[459] This date is given on the authority of the present Provost, John Richard Magrath, D.D.
[460] A view of the Library in its original state is given in Ingram's Memorials, Queen's College, p. 12. An article in Notes and Queries, 6th Ser. iv. 442, by the Rev. Robert Lowes Clarke, M.A., Fellow and Librarian, contains the following passage: "The bookcases were fitted with reading desks, as at the Bodleian, and there were fixed oak seats in each recess. These were convenient in some ways, and helped to make the room seem a place for study rather than a store for materials, but they made the lower shelves hard of access, and were removed in 1871 to give room for new cases."
[461] For these details I have to thank the late Canon H. Nelson. I visited Grantham in 1895 with my friend Mr. T. D. Atkinson, architect, who drew the above plan.
[462] Report of Comm. for Inquiring concerning Charities, Vol. ii. pp. 95-100.
[463] This description of the library is partly from my own notes, taken 7 July, 1901, partly from Hornby's Walks about Eton, 1894.
[464] Old Church and School Libraries of Lancashire, by R. C. Christie, Chetham Soc., 1885, p. 76.
[465] The last will of Humphry Chetham, 4to. Manchester, n. d. p. 42.
[466] This bookcase stood in the National School-room when I examined it in 1885. In 1898 the books were thoroughly repaired.
[467] The front of this bookcase is figured on the title-page of Bibliographical notices of the Church Libraries at Turton and Gorton. Chetham Soc., 1855, p. 3.
[468] The architectural history of these buildings has been admirably worked out, in Old Halls in Lancashire and Cheshire, by Henry Taylor, Architect, 4to. Manchester, 1884, pp. 31-46.