r at least
not abused; And to do all this, First a _Catalogue_, of the Treasurie
committed unto his charge is to bee made, that is all the Books and
Manuscripts, according to the Titles whereunto they belong, are to bee
ranked in an order most easie and obvious to bee found, which I think is
that of Sciences and Languages; when first all the Books are divided
into their _subjectam materiam_ whereof they Treat, and then everie
kinde of matter subdivided into their several Languages: And as the
Catalogue should bee so made, that it may alwaies bee augmented as the
stock doth increas; so the place in the Librarie must bee left open for
the increas of the number of Books in their proper Seats, and in the
Printed Catalogue, a Reference is to bee made to the place where the
Books are to bee found in their Shelvs or repositories. When the stock
is thus known and fitted to bee exposed to the view of the Learned
World, Then the waie of Trading with it, both at home and abroad, is to
bee laid to heart both for the increas of the stock, and for the
improvement of it to use. For the increas of the stock both at home and
abroad, correspondencie should bee held with those that are eminent in
everie Science, to Trade with them for their profit, that what they want
and wee have, they may receiv upon condition, that what they have and
wee want, they should impart in that facultie where their eminencie doth
lie; As for such as are at home eminent in anie kinde, becaus they may
com by Native right to have use of the Librarie-Treasure, they are to
bee Traded withal in another waie, _viz._ that the things which are
gained from abroad, which as yet are not made common, and put to publick
use should bee promised and imparted to them for the increas of their
private stock of knowledg, to the end that what they have peculiar, may
also bee given in for a requital, so that the particularities of gifts
at home and abroad, are to meet as in a Center in the hand of the
Librarie-keeper, and hee is to Trade with the one by the other, to caus
them to multiplie the publick stock, whereof hee is a Treasurer and
Factor.

Thus hee should Trade with those that are at home and abroad out of the
Universitie, and with those that are within the Universitie, hee should
have acquaintance to know all that are of anie parts, and how their vein
of Learning doth lie, to supplie helps unto them in their faculties from
without and from within the Nation, to put them up