
BOOKS WERE DISPERSED, the scripture was read, stories were opened,
times compared, truth discerned, falsehood detected, and with finger
pointed (at)--and all, THROUGH THE BENEFIT OF PRINTIN