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 COLLEGII CORPORIS CHRIST! 
 
Cambridge: 
 
 PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
HISTORIOLA 
 COLLEGII CORPORIS CHRIST! 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN JOSSELIN, 
 
 FELLOW OF QUEENS' COLLEGE, 
 AND LATIN SECRETARY TO ARCHBISHOP PARKER. 
 
 EDITED FOR THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, WITH 
 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIVE DOCUMENTS, 
 
 BY 
 
 JOHN WILLIS CLARK, M.A., 
 
 LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 Cambridge : 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 
 
 SOLD BY DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO., 
 
 AND MACMILLAN AND CO. 
 
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5 ^ ^ 
 
 PKEFACE 
 
 The " Brief Account of Corpus Christi College," drawn up by 
 John Josselin, Fellow of Queens' College, which has hitherto 
 been accessible only through the somewhat faulty transcript of 
 Baker, is here printed for the first time. 
 
 In estimating the value of the work, it must be borne in 
 mind that it does not pretend to be a detailed history of 
 the College. It may rather be described as a sketch of the 
 acquisition of the site, and the origin and progress of the 
 buildings : as, in fact, one of the earliest attempts to write 
 the architectural and social history of a College. The few 
 historical facts narrated all bear more or less directly upon 
 this main object; or upon another which was evidently 
 almost equally dear to our author, namely, the exhibition 
 of his patron, Archbishop Parker, as the wisest of adminis- 
 trators, the most generous of benefactors, as almost the second 
 Founder of the College. It is curious that Parker should 
 have permitted such undisguised flattery of himself to ap- 
 pear in a treatise composed at his own desire, and for his 
 own use, as the author informs us, § 65. It was, however, 
 probably not intended for publication. 
 
VI 
 
 The account of the College buildings, which appears to 
 have been drawn up about 1569 (§ 73), is the most inter- 
 esting and valuable portion of the work. The author goes 
 through them, room by room, recording that the walls were 
 plastered by one occupant, the floor laid by a second, the 
 ceiling added by a third, and so on. These changes, of most 
 of which he must have been an eye-witness, were all intro- 
 duced during the first half of the sixteenth century. From 
 the serious way in which they are chronicled, we may safely 
 conclude that before that time the occupants had been con- 
 tent with open rafters, jnud floors, unplastered walls, and 
 unglazed windows ; and that what we regard as the most 
 ordinary necessaries, were in those days noteworthy inno- 
 vations. 
 
 I have divided the history into sections, numbered for 
 facility of reference. An account of the three MSS. on which 
 the text has been based is given in the notes, which other- 
 wise are chiefly occupied by illustrative documents, hitherto 
 unprinted, to the exclusion of information that can be ob- 
 tained from books. 
 
 I have to thank the Rev. S. S. Lewis, M.A., Fellow of 
 Corpus Christi College, for his trouble in trying to find the 
 MSS. belonging to his College, and for his assistance in 
 enabling me to incorporate in my text their readings when 
 found ; and still more Henry Bradshaw, M.A., Fellow of King's 
 College, for much kind advice, and not a few corrections. 
 
 JOHN WILLIS CLARK. 
 
 1, Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, 
 August, 1879. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 
 
 PAGE 
 
 [OLA 
 
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 52 
 
HISTOKIOLA 
 
 COLLEGII CORPORIS CHRISTI ET BEAT^E MARINE 
 CANTABRIGLE 1 . 
 
 § 1.] Tradunt ex veterum monumentis maiores oostri, suis Of the 
 que testimorriis comprobauerunt, quod olim in oppido Canta- Corpus 
 brigiensi insignes quedam societates (quas Gildas seu fraterni- cl ""isti 
 tates vocant) frequentate erant. Inter has due memorabiles : S. Mary, 
 quarum altera, eaque celebrior, Gilda Corporis Christi : altera 
 vero Gilda Beate Marie de Cantabrigia dicebatur. Que vt 
 situ et appellatione diuerse fuerant ac diuise : ita studio ac 
 solicitudine vne videbantur ac vnite. Nam de propagando 
 honore sue cuiusque societatis magno vtrinque contentionis 
 ardore desudatum est. Quocirca partis vtriusque fratres et 
 sorores vt probe regerentur, seperatim sibi Aldermannum 
 (magistratum annuum) constituere. Quemadmodum igitur 
 societas Gilde Sancte Marie terras ac tenementa in manu 
 
 1 The readings of the Corpus MS. transcribed by Baker are desig- 
 nated, B ; those of the copy in the Registry, R ; those of the University 
 Library MS., L; those of the second Corpus MS., C. An account of 
 these MSS., with the notes, will be found at the end of the text. 
 
 C. 1 
 
mortua (quam vocant) acquirendi studio flagrans ad sacel- 
 
 lanorum quorundam sustentationem, qui pro animabus sue 
 
 fraternitatis in ecclesia Beate Marie celebrarent: pari ratione 
 
 Aldermannus, fratres, et sorores Gilde corporis Christi non 
 
 minorem operam posuerunt in terris ac tenementis acqui- 
 
 rendis, vnde sacerdotibus quibusdam victus suppeteret pro 
 
 animabus fratrum et sororum eiusdem Gilde in parochiali 
 
 ecclesia sancti Benedicti celebraturis. Et vtrique sane fra- 
 
 ternitati potestatem fecit Edwardus tertius partim vndecimo, 
 
 partim vero decimo sexto ac vicesimo annis regni sui terras 
 
 eiusmodi et 1 tenementa mortizandi, que alterutra pars (sug- 
 
 gerente pietatis sue affectu) in vsus predictos conferre vel- 
 
 let 2 . Qua in re acriter vtrinque certatum est, paribus sane 
 
 studiis, at 3 euentu longe dispari : nam quo maior ad Gildam 
 
 Corporis Christi, turn quoad fratrum numerum, turn quoad 
 
 redditus terrarum facta est accessio: tanto maior ad Gildam 
 
 sancte Marie horum omnium diminutio. 
 
 16—20 § 2.] Circa quod tempus, videlicet annis regis Edwardi 
 
 Jan. 25,\ tertii sextodecimo, et vicesimo, Aldermannum, fratres, et sorores 
 
 T 8 ^ 2 24 i Gilde corporis Christi non mediocriteranxios ac sollicitos habuit 
 
 1347. / hec cogitatio ; quomodo collegium ediflcarent, vnde tarn 4 
 
 of Corpus literarum in academia studiosi professores, quam ad Deum pro 
 
 acquire singulis fraternitatis sue personis, prout quemque mors occu- 
 
 ground on p are t } pii precatores emigrarent. Quo factum est vt illi fratres 
 
 build a qui in sanctorum Benedicti ac Botulphi parochiis habitabant, 
 
 diuersa tenementa et domos non ita dissitas vico illi qui dicitur 
 
 Luthburne Lane contiguas habentes, suas ipsorum habitationes 
 
 demolirentur, et vt inde collegium edificarent summa consen- 
 
 tione satagerent, acquisitis una quibusdam tenementis ibidem 
 
 sitis que ad Academiam iure spectabant. Inde solum quadratam 
 
 gerens figuram, quod collegium suo ambitu complecteretur 5 , 
 
 1 ac B, R. 2 vellent B, R. 
 
 3 ac B. 4 tarn — quam R. tarn — turn B, C. 
 
 5 complectitur R. 
 
vacuum habebant et paratum quantum nunc temporis in- 
 
 tercapedinis est inter anteriorem portam et hortum magistri; 
 
 quamvis postea, partim acquirendo, partim permutando, tantum 
 
 solo amplitudiDis, quantum hodie conspicitur, adiecerant. 
 
 § 3.] lam vero fraternitas Gilde sancte Marie, dum The gilds 
 
 quam nihil ipsa posset in hoc genere beneficentie cerneret, an a obtain 
 
 ac honestissimum alterius Gilde fratrum sororumque studium ^j°™ £j| 
 
 perspiceret, maomo inflamata est desiderio sese corporis 7, 26 Edw. 
 
 III. 1352) 
 Christi Gilde vniendi. In quam sententiam ab Aldermanno authority 
 
 et fraternitate facile pedibus- itum est, hoc presertim nomine, a co u ege 
 
 quod predicta Gilda beate Marie a rege 1 Edwardo anno and to ac- 
 
 cept tno 
 septimo eiusdem Regis licentiam manus mortue pro red- advowson 
 
 ditu annuo viginti librarum acquisivisset. Denique, quum Benedict's 
 
 iam vna ilia utriusque partis sese vniendi sententia valuisset, Cnurcl1 - 
 
 communi consensu per amicos suos apud predictum Regem 
 
 Edwardum egerunt, tarn pro se vniendi facultate, quam pro 
 
 Collegio suo, quod in opere erat et ad calcem fere perductum, 
 
 Regio diplomate confirmando ; prud enter in hoc mature pros- 
 
 picientes, vt, quum alii quidam fundatores Collegia sua que 
 
 ediflcabant priuata auctoritate (bullis solis contenti papalibus) 
 
 stabilirent, que nee nisi multis interiectis annis Regie confir- 
 
 mationis robur acceperunt, ipsi Regia auctoritate muniti collegii 
 
 privilegia securius tuerentur, ac omnem aduersarie cavillationis 
 
 occasionem amputarent. Quamuis nee ipsis papalibus confir- 
 
 mationibus omnino destitutum 2 fuit collegium : quas tamen oppi- 
 
 dani, seditiose in collegium irruentes, tempore Regis Ricardi 
 
 secundi (vt postea copiosius referetur) flammis absumpserunt ; 
 
 alias etiam cartas et monumenta permulta scriptis compre- 
 
 hensa eodem incendio involuentes. iUdermannus igitur et 
 
 fratres predicti voti compotes facti sunt ; hac clausula in car- 
 
 tis Regiis comprehensa, vt pro ipso etiam et Philippa uxore sua 
 
 regina preces offerrent ; vt ex iisdem cartis dicti Regis (datis 
 
 septimo die Nouembris, anno regni sui vicesimo sexto) mani- 
 
 1 a rege scilicet B, R. a destitum R. 
 
 1—2 
 
festum est. Quarum in altera non solum concessa potestas 
 stabiliendi et ornandi collegii, sed etiam stabiliendi per manum 
 mortuam advocationem ecclesie sancti Benedicti, quam olim 
 acquisierunt a Johanne Dargentem milite, Henricus de Tang- 
 mere, et Willelmus Horwode, Willelmus de Wymlingham 1 cleri- 
 cus, et alii. Quam quid em aduocationem dominus Edward us 
 de Cantabrigia et mater eius quondam dederunt sancto Albano, 
 vt in Registro quodam 2 monasterii eiusdem fol. 102 apparet. 
 The § 4.] Prsedicte itaque fraternitates sic vnite in exedifi- 
 
 Gilds de- candum, ornandum, ac stabiliendum sic ceptum commune 
 selveswith Collegium communem operam et industriam summa cum alacri- 
 
 energy to tate contulerunt. 
 
 the work 
 
 of estab- Magistrum igitur constituerunt, ac socios numero tantum 
 
 College. duos tunc temporis, quamuis non ita multo post dominus 
 
 They ap- Johannes de Cantabrigia miles (cuius multa extitere singularia 
 point a o\ » 
 
 Master in hoc collegium beneficia vt postea docebitur) numerum hunc 
 
 fellows (to auxerit, sacellanis videlicet duobus additis. Paulo ante hoc 
 
 Thapkins tem P us Aldermannus, (cuius omcium erat annuum, vt pre- 
 
 are added dictum est) et fratres, sanctiones quasdam legesque ferebant, 
 
 de Cam- quibus tarn illius societatis fratres, quam collegii scholastici 
 
 and make futuri commodius regerentur; atque harum auctoritas aliquot 
 
 statutes, ibidem annos sacrosancta permansit. Inter cetera hoc statu- 
 
 tum est, ut sacellani, defuncto aliquo fratrum aut sororum, 
 
 ad parochialem ecclesiam, in qua funus eiusdem habebatur, se 
 
 conferrent, ritus et exequias suas, prout ius ferebat, ibidem per- 
 
 acturi ; quamuis alias in collegio se continerent, ac in paro- 
 
 chiali ecclesia sancti Benedicti fere celebrarent : iuxta morem 
 
 receptum per aliquot annos priusquam due Gilde vnirentur. 
 
 A second §5.] Paulo uero postquam due Gilde sic vnite sunt, alia 
 
 statutes is statuta composuerunt ad collegii gubernationis rationem magis 
 
 made, and accommoda, que diuersis temporibus ac per diuersas personas 
 confirmed * x x x 
 
 by various confirmata sunt; primum vero per Thomam Eliensem epis- 
 persons. 1 . . . , 
 
 copum solum, anno consecrationis sue pnmo ; secundo per 
 
 1 Wyntingam R. 2 quondam R, B, C. 
 
eundem episcopum anno consecrationis sue octauo, et per 
 
 capitulum eiusdem Eliensis ecclesie; tertio per sigillum fra- 
 
 ternitatis cum ordinationibus et statutis prioribus vna cum 
 
 aliis cartis et monumentis in prima edificatione collegii, cum 
 
 codicillis de ratione dati et expensi &c. ; vt registra et peculiaria 
 
 quedam scripta in collegio testatum reliquerunt, quamuis ipsa 
 
 originalia scripta vt plurimum vel negligentia 1 perierint, vel 
 
 flammis per oppidanos connagrata sint. Predictus igitur 
 
 Aldermannus et fratres honestissimi sui studii complures in aula 
 
 Regia fau tores habuerunt et amicos : in quorum numero facile Their chief 
 
 princeps erat Philippa regina Gulielmi comitis Auonie filia, C0U rt is 
 
 eiusdem Edwardi tertii vxor, femina probatissima : que (iuxta Sj^jf 1 
 
 Polidorum) in banc curam non minus sancte quam serio in- 
 
 cumbens, vt iuventutem Anglicam suis opibus ad virtutem 
 
 et literarum studia excitaret, Collegium quoddam Oxonie anno 
 
 Domini 1340 {Collegium Reginale appellatum) statuit et fun- 
 
 dauit. Cuius etiam (teste Fabiano) summa extitit erga Cano- 
 
 nicos sancti Stephani Westmonasterii munificentia. Hec 
 
 itaque cum nobilibus quibusdam aulicis et aliis probis viris 
 
 sic egit apud predictum regem anno regni eius 2 26 vt quam 
 
 facillime ab eodem licentiam impetrarint, sumptibus tamen 
 
 et expensis duarum Gildarum que iam turn vnite fuerant et 
 
 coniuncte. 
 
 Quo quidem tempore Thomam de Eltisley legum baccalau- Thomas de 
 
 reum et rectorem de Lambehith 3 in Comitatu Surrey sacellanum master 7 for 
 
 quondam Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, eiusdem domus siue col- the second 
 
 .. . . tune, 
 
 legn custodem seu magistrum iterum per electionem constitue- 
 
 runt et stabilierunt, itemque duos elegerunt socios siue scho- 
 
 lares (vt predictum est) videlicet D. Joannem Rayson de Ful- 
 
 borne 4 et D. Thomam Camps, nee eo tempore plures : propterea 
 
 quod annui redditus Collegii non pertingebant ad earn summam 
 
 vnde commode magister et plures socii cum scholasticis et 
 
 1 per negligentiam R. 2 e j us Edwardi B, C, R. 
 
 3 Lambith B. Lamhith C. 4 Fulbuorne R. 
 
6 
 
 ministris necessariis eiusdem Collegii ali ac sustineri possent 
 ante appropriationem rectorie de Grancester et acquisitionem 
 manerii de Landbeche. 
 
 Henry § 6.] Postquam igitur Aldermannus et fratres predicti quod 
 
 Duke of . . 
 
 Lancaster petierant a Rege mrpetrassent, tanto propensius ad ceptum col- 
 Alderman l e gi um exoroandum ditandumque intenti erant, adeo vt eodem 
 of the anno summam fere manum externis edificiis imposuerint ; et 
 Gilds. He quia adhuc opus eis fore videbatur ampliori potestate a 
 thek Rege impetranda, partim ad vberiores redditus acquirendos, 
 
 wHchare P ar ^ m ao ^ a ^ a collegii negotia obeunda, contendebant ab illustri 
 afterwards viro Henri co Darbie et Lancastrie comite, qui anno Edwardi 
 
 confirmed .... _ _. 
 
 by the tertn vicesimo octauo circa festum Pentecostes in Parhamento 
 Ely,the° a P u d Westmonasterium dux Lancastrie creatus est (Polidoro, 
 " ni * ed , Fabiano, et aliis chronographis attestantibus), vt Aldermannus 
 the Uni- eorum fieret ; quo mediante, res suas ad optatos possent exitus 
 a.d. 1355. deducere ; hoc precipue nomine ilium summa apud Regem gratia 
 pollere credentes, quod ipse eiusdem Regis antea per etatem non 
 sui iuris tutelam gerebat. Quocirca proximo corporis Christi 
 festo hunc sibi Aldermannum delegerunt. Hie igitur breui pos- 
 tea in scripto quodam suo, non ut dux, vel sigillo ducatus sui, 
 vel sigillo suo priuato (ad arma vt vocant) sed tantum vt Alder- 
 mannus per sigillum eiusdem Gilde, vnanimi fratrum accedente 
 consensu, vicesimo primo die mensis Martii (qui Diuo Benedicto 
 sacer est) proxime sequenti, predictum Collegium, magistrum, 
 ac socios confirmauit. Atque etiam liber ille statutorum Collegii 
 (cuius supra mentio facta est) per eundem ducem eodem tem- 
 pore rursus confirmatus est, vt postea adhuc semel non solum 
 statuta, sed collegium quoque, rata sunt per Thomam epis- 
 copum Eliensem, et per sigillum Gilde Corporis Christi ac 
 beate Marie, perque Priorem cathedralis ecclesie Eliensis et per 
 sigillum Vniuersitatis Cantabrigie. Que quidem confirmationes 
 omnes in eodem instrumento contente sigillis cuiusque partis 
 appositis date sunt anno 1355. Postremo constitutiones et 
 statuta predicta ad maiorem comprobationem flrmata sunt per 
 
Academie cancellarium et per magistrum ipsum sociosque col- Also by 
 legii predicti Anno domini 1356, ac in communibus scholarum ee iior and 
 arcis posita. 1^1356. 
 
 § 7.] Circa quern annum magister et socii adiunxerunt col- About the 
 legio fundum ilium, qui nunc magistri siue custodis tortus est. jJS«onS 
 
 Nee indio-num scitu est, quod pars inde tenebatur a Domo Pri- is bought 
 ° . . . which is 
 
 oris et alborum Canonicorum Cantabrigie per redditum trium now the 
 
 solidorum et duorum denariorum ; qui quidem redditus nuper g arc i en . 
 
 in vsum collegii acquisitus est. S? yond xi. 
 
 ° \ this are the 
 
 lam vero silentio pretereundum non est quod inter hortum three tene- 
 
 magistri et murum loco illi adiacentem etc. 1 qui dicitur Peny- which 
 
 farthinge lane erant tria tenementa, que Edmundus de Gun- i^\ 28 ' 
 
 well Rector de Terington in comitatu Norfolcie acquisiuit in Edmund 
 ? ... GonviUe 
 
 vsum studentium ibidem, videlicet iuxta Luthburne lane, bought for 
 
 anno 1347 et 28 die Januarii, vt per scriptum ipsius patet; pro a en t s . " 
 
 quibus quidem tribus tenementis, vna cum pomario, persolue- 
 
 bantur annui redditus nomine 20 solidi ; eademque tenementa 
 
 ad partem orientalem adiacebant loco dicto Luthborne 2 lane ; 
 
 ad partem vero occidentalem cemiterio sancti Botulphi, in quod 
 
 porta illorum anterior se pandit. Concessaque est prefato Ed- 
 
 mundo collegium viginti quatuor scholasticorum ibidem edifi- 
 
 candi licentia, et quodcunque vellet nomen eidem imponendi, ac 
 
 prout ei propria 3 suggessit mentis devotio dedicandi. Itaque 
 
 anno sequenti, viz. 1348, feria quinta Pentecostes per scriptum 
 
 suum eodem tempore datum, Annunciationis beate Marie He calls it 
 
 nomen ipsi indidit : constituitque primum magistrum eiusdem ^ ^ H of 
 
 collegii Johannem de Colton, (qui eidem Edmundo successit in nunciation 
 . of S. Mary, 
 
 rectonam de Termgton), et quatuor socios elegit, deditque eis 1348. 
 
 statuta, suo et Academie Cancellarii sigillo confirmata. 
 
 § 8.] Hiis temporibus Gulielmus Bateman in Nordovicensi William 
 
 ciuitate oriundus, ac in eiusdem Dioceseos episcopalem digni- B^of^' 
 
 tatem sublimatus, domum studentium edificauit cui titulum ? or ^ ch ' 
 
 founds 
 
 1 et ei R. etc B, C. 2 Luthburne R. 
 
 2 proprise R. proprie B, C. 
 
Trinity fecit, Custos et Collegium Aule Scholarium Sancte Trinitatis 
 
 Hall. Is ... 
 
 made de Norwico 1 in Uniuersitate Cantabrigie, et sic nominari vo- 
 
 executor. hut \ quern titulum Simon Islep olim Archiepiscopus Cantua- 
 
 riensis diserte exprimit (quamvis iam collegium illud ex conces- 
 
 sione parliamenti in diebas Marie Regine titulum habet in sua 
 
 corporatione Magister, Socii, et Scholar es Collegii sine Aule 
 
 Sancte Trinitatis in Uniuersitate Cantabrigie). Quo tempore 
 
 etiam Edmimdus 2 Gunwell in humanis agere desistens (qui 
 
 bonorum suorum executionem eidem episcopo credidit 3 , mag- 
 
 nam pecunia? vim relinqueus, qua summa manus imponeretur 
 
 illi collegio quod in loco situm est cui nomen Luthbome 
 
 lane) hie Gulielmus 4 duo emit tenementa, partim ab Aca- 
 
 demia, partim ab hospitio S. Johannis, (cuius tunc temporis 
 
 magister extitit Gulielmus Birie) Anno Domini 1352. Quorum 
 
 tenementorum illud quod Academie fuerat appellabatur The 
 
 longe entrie 5 . 
 
 He ex- § 9.] Circa quod tempus predictus Gulielmus, prefati col- 
 
 (June l, legii stabiliendi (quod iam ante collegium Annuuciationis beate 
 
 1353) Gon- ]y[ ar i e nominabatur) eandemque domum domui sue (que tunc 
 
 for a in opere fuerat) contermiuam habendi cupidus, cum Alder- 
 
 house 
 opposite manno, magistro, sociis ac fratribus Collegii corporis Christi 
 
 house 6 transegit (anno Domini 1353 primo die Junii, vt patet ex diuer- 
 
 which s j s scr iptis turn latine turn gallice conscriptis) interueniente 
 
 Cambridge etiam licentia Regia collegio corporis Christi concessa, vt tota 
 
 queathed edificia et hortos quos in loco dicto Luthborne lane habuerunt 
 
 in I347^ ld secum commutarent, pro domo quadam que olim fuerat Johannis 
 
 and ano- de Cantabrigia militis ; qui quidem Johannes obiit circa annum 
 
 ther next 
 
 to it be- domini 1347, quo anno fuit etiam Aldermannus predicte Gilde. 
 jSmG 8 old- -^- ec domus, vulgo nuncupata Stonehouse, cuius ea fuerat habi- 
 corne. tatio principalis seu capitale messuagium (vt vocant), ex aduerso 
 
 1 Norwico B, C. Nordouico R. 2 Gulielmus R, B, C, corrected in 
 
 B, C, to Edmundus in a later hand. Baker corrects [Edm]. 3 tradidit R. 
 4 Edmundus R, B, C, corrected in B, C to Gulielmus. 5 appellatur 
 
 the longe entrye R. 
 
Collegii quod quondam erat D. Michaelis ex parte australi sita 1 
 
 [est]. Addidit etiam aliud tenementum adiacens, quod ali- 
 
 quando fuerat Johannis de Goldcorne, vna cum scholis ibidem 
 
 publicis (vbi artium professores disputare solebant), officinis, 
 
 hortis, muris, et reliquis ad ea pertinentibus sitis in Henney. 
 
 Qui quidem Johannes de Goldcorne quum suo tempore erat John 
 
 Aldermannus predicte Gilde, dedit magnum cornu potatorium h ° d given 
 
 ornatum operculo cum suis appendicibus ex argento deaurato, ^™^ ng " 
 
 quo vsi sunt eiusdem Gilde "fratres in festo precipue Corporis silver gilt 
 
 to the 
 Christi sane liberaliter. Gild. 
 
 § 10.] lam summa omnium eorum consensione statutum The ex- 
 
 est, (vt patet euidenter ex predictis indenturis anno supenus appr o V ed 
 
 nominato videlicet 1353, approbante tarn episcopo quam Hen- h j-Q e Bp * 
 
 rico duce Lancastrie iam turn Aldermanno nuper electo,) vt aula and the 
 
 ilia Gunwelli siue Annunciationis beate Marie permutaretur Lancaster, 
 
 cum predictis domibus siue habitationibus et hortis sitis in 5^ that" 
 
 Luthborne lane predicto : adiecta hac insuper conditione quod the Hal1 
 
 .. ... of the An- 
 
 acquirerent in vsum collegii corporis Christi patronatum ec- nunciation 
 
 clesie S. Botulphi a domina Maria de S. Paulo Comitissa, et j^advow- 
 
 coniuge Audomari de Valentia comitis de Penbroke, 2 aula3 de !?^ ° f , s - 
 b t ' Botulph 
 
 Valence Marie sic dicte dudum Fundatrice, que nunc Aula for the 
 Penbrochiana vulgo appellatur. Et sic convenit quod sumptus Corpus 
 et expensas permutationis et patronatus supradicti ac cete- 1S x * 
 rorum omnium que Londini facienda erant et a Rege impe- 
 tranda, magister et socii Collegii Annunciationis beate Marie Appor- 
 sustinerent ; reliquas autem omnes (videlicet que inter Aca- f°t]^ en 
 demiam Cantabrigiensem sustinende essent) Thomas de Eltisley expense, 
 magister collegii corporis Christi et socii eiusdem exponerent. 
 Qua quidem permutatione factum est, vt studentes Aule siue 
 collegii Annunciationis beate Marie in predictum Stonehouse 
 traaslati sunt ; vicissimque magister 3 et socii collegii corporis 
 
 1 ita R, B, C. 2 " Aulse — et sic," om. R ; where however a line 
 
 and a half is left for it. 3 magistri R, B, C. 
 
10 
 
 Christi fundos suos habuerint in Lutborne lane in ampliorem 
 
 modum propagatos. 
 
 Death of Memorandum etiam quod anno Domini 1354 Willelmus 1 
 
 Bp. Bate- . . . . . .... 
 
 man (Jan. antistes JNordovici supradictus e vmis excesserat Aumioni in 
 
 which oc- ^ es ^° Epiphanie Domini, vt in registro Simonis de Islip olim 
 
 casionsthe Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi fol. 333 2 patet. Vnde postea, vide- 
 
 ment of licet anno Domini 1356, grauis contentio orta est inter colle- 
 
 tion about gium corporis Christi et aulam Annunciationis beate Marie 
 
 S.Botulp . k^ ^ e causa ^ q U0( j permutationis superius memorate conditio- 
 
 nibus ab ipsa aula statum non esset, precipue in acquirenda 
 
 advocatioue S. Botulphi. Demum vero lis ea composita est et 
 
 sedata, vnde aula predicta collegio corporis Christi (nam ita 
 
 inter eos convenerat) summam 40 marcarum persoluit. 
 
 The Duke § 11.] Itaque vtroque collegio sic stabilito, vtrumque 
 ofLancas- • |.n ,. v •< v •• 
 
 ter obtains eorum in ampliricatioms sue curam ac solicitudmem grauiter 
 
 ahcensem incubuit. 3 Intra quod tempus nullius monumenti in collegio 
 mortmain L L ° 
 
 for the col- conspiciendi testimonio declaratur, aliquid beneficentie a pre- 
 gives seven dicto Henrico Duce Lancastrie ad collegium corporis Christi 
 Melds to incrernen tuni profectum esse : preterquam quod eo mediatore 
 the Gild, sepius vtebantur magister et socii collegii cum fratribus eius- 
 dem fraternitatis ad licentiam manus mortue sic vbi opus 
 videbatur a rege acquirendam. Excepto quod dedit fra- 
 tribus Gilde septem 4 scuta argentea obrizo circumducta (vul- 
 go enameled) cum insignibus suis iisdem scutis insculptis, 
 quorum pondus ad vncias xj [et] d[imidiam] 5 pertigerat. 
 
 Themanor 6 Quod autem attinet ad manerium de Barton erat illud quidem 
 
 of Barton 
 
 bought 
 
 from him. i Willelmus B, C. Gulielmus E. 2 78 C. 
 
 3 This passage, from " Intra quod— dedit," runs as follows in B, R : 
 "Inter quod tempus predicto aldermano mediatore aliquoties vtebantur 
 magister et socii collegii cum fratribus eiusdem fraternitatis ad licentiam 
 manus mortue a rege acquirendam. Qui dedit " etc. 
 
 4 duodecim C. 5 viginti octo C. 
 
 6 Instead of " Quod— expensis," the reading of C, B R read " A quo 
 manerium de Barton ex eius terris emptum et acquisitum sumptibus et 
 expensis (vt postea particulatius) magistri" etc. 
 
11 
 
 ex eius terris emptum et acquisitum, sumptibus tamen et 
 expensis magistri sociorum et fratrum dictarum Gildarum : 
 ideoque 1 ad preces pro eorundem animabus Deo offerendas 
 collegium tenebatur ; vt patet ex inquisitione quadam scaccarii 
 regii, et ex instmmento manus mortue, in quo mentio fit pre- 
 cunei pro Rege et Regina solummodo persoluendarum, nee de 
 vllis vel in maioribus vel heredibus eiusdem ducis 2 . 
 
 Quantum autem ad illud manerium attinet, multe lites 
 intercesserunt inter collegium hoc et collegium Regale Canta- 
 brigie, et etiam inter collegium de Merton Hall Oxonie. Que 
 quidem lites iam per mutuum eorum assensum in Uteris re- 
 dactum conquieuerunt. 
 
 § 12.] Thomas de Eltisley predictus patrimonio satis The wise 
 vbere preditus beneficiisque ecclesiasticis onustus, et opibus tration of 
 prepollens, sapientia preterea seculari belle ornatus, ac in longi- jjj^Sev ° 
 tudinem prospiciens, omnes curas cogitationesque suas in eorum 
 studia amplificanda contulit. Qua in re nullis suis sumptibus 
 aut expensis pepercit, nee vnquam in ope aliena ad has res 
 promouendas, victumque collegii ampliorem reddendum, adiun- 
 genda segnis extitit. Cuius quidem victus pars ante id tem- 
 poris data et mortizata fuerat preclictis Gildis, per diuersos 
 benefactores fratres corporationis eiusdem, veluti per Johannem 
 de Cantabrigia militem predictum, ac Thomam eius filium, qui 
 duos socios in perpetuum fundabant in eodem Collegio, ex 
 donatione quarundam suarum possessionum in domibus, red- 
 ditibus, ac terris : in domibus quidem Cantabrigie et Newn- 
 hamie numero 35 vel 36, preter ipsius Iohanuis habitationem 
 principalem (capitale messuagium) nomine Stonehouse pre- 
 dictam, quo in loco nunc temporis situm est Gunwelli et Caii 
 collegium ; et in redditibus assisarum in eodem oppido 41 
 solidi ; in terris ad vtrosque oppidi fines, orientalem scilicet 
 et occidentalem, ad summam centum acrarum vna roda excepta. 
 
 1 om. ' que ' R. 
 
 2 nee — ducis C. See the note to this section. 
 
12 
 
 Henry § 13.] Henricus Tangmer quondam municeps siue bur- 
 
 bequeaths gensis Cantabrigie et predicte Gilde frater principalis, testa- 
 Cambrid 1 mento suo dedit et collegio mortizari voluit circa 18 aut 19 
 
 to the domos et tenementa intra Cantabrigiam ac Newnbamiam et 
 college. . . .. . 
 
 m terns ad vtrosque oppidi fines ad summam 8o acrarum ; 
 
 fecitque beremitagium nnper S. Anne, et hospitium Lazaro- 
 rum ibidem suis ipsius sumptibus et expensis edificari, eadem- 
 que collegio legauit (quamuis ea oppidani collegio ablata per- 
 multis iam annis possederint). Que quidem omnia collegio 
 ab eo donata fuisse testamentum ipsius adhuc in arcbiuis col- 
 legii relictum satis luculenter ostendit; in quo predictus 
 Tbomas Eltisley, primus magister, fidei commissarius (vulgo 
 Feoffee of trust) factus est ad earundem domorum terrarum etc., 
 vsus ac possessiones in manus Collegii traditionem prestandam. 
 Qui quidem Henricus Tangmer certas quasdam annuas pen- 
 siones et summas pecuniarum non mediocres collegio dedit. 
 In 1342 he Itemque poculum illud quod appellatur the Gripes eye dedit 
 a sacra- circa annum Domini 1342 olim in hunc vsum, ut pixis esset in 
 mental q U0 circumferretur eucbaristia ; quod per aliud quoddam mon- 
 strum (vt dicitur) magis appositum postea datum per dominum 
 Jobannem de Cantabrigia militem, mutatum est in cipbum 
 communem. Hoc poculum ex ovo 1 factum confractum fuit in 
 diebus Laurentii Maptit, et renouatum fuit ex argentea ma- 
 teria tempore Jobannis Porey. 
 He gave § 14. Dedit etiam scuta quedam argentea obrizo circum- 
 
 shields to ducta cum cruce ac insignibus Christi ponderantia 16 vncias 
 be earned ^ d^midiam] (vt erant et cetera a predicto duce data) que geri 2 
 
 1 Baker suggests ' de novo ' ! 
 
 2 This passage, from "appellatur — geri," ran originally as follows in 
 C, R, and probably in B also, but has been replaced in B, C, R by that 
 given above, written on a slip of paper which once was pinned above the 
 other in R, and is now bound so as to fall over it. In C the slip is attached 
 by a wafer. In B it is pasted across the page so that the original reading 
 cannot be made out. 
 
 " y gripes eye argento impositum cum operculo ex eadem materia, que 
 
13 
 
 portarique solebant, durante tempore Gilde, per seniores fratres cession of 
 eiusdem in solemni ipsorum processione die corporis Christi dqj^^ 13 
 a templo sancti Benedicti ad magnum vsque pontem, et sic 
 per singulas oppidi partes donee ad predictum templum re- 
 grederentur: et post eiusdem fraternitatis dissolutionern gere- 
 bantur a magistro, sociis, et scholaribus eiusdem domus in pro- 
 cessione ipsorum : magistro in capa serica sub conopeo, sacra- 
 mentum portante in magna et sumptuosa pixide argentea et 
 deaurata ; vicecancellario cum academia : et pretore cum fratri- 
 bus suis sequentibus. Quam quid em pixidem vnciarum lxxviii 
 et di[midiam] collegio dono dederat predictus Johanues de 
 Cantabrigia miles, vnus ex iusticiariis regiis et tunc temporis 
 Gilde Aldermannus Anno Domini 1344. 
 
 Hec 1 processio dissoluta est et abrogata in quadam visita- Sold in the 
 tione anno 27 Henrici 8, doctore Thoma Legh legum doctore Hen. VIII. 
 in eadem visitatione primas tenente. Vnde magister et socii 
 collegii pixidem et scuta predicta vendiderunt, pecunias pro 
 hiis acceptas in idem collegium adornandum insumentes, vt 
 postea patebit. 
 
 Atque hie silentio non est inuoluendum quod quotannis, Annual 
 
 finita dicta processione, erat hoc in more positum et consue- giv en on 
 
 tudine ; vt pretor cum quibusdam burgensibus siue munici- ^festival 
 
 pibus et balliuis oppidi ad prandium a collegio inuitarentur. leading 
 ^ • • i i ..,.,. / t i • townsmen. 
 
 C^ui quidem mos ad processionis dissolutionern (sublato rite 
 
 cum causa efTectu) antiquatus est, eoque potius quod quidam 
 
 Ricardus Roulfe, qui eo tempore pretorem egit, pransiunculam 
 
 hanc, quam auidis faucibus iam turn deuorabat, in debitorum 
 
 loco, non in humanitatis ratione ponebat. Vnde quidam oppi- 
 
 danus ex eorum sodalitate magno conatu contendebat se posse 
 
 producere D. Georgium (si diis placet) equo insidentem in cera 2 
 
 etiara adhuc in bonis collegii et sunt et habentur, una cum scutis quibusdam 
 argenteis obrizo circumductis cum cruce ac insignibus christi ponderanti- 
 bus 16 uncias et di (vt erant et cetera a predicto duce data) que geri etc." 
 1 Sed hec R, B, C. 2 sere, Baker. 
 
14 
 
 Dissen- expressum ; quo euictum voluit hoc prandium sibi suisque sum- 
 sions ._..___ 
 
 there- mo iure deberi. vnde factum est vt magister et socn ipsos 
 question 1 a ^ prandium vlterius invitare desierint. Quam rem (vt par 
 
 of the era t s C ili ce t) grauiter sane ferebant homines grauissimi : adiecta 
 
 right of ' ° ° 
 
 the college hac insuper comminatione, acerba quidem ilia et insolenti, fore 
 
 property, propediem vt tenementa collegii magnam partem in possessio- 
 nem suam denenirent; adeoque eorundem precipua inter se 
 ipsos spe verbisque conceptis iniquam quandam equalitatem sor- 
 titi sunt : nescientes eadem a collegio per manum mortuam (vt 
 in Archivis collegii probandum erat) teneri. Petierunt igitur a 
 principe vt quidam cum auctoritate venientes magistro sociis- 
 que respondendi onus imponerent. Vnde magister Johannes 
 Hinde miles, in seruientium ad legem numerum postea ascrip- 
 tus; Johannes Hutton armiger; et alii, quibus a principe hoc 
 muneris delegatum fuerat, ex officio agentes 1 magistrum ac 
 socios coram ipsis sisti mandauerunt. Qui quidem libenter 
 comparebant, sufficientes manus mortue (quam vocant) cartas 
 exhibentes. Oppidani igitur tantum sibi bolum e faucibus 
 eruptum esse moleste ferebant; quos fortuna velut coruos 
 delusit hiantes. 
 History of Quamuis autem dicte processionis solemnitas abolita tunc 
 datioTof fuerat, vt superius ostendimus, tamen ipsum corporis Christi 
 this festi- f eS £ um magna veneratione per vniuersam Angliam celebrari 
 UrhanlV. n0 n desiit. Author huius festi fuit Vrbanus papa quartus 
 circa annum Domini 1264, hoc vt faceret rogatus 2 ab Eua 
 quadam femina reclusa; idque ostendunt ipsius Vrbani litere 
 ad earn scripte, date 6 idus Septembris, pontificatus sui anno 
 tertio. Quod quidem festum instituit feria quinta post fes- 
 tum Trinitatis quotannis celebrandum, cum facibus conopeis 
 et processionibus : eiusdemque festi cultoribus maximas con- 
 cessit indulgentias. Cuius diei officium Thomas Aquinas Domi- 
 nicanus ex figuris veteris testamenti consarcinauit. 
 
 1 agente R, B, C. 2 rogatus erat B, C. 
 
15 
 
 In vltima huiusmodi procession e per magistrum sociosque In the last 
 
 collegii celebrata, proxime ante dissolutionem eiusdem, inter ^eld in 
 
 eundum, priusquam domum reuerterentur, conopeum ignibus ^^fS 
 
 conflagrauit, vtrum id fortaito 1 tediferorum incuria an immisso caught 
 
 . . . fire - 
 
 data opera desuper a quopiam igne factum sit, non plene 2 potuit 
 
 perquiri. 
 
 Tandem etiam ipsius festi celebrandi mos vi edict! cuiusdam Celebra- 
 sub rege Edwardo sexto promulgati antiquatus est. Cuius Ushed by 
 Regis anno 3°, anno Domini 1549, venerunt Cantabrigiam visi- ^^ s " f 
 tandi gratia Thomas antistes Eliensis ; Nicholaus tunc temporis Edw - VI. 
 Roffensis episcopus ; Gulielmus Pagettus sacri ordinis garterii 
 miles, et familie regie Antigraphus ; Thomas Smythe miles, 
 primariorum regis secretariorum alter; clarissimi viri Gulielmus 
 Maye decanus sancti Pauli, et supplicum libellorum regis ma- 
 gister ; Thomas Wendye medicus Regius ; et Johannes Chekus. 
 Quo tempore 20 die Iunii, die Jouis, eodem ipso die quo festum 
 corporis Christi celebrari solebat, dicti legati a meridie hora 
 prima disputationem preceperunt in communibus scholis phi- 
 losophicis, in qua he due questiones tractate sunt ; Quod 
 transubstantiatio non potest probari ex apertis verbis scriptural, 
 neque inde necessario colligi, neque veterum ante mille annos or- 
 thodoxorum consensu confirmari. In ccena nulla est alia Christi 
 oblatio, nisi mortis eius commemoratio, et gratiarum actio. 
 
