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 ronnius found, who drew from hence notable succour for the maintaining this Ecclesiastical history against the Centuriators of Magdebourg, who wanting these assured aims, and being otherwise wrongly biassed, made faults in their history as many as their Centuries, and as great as their Volumes. The description of this Library hath been made by learned Angelus Rocca in Latin, and by Mutius Pansa in Italian: yet for the satisfaction of my curious countrymen I shall say something of it. First the room is a vast long room spreading it self in the further end, into two wings of building, which are full of presses where the manuscripts are kept carefully from mice and rats, and moist weather. At the entrance into this Library you are let into a fair chamber full of desks for a dozen of writers, who have good stipends to copy out books in all languages; and they are bound to be writing so many hours in a morning. Round about this room