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SIR THOMAS BODLEY'S
FIRST DRAUGHT OF THE
STATUTES
OF THE PUBLICK LIBRARY
AT OXON
TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL
COPY, WRITTEN BY HIS OWN HAND,
AND REPOSITED IN THE ARCHIVES
OF THE SAID LIBRARY
FORASMUCH as Experience hath made it apparent in the course of Men's Actions, that no publick Institution nor Foundation whatsoever, wherein a Multitude hath Interest, and where Continuance is required, can produce those good Effects, for which the same was first intended, except the dissolute Demeanours of ill affected Per-