 Festum hoc igitur sic abrogatum restitutum est a Maria Eestored 
 Regina Anglie anno 1555, et solennis ista processio rursus delegates 
 reuocata anno Domini 1556 per legatos a Maria regina visitandi ?! Q ueen 
 gratia Cantabrigiam destinatos, videlicet Cuthbertum Scott 1556 - 
 episcopum Cestrensem ; Nicolaum Ormanetum Italum, Archi- 
 presbiterum Bodoloni Veronensis dioceseos, in vtroque iure 
 professorem ; Thomam Watson Lincolnie electum ; Johannem 
 Christofersonum electum Cicestrensem ; et Henricum Cole Col- 
 legii Etonensis prepositum. Qui inter alia sue visitationis 
 
 1 om. R. 2 non potuit plane R. 
 
16 
 
 munia (post prolixam inter se disceptationem) de comburendis 
 magistri Martini Buceri et magistri Pauli Phagii ossibus con- 
 gregationem fieri preceperunt die lune, octauo Februarii, ante 
 meridiem bora septima, omnium tarn regentium quam non- 
 regentium, et omnium in Academia studentium vnoquoque 
 ordinis sui babitu amicto ; edituis cruces capasque gerentibus ; 
 The pro- pretore vero et Aldermannis rubeas togas celebri pompa osten- 
 described. tantibus. Faces avtem manibus fere bant accensas tarn doctores 
 domorumque magistri, quam pretor, balliui et Aldermanni. Co- 
 nopeum vero portabant doctores quatuor : duo videlicet legum 
 professores 1 , totidemque medice facultatis ; sub quo Eucharis- 
 tiam ferens ibat (in parua pixide) Cestrensis episcopus, nre- 
 stantissima collegii Christi capa conspicuus : pixis autem ilia 
 bysso contecta subtilissima radiantis auri fulgore circumpositi 
 spectantium oculos verberabat. Hie byssus ab Ormaneto da- 
 tario in bunc vsum donatus est Academic Hiis igitur bunc in 
 modum comparatis, procedebant omnes, suum quisque tenentes 
 ordinem, cum capis crucibus et vexillis. Processionis vero cur- 
 sum 2 a collegio Trinitatis per collegium Sancti Johannis, ad paro- 
 cbiam rotundam, atque hinc trans vicum Peticuriarn dictum 
 dirigebant; inde montem fori (Anglice Market hill dictum) cir- 
 cuibant; vnde trans macellum per templum sancti Benedicti 
 ad ecclesiam beate Marie (hiis interim vbique vocibus salue 3 
 festa dies, etc., aera -certatim rumpentes) tendebant. Quo quum 
 peruentum esset, cantibus curiosis, organisque vna sensui auri- 
 um blandientibus, a vicecancellario (subseruientibus ei diacono 
 et bipodiacono) missa decantata est. Denique hoc etiam tem- 
 pore, inter eundum, ante publicum diuersorium (vocatum le 
 Faucon) conopeum rursum conflagrauit, vt antea in festo cor- 
 poris Christi euenit, qua occasione nescitur. 
 Finally Et hoc processionis genus iterum in collegium corporis 
 
 by Queen Christi irrepsit, et pro more solito agebatur ab ipso collegio 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 1 doctores R. 2 cursus R, B, C. 3 salua R. 
 
17 
 
 vsque ad tempus illustrissime principis Elizabethe, Anglie 
 Francie et Hibernie regine, fidei defensatricis 1 &c; et tunc 
 cessauit. 
 
 8 15,1 Sed vt eo reuertamur unde sumus digressi, collegii Building 
 
 ° J . . of the col- 
 
 edificatio finita est et perfecta, ex maxima quidem parte, m i ege court 
 
 diebus Thome predicti primi magistri, partim vero in diebus terships^f 
 Richardi Treton secundi magistri quam late patent septum a c Thomas 
 
 muri cum cubiculis ordine quadrato constructs, Aula, coquiDa, and 
 
 . , , . n . i i t Bichard 
 
 et magistri habitatione, ea lorma qua vmuersa nee nodie con- Treton, 
 
 • • . second 
 
 spicmntur. master> 
 
 Excepto quod omnes fulture (quas vulgo buttresses vocant) The 
 
 buttresses 
 
 de nouo erecte et edificate sunt sumptibus domine Eliza- built by 
 
 *■-*.'■ . the 
 
 bethe olim Ducisse Norfolcie ; que insuper, (mediante Thoma D uc hess 
 Cosin olim magistro ac tunc temporis ipsius Ducisse Sacellano) Nor ° * 
 bonam pecunie summam viz. ducentas et viginti marcas una 
 cum vasis quibusdam argenteis celatis (qua quidem in re soro- 
 rem suam dominam Eleonoram, quondam uxorem Thome 
 Butler militis, fllii et heredis Eadulphi Butler quondam domini 
 de Sudley, ac flliam comitis Salopie et Margarete uxoris dicti 
 comitis, primogenite et vnius heredis Bichardi Beucham nuper 
 Comitis Warwici, sociam habuit honestissimi studii adiutricein) 
 in vsum collegii liberaliter erogauit, (ut in archiuis Collegii ap- 
 paret) precipue ex bonis predicte Eleonore 2 , cuius testamenti 
 executrix fuit. Quorum bonorum pars exposita est in domorum 
 ac tenementorum eiusdem collegii ruinosorum 3 et nutantium 
 sustentationem ac reparationem 3 ; et pars eius summe, ex ordi- 
 natione magistri et sociorum, etiam insumpta est in staurum 
 (quod vocant) ouium pascentium in terris collegii apud Land- 
 beche 4 , cuius redditus annuus iu magistri sociorum que pro tem- 
 pore existentium vtilitatem et commodum cedebat, quotannis 
 distribuendus in festo sancti Britii mense Nouembri, quo die 
 
 1 defensoris B, C. 2 Elionorse B. 
 
 3 — 3 et sustentationem ac reparationem inuitantium R. 
 
 4 Landbeach R. Landbech B. 
 
 C. 2 
 
18 
 
 solermis memoria dictarum Elizabethe et Eleonore habita 
 
 est : quo etiam die natus est Edwardus rex tertius. Cuius 
 
 quidem stauri in diebus Gulielmi Sowode rectoris ecclesie de 
 
 Landbeche 1 , et predicti collegii magistri, tantus factus est per 
 
 tabem communem interitus, vt nihil pene inde supererat ; eius- 
 
 dem vero plenam restaurationem postea factam prudenti con- 
 
 silio Matthei Parker dicte ecclesie rectoris et collegii magistri, 
 
 ac sociorum scholariumque eiusdem, acceptam referre debet pos- 
 
 teritas. Quo factum est, vt magister ac nouem seniores socii 
 
 singulatim sex solidos et octo denarios, ex commodo inde pro- 
 
 ueniente, quotannis percipiant. 
 
 She found- Item dicta domina Elizabetha vnum socium et vnum bibli- 
 
 feiiowsMp orum clericum et exequias fundauit : deditque in horum usum 
 
 Sj[ a et sustentationem in parochia Sancti Benedicti tenementum' 2 
 
 clerkship. f et aliud tenementum in parochia Sancti Edwardi. 
 
 The 'com- § 16.] Excepto etiam quod constructa est communis latrina 
 
 latrina' lapidea testudineata, cum amplis commodisque cisternis, sub 
 
 built 1457. horto illius tenementi collegii quod appellatur The Christopher 
 
 in parochia sancti Botulphi substratis. Que quidem facta 
 
 sunt anno Domini 1457, vt patet in libro albo collegii, con- 
 
 scripto per Johannem Botwright septimum magistrum eiusdem 
 
 collegii. 
 
 Hall win- § 17.] Excepto etiam quod fenestre in aula, nouem pedali 
 
 lengthen- altitudine celsiorem solito situm sortite et nouo vitro adornate 
 
 ed and suir (. j n Ji e "b us Gulielmi Sowoode decimi tertii magistri eiusdem 
 
 glazed by _ ° 
 
 William collegii. Quo vtique tempore tota aula tabulatis ligneis com- 
 
 Sowode, . • / l ry 
 
 thirteenth paginata est, cum tnbus septis (que vuigo bcreenes vocant) in 
 (1523!! ip sa postrema aule parte, vt hodie conspiciuntur. Ad 3 fenestra- 
 44 )- rum vero et compaginationis sumptus adiuti sunt liberalitate 
 
 Screens Edwardi Folke, sacre Theologie Bacchalaurei. vicarii de Newarke 
 panelling su p© r Trentam, et olim pensionarii in eodem collegio; cui nucem 
 
 put up. 
 
 1 Landbeach R. 
 
 2 A word is here omitted in the MSS. 
 
 3 Fenestrarum vero C. 
 
19 
 
 dedit argento impositam ac deauratam que quatuor libris 13 
 solidis ac quatuor denariis venuudata est. Ad quos etiam 
 sumptus sustinendos, et alia quedam devendita sunt per dic- 
 tum Gulielmum Sowoode magi strum ac socios collegii; viz: pixis Sale of the 
 et scuta predicta cum auri argentique celati aliquota portione. shields 
 
 Excepta 1 preterea incrustatione superiore cum calce et pilo a ^ othev 
 supra mensam magistri et sociorum facta in diebus Matthei 
 Parker magistri predicti collegii. 
 
 Excepto etiam magno camino in aula predicta constructs The plas- 
 sumptibus Johannis Seinctuarie olim socii eiusdem collegii in tifehiglT* 
 diebus Thome Cosyn magistri predicti ; quum antea fuisset ffiffij done 
 in medio aule quadratus focus cum magno impluvio in altum 53). 
 erecto in eiusdem aule suinmitate, que in diebus Gulielmi ma a e 
 Sowoode predicti e medio sublata sunt. 1515) 
 
 § 18.] Excepto etiam horto posteriore (vt superius) nunc in The back 
 pomarium converso, et arboribus diligenter consito, opera et ^ade^y 
 industria Andree Pierson 2 nuper socii collegii predicti. Quo th ® ^ m °- 
 in loco domus quedam aliquando fuerant, que ad hunc vsum house for 
 destinate sunt, vt fabris lignariis reliquisque operariis inser- s t ne and 
 uirent ad ea apparanda, que ad edificandum vel ornandum tunber m - 
 collegii tenementa facere videbantur. Eedem 3 etiam lapidum, 
 lignorum, etc., custodie deputate sunt. 
 
 Hoc vero omcium et commoditas in alium locum remo- To replace 
 
 tiorem translata est, viz : vbi aliquando situm est studio- Bernard's 
 
 sorum hospitium, vulgo vocatum sancti Bernardi, ex magistro ^enV 8 
 
 et sociis Reginalis collegii acquisitum pro summa centum mar- from 
 
 o ± i Queens' 
 
 carum, anno Regis Henrici octaui 26, in diebus Gulielmi So- with 
 
 woode magistri etc. In cuius acquisitionis persoluendum pre- raised by 
 
 cium collegio Regio diuendebantur ille domus et tenementa sita f ale of . 
 
 in parochia Sancti Benedicti inter angiportum quod dicitur King's 
 ™ t , i--, • i ■ , -. • CoUege, 26 
 
 rlotts Lane (angulari domui et tenemento adiacens quod olim Hen. VTII. 
 
 fuit Aule S. Katherine, pro quo annuus redditus 13 denariorum 
 
 1 excepto MSS. 2 person R. ■* ? eadem B, C. 
 
 9 9 
 
20 
 
 quotannis collegio persoluitur), et inter aliud angiportum hospi- 
 
 tii studiosorum 1 S. Augustioi olim appellatum, quod nunc tem- 
 
 poris aditum transituris negat: adiacet autem muro et horto 
 
 collegii regii vbi olim sita fuit parochialis ecclesia S. Johannis 
 
 de vico molari (anglice S. John of Mylne strete churche) cum 
 
 diuersis domibus ac tenementis, que ante regis Henrici sexti 
 
 tempora ad collegium spectabant; eo autem collegium suum 
 
 edificante in eiusdem noui collegii finium (permutatione habita) 
 
 propagationem cedebant. 
 
 The § 19.] Excepto etiam sacello parochiali choro proximo, et 
 
 abutting P arvo ambulatorio adiacenti, et sacello cum testudine, et atrio 
 
 on the su i3 eodem; que quidem constructa sunt sumptibus et expensis 
 
 the parish Thome Cosyn magistri etc: cum tabulatione interioris sacelli, 
 
 and the cum pluteis et libris qui nunc ibidem sunt, operibus viz : 
 
 etc built Chrisostomi, Lyrani, Hugonis Cardinalis, et Plinii. Que omnia 
 
 by Thomas s [ c perfecta pertigerant ad summam centum septuaginta li- 
 
 1487— brarum septem solidorum ac trium denariorum. 
 1515 
 
 The s. Excepta quoque fenestre australis predicti sacelli vitro 
 
 the 1 said ° f a( iornatione sumptibus Thome Sampsonis socii collegii. 
 
 chapel Excepta etiam fenestra occidentali ibidem vitro adornata 
 
 glazed. 
 
 The w. per Robertum Beddingflelde pensionarium dicti collegii et do- 
 mini Edmundi Beddingflelde militis nlium. 
 The win- § 20.] Excepta etiam fenestrarum omnium in longiusculo 
 
 flows of ambulacro vitro adornatione, que facta est sumptibus et ex- 
 gallery pensis magistri Johannis Siclinge socii collegii, qui postea fuit 
 John primus magister collegii Christi, quod 2 , quum prius ibi fuisset 
 
 SicMing. co vj e gi um Domus Dei a rege Henrico sexto edificatum, ter- 
 history. r i S q U e dotatum, ad magistri, qui procurator dicebatur, qua- 
 tuorque sociorum ac sexaginta scholarium sustentationem, 
 mutatum est et conuersum in collegium Christi per domiuam 
 Margaretam Richemondie ac Darbie Comitissam matrem Regis 
 Henrici septimi. Predictus itaque Johannes Siding vno eodem- 
 
 1 om. R. 2 qui R. 
 
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 que tempore collegii corporis Christi socius fuerat et collegii 
 Christi magister, primumque in collegio predicto corporis 
 Christi Academie procuratorum alter extitit, deinde in collegio 
 Christi constitutus, eandem subiit prouinciam. 
 
 § 21.] Excepto etiam quod parietes loci illius in quo pila Tennis 
 palmaria luditur constructi sunt in diebus Gulielmi Smythe (i474_7). 
 octaui magistri collegii etc.; vbi domum pistoream in vsum 
 eiusdem collegii factam iri constitutum fuerat. 
 
 § 22.] Excepto etianl columbario supra domum vbi olim Sale of 
 
 lignorum fasciculi recondebantur edificato : cuius quidem plate to 
 
 columbarii edificandi sumptus sustinebat precium quorundam *J ml( * 
 
 r r ~i dovenouse 
 
 sacrorum calicum argenteorum anno primo Edwardi sexti (1544— 
 
 (quorum vsus tunc desiit) venditorum, in diebus Matthei 
 
 Parker magistri collegii, etc. 
 
 § 23.] Excepta etiam omnium in curia arearum lapidibus Court 
 
 instratione 1 cum ferrea craticula in anterioris porte vestibulo ga t e ' 
 
 posita, et incrustatione superiori eiusdem vestibuli facta in ™°f *&. d 
 
 diebus Gulielmi Sowoode magistri etc. yi tn an 
 
 . . . i ron grille 
 
 § 24.] Excepto etiam muro fundum mxta coqumam am- (1523— 
 
 biente, qui constructus est in diebus Laurentii Maptit . 15 . Wall in 
 
 magistri collegii. Quod attinet ad vitrum et tabulas compagi- ktchen- 
 
 natas, quibus vel magistri habitatio, vel sociorum cubicula Glass and 
 
 -it t • wainscot 
 
 anabre decorata hodie cernuntur, cum reliqua specie et ele- not in use 
 
 gantia quam induerunt, horum certe parum, aut nihil potius reig^of 
 
 factum est vel superius vel inferius (ea fuit maiorum nostrorum Hen - VIIL 
 
 frugalitas) priusquam regni administratio ad Henricum . 8 . 
 
 deuolueretur. 
 
 § 25.] Excepto quod in magistri habitatione Johannes Upper 
 
 Kynne tertius magister posuit solarium supra conclaue, et f master's 
 
 superius cubiculum iuxta tigna calce incrustauit ; et Johannes i^fg_^ 
 
 Botwright 2 , septimus magister, conclaue et inferiora cubicula Wainscot- 
 7 . . . * in S> floor- 
 
 lignis vndulatis contabulari fecit, cum deauratione bullarum ing, and 
 1 instatione R. 2 Botewright R. 
 
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 glazing of eorundem, paruumque museum asseribus circumduxit in cubi- 
 rooms. cu ^° superiori (asseribus duntaxat pro interstitio 1 inter cubicula 
 collocatis). 
 
 Excepto etiam quod anteriorem septi vndulati in conclaui 
 partem magistro Gulielmo Sowoode acceptam referre 2 debet 
 posteritas. Quod quidem septum vndulatum situm parieti con- 
 clauis parem habuit ante tempora Matthei Parkeri. Eo autem 
 magistro roams sumpsit incrementum, ita vt in conclaue sese 
 latius porrigeret. 
 
 Predictus etiam Mattheus fenestram illi ostio proximam 
 quod in hortum prebet aditum vitro decorauit, itemque fene- 
 stras in duobus maiusculis cubiculis ad partem orientalem, vt et 
 fenestram minimi cubiculi in orientali parte eiusdem conclauis 
 positi. Excepto quod solum majoris conclauis asseribus instra- 
 tum est in diebus Laurentii Maptit magistri. 
 Master's § 26.] Supradictus etiam Mattbeus propriis sumptibus et 
 
 Uiilt 1 i544 ex P en sis ambulacrum superius et inferius edificauit habitationi 
 
 — 53; pil- maoistri vicinum, quod vitro et contabulatione decorauit, tejm- 
 
 lars added ° ... . 
 
 1557—69. lisque solum inferius instrauit (quibus ante hodieraum diem 
 
 summa manus imposita est) vna cum gradibus lapideis, quibus 
 
 ad australem partem in hortum descenditur; vtque hec firmius 
 
 et stabilius persisterent, postes quidam ambulacro suppositi 
 
 sunt in diebus Johannis Porye . 16 . magistri collegii. 
 
 Garden § 27.] Ad hec predictus Mattheus murum lapideum (cui 
 
 1544_53. dicti ambulacri latus occidentale imminet) quoad altitudinem et 
 
 lougitudinem ad finem australem angustiorem reddidit, addita 
 
 videlicet viginti octo pedum longitudine. Idem etiam nouum 
 
 murum construxit ad orientalem murum collegii sese reflecten- 
 
 tem juxta Luthborne Lane ad . 84 . pedum longitudinem. Atque 
 
 hie fundus hodie ad magistri hortum pertinet. Idem preterea 
 
 porte in vicum dictum Luthborne Lane sese pandentis faci- 
 
 ende author extitit, cum porte 3 et aree lapidibus instratione a 
 
 1 om. C. 2 referri C. R. 3 ponte R, B. C. 
 
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 predicta porta in longum ad ostium aule fenestre proximum se 
 porrigentis. 
 
 § 28.] Idem etiam solarium posuit magno magistri supe- Changes ? 
 riori cubiculo imminens, cum proximo cubiculo longiusculo ad Lodge, 
 illud spectanti, vna cum incrustatione eorundem, et laqueariam 1 ~~ 
 lignis vndulatiscontabulatione: nee non fenestre lignee faciende 
 author extitit, nouo vitro imposito, quum antea formam gereret 
 lapidee fenestre, que ad curiam respicit, non absimilem. Pa- 
 rietem etiam perrupit alterius fenestre lignee iuxta caminum 
 (vbi nulla prius fuerat) faciende gratia : quam commode fabri- 
 catam vitro etiam lucido decorauit. 
 
 Idem fenestris duabus longiusculis in cubiculo longiusculo 
 proximo vitrum indidit, nee non maceriis eiusdem cubiculi sum- 
 mam manum imposuit. Septum etiam vndulatum in ipso 
 grandioris illius cubiculi ingressu construxit: vt et ostium ac 
 fenestram in aulam se pandentia, duasque fenestras minusculas, 
 alteram ad partem graduum infimam curiam versus, alteram ad 
 partem graduum supremam hortum versus: quarum posterior 
 insignibus ornatur vitro depictis domini Edmundi Mortimer 
 quondam comitis Clarensis, collegii de Stoke iuxta Clare in 
 Suffolcia fundatoris. Cuius quidem collegii predictus Mattheus 
 vltimus extitit decanus. Demolitum autem est, ex publico 
 statuto regni, anno regis Edwardi sexti primo. 
 
 Idem etiam palos construxit, et viam lapidibus instrauit 
 ante fenestras conclauis predicti, proxime curiam. 
 
 § 29.] Excepto etiam superiore cubiculo rectorie proximo, Upper 
 cui solarium superpositum est, ea forma qua hodie conspiciuntur, nexUhe 
 cum fenestra in parte occidentali, ac vitri impositione, vna cum rect0I T- 
 maceria inferioris cubiculi, et incrustatione ex calce, que facta 
 est collegii sumptibus, Thoma Aleno, quondam socio eiusdem 
 collegii et postea vicario de Grancester, importunius efflagitante. 
 Quo in cubiculo ante mutationem huiusmodi factam, mansionem 
 habuere Thomas Gotherike tunc temporis ex. studiosorum nu- 
 
 1 laquearis R. 
 
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 mero, sed nuper Eliensis episcopus, et frater ipsius natu maior 
 
 Johannes Gotherike armiger, tanquam pensionarii eiusdem col- 
 
 legii. Infimo cubiculo adhuc persistente pro stauro collegii : 
 
 nisi quod 1 incrustatum est opera Andree Pierson olim socii 
 
 eiusdem collegii, qui caminum de nouo fecit cum duobus 
 
 fumalibus. 
 
 The room § 30.] Excepto etiam proximo cubiculo ex aduerso, quod 
 
 quidem fuit calce oblitum per Thomam Crooke quondam 
 
 socium collegii, et postea vicarium de Grancester. Fenestris 
 
 etiam vitrum nouum inditum est per Thomam Bonenfant olim 
 
 socium; cuius etiam sumptibus cubiculum minusculum proxi- 
 
 mum incrustatum est superius, ac vitro decoratum; eidemque 
 
 cubiculo solarium impositum est per Edwardum Leedes 2 pen- 
 
 sionarium collegii, et postea Clarensis aule magistrum. Cuius 
 
 etiam opera fenestra maiuscula constructa est anno Domini 
 
 1558: collegio materiam prebente, pensionario artificium. 
 
 The room § 31.] Excepto etiam quod inferius cubiculum, cui maius- 
 
 last^and cu ^ um illud cubiculum imminet, incrustatione et vitro adorria- 
 
 that next turn est per teutonicum quendam Johannem Marcellum nomine, 
 
 the ante- L u 
 
 chapel. vicarium de Waterbeche ; nee non cubiculum proximum superius, 
 
 ex aduerso templi vestibulo respondens, incrustatione nouoque 
 
 solario donatum est, fenestrisque eiusdem vitro et cancellis 
 
 ornatum a Johanne Cuttinge socio collegii postea rectore de 
 
 Landbeche, cuius supremum cubiculum eius sumptibus cum 
 
 nouis fenestris et incrustatione paratum fuit. Inflmum etiam 
 
 cubiculum lignis vndulatis contabulatum et lapidibus tegulatis 
 
 substratum; cuius a.utem hec sumptibus effecta sint nondum 
 
 ad memoriam reuocatum est. 
 
 The upper § 32.] Excepto etiam quod cubiculum superius sacello 
 
 room next • . ., p„ , « y 
 
 the chapel p r oximum sic ornauit magister .brytame olim pensionanus 
 
 collegii; nee non inferius cubiculum vitro contignationeque 
 
 speciosius factum est, addito etiam museo, partim diuersorum 
 
 1 oni, B, R. 2 Leede C. 
 
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 pensionariorum diuersis temporibus ibidem com mo ran ti um, 
 
 partim collegii sumptibus, ipsorum rogatu. Solarium tamen 
 
 collegii duntaxat expensis ornatum est anno Domini . 1562 .; The room 
 
 i • • , . i i „ ..at the 
 
 quo et proximum superms cubiculum ad partem collegii n.e. 
 
 borealem ornatius efficitur. Caminus etiam accepto incremento 
 vlterius se extendit, nonnullis etiam fenestris nouum vitrum 
 imponitur; atque hec omnia sumptibus Gulielmi Tolwyn quon- 
 dam socii collegii et postea ecclesie sancti Antonini 2 Londini 
 rectoris perfecta sunt. Illius autem, cui hoc imminet, inferio- 
 ris cubiculi solarium collegii sumptibus incrustatum est. 
 
 § 33.] Ad hec proximum cubiculum superius ad partem The next 
 orientalem vergens vna cum supremi cubiculi exornatione de- theE.side. 
 corauit Thomas Cobb quondam socius collegii et postea rector 
 de Landbeche. Infimum vero cubiculum quoad vitrum emen- 
 datius redditum per diuersos scholares et contabulatum anno 
 Domini . 1562 . ; partim per collegium, partim per Georgium 
 Wythers magistrum artium et pensionarium ; Collegio videlicet 
 materie, pensionario vero artificii, sumptus prebente. 
 
 § 34.] Excepto etiam proximo superiori cubiculo, biblio- The two 
 thece contiguo, calce incrustato : supremoque cubiculo, biblio- to and 
 thece imminente, incrustato per Johannem Seintuarye socium^T 
 et tunc presidentem etc. 
 
 § 35.] Excepta etiam fenestrarum emendatione et vestium 
 repositorii constructione per Johannem Porye socium et postea 
 magistrum collegii, cuius etiam expensis fenestra parua con- 
 structa est in vestibulum prospiciens quod in dictum angi- 
 portum de Luthborne Lane se pandit. Cubiculo autem infimo 
 ibidem solum tabulatum instratum est a magistro Polgraue 
 pensionario, eiusdemque sumptibus fenestrarum (quoad vitrum) 
 emendatio et vestium repositorii compositio ascribuntur. At- 
 que hoc infimum cubiculum modo tribus scholaribus deputa- 
 tum est ex fundatione Matthei Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, 
 
 1 quodque R, B, C. 2 Antonii R. 
 
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 id quod magistri sociorumque eiusdem collegii communi sigillo 
 confirmatum est. Quo 1 in cubiculo quedam sunt lecticalia et 
 aliquid preterea supellectilis, cum libris quibusdam. Que 2 
 omnia predictus Archiepiscopus sumptibus suis ibidem per- 
 petuo remansura statuit. 
 The old § 36.] Excepta etiam contabulatione veteris bibliothece, 
 
 and room magistri habitationi contigue, lignis vndulatis facta per Johan- 
 undent. nem Botwright 3 collegii magistrum (vt supra). Cubiculum 
 vero infimum subter Bibliotbecam incrustatum superius est. 
 per Mattheum Parker tunc scbolarem et bibliorum clericum 
 domus eiusdem. 
 The room § 37.] Adde quod cubiculum supra promptuarium ac 
 over the panarium solario gaudet, et incrustatione sumptibus collegii 
 1554. facta anno Domini 1554, vna cum fenestre que curie proxima 
 
 est eleuatione, que vitro etiam exornata est. 
 New § 38.] Hue accedit novum solarium lignis et asseribus 
 
 1 rary ' compactum et superius per tigna incrustatum coquine im- 
 minens, in quo constructe sunt commode fenestre, sumptum 
 Windows, decern librarum prebente Johanne Porye, etc. Qui quidem 
 locus collegii expensis in Bibliothecam conuersus est et aptatus 
 Book- in diebus eiusdem Johannis Porye magistri. Ad partem cuius 
 australem tria staha facta sunt, in quibus veteres veteris Biblio- 
 thece libri collocantur, quos collegio dono dedit eiusdem olim 
 magister doctor Petrus Nobes. Ad partem vero aquilo- 
 narem tria noua stalla conspiciuntur libris instructa, cistisque 
 ad veteres manuscriptos codices asseruandos quos collegii nuper 
 magister Mattheus Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus eidem de- 
 derat, vt patet per scripta indentata inter magistrum socios- 
 que huius collegii et magistrum ac socios collegii Gunwelli et 
 Caii et inter magistrum et socios Aule Sancte Trinitatis facta. 
 Nee non ad eandem partem fenestre vitro decorate sunt sump- 
 tibus et expensis Matthei Cantuariensis predicti. 
 
 luod R, B. 2 hsec R. 3 boteWrighte R. 
 
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 § 39.] Superius illud cubiculum et noue bibliothece et The upper 
 communi latrine proximum calce incrustatum fuit per Ed- room next 
 mundum Fam socium cum fenestra ad summitatem graduum J^^y W 
 de integro 1 facta etc. Infimum etiam cubiculum calce oblitum 
 per magistrum Mylgat olim pensionarium ; vitrum etiam 
 et cancelli fenestris impositi 2 per Johannem Bungey 3 scholarem 
 et postea socium etc. 
 
 § 40. J Preterea cubiculum superius illi predicto cubiculo The room 
 proximum ad partem borealem inter iuncturas calce obductum the nort h. 
 est per Gulielmum Sowoode tunc temporis socium, fenestris 
 vna vitro adornatis, et supremo cubiculo calce etiam per tigna 
 oblito, eiusdem sumptibus. Infimum etiam cubiculum lignis 
 vndulatis contabulatum est, per quern nescitur. Eidem vero 
 solarium inferius substratum est per Henricum Parker olim 
 socium. Caminum etiam ac fenestras suis sumptibus emen- 
 datiores fecit Mattheus Parker tunc temporis socius. 
 
 § 41.] Ad hec fenestra, ad graduum summitatem posita, The room 
 per Johannem Porye eo tempore socium facta est ; proximum- t ^ e i ast# 
 que superius cubiculum incrustatum est per Robertum Cooper 
 tunc temporis socium ; fenestra vero occidentem versus de inte- 
 gro facta est, vitroque decorata per Johannem Porye eo tempore 
 socium. Supremum vero cubiculum sic ornatum est, vt et 
 fenestra maiuscula eiusdem, per Edmundum Allen, postea 
 sacellanum Domine Elizabethe Regine etc. et in episcopum 
 Roffensem electum, (sed post longam profectionem, ex partibus 
 marinis, quern legatum suum constituit regina Elizabetha pre- 
 dicta, morte sublatus est.) In hoc cubiculo posita est cista 
 communis que olim dicebatur cista magistri Bilingforde, quon- 
 dam in veteri Bibliotheca collocata. 
 
 Infimum autem cubiculum vitro adornatum per diuersos 
 scholares : cui solarium etiam inferius positum est collegii 
 sumptibus et expensis anno Domini . 1554 . , simulque calce 
 
 1 oni. R. 2 imposit' B, C. imposita R. 3 Bungay II. 
 
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 incrustatum est, collegio materie, scholaribus artificii sumptum 
 sustinentibus. 
 
 Manor of § 42.] Memorandum, quod Thomas de Eltisley, partim ex 
 
 suis ipsius sumptibus, partim vero ex ope fratrum eiusdem 
 Gilde, manerium de Barton ab Henrico duce Lancastrie ac- 
 quisiuit : itemque cartam de manu mortua pro eodem, anno 
 regis Edwardi tertii tricesimo sexto (vt ex eius carta apparet) 
 obtinuit. Quo quidem anno predictus dux Henricus in humanis 
 agere desiit ; quo factum est ut collegium de predicto manerio 
 infeodatum statim non sit, quamuis id prestiterit non ita multo 
 post eiusdem Henrici principalis executor, viz. magister Johannes 
 Charnell 1 presbiter, quondam magister de Garderoba maiori 
 Edwardi Regis, et constabularius Burdegalie. Qui quidem Jo- 
 hannes, vt ex registro domini Simonis de Langham olim Can- 
 tuariensis Archiepiscopi in certification e dioceseos Couentrensis 
 et Lichefeldensis [patet], annuatim expendit in domo sua quin- 
 gentas libras etc. Atque huius manerii redditus annuus septem 
 librarum ac 13 solidorum summam non excesserat, vna cum 
 redditu quinquaginta solidorum exeunte de manerio de Greton. 
 Qui quidem 50 solidi collegio per multos annos denegati 
 fuerant, donee predicto Mattheo Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi, ac 
 domino Nicholao Bacono militi (quondam studenti eiusdem 
 collegii) custodis 2 magni Sigilli Anglie vices delate sunt. Atque 
 hi studio diligentiaque sua rem eo perduxerunt vt Franciscus 
 Hynde armiger, qui manerium de Greton possidebat, debitum 
 quinquaginta solidorum redditum collegio reddere coactus sit, 
 adeoque redditum pro annis elapsis qui persoluendus fuerat 
 partim persoluerit. Quod supererat ei condonatum est. 
 
 Vicarage § 43.] Predictus etiam Thomas de Eltisley dedit habita- 
 
 Granches- tionem vicarii apud Grancester cum duabus acris terre vna roda 
 
 ter - ac dimidia ibidem sitis. 
 
 Aduocatio autem rectorie de Grancester et appropriatio 
 
 1 Channell L. 2 custodi R, B, C. 
 
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 eiusdem vna cum manerio de Barton acquisita fuerunt sumpti- 
 
 bus Aldermarmi et fratrum eiusdem Gilde, partim ex duce Hen- Rectory 
 
 t i i r-i i i , appro pri- 
 
 nco, partim ex J ohanne de brancester, pro summa m toto qum- a t e d 39 
 gentarum marcarum, vt ex quibusdam scriptis collegii patet, " w * 
 anno viz. tricesimo sexto regis Edwardi tertii, in diebus Thome 
 [de] Eltisley magistri etc. Anno uero tricesimo nono eiusdem 
 regis Edwardi impetrata est facultas hanc rectoriam predicto col- 
 legio appropriandi. Tempus autem adimpletionis 1 huius rei di- 
 latum est super resignatione Richardi Tittelsall, vltimi rectoris 
 ibidem, anno Domini . 1379 . , in tempore viz. Richardi Treaton 
 secundi magistri collegii. 
 
 § 44.] Ad predictum vero manerium de Barton accessio Additions 
 facta est ex acquisitione Thome Cosyn magistri etc. qui terras at Barton. 
 emit cuiusdam Thome Ayer, quadraginta quinque acrarum ara- 
 bilium ; comparauitque quindecim seliones et tres rodas ex terris 
 cuiusdam Johannis Fane, et quinque seliones terre continentes 
 duas acras cum uno tenemento, olim cuiusdam Richardi Birde. 
 Que terre omnes nunc temporis sub nomine Dominii Barto- 
 nensis coniuncte sunt et occupate. 
 
 § 45.] Simili ratione accessio ad collegium facta est qua- Acquisi- 
 
 rundam terrarum et tenementorum in Cantabrigia et Grante- j*° ^ i n 
 
 cestria ; terrarum quidem ad summam centum sexaginta et Cambridge 
 
 ^ \ & andGrant- 
 
 quinque acrarum, et quinque etiam acrarum pratensium, tene- Chester, 47 
 
 mentorum vero et messuagiorum intra dicta oppida numero 
 
 octo, vt ostendunt litere patentes regis Edwardi tertii date 
 
 anno quadragesimo septimo regni sui; in quibus potestatem fecit 
 
 Johanni regi Castellie et Legionis, Duci Lancastrie, et Gulielmo 
 
 Horwoode, Thome [de] Eltisley seniori, ac Roberto [cle] Eltisley 
 
 clerico, easdem terras assignandi magistro sociisque domus siue 
 
 collegii corporis Christi Cantabrigie, et eorum successoribus, 
 
 vna cum aliis quibusdam messuagiis domibus et tuguriis per License in 
 
 diuersos fratres ac sorores predicte Gilde donandis ; virisque obtained 11 
 
 1 om. R. 
 
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 by the supra memoratis seu fideicommissariis licentia concessa est 
 John, eandem imperpetuum stabiliendi ; simulque adiectum est, ut 
 Duke of magister sociique predicti plenam potestatem haberent in dicta 
 messuagia terras ac tenementa intrandi, eademque ad vberiorem 
 sustentationis sue accessionem possidendi. In eisdem etiam 
 literis patentibus demonstratur magistrum ac socios dicti col- 
 legii diuersas alias terras ac tenementa, licentia manus mortue 
 a rege 1 non impetrata, accepisse ac possedisse, eaque de causa 
 penitus eadem perdidisse ; vt latius patet per inquisitionem 
 eschaetoris regii nomine Johannis Repinghale in cancellaria 
 certificatam ; intercedente vero humili petitione dictorum fidei- 
 commissariorum regem delicto gratiam fecisse, omnesque terras 
 ac tenementa de integro eis dedisse et ratificasse quecunque 
 vsque ad id temporis possedissent atque obtinuissent. Jo- 
 hannes iste supradictus, Regis Edwardi tertii films, Johannes 
 de Gandauo nuncupatus, eo quod a Philippa Regina Gandaui 
 natus esset, verus et immediatus heres ducatus Lancastrie 
 post mortem ducis Henrici declaratus est ratione tituli quern 
 Blanchia dicti Henrici filia et heres, cuius ille coniugio fuerat 
 potitus, vendicauerat. Huius igitur Johannis arnica ope, turn 
 propter auctoritatem qua precellebat, turn propter fiduciam 
 quam in eo repositam habebant, vsi sunt Aldermannus et fratres 
 predicti ad huiusmodi possessiones in manu mortua stabiliendas, 
 quas collegio procurare potuissent. 
 Error in Siquidem hoc in more positum erat et consuetudine vt sin- 
 
 Annals § u ^ e corporationes siue societates illustri quopiam viro et apud 
 corrected. p r incipem gratioso in omnibus causis ad fundationes suas perti- 
 nentibus aduocato et mediatore vterentur ; et huius rei gratia 
 nobiles huiusmodi viros precipuos fundatores suos nonnunquam 
 nominare et in chartis suis eos hoc titulo honestare non detrec- 
 
 1 'non' is inserted in all the MSS. after 'rege,' and 'sine' before 
 'licentia.' In C 'sine' is omitted in the text, but inserted in the margin 
 in a different hand. 
 
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 tabant, quamvis alioqui reuera neque possessiones vllas vel 
 
 terras ab ipsis accepissent. Qua leui coniectura seductus qui- 
 
 dam 1 Johannes Stow in epitome annalium suorum edito anno 
 
 1566 inconsiderate scribit hunc Joannem de Gandauo funda- 
 
 uisse collegium hoc corporis Christi circa annum . 1357 . , vbi 2 
 
 ante hec tempora certissime per alios erectum et stabilitum 
 
 fuerat. 
 
 § 46.] Predictus etiam Thomas de Eltisley ecclesiarum Acquisi- 
 
 Sancti Michaelis de Longa Stanton et de Granteset tunc tern- manor and 
 
 poris rector, acquisiuit ex dono et feoffamento Johannis Auenell Q^^ s ^ n 
 
 militis, et Thome Chamberlayne alias Camerarii de Landbeche beach, 
 
 . 1359—60. 
 
 militis, ius suum quod habuerunt in Landbeche cum aduo- 
 
 catione ecclesie ibidem, anno 33° regis Edwardi 3. Qui qui- 
 dem Thomas de Eltisley per cartam suam sigillo magisterii 
 sui corroboratam ea connrrnauit magistro Eoberto de Eltisley 
 rectori de Lolworthe in diocesi Eliensi clerico, et domino Jo- 
 hanni Eayson quondam socio collegii predicti, sed tunc temporis 
 rectori ecclesie Sancti Benedicti Cantabrigie, heredibus et assig- 
 natis suis, in commodum tamen collegii predicti. Et quamuis 
 solute sint per magistrum et socios collegii pro mortificatione 
 manerii ibidem (quod antea sine manu mortua tenuerunt) do- 
 mino regi quinquaginta marce, tamen nee plena solutio contigit, 
 nee status in vsum collegii factus est per feoffatores priusquam 
 dictus Thomas vita functus esset, qui et maligne sane factus est. 
 Nam post mortem ipsius primi magistri multa incommoda et 
 damna collegio obuenerunt, propterea quod Kobertus de Eltisley 
 clericus frater dicti Thome et vnus executorum eius (quern in 
 vita sua precipuum fideicommissarium, quern feoffatorem vo- 
 cant), fere in omnibus cartis suis constituit in vsum collegii 
 multam pecunie summam cum vasis argenteis et aliis multis 
 ingentibus donis a pluribus benefactoribus collegio datis et le- 
 gatis, vt propria bona ipsius Thome, sibi vendicabat, sicut ex 
 
 1 quidem R. 2 vbi tuni ante R, B. vbi ante'C. 
 
