Note 374 — APPENDIX D.
Reading edition
Many autographs of distinguished literary men are found in the old Registers of all the persons admitted to read in the Library, since in these the readers themselves generally entered their own names. The first 'Liber admissorum' contains the names of both graduates and non-academics, the names in the first case being only in part autograph; it commences about the year 1610, and ends, in the case of graduates, arranged under their several colleges, about 1676; in the case of strangers, at 1692. The second Register, which is 'peregrinorum et aliorum admissorum' alone, begins at 1682 and ends at 1833. The first existing register of books used by readers begins Jan. 3, 1647-8, and ends Dec. 30, 1649. The following are some of the names, of some special mark, which are found in the Admission-books:—
Joh. Jonstonus, M.D., 1633.
Joh. Fred. Gronovius, June 25, 1639.
George Bull, 'SS. Theol. Studiosus, per dispensat,' July 5, 1656.
Andrew Marvell, Sept. 30, 1665.
Sir Winston Churchill, Oct. 4, 1665.
Henry Dodwell, Oct. 20, 1666.
Thomas Rymer, June 20, 1683.
Edmund Calamy, 'Londinensis,' Aug. 18, 1691, and in 1722.
Sir George Mackenzie, Dec. 14, 1694, and several times subsequently.
Joh. Ern. Grabe, Nov. 10, 1697.
Thomas Madox, Sept. 21, 1705.
Joshua Barnes, July 22, 1706.
William Whiston, Sept. 28, 1710.
C. Wesley, 'Æidis Xti alumnus,' April 19, 1729.
Joh. Dav. Michaelis, Oct. 9, 1741.
W. Blackstone, 'S.C.L.' Feb. 11, 1742-3.
Benj. Kennicott, 'Coll. Wadh. Schol.' July 15, 1746.
George Ballard, Dec. 9, 1747.
Edw. Rowe Mores, Commoner of Queen's College, Aug. 29, 1748.
John Uri, 'Korosini, Hungarus,' Feb. 17, 1766.
Edw. Gibbon, 'Coll. Magd. olim Soc. Com.' Oct. 17, 1766.
Joh. Schweighäuser, June 13, 1769.
J. J. Griesbach, March 22, 1770.
Hen. Alb. Schultens, Oct. 16, 1772.
John Macbride, 'ex Coll. Exon.' (the late venerable Principal of Magd. Hall, who was only removed by death at the beginning of the present year), May 10, 1797.
Philip Bliss, Feb. 9, 1809.