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any study of the Plume Library, especially (a)
Books
and (b)
John Jackson
(
both by Dr Latham) and (c)
Science
(
by Professor A. R. Hall).
10.1
The Diary, September 1st 1665 (whilst Pepys was staying at Greenwich with his Office during the Great
Plague): “To Church [St Alphegel] where a company of fine people, and a fine church, and a very good
sermon, Mr Plumebeing a very excellent scholar and preacher’’.
11.
Thomas Sprat.
The History of theRoyal Society of London.
1667.
12.
Nehemiah Grew, M.D., Secretary of the Royal Society 1677-79 and plant anatomist.
Musaeum Regalis
Societatis or. A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal
Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. Whereunto is Subjoyned the Comparative Anatomy of
Stomachs and Guts by thesame Author.
16
S1.
13.
Henry Stubbe, physician at Stratford-on-Avon:
(
a)A Censure Upon Certain Passages Contained in the Historyof the Royal Society.
1670.
Oxford;
(
b)A Reply unto the Letter Written ... in Defense of theHistoryof the Royal Society.
1671.
Oxford.
14.
Christian Huygens.
Kasmotheoros, siveDe Terris Coelestibus Earumque Ornatu, Conjecturae.
i 699
(
editio
altera).
TheHague. TheMS noteonthe Library’s copy, “Secthis Bookin English A.D.1698. K.8.8.” shows
that Dr Plume had this English edition, entitled
The Celestial Worlds Discovered or, Conjectures
concerning . . . the Worlds in the Planets.
It had been lost from the Library by 1848, when the Rev. R. P.
Crane listed the title in his MSCatalogue but without a shelf number.
15.
Henry Denne, apuritan minister, referring tohis proposals for a new formofgovernment in 1645, wrotethat
he might “ʻto many seem guilty ofthat crime which was held against the Apostle, 'to turn the world upside
down’" andthis was adopted for thetitle ofa studyof radical ideas ofthe Interregnum: Christopher Hill,
The
World Turned Upside Down,
1972.
15.2
Joseph Glanvill, Rectorof Bath.
Some Discourses. Sermons and Remains.
(
Anthony Horneck, ed.) 1681, p.
170.
16.
The legacy refers to PierreAllix, formerly Ministerto theProtestant Congregation at Charenton, who fled to
England in 1685. The hospitality of clergy such as Plume led Allix and his family into communion with the
Church of England: his son became Dean of Ely, 1730-58. Pierre Allix'
Remarks Upon the Ecclesiastical
History of ... Piedmont
(1690)
is in the Library. In his Will Plume thanks him “for his translation of
Nectarius” (a Greek Orthodox refutation of Papal claims to
imperium
in the Church) which is also in the
Library. Plume's concern reflects the ecumenical policy of the S.P.C.K., which set up correspondence with
Reformed Churches in Europe.
17.
A comparison of the Catalogue[1] with references to Irish publications in A
New Historyof Ireland
(
T. W.
Moody, F. X.Martin, F. J. Byrne, eds.)VolumeIV, 1976, Oxford University Press, has produced this list of
works in theLibrary:
17.1
Richard Stanyhurst.
De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis.
1584.
Antwerp. (An account of the Anglo-Norman
conquest in the 12th century).
17.2
Dermot O’Meara, M.D
(
Dermilius de Meara). Ormonius.
1615. (
A poem in five books on the life ofLord
Thomas Butler, Earl ofOrmonde and Ossory).
17.3
James Ussher, D.D., Archbishop of Armagh.
Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquilates.
1687. (
Posthumous
Latin edition; the work was first published, in English, at Dublin,1622).
17.4
Sir Thomas Ryves, civil lawyer. Judge in the Prerogative Court of Ireland, 1617.
Regiminis Anglicani in
Hibernia Defensio Adversus Analecten.
1624.
17.5
A Remonstrance of GrievancesPresented to His
.. .
Majestieinthe Behalfeof theCatholicks of Ireland.
1643.
Waterford.