White — Elias Bouhereau of La Rochelle. 143 



The Archbishop's importunity was rewarded by the issue of a Royal 

 Warrant, 11th June, 1701, embodying his proposals ; and Bouhereau was now 

 PuUic Librarian in IrelaMd, in custody of his own books, to which those of 

 Stillingfleet, Bishop of "Worcester, were added in 1704. Besides his own state- 

 ment as to his official position, made in 1702, the entry of his daughter 

 Marguerite's marriage, 21st July, 1703, describes him as ministre et bibliote- 

 caire de Monsieur le Frimat dLrlande. .Does this mean that he was also 

 private chaplain to the Archbishop ? This construction of the sentence is 

 supported by an odd expression in his own statement : estant dans les ordres 

 sacres aupres de Mylord archevesq^ie De Lublin. But there is no record of his 

 ordination in the diocesan registers of Dublin. 



Marsh was translated from Dublin to Armagh in 1702 ; and it is almost 

 certain that before he left Dublin a portion of the library — which was built on 

 ground taken from the Archbishop of Dublin's garden — must have been erected. 

 The wood-work of the first gallery, which runs north and south, and looks 

 into the Cathedral grounds, is superior in quality to that of the second or 

 inner gallery, which runs at right angles to it, east and west. Moreover, the 

 arrangement of Bouhereau's own books in the reading-room, which is at the 

 corner where the two main galleries meet, proves that they were classed and 

 tabulated before the second gallery was built ; for while the largest portion 

 of the books classed R 3 is on the north side of the door-way connecting the 

 reading-room and gallery no. 2, there are a few on the south side ; and a 

 perpendicular slip of wood fastened on the outside of the case indicates where 

 E 4 begins. Similarly some of the books of E 5 are on the east side of the 

 door leading into gallery no. 1, and others are on the north of the adjoining 

 window. It is evident that before gallery no. 2 was built, and the door-way 

 into it constructed, E 3 and R 4 divided the east wall of the reading-room 

 between them, and that E 5 occupied the whole space east of the door-way 

 leading into gallery no. 1. 



Of Bouhereau's performance of the duties of library-keeper it is impossible 

 now to speak with exactness. He had lived his life, and a useful, honoured 

 life too, before he was appointed Public Librarian. Men do not usually begin 

 to learn a new business, however apparently easy, at the age of sixty-five — least 

 of all when they are exiles, and all that they had lived for — causes and persons 

 — crushed or buried. A letter from Archbishop King, quoted by Sir Charles 

 Siiiieon'Kmg(AGreat Archbishop of Lubiin,-p. 261), proves that the manuscript 

 catalogue of the books in Marsh's Library, which has been praised by all who 

 have consulted it, was the work of Bouhereau's successor, Eobert Dougatt. 

 There is extant a list of books in Bouhereau's handwriting ; but it is quite 

 useless as a catalogue. Archbishop King, in the same letter, states that 



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