'Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, and then Lord Chancellor of England, would
have borrowed Paulus Benius Eugubinus _De dirimend. Controvers. de Grat.
et Lib. Arb._, but was deny'd[78].'
The first theft of a book from the Library occurred in this year. An
account of it, with several others, will be found in a note to the year
1654.
[78] Barlow's MS. Arg. against lending books out of the Library; see
_post, sub anno_ 1659.