The stipends of the Librarian and Assistants at this time amounted
jointly to £51 6_s._ 8_d._ Of this it appears from the account for 1657
that the Librarian received £33 6_s._ 8_d._, the Second Keeper, then H.
Stubbe, £10, and [the janitor] S. Rugleye (?), £8. A volume of curious
tracts, published during the early part of the reign of Charles I, now
marked 4^o _F. 2 Art. B. S._, furnishes the name of a preceding janitor,
by bearing the inscription, 'Liber Thomæ Roch, defuncti, quondam
janitoris bibliothecæ.' The janitor originally appointed by Bodley
appears to be mentioned in the following passage in a letter from him to
James: 'There is one Thomas Scott, Under-butler of Magdalen College,
that hath made means unto me for the Porter's place, whom I propose to
elect[122].'
John Evelyn appears in this year, as well as subsequently, as a donor of
books. Nineteen MSS. were given by Peter Whalley, of Northamptonshire.
[122] _Reliquæ Bodl._ p. 263.