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whose assistance and iudgemt in the drawing of a Catalogue Mr. Burgiss doth much rely, is now resideing nere Burmingeham, that is much infected with the sickenes and therefore doth not stir from thence but Mr. Bellers is very confident that the first catalogue that is delivered shall be to yr L'rp.
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I have spoken with Mr. Bellers for the catalogue of books he promise to send your Lordship and he tells me he did send for one but there is none drawne as yett, for that Mr. Burges (who oweth them) is little time where is bookes are and that Mr. Roberts, who was a curate to his father and one upon
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paid to "Thomas Bridgens towards buildinge ye library", with £126 2s 9d following in 1656 "For buildinge the library, repayreing the Schoole and schoole-masters' houses". The library's puritan tradition continued in 1656 when
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left the finest examples from his book collection to "the library at Birmingham"; the rest, "being ordinary books and not fit for so publick a library" were left to the clergymen and schoolmasters of
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A building was erected for the library between 1655 and 1656, and the accounts of the
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and dated 7 August 1637, possibly refers to a catalogue of the library:
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The book makers of old Birmingham: authors, printers, and book sellers
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Experience and identity: Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1800
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Although the library was one of the first public libraries in
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Index

Birmingham
England
puritan
Francis Roberts
Viscount Conway
Charles I
High Bailiff
pounds
shillings
pence
Thomas Hall
Moseley
King's Norton
Wythall
England
Restoration
Hill 1907
Hill 1907
Hill 1907


Money 1977
Hill 1907
ISBN
0-8337-1706-5
Experience and identity: Birmingham and the West Midlands, 1760-1800
ISBN
0-7190-0672-4
Categories
Buildings and structures completed in 1656

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