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Show 1 1.TI l:i:i:ll Vlll.l'll PI. uciuiiiia viii:iiii.s Tin: nKH aii ium:ii lit- t'HAbt. ftgemie tl44t4, In l'.uroe, longl-rfum the day uf pllnllllg, laaike were fattelitd to shelves or desk lii III. Miles end chun lies, to guarJ against their lalng stolen, alu! els., lo prevent one student gaining an unfair advantage ovtr an. other by seeming Hit loan of a book from a looaruluUe librarian. The libraries of the Hngllsli universities univer-sities were t halmnl until Die Utter art of the Iflh century, when, 011 account of the liicoiivenlsiue nf uilug them, Hie chains wore reinoveil. II Is le-corded le-corded that at ICIug'a Colltge a man wsspiUnm. itiund and seven shillings, shil-lings, lu 17,7, lor nine days' lat-nr In taking tliu ftlteleolt the colli gu Unka. According to Urn aiitUiiarlni, Ihero are, however, a few chained chain-ed lihrarlca still remaining u l.nglaud, 'I he largest of these la at thet'athetlral t'hurtli of Hereford. and Ulhnuiieccnuliiu survival nf mi old iii'iiiatlln library. It comlsta of about ' .volume ol which I Vl are tluln-id, tluln-id, There are rive lw.kt'asea, aud the remain of twu 1 there. The caUUigue, which I also chained classlllc the l-mike, many of which are In mauutcrli I, In right division. lUth chain la (loin tinea to four ft I long according loll lllou, ao that etery volume cau bu pta'-lnn Hie reading desk. In the emtio of Ihetv chain areswlvels, which are u.tlul In preventing their entanglement Hereford putstaseelhe lalest, a welt a theoldmi colltcllon ofchaliieil I.hAs In the klngilom, the library ol 'M vol-iiince, vol-iiince, which wa lieiiutalhtd to All rlvlnts' Church. |