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 Statute scriptis quibusdam in collegio remanentibus constat. Unde 
 the P Mas- predictus Robertus multum negotii et turbarum procurauit col- 
 ter, legio; nee hoc malum conquiescere potuit ex negligenti custodia 
 magistrorum (qui ex pretenso quodam publico sigillo suo hanc 
 auctoritatem priuatim 1 apud se seruandi 2 bona collegii arroga- 
 bant) vsque ad Bichardum Billingforde sacre theologie profes- 
 sorem et quintum magistrum collegii. Que predicta incommoda 
 causam illi dederunt constituendi ea statuta imposterum a ma- 
 gistro seruanda que in fine statutorum collegii inseruntur. 
 Sed vt redeam ad historiam. Sciendum est quod hie Thomas 
 Chamberlain e heres fuit Henrici Chamberlaine militis. Hen- 
 ricus autem heres fuit Walteri Chamberlaine militis, qui vo- 
 cabatur vulgo Camerarius. Cui Waltero Helena de Beche, 
 quondam vxor Galfridi de Beer, ius suum in Landbeche con- 
 cessit et carta sua confirmauit. 
 Donation § 47.] Preterea Richard us Treton secundus magister 
 marks by dedit centum marcas de bonis domini Boberti Thorpe mi- 
 Richard litis 
 Treton. 
 
 § 48.] Porro Bichardus Billingforde quintus magister 
 
 cistam in collegio fundauit, in qua viginti librarum summa 
 
 reponebatur. Hec autem cista quondam in veteri bibliotheca 
 
 collocata est in eum vsum, vt magistro sociisque subsidio esset: 
 
 quorum cuilibet illorum liceret (dato sufficienti pignore) quad- 
 
 raginta solidos inde mutuo sumere. Atque hec tarn pia tamque 
 
 vtilis consuetudo paulatim fere in desuetudinem et oblivionem 
 
 abiit; demum vero restituta est predicta ordinatio ac redinte- 
 
 grata in diebus Matthei Parker magistri collegii et sociorum 
 
 eiusdem anno Domini . 1544 . , anno videlicet regni regis Henrici 
 
 tricesimo sexto, decima quinta die decembris, vt ex libro illo qui 
 
 liber doctoris Nobys appellatur satis liquido indicatur. Hie etiam 
 
 Bichard Bichardus Billingforde cum magistro Boncer fundauit cistam 
 Billingford . . _. . . 
 
 fifth mas- communem m scnolis publicis, cuius status se extendit ad sum- 
 
 privatam L. 2 seruanda B, C, R. servandi e conj. 
 
 
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 mam et valorem 255 librarum 10 solidorum 6 denariorum, vt in ter founds 
 
 compoto ejusdem ciste anno 1548 plenius liquet. for loans 
 
 S 49.1 Ad hec Johannes Tittelsall sextus magister et Tho- *° tne 
 
 J ... fellows. 
 
 mas Bodney rector de Landbeche, vltra illud ipsum 1 manerium Purchase 
 de Landbeche, tria tenementa cum Si acns terre arabilis et Land- 
 octo acris prati 2 collegio compararunt. Mola autem ilia que Q^ a e c r 
 vento circumagitur, que in colle prope oppidum de Landbeche 
 sita est, de integro erecta est in diebus Matthei Parker magistri, 
 sumptibus quidem tenentis firmarii, accedente tamen ope pecu- 
 niaria a Collegio ad tempus mutuo accepta. 
 
 § 50.] Sciendum etiam est quod Johannes Botwright 3 
 quondam alter procuratorum Academie (cuius collega erat ma- 
 gister Johannes Wolpit) et postea sacre theologie professor, 
 tandemque septimus magister Collegii, manerium quoddam in Manor of 
 oppido de Ouir cum redditibus ac terris collegio acquisiuit, pro ver ' 
 quibus soluit 48 libras, vt scriptum ipsius ostendit ; cui adiunxit 
 manerium in Chateres ad sustentationem vnius socii. Hie 
 Johannes natus in Sopham market ex Norfolcia, ubi vltimus 
 rector fuit; et ibi sepultus ; post cuius mortem ilia rectoria erat 
 appropriata Abbatise Westmonasteriensi. 
 
 § 51.] Adde quod Richardus Brocher bacchalaureus Theo- Lands 
 logie, sociusque collegii et rector de Landbeche, terras et tene- bridge and 
 menta collegio dedit in Cantabrigia et Bartona sitas ad annuam Barton - 
 summam quadraginta solidorum, vnde bibliorum clericus alere- 
 tur. 
 
 § 52.] Gualterus vero Smvthe octauus magister sua ipsius 
 acquisitione tenementum vnum (ff) 4 in Benedictina parochia 
 collegio mortizauit, vt et quasdam terras in campis vocatis the Houses 
 Lees in orientali parte Cantabrigie sitas. Octo etiam acre cum f^ca^ 
 tribus rod is terre collegii possessionibus adiecte sunt ex ac- bridge. 
 
 1 om. R. 2 pascue C. 3 Bote Wright R. 
 
 4 These references evidently refer to a map or plan. I have retained 
 them in the hope that it may one day be discovered. 
 
 C 3 
 
quisitione Simonis Greene noni magistri Collegii ; vnde vna acra 
 
 cum roda in occidentali agro (vocato Carmefeilde), tres acre in 
 
 loco dicto the Lees, et tenementum vnum in parochia Sancti 
 
 Benedicti (G G) atque aliud in parochia parue S. Marie (que 
 
 dicitur) A. 
 
 Houses in § 53.] Ad hec Thomas Cosyn decimus magister duo tene- 
 
 ward's menta in parochia S. Edwardi " collegio acquisiuit (L G). 
 
 parish. Diuersorium etiam illud quod Cardinalitio galero pro insignibus 
 
 Cardinal's vtitur in parochia sancti Botulphi situm, cum tota domorum 
 
 Botulph's," ser i e ibidem, postquam igne periissent, de integro reediflcauit 
 
 I487^ ed ( v ^ z * & H J K L). Predictum vero diuersorium nunc per in- 
 
 1515. denturam Johanni Fanne dimissum est. Idem etiam Thomas 
 
 Cosyn terras dedit in Bartona sitas ad magistri sociorumque ves- 
 
 tes annuas, quas liberaturas vocant. Dedit etiam quadraginta 
 
 libras presentis pecunie in edium ruinosarum restaurationem 
 
 et reparationem. Dedit etiam salinum vnum cum operculo 
 
 deaurato et alia vasa celata ad summam viginti quatuor li- 
 
 brarum sex solidorum et octo denariorum vt et libros quosdam 
 
 impressos, qui in bibliotheca asseruantur, preter alia ipsius dona 
 
 quorum superius facta est mentio. 
 
 MSS given & 54.1 Adhec Thomas Markante 2 theologie bacchalaureus 
 to the , ,. ■ -n •• ,. 
 
 Library by et quondam predicti collegii socms diuersos manuscriptos 
 
 ante. ar " c °dices collegio dedit, qui olim in bibliotheca fuerant, at 3 nunc 
 perierunt. 
 
 § 55.] Quid quod Johannes Seinctuarie et Jacobus Curston 
 socii quoddam tenementum acquisiuerunt in parochia Bene- 
 dictina (G) dederuntque sex libras 13 solidos et 4 denarios ad 
 incrementum communarum trium clericorum biblie, et ad 
 reparationem ruinarum domus eiusdem 4 . Fundauerunt etiam 
 exequias in eodem collegio annuatim celebrandas. 
 
 1 Edouardi R. 2 Markecante R. 3 ac B, C. 
 
 4 In C instead of this passage 'incrementum— eiusdem,' we read 'funda- 
 tionem vnius bibliorum clerici, et ad sustentationeni ruinarum domus eius- 
 dem.' In B the reading of the text has been written over some different 
 reading. 
 
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 § d(j.] Memorandum quod Petrus Nobys doctor theologie 1 Dr Nobys 
 magister duodecimus, vir sane doctus grauis et venerabilis, dedit the muni- 
 collegio viginti marcas pecunie pro exequiis annuis, vt eius ordi- ^5?? 
 natio in ipsius libro testatur. Quo quidem in libro multa scitu 1523). 
 dignissima memorie prodidit ad statum collegii pertinentia, atque 
 in eodem libro summam etiam 2 conscripsit omnium in collegio 
 cartarum que relicte sunt post irruptionem oppidanorum in col- 
 legium, cum precipuis euidentiis eiusdem, quas omnes in diuersas 
 pixides distribuit numeris literisque conuenienter signatas. Sin- 
 gulatim etiam singula dona diuersarum terrarum per singulos 
 benefactores collegio donatarum in eodem libro expressit. 
 
 § 57.] Nee silendum est 3 quod Thomas Banaster clericus Thomas 
 Matilde Banaster films, manerium domini Baldewini de sancto g i ve s a 
 Georgio (manerium sancti Andree appellatum) quod situm est Chatteris 
 
 in Chateresse, collegio mortizauit in diebus regis Henrici to the 
 
 ° college. 
 
 quartl. Laurence 
 
 § 58.] Hoc loco adiciendum est quod quum Laurentius /^ r 
 
 Maptit sacre theologie baccalaureus, decimus quintus magister J 558- ?? 
 
 collegii, aliquid vasi celati collegio donare statuisset, atque hinc, a silver 
 
 . . dish and 
 
 paulo postquam m magistrum esset electus, vnam peluim etgut- ewer to the 
 turnium ex argentea materia pro eodem collegio fieri fecisset, et co ege ' 
 quum hec in collegii possessionem nunquam in vita tradidisset, 
 Johannes Maptit eiusdem Laurentii nepos testamenti ipsius 
 executionem sortitus, eadem se collegio relicturum pernegauit, 
 hoc pretextu, quasi ipsa inter alia vasa celata ex bonis eiusdem 
 Laurentii propriis reperisset; nee vnquam de auunculi, (quoad 
 istam 4 donationem) proposito quicquam auribus accepisset. Unde 
 a magistro ac sociis predicti collegii de eisdem recuperandis 
 desperatum est. Qua in difficultate Mattheus Parker, qui 
 immediate ante dictum Laurentium eiusdem magisterii munere 
 
 1 theologus B, C. 
 
 a The various readings of this passage are given in the notes. 
 
 3 For ' Nee— est,' C reads ' Nee silentio pretereundum est.' See the notes. 
 
 4 ora. C. 
 
 3—2 
 
fungebatur, prefato executori sepenumero grauiter instabat. 
 Postea vero quum ad Archiepiscopi 1 Cantuariensis vices deuoca- 
 tus esset, executorem predictum rationem exequutionis sue 
 dictare coegit ; quum paulo ante testamentum dicti Laurentii 
 in curia prerogatiua probasset: atque hac ratione peluim et 
 gutturnium supradictum impetrauit; ac inde exoneratus fuit 
 in compoto suo ad faciliorem impetrationem sui Quietus est 
 Quam quidem peluim et gutturnium eo quod 2 statui domus 
 predicti Matthei Archiepiscopi potius conueniebant quam Col- 
 legio, transegit ille cum magistro sociisque pro eadem pelui et 
 gutturnio, pro quibus summam decern et octo librarum collegio 
 persoluit, vt per syngrapham scriptam propria manu Johannis 
 Porye doctoris theologie 3 et magistri dicti collegii, predicte 
 summe receptam confitentem, vna cum altera quadam syn- 
 grapha qui n que librarum receptionem propter vnum salinum 
 deauratum cum operculo testante (quod quidem salinum a dicto 
 collegio alienatum aliquando fuerat, et deinceps recuperatum 
 industria eiusdem Matthei collegioque restitutum) accedente 
 etiam ipsius Johannis subscriptione, cuiuis manifestum esse 
 poterit. Hie etiam Laurentius annuam quandam sui ipsius 
 commemorationem in hoc collegio instituit, vt ex testamento 
 suo latius patet. 
 Benefac- § 59.] Norit etiam posteritas quod illustrissimus rex Hen- 
 
 K.Hen.VI. ricus eius nominis sextus, dum Regii collegii a se constructi 
 fines propagare studebat, permutatione habita, tenementum in 
 parochia S. Marie collegio dedit (E): atque etiam redditus 
 quadraginta denariorum Regio collegio debitorum exeuntium de 
 hospitio S. Marie reddendi onere collegium leuauit; deditque 
 collegio idem Rex portionem fundi nunc in horto eiusdem hos- 
 pitii positam, ac domum in parochiis sanctorum Petri et Egidii 
 (D) et 4 casas in Newneham, verum vbi ille site fuerint nunc 
 ignoratur. 
 
 1 Postea vero quam archiepiscopi R. 2 eoque R. 
 
 8 theologi R, B. 
 
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 § CO.] Hue accedit quod Margareta Barbor vidua dedit Benefac- 
 collegio in tenementis et terris in agro Cantabrigiensi ad sum- Margaret 
 mam triginta trium solidorum et quatuor denariorum, ad Barbor > 
 magistri sociorumque annuas liberaturas. 
 
 Denique Henricus Kale, quondam socius, dedit collegio Henry 
 vnam partem tenementi (quod vnicomis appellationem sortitum Ri c h' a rd 
 est) in parochia Sancte Marie (H H) siti, diuersorio Leonis Davld - 
 nomen habenti ex orientali parte contigui ; et Eicardus Dauid 
 quondam rector S. Benedicti quotannis inter magistrum et 
 socios in commemoratione sua voluit summam 6s. 8d. dis- 
 tribui. 
 
 Postremo Galfridus Seman et Goda Eefam dederunt collegio 
 diuersas terras in agris Cantabrigie et Grant eces trie ad sum- 
 mam nonaginta quinque acrarum additis tribus rodis et dimi- 
 dia. 
 
 § 61.] Preterea quum quidam Robertus Brigham, olim Houses 
 frater Gilde predicte, ex vltime voluntatis sue contestatione Robert 
 quatuor parua tenementa in parochia S. Botulphi in Cantabrigia Bn g ham - 
 sita collegio dederit : quibus quidem in tenementis magister et 
 socii collegii quibusdam ex eleemosina viuentibus habitandi 
 ius concesserunt ; atque hec quidem ordinatio per multos annos 
 robur suum retinuit, donee magister ac socii collegii Reginalis 
 a magistro sociisque predicti collegii corporis Christi magnis 
 precibus contenderent vt eadem tenementa ad terminum quo- 
 rundam annorum ipsis dimitterent : vt igitur tenementa pre- 
 dicta pauperibus vsui perpetuo essent 1 , magister ac socii predicti 
 collegii corporis Christi, quatuordecim duntaxat denariis vice 
 redditus annui contenti, quicquid ex maioris redditus ratione 
 ad annuam summam predictam addi potuisset in eleemosinam 
 predictis pauperibus cedere volebant. Cui quidem magistro 
 sociisque collegii Reginalis tenementa predicta de integro ad 
 alios annos aliquot dimissa sunt pro redditu predicto in diebus 
 Matthei Parker magistri dicti collegii, vt vberior sustentationis 
 
 1 forent, It. 
 
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 Repair of 
 roof of E. 
 side (1516 
 —23): of 
 N. (1544- 
 53): ofW. 
 and S. 
 (1557— 
 69). 
 
 New coat 
 of arms 
 for the 
 college. 
 
 William 
 Kent, fel- 
 low, gives 
 "The 
 Katherine 
 Wheel" 
 to the 
 college. 
 
 Master- 
 ship of 
 
 Matthew 
 
 fructus ad predictos pauperes accederet, quo modo et in tem- 
 poribus retro elapsis eisdem consultum fuerat. 
 
 § 62.] Hie quoque aduertendum est quod tecta lateritia 
 cubiculorum Collegii ex parte orientali reparata fuerunt eo 
 tempore quo D. Petrus Nobys magistri officium gerebat. Tecta 
 autem partis borealis resarcita erant tempore Matthei Parker 
 magistri etc. Tecta vero occidentalia cum aula et ceteris domi- 
 bus in longitudine se extendentibus reuisa sunt quo tempore Jo- 
 hannes Porye magistri locum tenebat. Hie predictus Mattheus 1 
 honesto zelo motus erga honorem collegii, quoniam insignia 
 antiqua eiusdem domus aliquibus suo tempore aliqua ex parte 
 scandalo esse persensit, a publico regni officiario, quern patrem 
 patratum siue beraldum vocant, propriis sumptibus et expensis 
 impetrauit vt nouam insignium formam eidem collegio conce- 
 deret ; inestimabilem Christi seruatoris in electos suos amorem, 
 preciosissimi sui sanguinis (ecclesie sue gratia) effusione decla- 
 ratum, exprimentem pellicauum, videlicet suo ipsius sanguine 
 stupendo quodam nutriendi ardore pullos suos pascentem. 
 Antiqua vero nihilominus insignia collegii quadripartita, beate 
 virginis Marie matris Christi perpetuam virginitatem 2 sub albo- 
 rum forma et ngura liliorum denotantia, etiamdum retenta 
 sunt : hoc nimirum consilio, vt stylus et corporatio quibus 
 dictum collegium primo erectum atque stabilitum est perpetuo 
 conseruarentur in memoria. 
 
 § 63.] Porro Gulielmus Kent olim socius tenementum illud 
 (6r) quod a rota S. Katherine nomen habet (anglice the Ka- 
 therine Wheele) in parue sancte Marie parochia collegio dedit, 
 pro cuius annuo redditu triginta tres solidi et quatuor denarii 
 ad magistri sociorumque liberaturas annuas collegio numeran- 
 tur. 
 
 § 64.] lam memorandum est quod cum illustrissimus prin- 
 ceps Henricus Rex octauus per literas suas commendatitias 
 
 1 Qui quidem Joannes R. This mistake has been corrected in B, C. 
 
 2 after 'virginitatem' B and R add 'ex parte'. 
 
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 sodalitio Collegii corporis Christi scriptas, predictum Mattheum Parker 
 in prefecturam collegii dignum duxerit eligendum, quam optio- 53). He 
 nem ipse Rex sine mora sane obtinuit, ipso primo anno quo ^^cSlege 
 magisterii domus vices ad eum delate sunt, facile vidit ille accounts. 
 quanta collegii rationes iam olim inuasisset confusio, quippe 
 quas et ordine implicitas esse perspicere erat et declaratione 
 obscuras. Quo factum est vt societas vniuersa collegii statum 
 pre rerum imperitia satis cognitum perspectumque habere non 
 posset. Hue accessit quod particularia recepta et expense in 
 illius duntaxat libris essent scripto comprehense, qui rationibus 
 reddendis erat obnoxius. Ynde quum huiusmodi quempiam 
 aut collegii dispensatorem vel fatum e vita subtraxisset, vel 
 fortuna alio transtulisset, sepenumero res ilia domui damnosa 
 processit, quum non esset vnde quisquam ex vigore iuris vel 
 redditus pro tempore iam retro elapso vel alia alioqui debita 
 tenentes postularet. Predictus igitur Mattheus malis hisce 
 collegii languentis medicari studens, rationem inuenit collegio 
 salutarem, qua ratio ties domus plene ac perfecte redderentur; 
 vt hodie videre est in forma quam ipse manu propria primo 
 scripsit cum iDgrossura (quam vocant) eiusdem in pergameno 
 quotannis facienda; ita vt, collatis invicem rentalibus, parti- 
 cularia recepta et particular es expense cum arreragiis totius 
 anni luce ipsa clarius oculis se objiciant. Idem etiam vniuersa 1 
 rentalia collegii propria manu scripto mandauit, naturamque 
 reddituum firmarum 2 expressit, ac 3 tempus etiam sue cuius- 
 que solutionis, que omnia Uteris alphebeti signauit appositis. 
 Vnde quamvis nomina tenentium posthac alia atque alia certo 
 futura sunt, domus tarn en et tenementa suum quemque locum 
 tenere non desinent 4 , atque hac ratione facilius patefiet vel 
 quid accessionis ad redditus et flrmas collegii accreuerit, vel 
 quid inde detractum fuerit. Recuperauit etiam diuersos 
 
 1 vniversalia B, C. 2 ac firmarum R. 3 ad B, R. 
 
 4 desinet B. 'teiieiuentum suum quodque locum tenere 11011 desinet,' C. 
 
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 redditus ante denegatos in Cantabrigia, in Landbeche, in Ouir, 
 
 et Histon. Nee non ipse terrarium (quod vocant) omnium 
 
 terrarum in Landbeche sua ipsius manu olim scripsit, adeoque 
 
 vniuersas illius manerii terras, in diuersas tabulas singulatim 
 
 distribuendo, descripsit. 
 
 He causes § 65.] Preterea commentarium hoc conscribi curauit et ex 
 
 tory tobe diuersis collegii seriptis ac monumentis compingi. Libro etiam 
 
 written: statutorum, fere ex veteribus collegii statutis conflato, formam 
 
 gives new • 
 
 statutes to hanc induit quam modo pre se fert, vsus in hac re consilio 
 
 +!-» p r*r>l - 
 
 lege, etc. Gulielmi Maye, legum doctoris, vnius tunc temporis ex eorum 
 
 numero, quos Edwardus sextus Cantabrigiam visitandi gratia 
 
 destinauit, collegis pariter eiusdem Gulielmi pro maiore parte 
 
 auctoritatem suam et subscriptionem interponentibus. Quid 
 
 quod ipse nigri codicis collegii (sic enim appellatur) colligendi 
 
 author aliquando extitit, in quo eiusmodi 1 conscribenda curauit, 
 
 que ad predictum collegium spectarent, tarn statuta viz. collegii 
 
 quam Academie. cum aliis memoratu dignis, turn in eisdem, 
 
 turn in diuersis aliis, collegii libris comprehensis 2 . 
 
 Sciendum autem est quod eo tempore quo nominatissime 
 
 memorie Rex Henricus octauus eidem Mattheo tunc Academie 
 
 vicecaucellario vna cum Johanne Redmano doctore theologo et 
 
 Gulielmo Maye legum doctore provinciam hanc imposuit, vt 
 
 tarn Academie totius quam singulorum in ea collegiorum 
 
 statum condition em que et vigilanter perlustrarent, et accurate 
 
 conscriberent: eo inquam tempore predictus Mattheus formam 
 
 totius status reddituum huius collegii et ordinis eiusdem 
 
 scripto breuiter mandari fecit, vt inter alios libellos aliorum 
 
 collegiorum secundum earn formam de statu collegiorum appa- 
 
 ret. 
 
 The rec- § 66.] Adhec quum predictus Mattheus, tempore magis- 
 
 Grantches- ^ er ^ SVL ^> ^olo fi rmar ii rectorie de Grantecester fraudem collegio 
 
 ter secured £ er j_ olfaceret, cuius versutia factum erat vt redditus annui 
 
 to the 
 
 college. viginti sex solidorum et octo denariorum (pro portione monas- 
 
 1 huiusino !i R. 2 comprebensa B, C. 
 
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 terii de S. Neoto ratione dissolutions eiusdem monasterii 1 
 
 principi persoluenda) reddendi onus diuersis annis collegio 
 
 incumberet, quum reuera predictus redditus ab eodem ipso 
 
 firmario potius persolui deberet, vtpote qui (preter Rectoriam 
 
 de Grantecester a magistro sociisque collegii eidem dimissam) 
 
 totis eiusdem portionis decimis frueretur; ipse inquam dictus 
 
 magister ipsum annui redditus onus a collegii ceruicibus 
 
 remouens, in eiusdem firmarii (vt par erat) humeros transtulit, 
 
 unde, quoad hoc grauamen, summa collegio securitas obuenit 
 
 ad illud vsque tempus quo domina Elizabeth a dignitate Regia 
 
 potita est. Turn vero predictus Mattheus secum animo re- 
 
 putans, qua arte fieri posset vt certior collegio obueniret in- 
 
 demnitas quoad dictam portionem (que quidem plus quam 
 
 dimidiam partem decimarum totius oppidi de Grantecester 
 
 excesserat 2 ) vnde si eius rei certitudo ad extranei cuiuspiam 
 
 hominis notitiam peruenisset, atque is eandem portionem a 
 
 principe acquisiuisset 3 , de firma collegii in eadem rectoria prope- 
 
 modum actum esset: idem Mattheus ea de re sollicitus, ope et 
 
 consilio suo collegio tunc temporis adiutorem se prebuit, ad 
 
 eiusdem portionis acquisitionem (ita vt in collegii possessione 
 
 perpetuo 4 esset) obtinendam. Vnde nunc non solum annuatim 
 
 cedit, et conuertitur ad vsum collegii predicta summa viginti 
 
 sex solidorum et octo denariorum a firmario persoluenda, et 
 
 quicquid inde accrescere potest, quum antea collegium per 
 
 errorem (vt supra dictum est) eodem annuo redclitu grauaretur, 
 
 verum etiam integra firma rectorie de Grantecester ita collegio 
 
 confirmata est,vt valoris esset non minoris, ast 5 potius maioris 
 
 (si commode preuideatur) quam vnquam antea fuerat. Cuius 
 
 quidem portionis acquisitio vna cum acquisitione annue pen- o^of" 3 
 
 sionis vndecim solidorum ac sex denariorum principi persol- Hatfield 
 
 Broad 
 
 uenda ex nuper dissoluta prioria de Hatfeilde Brodehocke Oak. 
 
 1 om. R. 2 excederat R, B, C. 
 
 3 acquisiuit R, B. 4 possessionem perpetuum B. perpetuum C. 
 
 5 vel B, 0. 
 
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 exeunte pertigerat ad summam 51 librarum quatuordecim 
 solidorum ac duorum denariorum vt aperte docent litere 
 patentes eiusdem Regine Elizabethe date decimo septimo 
 Three die Aprilis, anno regni sui quarto. Atque in eisdem Uteris 
 West- * patentibus rata fiunt (procurante eodem Mattheo, cuius ope 
 mmster. e £ benevolentia ita confirmatum est) tria quedam tenementa 
 in ciuitate Westmouasteriensi sita et edificata, sicque col- 
 legio imperpetuum (vt speratur) accreuerunt, vt postea latius 
 dicetur. 
 The legacy § 67.] Denique quum dictus Mattheus summam octoginta 
 Mere. librarum ex quorundam benefactorum et sui ipsius munifi- 
 centia ac etiam ex bonis magistri Johannis Mere olim bedelli 
 Academie Cantabrigiensis eidem collegio procurasset, quo 
 tempore vnus ex superuisoribus testamenti siue vltime vo- 
 luntatis eiusdem Johannis extitit, decretum fuerat, ut eadem 
 summa in indenturam molendini cuiusdam per episcopum 
 Eliensem dimissi in oppido quod dicitur Fenditton 1 insumeretur, 
 ad hunc vsum scilicet vt scholares in collegio fundati possent 
 ampliori gaudere victus ratione, et vt alie eleemosinarum lar- 
 gitiones erga pauperes, partim in oppido, partim alibi degentes 
 fierent, cum aliis nonnullis piis distributionibus, vt in indenturis 
 per conventionem inde factis apparet evidentius. Verum quum 
 dimissio hec molendini importunis firmarii precibus finem 
 sortita esset 2 et mutata, intercedente alia conuentione vt fieri 
 potuit, predicta pecunie summa, pro maiori parte ad vsum 
 Purchase collegii ante destinata, insumpta fuit in quatuor tenementa 
 in Walls minuscula, sita in loco dicto Wallis Lane in parochia sancte 
 Lane. Trinitatis : simulque statutum est, vt ex annuo redditu do- 
 muum predictarum vuus scholaris in perpetuum aleretur 
 iuxta portionem et consueta commoda aliorum scholarium, 
 et vt inperpetuum nominaretur scholaris Johannis Mere 
 Bedelli. 
 
 The agree- Et quoniam in dicti Johannis Mere mentionem incidimus, 
 ment be- 
 
 Fenn-Ditton B. 3 est R. 
 
43 
 
 sciendum est, quod idem Johannes pro singulari confidentia tween 
 quam in predicto Mattheo 1 repositam habuit, ipsum specialiter x t]ie Uni- 
 vnum ex superuisoribus testamenti sui' 2 constituit, idque sub J^fj^ 
 eiusmodi forma et conditione vt quamuis domum suam pro- care of 
 
 Parker. 
 priam, atque aliam quandam domum sibi per indenturam 
 
 dimissam pro termino suo Academie in perpetuum dono dede- 
 
 rat atque legauerat, vniuersam tamen legati et donationis 
 
 ipsarum domuum dispositionem penes eundem Mattheum esse 
 
 voluerit, vt ea de re pro arbitrio suo statueret. Ynde predictus 
 
 Mattheus author extitit vt inter Academiam et executores eius- 
 
 dem Johannis indenture fierent, eiusmodi forma quam nunc 
 
 approbarunt, quoad annuam ipsius commemorationis rationem, 
 
 quid concionator pro suggestu diceret, quid pro labore perci- 
 
 peret, et quid particulariter distribuendum esset, tarn vicecan- 
 
 cellario, procuratoribus, taxatoribus, oratori, scrutatoribus, curato 
 
 et quatuor bedellis, quam captiuis turn in castello turn in carcere 
 
 (dicto the Talbothe) vna cum aliis huiusmodi distributionibus, 
 
 prout indentura per eundem Mattheum primitus conscripta in- 
 
 dicat. Cuius quidem indenture exemplar tandem ad perpetuam 
 
 rei memoriam in collegio corporis Christi in eadem Academia 
 
 saluum voluit asseruari. 
 
 § 68. Atque etiam predictus Mattheus ex penitiori conside- Parker's 
 
 ratione ad vberius emolumentum eiusdem Academie (cuius qui- the repair 
 
 dem predictus Johannes Mere fidelis extitit officiarius, quamque g f rjj":^ 
 
 semper beneuolo grate pietatis affectu prosequutus est) ; ab 
 
 executoribus dicti testatoris exigendo impetrauit, vt summam 
 
 quadraginta librarum ex bonis suis nondum distributam, in 
 
 eiusdem Academie communium scholarum (que quidem quod 
 
 ad plumbum, tigna, ac laquearia attinet. grauiter labefactate 
 
 fuerant) reparationes insumerent. Vtque id recte et commode 
 
 fieret, Johanni Porye doctori theologo curandi partes deman- 
 
 dauit. Quam ille rem bona fide prestitit eidemque dicto 
 
 Mattheo rationem reddidit. Totius autem negotii sumptus ad 
 
 1 praedictum Matthoeum R. 2 supervisoribus suis R. 
 
44 
 
 His admi- 
 nistration 
 of Mere's 
 estate. 
 
 His wise 
 economy 
 of the 
 college 
 finances. 
 Founda- 
 tion of 
 new fel- 
 lowships. 
 
 55 librarum 2 solidorum ac 3 denariorum summam pertigerant; 
 quod autem vltra dictas quadraginta libras insumptum est, viz. 
 15 li- 2 s - 3 d ", pred ictus Mattheus ex charitatis in Academiam 
 afTectu de suo suppleuit. 
 
 § 69.] Preterea 1 idem Mattheus author fuit vt pons et via 
 Pegia clauso lanionum contigua (vocato the butchers close 2 ) in 
 oppido de Newneham tunc rursus de nouo repararentur bonis 
 dicti Johannis Mere, sicuti annis snperioribus eundem pontem et 
 Begiam viam predictam bonis cuiusdam Johannifl Thome 
 chirurgi, natione Galli,reparari fecerat. Cuius quidem bona (eo 
 quod intestatus e vita decessisset 3 ), ad predicti Matthei tunc 
 temporis vicecancellarii vicibus fungentis dispositionem perue- 
 nerant. Postremo multe alie distributiones liberales per 
 executores dicti Johannis Mere, eodem Mattheo sic statuente, ad 
 diuersos studentes et scholares peruenerunt. 
 
 § 70.] Sciendum 4 quoque est quod frugali industria et 
 fideli administratione reddituum et annuorum commodorum 
 collegii per ministros eiusdem vltra reparationes et reedifica- 
 tiones diuersorum tenementorum ipsius collegii effectum est, vt 
 ex redditibus et annuis commodis eiusdem singulis annis ali- 
 quid in erarium collegii immitteretur, quo fortuiti sumptus et 
 expense dicte domus continuo temporis progressu sustineri 
 possent ; adeoque diligenti tractatione reddituum et commodo- 
 rum collegii, magister et socii nuper et pro tempore presenti 
 existentes terras ac tenementa quedam in oppido 5 de Sondrige 
 in Com. Cantie... quorum redditus hunc vsum sortitus est, vt 
 sustentet duos socios in dicto Collegio, preter et supra nume- 
 rum ordinarium octo sociorum, qui prius ex redditibus consuetis 
 alebantur in eodem collegio. Decretumque est vt ea, quoad 
 
 1 denique C. 2 The boochers close C. 
 
 3 decessissit R. 4 postremo sciendum C. 
 
 5 In B, C there is a line and a half left blank after 'in oppido,' and then 
 the passage proceeds thus : " quorum redditus hunc vsum sortitus est, vt 
 sustentet vnum socium in dicto collegio, preter et supra numerum ordina- 
 rium octo sociorum, qui prius ex redditibus consuetis alebantur in eodem 
 
45 
 
 omnia sit horum sociorum conditio, que ceterorum sociorum est, 
 et que ex prescripto statutorum esse solet, emolumento annui 
 redditus ex stauro ouium apud Landbeche cum aliis excepto, vt 
 in indenturis exprimitur : hac obseruata cautione quod isti 
 socii, vel alii imposterum fundandi, siue scholares iam fundati, 
 vel alii deinceps fundandi, eum in modum regentur et tracta- 
 buntur intra ipsum Collegium vt magister et socii eiusdem 
 domus pro tempore existentes equum censebunt; ita tamen vt 
 nulli ordinationi seu constitutioni in vlla indentura comprehen- 
 se ad fundationem spectanti dictorum sociorum vel scholarium 
 preiudicetur. 
 
 §71.] ^nsuper ad vberiorem progressum studiose prefati The Kent 
 Collegii societatis, prudenti et munifica dicti domini archi- 
 episcopi prudentia decretum est inter magistrum hospitalis de 
 Eastbridge in Cantuaria et magistrum et socios prefati collegii 
 et eorum successores, quod predictus magister predicti hospitalis 
 cum assensu decani ecclesie Cantuariensis semper missurus sit e 
 schola Cantuariensi continuo pro temporis ratione (donee com- 
 pletus fuerit numerus 200 annorum) Scholares duos intra comi- 
 tatum Cantie natos, pro quibus dictus magister hospitalis ex 
 annuis redditibus eiusdem hospitalis numerabit integram sum- 
 mam sex librarum tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum 
 ita nuper auctam et eidem hospitali comparatam prefati Domini 
 Archiepiscopi opera et diligentia supra omnes alios predicti 
 hospitalis sumptus et impensa prius per fundationem primeuam 
 confirmata. 
 
 Collegio. Decretumque est, vt ea quoad omnia sit huius socii conditio, que 
 ceterorum sociorum est: et que ex prescriptis statutis esse solet: (emolu- 
 mento annui redditus ex stauro ovium npud Landbeche duntaxat excepto;) 
 hac ohseruata cautione quod iste socius vel alii imposterum fundandi," etc. 
 The text given above is derived from R, where a blank is also left after 
 'in oppido,' but a slip of paper containing the more complete text has 
 been pasted over it. The text of B has been corrected to that of R by 
 altering * vnum socium ' into 'duos socios' etc. 
 
 1 This section, and the following, to the end of § 73, are omitted in C. 
 
46 
 
 The Nor- § 72.] Postremo cum nuperrima donatione et concessione 
 
 folk' and" augustissime Regine Elizabethe acquisitus fuerit e quibusdam 
 
 Lmcoln tenementis in Westmonasterio sitis annuus clarus redditus octo 
 scholars. 
 
 librarum tresdecim solidorum et quatuor denariorum adfeliciorem 
 
 progressum et incrementum trium scholarium in eodem collegio 
 studentium, quoniam dicta cathedralis ecclesia nonnullam predi- 
 orum et possessionum partem intra comitatus Norfolcie et SurYol- 
 cie teneat: pactione qaadam atque consensu definitum est, e 
 tribus prefatis scholaribus duos in eandem scholam grammatica- 
 lem gratis recipiendos fore a Decano et capitulo, ex his qui fuerint 
 eorum filii, quibus in eisdem comitatibus elocate sunt predicte 
 possessiones, si eorum parentes voluerint idemque studiose 
 efflagitauerint ; tertium vero comitatus Lincolniensis in suam 
 scholam recipient. Qui quidem singuli postquam diligenter et 
 satis accurate grammatice preceptis instituti fuerint, per 
 dictum decanum et capitulum e schola predicta ad Collegium 
 Corporis Christi et Beate Marie Cantabrigie mitten tur, pari ibi- 
 dem cum reliquis eiusdem Collegii discipulis iure, prouentu, 
 mensa, et stipendio (dum bene sese gesserint) fruituri, quemad- 
 modum syngrapha inter decanum et capitulum predictos et pre- 
 fatum magistrum et socios apertissime docet. Cuius virtute 
 vicissim obstrictos et deuinctos sese voluerunt magister et socii 
 predicti collegii perpetuo futurum etiam in eodem collegio 
 discipulum unum studiosum ex comitatu Cantabrigie, qui 
 continuo vocetur discipulus magistri Joannis Mere armigeri 
 nuper eiusdem Academie viatoris siue praeconis, pan similiter 
 iure, mensa, prouentu et stipendio et aliis rebus in indentura 
 expressis cum reliquis eiusdem collegii discipulis fruiturus. 
 Atque ita tandem procuratum est vt intra 1 predictum collegium, 
 quum iam sit numerosa proles et auctior discipulorum (preter 
 socios duodecim) turba (viginti viz. numero), inde magna spes 
 est eiusdem collegii alumnos posse domi apud se lectiones, 
 disputationes, aliaque doctrine sue exercitia studiosius excolere 
 
 1 inter B. 
 
47 
 
 atque ita tandem assidua eorum opera et industria tantos 
 tamque vberes progressus facere, turn in cognitione et scientia 
 turn etiam in omni politioris literature studio, vt quernadmo- 
 dum reliqua eiusdem academie collegia ita hoc etiam maiorem 
 nominis laudem et decus consequatur. 
 
 § 73.] Quod si quis cognoscere cupiat quibus mediis predic- History of 
 tus cetus duodecim sociorum et viginti discipulorum in hunc f e u ow _ 
 numerum accreuerit, intelligat a primis fundatoribus aliisque sni P^ and 
 benefactoribus antiquis fundatos et constitutos fuisse in collegio ships. 
 preter magistrum octo socios ordinarios. Nonus vero et decimus 
 diligenti et assidua magistri et sociorum tunc existentium opera 
 augebantur, quorum stipendia prouentu et auctione reddituum 
 collegii sustinentur. Vndenus vero et duodenus similiter additi 
 et adiecti impensis tantummodo et sumptibus Matthei Cantu- 
 ariensis Archiepiscopi. Quantum vero ad dictorum discipu- 
 lorum numerum attinet, bibliotiste tres constituti sunt, partim 
 a primis fundatoribus, partim ab aliis benefactoribus subse- 
 quentibus. Deinde industria prouentuum et reddituum col- 
 legii auctione, sex discipuli adiiciebantur. Decimus fundatus 
 studio et beneuolentia Joannis Mere armigeri. Tres preterea 
 discipuli additi sunt sustentandi e redditibus quorundam edifi- 
 ciorum in Westmonasterio nuper acquisitorum, vt predictum 
 est. Duo augebantur sumptu et impensis hospitii de East- 
 bridge in Cantuaria. Quinque postremo aucti sunt et adiecti 
 sumptu et impensis predicti Matthei in perpetuum. Quorum 
 stipendium et continua pensio predictis duobus sociis iuxta 
 cartas indentatas sustinenda sunt et soluenda quotannis e 
 Ciuitate Nordouici in perpetuum, secundum ordinem et formam 
 constitutam. 
 
 [Unus preterea Bibliotista impensis collegii, per ordinationem 
 eiusdem Archiepiscopi. A quo etiam tres adiecti sunt e 
 Cantuaria, Wymondham, et Aylisham in comitatu Norfolcie 
 oriundi. Sex etiam additi per honoratissimum Nicolaum Bacon 
 militem, magni sigilli Anglie sub Elizabetha custodem, et 
 
48 
 
 quondam una cum Mattheo predicto hujus collegii bibliotistam. 
 
 Qui scholares mittendi sunt e schola Botesdalensi in agro 
 
 Suffolcie: quatuor addidit nobilissimus vir Rogerus Mannors, 
 
 magnorum Rutlandie comitum prosapia ortus, e Rectoria de 
 
 East-Chenock in comitatu Somerset sustentandi ; unum Nor- 
 
 folciensem fundavit Mr Johannes Borrage cuius pensio solvenda 
 
 e tenemento in Barsham sito in comitatu predicto. Tres alios 
 
 dono dedit Mr Leonardus Cawston, sustentandos pensionibus e 
 
 maneriis quibusdam in comitatu Suffolcie. Denique Thomas 
 
 Colman dono legavit annuam pensionem 20 hb ' ex quibusdam 
 
 tenementis in vico Wymondham sitis persolvendarum in ex- 
 
 hibitionem illis, qui in hoc forent illi cognomines, quorum 
 
 defectu predictam summam inter 4 scholares, quorum duo e 
 
 Norvico, alteri e Wymondham, equaliter distribuendam voluit. 
 
