[181] Ibid. vol. xlvii. p. 89.
[182] In an account of a visit to Oxford by an American tourist, which appeared very recently in the New York Times, and was copied into English journals, written with the warm-hearted tone of one who could rightly appreciate the interest of the place, although (like most Transatlantic visitors) he spent but twenty-four hours in it, the following comment is made upon the smallness of this Bodleian fee:—'The gentleman [i. e. the present Janitor, Mr. John Norris] who showed me through this noble collection, and gave me the most interesting explanations, politely informed me that the charge was 3d. It went against my conscience to give a gentleman of his civility and erudition the price of a pot of beer, and I added a small testimonial, for which he seemed more than sufficiently grateful.'
[183] This was the room which is now attached to the Library under the name of the Auctarium.
[184] Hearne's MS. Diary, xlviii. 22. The retractation and apology which Hearne afterwards actually submitted to the Vice-Chancellor in court in 1718, when in trouble again for his preface to Camden's Elizabeth, was very similar in style to this. But he was not allowed to read it. Ibid. lxxi. 3 May.
A.D. 1714.
An evidence of the increased intercourse which sprang up between Denmark and England, in consequence of the marriage of Queen Anne, is probably to be found in the number of Danish readers who frequented the Library in the interval between her marriage and her death. Between the years 1683 and 1714, forty-nine Danes are entered in the Liber Admissorum, besides many from Sweden, Norway, and the North of Germany. The total number of foreigners admitted within the same period was no less than 244.
'In the year 1714 were in the Bodleian Library:—
| 30169 | pr. vols. | |
| 05916 | MSS. vols. | |
| In all | 36085.' |
(Hearne's MS. Diary, vol. xci. p. 256.)