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then be assumed to be 1666-1669, and it may be taken to represent 

 Ussher's Library after it bad been deposited in Trinity College. There 

 it was kept, apart from the original College Library, ^ till both were 

 housed in the present building (finished in 1732), when the books 

 were, of coui'se, once more rearranged, and were deposited in the cases 

 AA-DD, where, for the most part, they still remain. 



The Catalogue B has still to be accounted for. Its limits of date are, 

 as we have seen, 1641-1666. During that period the fortunes of dssher's 

 Library were various. It was removed from Drogheda, where it was 

 within a little of being destroyed diuing the siege of 1641, to Chester. 

 This was in the summer of 1641. By 1643, if not earlier, it had found 

 its way to Chelsea College, and was in that year confiscated by the 

 House of Commons. The greater part of it, however, was subsequently 

 restored to its owner. ^ \Yhere it was for the next few years I do 

 not know : but Ussher and his books can have been seldom together 

 at that period. Prom 1642 tiU the beginning of 1645, the Archbishop 

 was at Oxford, working at his treatise on the Ignatian Epistles.^ In 

 the spring of 1645 he went to Cardiff, taking with him some chests of 

 books.* A few months later he was obliged to leave Cardiff, and went 

 on a visit to Lady Stradliug, at St. Donate' s, Glamorganshire, losing 

 some of his books en route J' lu June, 1646, he was again in London, 

 at the house of the Dowager Countess of Peterborough.* The con- 

 clusion to which a study of the history naturally leads cannot be 

 better stated than in his own words: — " Externis istis bonis (quae 

 sppellantur) exutus sum omnibus : sola bibliotheca e flam mis illis erepta, 

 a qua ip&a tamen ad himc usque diem etiam exuhy But scarcely were 

 these words written, when he and his library were again together. 

 In 1647, the Archbishop was appointed preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and 

 apartments being assigned to him, his library — or what remained of it, 

 — was removed to them.® Por eight years Ussher remained in poverty, 

 but in comparative peace, at Lincoln's Inn. After his death, in 1656, 

 the library was bought for Trinity College — but for some years it 

 was detained in Dublin Castle, by order of Cromwell.^ Conflicting 



1 Dunton, Life and Errors, as quoted by Ingrain, The Lihrary of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, London, 1886, p. 8. 



2 Works of Ussher, i., pp. 221, 231 sq. ^ j^_^ p_ 227 sqq. 

 * lb., p. 242. 5 lb., p. 243 sqq. « lb., p. 247. 



' So he writes in July, 1647, to John Gerard Toss. Works, xvi., p. 96. Cf. 

 p. 69. 



8 Works, p. 250. ^ lb., p. 302 sq. Book of Trinity College, p. 149. 



