[489] Macray, ut supra, p. 86. The inconvenience of chaining had long been felt for in The Foreigner's Companion through the Universities, by Mr Salmon, 1748, it is objected that "the books being chain'd down, there is no bringing them together even in the Library," p. 27.
[490] King's College Mundum Book, 1777: Smith's work. "To a man's time 9 Dayes to take the Chains of the books £1. 7s. 0d."
[491] Churton's Lives of Smyth and Sutton, p. 311, note.
[492] Henderson's History, p. 237.
[493] Voy. Litt., ed. 1724, Vol. iii. p. 24.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE WALL-SYSTEM. THIS BEGAN ON THE CONTINENT. LIBRARY OF THE ESCÕRIAL. AMBROSIAN LIBRARY AT MILAN. LIBRARY OF CARDINAL MAZARIN. BODLEIAN LIBRARY AT OXFORD. WORKS AND INFLUENCE OF WREN. FRENCH CONVENTUAL LIBRARIES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.