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Rh lines or entirely unnoticed in most accounts of his life, scarcely realized beside the greatness of his life work, explains the connection.

In 1649 Bulstrode Whitelock was appointed keeper of the king's medals and library, which latter he had previously prevented from being sold "rather because he was put upon it by Selden and other learned men than that he himself, being accounted learned, took great delight in such matters." Not always having leisure to attend to his new duties, Whitelock, we read, "had a deputy allowed