"Articles, Conditions, and Covenants, upon which the Provost and other
officers of King's College in Cambridge have admitted Michael Mills,
Schollar of the said College, to be Keeper of the Publick Library of
the said College."
the seventh and last article is--
"For the rendering his business about the library more easy, each
person that makes use of any book or books in the said library, is
required to sett 'em up again decently, without entangling the chains;
by which is signified to all concerned that no person whatsoever, upon
any pretence, is permitted to carry any book out of the library to
their chambers, or any otherwise to be used as a private book, it being
against the statutes of our college in y^t case provided."
Under "Orders for regulating the publick library of King's College," Order
IV.:
"All the fellows and scholars, and all other persons allowed the use of
the library, shall carefully set up those they use in their proper
place, without entangling the chains."
Michael Mills got King's in 1683.