on the keeping of
correspondencie with men of their own strain, for the beating out of
matters not yet elaborated in Sciences; so that they may bee as his
Assistants and subordinate Factors in his Trade and in their own for
gaining of knowledg: Now becaus in all publick Agencies, it is fit that
som inspection should bee had over those that are intrusted therewith,
therefore in this Factorie and Trade for the increas of Learning, som
tie should bee upon those Librarie-keepers to oblige them to
carefulness.

I would then upon this account, have an Order made that once in the
year, the Librarie-keeper should bee bound to give an account of his
Trading, and of his Profit in his Trade (as in all humane Trades Factors
ought, and use to do to their principals at least once a year) and to
this effect I would have it ordered, that the chief Doctors of each
facultie of the Universitie, should meet at a Convenient time in a week
of the year, to receiv the Accounts of his Trading, that hee may shew
them wherein the stock of Learning hath been increased, for that year's
space; and then hee is to produce the particulars which he hath gained
from abroad, and laie them before them all, that everie one in his own
facultie may declare in the presence of others, that which he thinketh
fit to bee added to the publick stock, and made common by the Catalogue
of Additionals, which everie year within the Universities is to bee
published in writing within the Librarie it self, and everie three
years (or sooner as the number of Additionals may bee great, or later,
if it bee smal) to bee put in Print and made common to those that are
abroad. And at this giving up of the accounts, as the Doctors are to
declare what they think worthie to bee added to the common stock of
Learning, each in their Facultie; so I would have them see what the
Charges and Pains are whereat the Librarie-Keeper hath been, that for
his encouragement, the extraordinarie expences in correspondencies and
transcriptions for the publick good, may bee allowed him out of som
Revenues, which should bee set a part to that effect, and disposed of
according to their joint-content and judgment in that matter. Here then
hee should bee bound to shew them the Lists of his correspondents, the
Letters from them in Answer to his, and the reckoning of his
extraordinarie expence should bee allowed him in that which hee is
indebted, or hath freely laid out to procure Rarities into the stock of