Francis Lodwick, Hans Sloane, and the Bodleian Library

One of the four Bodleian copies of John Webster's notorious attack on the universities, the Academiarum Examen of 1654, is annotated throughout in a contemporary hand. The same hand can also be seen working in the margins of a Bodleian copy of the irenicist John Dury's Considerations Concerning the Present Engagement of 1649. This hand, I propose, is that of the London merchant, language-planner, and FRS, Francis Lodwick (1619–94), and the purpose of the present article is to explain how these books ended up in the Bodleian Library.