 Postremo R. R. pater Ricardus Sterne Archiepiscopus 
 
 Eboracensis, et quondam hujus Collegii socius, in sustenta- 
 
 tionem 2 scholarium quorum unus e Mansfield in comitatu 
 
 Notinghamie : alter e civitate Eboraci aut eorum defectu 
 
 uterque e Diocesi Eboracensi, viginti minas contulit ex reddi- 
 
 tibus quibusdam in villis de Thirsk et South-Kilwington in 
 
 Comitatu Eboracensi 1 .] 
 
 Construe- § 74.] Atque quia numerus sociorum et discipulorum hoc 
 
 drtional 8, " m0( ^° constitutus et fundatus in collegio predicto integrum 
 
 chambers : omnium camerarum numerum in interiore quadrato dicti collegii 
 chapel ^ ° ## 
 
 increased tenere et occupare debeat et possit; et vt magister et socii 
 existentes grata recordatione prosequantur aliquot exteros 
 studiosos qui continuo in eo collegio versari cupiant, vt huius- 
 modi et suis locis et eorum societate fruantur et aliquo modo 
 participes fiant charitatis et beneuolentie fundatorum et bene- 
 factorum collegii, vnanimi assensu presenti hoc anno Domini 
 
 1 This passage, from 'Vnus preterea — Com. Ebor.,' is not to be found in 
 R, B. Baker notes "que uncis includuntur sunt additamenta ; " and to the 
 last paragraph, 'Postremo — Com. Ebor.,' " Hec adjecta sunt recentiori 
 
49 
 
 viz. 1569 1 eclificatas curauerunt sex alias cameras pensionari- 
 
 orum vsui inservituras extra predictum quadratum in area 
 
 quadam vacua et loco inani versus hortum, cuius parietes ex- 
 
 edificate fuerant magistro D. Cosyn tunc dicti collegii pre- 
 
 posito, atque in pistrinum destinato et granarium in vsum 
 
 societatis predicti collegii. Cuius tamen pii hominis conatus 
 
 in finem non successit, quamuis parietes 'eiusdem domus future 
 
 stabant ad altitudinem quandam exedificati. Qui quidem 
 
 locus exinde in sphseristerium quo pila palmaria luditur cessit 
 
 in exercitium studentium in eodem collegio, nunc autem ex- 
 
 tructus trabibus solariis et contignationibus aliisque structuris 
 
 quemadmodum hodie videre licet in vsum huiusmodi pensio- 
 
 nariorum quibus in eodem collegio versari uidebitur. Et quum 
 
 numerosior iam turba studentium fuerit quam vt omnes in 
 
 priuato sacello locari et sedere poterint (vbi priuatis precibus, 
 
 problematibus, et disputationibus interesse solent),vt commodius 
 
 auscultare valeant, hoc etiam anno pars illius muri qui sacellum 
 
 ab exteriori ambulatorio diuiserat diruta est, vt locus in prae- 
 
 dictum finem augeatur. 
 
 § 75.] Preterea quum serenissima princeps Elizabetha, Parker is 
 
 Eegiam dignitatem corone Regnorum Anglie Francie et of the 
 
 Hibernie jam dudum adepta, predictum Mattheum una cum J£ si u™ ° f 
 
 aliis Cantabrigiam visitandi gratia destinasset ut ex ipsius versity : 
 
 . ... frames 
 
 htens patentibus magno sigillo consignatis apparet : illi visita- new sta- 
 
 tores cum collegis suis statuta eiusdem Academie generalia 
 
 de integro examinata stabiliuerunt et istius collegii singularia 
 
 recognouerunt et confirmauerunt, que quum sub Regina Maria 
 
 partim mutata, partim abolita fuissent hoc modo in eum statum 
 
 1 The last figure had been left blank in the copy Baker used, for it is 
 added in a different hand and ink— and he adds, "Ita MS. Acad. Cant. 
 Idem annus designatur in statutis, aut Interp. statutorum." In B however, 
 from which I presume the transcript used by him was made, the date is 
 written in the same hand as the rest of the text. 
 
 c. 4 
 
50 
 
 restituta sunt quern in diebus Regis Edwardi sexti obti- 
 
 nuerant, cum recognitione et consideratione statute-rum magis 
 
 accurata, manuumque aliquorum uisitatorum subscriptione viz. 
 
 Matthei Cantuariensis : Roberti Wintoniensis : Gulielmi Cecilii 
 
 militis : Antbonii Cooke 1 militis: et Walteri Haddon le<nim 
 
 doctoris; cum appensione sigilli Regie Maiestatis ad causas 
 
 ecclesiasticas. Liber" autem ille statutorum in cista colleL r ii 
 
 communi recondendus tradebatur. 
 
 After he § 76.] Quum vero predictus Mattheus dicte Regine Eliza- 
 
 Arch . bethe favore ac benignitate ad Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi 
 
 continue? muma deuocatus esset, benefice voluntatis, qua predictum 
 
 his inter- Collegium prosequi tenebatur, baud immemor, officii sui vigore 
 
 est in the . , . T Mj . ,.,-,, 
 
 coUege. tenementa quedam in Longditche in parochia S. Margarete 
 
 de Westmonasterio sita ad summam octo librarum tresdedm 
 
 solidorum et quatuor denariorum de claro redditus annui, 
 eiusdem collegii possessionibus adjicienda curauit in scholarium 
 quorundam sustentationem, quorum antea fit mentio, ita 
 vt octo quidem libre in sustentationem trium in collegio 
 scholarium annuatim insumantur, ea distributione ut unusquis- 
 que illorum quinquaginta tres solidos et quatuor denarios 
 percipiat. Jam vero id, quod superest, viz. summa tres- 
 decim solidorum et quatuor denariorum magistro presidenti 
 vel superuisori earundem domuum numeratum iri decretum 
 est, atque dicte octo libre tamdiu in tres scholares modo 
 prefato erogabuntur quamdiu predicte domus cum redditu 
 permanebunt ; proviso tamen quod magister ac socii pro tem- 
 pore existentes predictum numerum scholarium, et pecunie 
 superius memorate in eorum sustentationem conferende sum- 
 mam vel augere poterint vel diminuere, prout augebitur vel 
 diminuetur ipse redditus. 
 
 Idem etiam propriis sumptibus et expensis quinque alios 
 scholares in eodem collegio in perpetuum stabiliuit, iuxta earn 
 
 Coke B. 
 
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 formam que in indentures inde factis exprimitur [vt antea 
 supradictum est] 1 . 
 
 Derrique vt ad statum ornatiorem magistri pro tempore 
 existentis aliquid vberioris lucri accederet, aduocationem ec- 
 clesie cuiusdam Londini, que Abchurche dicitur, collegio 
 eoncedendam curauit, interveniente etiam literarum Regine 
 patentium confirmatione, vt ex eisdem facile perspicere est. 
 
 Postremo ad studia sociorum ac scholarium eiusdem collegii 
 promouenda dedit ex propria Bibliotheca libros quosdam im- 
 presses, simulque alios codices manuscriptos ; eosdemque inuen- 
 tariis indentatis exprimendos curauit, eaque forma asservandos 
 atque tractandos que in particulari ordinatione ad earn rem 
 spectanti comprehensa sequitur 2 . 
 
 1 The words within brackets are in B only, where they are an addi- 
 tion, though in the same hand. After ' exprimitur ' in R the rest of the 
 page is left blank, and the two following paragraphs are written near the 
 bottom of the next page. 
 
 2 Baker appends the following note : 
 
 " [Deest tamen.] In a fair copy or originall of this Historiola [inter 
 Archiva Academise Cant.] this History ends at finem augeatur. Then 
 follows the History or Life of Arcbp. Parker, and after that on two 
 different Pages the five several Clauses here added, beginning with Prce- 
 terea cum and ending with comprehensa sequitur as here." 
 
 4—2 
 U. OF ILL LIB. 
 

 NOTES. 
 
 John Joscelyn, or Josselin, was Fellow of Queens' College, and Latin 
 secretary to Archbishop Parker. The scanty incidents of his life are nar- 
 rated in Cooper's " Athense," ii. 366, where a list of his works, in which, 
 however, the ' Historiola' is not included, is given. That the 'Historiola' 
 is his work is however proved by a note appended to the Life of Archbishop 
 Parker in the Corpus MS., B. After the concluding words the copyist 
 adds 'Hanc historiolam a pagina .71. conscripsit (suo iudicio vsus] in 
 testificationem obseruantiae suas Iohannes Iosscliims artiuni magister et 
 Thomse Iosselini militis filius, predictique reuerendissiini a lingua latina 
 amanuensis et etiam ab eadem secretarius.' That the Life was written by 
 the same person as the ' Historiola' is certain, for the first sentence of the 
 Life runs as follows: 'Quamquani multa enarrauerimus quae de statu Col- 
 legii Corporis Christi et de rebus gestis quorundam prefectorum duxitnus 
 commemoratione maxime digna, superest vt narrationem hanc protraha- 
 mus paulo prolixius eius predicti Matthei Parked gratia, de quo ea adhuc 
 diximus que solum gessit ad propagationem et vtilitatem Collegii prefati 
 
 cui preerat.' 
 
 The text of this edition was derived in the first instance from a 
 copy preserved in the Registry of the University, which has almost the 
 authority of an original, to judge from the evident age of the hand- 
 writing, and from the presence of Parker's initial letter bearing the date 
 1568 on the first page. I next collated with this the transcript by Baker 
 (MSS. Vol. xxii.) which, as he tells us at the end, was 
 
 "Desumpt: ab exernplari M ri Mickleborongh 1 Coll. Corp. Chr. Socii. Sus- 
 picor mendas aliquas subesse, quas transcriber malui, quam ex conjectura 
 corrigere." 
 
 Below this he has added, apparently at a different time, for the words 
 are written in another and paler ink, 
 
 1 John Micldebourgh, Adm. 1712. I have in all cases in these notes, unless 
 it is otherwise stated, taken the dates of admission and the orthography of 
 proper names from the List of Members drawn up by Dr Lamb in his edition of 
 Masters' History of Corpus Christi College. 
 
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 " I have since seen the volume from w ch it is taken, Ms. C. C. C. containing 
 the following particulars, viz. : 
 
 (1) Series Magistrorum Collegii a prima fundatione ejusdem. 
 
 (2) Statuta Collegii C. C. C. 
 
 (3) Historiola Collegii C. C. C. (prout supra). 
 
 (4) Historiola J. Josselini de eodem [viz. Matthaso Archiepo]. 
 
 (5) Charta Keginae Eliz. de nundinis de Sturbridge. 
 
 (6) Catalogus Librorum quos Math. Archiepus dedit Academiae Cant: excus: 
 in quatuor Paginis, singula? Paginas continent 25 volumina, sub hoc Titulo : 
 Matthceus Cantuar. Archiep. dedit Academics Cantebr. in Bibliotheca sua com- 
 muni servandos Anno Bni. 1574. 
 
 1. Registrum Chronicarum, &c. continet folia 326 &c : numero 100." 
 
 This volume could not then be found in either the Library or the 
 Treasury of Corpus Christi College, although diligent search was made for it 
 in both places. I felt sure, however, that it must be still in existence, for 
 Masters mentions (p. 99) that in his time there were two copies in the 
 College, one older than the other, besides the one belonging to the Uni- 
 versity, and it seemed most unlikely that either of them should have 
 been lost or destroyed since. 
 
 One of them, that designated C, was found in the Lodge by the late 
 master, Dr Pulling. It is written in a hand closely resembling that of 
 the copy in the Registry, aud has Parker's initial letter, as the former 
 has, but coloured and gilt. It is valuable, because it differs from the 
 others in several places, and usually gives a less incorrect text. It is 
 however only the work of a copyist, and that not a learned one, as is 
 proved by the frequent insertion, by way of correction, in a different 
 hand, of necessary words above the line or in the margin. The other copy 
 is alluded to twice in a marginal reference " Vide alterum MS." After the 
 death of Dr Pulling the second MS. was at last found in the Lodge. It had 
 probably been overlooked in the first search from being lettered 'Statuta 5 
 on the back. The volume is apparently in the same condition as when Baker 
 saw it. It is to be regretted that he did not make his copy directly from 
 it, rather than from Mr Mickleborough's transcript, to which we may 
 charitably ascribe the innumerable mistakes, of which he was himself 
 cognizant, and which render his work of very little value. The MS., like 
 the other, C, is the work of a copyist ; and mistakes in orthography and in 
 the position of words have been corrected in another but a contemporary 
 hand. The various readings, however, shew that it has not been derived from 
 the same original as the former. For instance, the account of the benefits 
 conferred upon the college by the Duke of Lancaster, § 11, is much less 
 favourable to him in B than in C. 
 
 The MS. mentioned by Masters (p. 99) as in the possession of the City 
 of Norwich, cannot now be found. 
 
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 A few extracts from the "Historiola" occur in a MS. in the University 
 Library (Gg. 4. 8), entitled " Documents relating to Corpus Christi College," 
 but they are of little value. They were probably made for Strype l . 
 
 The Rev. Robert Masters speaks very disparagingly of Josselin's labours 
 ("History of Corpus," 1753, p. 98). After enumerating the works of 
 Archbishop Parker, he proceeds: "To all these we may add... the His- 
 toriola Collegii, drawn up by his order from divers Writings and Monu- 
 ments therein by his Secretary above-mentioned : wherein, for the better 
 preservation of the memory of its Benefactors &c, a succinct account is 
 given of their Transactions from the time of the Foundation to the year 
 1569; in this however are not a few Mistake-, and BO little regard is had 
 to Method and Chronology, that where any other Information could be had 
 I have sparingly made use of it; and when no other could be obtained, 
 have scarce ventured to assert anything positively upon its authority only." 
 This unfavourable opinion however has not prevented him from taking 
 the whole work and inserting it piece-meal into his history without any 
 acknowledgement whatever, making use not merely of the facts, but the 
 reflections. Compare for instance the following passages : 
 
 Josselin. 
 
 § 1. Que ut situ et appellatione 
 diverse fuerant ac diuise : ita stu- 
 dio ac solicitudine une videbantur 
 ac unite. Xam de propagando ho- 
 nore sue cuiusque societatis magno 
 utrinque contentionis ardore desu- 
 
 datum est Quemadinodum igitur 
 
 societas Gilde Sancte Marie terras 
 ac tenementa in inanu mortua (quam 
 vocant) acquirendi studio flagrans 
 ad sacellanorum quorundam susten- 
 tationem, qui pro animabus sue fra- 
 ternitatis in ecclesia Beate Marie 
 celebrarent : pari ration e Alderman- 
 nus, fratres, et sorores Gilde Cor- 
 poris Christi non minorem operam 
 posuerunt in terris ac tenementis 
 acquirendis, unde sacerdotibus qui- 
 busdam victus suppeteret pro ani- 
 mabus fratrum et sororum eiusdem 
 Gilde in parochiali ecclesia Sancti 
 Benedicti celebraturis. Et utrique 
 
 Masters. 
 
 P. 11. The two forementioned 
 Societies, although situated in dif- 
 ferent parts of the Town, and dis- 
 tinguished by different Names, yet 
 seem to have been united in the 
 same pursuit, each striving to pro- 
 mote its own honour and credit with 
 the greatest earnestness. With 
 which view that of S l Mary was 
 desirous of holding Lands and Tene- 
 ments in Mortmain, for the support 
 of Chaplains to pray for the souls of 
 the Fraternity in S* Maries Church, 
 whilst that of Corjnis Christi was 
 not less eager of acquiring the same 
 for the maintenance of Priests to 
 pray for the souLs of their Fraternity 
 in S* Benedicts Church. Several 
 Licenses for holding such Lands, as 
 each of them should piously devote 
 to the forementioned uses, were ac- 
 cordinglv obtained of Edward the 
 
 See his Life of Archbishop Parker, Chap. IV. 
 
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 JOSSELIN. 
 
 sane fraternitati potestatem fecit 
 Edwardus tertius partim undecimo, 
 partim vero decimo sexto ac vicesi- 
 mo annis regni sui terras eiusraodi 
 ac tenementa mortizandi, que alte- 
 rutra pars (suggerente pietatis sue 
 affectu) in usus predictos conferre 
 vellet. Qua in re acriter utrinque 
 certatum est, paribus sane studiis, 
 at euentu longe dispari : nam quo 
 maior ad Gildam Corporis Christi, 
 turn quoad fratrum nuinerum, turn 
 quoad redditus terrarum facta est 
 accessio : tanto maior ad Gildam 
 Sancte Marie horum omnium dinii- 
 nutio. 
 
 § 3. Denique, quum iam una ilia 
 utriusque partis sese uniendi sen- 
 tentia valuisset, communi consensu 
 per amicos suos apud predictum 
 regem Edvvardum egerunt, tarn pro 
 se vniendi facultate, quam pro col- 
 legio suo, quod in opere erat ad 
 calcem fere perductum, regio diplo- 
 mate confirmando ; prudenter in 
 hoc mature prospicientes, vt, quum 
 alii quidam fundatores collegia sua 
 que edificabant, priuata auctoritate 
 (bullis solis contenti papalibus) sta- 
 bilirent, que nee nisi multis inter- 
 iectis annis regie confirmationis ro- 
 bur acceperunt, ipsi regia auctoritate 
 muniti collegii privilegia securius 
 tuerentur, ac omnem aduersarie ca- 
 villationis occasionem amputarent. 
 
 Masters. 
 third : in which business there was 
 a zealous emulation betwixt them, 
 wherein although the Contest was 
 pretty equal, yet the Event was very 
 different, for in the same proportion 
 as the number of Brethren and Re- 
 venues of the latter increased, so 
 were those of the former diminish- 
 ed." 
 
 P. 12. "At length when this 
 Union was agreed to by both Par- 
 ties, they thought it adviseable to 
 apply to the King by their common 
 Friends for a faculty for perfecting 
 thereof, and for the better establish- 
 ing the College, which was then in 
 building and pretty far advanced, 
 prudently using this precaution in 
 the affair, to the end that they might 
 the more securely enjoy their Privi- 
 leges, and cut off all occasion of de- 
 bate ; whereas some other Founders 
 built Colleges upon the strength of 
 Papal Bulls only (of which this was 
 not entirely destitute) whose Foun- 
 dations did not receive the Royal 
 Confirmation for many years after, 
 by which neglect they were sub- 
 
 jected to many inconveniences." 
 
 These parallel passages might be multiplied almost indefinitely : and, 
 indeed, it is almost impossible to imagine any other source from which 
 Masters could have derived the facts of the early history, except from 
 Josselin, whom he has thus tried so ungenerously to discredit. 
 
 § 3. The Charter of Edward III. is printed in Commiss. Docts. ii. 445, 
 and also in Masters, App. No. 4. The Bishop of Ely's Confirmation of it, 
 dated " Downham, Feb. 3, 1352," is copied in MSS. Baker vi. 19. 
 
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 The deed of donation of the advowson of S. Benedict's Church is pre- 
 served in Corpus Christi College Treasury, Box 31, No. 71. The names of 
 the Aldermen and Brethren who were parties to it are not noted. 
 
 " Sciant quod nos Aldermannus et fratres Gilde corporis christi et beate 
 
 marie Cantebr' dedimus magistro et scolaribus domus corporis christi et 
 
 beate marie Cantebr' et successoribus suis quoddam mesuagium iacens in lorte- 
 boroulane Cantebr' iuxta cimiterium ecclesie sancti Benedicti Cantebr' cum 
 aduocacione dicte ecclesie sancti benedicti cum pertinenciis suis, habend' etc. 
 Dat' apud Cantebr' die sancti benedicti Abbatis Anno Begni Begis Edward tercii 
 post conquestum vicesimo septimo." [March 21, 1353.] 
 
 The name Dargentem is merely a misreading of Dargentein, the uni- 
 versal way of spelling the name at that time. Their seat was at Melbourn : 
 see Lysons's Cambridgeshire, p. 234. 
 
 The conveyance mentioned in the text has been preserved by Cole 
 (Add. MSS. Mus. Brit., 5807). It is in French, dated 10 October, 24 
 Edw. III. (1351), from 'Johan Dargentein' to Guy de Bender, Henry de 
 Tangmer and others, probably officers of the Gild. The advowson was 
 held as part of the dowry of Agnes 'de ma heritage,' wife of Johan de 
 Mautravers, Chevalier, with remainder to Johan Dargentein. The con- 
 veyance is accompanied by a release from the lady's husband, also in 
 French. 
 
 Tiiis Church was used by the University from very early times, as 
 appears from the following deed. (Hare, i. p. 28. Paper copy in the 
 Registry of the University.) 
 
 Compositio inter Cancellarium et Bectorem ecclesie sancti Benedicti super 
 pulsacione campanarum. 
 
 In dei nomine. Amen. Cum inter dilectos filios Cancellarium et universi- 
 tatem Cantebr' ex una parte, Et Alanum Bectorem ecclesie sancti Benedicti ex 
 altera, super eo quod dictus Bector non permiserit pulsari campanam in ecclesia 
 sua predicta ad convocandos clericos ad lectiones extraordinarias quedam dis- 
 cordia fuisset exorta ; tandem nobis H. [Hugo de Balsham, 1207 — 1286] dei 
 gratia Eliensi episcopo mediantibus, et vtriusque partis tranquillitatem non 
 mediocriter affectantibus, ne per appellationes et execrabiles litis amfractus 
 honori studentium aut commodo detrahatur, et ipsius Prions quieti similiter 
 derogetur, dicta discentio in hunc modum conquievit : Videlicet quod dictus 
 Bector ob nostri reverentiam et honorem et favorem vniversitatis eiusdem, 
 concessit et promisit quod suo perpetuo pulsetur civili et honesto modo in 
 ecclesia sua prefata pro huiusmodi convocacionibus imposterum faciend' sicut 
 hactenus inibi fieri consuevit, dum tamen clerico eiusdem ecclesie pro pulsa- 
 cione huiusmodi more solito satisfiat. Nos igitur huiusmodi composicionem 
 acceptantes, ipsam aucthoritate pontificali confirmamus et sigilli nostri ap- 
 posicione communimus. Datum apud Skelford die Marcurii prox' post domini- 
 cam qua cantatur letare Jerusalem anno dni millesimo ducentesimo septua- 
 
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 gesimo tertio. [March 22 or March 14, according as the year 1273 means 1273 
 or 1273—4.] 
 
 Ex registro magistri Thome Markaunt. [B. fo. 10. b.] 
 
 This practice continued so late as 1624, as the following receipt shews 
 (Miscellanea in the Registry of the University, Vol. 8, No. 13) : 
 
 Aprill. 3. 1624. 
 
 Receiued of m r Smith of Magdaline Colledg, senior Proctor for the yeare of 
 
 our Lord 1624 the sum of vj s . viij d ., which vj s . viij d . is yearly and euery yeare 
 
 paycl by the senior proctor of the vniversitie to the Church Wardens of the parish 
 
 of S' Bennett in Cambridg whose names are heere vnder written, or to their 
 
 certaine deputy for the vse of the belles for ringing to y e schooles, att such 
 
 times as neede shall require ; as to acts, Clearums, Congregations lecturs disses 
 
 and such like, and is to be paid at Easter ; for the payment wherof we the 
 
 Churchwardens haue sett our hands the day and yeare aboue saide : Aprill. 3. 
 
 1624, and say rec : — vjs. viijd. 
 
 Richard Pettit )„-,■, 
 
 __.„ . ]■ Churchwardens. 
 
 James Wilkinson 
 
 § 5. The Bishop of Ely referred to is Thomas L'Isle — consecrated 
 1345, died 1361. 
 
 The Charter of Queen's College, Oxford, is dated Jan. 18. 1340. The 
 founder was Robert Egglesfield, Chaplain and Confessor to Queen Philippa, 
 who assisted him to build his College, and became patroness of it after 
 his death. 
 
 § 7. The ground laid out as the Master's Garden, was only held on 
 lease, and did not pass into the absolute possession of the College till 
 May 18, 7 Edward VI. 
 
 The site of the Hall of the Annunciation, commonly called Gonville 
 Hall, as transferred to Corpus Christi College, was bounded by Lurteburgh 
 Lane, now Freeschool Lane, E., S. Botolph's Lane S., the Churchyard of 
 S. Botolph and certain tenements W., and ground which soon afterwards 
 became the property of Corpus Christi College, N. It was 140 feet broad, 
 and about 200 feet long, as far as can be reasonably conjectured. Of the 
 four parcels of ground composing it, the southernmost (A) belonged to the 
 Hospital of 8. John, and was conveyed to the Hall of the Annunciation 
 after Gonville's death, which took place in 1350. It occupied the corner 
 between Luthburne Lane and S. Botolph's Lane. The next tenement to 
 the north (B) was conveyed by John, son of William de Brunne, to Edmund 
 Gonville in 1347. It abutted on the Lane E., and on the Churchyard 
 and a tenement belonging to the Vicar of S. Botolph W. North of this 
 again were two tenements (C) with a garden detached from them, con- 
 veyed to the same, at the same time, in one deed, by Daniel de Felstede. 
 Their eastern abuttal is the same, their western a tenement belonging to 
 
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 the same Daniel. This piece of property and the last formed the 'tria 
 mesuagia et vnum gardinum in vico vocato Lurteburghlane/ which Gone- 
 ville was allowed by royal license, dated 28 January, 22 Edward III. to 
 assign to his students "pro mora et inhabitacioue sua" (Caius College 
 Treasury, I. 6) : and which in the similar license of Thomas Morya who 
 owned the property in capite "per fidele seruicium sex denariorum 
 per annum," dated "in festo Sancti Nicholai Episcopi Anno regni regis 
 Edwardi tertii post conquestum vicesimo secundo " [6 December, 1348] is 
 described as 
 
 "in vico vocato Lurtoburghlane in villa Cantabr' iacent' inter tenementum 
 fratrum sancti Johannis ex parte australi, et mesuagium Johanis de Lenna ex 
 parte boriali ; et capud occidentale abuttat super tenementum Danielis deFelstede 
 et vicar' ecclesie Sancti Botulphi ; et capud orientale super Begalem viam." 
 [Caius College Treasury, i. 4.] 
 
 In the conveyance of the site by Gonville to the first Master of the 
 Hall, John de Coltone de Tiryngtone (Caius College Treasury, i. 7), dated 
 June 4, 1349, it is further described as 
 
 "in parochiis ecclesiarum sancti Benedicti et sancti Botulphi... in vico vocato 
 Lorteburgblanestrate." 
 
 The remaining piece (D), to the north of those already described, was 
 that belonging to the University, called "the Long Entry," § 8, as stated 
 in No. in. of the following deeds, which extended like the others from the 
 lane E. to Felsted's property W. It was conveyed to the Hall of the 
 Annunciation, 2 March, 1352; and to Corpus Christi College, 2 December, 
 1353. The house belonging to John de Lenna must have become the 
 property of the Hall of the Annunciation before this, but the deeds relating 
 to it have been lost. 
 
 Of the following deeds I. refers to B, n. in. to C, iv. to A, v. vi. to D. 
 
 I. John, son of William, de Brunne to Edmund Gonville. (Caius Col- 
 lege Treasury, i. 3.) 
 
 Sciant...quod Nos Johannes quondam filius Willelmi de Brunne Cantabregg' 
 et Willelmus de *Hicchon capellanus concessimus...Edmundo de Goneuill... 
 omnia ilia tenementa nostra cum suis pertinenciis que iacent in parochia Ecclesie 
 sancti Botulphi in Lurtheburnestrate Cantabr' inter tenement' Fratrum Hos- 
 pitalis sancti Johannis Cantabregg' ex parte vna et tenementum Danielis de 
 Felstede ex altera et abuttat ad vnum caput super Lurtheburnestrate et alterum 
 caput super cimiterium Ecclesie Sancti Botulphi et ten' vicar' Ecclesie predicte... 
 Dat apud Cantabregg' die Lune prox' post festum sancti WyneWalei Anno regni 
 regis Edwardi tircii post conquestum vicesimo primo. [5 March, 1347] . 
 
 II. Daniel de Felstede and Benedicta his wife to the same. (Caius 
 College Treasury, i. 2.) 
 
 * Spelt Houton in another deed. 
 
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 Sciant...quod Nos Daniel de Felstede et Benedicta uxor mea Cantabr' con- 
 cessimus.. Edmundo de Goneuill persone ecclesie de Tiryngton duo mesuagia 
 edific' cum duabus soldi s simul cum vno gardino a dictis mesuagiis exclus' cum 
 suis pertinenciis que omnia iacent in parochia sancti Benedicti Cantabr' inter 
 tenement' vniversitatis et Johannis de Lenna Draper ex parte vna et tenement' 
 quondam Cristiane de Brunne ex parte altera et abuttat ad vnum caput super 
 Lurtheburnestrate et alterum caput super mesuag' predicti Daniel... Dat' apud 
 Cantabregg' die Lune prox' post festum sancti WyneWalei Anno regis Edwardi 
 tercii post conquestum vicesimo primo. [5 March, 1347.] 
 
 III. Earlier deed of Felsted's property. (Caius College Treasury, 1. 1.) 
 Sciant...quod ego Willelmus Deneys de Bihcham Well...confirmaui Danieli 
 
 de Felstede de Cantebr' mercer et Benedicte uxori eius omnia et singula tene- 
 menta cum pertinenciis que fuerunt magistri Willelmi de "Welles que iacent 
 in parochia sancti Benedicti Cantebrigg' inter tenementum vniversitatis Cante- 
 brigg' quod vocatur Le Longe Entrye ex una parte ; Et tenementum quod quon- 
 dam fuit Simonis AtteWator quod Willelmus de Brunne nunc tenet. Et 
 abuttant super Lurteborghlane...Dat Cantebrigg' sexto die mensis Julii Anno 
 Begni Begis Edwardi tercii post conQuestum Sexto. [July 6, 1332.] 
 
 IV. Hospital of S. John to the Hall of the Annunciation. (Caius 
 College Treasury, I. 14.) 
 
 Sciant...quod nos Willelmus bier magister hospitalis sancti Johannis Can- 
 tebrig' et confratres eiusdem loci unanimi consensu dedimus...custodi et 
 scolaribus Aule Annunciacionis beate marie. ..totum illud mesuagium...in dicta 
 villa Cantebr' in vico qui vocatur Lorteburne lane quod quidem mesuagium 
 iacet inter mesuagium dicti custodis et scolarium ex parte boreali et viam que 
 vocatur botolphuslane ex parte australi et extendit se a communi via que vo- 
 catur lorteburnelane versus oriens usque ad cimiterium ecclesie sancti Botulphi 
 
 versus occidens Dat apud Cantebr' quinto nonas march anno regni regis 
 
 Edwardi tercii post conquestum vicesimo sexto. [3 March, 1352.] 
 
 V. The University to the Hall of the Annunciation. (Caius College 
 Treasury, i. 1 3.) 
 
 Sciant...quod nos Ricardus de Lyng Cancellarius Vniversitatis Cantebrig' 
 cetusque magistrorum regencium et non regencium in eadem dedimus...custodi 
 et scolaribus Aule Annuiiciacionis beate marie in villa vniversitatis Cantebr* 
 predicte totum illud mesuagium cum pertinenciis in dicta villa Cantebr' in 
 vico qui vocatur Lurteburnelane quod quidem mesuagium Vniversitas pre- 
 dicta habet ex dono et feoffainento quondam Rogeri de Heydone et iacet dictum 
 mesuagium inter mesuagium diet' custodis et scolarium et mesuagium quondam 
 Johannis de Lenna ex parte australi et mesuagium quondam Johannis de 
 Weston ex parte boriali et extendit se a communi via que vocatur Lurteburne 
 lane versus oriens vsque ad mesuagium quondam dicti Johannis de Weston et 
 mesuagium Danielis de Felstede versus occidens. ...Dat apud Cantebr' sexto 
 nonas march anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii post conquestum vicesimo sexto. 
 [2 March, 1352.] 
 
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 VI. The University to Corpus Christi College. (College Treasury, 
 Drawer 31, No. 72.) 
 
 "Pateat...quod Nos Willelmus de Chynghul Universitatis Cantebrigg' Can- 
 cellarius cetusque unanimis magistrorum regeucium et non regencium in 
 eadem remisimus...magistro et scolaribus domus Corporis Christi et beate 
 Marie de Cantebrigg'... totum ius...in toto illo mesuagio...in vico qui vocatur 
 Lurteburnelane quod quidem mesuagium universitas predicta habuit ex dono... 
 Rogeri de Heydon et quod mesuagium custos et scolares collegii aule Annun- 
 ciacionis beate marie de Cantebr' postea habuerunt ex dono et feoffamento 
 eiusdem universitatis ; et iacet...iuxta mesuagium quondam Johamiis de Weston 
 ex parte boriali et exteudit se in longitudiue a predicto vico...et a mesuagio 
 quondam Johannis de Lenn versus oriens usque ad mesuagium quondam dicti 
 Johannis de Weston et mesuagium Danielis de Felstede versus occidens. Re- 
 misimus eciam... totum ius...in quadam cant aria sine anniversaria dicto mesuagio 
 
 incumbente." [2 December, 1353.] 
 
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 § 9. The following are the deeds of exchange referred to. They are in 
 Corpus Christi College Treasury, Box 27, No. 10. 
 
 Conuencio ista facta est inter dominum Henricum ducem Lancastrie Alder- 
 mannum Collegii Gilde Corporis Christi et care matris sue Cantebreggie ex 
 assensu dicti Collegii et fratrum eiusdem Gilde ex parte una et magi strum ac 
 scolares Collegii Annunciacionis beate marie in Cantebreggia ex parte altera. 
 Hoc est sciendum quod magister et scolares seu fratres predicte Gilde escam- 
 bient principale hospicium quod nuper fuit domini Johannis de Cantebreggia 
 militis et vnum mesuagium prefato hospicio adiunctum quod nuper fuit et 
 pertinuit ad vnum Johannem Goldcorn cum onmilms edificiis curtilagiis 
 gardinis ad antedictum hospicium et mesuagium pertinentibus cum singulis 
 schoppis illis adiunctis. Et magister et collegium Annunciacionis antedictum 
 pro toto hospicio dicti Collegii in lourdeborghlane ubi antedicti magister et 
 collegium Annunciacionis modo demorantur cum omnibus illis edificiis muris 
 curtilagiis et gardinis ad dictum hospicium pertinentibus et ad illud adiunctis 
 habend' et tenend' imperpetuum. Et eciam concordatum est quod antedictus 
 dominus Dux, magister Collegii et fratres predicte Gilde soluent omnes illas 
 expensas que erunt facte intra villam Cantebregg' in omnibus antedictis illis 
 comutacione et trans] acione. Et ipsi Antedicti magister et collegium Annun- 
 ciacionis facient omnes illas expensas que erunt facte in curia domini Eegis in 
 omnibus illis antedictis comutacione et translacione. Et illi antedicti magister 
 et collegium Annunciacionis facient haberi ad magistrum et Collegium Ante- 
 dicte Gilde totum illud jus quod domina comitissa Penbrochie et suum col- 
 legium in Cantebregg' habent ad ecclesiam sancti Botulphi in Cantebregg, et 
 omnem modum obligacionum et indenturarum quas ilia dicta comitissa Pen- 
 brochie ad aliquem vel aliquos habuit in suo nomine de Priore de Bernwell vel de 
 aliquo altero per occasionem dicte ecclesie sancti Botulphi ad eypensas illorum 
 dictorum magistri et collegii Annunciacionis antedict'. In quarum rerum testi- 
 monium adeo bene antedictus Dominus Dux nomine suo et nomine magistri et 
 Collegii ac fratrum dicte Gilde preciosi Corporis Jesu Christi quemadmodum 
 
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 reverendissimus pater in Xto domirms Willelmus per graciam dei Episcopus 
 Norwicensis in nomine magistri et Collegii Annunciacionis nostre domine ante- 
 diet' miserun ad istas Indenturas per assensum utriusque partis sua sigilla. 
 Dat' apud Westmonasterium prima die mensis Junii Anno Eegni Eegis 
 Edwardi tercii post conquestum vicesimo septimo. [1 June, 1353.] 
 
 Cest le couenant fait entre monsieur Henr' Due de Lancastre Alderman du 
 college de la Gylde du corps ihu crist et de sa chere Miere en cantebrigg' dil 
 assent du dit college et les freres de la dite gylde dune part . et le mestre et les 
 escoleres du college del Annunciacion de nostre dame en Cantebrigg' dautrepart 
 cest assau' que le mestre et college de la dite Gylde changeront le principal 
 hostiel qui fu iadys a vn monsieur John de Cantebrigg' Chiualer et vn Mees a 
 mesme lostiel aioynt que fu iadys a vn John Goldcorn oue tous les edifices 
 cirtilages gardyns a les auantditz hostiel et mees appurtenant' oue les schoppes 
 a eux aioyntz oue le mestre et College del Annunciacion auantdite pur tut 
 lostiel du dit College en Lourteburghlane ou les auantditz mestre et College 
 dil Annunciacion ore demorent oue touz les edifices, mures, curtilages, et 
 gardyns al auantdit hostiel appurtenantz et a ceo aioyntz A auoir et tenir 
 a touz iours. Et auxint est couenantz que les auantditz monsieur le Due, 
 mestre, College, et freres de la dite Gylde paieront touz les despenses que 
 serront fait de deinz la ville de Cantebrigg entour les auantditz chaunge et 
 translacion. Et les auantditz mestre et College del Annunciacion feront et 
 paieront touz les despenses que serront faitz en la Court le Eoi entour les 
 auantditz chaunge et translacion. Et les auantditz mestre et College del An- 
 nunciacion feront auoir a mestre et a College del auantdite Gylde tut le drote 
 que ma dame la Countesse de Pembroke et son College en Cantebrigg' ount 
 al esglise de seint Botolf en Cantebrigg et toute manere des obligacions et en- 
 dentures les quelles ma dame la Countesse de Pembroke ad ou ascun ou ascuns 
 ount en son noun du Priour de Bernewell on dascun autre per lencheson de la 
 dite Esglise de seint Botolf a despenses des auantditz mestre et College del 
 Annunciacion auantdite. En tesmoignance de quelle chose auxi bien lauantdit 
 monsieur le due en son noun et en le noun de mestre et College et freres de la 
 dite Gylde del precious corps ihu Crist com le tres reuerent Piere sire William 
 par la grace dieu Euesqe de Norwycz en le noun du mestre et College del 
 auantdit Annunciacion nostre dame ontmys a ces endentures par assent lour 
 seals. Done a Weymonst' le premer iour del moys de juyn. Lan du regne le 
 Eoi Edward tiercz puis le conquest vynt et septisme. 
 
 In addition to these deeds of exchange the Hall of the Annunciation 
 executed the following deed (Corpus Christi College Treasury, Drawer 31, 
 No. 62). 
 
 Sciant presentes et futuri quod nos Johannes de Girington custos collegii 
 scolarium Aule Annunciacionis beate Marie Cantebrigg' et collegium eiusdem 
 Aule Annunciacionis unanimi consensu et Assensu venerabilis patris et domini 
 domini Willelmi dei gratia Norwicensis Episcopi fundatoris nostri de gratia 
 Eegis speciali concessimus ... magistro Thome de Eltislee magistro collegii 
 scolarium domus Gilde Corporis Christi et beate Marie matris sue in Cantebrigg' 
 
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 et collegio scolarium domus eiusdem Gilde locum nostrum et domos quos in- 
 habitamus in presenti vel prius inhabitauimus una cum gardinis muris et 
 omnibus aliis dictis loco et domibus in eadem villa Cantebrigg' in parochiis 
 sanctorum Benedicti et Botuljmi iuxta vicum de Lorteburnelane pertinentibus 
 seu spectantibus, in escambium pro toto illo mesuagio quod quondam fait 
 capitale mesuagium domini Jobannis de Cantebrigg' militis in eadem villa 
 situat' ex opposito habitacionis collegii scolarium domus sancti Michaelis una 
 cum toto illo tenemento quod quondam fuit Jobannis de Goldecorne predicto 
 mesuagio annexo, cum scolis schoppis gardinis muris et omnibus aliis per- 
 tinenciis suis. ... In cuius rei testimonium sigillum nostrum commune huic 
 presenti carte indentate fecimus apponi... Dat apud Cantebrigg' die Jouis in 
 festo Assumpcionis beate Marie virginis anno regni Regis Edwardi tercii post 
 conquestum vicesimo septimo. [August 30, 1353.] 
 
