The Chained Parish Library of All Saints Hereford

Item date: 17th century
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 100,000
Item date acquired: 1994
Item institution: Hereford Cathedral Library
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire

267 volumes of history, travel and devotional literature. Left to the church under the terms of Brewsters will, he stipulated that the books be chained. One of only three significant parochial libraries still in situ

Item Provenance
Collection of William Brewster, left to All Saints church in 1715