One Mr. Hutton appears to have been employed in the Library during this
year. It seems, from a passage in a letter of C. Wheatly's, printed in
_Letters by Eminent Persons_, ii. 116, that the learned commentator
Samuel Parker, son of the Bishop of Oxford, was also at some time
employed in the Library; for Wheatly expresses a wish that S. Parker's
son, then (1739) an apprentice to Mr. Clements the bookseller, might, if
the accounts of his extraordinary proficiency be true, be placed 'in his
father's seat, the Bodleian Library.' As Parker was a non-juror, his
employment must doubtless have been at some earlier period than this,
but his name is not met with in any of the old Account-books or
Registers. One Thomas Parker occurs in the Library accounts in 1766 and
in 1772.