 The horn is still preserved with the greatest care in the Treasury of 
 Corpus Christi College, and has sustained no damage except the loss of 
 its cover. A description and figure of it will be found in the Archseologia 
 for 1773, iii. 19 : and in the "Cambridge Portfolio," p. 296. 
 
 § 11. In the Corpus MS. (C) a piece of paper, of the same quality as that 
 upon which the rest of the MS. is written, has been fastened over the 
 upper portion of the page containing the latter half of this section. The 
 handwriting upon this slip is the same as that of the rest of the text. The 
 correction which is the reading of B, R, is as follows : 
 
 "collegium tenebatur; vt patet ex inquisitione quadam Scaccarii Regii, et 
 ex instrumento manus mortue, in quo mentio fit precum pro Eege et Regina 
 persoluendarum. Quantum autem ad illud manerium etc." 
 
 § 13. This Cup, about 18 inches high, made of an Ostrich's egg 
 supported on a silver stem, is still preserved. The egg is cracked, but the 
 pieces are held together by a silver rim supported on slips of the same 
 metal rivetted into one stem, and thence passing round the egg. Maptit 
 or Moptyd, was Master, 1553—57, Porie, 1557—69. The hall mark however 
 
 P J gives the year 1592 — 93, according to a distinguished authority on 
 
 plate, Mr Wilfrid Cripps ("Old English Plate," 8vo., London, 1878, p. 278). 
 This date confirms a suggestion of Masters ("History of Corpus," p. 21) 
 that the Cup was restored at the expense of Richard Fletcher, when Bishop 
 of Bristol (1589—92). 
 
 § 14. The commission of Edward VI. with an account of the pro- 
 ceedings of the Visitors, is printed in Cooper's Annals, n. 23 : that of Mary, 
 ibid. 112. The incidents here narrated are confirmed by the Diary of 
 J. Mere, Esquire Bedell, printed in Dr Lamb's ' Documents/ 
 
 § 16. By comparing what is said here with § 39 we shall find that the 
 * communis latrina ' was at the S. "W. external angle of the College. The 
 
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 'Christopher' seems to have been used as College rooms from the following 
 inventory existing in Corpus College Library. (Miscellaneous letters and 
 papers, No. 45.) 
 
 The bookes and parcells of stuff remayning in the studye in the Christofer, 
 nowe in the custodye and vse of Kobert Norgate Master or Keper of Corpus 
 Christi Colledg in Cambridg. the ixth of Aprill A 1575. 
 
 1. Imprimis Friderici Nausie Homiliarum Centuriae in foil. 
 
 2. It m Dionisii Carthusiani Homiliae in Epist. et Evang. in foil. 
 
 3. Itm a bedsted with gyrts, yorns, and vices, w th a testor of red and blewe 
 saye fringed round. 
 
 4. Itm a deske hanging naled upon the portall couered w th blewe damaske. 
 
 5. Itm a tressel w th a bord vpon yt at the beds fete, couered with blewe 
 canvas and a pece of dornecks. 
 
 6. Itm a deske w th a locke, w th out a keye, couered w th a pece of old Arras, 
 underset at one end, w th a tourned frame, to set on a bason. 
 
 7. Itm a pece of the same old Arras in eyther of the windoes. 
 
 8. Itm a waynescot table w th a covering of dornecks. 
 
 9. Itm a Long hanging deske, couered w th yelowe sarcenet. 
 
 10. Itm ij Long shelues over the windoes fringed. 
 
 11. Itm j short hanging deske couered w th sarcenet. 
 
 12. Itm j table set uppon an old chayre, couered w th old rent silke. 
 
 13. Itm a counter w th out a Locke. 
 
 14. Itm j buffet stoole. 
 
 15. Itm j Little Lowe stoole. 
 
 16. Itm j chayre turned. 
 
 17. Itm a curteyne of sylke vpon a wier in the windoe towards the streate. 
 
 18. Itm the matts on the flore. 
 
 19. Itm the chamber hanged w th paynted clothes. 
 
 20. Itm ij keyes to the study dore. 
 
 Per me Kobertii Norgate. 
 
 Botwright's ' liber albus ' still exists, bound in the original white parch- 
 ment, and is a most curious and interesting volume. It is entitled "Memo- 
 randa Collegii Corporis Christi et beate Marie Cant' edita per Magistrum 
 Iohannem Botwright sancte theorie professorem et capellanum domini 
 Regis Henrici VI", Rectorem de Swafham Market, Magistrum siue Cus- 
 todem Collegii predicti, electum in festo sancti Marci Evangeliste Anno 
 Domini 1442." 
 
 § 18. The conveyance (Corpus Christi College Treasury, Drawer 31, 
 No. 28) unfortunately gives us no information respecting the precise 
 situation of this hostell. Simon Heynes (President of Queens' College 
 1528 — 1537) sells to William Sowoode 'pro certa summa pecunie' 
 
 "unum Tenementum voc' Barnardi Hostell... situat' et iacent' in parochia sci 
 Bothoi ... inter Tenementa predicti Collegii Corporis Christi ex partibus boriali- 
 bus et australibus. Et abuttat ad unum caput super Gardinum predicti col- 
 
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 legii . . . versus orient', et aliud caput inde abutt' super regiam viam voc' Altam 
 stratam versus Occident'..." 
 
 2 July, 26 Hen. viij. [2 July, 1534.] 
 
 Further information respecting the site of this Hostel will be found in 
 "the History of the Queens' College of S. Margaret and S. Bernard" by 
 W. G. Searle, p. 67. 
 
 The royal permission to Corpus to sell to King's is in King's College 
 Treasury, A. 125, dated 2 Feb., 26 lien. VIII. (1535.) The property is 
 there described as 
 
 "quandam parcellam terre cum omnibus et singulis Bttis edificiis super 
 edificatis situat' et iacent' in parochia sancti Benedicti... inter venellam rocat 1 
 Nutlane sine Plutlane...ex parte australi et terrain prepositi et scolarium Col- 
 legii nostri Kegalis...ex parte boriali ; que abuttat super viam regiam ei parte 
 orientali, et terram ipsorum Prepositi [etc] ex parte occidentali et oontinet in 
 longitudine per venellam predictam vocal' Nutlane... quater viginti et sex pedes 
 et ex altera parte per terram dictorum Prepositi [etc] centum et octo p< d 
 
 § 19. The arrangements of these rooms will be best understood from 
 the accompanying section of the gallery and other buildings between the 
 College and Bene't Church. It is supposed to be made along a line drawn 
 through the centre of the buildings from north to south. 
 
 'h-n-ri-n-ni- 
 
 A. Chapel next the parish Choir. 
 
 B. Lower Gallery. 
 
 C. Archway into the Churchyard. 
 
 D. Upper Gallery. 
 
 E. Upper Chapel. 
 
 F. Chancel of the Parish Church. 
 a. Door into the Choir. 
 
 '/. Door from the College into the Gallery. 
 ee. Stair from the upper Gallery to the lower 
 Chapel. 
 
 /. Door leading into the lower Gallery from 
 the lower Chapel. 
 
 a. Door from the upper Gallery into the upper 
 Chapel, made larger 1569. 
 
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 The ' sacellum parochiali choro proximum* is the room on the ground- 
 floor (A), approached from above by a turret staircase (ee). It originally 
 communicated with the parochial chancel (F) by a door (a), and with a long 
 narrow room (B), the 'parvum ambulatorium adiacens,' by a second door 
 (/). The archway (C), beyond this room to the south, was the original 
 church-way for the parishioners of S. Bene't when the porch was on the 
 south side of the church. Above the chapel on the ground-floor (A), there 
 was a second or upper chapel (E), of the same size, approached from the 
 College by a long narrow gallery (D). This upper chapel may be identified 
 with the room that Josselin calls 'interim' or 'priuatum sacellum'; and 
 the alteration mentioned by him consisted in making the opening (g) from 
 the gallery as wide as the whole distance between the side-walls. By this 
 means those who sat at the north end of the gallery, 'ambulatorium 
 exterius? or ' testudo,' would be able to see and hear what was going on 
 inside the chapel, which seems to have been used as a Lecture Room, as 
 well as for devotional purposes. 
 
 For further remarks on this subject, see Prof. Willis's "Architectural 
 History," etc., Corpus Christi College, Chap, iv., from which the diagram 
 has been borrowed by the kind permission of the Syndics of the University 
 Press. 
 
 § 23. A similar grille was placed by Dr Caius within the gate of en- 
 trance to Gonville Court from Michael House Lane. See Prof. Willis's 
 History, etc., i. 169. 
 
 § 24. As one more instance of the shameless way in which Masters 
 has plundered Josselin without acknowledgement, compare this passage 
 with p. 66 of his work : 
 
 "The Lodge and Fellows Chambers which were hitherto very plain, and 
 seem to have been open to the Roof, with bare Walls and ordinary Win- 
 dows, such was the frugality of our Ancestors ! began in this Master's time 
 to be better fitted up and glazed by the several Inhabitants." 
 
 § 27. The changes that have taken place in the buildings of the College 
 have rendered the task of reconciling the measurements of the garden- walls 
 here given with those of the ground on which they stood quite impos- 
 sible. The print in Loggan, taken about 1688, shews Parker's wall bounding 
 the Master's garden on the south ; and the Fellows' garden occupying the 
 S. E. angle of the College ground. Between the two a third garden is 
 shewn, which must be the one described in the following document 
 (Corpus Christi Treasury, Box 31, No. 40). 
 
 This Indenture made the xxvj th daye of February in the yeare of the 
 reigne of our Sovereigne Ladye Elizabeth... the ninetenth Betwene Robert 
 
 C 5 
 
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 Norgate Bachelour in divinity and master or keper of the Colledge of Corpus 
 Christi. . .on the one partye And Eichard Willoughby master of Arts and one of the 
 ffellowes of the same College in Cambridge on the other partye Witnesseth that 
 the sayd master or keper. ..have demised granted and to ferme Let. ..unto the 
 sayd Eichard Willoughby... one parcellof theyr orchyard next adioyning unto the 
 Masters garden of the sayd Colledge on the south and west parts of the sayd 
 garden and the Masters gallery w ch parcell of thyer sayd orchyard conteyneth in 
 bredth in the east and therof towards Luthborne Lane fourtye eight foote and 
 in Length from the sayd east end unto the west yt conteyneth in Length fyve 
 score eightene foote and in bredth at y e west end from y e gate w ch leadeth into 
 y 6 common orchyard towards the tennis court three score eleven foot of the 
 standyard. To have and to hold... from the daye of making herof unto the end 
 and terme of forty yeares then next following yf the sayd Eobert Norgate doe 
 so longe continue master of the sayd Colledge Yelding and payeng therefore 
 yearly at the feast of the Nativity of our Saviour Cbrist at the hall table of the 
 sayd master and ffellowes in the sayd College one dishe of apples conteyning at 
 Least twelve apples. Also the sayd master or keeper and ffellowes... do covenant 
 ...wyth the sayd Eichard Willoughby that they... at theyr proper costs and charge 
 shall build a wall of tymber and claye and overcast the same with morter, to... 
 sever the foresayd parcell of ground from the other part of the common orchyard.., 
 
 [26 February, 1577.] 
 
 § 29. The accompanying plan of the old court (Miscell. Letters, etc., 
 No. 138) will make this description intelligible. Josselin begins with the 
 rooms numbered 4 on the plan. The subject is fully discussed in Prof. 
 Willis's work, History of Corpus Christi College, Chapter 2. 
 
 § 46. The Statute referred to is to be found at the end of the Statutes 
 of the College, in the copy in the Registry of the University, after the 
 confirmation by the Commissioners of King Edward the VI. and Queen 
 Elizabeth. It is entitled 
 
 Be iuramento officioque magistri Statutum Nouum. 
 
 In Dei nomine Amen. Nos magister Eichardus billingford magister siue 
 Custos Collegii siue domus scholarium corporis christi et beatas mariae Vni- 
 versitatis Cantabrigiensis Eliensis Dioceseos presbiter socii et scholares eiusdem 
 vnanimi assensu habito inter nos tractatu solempni et diligenti, videlicet in 
 domo nostrae congregationis solita, a. d. 1416 Februarii 6° statuimus et ordi- 
 namus vt si contingat de caetero quod idem magister vel quiscunque successor 
 suus aliquid receperit ab aliquo vel aliquibus nomine dicti collegii per se seu 
 per alium siue pecuniam siue iocalia siue quodcunque fuerit, siue per uiam 
 donationis aut legati seu alio quocunque modo in quibuscunque rebus existat, 
 applicabit communitati siue communi cistae prasdictas domus siue collegii infra 
 spacium quindecim clierum a tempore receptionis huiusmodi continue nume- 
 randorum retentis sibi moderatis et necessariis expensis ad huiusmodi negotium 
 faciendum. Item statuimus et ordinamus vt magister praedictus vel quiscunque 
 successor suus non habeat potestatem aliqua bona dicti collegii alienandi siue 
 
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 aliquibus conferendi siue fuerint spiritualia siue temporalia nee ad firmam per 
 aliquod tempus dimittendi nee habeat potestatem pecuniam seu alia bona 
 dicti collegii alienae persona extraneaa mutandi vltra spacium trium mensium 
 continue numerandorum. Nee habeat potestatem aliquid de bonis dicti col- 
 legii expendendi nisi circa negotia dicti collegii ad vtilitatem illius nee de bonis 
 dicti collegii aliquid alicui conferendi siue donandi vltra summam duorum soli- 
 dorum. Nee habeat potestatem aliquem non socium siue extraneum clerieum 
 vel laicum ad faciendum moram in collegio praedicto vltra mensem admittendi 
 seu recipiendi. Nee habeat potestatem aliquos famulos communes et dictae com- 
 munitati deseruientes admittendi, nee eos a seruitio remittendi siue praesentia 
 et consensu maioris partis sociorum tunc in dicto collegio praesentium. 
 
 Haec omnia et singula magister collegii futurus in admissione sua tactis 
 Sacrosanctis Euangeliis se firmiter obseruaturum iurabit, nisi aliter pro maiori 
 bono et commodo collegii per maiorem partem sociorum ex scripto constitutum 
 merit. 
 
 § 47. The Corpus MS. C adds by way of note 
 
 ** Hie Eichardus Treton fuit Kector de Tindel et executor predicti Eoberti 
 qui fuit principalis iusticiarius, et postmodum regni cancellarius, qui contuht. 
 pro anima eiusdem per vices ad diuersa opera in Monasterio Sancti Albani 
 sexties viginti marcas." 
 
 § 53. The Inn called " Cardinal's Cap," or " Cardinal's Hat," was 
 situated in Trumpington Street, on part of the ground now occupied by 
 the University Press. The earliest of the Title-deeds, now in the Registry 
 of the University, is dated 1670. The property was then in the tenure of 
 Cornelius Austin, Joiner, a name which occurs frequently in College 
 accounts. Among other works executed by the Austins may be mentioned 
 the canopies to the stalls in King's College Chapel, the panel work east- 
 ward of the stalls, and the wainscoting of the Combination Room at Clare 
 Hall. The " Cardinal's Cap" still existed as an Inn down to 1821, when it 
 was sold to the University for the enlargement of the Press. 
 
 § 56. In the Corpus MS. C § 58 ends at the bottom of a page, of which 
 the reverse is left blank, and on the following page § 56, § 57, § 58 are 
 repeated. In § 56 the sentence " multa scitu dignissima memorie prodidit 
 ad statum collegii pertinentia, atque in eodem libro," and the word ' etiam ' 
 after ' summam ' are erased with a red chalk pencil, thus producing the 
 reading of R : " quo quidem in libro summam conscripsit omnium in col- 
 legio chartarum." In § 57 the words " nee silentio pretereundum est " are 
 similarly erased. In MS. B the words " multa scitu — libro " and ' etiam ' 
 are equally left out. 
 
 § 74. The Life of Archbishop Parker, mentioned at the beginning 
 of these notes, is inserted in MS. R at the end of this section. The 
 same tract occurs in the other MSS., but rather differently placed. As it 
 
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 contains nothing relating to the University of Cambridge, or that 
 cannot be found elsewhere^ it has been omitted. 
 
 § 75. The Statutes of the College that are bound up in the same volume 
 as the MS. (B) have the original signatures of the visitors of Edward VI. 
 and Elizabeth appended to them. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY C. J. CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
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PLAN OF THE ROOMS IN THE OLD COURT OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, MADE ABOUT 1576, 
 WITH THE NAMES OF SOME OF THE OCCUPANTS: 
 
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 Next to that 
 A fellowe 
 
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 A fellowe 
 
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 2 Col. Scholers 
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 Next to that 
 A fellowe 
 
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THE SOURCES OF 
 
 ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S 
 COLLECTION OF MSS 
 
 AT 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
THE SOURCES OF 
 
 ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S 
 COLLECTION OF MSS 
 
 AT 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE 
 
 WITH 
 
 A REPRINT OF THE CATALOGUE OE 
 THOMAS MARK AUNT'S LIBRARY 
 
 BY 
 
 MONTAGUE RHODES JAMES, Litt.D. 
 
 FELLOVT OF KING*S COLLEGE, 
 DIRECTOR OF THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. 
 
 Cambridge : 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 
 
 SOLD BY DEIGHTON, BELL & CO. ; and MACMILLAN & BOWES. 
 
 LONDON, GEORGE BELL AND SONS. 
 
 1899 
 
Cambrt&gc : 
 
 PRINTED r:Y J. AMD C. F. CLAY, 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
ON THE SOURCES OF THE PARKER COLLECTION 
 
 OF MANUSCRIPTS AT CORPUS CHRISTI 
 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 Historians, palaeographers, and archaeologists, will all 
 agree that it is very important to determine the places in 
 which ancient books were written or preserved. If we can 
 trace the career of a manuscript from the scriptorium where 
 it took shape to the library shelf on which it rests to-day, we 
 may find that its history will throw light on the most un- 
 expected matters. It may shew us the origin of a school of 
 handwriting : it may explain the genesis of a type of text : 
 or it may account for the presence of a particular element 
 in the works of a famous writer. Some of the notable results 
 gained by study of the history of individual manuscripts will 
 appear as I proceed. They are probably sufficient to justify 
 the rash attempt I have made to determine the original 
 homes of the books comprising that famous collection, the 
 Parker MSS. at Corpus Christi College. I say that my attempt 
 is rash, because it is not to be expected that any one person 
 should be capable of seizing upon and rightly appreciating all 
 the indications which are significant and might be made to 
 yield the information we seek. Still, it so happens that a 
 very considerable proportion of the books in Archbishop 
 Parker's collection can be assigned to their ancient homes 
 with certainty, or with great probability ; and, for the rest, 
 I have noted such indications as may in the future enable 
 myself, or other searchers in the same field, to fill up the gaps 
 I have been forced to leave. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 1 
 
Z CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 Several reasons have contributed to induce me to under- 
 take this piece of work. Perhaps the most cogent is to be 
 found in the kindness of Mr C. W. Moule, Librarian of the 
 College, who made it possible for me to take every single 
 volume, from no. 1 to no. 482, off the shelves, and examine 
 it for traces of its provenance. And besides that, I am very- 
 anxious to set the example of treating a collection of MSS. 
 in this particular way. At present the only considerable 
 attempt in this direction with which I am acquainted is the 
 list of provenances of MSS. given by the Rev. W. D. MaCray 
 in his Annals of the Bodleian Library : a list which though 
 necessarily incomplete, is invaluable to the searcher after 
 remains of our ancient libraries. 
 
 But, indeed, every one of the older collections of manu- 
 scripts in England ought to be analysed from the point of 
 view of the provenance of its component parts. If we wish, 
 as I imagine we do wish, to gain a clear and complete notion 
 of the intellectual life of monastic England, we must know 
 what books were in the hands of the monks in the various 
 great centres of learning. And it will be just as instructive 
 to ascertain what sort of libraries the smaller abbeys or 
 priories possessed, as it is to study the books belonging to 
 the larger communities. To attain this end we must have a 
 Corpus of monastic catalogues : we must print and analyse 
 the Catalogus scriptorum of Boston of Bury, and the probably 
 earlier Tabula septem custodiarum : and we must also go 
 through the old stores, such as the Cottonian, Royal, Harleian, 
 Arundel, and Bodley MSS., and the College Libraries at 
 Cambridge and Oxford, examining every volume and noting 
 press-marks, names of mediaeval and sixteenth century owners, 
 and the opening words of the second leaf. It is, no doubt, a 
 big piece of work : but my own slight experience has taught 
 me that it is preeminently interesting — even exciting — and 
 that all manner of pleasant discoveries, great and small, await 
 him who is bold enough to embark upon it. 
 
 To come from the general to the particular; I have to 
 explain the methods I have myself employed in examining 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 3 
 
 the Parker MSS., and to gather up some of the results that 
 I have obtained. 
 
 It must be stated at once that a very great deal of the 
 material for identification has been irrecoverably lost. Nearly 
 all the MSS. were rebound at the end of the last century, 
 and with that rebinding away went all the evidence that 
 might have been gleaned from old bindings, fly-leaves, or 
 fragments of writing in the covers. The Parker Collection 
 is not the only one in Cambridge which has suffered in this 
 way. At Peterhouse, and at the University Library, equal 
 havoc has been wrought in the past : but the loss is the more to 
 be deplored in the case before us in view of the higher average 
 value of the books concerned. 
 
 Not all, again, of my results are new. Nasmyth in his 
 Catalogue notes the source of many of the MSS. : but the 
 examination of a large number of MSS. in many libraries has 
 furnished me with more material for identifying the books 
 belonging to different monasteries than he had at his command. 
 
 In forming the list of manuscripts subjoined to this dis- 
 course, my principle of procedure has been as follows. I have 
 not given a list of the contents of each MS., but only a short 
 title : and I have uniformly noted the first words of the second 
 leaf (called the dictio probatoria). The reason for this is, that 
 in most monastic catalogues this detail appears : and thus 
 volumes which I have failed to trace to their old homes may 
 be identified in the future by means of such catalogues. Where 
 Parker has bound up two or three complete MSS. together, 
 I have noted the first words of the second leaf of each. 
 Furthermore, I have not included in my survey the late paper 
 MSS., of which there are so many in the Library. They are 
 mostly collections of letters and statutes, or late treatises. 
 Naturally these were never in monastic libraries at all. Nor 
 do I notice the Wyclifflte MSS.: for these were chiefly (though 
 not in all cases) circulated among seculars. 
 
 Now among the Parker MSS. are some scanty relics of a 
 collection previously possessed by Corpus Christi College. In 
 1439 Thomas Markaunt, Fellow, bequeathed to the College 
 
 1—2 
 
4 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 a library of 76 (75) volumes, which for upwards of a century 
 were preserved with great care, under special conditions. A. 
 full Catalogue of these remains : it is no. 232 in Nasmyth. 
 It has been already printed once for this Society, by Mr 
 J. O. Halliwell in 1848 : but I have thought it well to reprint 
 it here. For, in his prefatory note, the last editor says, " It may 
 be mentioned that in the original manuscript the incipits of the 
 second and of the penultimate folios are given, but it has not 
 been considered necessary to copy them." Much might be said 
 about the wisdom of this remark ; but I will omit any criticisms 
 and merely say that I have copied the incipits in question, so 
 that by their help we may be able to identify any of Markaunt's 
 books which may be lurking in Cambridge or elsewhere. 
 
 At present only three of the 75 volumes, exclusive of the 
 Catalogue, have presented themselves. Two are at Corpus 
 Christi, and the third in the Registry. And here let me say 
 a few words about the disappearance of the old libraries of 
 Cambridge. We have in print catalogues of the old Libraries 
 at Corpus Christi, Trinity Hall, King's, Queens', St Catherine's, 
 and the University. At the present moment 19 of the Uni- 
 versity Library books are known to exist out of 330. At 
 Corpus Christi, as I have said, 3 out of 75; at Queens', I 
 believe, none; at King's, 1 out of 176; at Trinity Hall, 1: at 
 St Catherine's none out of about 100. It is clear, also, from 
 Leland's Collectanea that Clare College possessed in his time 
 a large number of books, of which there is no trace now. 
 Very similar is the case of Duke Humphrey's collection of 
 600 volumes, which he presented to the University of Oxford. 
 Three of these volumes now remain in the Bodleian, and 
 possibly a dozen may be in existence in other libraries. What 
 does it all mean ? Who is responsible for the wholesale 
 destruction which these facts imply ? I am afraid the answer 
 is only too clear. We have to thank the Commissioners 
 appointed under Edward VI. to reform the Universities. Some- 
 thing of their methods of procedure may be learnt from 
 Mr Macray's Annals of the Bodleian Library. More can be 
 inferred from the facts I have been citing. 
 
COEPUS CHRISTI MSS. 5 
 
 I must turn now to the general results of the investigation 
 of the Corpus Christi MSS. Out of the 482 volumes cata- 
 logued by Nasmyth it is possible to say something about the 
 origin of nearly 200 : further, we can set aside close upon 
 100 books as being late documents or Oriental MSS. So that 
 about 180 of the vellum MSS. remain at present unassigned to 
 any ancient monastic or private owner. 
 
 The largest contributors to the collection are the two 
 Canterbury libraries — of Christ Church Priory and St Augus- 
 tine's Abbey. I assign 47 volumes to the former and 26 to 
 the latter. Next come — Norwich Priory with 18 volumes, 
 Worcester with 9, Bury with a possible 7, Dover with 6, 
 Exeter with 5 : no other monastery contributes more than 4. 
 
 Let us take the Canterbury books first, and of them the 
 contingent from Christ Church Priory. They include some 
 of the most interesting in the library. As famous as any is 
 the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (No. 173) which, though it has 
 lost its fly-leaves and class-mark, is on the strength of internal 
 evidence unanimously allowed to be a Christ Church book ; 
 and indeed can be identified almost with certainty in the 
 fourteenth century catalogue of the Christ Church Library. A 
 new discovery, — the best, perhaps, that I have to show, — is 
 this : No. 46, which contains the Polycraticus and Metalogicon 
 of John of Salisbury, is the very copy which the author 
 presented to St Thomas a Becket, to whom the former of the 
 two treatises is dedicated. On the fly-leaf of this MS. is an 
 inscription, erased but still legible, to the effect that it 
 belonged to St Thomas, and the class-mark in the MS. 
 corresponds accurately with the class-mark assigned in the 
 old Christ Church catalogue to a copy of the two works 
 bequeathed by St Thomas to the Priory. One result of this 
 discovery is that the Corpus Christi MS. must be regarded in 
 future as a primary authority for the text of the books it 
 contains. 
 
 Another volume which belonged to an important personage 
 is No. 76. It contains a copy of Radulphus de Diceto, and on 
 the fly-leaf is written Annates Stephani Archiepiscopi The 
 
b CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 owner was Stephen Langton : and like the one last-mentioned 
 the volume is clearly identifiable in the old catalogue. To 
 Canterbury again we can now assign the very handsome 
 Psalter of the French Count Achadeus, written in 884 (No. 
 272), which is usually to be seen in a show-case in the College 
 Library. The fly-leaves of this book are fragments of account- 
 rolls wherein occur the names of several Kentish villages 
 belonging as I believe to Christ Church. 
 
 Again, the Juvencus in uncials (No. 304) must, I have 
 little doubt, be the volume described in an old fragment 
 of a Christ Church catalogue as 'Juvencus in Romana scrip- 
 tural This fragmentary catalogue is contained in a MS. in 
 the University Library (Ii. 3. 12). It belongs to the end of 
 the twelfth century, and has been printed, minus the class- 
 marks annexed to each title, by Mr J. Bass Mullinger, in his 
 History of the University (i. p. 102). 
 
 Let us look next at the contingent from St Augustine's 
 Abbey. It is smaller, but it is extremely interesting; for it 
 includes the uncial Latin Gospels with paintings which, if any, 
 may be called Gregorian. This is numbered 286. 
 
 At this point let me digress. There is another fragment of 
 a gospel- book in Celtic hand (No. 197) which used also to be 
 called a Gregorian book. It gives no indication at present 
 of any former habitat But Bishop Tanner (Bibliotheca Bri- 
 tannica, s.v. Fcdix) speaks of it as having been the property 
 of St Felix the Burgundian, the Apostle of East Anglia. His 
 words are : " as to the Book of the Gospels, now in the library 
 of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and formerly in the 
 possession of the monks of Eye, see Leland, Collectanea, iii. 24." 
 The book of which Tanner speaks must be one of the two 
 "Gregorian" MSS., and he cannot, I imagine, have been unaware 
 of the fact that No. 286 contains documents which prove 
 indisputably that it belonged to St Augustine's, for Hickes 
 and Wanley had printed them before he wrote. 
 
 We must next consult Leland. In the place mentioned by 
 Tanner we read as follows : 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 Monachi Eyenses olim habebant 
 coenobiolum apud Dunwic, oppidum 
 maritimum antiquitus Dunmoc dic- 
 tum et civitatis nomine insigne, in 
 quo Felix Orientalium Anglorum 
 episcopus sedern habuit. Sed post- 
 quam alio sedes traducta fuit, vete- 
 rem occupabant monachi. Nunc 
 vero coenobiolum (ut plura ibidem 
 alia) a mare devoratum est. Eyenses 
 adhuc servant Evangeliorum librum, 
 relliquias exhausti coenobioli; et a 
 vulgo ruber liber de Eya vocatur, 
 per quern apud vulgus solenne est 
 iurare. Monachi constanter adfir- 
 mant librum fuisse Felicis, et certe 
 verisimile est. Nam praeterquam 
 quod sit scriptus litteris maiusculis 
 Longobardicis, refert vetustatem 
 mire venerandam. 
 
 The monks of Eye once had a 
 cell at Dunwich, a town on the coast 
 anciently called Dunmoc and dis- 
 tinguished by the name of city 
 where Felix, Bishop of the East 
 Angles, had his see. But when the 
 see was transferred elsewhither, the 
 old site was occupied by monks. 
 Now, however,the cell (together with 
 much else {or many others) in the 
 place) has been swallowed up by the 
 sea. The monks of Eye still preserve 
 a Book of the Gospels, a relic of 
 their ruined cell. It is popularly 
 called the Red Book of Eye, and 
 the people are wont to swear by 
 it. The monks constantly affirm 
 that it was Felix's book; and cer- 
 tainly that seems likely enough, for 
 besides the fact that it is written in 
 large {or capital) Lombardic letters, 
 it has an appearance of wonderful 
 great antiquity. 
 
 Leland, then, saw at Eye Priory a gospel book in "Lom- 
 bardic " characters, known as the Red Book of Eye, which was 
 believed to have belonged to St Felix, and had been brought 
 from Dunwich. Now, by " Lombardic " letters we may be 
 confident that Leland did not mean uncials. These he would 
 be apt to call " Roman writing." He might on the other 
 hand very well mean such a Celtic hand as our MS. (no. 197) 
 is written in, — a hand which would not be so familiar to him, 
 and which he would be likely to describe by a somewhat 
 unusual word. 
 
 Have we, then, in this fragment a relic, or what was long 
 thought to be a relic, of St Felix ? The question deserves to 
 be looked into. Tanner most unfortunately does not give any 
 of the reasons which led him to speak as if the attribution of 
 our MS. to St Felix were a well-known fact. That he does so 
 speak of it you have heard : and I should be very glad to 
 accept his statement if I could. Only I am afraid there is 
 
8 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 some evidence against his view. I have heard on very good 
 authority that the Red Book of Eye which Leland saw was 
 in possession of the municipal authorities of that town until 
 quite recent times ; and that, well within this century, perhaps 
 even in this generation, it had been (by other hands, not those 
 of the corporation) cut up for game-labels ! Whether this last 
 detail be true or not, it is obvious that the story cannot be 
 reconciled with Tanners assertion that the book or part of it 
 was among the Parker MSS. 
 
 Further, there is a rival tradition as to the provenance of 
 no. 197. In it is an inscription (by Parker) stating that it was 
 one of the books sent by Gregory to Augustine and "lately 
 thus mutilated." Moreover, it was generally held that a 
 volume in the Cottonian collection (Otho, C. v), now destroyed, 
 was a part of this same book. It contained the Gospels of 
 Matthew and Mark, and this has parts of Luke and John. 
 The Cottonian MS. was traditionally said to be a Gregorian 
 book. It could not, of course, have been sent from Rome, for 
 it is of Celtic origin : but the tradition of the Canterbury 
 provenance may be a true one. In any case the modern story 
 from Eye, coupled with this Canterbury tradition, stands in 
 the way of our identifying the Corpus MS. no. 197 with the 
 Gospels of St Felix. 
 
 A possible explanation of Tanner's assertion has occurred 
 to me. It is conceivable that he has confused the Red Book 
 of Eye with the Red Book of the Peak in Derbyshire. This 
 latter is certainly at Corpus Christi. As was the case with the 
 Book of Eye, people were wont to swear by it : indeed the 
 belief was that whoever swore falsely upon it would run mad. 
 It is true that the Derbyshire book is not a book of the 
 Gospels, and that the mistake would be rather a careless one 
 for Tanner : but I feel that it is a very possible one. 
 
 But one word more. Supposing that in spite of the ob- 
 jections adduced above, it should hereafter transpire that 
 Tanner was right, and that no. 197 is the Red Book of Eye, 
 or a fragment of it, it may be asked how it could have come 
 about that a specimen of Celtic art such as this is should be 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. V 
 
 found at Dunwich in Suffolk. As it happens, we can point to 
 the presence of one rather famous Irishman in that part of 
 the world and near the date of St Felix. I mean the seer of 
 whom Bede tells us so much, St Fursey. And where there 
 was one of that nation there may very well have been more. 
 
 We return to the books from S. Augustine's, meaning to 
 digress again very soon. The handsome MS. of Homer (no. 81), 
 written late in the fifteenth century, has a long note in it 
 in Archbishop Parker's hand, to the effect that he found it in 
 possession of a baker at Canterbury, who said that it came 
 from St Augustine's Abbey. I take leave to doubt whether 
 the baker was right, for I do not find, at St Augustine's, traces 
 of Greek learning in anything like the same degree as at Christ 
 Church. At the latter place Prior William Sellyng had a 
 notable collection of Greek (and Latin) books which he had 
 brought from Italy : and the baker may very easily have been 
 mistaken as to which of the two Canterbury monasteries his 
 Homer had come from. 
 
 To proceed. The Homer has on its title page, among other 
 ornaments, the name ©EOAI1POS in gold capitals on a 
 blue ground, surrounded by a laurel wreath. Hence Parker 
 concluded that it had belonged to the famous Archbishop 
 Theodore, at the end of the seventh century. Nay, more, 
 taking, I imagine, this particular MS. as his standard, he has 
 written in several other Greek MSS. an inscription to the 
 same effect. A xiiith century Psalter (no. 480), and a xvth 
 century Euripides on paper (no. 403) at Corpus Christi, and a 
 xivth or xvth century Psalter at Trinity College, are thus 
 equipped, and, more astonishing still, a xvth century Cicero 
 written in Italy in a Roman hand (no. 158) is assigned to 
 Archbishop Theodore. This is sad work. The only value of 
 these ridiculous inscriptions lies in the fact that they show 
 pretty clearly that the books containing them must have come 
 from Canterbury. And we cannot be far wrong in attributing 
 their presence there to the influence of the scholar and 
 humanist already mentioned — William Sellyng — whose real 
 name seems to have been Tilley, Selling being merely the 
 
10 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 name of the Kentish village from which he came. The 
 volumes I have mentioned are, I expect, nearly all waifs and 
 strays from the Library he collected in Italy. The bulk of it 
 perished, as is well known, in an accidental fire on the occasion 
 of Dr Leighton's visit to the priory of Christ Church. 
 
 The subject of Greek learning in the middle ages is always 
 interesting, and there is another book at Corpus Christi which 
 has a bearing thereupon. This is a Psalter of the xiiith cen- 
 tury (no. 468) in which the Latin and Greek versions — both in 
 Latin letters — are written in parallel columns. The fly-leaf is 
 inscribed Psalterium Grecum Gregorii. At first sight this looks 
 like an attribution to Pope Gregory : but that is not so. An 
 examination of the Kalendar prefixed to the text shows that 
 the book belonged to a monastery where a great deal of honour 
 was paid to St Yvo. That monastery must be Ramsey. We 
 have a Catalogue of the Ramsey library {Chronicon Abbatiae 
 Rameseiensis, Rolls Series), and in it, under the heading of 
 Libri Gregorii Prioris, the entry Psalterium Grecum occurs 
 twice over. 
 
 It is worth noticing that this same Abbey was remarkable 
 for the number of Hebrew books it possessed. The Catalogue 
 enumerates nearly all the books of the Old Testament in 
 Hebrew. 
 
 The account of their acquisition, given by the faithful 
 Leland (Comm. de scriptt. Britt. s.v. Gregorius Venantodunensis), 
 is interesting. It was in the reign of Edward I., he says, when 
 the Jews were expelled, the synagogues desecrated, and their 
 belongings sold. At Huntingdon and Stamford their books 
 were put up to auction. Gregory of Huntingdon (this same 
 Prior Gregory who owned the Greek Psalter) hurried to the 
 spot and secured all the books he could. He was not the only 
 Ramsey man who profited by the sale. The Abbey Catalogue 
 shows us that a monk, Robert Dodeford, also possessed many 
 Hebrew books. This was in the xiiith century. Early in the 
 xvth Ramsey produced a scholar, Laurence Holbeach, who 
 devoted himself to the study of Prior Gregory's books, and to 
 such good purpose that he was able to compile a Hebrew 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 11 
 
 dictionary. The fate of this work is obscure. It was taken 
 away from Ramsey by the "excessive diligence" of Robert 
 Wakefield, whom Leland briefly, but no doubt adequately, 
 describes as a polypus. As a matter of fact, he was a Cam- 
 bridge man who became Professor of Hebrew at Oxford, while 
 his younger brother Thomas was the first Hebrew Professor 
 here. Robert seems to have produced a Chaldee Lexicon 1 , but 
 not a Hebrew one. 
 
 The last I need notice of the St Augustine's books at 
 Corpus Christi are two handsome volumes of the Speculum 
 Historiale of Vincent "of Beauvais" (nos. 13, 14), given to the 
 Abbey in the xivth century by Abbot Thomas (Findon or 
 Poucyn). They are the second and third volumes of a set of 
 four : and they afford a good example of the useful or at least 
 satisfactory results of a systematic exploration of collections of 
 MSS., for I have found the first volume of the same set at 
 St John's College. The fourth has not yet turned up. I will 
 add — for it is germane to the subject — that St John's possesses 
 the second volume of a Josephus of the xiith century, from 
 Christ Church, Canterbury — a splendid book. I find the first 
 volume in the University Library. And again, I find, also at 
 St John's, two MSS. once the property of Peterhouse, but 
 given to their present owners as long ago as the reign of 
 Charles I. They are two copies of Quintilian, and are among 
 the books which I most regretted to find missing from the 
 Peterhouse Library. 
 
 The next Library which I shall mention is that of a 
 monastery intimately connected with Christ Church, Can- 
 terbury, namely, Dover Priory, which was a cell to that great 
 house. It had a very good collection of books, whereof the 
 catalogue, made at the end of the xivth century, exists in the 
 Bodleian (Bodl. 920) and has been transcribed for me. Six 
 volumes at Corpus Christi are from Dover: the best is a 
 magnificent Bible in two volumes, written in the xiith century 
 (nos. 3, 4). I have also ascertained that the famous Irish 
 Psalter at St John's was once at Dover Priory. 
 
 1 This with other oriental MSS. was (retributively) stolen from his house at 
 Moorgate by Robert Collier, a Carthusian monk. So says Tanner. 
 
12 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 Of the five books from Exeter, four were probably among 
 those given by Bishop Leofric to his cathedral in the xith 
 century. Others are at Trinity College, in the University 
 Library, and at the Bodleian. The most famous of them all, 
 which still remains at Exeter, is the collection of Anglo-Saxon 
 poetry, newly edited by Mr Gollancz, and known as the 
 Exeter Book. 
 
 Leofric's gifts of books amounted in all to something over 
 fifty volumes. The list of them in Anglo-Saxon was first 
 printed by Wanley (in Hickes's Thesaurus, II. 80). Twelve of 
 these exist, to my knowledge, and there are several others, e.g. 
 the Bede at Corpus Christi (no. 41), which are not to be 
 found in the old list. 
 
 A small list of ancient English books occurs in an xith 
 century MS. at Corpus Christi (no. 367) which seems to come 
 from Worcester. I do not find that it has been noticed. It 
 consists of an English Passional, two "Dialogues" (i.e. copies 
 of Gregory's Dialogi) in English, an "oddan boc," a Martyrology, 
 two Psalters, two "Pastorals" (i.e. Gregory, Be cura Pastorali), 
 the Rule (of St Benedict), and a Barontus, that is, the Vision 
 of St Barontus of Pistoia, a sixth century book which was very 
 popular in early mediaeval times. 
 
