Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Hibrarp of CJefter. HE Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chefter is kept in the Chapter- houfe annexed to the Cathedral. This apartment is entered from 'the cloif- ters, through an outer door and inner fcreen, over which, on each fide the doorway, hang the flags of the 22nd Regiment, raifed in Chefhire, prefented to the Cathedral by General Finch. The fides of the room are ornamented by elegant and flender pillars, rifing between the tall and narrow windows, up to the vaulted roof of ftone. The books are contained in oak prefTes with folid doors, which occupy three fides of the Chapter-houfe, with the exception of the fpace occupied by the two fire-places. The fcreen fills the fourth fide entirely. In a thin folio volume of 53 leaves, entitled "A " Catalogue of certain Books belonging to Chrift " Church, at Chefter. Folio. Mdcclxviii." we find this fatisfactory aflurance :—" In the month of June, " Mdcclxii. every volume mentioned in this Cata- " logue, appeared to be in the Library, except thofe " volumes only which were duly entered in the note " book as borrowed books. " T. C." The fame authority proceeds to inform us that " There is a large folio Bible (not mentioned in the " Catalogue) printed by Bafkerville, prefented to the " Governors of the Cathedral, by the Rev. Mr. Hench- " man, Sacrift of Chefter Cathedral, and Vicar of St. " Ofwald's, within the fame. " In the Chapter Library," it is added, " the folios " are ranged on the loweft fhelves in the feveral " prefles, the quartos on the fhelves juft above them, " the fmaller fized books extend from the quartos to " the top of the prefs. Every prefs which contains " books hath the letter initial of the title, together with " the fize of every volume therein, written on the " inner f1de of the folding...