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accounts are given of its state during that period.^ But the resolution 

 of the House of Commons, already referred to, seems to imply that, 

 however carefully disposed, a catalogue of it had not heen made as 

 late as 1661. Dimng the whole troubled period, then, between 1641 

 and 1666, there seems only one interval to which catalogue B can be 

 referred, the years 1647-1654, during which Ussher was at Lincoln's 

 Inn. Special provision was there made for the housing of his books, 

 and, no doubt, they were properly aiTanged under his own supervision. 

 Thus it appears that A is the Drogheda Catalogue of Ussher' s Library, 

 1625-1641, while B is the Lincoln's Inn Catalogue, 1647-1654, and 

 C the Dublin Catalogue of the same library, 1666-1669. 



There are two other matters, with reference to the connexion 

 between Ussher's Library and that of Trinity College, on which it 

 may be well to remark in bringing this paper to an end. 



The first is suggested by the volume marked E. 1.4 in the second 

 list (N"o. 19 in the Table). This volume must plainly be identical 

 with either CC. e. 16 or CC. i. 7 in the present Library, But, with 

 which of them ? For both were in Ussher's Library. And, how 

 can we account for the note in the latter which plainly implies that 

 it was in the College Library while Ussher's Library was still a 

 distinct collection ? The simplest answer to the latter question seems 

 to be, that Ussher having two copies of the book, presented one to the 

 newly formed library, and that that copy was CC. i. 7. If this be so, 

 he must have sent his gift fi-om England, towards the end of his life, 

 since it is registered in B, but not in C. Both copies may have been 

 in A and B, but which of them bore in the former the press-mark 

 E. 1. 4 it is impossible to guess. This is not the only instance which 

 we have noticed of a gift from the Primate to the Libraiy of his 

 College. H. h. 33 (jS^o. 53), has an early press-mark, apparently of 

 the College Library (though it is not in D), but it was once the 

 property of Ussher, since his signature appears on its title page. This 

 book was also a duplicate. The companion copy (DD. o. 62) is in 

 both B and C : but which of the two had the press-mark E. 4. 33 in 

 A we are again unable to decide. 



Dr. Abbott^ gives reason for believing that Ussher's collection 

 of manuscripts sufiered less than has been supposed from theft, in 

 the interval between the Archbishop's death and its acquisition by 

 Trinity College. And he drops a hint^ that the same may be true 



1 Book of Trinity College, p. 150. ~ lb., p. 151. = lb., p. 150. 



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