 Norwich — the Cathedral Priory, at least — contributes pro- 
 bably 18 books. Some of these were gifts of Adam Easton, 
 afterwards Bishop, and Cardinal of St Cecilia. He died in 
 Italy, and sent home five barrels of books which he had 
 collected there. Those which bear his name at Corpus Christi 
 were not of this number : they were written and presented 
 while he was still a monk. Two others of the Norwich books 
 belonged to Simon Bozoun, Prior. Curiously enough, we have 
 a list of his private Library in a MS. in the British Museum. 
 It consisted of 31 volumes, four of which are now known to 
 exist. 
 
 The Norwich library was a very large one. Bale possessed 
 the old Register of it, of which Wanley speaks as if he himself 
 had seen it. Unfortunately he was mistaken. He had confused 
 it with the catalogue of Ramsey Abbey. Probably the majority 
 of the extant Norwich books are in the University Library, 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 13 
 
 whither they came by the instrumentality of Dean Gardiner in 
 the sixteenth century, and of Bishop Moore in the eighteenth. 
 At Norwich itself I only know of one. 
 
 Of the books from Bury St Edmunds I have treated at 
 length in another place. The other abbeys of eastern England 
 whose libraries are represented at Corpus Christi are Ely, from 
 which came three volumes, Anglesey, which gives one, Cog- 
 geshall (four), Crowland (perhaps one), Leiston in Suffolk (two), 
 Peterborough (two), Thetford (one), and Thorney (one, doubt- 
 ful). St Albans yields five volumes only, and I am surprised 
 that the number is so small. It has not yet appeared what 
 became of the bulk of their books. Their library must have 
 been very large and important, but no catalogue of it survives 
 (Bishop Bale possessed one, but where it is no one knows), and 
 no collection that I have examined contains more than a few 
 volumes from this great abbey. The Peterborough library, 
 of which we have a catalogue, is in even worse case. 
 
 Another striking feature in Parker's collection is the rarity 
 of books from the northern abbeys. One volume from Hexham, 
 one from Jervaulx, one from Rievaulx, and one from Salley are 
 all that I can find at present. 
 
 The non-monastic or private owners of the MSS. deserve 
 more attention than I can give them here. One book seems 
 to have belonged to Duke Humphrey: I have not identified 
 it among his gifts to Oxford. Another great collector, re- 
 presented here by one volume — was John Gunthorp, Dean of 
 Wells, who died in 1498. He was one of the early humanists 
 in England, had lived long in Italy, and got together a number 
 of books there. Among them was a large portion of the library 
 of John Free, an English scholar, who used, though wrongly, 
 to be credited with having translated Diodorus Siculus into 
 Latin. The bulk of Gunthorp's library was given to Jesus 
 College, but only one or two of his books are to be found 
 there now, and they are not of Italian origin, nor very in- 
 teresting. Trinity, St John's and the University Library have 
 all of them volumes once the property of Gunthorp. And his 
 is a name to be much observed when one is engaged in hunting 
 
14 COEPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 through a collection of MSS., for there is no doubt that the 
 owner of it was an interesting man. 
 
 I do not see that any very important general conclusions 
 can be drawn from this investigation of the Corpus Christi 
 MSS. We see that Archbishop Parker did not employ any 
 cut-and-dried plan in forming his collection. As Archbishop 
 he was connected with Canterbury, and from Canterbury he 
 obtained more MSS. than from any other single place. For the 
 rest, he picked up books where he could : and my list shews 
 that almost all of them came from the southern half of 
 England. 
 
 I will add, in conclusion, that I can confidently recommend 
 this branch of research to anyone who is prepared to be inter- 
 ested in ancient books; and I should like to accompany my 
 recommendation with the injunction, 
 
 Always note the opening words of the second leaf 1 . 
 
 DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THE FOLLOWING 
 
 LIST. 
 
 Defectus Librorum, 1508, or Ingrain. This is a list of books 
 at Christ Church, Canterbury, which were repaired in 1508. 
 It was made by William Ingram, who was " custos martirii " 
 in 1508 and penitentiary in 1511. It is contained in MS. C. 11 
 in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, and 
 has been transcribed from the MS. by Mr J. W. Clark, who 
 kindly lent me his transcript. I have collated it with the 
 original MS. 
 
 " Edwards " = Edward Edwards's Memoirs of Libraries, 
 London, 2 vols, 1859. He prints the Catalogue of Christ 
 Church, Canterbury, from the xivth cent. MS. Cotton, Galba 
 E. IV., in Vol. I. 122—235. 
 
 The catalogue of St Augustine's Abbey is at Trinity 
 College, Dublin. It has been transcribed for me, as also the 
 Catalogue of Dover Priory in MS. Bodl. 920. 
 
 1 If a table of any kind precedes the main text, copy the opening words of 
 the second leaf both of table and of text. 
 
CORPUS CHKISTI MSS. 
 
 I 
 
 Tabulae super Gregorium etc. xiv 2 fo. D. a flagello 
 
 II 
 
 Biblia, vol. i xii 2 fo. (in prologue) 
 
 nis. Nempe quia 
 
 III, IV 
 
 Biblia xii Dover 
 
 On lower margin of fol. 2 of III is this inscription of cent. 
 
 xv : 
 
 $t • I • prima pars biblie ...273... es inter omnia animantia 
 The first quire of IV is a supplement of cent, xv, and no 
 
 mark survives. 
 
 Entered in the MS. Catalogue of Dover Priory Library 
 
 (Bodl. 920) as A . I . 2, 3. 
 
 Prima pars biblie (f. 6) es inter omnia animancia (fF. 273) 
 
 Secunda pars biblie (f. 2) in cordibus suis (ff. 384) 
 
 V, VI 
 
 Joh. Tinmouth Historia aurea xv St Alban's 
 
 On f. 1 of each vol., Hie est liber sancti Albani de libraria 
 
 conuentus. 
 
 In V is a long inscription (see Nasmyth, p. 3) setting forth 
 
 the donation of the two books by Will. Wyntshull, monk, and 
 
 its confirmation by Abbot John Whethamstede. 
 
16 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 VII 
 
 Supplementum Historiae aureae xv St Alban's 
 
 Inscription (in Nasmyth, p. 3) setting forth that the volume 
 was left unbound and incomplete at Wyntshull's (Wynthyll's) 
 death, and bound by Robert Ware. 
 
 VIII 
 
 Vincentii Speculum historiale, I — XIV xv 2 fo. s. ignoramus 
 Not belonging to the same set as XIII, XIV. 
 
 IX 
 
 Passionale 
 
 
 
 xi ? Worcester (see 
 Dec. 30 in Kal.) 
 
 Kalendar 
 
 
 
 Title on f. 1, Passionale 
 
 Jan. 
 
 8. 
 
 Iudoci C. 
 
 
 Feb. 
 
 
 Ermenhilde. 
 
 
 Mar. 
 
 
 Eaduuardi R. M. 
 Cuthberhti. 
 
 
 Ap. 
 
 
 Guthlaci. 
 AELFEAGI EPI. 
 ercenuuoldi ep. 
 
 
 May 
 
 18. 
 
 aelfgife regine. 
 
 
 
 19. 
 
 dunstani ep. 
 
 
 
 21. 
 
 obiit Eoueruuacer 
 
 mo(nachus) et clericus. 
 
 
 25. 
 
 aldhelmi. 
 
 
 
 26. 
 
 Augustini. Bede. 
 
 
 June 
 
 4. 
 
 Petroci. 
 
 
 
 21. 
 
 leutfredi Abb. 
 
 
 
 22. 
 
 Aibaui. 
 
 
 
 23. 
 
 aeSeldriSe V. 
 
 
 July 
 
 2. 
 
 spiSuni. 
 
 
 
 3. 
 
 sexburge. 
 
 
 
 15. 
 
 Transl. suuithuni. 
 kenelmi. 
 
 
 
 '20. 
 
 uulmari C, 
 
 
 
 22. 
 
 uuandregisili. 
 
 
 Aug. 
 
 5. 
 
 ospaldi R. M. 
 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 17 
 
 Sept. 5. berhtini. 
 
 Oct. 14. aethelredi atque aethelbrihti added. 
 
 17. aetheldrithe V. 
 
 Nov. 3. rumimoldi C. 
 
 4. byrnstani Ep. 
 
 20. eadmundi M. 
 
 Dec. 3. byrini Ep. 
 
 30. ECGUINI EP. 
 
 X 
 
 Gratiani Decretum xiii 2fo.ut sitnotorium 
 
 XI 
 
 Rabanus de naturis rerum xii 2 fo. ad omnes 
 
 electos 
 ? Christ Church Canterbury. Edwards p. 155 among libri de 
 claustro. 
 
 XII 
 
 Pastorale Gregorii Saxonice x ? 2 fo. |?3ere 
 
 Possibly Worcester. 
 
 XIII, XIV 
 
 Vincentii Speculum Historialeix — xxiv xiv (cir. 1300) 
 
 St Augustine's 
 Canterbury 
 2 fo. miscente 
 On the fly-leaf of xiv is : 
 
 Tertium uolumen speculi historialis D. Thome Abbatis. 
 The first volume is at St John's (B. 21). 
 This agrees with the entry in St Augustine's Catalogue 
 (f. 62). 
 
 Secunda pars speculi historialis T. abbatis 2 fo. cu auit 
 
 ostendens 
 Tercia pars speculi historialis T. abbatis 2 fo. miscente 
 
 The fourth volume (2 fo. sed quartam) appears to be lost. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 2 
 
18 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 XV printed book 
 
 XVI see XXVI 
 
 XVII 
 
 Aug. super Johannem etc. xii 2 fo. leuaui oculos 
 
 On the top of f. 1 is the letter B of cent. xv. 
 
 XVIII printed 
 
 XIX 
 
 Decreta Ivonis xii Christ Church 
 
 Canterbury 
 2 fo. deuita 
 On f. 1 is the mark -|* Also the inscription 
 
 liber de claustro ecclesie Christi cantuariensis 
 See Edwards p. 155 Libri de armariolo claustri. 
 Decreta Ivonis. 
 
 XX 
 
 Apocalypse in French with pictures xiv St Augustine's 
 
 Canterbury 
 
 See f. 9 of St Augustine's Catalogue. 
 
 Apocalipsis in gallico et latino cum pictura de dono Iuliane 
 de leybourne comitisse de Huntingdon 2 fo. in Gallico : Ke 
 sunt 2° fo. in latino ecce uenit D. 1. G. 3. 
 
 In the book is a similar inscription. 
 
 XXI 
 
 Higden's Polychronicon xiv Hospital of St John 
 
 Cambridge 
 Henricus somer dedit hospitali Sancti Iohannis Euangeliste 
 Cantabrigie. cuius anime propicietur Dens. 
 
 XXII 
 
 Isidori Etymologiae and Bestiary. xiii 2 fo. n principatui 
 No mark : possibly Chr. Ch. Cant. Edwards p. 155. 
 
CORPUS CHR1STI MSN. 19 
 
 XXIII 
 
 Prudentii Psychomachia,etc. with pictures x, xi Malmesbury 
 
 Given by Athelward: see verse inscription in Nasmyth p. 12. 
 
 XXIV 
 
 Bradwardine de causa Dei xiv Worcester 
 
 (liber) procuratus sum ad ecclesiam Wigorn. per fratrem 
 
 Ioannem de Prestone de Somersete monachum eiusdem ec- 
 
 clesie anno domini miilesimo ccc m0 xlviii 2 fo. cupientes 
 
 On f. 1 liber monasterii 
 
 XXV 
 
 Cypriani Epistolae xv 2 fo. ad bestias 
 
 French hand. 
 
 XXVI, XVI 
 
 Matthew Paris xiii St Alban's 
 
 Hunc librum dedit frater Mattheus de Parisiis deo (et 
 S. Albano) anima fratris Matthei et animae (omnium fidelium) 
 defunctorum requiescant in pace. Amen. 
 
 XXVII 
 
 Zachariae Chrysopolitani Unum ex xiii Leiston 
 
 quatuor 2 fo. aut' iuuenc. 
 
 Ex dono dompni Galfridi archidiaconi, cuius anima per 
 
 misericordiam dei requiescat in pace. Amen. De ecclesia B. 
 
 Marie de Leystona, Suffolc. 
 
 XXVIII 
 
 Origenis Homiliae in Numeros xii Abingdon 
 
 Liber S. Marie Abbendonie quicumque ipsum alienauerit 
 anathema sit. Amen. 
 
 XXIX 
 
 Petri Comestoris historia scholastica xiii 2 fo. (in prol.) 
 
 Considerans in libro uocat 
 2—2 
 
20 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 XXX 
 
 Andreas Victorinus super Penta- xiii ? Coggeshall 
 
 teuchum, etc. 2 fo. dicendo lucem 
 
 Title in red on fly-leaf resembling to some extent those in 
 the Coggeshall books. 
 
 XXXI 
 
 Stephanus super prophetas xiv Coggeshall 
 
 Title on fly-leaf. Liber S. Marie de Coggeshale. 
 
 XXXII 
 
 English Exposition of Gospels and 
 Epistles 
 
 XXXIII 
 
 Marcus et Johannes glosati 
 Fine initials. 
 
 XXXIV 
 
 John Damascene. Anselm etc. 
 Mark y. xlxix. (sic). 
 
 XXXV 
 
 Thomas Aquinas 
 prec. xl. s. 
 
 XXXVI 
 
 Vita S. Pauli heremitae etc. 
 Mark M. lxvj. 
 
 XXXVII 
 
 Kalendar etc. 
 
 xv 
 
 xiii 2 fo. et perfecti 
 
 xiv (Norwich) 
 
 2 fo. uoluntatem 
 
 xiv 2 fo. omnis actus 
 
 xv 
 
 ? Norwich 
 2 fo. corporis 
 
 xiv ? Bury 
 
 2 fo. conus pi ram id' 
 Fly-leaf has a table of contents. At the bottom is the letter 
 K- (like the Bury marks) followed by a long inscription now 
 erased. In the Kalendar of Eluedene : 
 Ap. 30. Erkenwald. 
 
 Arnulph (bis). 
 
 Mildred. 
 
 Osith. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 21 
 
 XXXVIII 
 
 Tabulae super Decreta etc. xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. ecclesia 
 
 — quam acquisiuit ecclesie S. Aug. Cant, frater I. Mankael 
 cuius anime propicietur deus. Amen. 
 
 Catalogue (f. 126). List of contents given, ends: fratris 
 I. Mankael. 2 fo. ecclesia. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 ' Pantalogia rerum naturalium ' xiv 2 fo. difflnire 
 
 Libb. I — xv : at end pencilled inscription erased : near the 
 bottom V. a. xn. 
 
 XL 
 
 Petrarch de remediis utriusque fortune xiv, xv censet ut 
 
 XLI 
 
 Bedae Historia ecclesiastica Saxonice xi Exeter 
 
 Given by Leofric. Inscription in Nasmyth p. 26. 
 Not in the list of his books printed by Wanley (Hickes's 
 
 Thesaurus II. 80). 
 
 XLII 
 
 Vita S. Martini xii Dover 
 
 Mark D„ II. 4 fo. corpus quod ad 
 
 D. II. Vita S. Martini et aliorum sanctorum — corpus quod 
 
 ad sepulcrum (f. 4). 
 
 Liber... Iohannis Ryngewolde quondam monachi Dovorie 
 
 cuius anime propicietur altissimus. Amen. 
 Hand like that of Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 XLIII 
 
 Will. Malmesbury de gestis pontificum xiv ? Ely 
 
 2 fo. laude et 
 On the last leaf a note (xiv) of the Bps of East Anglia and 
 of Ely. 
 
22 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 XLIV 
 
 Pontifical Litany 
 
 
 xi 
 
 ? Canterbury 
 
 Martyrs. Stephane 
 quiriace 
 aelphege 
 
 C. benedicte ii 
 augustine 
 dunstane ii 
 audoene 
 
 V. 
 
 austroberhte 
 aetheldrytha 
 mildrytha 
 
 salui 
 
 pauline 
 
 byrine 
 
 suuythune 
 
 cuthberhte 
 
 guthlace 
 
 fursee 
 
 XLV 
 
 
 
 I. De origine Francorum 
 
 xiv 
 
 2 fo. parma 
 
 II. Arthur Romance 
 
 , prose 
 
 xiv 
 
 2 fo. mais de ce 
 
 XLVI 
 
 Joh. Sarisburiensis Polycraticus xii Chr. Ch. Canterbury 
 
 „ Metalogicon 2 fo. (in tab.) licet parum 
 
 Title on fly-leaf Die. secunda D. II. G. X. 
 politicus Iohannis Sarisb. 
 Item metalogicon eiusdem 
 Sancti Thome archiepiscopi (this line erased). 
 Edwards p. 185, last among the Libri S. Thome. 
 Policraticon Iohannis lib. III. 
 Methalogicon eiusdem lib. vm. 
 A xvth cent, table has been prefixed. 
 
 The MS is therefore very likely one presented by the author 
 to Thomas a Becket. 
 Ingram no. 176. 
 
 XLVII 
 
 Petri Cantoris liber distinctionum xii, xiii 2 fo. per bapt. 
 
 On fly-leaf (xiv), liber distinctionum tractus Cantoris 
 parisiensis : at end, W. de D. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 XLVIII 
 
 23 
 
 Biblia xii Worcester 
 
 2 fo. et regnum 
 Written by Senatus Bravonius, apparently. 
 
 XLIX 
 
 Biblia 
 
 Biblia G. de langele minor 
 
 Catalogue f. 1 : 
 
 Biblia G. de langele minor. 
 
 xiu 
 
 St Aug. Cant. 
 2 fo. phantur 
 
 2 fo. phantur. D. 1. G. 1. 
 
 Brute of Wace, etc. xiii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 De librario S. Aug. Cant, cum A. 2 fo. postea 
 
 Catalogue f. 112 : 
 
 Historia Britonum in Gallico et in eodem libro Narracio 
 de quodam millite et uxore sua amicus et amelius historia de 
 iiii or sororibus gesta Guydonis Warewyk in Gallico et nomina 
 Regum britannie ab aduentu Bruti in Albion usque in ad- 
 uentum saxonum in britannia cum A in principio. 2 fo. Postea 
 
 LI 
 
 Eusebius, etc. xii Chr. Ch.'Cant. 
 
 On fly-leaf reversed : 2 fo. bit nullo 
 
 Cronica Eusebii Salomonis. D. vj. g. xiii. Demonstr l a . 
 Edwards, p. 192, Cronica Eusebii Salomonis. 
 Ingram (1508.) 2 fo. bit nullo. 
 
 LII 
 
 Petrus Lombardus super Epistolas Pauli xii, xiii 2 fo. Paulus 
 
 3 fo. ut to turn 
 
 Impossible to identify ; four of the St Augustine's glosses 
 on the Epistles have the same second folio. 
 
24 COKPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 LIII 
 
 Psalterium xiv Peterborough 
 
 " Hugonis de stiuecle prioris." 
 
 2. Chronicon Petroburgense : begins on verso of last leaf of 
 Psalter. 
 
 3. Bestiary. 2 fo. toria dicit 
 
 LIV 
 
 Odo super Pentateuchum xiv Coggeshall 
 
 Title on fly-leaf and " Liber S. Marie de Coggeshal." 
 Seen by Leland at Coggeshall {Collectanea IV. p. 162). 
 
 LV 
 
 Stephanus Cantuar. super Pentateu- xiii 2 fo. Tabernacu- 
 chum, etc. lum or funditur 
 
 LVI 
 
 Cent. xvi. 
 
 LVII 
 
 Regula S. Benedicti Abingdon 
 
 There are beginnings of letters to Aethelstan Abbot of 
 Abingdon, and a formula addressed to Abingdon, after the 
 Marty rology (no. 5). 
 
 Title and table of contents (xiii, xiv) on fly-leaf. 
 
 LVIII 
 
 Langton super Ecclesiasten xiii 
 
 Sit de valle dei Roberti mons requiei 2 fo. expone 
 
 Merces. me cuius explicuit calamus. 
 
 Narrow upright hand. 
 
 LIX 
 
 Imago mundi, etc. xiv early Leiston 
 
 2 fo. accenditur 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 25 
 
 LX 
 
 Ioh. Parisiensis Historia xiv 2 fo. est per prelium 
 
 Erased inscription on f. 1. 
 Foliation like that of Bury. 
 
 LXI 
 
 Chaucer's Troilus xv 2 fo. (in libro) 
 
 criseyde 
 This is my booke S. B. given to me by Mr Case the xvij of 
 Decembre an 1570. 
 
 LXII 
 
 I. Parabolae Salomonis xiii — xiv Rochester 
 
 II. Vita S. Bernardi xii, xiii 
 
 I. Title on fly-leaf. At bottom of f. 1 : Liber de claustro 
 Roffensi per L. Vicarium de Stoke. 
 
 II. Liber de claustro Roffensi per paulum priorem. 
 
 LXIII 
 
 Anselm, etc. xiv Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 Hymn Reyne de pite f. 3. Several volumes. 
 
 Vol. V. is Epistole Bernardi Clareual. D. IIP G. XIII. 
 
 LXIV 
 
 Aegidius Bituricensis xiv, xv 2 fo. De com- 
 
 mendacione 
 or saurus 
 
 LXV 
 
 Homiliae xii, xiv 2 fo. cessit 
 
 in prima 
 Hymns with music (xiv) at end : 2 ff. 
 
26 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 LXVI 
 
 Imago mundi xiii Salley 
 
 Liber See Marie de Salleia. 
 Historia IerosolornitaDa xiv Bury 
 
 Liber de communitate monachorum S. Edmundi. J. 90. 
 
 Another part of this volume is in the University Library 
 Ff. 1. 27. 
 
 LXVII 
 
 RemigiusAutissiodorensis super Psalmos xii 2 fo. desperarent 
 
 LXVIII 
 
 Cassiodorus etc. 
 
 Written by Tielman, films clewardi. 
 
 Is this Tielman fil. Reyneri of Mons S. Gertrudi, who wrote 
 MSS. Balliol. xxvm and xxxv B. in 1442 and 1444? both 
 MSS. were given to Balliol by Bp Will. Gray of Ely. Tielman 
 "fil. Cleclu'di" wrote Gonv. et Cai. 114 in 1432, cf. Peterhouse 
 188. 
 
 LXIX 
 
 Homiliae ix ? 2 fo. reuocando 
 
 Celtic initials. 
 
 LXX 
 
 Leges Angliae xiv 2 fo. de numero 
 
 sicut sibi 
 
 LXXI 
 
 Macrobius etc. xii 2 fo. urget atque 
 
 Title. In hoc uolumine continentur ista: in red on fly- 
 leaf. 
 
 LXXII 
 
 Evangelia IV xii 2 fo. (in lib.) Abra- 
 
 ham 
 (in tab.) Feria 
 Table of gospels for the year. Fine initials to Mc. Lc. Jo. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 27 
 
 LXXIII 
 
 Gorham super Evv. Epp. Apoc. 
 
 xv 
 
 2 fo. virtu osis 
 
 lxxtv 
 
 Berengarii Biterrensis Inventarmni xv Norwich 
 
 Liber eccl. Norwycensis per mag. Adam de Eston monachum 
 dicti loci. x. xxxiiii. 
 
 Psalmi glosati 
 
 Fine initials 
 Beatus vir. 
 Dominus illuminatio. 
 Dixi custodiam. 
 Quid gloriaris. 
 Dixit insipiens. 
 Salvum me fac. 
 
 Exultate. 
 Cantate. 
 Domine exaudi. 
 
 Dixit Dominus. 
 
 LXXV 
 
 xii, xiii (in prohemio) 
 in deum 
 (in libro) per quod 
 
 Decorative. 
 
 Noli me tangere. 
 
 Massacre. Judgment of Solomou. 
 
 Shame of Noah. 
 
 Balaam and angel. 
 
 a. Jonah cast into the sea. 
 
 b. Jonah on fish's back. 
 Decorative: two odd figures. 
 Shepherds and star. 
 
 A prophet and another pray before a 
 
 city. 
 Annunciation. 
 
 LXXVI 
 
 xii Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. res or seculari 
 
 xv xvi Roman hand 
 2 fo. re studebo 
 
 1. Fly-leaf. Annales Stephani Archiepi. Edwards, p. 217. 
 Libri S. Archiepiscopi. Annales de Dorobernensibus archiepis 
 
 Radulphus de Diceto 
 Regula Cassiani 
 
28 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 LXXVII 
 
 Duranti speculum iudiciale xiv xv 
 
 Italian hand, English border on f. 1. 
 
 2 fo. seneis 
 
 LXXVIII 
 
 
 
 Paper 
 
 XV 
 
 2 fo. differt 
 
 LXXVIII* 
 
 
 
 Medica 
 
 xiii, xiv 
 
 2 fo. con- 
 
 The name 'hanle' on f. 1. 
 
 
 sidera. 
 
 LXXIX 
 
 
 
 Pontifical 
 
 Norwich 
 
 LXXX 
 
 
 
 St Graal, paper 
 
 XV 
 
 
 LXXXI 
 
 Homer xv Aug. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. T7j Be/carr). 
 
 On f. 1 of text in a wreath on blue ground is the name 
 eeoAoopoc in gold. Parker writes a long note to say the MS. 
 belonged to Abp Theodore in cent, vii, that it came from St 
 Aug. Cant, and that he got it from a baker. At end are 
 medallions of Homer and Athene. 
 
 Parker's note is as follows : 
 
 Hie liber Theodori repertus in monasterio diui Augustini 
 Cantuariensis post dissolucionem et quasi proiectus inter laceras 
 chartas illius cenobii, quem cumulum chartarum scrutatus 
 quidam pistor quondam eiusdem cenobii invenit et domum 
 portavit, monachis et aliis idem cenobium inhabitantibus aut 
 fugatis aut inde recedentibus. Sed tandem foeliciter in manus 
 Matthaei Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi hie liber devenit. quem 
 ut ingentem thesaurum apud se asseruat. et reponendum vult 
 vel in communi Bibliotheca Academiae Cantabrigie vel in fldeli 
 custodia magistri Collegii (qui pro tempore fuerit) Corporis 
 Christi et beate marie ibidem. 
 
 Cf. Rendel Harris, The Leicester Codex, pp. 8 sqq. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 29 
 
 LXXXII 
 
 Homiliae xv 2 fo. huius seculi 
 
 LXXXIII 
 
 Petri de Riga Aurora xiii 2 fo. (in prohe- 
 
 mio) incipit 
 The bottom of the last leaf is cut off. 2 fo. (in libro) ta 
 
 diligentibus 
 
 LXXXIV 
 
 Gul. de Monte Lauduno, etc. xv 2 fo. sed in hec 
 
 LXXXV 
 
 Summa Ioh. Friburgensis xv 2 fo. niaca heresis 
 
 LXXXVI 
 
 Rabanus super Matthaeum xiii Rievaulx 
 
 Liber sancte Marie de Rieuallis. See the Catalogue in my 
 Catalogue of MSS. at Jesus College. Rabanus super Matheum 
 in uno volumine. 
 
 LXXXVII 
 
 Radulfus super Leuiticum, lib. xx xiii ? Worcester 
 
 2 fo saccum or nee non 
 Bound and labelled like no. 217. 
 
 LXXXVIII 
 
 Claudius Clemens super Mattheum ix ? Sherborne, 
 
 2 fo. tore et aduocati 
 Celtic initials on f. 1, mark of cent. xv. BO. Leland saw at 
 Sherborne (Coll. iv.,p. 150), Claudius super Matthaeum scrip- 
 tus litteris Longobardicis. 
 
 LXXXIX 
 
 Langton super Ieremiam, etc. xiv Coggeshall 
 
 Large title on fly-leaf. Liber Sancte Marie de Cogeshale. 
 
30 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 xc 
 
 Th. Walden contra Io. Wicliff, etc. xv 2 fo. sistam a longe 
 
 Good initial of the author presenting the book to Martin V. 
 Very possibly from the London Carmelites' Library, to which 
 W alden gave many books. 
 
 XCI 
 
 Hystoire des seigneurs de Gaures xiv xv 2 fo. auoit fait 
 
 One large picture, rubbed. 
 
 XCII 
 
 Chronicon. (Florence of Worcester) xiii Peterborough 
 
 Liber abbatis et conuentus S. Petri de Burgo. Fly-leaves 
 from a missal of cent. XV. Not identified in Peterborough 
 Catalogue (printed in Gunton's History of Peterborough). 
 
 XCIII 
 
 Martyrologium Exoniense 1337 Exeter 
 
 By John Grandison. 
 
 This is Walter babyngton his booke rec'd off Thomasin his 
 wyfe. 
 
 XCIV 
 
 Panormia Ivonis Carnotensis xiii ? Ch. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. augustinus, 
 or nee equali 
 In the Canterbury hand: f. 1 gone. 
 
 xcv 
 
 William of Tyre xiv 2 fo. suppeterent 
 
 " for y e coste of this book xxx s." Contains 9 ff. of a law MS. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 31 
 
 XCVI 
 
 Chronicon Io. Brompton xv Jervaulx 
 
 At end: Liber monasterii Jorevallensis ex procuratione 
 domini Ioh. Brompton abbatis eiusdem loci: si quis hunc 
 librum alienauerit delebitur de libro uite. 
 
 On fly-leaf. Hec chronica comparata est a mag. Petro 
 Osburne pro chronica Ranulphi Cestrensis siue polichronicon 
 latine in magno uolumine. 
 
 XCVII 
 Bound with CXXII: papers of xvi. cent. 
 
 XCYIII 
 
 Two genealogical rolls. 
 
 XCIX 
 
 Alchemica xv 2 fo. in paradise 
 
 C— CVI 
 
 Papers and copies of cent. xvi. 
 
 CVII 
 
 Versus (f. 169, sqq.) 
 
 Inc. Aaron virga dei uirgo peperisse feruntur. 
 
 CVIII— cx 
 Papers and copies cent. xvi. 
 
 CXI 
 
 
 Register xii etc. 
 
 Bath 
 
 CXII 
 
 
 Raymund Lully xvi 
 
 
 CXIII— CXV 
 
 
 Papers and copies cent. xvi. 
 
 
 CXVI 
 
 
 Genealogical Roll. 
 
 
32 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CXVII 
 
 Higden Polychronicon 
 At end, erased, 
 Cronica que composuit m. J. 
 
 xv 
 
 2 fo. cabilem or 
 litus. 
 
 CXVIII— CXXII 
 
 Papers cent. xvi. 
 
 CXXIII 
 
 I. Epistolae Hereb. de Bosham 
 f. 1 gone. 
 
 xiv 
 
 ? Ch. Oh. Cant. 
 
 1st extant fo. 
 
 crecio tua 
 
 II. Epp. of Grostete on paper. 
 
 CXXIV— CXXVIII 
 
 Papers cent. xvi. 
 
 CXXIX 
 
 Eutropius etc. xv 
 
 Sent fro M r Twyne. 
 
 St Aug. Cant. 
 2 fo. Romani. 
 
 In hoc libro continentur tot uolumina: erasure at end of 
 title. 
 
 Catalogue f. 62. 
 
 Cronica Eutropii de principibus Romanis et in eodem libro 
 gesta Alexandri magni. Itinerarium Regis Ricardi et vita 
 S. Thome Cantuar. Archiep. cum quibusdam libris (? Uteris) 
 eiusdem. Willelmi Wellis. 2 fo. Romani. 
 
 CXXX 
 
 Corpus Canonum xii ?Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 On fly-leaf: Canones (xii) & Corpus Canonum (xii) 2 fo. 
 
 modi neglegant. 
 
 Edwards, p. 155 (Libri de armariolo claustri) Corpus 
 Canonum. 
 
 f. 1 is mutilated. 
 
 CXXXI 
 
 Cassiodorus super psalmos I — L 
 
 Mark G. 21. 
 
 xn 
 
 Norwich 
 2 fo. ri. psalm i 
 
CORPUS CHRTSTI MSS. 33 
 
 CXXXII 
 
 Cent. xvi. 
 
 CXXXIII 
 
 Algorismus xiv 2 fo. terminer fors 
 
 Scala chronica. 
 
 On fly-leaf, a title of cent, xv, 
 Cronica etc. ending 2 fo. in processu libri terminer fors. 
 
 CXXXIV 
 
 Barenguidus super Apocalypsim xi ? Norwich 
 
 2 fo. et age 
 Fragments of accounts at each end, in which Norwich is 
 mentioned. 
 
 cxxxv 
 
 Epistolae Anselmi, etc. xiii Bury 
 
 Liber monachorum S. Ednrundi. A. 83. 
 
 De sorte Johannis wickham monachi monasterii S. Edmundi 
 de buree actualiter scolatisantis oxonie et permansurus dum 
 mode... 
 
 CXXXVI 
 
 Raymundi summa, etc. xiv Anglesey 
 
 Liber domus de Anglesey accomodatus Willelmo de Bromp- 
 ton rectori ecclesie de Birecham ad restituendum sub pena xs. 
 
 CXXXYII 
 
 Philosophia monachorum xiv Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. officium ecclesias- 
 ticum or Quos patres 
 Liber de claustro ecclesie Christi Cant. Qui me renouauit 
 Altissimus eum benedicat $. Too late to be in the Catalogue. 
 
 CXXXVIII 
 
 Alexander Essebiensis, etc. xiv xv 
 
 At end of vol. I. m d q d Johes I 2 fo. britamiiam 
 
 clericus de boxle. II 2 fo. inuisi diis 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 3 
 
34 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CXXXIX 
 
 Chronica (Simeon of Durham) xii Hexham 
 
 2 fo. peccaret 
 Contains Richard of Hexham. See Rolls Series. Chronicles 
 of Stephen, etc., Preface. 
 
 CXL 
 
 Evangelia IV Saxonice xi Bath 
 
 CXLI 
 
 Catalogue of Syon Library Syon 
 
 Edited by Miss Bateson. Cambridge, 1899. 
 
 CXLII 
 
 Bonaventurae speculum vitae Christi xv 
 
 Thys boke is William Bodleys and Elizabethe hys wyffe. 
 
 CXLIII 
 
 Bonaventurae spec. Vit. Chr. xv 2 fo. Michael 
 
 On last leaf, in gold, Iohes Monke. 
 
 CXLIV 
 
 Glossaria viii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Di XI gr a I vet 9 . 2 fo. Farao 
 
 elucidacio quarundam parcium cum gfc. 
 liber sci Aug. Cant. 
 Cf. Catalogue f. 100: 
 
 Liber de obstrusis sermonibus parcium 2 fo. omnes 
 
 D. 11. G. 1. 
 
 CXLV 
 
 Legenda SS. Anglice xiv Litchwick 
 
 Hie liber est ecclesie b. Marie de Litchewyk de dono fratris 
 Ioh. Kateryngton canonici ibidem, etc. 
 
CORPUS CHRLSTI MSS. 
 
 35 
 
 Pontificale 
 
 Bible (Wycliffe) 
 
 CXLVI 
 
 CXLVII 
 
 XI 
 
 XV 
 
 Worcester 
 
 CXLVIII 
 
 Memorial e presbiterorum xiv Norwich ? 
 
 Has many verses and scribbles. Mark, P. viii et tc ppter 
 In this and 149 is the line: omnibus omnia non mea somnia 
 
 dicere possum. 
 
 CXLIX 
 
 Hegesippus de bello Iudaico xii Bury? 
 
 Contains 2 ff. of a beautiful Italian xnth cent. MS.: 
 erasure : mark, 6 . ij. 
 
 CL 
 
 Pet. Cantor verbum abbreuiatum, etc. xiv ? Swineshead 
 
 Erasure at end, below colophon. Item sup flua 
 
 Verses addressed to the abbot of Swineshead : see Nasmyth. 
 
 CLI, CLII 
 
 Cent. xvi. 
 
 CLIII 
 
 Martianus Capella 
 
 Flat-topped hand: 1st leaves gone 
 See Bradshaw, Collected Papers. 
 
 IX 
 
 Tu quern psallentem 
 tunc crepitantes 
 
 CLIV 
 
 Anselmi quaedam xiv xv St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Liber fr. Jo. de London monachi de libraria S. Augustini 
 Cant, monachorum D. VI. G. 1 (twice) 2 fo. ut per se 
 
 Cat. f. 30. Table of contents given, ending I. de London, 
 2 fo. in libro ut per se D. 6. G. 1. 
 
 3—2 
 
36 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CLV 
 
 Anselmi quaedam 
 
 Good initial of Anselm 
 
 prec. xxxs erasure precedes : erased 
 scribbles on leaves at end. Words 
 " vigil, bi Thome " occur. 
 
 XIV 
 
 2 fo. (in libro) aut 
 ppter or simili- 
 tudine 
 
 Cent. xvi. 
 
 Tract, de papa, etc. 
 Paper, foreign. 
 
 CLVI 
 CLVII 
 
 CLVIII 
 
 XV 
 
 XV 
 
 Ciceronis Rhetorica 
 
 Probably William Sellyng's (from 
 Italy?) called 'Liber quondam Theodori 
 Archiepiscopi Cantuar'. (!) 
 
 CLIX 
 
 Homiliae xl. Gregorii xv 
 
 prec. xiiis iiiid 
 2 ff. of a xvth cent. Antiphoner with music. 
 
 ? Chr. Ch. Cant, 
 et iusticiam 
 
 dominus 
 
 CLX 
 
 Beda super Epp. Canon. 
 
 xn 
 
 IBury 
 2 fo. pfugi 
 At top of f. 1: Beda super Canon. Epistolas (xiv, xv). Cf. a 
 MS. at St John's, from Bury. 
 
 CLXI 
 
 Vitae Sanctorum xii ascensurus 
 
 'Twyne' in red on fly-leaf: may mean Canterbury. 
 The first Life is of S. Martial, the last of S. Edward. 
 
 CLXII 
 
 Homiliae Saxonicae xi of |?am 
 
 The last is 'in die depositionis S. Augustini' anglorum 
 apostoli. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. .37 
 
 CLXIII 
 
 Pontifical xii 
 
 Woodcut of the Crucifixion on vellum, on title page. 
 In Litany (very short) : Pancras Sylvester Martin Basil. 
 
 CLXIV 
 
 I Higdeni Polychronicon, fragmentary xv J. Gun thorp 
 
 II Bestiary, not complete xiii 
 
 III Biblia Pauperum, foreign xiv 
 
 Liber M. Ioh. Gunthorp decani Wellensis emptus a David 
 Heuel. 11 Julii A VII. Hen. VII. prec. 4s. 4d. 
 
 CLXV 
 
 Abelard, paper xvi 
 
 CLXVI 
 
 Sylloge Epistolarum xv Roman hand 
 
 ? Norwich 
 deamus 
 
 Liber Thome Godsalve de Norwico olim de Lychfelde sed 
 nunc Petrus Botard de Denyngton dominus huius libri, 20 die 
 Augusti, 1567. Bale, Cent. xii. 43, mentions one Godsalve at 
 Norwich who had MSS. once belonging to the Augustinians 
 there. 
 
 At end, on a slip : Henry Flower in S. Marget Myses parishe 
 in fridaye strete. 
 
 T. Godsalve notarius publicus: with his mark. 
 
 CLXVII 
 
 Chronicle, paper xvi 
 
 CLXVIII— CLXX 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CLXXI 
 
 Fordun Scotichronicon, paper xv 
 
 CLXXII 
 
 Bucer, paper xvi 
 
38 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CLXXIII 
 
 Saxon Chronicle, etc. 
 
 No press mark. Edwards p. 154. 
 
 Sedulius 
 
 No pressmark. 
 
 CLXXIV 
 
 Chronicle 
 
 CLXXV 
 
 Chronicles. Walter of Coventry 
 
 xi Chr. Oh. Cant, 
 
 an. xlxiiii 
 
 IX < 
 
 xv 
 
 xiv 
 
 Printed. 
 Miscellanea 
 
 Saxon Homilies 
 
 Regula S. Benedicti 
 
 CLXXVI 
 CLXXVII 
 
 xv 
 
 CLXXVIII 
 
 qui genus 
 
 nou3t ben 
 post rumo 
 
 possum 
 
 on 3e sceapene 
 2 fo. de silentio or terrenum 
 genus 
 
 CLXXIX 
 
 Petrus Blesensis, etc. paper xv poralium 
 
 CLXXX 
 
 Armachanus, etc. xiv Norwich 
 
 Mark, at end, in blue capitals : x. xlvj 
 liber domini Ade estone monachi Norwicensis. 
 
 CLXXXI 
 
 Gul. Gemmeticensis, etc. xiii, xiv 2 fo. manu 
 
 tenebat 
 ? Franciscans of London 
 On f. 1 the mark: In 3. 1 : at end a papal rescript of Martin 
 
 to Franciscans. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 39 
 
 CLXXXII 
 
 Brute in English xv 2 fo. and greuously 
 
 CLXXXIII 
 
 Bedae Vita S. Cuthberti x ? Durham 
 
 ? Worcester 
 
 2 fo. in libro scripta 
 Frontispiece of a King giving a book to a Saint or Bishop 
 standing before a church: in fine frame. 
 
