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 upon 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.