 Mr Bradshaw thought it was the MS. mentioned in ccxcviii. 
 16 as 'liber quidam vetus ecclesiae Wigorniensis.' 
 
 However, on the last page are (1) a hymn to St Cuthbert 
 with neumes, (2) a list of church vessels in Anglo-Saxon, (3) a 
 gift of land to St Cuthbert in Anglo-Saxon, beginning ' Wal- 
 chear biscop! It might be the book in Catt. Vett. Dunelm. p. 
 30. E. Liber de vita et miraculis B. Cuthberti. Tractatus 
 ex quatuor libris Historiae gentis anglorum. 2 fo. de vita et 
 virtutibus (title). 
 
 CLXXXIV 
 Eusebii Hist. Eccl. xii 2 fo. conscripta or 
 
 successione 
 
 Historia ecclesiastica per Ricardum monachum. 
 Like the Chr. Ch. hand. 
 
 CLXXXY 
 Bucer xvi. 
 
 CLXXXVI 
 
 Distinctiones xiv 
 
 beginning gone. 
 Xumerale Gul. de montibus xiii 2 fo. et in natiui- 
 
 tate. 
 
 CLXXXVII 
 Eusebii Hist. Eccl. xii Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. Testimonium 
 Ingram, no. 158. 
 Ecclesiastica historia. 2 fo. testimonium ioseph 
 
40 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CLXXXVIII 
 
 Saxon Homilies xi ? ? Winchester 
 
 f. 1 in xvi th cent, hand 2 fo. odcte heora 
 
 Apparently belonged to Bp ' Aethelwold iunior,' see rubric 
 
 of Horn. xlvi. 
 
 CLXXXIX 
 
 Chronica Cantuar. etc. xiv Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. et sodoma or 
 
 episcopum fore 
 
 Borrowed first from Twyne; then given to Parker with 
 
 others by Mag. — Bracher, formerly monk of Christ Church, 
 
 confessor at court, and owner of this book. 
 
 cxc 
 
 Penitential xi Exeter 
 
 Given by Leofric. Described in the ancient list (ap. Wanley) 
 
 as ' i Scrift boc on Englisc' 
 
 Penitential of Egbert of York. ? York 
 
 CXCI 
 
 Canons, Saxon and Latin xi Exeter 
 
 Probably from Leofric. An entry of ' i Canon on Laedem ' 
 is in his list. 
 
 CXCII 
 
 Amalarius ix, x Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. usque dum 
 
 Written in 950 by order of a deacon and monk Amadeus for 
 a monastery of S. Winwaloc. See inscr. in Nasmyth, p. 274. 
 At top of f. 1 is (xiv) Amalarius de ordine eccl. The corner 
 of the leaf torn off. 
 
 It may be one of three Amalarii in Edwards, p. 131. 
 
 CXCIII 
 
 Ambrosii Hexameron viii ? ? Cant. 
 
 Possibly that in Edwards, p. 130. 2 fo. fore praesumit 
 
 On f. 1 an erased inscription in capitals, beginning liber 
 
 SCI AMBROSII. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 41 
 
 CXCIV 
 
 Petrus Blesensis xv St Mary's Hospital, 
 
 Bishopsgate 
 
 Scala mundi etc. xiv with small pictures. 
 
 Hospicium b. Marie extra Bishopsgate hunc uindicat librum, 
 per me Iohannem Stones. 
 
 A note above in the same hand gives the date 1532. 
 
 Peter de Yckham xiv 2 fo. mo propter 
 
 cxcv 
 
 Th. Walsingham. Paper. xv ? 
 
 Two leaves of a French gloss on the Psalter of cent, xiii are 
 the fly-leaves. 
 
 CXCVI 
 
 Martyrology etc. xi Exeter 
 
 Seemingly given by Leofric. A martyrology appears in the 
 list of his gifts. 
 
 o J 
 
 CXCVII 
 
 Fragments of Celtic Gospels. Said by Tanner, Bibl. Brit. 
 s.v. Fcelix, to have belonged to St Felix the Apostle of East 
 Anglia. Marked by Parker as Gregorian. 
 
 CXCVIII 
 
 Saxon Homilies (iv) xi ta5 f cild 
 
 Frontispiece of six figures, in two tiers. 
 
 CXCIX 
 
 Augustinus de Trinitate xi St David's 
 
 parte non 
 Written by John son of Sulgen. 
 
 At beginning a leaf in Carolingian minuscules of ix, x. 
 Fine Celtic initials. 
 See Bradshaw, Collected Papers, sub. fin. 
 
42 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 cc 
 
 Baldwin de sacramento altaris xii, xiii Chr. Ch. Cant. ? 
 
 On fly-leaf, Baldewinus de Inestiinabili sacra- nitatem 
 
 mento. 
 
 On a slip, Inc. liber domni Baldewini Archiepiscopi de 
 inestimabili sacramento ueritatis ueteris/ <et no> ui testa- 
 menti. 
 
 On p. 1 the mark bl. 
 
 CCI 
 
 Rituale Saxonicum 
 
 Confiteor etc. in a large hand. 
 Saxon Homilies (Lupus etc.) 
 
 x ? xi pel gestemnede 
 sunt enim 
 
 ecu 
 
 I. Epistles 
 
 II. Parabole glosate 
 
 CCIII 
 Lyra super N.T. etc. 
 
 Ex dono M. Thomae Fawcett. 
 
 xn 
 
 Langton super Isaiam etc. 
 Mark: E.j (xv) 
 
 CCIV 
 
 CCV 
 
 XV 
 
 Xlll 
 
 XV 
 
 ne mihi or 
 his uicibus 
 Neq3 enim. 
 
 vt habetur 
 
 ? Norwich 
 aq a bon' 
 
 Italian 
 
 Blondus Flavius Foroliviensis 
 
 Good title page: shield, a burning tar barrel on a pole with 
 ladder; azure ground. 
 
 CCVI 
 
 Martianus Capella etc. 
 Fine initial. 
 
 Paper 
 
 IX 
 
 fraudulenta 
 
 CCVII, CCVIII 
 
 XVI 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCIX 
 
 P. Lombardi sententiae etc. 
 
 ccx 
 
 William of Worcester. Paper 
 The authors autograph. 
 
 xiv 
 
 xv 
 
 43 
 
 Quod n° 
 
 CCXI 
 
 Pupilla oculi 
 
 xv Matth. Hutton R. 
 
 of Uldale and 
 
 Distington 
 
 Rich. Hutton, 1506 
 
 Parish of Aldebury 
 
 1513 
 
 xiii 2 fo. adoptatio 
 
 CCXII 
 
 Sermones Gybewyni Troadensis 
 et sermones Petri Comestoris 
 Old title on fly-leaf. 
 
 CCXIII 
 Bonaventure in French xv Henry V 
 
 Presentation copy from the translator, Jehan Galopes. 
 Two good miniatures. 
 
 CCXIV 
 
 Boethius ix utemur 
 
 Loose leaves : at the end the name Rodbertus : f . 1 a frag- 
 ment. 
 
 CCXV, COXVI 
 
 Dr Boys. Paper 
 
 xvii 
 
 CCXVII 
 P. Cantor etc. xiv Worcester 
 
 Liber monasterii Wigornie : bound and labelled like Trin. 
 B. 4. 24 and no. 87. 
 
44 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 ccxvin 
 
 xiv 
 
 2 fo. lente 
 
 Livre de seintes medicines 
 Skin wrapper. 
 
 CCXIX 
 
 Alexander xii, xiii 2 fo. Futuri 
 
 An inscription (xvi) at end mentions Urswyke, i.e. Christo- 
 pher Urswyke, Almoner to Henry VII., d. 1514. 
 
 P. de Vineis 
 St Eustace 
 
 Only a fragment. 
 
 Orthographia Albini 
 
 ccxx 
 
 CCXXI 
 
 Xlll, XIV 
 
 ix I. 2 fo. exaltatio 
 II. 2 fo. litteris 
 
 xiii Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 CCXXII 
 
 Tract, de conceptione B. V. M. 
 
 On two fly-leaves is 
 
 liber Hug' de Girunde de penitencia Magdalene. 
 
 Pencil notes on the fly-leaves, perhaps about the monastery. 
 Top damaged. 
 
 CCXXIII 
 
 Prudentius ix ? ? St Bertin. 
 
 lam xps 
 On fly-leaf a list of Frankish kings from Faramund with 
 notes on SS. Vedast, Omer, Bertin: also: Amalfridus tradidit 
 hunulfcurt : Hilpericas ii. Fecit inm. erkenbodo ep°. et abb.: 
 Hildricus iii In monast. Sithiu trusus est. But on the verso 
 are Anglo-Saxon scribbles. 
 
 CCXXIV 
 
 St Mark in Greek. Paper xvi Dan. Rogers 
 
 ccxxv 
 
 Manipulus curatorum. Paper 
 Joh. Gibson. 
 
 xv 
 
 communicare 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 45 
 
 CCXXVI 
 
 (" Savonarola "). Inc. Miserator et xiii nu et quando 
 
 misericors 
 
 CCXXYII 
 Chinese 
 
 CCXXYIII 
 Claudian xiii North French 
 
 2 fo. Elicit 
 
 Dan. Rogers. Good initials. 
 
 On f. 1 (xv) A Jehan de Hangest(?). 
 
 CCXXIX 
 
 Nonius Marcellus xii North French ? 
 
 AMEOH2 
 Dan. Rogers. A piece is cut off top and bottom of f. 1. 
 
 
 ccxxx 
 
 
 
 
 Statius 
 
 
 xii 
 
 Idq: 
 
 reditque 
 
 Dan. Rogers. 
 
 CCXXXI 
 
 
 
 
 Terence 
 
 
 xi 
 
 
 nuptias 
 
 f. 1 gone. 
 
 
 
 
 
 CCXXXII 
 
 T. Markaunt's Register etc. of his xv 
 
 Library 
 
 CCXXXIII 
 
 Grammatica. Paper xv Infimis 
 
 Inscription : Constat Hamshire. 
 
 CCXXXIV 
 
 Egidius super Aristotelem late xv 
 
 Vellum and paper. 
 
46 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 ccxxxv 
 
 Homiliae late xv oleo 
 
 Vellum and paper. 
 
 CCXXXVI 
 Martial. xii, xiii 2 fo. Quod 
 
 magrii 
 On fly-leaf 'Inter libros socratis et aliorum xxii,' prec. iiij.9 
 Dan. Rogers. Old title : ' Marcialis coquus.' 
 
 Savonarola 
 Foreign. 
 
 Spelman 
 
 CCXXXVII 
 
 CCXXXVITI 
 
 XV 
 
 xvn 
 
 CCXXXIX 
 
 Metaphisica xiv 
 
 Pink skin over boards. 
 
 tuum 
 
 minamus 
 
 CCXL 
 
 Th. Walsingham. Paper xv 
 
 Liber m. hugonis fficomte. 
 
 CCXLI, CCXLII 
 
 Paper 
 
 Evax 
 
 Jane Knukle. 
 
 CCXLIII 
 
 xvi 
 
 XIV 
 
 Achates 
 
 CCXLIV 
 
 Logica late xv 
 
 Vellum and paper. 
 
 COXLV 
 N.T. in English. Paper xvi 
 
 Mr Duncombe 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 47 
 
 CCXLVI 
 
 Biblia xiii res litteras 
 
 Fly-leaf has picture of candlestick and plan of temple. 
 
 Inscr. : Constat Richardo Massey, (xvi.) 
 
 At end, three erased inscriptions, one (xv, xvi) signed Thomas 
 
 Sneyd. 
 
 CCXLVII 
 
 Summa Raymundi xiv spiritualibus 
 
 CCXLVIII 
 
 Paper. Hesiod, etc. xv, xvi Dan. Rogers 
 
 Copied from printed book. Good binding. 
 Ilei-po? Kaz/StSo? 6 /juova^b^ "AXSco to3 M.ovvoikl(6. 
 
 
 CCXLIX 
 
 
 Koran 
 
 CCL 
 
 
 Walter Hemingford. 
 
 Paper 
 
 CCLI 
 
 xvi 
 
 Brute. Latin 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 Mark : 6. 43. 
 
 
 
 Bury 
 
 CCLII 
 
 Stimulus am oris etc. xiv Norwich 
 
 No mark. 
 
 Liber fr. Ioh. de Reynham monachi Norwyci quern ipse in 
 parte scripsit et in parte scribi fecit, cuius anime propicietur 
 Deus. In 7, 14, and 4 (i.e. God) is al my love. 
 
 CCLIII 
 
 Augustini confessiones etc. xii funderis 
 
 Title: ®M<& WE, <&<&&§*. 
 
 Picture of Christ between a bishop and a man in a hat on 
 f. 1. 
 
 At the end the hymn Internifesti gaudia, with music. 
 
48 
 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI 
 
 MSS. 
 
 
 Decretal ia 
 
 
 
 CCLIV 
 
 xiv 
 
 unitatem 
 
 Pupilla oculi 
 
 
 
 CCLV 
 
 xiv 
 
 benedicta 
 
 Formula nouitiorum 
 
 Mark -J- at top off. 1. 
 
 CCLVI 
 
 XV 
 
 quia non 
 
 CCLVII 
 
 Tabula super Lincoln. 
 
 xiv, xv calor propter 
 
 On last fly-leaf: Liber magistri . . . . : also grene hamerton. 
 
 CCLVIII 
 
 Speculum iusticiorum. Home 
 
 CCLTX 
 
 Poly c rati ca. Rog. Cestr. 
 
 xiv 
 
 xiv 
 
 I. le poeple 
 II. palleis 
 
 L. 6. ibi 
 
 CCLX 
 
 Musica Hogeri x ? Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 mvsica hogeri -TT- particularibus 
 
 Occurs in the oldest Catalogue (University Library, li. 3. 12) 
 
 as: -TT- Musica Hogerii : but not under this name in Edwards, 
 
 pp. 158, 159. 
 
 CCLXI 
 
 I. Gaddesden xv 
 
 Inscription: -jS\. rosa medicine. 
 
 d l an d t> 
 
 CCLXII 
 
 W. Neubrigensis 
 
 xiv qui protenso 
 
 CCLXIII 
 
 Speculum ecclesiae xiii ipse illustret 
 
 Several copies at Chr. Ch. Cant., see Edwards, pp. 187, 
 190, 206. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 49 
 
 CCLXIV 
 
 Bede etc. xiv Norwich 
 
 No. 30 in a list of Simon Bozoun's books in Royal MS. 14. 
 
 C. xiii. 
 
 Liber fratris Simonis Bozouni. Mark erased. 
 See Gir. Cambrensis (Rolls ed.) v. xxxix note. 
 
 CCLXV 
 
 I. Penitential xi ? Worcester 
 
 2 fo. gloria dignitatis 
 
 On fly-leaf: ego frater N. promitto etc domino presule 
 
 uulstano presente. 
 
 II. f. 443. XII cronica yuonis. 2 fo. terra chanaan. 
 
 2 ff. of Benedictional or Pontifical (xiii) in large hand 
 at end. 
 
 CCLXVI 
 Pet. Blesensis early xiii London Carmel- 
 
 ites ? 
 0® M 57 us . I. q ex amicicie 
 
 II. perans 
 
 CCLXVII 
 
 Freculphus xi St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Liber sci aug. Cantuar. fretulphus immutauerat 
 
 Di. x G ra II Cum A (bis): Catalogue, f. 61. 
 
 Nice initial : fine round hand. 
 
 At end a xvth cent, poem : 
 
 Febribus infectus requiens fuerat mihi lectus 
 Vexatus mente dormiui nocte repente 
 
 Ends : sanguine scotorum spoiiatorum sociorum. 
 
 CCLXVIII 
 
 W. Hilton xv 
 
 Ornamented edges to leaves. 
 
 m d . thatt I Elizabeth Wylby N(onne ?) of S . . . esse gyffe 
 thys boke. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. ** 
 
50 CORPUS CHR1STI MSS. 
 
 CCLXIX 
 
 Summa iuris canonici xi Pipewell 
 
 Liber S. Marie virginis de Pipwella. 
 
 CCLXX 
 
 Missal xii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Ed. Martin Kule. 2 fo. meos 
 
 Fly-leaves 2 ff. of Bede Hist. Eccl. xi, xii cent. 
 
 CCLXXT 
 
 Decretales xiii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. quisquam 
 
 Decretales fr. Martini de Totynton quoad quinque libros et 
 T. abbatis quoad sextum librum decretalium et constitutiones 
 De librario S. Aug. Cant. D xiiij G iiij. 
 
 Catalogue, f. 123. 
 
 CCLXXII 
 
 Psalter ix Chr. Cant. 
 
 ut ueluti or 
 
 astiterunt 
 
 Achadeus misericordia dei comes hunc librum scribere jussit. 
 
 2 fif. of accounts at end : the names of Wadlesmere, Moning- 
 
 ham, Sandwich, Weynchepe, Postling etc. occur. 
 
 CCLXXIII 
 
 Summa theologiae etc. xiv I. 2 fo. ymagine 
 
 II. quanto 
 
 CCLXXIV 
 
 Ambrosius de uirginitate etc. xii ? Chr. Cant. 
 
 In the Canterbury hand : good initials. ego quoque 
 
 ? Edw. p. 130. Ingram no. 137. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 51 
 
 CCLXXV 
 
 Miscellanea xv Markaunt 
 
 Label pasted on fly-leaf. 2 fo. in enigmate 
 
 M. T. Markaunt 21. See the Catalogue of his books printed 
 
 below. 
 Vita S. Thomae on smaller page xiii. 
 
 CCLXXVI 
 
 Eutropius etc. Dudo 
 
 De libraria S. Aug. Cant, cum B. D. x. 
 
 G. ij. 
 Catalogue f. 61 : historia Romanorum 
 
 et in eodem libro historia Norman- 
 
 norum cum B. D. 10. G. 2 2 fo. 
 
 romanum. 
 
 XI 
 
 St Aug. Cant. 
 2 fo. Romanum 
 
 CCLXXVII 
 
 Adam Berching 
 
 xni 
 
 A tall and narrow book. 
 Very likely from Sherborne, see Leland. 
 Coll. iv 150. 
 
 ? Sherborne 
 dum xpm 
 
 Psalms in verse 
 Mark: N. xlvij. 
 
 CCLXXVIII 
 
 xv 
 
 Norwich 
 alle to me 
 
 CCLXXIX 
 
 Canones Patricii ix — x H. B. Worcester 
 
 Worcester: Bradshaw Hibernensis, 
 
 p. 29. clericus 
 
 or excomonicatus 
 ' Certainly not written in England or Ireland.' H. B. 
 
 4—2 
 
02 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCLXXX 
 
 Henry of Huntingdon xiii ? St Aug. Cant. 
 
 ter ita or in 
 germania 
 In the Rolls edition of Henr. Hunt, it is said that this 
 
 MS. probably belonged to St Aug. Cant. 
 
 CCLXXXI 
 
 Geoffrey of Monmouth etc. xiv Burton or St An- 
 
 drew's, North- 
 ampton 
 
 Iste liber est de communitate Burtoniae, qui eum alienauerit 
 anathema sit Amen I. 2 fo. pluribus 
 
 ILlxix 
 
 CCLXXXII 
 
 Sermons, English xiv 
 
 f. 1 gone prolonge 
 
 CCLXXXIII 
 
 Egidius Romanus xv 
 
 Erasure on fly-leaf: monogram EDB : name c tesedale\ 
 
 CCLXXXI V 
 
 Meditationes Anselmi etc. xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 
 et accende 
 
 CCLXXXV 
 
 Vita Henrici V. xv 
 
 Aldhelm x piscibus 
 
 CCLXXXVI 
 
 " Gregorian " Gospels vii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 UITARUM or LIBER 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 53 
 
 CCLXXXVII 
 
 Copies xvi 
 
 CCLXXXVIII 
 
 Miscellanea xiv Chr. Cant. 
 
 Catalogue in Edwards, p. 213. 
 Liber N(ic) de Sandwico. 
 
 CCLXXXIX 
 
 Aug. de doctrina Christiana etc. xii ? Chr. Cant. 
 
 Catalogue, Edwards, p. 123. assecutos 
 
 Table of contents in capitals, preceded by extract from 
 
 Retractations. 
 
 ccxc 
 
 Chronica Odonis xi — xii ? St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Cat. f. 62. dccc ■ vii 
 
 Erasure on fly-leaf: good initial. 
 
 CCXCI 
 Beda de temporibus xi St Aug. Cant. 
 
 De librario S. Aug. dist. 6. g. 1. legenda 
 
 Fine hand : gaudy initials. 
 
 First 13 leaves in xvith cent. hand. 
 
 Catalogue p. 50. Beda de temporibus cum A. 2 fo. in 
 prohemio legenda. D. 6. G. 1. 
 
 CCXCII 
 Geoffrey of Monmouth etc. xvi, xiii, xvi, xiii — xiv 
 
 CCXCIII 
 
 Piers Plowman xv 
 
 CCXCIV 
 
 Hugo de S. Victore xii, xiii Lincoln 
 
 Liber Mag. Ric. Mabot sancte theologie baccalaurei et conu. 
 
 cathedralis b. Marie Lincoln, canonici. 
 
 Inscr. in red ink xv, xvi at end. misericors 
 
54 CORPUS CHPJSTI MSS. 
 
 ccxcv 
 
 Th. Beckett, Epistolae xiii Chr. Cant. 
 
 lxxxvii Thomas 
 or simplex 
 In capitals on fly leaf : Ep'le SCI THOME MRIS, 
 
 ecclie xpi cantvar. Erasure above. 
 Beautiful hand. 
 At end an inscription of xv, xvi : 
 
 Iste liber pertinet ad ecclesiam de teste (erasure) 
 
 S... W berl... et omnes stulti in ista villa Iohes bocher 
 
 Amen. 
 
 Cf. Edw. pp. 198, 199. 
 
 CCXCVI 
 
 Tracts of Wycliffe xiv 
 
 CCXCVII 
 
 Statutes etc. xiv ? Thorney 
 
 Articles 6 and 10 relate to Thorney. 2 fo. non nocet 
 
 On fly-leaf at end. Mag. W. de fodringea habet librum de 
 
 regimine principum. 
 
 Also a receipt for warts. 
 
 CCXCVIII 
 
 
 
 Copies etc. 
 
 xvi 
 
 
 One tract on vellum 
 
 XV 
 
 
 CCXCIX 
 
 
 
 Ivo, Anselm 
 
 xii — xiii 
 
 ? Chr. Cant. 
 
 Edwards, p. 137. 
 
 
 amandum 
 
 Erased inscription dated 1405. 
 
 
 
 ccc 
 
 
 
 Pictor in carmine 
 
 xiii 
 
 Dicit 
 
 CCCI 
 
 Annals etc. xiv St Aug. Cant, 
 
 liber fTratris Stephani de Hakynton de librario S. Aug. Cant. 
 At end a receipt in French and other interesting notes. 
 
Saxon Homilies 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCII 
 
 xi 
 
 55 
 
 se 9 maior 
 
 Saxon Homilies 
 
 CCCIII 
 
 XI 
 
 j?e englas 
 
 CCCIV 
 
 Juvencus in uncials vii ? ? Chr. Cant. 
 
 In the oldest Catalogue (f. 75 a) is : 
 
 Juvencus in Romana scriptura. 2 fo. NULLA MEOS 
 
 Or NON IGNEA 
 
 cccv 
 
 Nottingham super Evangelia xv 2 fo. uelaminum 
 
 CCCVI 
 
 Albertanus xiv Dominicans of 
 
 London 
 Iste liber est communitatis fratrum predicatorum London, 
 mutuarius fr. Joh. Tille H 8. 
 
 1. Vita S. Guthlaci 
 
 CCCVII 
 
 x, xi ? Crowland 
 
 2 fo. ut lucem 
 Two acrostics at end give " Eadvaldus ista pinxit," and 
 " caldug beatus Gudlac, mudeaa bartholomeus." 
 
 2. Wallensis xv 2 fo. mundialium 
 
 CCCVIII 
 
 Passio S. Ethelberti xiii 2 fo. siue fraudis 
 
 Elucidarius. 2 fo. similior 
 
 Incipit et finit liber elucidarius iste 
 Laus tibi sit christe quern pneumatis unccio linit. 
 
56 CORPUS CHR1ST1 MSS. 
 
 CCCIX 
 
 Ricardus de S. Victore xiii ? Franciscans of 
 
 London 
 2 fo. non sine 
 magno 
 Petrus Alphonsus 2 fo. enim prout 
 
 Epistola Dioscori 2 fo. tune o 
 
 At bottom of f. 1 is the mark : In. L. 24 : and a list of 
 contents. 
 
 Fly-leaves, four, of a xth century Sallust (Bellum Jugurth'.). 
 
 cccx 
 
 Hugo de S. Victore xiii 2 fo. explicatio or 
 
 miseriam 
 Good initial of George and Dragon. 
 
 CCCXI 
 
 Chronica late xv 
 
 CCCXII 
 
 Goscelini Vita S. Aug. Cant. xii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Liber S. Aug. Cantuar. 2 fo. -dentiam 
 
 Di. ix a gra.v 118 . 
 
 Vita et uirtutes S. Aug. anglorum apostoli sociorumque 
 cum C. 
 
 Catalogue, f. 63, Epistola Gocelini in vitam S. Aug. 2 fo. 
 denciam mauult et in textu pata peregrinacionum. 
 
 CCCXIII 
 
 Florus xiii 2 fo. fratre pulso 
 
 Chronica 2 fo. anno dominice 
 
 CCCXIV 
 
 Hugo super Dionysium xiii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. debatur 
 (For Verfest in Nasmyth read Vercellensem) 
 Catalogue, f. 26, Exposicio Hugouis etc. 2 fo. debatur quia 
 
 D. 9. G. 6 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 57 
 
 cccxv 
 
 Ricardns de S. Victore etc. xiii Franciscans, Ox- 
 
 ford 
 Iste liber est de communitate fratrum minorum oxon. 
 Sic me uestiri fecit R. Colmanque ligari 1419. 
 
 Dionysius Ai-eop. etc. 
 
 CCCXVI 
 
 xiv Dominicans, Lon- 
 don 
 De communitate conuentus fratrum ordinis predicatorum, 
 London. 
 
 CCCXVII 
 Sermon es etc. xiii 
 
 Inscription : ' Ihus' and 'amen quod boton.' (xv) 
 
 xv 
 
 I ab eis 
 LI catis nos- 
 
 tris 
 III pericli 
 
 Rochester 
 
 Xlll 
 
 his temporibus 
 
 Waldeby etc. 
 
 CCCXVIII 
 
 Ailred of Rievaulx etc. xiii 
 
 Liber S. andree apostoli de Roucestria. qui eum alienauerit 
 anathema sit. ameu. Catalogue in Arch. Cantiana iii. 58 sqq. 
 
 Liber de claustro Roffensi per fir. Will, de Cornubia 
 monachum. 
 
 Given to Abp Parker by the Dean of Rochester. 
 
 CCOXIX 
 
 Amalarius etc. 
 
 Erasure at bottom of f. 1 two lines 
 Last leaf (xiv), hoc London suus. 
 
 cccxx 
 
 Aug. Sermones 
 
 f. 1 gone. 
 Canones 
 
 1st f. Anglo-Saxon. At bottom of verso 
 de Ratione penitencie • de diuersis questionibus • augustini ques- 
 tiones • Gregorii responsiones • penitentialis • de trina domiui 
 incarnatione • de annis domini • de Ierosolima et rebus in ea 
 gestis. 
 
 xii prestante domino 
 
 vn 
 
 ? Winchester 
 Canon Theodori • 
 
58 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCXXI 
 
 Gal. Paris, postilla in Mattheum xv 
 
 Postilla super K\... R (am . es) ye. 
 
 CCCXXII 
 
 Dialogi Gregorii Saxonice xi 
 
 Mark : G. 1. (xv) 
 
 Ramsey 
 fragabilia 
 
 ? Bury 
 to ftregdeS 
 
 CCCXXIII 
 
 De Pilato etc. xiv 
 
 Erasure on fly-leaf 3 lines. 
 
 quos du. 
 
 CCCXXIV 
 
 Miroir des dames xiv 
 
 Jeanne de Bourgogne ?. On fly-leaf, Charles. 
 
 cccxxv 
 
 Vincent de puerorum eruditione etc. xiv 
 J. lviij Johis de statone senioris 
 
 Norwich 
 
 CCCXXVI 
 
 Aldhelm viii Chr. Cant. 
 
 D. 11 G ra iiij us dem° prima. Mark on f. 1 : .dc. Edwards, 
 p. 129. 
 
 CCCXXVII 
 
 Homiliae W. de Mauli (Abiciamus) xiii 
 
 English pencil notes on last page. 
 
 ut possitis 
 
 CCCXXVIII 
 Vita Dunstani etc. xii 
 
 Liber ecclesie Swithuni Wintonie. 
 
 Winchester 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 59 
 
 CCCXXTX 
 
 Historia Waldei xv Thetford 
 
 De Thetford monachus Bramis edidit ista Iohannes. 
 (Acrostic.) 
 
 cccxxx 
 
 Martianus Capella xi, xii and ix ? Cant. 
 
 capiti eius 
 or martianum 
 
 CCCXXXI 
 
 Baldwin etc. xv torem 
 
 In several hands, late. 
 
 CCCXXXII 
 
 Augustine etc. xii ? Cant. 
 
 Vol. I seems to be in the Canterbury hand. I Carnem 
 
 II nutriri 
 
 CCCXXXIII 
 
 Summa Berengarii etc. xv in partes 
 
 CCCXXXIV 
 
 Origenes super Lucam viii ? et ante 
 
 cccxxxv 
 
 De Mahumete etc. xv 
 
 On Paper: a Lincoln-Ely deed at the beginning, with 
 notary's mark of Will. Beluerees. At end, Iste liber pertinet 
 ecclesie (erased). 
 
 CCCXXXYI 
 
 Wycliffe Homilies xv May not 
 
 CCCXXXVII 
 
 Scintillarium etc. xiii, xiv ac timore 
 
 On fly-leaf, a statement of the martyrdoms of the apostles, 
 and an erasure. 
 
60 CORPUS CHRLSTI MSS. 
 
 CCCXXXVIII 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCXXXIX 
 
 Richard of Devizes xiii Winchester 
 
 genitus 
 
 Fragment of a large Missal (xv) in binding. Probably 
 
 Richard's autograph. Rolls series. Chronicles of Stephen, etc., 
 
 P . i. 
 
 Peter de Yckham xiv uendicauerunt 
 
 CCCXL, CCCXLI, CCCXLII 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCXLIII 
 
 Radulphus Niger xv 
 
 Bound in a sheet of late xvth English Chronicle. 
 
 CCCXLIV 
 
 Augustine xiii, xiv early procedit 
 
 Table of contents pasted on f. 1 . 
 
 CCCXLV 
 Hilary xii Chr. Cant. 
 
 2 fo. atque (ita) 
 omnipotentium 
 Ex dono Rev. Rogeri Flint A. M. Norfolcensis. 
 Hilarius de trinitate. Idem de sinodis. 
 Ingram, no. 125. 2 fo. atque omnipotentiam 
 
 CCCXLVI 
 
 Printed. Given by Christopher Urswyke to St George's, 
 Windsor. 
 
 CCCXLVII 
 
 Almanac Profacii, etc. xiv Norwich 
 
 ponendo 
 Erasure over list of contents. At end: expositio...quos 
 scripsit adam de estone monachus norwycensis. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 61 
 
 CCCXLVIII— CCCL 
 
 Paper copies xvi 
 
 CCCLI 
 Printed. 
 
 CCCLI I 
 
 Arithmetica Boethii xi ? St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Ars metica boecii cum A. caligantibus 
 
 Liber sci Aug' Cant. 
 Catalogue, f. 67. 
 
 CCCLIII 
 
 Petrus de Vineis xiv Burton 
 
 liber quondam Mag. Will, de Swepston quern contulit ecclesie 
 de Burton mag. Willelmus frater ipsius pro anima eius. 
 
 CCCLIV 
 
 Trevisa: paper xv 
 
 CCCLV 
 
 Colet xvi 
 
 CCCLVI 
 
 Numerale etc. xiv I fides 
 
 (Hugo) II ut illis 
 Dictionarium xi ? Arch a 
 
 An old receipt on last leaf. 
 
 CCCLVII 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCLVIII 
 Forma componendi epistolas xiv, xiii voc 
 
 CCCLIX 
 
 Bede xiv pelagian e or gio 
 
 CCCLX 
 Joh. Felton sermones xv suam intelligat 
 
62 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCLXI 
 
 Gregory, Pastoral, and one page of xi Malmesbury 
 
 Passion of S. Maurice et nescit 
 
 Iste liber est de monasterio malmesbury e et in custodia 
 ffris Thorn . . C , . or 
 
 CCCLXII 
 
 Statutes xiv hugh et hugh 
 
 CCCLXIII 
 
 Gildas (Nennius) xvi hostes or eas 
 
 CCCLXIV 
 
 Medica xiii early St Aug. Cant. 
 
 liber Will, de Elham qui intitulatur ysagoge ad tegni 
 Galieni. epar 
 
 De librario S. Aug. Cant. Dist. xiiij a G. iiij (xiv). 
 
 Cat. f. 86, ysagoge Iohannicii, etc. W. de Elham. 2 fo. Epar 
 
 CCCLXV 
 Hampole xv Dover 
 
 Ex dono Will. Warren quondam majoris Dovorrie. 
 Mark : A- V°. Interesting scribbled notes. iudicentur 
 
 CCCLXVI 
 
 Peter Blesensis xiii Dover 
 
 At bottom of f. 2 : 92 uniuersus 
 
 D : JIJ : Ep'le pet' bless. ...92 uniuersus iuda...l43. 
 
 CCCLXVII 
 
 Miscell. xv, xi-xiii ? Worcester 
 
 A letter to a prior of Worcester at end, from Hubert Abbot 
 
 of Westminster and Edwius Prior. 
 
 The following occurs near the end : 
 
 i ii .iii. 
 
 Deo englissce passionale and ii englissce dialogas and oddan 
 
 iiii vi 
 
 boc and ]?e englisca martirlogium and ii englisce salteras and 
 ii pastorales englisce and J?e englisca regol and barontus. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 COCLXVIII 
 
 Regula Benedicti xi 
 
 f. 1. hie deest prohemium cum tabula, 
 hie desunt xiii capita. 
 
 iterum 
 
 CCCLXIX 
 
 Chronicon 
 
 xv 
 
 britannia 
 
 CCCLXX 
 
 Alexander 
 
 Art. 9 relates to Norwich. 
 
 xiv 
 
 ? Norwich 
 nectanabus 
 
 CCCLXXI 
 
 Eadmer xii 
 
 f. 1 OPUSCULA EDMERI CANTORIS. 
 
 fol. ult. Liber de vitis aliquot sanctorum. 
 
 In the Chr. Ch. hand. 
 
 Edwards p. 150. 
 
 Chr. Cant. 
 
 Martinus Polonus 
 
 CCCLXXII 
 
 XV 
 
 seculum est 
 
 Historia Francorum 
 
 CCCLXXIII 
 
 xii (Wurzburg) 
 
 de origine or 
 
 fluuium 
 
 Has several pictures. A German book, but has been long 
 
 in England. On f. 1 is : historia ffrancorum (xv) in English 
 
 hand. At end a xiiith cent, charter to uuolfger episcopus, 
 
 from Egino comes et coniux sua ventilgast. St Kilian and 
 
 St Saluator are mentioned, also places named Harnobrum, 
 
 barcthorf, etc. 
 
 CCCLXXIV 
 
 Paper 
 
 xvi 
 
64 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCLXXV 
 
 Passiones SS. Elphegi et Katherinae xii 
 
 
 Chr. Cant. 
 
 PASSIO SCE KATERINE 7 SCI ^ELPHEGI. 
 
 A 
 
 good picture 
 
 of S. Katerine among the wheels. 
 
 
 
 Edw. p. 152. 
 
 
 
 CCCLXXVI 
 
 
 
 Paper xvi 
 
 
 
 CCLXXVII 
 
 
 
 Statutes xiv 
 
 
 ?Ely 
 
 Kalendar xii 
 
 
 q d se non 
 
 CCCLXXVIII, IX 
 
 
 
 Paper xv, xvi 
 
 
 
 CCCLXXX 
 
 Speculum fidei (Robert of Cricklade) xiii early ? Malmesbury 
 See Leland Coll. iv. 157. 
 
 quod cogitatio or de omni ligno 
 
 CCCLXXXI 
 
 Paper xvi 
 
 (COLXXXII 
 
 Armachanus xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 
 De Librario S. Aug. Cantuar. in red on f. 1. omnia possedisse 
 Cat. f. 46. No press mark. 
 
 CCCLXXXIII 
 
 Saxon Laws xi mut. init, 
 
 CCCLXXXIV 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCLXXXV 
 
 Miscellanea xiii, xiv, xv ? Cant, 
 
 hie liber est monachi cuiusdam etatem 
 
 Cantuariensis (xvi). 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 65 
 
 CCCLXXXVI 
 
 Paper xv, xvi 
 
 CCCLXXXVII 
 
 Hampole on the Psalms xv Lesnes 
 
 Iste liber constat dompno Ioh. Colman abbati monasterii 
 de Lesnes. 
 
 CCCLXXXVIII 
 
 Receipts xv infirmum 
 
 CCCLXXXIX 
 
 Vitae SS. Pauli et Guthlaci xi St Aug. Cant. 
 
 Di. ix gradu tercio v. hie liber 
 
 Liber scl Aug. Cant. ? not in Catalogue. 
 
 Has frontispiece of Evangelist (S. Jerome) writing with 
 dove at ear. Also a faint sketch before the prologue to St 
 Guthlac's life. Very good initials. 
 
 cccxc 
 
 Gir. Cambrensis xiii nes et rote 
 
 xv. In hoc uol. cont. vita gaufridi ebor<a>censi<s>. 
 
 CCCXCI 
 
 Portiforium Oswaldi xi Worcester 
 
 Liber S. Marie Wigorniensis ecclesie per S. Oswaldum in red 
 at bottom of f . 1 . 
 
 CCCXCII 
 
 Contra superbiam, etc. Paper. late xv 
 
 CCCXCIII 
 
 Historia Eliensis xii, xiii Ely 
 
 Title (xv) on fly-leaf. Good initial. 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. - 5 
 
66 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCXCIV 
 
 xm, xiv 
 
 Markaunt 
 pharaon 
 
 Apocalypse 
 
 Text, et expos. Apoc. in Gallico 
 
 See Markaunt's list below, no. 72. 
 
 In Markaunt's Register (no. 232), no. 72 is: 
 
 Liber de apocalipsi in Gallicis cum quadam pictura expri- 
 mente historias eiusdem : 2 fo. pharaon le roi 
 
 penult bre de vie. 
 
 There is in the MS. an inscription (xv, xvi) : Garoges boke. 
 
 Astrology. Paper 
 Alchemy. Paper 
 
 cccxcv 
 
 CCCXCVI 
 CCCXCVII 
 
 XV 
 
 XV 
 
 Cantor. Aurora 
 
 xiv 
 
 
 
 Vol. 1. Printed. 
 
 
 
 
 2. Parisiensis in 
 
 distinctionibus. 
 
 2fo 
 
 . agnus dei 
 
 Mark : 12. 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 3. Aurora. 
 
 
 
 est animi 
 
 4. Distinctiones 
 
 xiii 
 CCCXCVIII 
 
 
 vadens 
 
 Politics of Aristotle 
 
 XV 
 
 
 opus or 
 
 Nice initials. 
 
 CCCXCIX 
 
 
 scripti 
 
 Julianus Toletanus 
 
 viii 
 
 
 mortalium 
 
 Small erasure on fly-leaf. Very rude ornament. 
 
 CCCC 
 Giraldus Cambrensis 
 
 Map on fly-leaf: good figured. 
 Initials in vol. I. 
 
 xiii I. lem a puncto or 
 magnis 
 II. entes or et ut 
 
 CCCCI 
 
 Arabic 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 67 
 
 CCCCII 
 
 Ancren Riwle ? xiii Wigmore 
 
 The title at the bottom of f. 1 in the same form as in the 
 Aurora at Trinity (B . 2 . 23). 
 
 CCCCIII 
 
 Euripides. Paper xv Cant. 
 
 Liber quondam Theodori Archiepiscopi Cantuar. (!) 
 On last leaf: anser cornu. 
 XV V fcepas 
 
 CCCCIV 
 
 Prophetiae xiv, xiii Bury 
 
 Mark : P. 163. 
 
 CCCCV 
 Bulls, etc. xiii, xiv Hospital of St 
 
 Kalendar XIII with many Irish SS. John at Waterford ? 
 
 CCCCVI 
 
 Senecae tragoediae, etc. xiii 
 
 Contents (xiii) on fly-leaf: in hoc I Sceptra 
 
 vol. cont. hec subscripta. II Eloquii 
 
 III santissimus. 
 
 CCCCVII 
 
 Itin. Symeonis, etc. xiv Norwich 
 
 Iter fris Symois Prioris Norwic. G. xxiii. It is no. 20 in the 
 list of S. Bozoun's books, see no, 264. 
 
 CCCCVIII 
 Capgrave de illustribus Henricis xv Bury 
 
 Mark : C. 4. non eum 
 
 CCCCIX 
 
 Cicero de finibus, etc. xv Italian 
 
 Roman hand. nostrum 
 
 5—2 
 
68 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 ccccx 
 
 Walter Odington xv sunt eundem 
 
 CCCCXI 
 
 Psalter (Becket's) ix Canterbury 
 
 2 ff. at end in the Canterbury hand. cor laetificat 
 
 or Beatus 
 or Qm ad te 
 
 CCCCXII 
 
 De administratione principum, etc. xv ? serendum 
 
 William Porter (in large letters). 
 This name also occurs in Rabanus, Trinity B . 16 . 3. 
 
 CCCCXIII 
 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCCXIV 
 
 Gervase of Tilbury xiv vincit 
 
 Erasure at f. 11 : title : occa imperalia (xv) 
 
 2 Gesta Alexandri 2 fo. narum mos 
 
 3 de bello troiano suam illi 
 
 4 de aduentu Enee xv dedit 
 
 5 Historia Britonum 
 
 ccccxv 
 
 de Jure Romani Pontificis xii, xiii Auctoritate 
 
 Like Chr. Ch. hand. Inc. Decretum est. 
 
 CCCCXVI 
 
 Amalarius, fly-leaves gone xii ? Ely 
 
 septuagesima 
 + . 
 
 Mark II, which occurs in Ely books, e.g. Univ. Libr. 
 
 Gg . 1 . 21. Also the mark: 108. 
 
 CCCCXVII 
 
 Accounts, etc. by John Stone, paper late xv Chr. Cant. 
 
 cf. Ingram, no. 304, Chronica abbreviata dom. Ric. Stone, 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 69 
 
 CCCCXVIII 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCCXIX 
 
 Saxon Homilies xi ? raedlice 
 
 A xiiith cent, picture of the Entry into Jerusalem at the 
 beginning. 
 
 ccccxx 
 
 Paper xvi 
 
 CCCCXXI 
 
 Saxon Homilies xi Fram or plege 
 
 Saxon frontispiece of Crucifixion with Virgin and St John, 
 partly in red. 
 
 CCCCXXII 
 
 Red book of Derby xi ? Derby 
 
 CCCCXXIII 
 
 Oxford Letters xvi 
 
 CCCCXXIV 
 
 Aseneth, etc. xiii (1) meo 
 
 Speculum spiritualis amicitiae. (2) tarn auide 
 
 ccccxxv 
 
 Gir. Cambrensis xii, xiii Lincoln ? 
 
 angelica 
 See Giraldus Cambr. Rolls Series, vol. vii. This MS. is 
 
 there said to have been written before the author's death and 
 
 revised under his eye. 
 
 Pet. Blesensis xv consolacio 
 
 Inscr. Libell 9 DE D1VERCIS MIR ACL 9 G de barri diet 9 archi- 
 
 diaconus sci dauid (? xvi). 
 
 CCCCXXVI 
 Misc. 1 Italian xv 
 
 2 Bacon. Paper xv 2 fo. continuat 
 
 Plan of Jerusalem at end. 
 
70 
 
 Chronica 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCCXXVII 
 
 XV 
 
 CCCCXXVIII, IX 
 
 Paper xvi and printed. 
 
 ccccxxx 
 
 Martinus Dumiensis viii, ix 
 
 singula 
 
 Printed. 
 
 CCCCXXXI 
 CCCCXXXII 
 
 Polichronitu de- 
 Damaged picture at beginning. 
 
 Xlll, xiv 
 
 CCCCXXXIII 
 
 Chronicon, etc. xiv 
 
 Fly-leaves from an early MS., erased. 
 
 CCCCXXXIV 
 
 Wycliffite Dialogue xv 
 
 ccccxxxv 
 
 Printed. 
 
 CCCCXXXVI 
 
 (Langton) in apocalipsin xv 
 
 mon seiguour 
 
 I ipso primo 
 
 II mum quia 
 
 CCCCXXXVII 
 
 Biblia 
 
 Xlll 
 
 ista prophetia 
 
 iste or custa 
 
 CCCCXXXVIII 
 
 Gervasius Cantuar. xiii, xiv Chr. Cant. 
 
 Inscr : secunda pars Geruasii mouachi eccl. xpi Cant. 
 Edwards, p. 153. 
 
 CCCCXXXIX 
 
 Computus 
 
 XV, Xlll 
 
 ? de sacerdotibus 
 
CORPUS CllRISTI MSS. 71 
 
 CCCCXL 
 
 Wycliff, Gospels xv 
 
 CCCCXLI 
 Miscell. xiv Chr. Cant. 
 
 Hie est liber Ricardi de Weynchepe in quo continentur, etc. 
 Edwards, p. 215. 
 
 CCCCXLII 
 Alcuinus xii dicitur quod non 
 
 CCCCXLIII 
 
 Synodus P. Quivil xvi 
 
 CCCCXLIV 
 
 Genesis, Exodus, in verse xiv for dhre 
 
 Ric. Southwell. Edited by Morris, E.E.T.S. 
 
 CCCCXLV 
 
 Forma dictitandi xiv ad contrahendura 
 
 CCCCXLVI 
 Vita S. Thomae Cant. xv tis : nee 
 
 Jacobus Tutyll (xv) at end. 
 
 CCCCXLVII 
 
 Problemata xvi 
 
 CCCCXLVIII 
 
 ? Winchester 
 Prosper, etc. x ? et aliud 
 
 Among scribbles on last leaf is : 
 
 Henricus dei gratia Wint. eclesie minister Rich, archid. suo 
 salutem. 
 
 CCCCXLIX 
 
 Aelfric. Grammar xvi and xi 
 
 First leaves gone. 
 
72 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCCL 
 
 Summa J. de Bononia, etc. 
 In many hands. 
 
 Epistolae Hildeberti, etc. 
 
 xiv 
 
 consuetudinem 
 
 CCCCLI 
 
 Title at top of f. 1. Many hands. 
 On fly-leaf: In . . 9. 
 
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 cans of London 
 I carni 
 III humane 
 
 xn 
 
 Chr. Cant, 
 dixerim 
 
 CCCCLII 
 
 Eadmer 
 
 Cf. Edwards, p. 142. 
 
 A leaf at the beginning has a picture of Noli me tangere on 
 gold ground. See Martin Rule in C. A. S. Proc. xxvin. 
 (1885—6) 195—305. 
 
 CCCCLIII 
 
 Epistolae Grosseteste xv 
 
 CCCCLIV 
 
 Howel's Laws 
 
 xv 
 
 CCCCLV 
 
 Th. de Salisbury (de Chebham) summa xiii 
 
 CCCCLVI 
 
 Grosseteste de sphera, etc. xv 
 
 speciosus 
 
 hominum (?) 
 aliis sicut 
 
 prima 
 
 CCCCLVII 
 
 Eadmer ? Edwards p. 138 xii, xiii Chr. Cant. 
 
 hominum 
 or ritaret 
 Anselmus de monte humilitatis ecclesie Ghristi Cant, erased 
 on f. 3. 
 
 CCCCLVIII 
 
 Crisostomus xv, xvi late 
 
 Coloured woodcut on fly-leaf. 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 73 
 
 CCCCLIX 
 
 Lotharius de miseria, etc. xiii 
 
 Ro Net on fly-leaf. dinibus 
 
 CCCCLX 
 
 Alex Nequam xiv ? Norwich 
 
 No mark. Art. 5 relates to Norwich. ne n* 
 
 CCCCLXI 
 
 Institutio Iuris ciuilis, etc. xiii early differentiam 
 
 Exactis. 
 
 Cupientes. 
 
 In uirtute sancte cruris, etc. 
 
 CCCCLXII 
 
 Recapitulatio Bibliorum, etc. xii Dover 
 
 speciem 
 At bottom of f. 1 :| : $ $ On f. 2 : | : 5 J : Interpretaciones 
 ebraicomm... speciem tenens diet... 142... 5. Entered as J. II. 7 
 in Catalogue. 
 
 CCCCLXIII 
 
 Biblia xiii, xiv 2 fo. (in pro- 
 
 Later Kalendar and Psalter : rough initials. hemio) sauri 
 
 CCCCLXIV 
 
 Vita S. Thomae xv merit 
 
 CCCCLXV 
 
 Norwich Consuetudinary xiv Norwich 
 
 Mark : J. iij. 
 
 CCCCLXVI 
 
 Medica xi, xii St Aug. Cant. 
 
 De librario S. Aug. Cantuar. extra muros. facile 
 
 Cat. f. 91. 
 
74 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 CCCCLXVII 
 
 Vita S. Thomae xv qualiter 
 
 Liber Rob. Hare ex dono Job. Swyfte auditoris. 
 
 CCCCLXVIII 
 
 Psalter. Gr. Lat. xiii Ramsey 
 
 Quattuor or 
 Quando 
 On first fly-leaf are runes and numerals. 
 Psalterium grecum prioris gregorii. 
 
 Catalogue of Ramsey, Rolls Series, Chron. Rames. p. 365, 
 among libri Gregorii prioris. Psalterium Grecum (bis). 
 
 
 CCCCLXIX 
 
 
 
 Basil, etc. 
 
 CCCCLXX 
 
 xiv 
 
 accipit 
 
 Kalendar, etc. 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 Norwich 
 
 The part containiug 
 
 Hildebert is marked N. lxix. 
 
 
 CCCCLXXI 
 
 
 
 Le rossignol 
 
 CCCCLXXII 
 
 xiv 
 
 Quant faites 
 
 Isidore etc. 
 
 CCCCLXXIII 
 
 XV 
 
 Duke Humphrey ? 
 Euoeque 
 
 Winchester Troper 
 
 CCCCLXXIV 
 
 xi? 
 
 Winchester 
 
 Sunima Raymundi 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 Archiepiscopi or 
 
 a manu 
 Good pictured initials: fine hand: on uterine vellum. 
 
 CCCCLXXV 
 
 Unum ex quatuor xi, xii auctor or imo 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 75 
 
 CCCCLXXVI 
 
 Merlin etc. xiv London ? 
 
 One picture. ex fixa 
 
 CCCCLXXVII 
 
 Breuiloquium pauperis (Flecto genua) xiii Secundum exi- 
 
 genciam 
 
 CCCCLXXVIII 
 Armenian Psalter. 
 
 CGCCLXXIX 
 
 Expos, vocabulorum (Brito) xiii ? geatus 
 
 CCCCLXXX 
 
 ? Oxford Franciscans 
 Greek Psalter xiii Cant. 
 
 <7 / 
 
 LVCL Ti 
 
 1 Liber Theodori Archiep. Cant.' At end (xvi ?) M. J. 
 (f)ap\ei M icoavves <f>ap\ei. There are many xiiith cent. Latin 
 notes in the book, said to be by Grostete. On f. 1 is a xvith 
 cent, slip : "Hie liber scriptus per eum qui scripsit ypomnisticon 
 grece." The MS. referred to is in the University Library, 
 Ff . 1 . 24 ; it has a similar note about this MS. 
 
 CCCCLXXXI 
 
 Collections xiii early discrecio 
 
 CCCCLXXXII 
 
 Statutes xv 
 
 Ex dono dom. J. Moor. mut. init. 
 
 Beginning gone. 
 
CATALOGUE OF THOMAS MARKAUNT'S LIBRARY 
 FROM MS. C.C.C. 232. 
 
 Hie incipit registrum magistri Thomae Markaunt de numerositate librorum suorum 
 cum eorum contentis, quos contulit ad utilitatem sociorum collegii Corporis Christi 
 studentium. 
 
 Title 
 
 Second folio 
 
 discesserat 
 
 spiritus ergo sanctus 
 
 dixit autem deus 
 
 librum ba 
 
 gene turn 
 
 coadunacio lane 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 
 vnde scriptum est 
 amarum poculum 
 espiti dm 
 
 altari ece. xx° 
 
 quid magnum est 
 
 deo Ista 
 
 ex gula sequitur 
 
 ix — c murmur auit 
 
 1 Moralia G-regorii 
 
 2 Alia moralia Gregorii 
 
 3 Magister historiarum cum 
 
 allegoriis 
 
 4 Hugo de Vienna super 
 
 Ieremiam 
 
 5 Crisostomus de opere im- 
 
 perfecta 
 
 6 Glossa communis super 
 
 epistolas Pauli 
 
 7 Stephanus Cantuariensis 
 
 super Pentateucon 
 
 8 Concordantie magne act. 25 
 
 9 Augustini retractacionum cum aliis quindecim scilicet 
 
 Contra Iulianum opus sic incipit incorruptibilis surget 
 
 Contra Faustum 
 
 Contra aduersarium legis et prophetarum 
 
 Contra Felicianum 
 
 Idem de cura mortuorum agenda 
 
 Ammonicio augustini 
 
 Aug. de adulterinis coniugiis 
 
 Idem de nupciis et concupiscencia 
 
 Idem de vera et falsa penitencia 
 
 Idem contra v hereses 
 
 Idem yponosticon contra pelagianos 
 
 Idem de 12 abusiuis 
 
 Idem de utilitate credendi 
 
 Idem de vera religione 
 
 Idem de ecclesiasticis dogmatibus 
 
 Price 
 
 V jii 
 
 vju v j s viij' 1 
 xxvj 3 viij d 
 
 n j 11 
 
 xxvj 8 viij' 1 
 xxiij 8 viij' 1 
 ij u 
 
 iiij" 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 77 
 
 Title 
 
 10 Augustinus de ciuitate Jei 
 
 11 Egidius super primam 
 
 summarum 
 
 12 Ambrosius in exameron, 
 
 et Augustinus in en- 
 chiridion 
 
 13 Hugo de Vienna super 
 
 Ysayam et Ezechie- 
 lem 
 
 14 Expositio super summas 
 
 Second folio 
 
 lit ad ea 
 animas sanctas 
 
 de aqua nom. 
 
 ad presentem conspiciat 
 historiam 
 
 et trmitatis mente 
 Egidius de peccato originali 
 Theoreumata de corpore Christi et De regimine principum 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 
 stulticia fecit 
 
 utrum deum possumus 
 
 pertinent que in 
 
 tercia et ad ea 
 
 ut magna copia 
 
 Price 
 
 XX s 
 
 in] 1 
 
 15 Gregorius super homeliae 
 
 Euangelistarum 
 
 16 Bonaventura super se- 
 
 cundum summarum 
 
 17 Magister summarum et 
 
 dominus ac redemptor denies in gaudio 
 
 ly 1 \y virp 
 
 Xlllj 8 
 
 qualitcr officium 
 
 pronior est deus 
 
 conscendencia 
 
 XX111J S 
 
 possit did spiritus 
 Boecius de corpore Christi 
 Idem de trinitate et de ebdomadibus et de duabus naturis et una natura 
 Item quatuor libri Iohannis Damasceni de incomprehensibilitate Christi et aliis 
 Idem de amatoribus mundi 
 Idem de centum heresibus 
 Item Boecius de fide Christiana 
 
 18 Thomas de veritatibus de commendacione vir- 
 
 tutum 
 
 19 Aristoteles de secretis se- tacionibus certa 
 
 cretorum cum exposi- 
 
 tione Baconis 
 Item secreta Alberti et 
 Bethorica Aristotelis ad Alexandrum 
 
 20 Legenda sanctorum A. pricius 
 
 21 Liber diversorum tracta- in enigmate 
 
 tuum 
 De oratione Dominica 
 
 De officio misse et regula fratrum minorum 
 De vita prothaplasti 
 
 Epistola methodii de inicio et progressu mundi et de die iudicii 
 De speculo mundi 
 Purgatorium S. Patrick" 
 Item oracio eiusdem 
 
 Itinerarium domini Iohannis Maundevyle militis 
 Tractatus de presbytero Iohanne 
 
 Itinerarium fratris Odovici ordinis fratrum minorum 
 
 Tractatus Francisci Petrarche de Waltero Marthione et Grisild' uxore eius 
 De tribus magis regibus 
 
 Ibi teste 
 
 et in auro ponitur 
 
 secundo deberet 
 iudicii Machameto 
 
 Yf vnf 
 
 xxvij 3 
 viij s 
 
78 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 Title 
 
 Second folio 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 
 Price 
 
 omnes hij abierunt 
 plaga superbie 
 
 quia in quantum ami- 
 
 cicia 
 bros eius 
 
 scriptura sacra 
 
 verbum bonum etc. 
 Ad quoddam exiguum 
 
 melior qui vita 
 
 passiones et quecunque 
 
 xij 8 
 
 XX s 
 
 Vll] 8 V11J C 
 
 in latinum 
 
 De vita et passione S. Thome 
 
 De Sarasenis et eorum obseruaticmibus 
 
 De Machameto et eius legibus [Now MS. 275] 
 
 22 Gregorius super Ezechie- Qui ergo ipsam 
 
 lem cum quadam ta- 
 bula ad idem 
 
 23 Distinctiones Gorham 
 
 24 Distinctiones Ianuensis 
 Tractatus de passione Christi et 
 Proverbia Hugonis de S. Victore 
 
 25 Tabula Deveroys super 
 Ethica 
 
 26 Dionisius Ariopagita de 
 
 celeste ierarcba 
 
 De diuinis nominibus 
 
 De mistica tbeologia 
 
 De decern eius diuersis epistolis et omnes cum commentis infra scriptis 
 
 Primo Hugonis de S. Victore 
 
 Secundo domini Iobannis Scoti 
 
 Tercio domini Iohannis Saraseni 
 et cum glosis Anastasii Apostolice sedis bibliotecarii de greco 
 translatis 
 
 Item beati confessoris maximi 
 
 Item beati Iohannis Sitopolitani 
 et eis fine est unum aliud commentum magis clarum sine una translatione 
 
 27 Extractus doctoris de Igitur nota quod agar li. 7 ep. 5. Giriaco xiij 3 iiij« 
 
 Lira super multos li- 
 bros de biblia cum 
 duobus Gregoriis 
 
 28 Postille super Genesin 
 
 Exodum Proverbium 
 Ecclesiasticen Regum 
 Thobiam Ester Es- 
 dram et Machab 
 
 29 Reductorium morale su- 
 
 per libros biblie 
 
 30 Blank 
 
 31 Brito in summa de verbis 
 biblie 
 
 32 Psalterium glosatum 
 
 33 Themata diuisa cum ser- 
 
 monibus Bonaventure 
 Sermones Dominicales et sanctorum cum concordantiis et tabulis ad eosdem 
 
 de mand' 
 
 et origo piscium 
 
 geatus quarte 
 
 se credenti 
 sicut audi ens 
 
 terrenam cogitacionem xiij 8 iiij c 
 
 ergo ne prostrabitur xl 8 
 
 mensura numeri 
 
 ut forcia conf under et 
 guitur autem multiplex 
 
 Vjs V11 -jc 
 
 xl 8 
 viij 8 
 
 34 S. 
 
 Thomas 
 cunde 
 
 secunda se- sicut dictum est 
 
 utrum utatur ira 
 
 ij h xnj 8 nij 1 
 
CORPUS CHRIST] MSB. 79 
 
 ntir Second folio Penultimate folio Price 
 
 35 Ianuensis in suo Catho- an eciam quid omnia «' x vel icis vi" xiij H iiij' 1 
 
 licon dictio 
 
 36 Uguncio Jf'ai • s • fario voluntarius a um xvj 8 
 
 37 Pupilla cum pastorali digne suscipientibus nisi quod ea que xl H 
 
 Gregorii 
 
 38 Textus logice noue et super quod sit et totam causam quidem vj 8 viij d 
 
 veteris 
 
 39 Waleys super decern li- 3 quod nee iurauerunt qui autem putant vj 8 viij d 
 
 bros de ciuitate dei 
 
 40 Summa theologie cum 
 
 questionibus de ani- sime dissimilitudo a- corporalis facta viij 8 
 
 malibus et de anima nime 
 
 41 Parisieusis de viciis Tercio tangitur triplex materia xxvj 8 viij d 
 
 42 Kylwarby super libros hec quatuor conferre in 'prioritas remanet vj 9 viij d 
 
 priorum logica 
 
 Thomas de Aquino super libros posteriorum cum quibusdam questionibus naturalibus 
 et logicalibus 
 
 43 Libellus de preparatione sapiencie et intellect us prouocati sicut x s 
 
 cordis 
 
 44 Alyngton super predica- genus oc quod racioni q a deseruit (?) vj s viij d 
 
 menta 
 De virtutibus 
 De tempore 
 De materia et forma 
 De anima 
 De ydeis 
 
 De incarnatione verbi 
 Vniuersalia secundum Burleygh 
 De absoluta necessitate futurorum 
 
 45 Libellus Wyklef qui in- Iuvenum rogatibus, vel pmdorum equinoct. iij s 
 
 cipit quoad sensum 
 
 46 Formula nouiciorum tercius tanto effectu laudes homini Jingit v s 
 
 47 Liber de amore cum aliis mori pocius desedtur cipiam in uido vj s viij d 
 
 tractatibus Eicardi 
 Heremite 
 
 48 Tabula Martini super de- decimarum dandarum vsura committitur xx 8 
 
 creta et decretalia 
 
 49 Casuarium decretorum magf dicta ab Mo persequendi in iudicia viij 8 
 
 50 Liber decretorum lex ut (? vel) constitucio Item iere (?) ij 11 
 
 51 Expositio AspalP super quare acens non est se raciones extra res x s 
 
 libros phisicorum 
 Celi et mundi 
 
 De generatione et corruption e 
 Metheororum 
 De anima 
 
80 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 Titl Second folio 
 
 De vegetabilibus et plantis 
 
 De sensu et sensato 
 
 De memoria et reminiscencia 
 
 De sompno et vigilia 
 
 De longitudine et breuitate vite 
 . ii • libri methaphisice 
 Tabula Augustini de spiritu et anima 
 De Secundo philosopho quidam libellus 
 
 52 Missale trinitatU dieetur 
 
 53 Belial legum da done 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 
 Ptict. 
 
 defunetorum offeritnut ij 1 ' xiij- iiij' 
 quia post purgaeionem 
 
 mj" 
 
 Item Bartholomei quedam breues questiones dominicales 
 
 54 Portiferium 
 
 55 Biblia 
 
 cuius maior virtutum 
 lex enim spiritdlis 
 
 Cartusientem in anglia iij 1 ' vj- viij' 1 
 matheut mareut lucat nj^fi'viij* 
 iohamu i 
 
 25. 36 mn 
 
 osee • 10 • Hid 
 
 iiij" 
 
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 qvod in ij> 
 
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 mentitur qut eunqm 
 
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 de effectu passionis 
 
 pah r e§ t • 1 « 
 
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 ehristi 
 
 
 
 Buperiora de inft Ho- 
 
 (i>rn in sunt cmitinui 
 
 ij s 
 
 ribut 
 
 
 
 constitueionibut 
 
 j,n r, ,1, tuque 
 
 viij- 
 
 venii laudabilio (?) 
 
 inn, rt'il, (?) j'arere 
 
 xx«» 
 
 c sco andantiB 
 
 Ki 
 
 nature artu ' t marts 
 libroe i thiooram 
 
 56 Concordantie abbreuiate 
 
 57 Textus naturalis philo- 
 
 sophic 
 
 58 Textus philosophie 
 
 59 Thoiuae de veritatibus 
 
 theologie 
 
 60 Libellus partim logicalia 
 
 partim naturalis, etc. 
 
 61 Codex 
 
 62 Textus ethicorum cum 
 
 maguis moralibus 
 
 63 Liber moralis philosophie 
 
 Questiones Burleygh mote et solute super 
 
 Capitula Eustracii super libros ethicorum 
 
 Conclusiones Burleygh super libros ethicorum 
 
 Textus ethicorum cum expositions s. Thome 
 
 Yconomia Aristotilis cum expositione Bartholomei de Bnrgis 
 
 Yconomia Beruardi cuidam militi per modum epistole 
 
 Questiones mote super octo libros politicorum 
 
 Textus politicorum cum expositione Petri de Aluernia in margine 
 
 Rethorica Aristotilis 
 *Vallata cum expositione fratris Egidii de Roma ordinis fratrum heremitarum 
 Aristotiles de bona fortuna cum expositione fratris Egidii 
 Liber de vita Aristotilis 
 
 Liber de morte Aristotilis cum prologo precedente 
 
 Liber de Secretis Secretorum cum prologo eiusdem, eciain precedente capitulorum 
 diuisione per primam, secundam, et tertiam partes, cum equibusdam expositionibus 
 fratris Rogeri Baconis de ordine minorum 
 
 64 Textus tocius veteris lo- eausata genera (?) dif- idem sing alum ma.riwe ij" vj d 
 
 gice et noue logice ferunt 
 
 Libri Eleucorum et Topicorum 
 
CORPUS CHRISTI MSS. 
 
 81 
 
 Title Second folio 
 
 65 Eethorica Tullii antequam diuisionis 
 
 66 Bestiarius cum quodam suffodias (?) palmis (?) 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 sepe equitas violatur 
 ciacionis thab 
 
 tractatu de virtutibus 
 
 cardinalibus 
 Versus de contemptu mundi 
 Dubia psalterii 
 
 67 Liber dictaminis ceteris dicimus dum res ipsa 
 
 Formula dictandi tria sunt 
 
 Sompniale delucidarium Pharaonis 
 
 Alanus de planctu 
 
 Tragedie Senece cum quibusdam litteris Latinis et Anglicis formatis 
 
 Eethorica dictandi magistri Thome de Nouo Mevcatu 
 
 Papa stupor mundi 
 
 68 Liber grammaticalis et tenend' de me si ab eis h° dul 
 
 Cartuari'ws in Latinis 
 
 Nominale in Gallicis Latinis et Anglicis 
 
 Littere Gallice 
 
 Orthographia in Gallicz's 
 
 Cartuarnis in Gallic ?'s 
 
 Opiniones Wyklef cum aliis 
 
 69 Sequenciarum glosatum. est sceptrum virga regis 
 
 Verbale, cum multis 
 aliis 
 
 70 Algorismus cum mag. 
 
 Thoma de Nouo Mer- 
 
 catu exponendum 
 Algorismus de minuciis 
 Compotus ecclesiasticus 
 Tractatus de spera 
 Theorica planetarum 
 Musica Boecii abbreuiata 
 Sufficiencia musice organice 
 
 Musica Boecii abbreuiata per Iohannem de muris 
 Alius tractatus de discantur 
 
 71 Compendium logice ac nota quod r ber dicitur etc Iterum vidi 
 
 philosophic tarn natu- predicamentum 
 ralis quam moralis 
 quam theologie, cum 
 sermonibus in fine 
 
 72 Liber de Apocalipsi in pharaon le rei bre de vie 
 
 Gallicis cum quadam 
 pictura experimente 
 historias eiusdem 
 [now MS. 394] 
 
 Price 
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 inclinacione naturali vj s viij ( 
 
 dicitur et albedinem vel valorem pro breue 
 
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 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 
 
82 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI M8S. 
 
 Title 
 
 Second folio 
 
 
 Penultimate folio 
 
 Price 
 
 73 Psalterium beate marie 
 
 vepre tentus 
 
 
 euanescat 
 
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 cum vita Roberti de 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cecilie Boecius de dis- 
 
 
 
 
 
 ciplina scholarium 
 
 
 
 
 
 74 Quaternus sophistrie 
 
 consequent et 
 done 
 
 qua ra- 
 
 quod iu.xta Mam (ratio- 
 cinationem) 
 
 xij' 1 
 
 75 Liber canticorum musi- 
 
 Tenor so fayr 
 
 
 and as I wente 
 
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 calium et aliorum 
 
 
 
 
 
 76 Liber priuilegiorum et 
 
 breue patens 
 
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 cionibus a n nunc i at' 
 
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 statutorum Universi- 
 
 gratis 
 
 
 
 
 tatis Cantabrigie qui 
 remaneat in cista 
 [now in the Registry] 
 
 The prices annexed to each book are given by Halliwell from a list in another part of 
 Markaunt's Register. The sum total comes to £104. 12s. 3d. The most expensive book is 
 no. 63, which cost £10, and the cheapest, no. 74, price one shilling. 
 
INDEX OF SOURCES. 
 
 Abingdon 28, 57 
 Achadeus 272 
 Aldebury 211 
 Anglesey 136 
 
 Bath 111, 140 
 Boxley, see 138 
 Burton 281, 353 
 
 Bury ? 37, 66 2 , ? 135, ? 149, ? 160, 251, 
 322, 404, 408 
 
 Cambridge, Hospital of St John 21 
 
 Canterbury, Christ Church ? 11, 19, 
 ?22, ?44, 46, 51, 63, 76, ?81, 
 ?87, ?94, ?123, ?130, ? 134, 137, 
 ? 158, ? 161, 173, ? 184, 187, 189, 
 192, ?193, ?200, 222, 253, 260, 
 ?263, 272, ?274, 288, 289, 295, 
 299, 304, 326, ?330, ?332, 345, 
 371, 375, 385, ?403, 411, ?415, 
 417, ?425, 438, 441, ?451, 452, 
 457, 480 
 St Augustine's 13, 14, 20, 38, 49, 
 50,? 81, 129, 144, 154,? 184, ?197, 
 267, 270, 271, 276, ?280, ?284, 286, 
 290, 291, 301, 312, 314, 352, 364, 
 382, 389, 466 
 
 Coggeshall ? 30, 31, 54, 89 
 
 Crowland ? 307 
 
 Derby 422 
 
 Dover 3, 4, 42, 365, 366, 462 
 
 Durham ? 183, ? 196 
 
 Exeter 41, 93, 190, 191, 196 
 Hexham 139 
 Jervaulx 96 
 
 Leiston 27, 59 
 
 Lesnes 387 
 
 Lincoln 294, 425 
 
 Litchwick 145 
 
 London, Carmelites ? 90, ?266 
 Dominicans 306, 316 
 Franciscans 181, 301, 451 
 Hospital, Bishopsgate 194 
 
 Malmesbury 23, ? 88, 361, ? 380 
 Markaunt 232, 275, 394 
 
 Northampton 281 
 
 Norwich 34, ? 36, 74, 79, ? 131, ? 148, 
 166, 180, ?204, 252, 264, ? 266, 
 278, 325, 347, ? 370, 407, ?460, 
 465, 470 
 
 Oxford Franciscans 315, ? 480 
 
 Peterboro' 53, 92 
 
 Pipewell 269 
 
 Private owners, see 61, 91, 142, 143, 
 164 (Gunthorp), 166, 210, 211, 
 213, 219, 228, 233, 240, 243, 246, 
 268, 283, 319, 324, 412, 444, 467, 
 472 
 
 Ely ? 43, ? 335, 377, 393, 416 
 
 Eamsey ? 321, 468 
 
84 
 
 INDEX OF SOURCES. 
 
 Rievaulx 86 
 Rochester 62, 318 
 
 St Alban's 5, 6, 7, 16, 26 
 St Bertin's ?223 
 St David's 199 
 Salley 66 1 
 
 Sherborne ? 88, ?277 
 Swineshead ? 150 
 Syon 141 
 
 Tielman 68 
 
 Waterford ?405 
 
 Welsh 199 
 
 Wigmore 402 
 
 Winchester ? 188, 320 2 , 328, 339, ? 448, 
 
 473 
 Worcester 9, ? 12, 24, 48, ? 87, 146, 
 
 ?183, 217, ?205, 279, 367, 391 
 Wiirzburg 373 
 
 Thetford 329 
 Thorney ?297 
 
 ?? 24, 257, 261 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : PRINTED BY J. AND C E. CLAY, AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
AN ANNOTATED LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM 
 
 TO BE FOUND IN THE 
 
 ©tribroiftp aitfi College atbrart'est 
 
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Cambrtoge: 
 
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 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
AN ANNOTATED LIST 
 
 OF 
 
 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM 
 
 TO BE FOUND IN THE 
 
 Umtorsttp ana College ^torams 
 
 AT 
 
 CAMBRIDGE. 
 
 WITH AN APPENDIX 
 
 CONTAINING A LIST OF WOEKS REFERRING TO THE 
 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CAMBRIDGE LIBRARIES 
 
 SAMUEL SANDARS, M.A. 
 
 OF TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 CAMBRIDGE : 
 
 PRINTED FOR THE CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY. 
 
 sold by DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. 
 and MACMILLAN AND CO. 
 
 1878. 
 
ADDENDUM TO S. SAXDAES' LIST OF BOOKS PEIXTED 
 OX VELLUM. 
 
 EREATA. 
 
 Page 46, line 7 from bottom, add: — 
 
 "Another book printed on vellum at the University Press appears to be 
 Euripides, Medea, ed. E. Porson, Cantab. 1802. For a knowledge of this I am 
 indebted to the kindness of the Eev. S. S.Lewis, F.S.A., Corpus Christi College, 
 who tells me that Dr Luard, the Eegistrary, has a single leaf of this edition on 
 vellum. I find that Dr Dibdin states, Introd. Classics i. p. 536, that two copies 
 of the ed. of Hecuba by E. Porson, Cantab. 1802, were also struck off on 
 vellum. " 
 
 Page 58, line 9 from bottom, omit " is." 
 „ 70, „ 13 from top, for "Wright (Thos.)" read "Wright (John M. F.)." 
 
 1U IS UUUUIUU W JJLCUi-lCi. CVCU ai iCOlUViiu v^ciavi ks\s »"«"« VK * «■*"**'«-'* 
 
 take labour of so tedious and possibly unremunerative a cha- 
 racter. If books of this kind possess illuminations they are 
 very apt to be locked up amongst the manuscripts, and accord- 
 ingly, and rightly, are rendered difficult of access ; if, however, 
 
 1 
 
 s. 
 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 Books printed upon vellum form the most sumptuous 
 class of typographical productions, the limited number of copies 
 printed, their consequent extreme rarity, combined with their 
 beauty, rendering them objects of special value and interest. 
 All which desirable characteristics are much enhanced when, as 
 frequently is found the case in works produced shortly after the 
 invention of printing or in special and presentation copies, the 
 exquisite art of the illuminator supplements the richness and 
 brilliancy imparted by this durable material to the printer's 
 work, and accordingly such volumes are greatly prized and are 
 ranked in libraries next to the most precious manuscripts. 
 
 The following list, containing the books of this class which 
 the writer has had the opportunity of inspecting in the Uni- 
 versity and College libraries at Cambridge, is the result of 
 several visits made to these collections during the last few 
 years, and will, it is believed, be found, as far as the number is 
 concerned, to be tolerably complete; for probably few speci- 
 mens have been overlooked, at all events in the more important 
 libraries. But it cannot be considered exhaustive, for the only 
 way of ensuring this would be to take down and examine every 
 volume, at least in the older and more likely classes of each 
 library. This would be impracticable for a non-resident, and 
 it is doubtful whether even a resident could be found to under- 
 take labour of so tedious and possibly unremunerative a cha- 
 racter. If books of this kind possess illuminations they are 
 very apt to be locked up amongst the manuscripts, and accord- 
 ingly, and rightly, are rendered difficult of access ; if, however, 
 s. 1 
 
2 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 they are without any decorations they frequently fall into the 
 rank and file of the general library of printed books, and elude 
 observation ; for it is only in a very few catalogues that the fact 
 of the book being printed on vellum is in any way noticed. 
 
 The writer has however endeavoured, both by personal 
 search in the various collections and by diligent enquiry of all 
 competent or willing to give him information, to make his list 
 as comprehensive as possible. Those, however, who are accus- 
 tomed to similar investigations will be able to understand some 
 of the difficulties attending the search after books of this very 
 special and often little understood kind in the somewhat widely 
 scattered college libraries, and this by one who, in addition to 
 the disadvantage of being but a passing visitor, which has 
 caused his notes to have been frequently made under the 
 pressure of haste, is moreover without any position in the 
 University entitling him to unrestricted admission to any 
 libraries except those of his own college and the public collec- 
 tions of the University and Fitzwilliam Museum, thus render- 
 ing him in all other cases dependent upon the courtesy and 
 patience of those who accompanied him, and upon which he 
 was unwilling to trespass unduly. 
 
 The series of books printed upon vellum here brought 
 together, though not a large one 1 , nevertheless forms a very 
 respectable collection, and contains a considerable number of 
 unique, rare, and interesting representatives of this small and 
 distinctly marked section of printed books, including not a few 
 examples of the before-mentioned graceful combination of the 
 artist's and printer's skill, and also several that have hitherto 
 escaped notice. And if the whole number be thought less than 
 might perhaps have been expected from libraries amounting in 
 the aggregate to above half a million volumes 2 , it should be 
 
 1 For a comparative view of the number of vellum-printed books in different 
 libraries, see post, page 7. 
 
 2 In the edition now publishing of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, under 
 Cambridge the number of volumes in the University library is estimated at half 
 a million, but the volumes have not been counted. It is customary in this 
 country to count the bound volumes only, as they stand on the shelves, but it is 
 said that abroad it is usual to reckon every separate work, even if a few pages 
 only, as a volume. This may perhaps account for the very considerable number 
 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 3 
 
 remembered that none of the great book-collectors 1 , whose 
 libraries were usually richly furnished with vellum-printed 
 books and by whose liberality the great library of the sister 
 University has been so enriched, have thought fit to confer 
 their treasures on Cambridge ; also that neither the University 
 nor the separate Colleges have funds available or competent 
 for the purchase of costly books of this kind, which are clearly 
 not necessaries, and are by some considered mere useless 
 curiosities. 
 
 Some trouble has been taken to note, whenever ascertain- 
 able, the donor of each book, and it will accordingly be seen 
 that the greater portion have come from two principal bene- 
 factors, King George I. and Viscount Fitzwilliam. The former, 
 as is well known, purchased and presented to the University in 
 1715 the splendid library of John Moore, successively Bishop 
 of Norwich and Ely, amounting to above 30,000 volumes, and 
 full of book-rarities of every kind. This gift, even after every 
 allowance be made for political considerations, surely should 
 go far to redeem the earlier representatives of the House of 
 Hanover from the charge sometimes brought against them of 
 indifference to the cause of literature. The latter, a century 
 later, bequeathed his library, with the rest of his art treasures, 
 to found the museum known by his name. It contains a fine 
 series of Parisian- printed Books of Hours. Amongst the Col- 
 lege libraries those of St John's and of Emmanuel are pre- 
 eminent for the value and interest of their vellum-printed 
 books. Several of the others have but a specimen or two each, 
 and the libraries of Trinity Hall, Sidney Sussex, and Downing 
 Colleges seem to have nothing at all of the kind. 
 
 The plan adopted by Van Praet in his catalogues, of includ- 
 
 of volumes that are credited to many secondary foreign libraries. The volumes 
 as they stand on the shelves at Trinity have been counted, and amount to about 
 70,000 volumes, but if the fine collection of 17th century and other tracts were 
 counted separately, this number would be considerably added to. St John's 
 library ranks third with about 30,000 volumes, and Emmanuel and Queens' 
 college are not far behind. 
 
 1 Lord Fitzwilliam's library, mentioned below, and Mr Grylls' bequest of 
 about 10,000 volumes to Trinity college, may be thought exceptions to this, but 
 in the latter there does not seem any volume printed entirely on vellum. 
 
 1—2 
 
4 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 ing all books containing any portion printed on vellum, has been 
 followed, and the more willingly as it gives an opportunity of 
 introducing several rare Missals of English and Foreign Uses. 
 In the case of books of this composite kind the number of 
 vellum leaves forming in Missals the whole or a portion of the 
 Canon of the Mass, and usually containing a large woodcut 
 of the Crucifixion, is specified. When the full title or further 
 details of the edition under description may be found in Hain, 
 Panzer, Brunet or Van Praet's catalogues, a reference is given to 
 the place where these may be found. The whereabouts of other 
 similar vellum copies is also given whenever the writer has been 
 able to ascertain it. A name or date within brackets has been 
 ascertained indirectly, in the case of undated Horse from the 
 Almanac or Easter table. The size of the page, in most 
 instances, has been measured, and is given in inches. 
 
 Although some description of the special characteristics of 
 each book will be found in its accompanying notice, yet an 
 opportunity may perhaps be here taken to point out a few Oi 
 the more valuable and interesting articles, arranged in order 01 
 date : — The single leaf of the Mazarine Bible, No. (1). The 
 three fine leaves of the Mentz Psalter of 1457 (2). The first 
 dated Mentz Bible of 1462 (93). The very beautiful and histo- 
 rically interesting copy of the Mentz Cicero of 1465 (145). 
 Cicero's Epistles, perhaps unique, by Jenson in 1471 (3). The 
 fragments by the printer of the Dutch " Speculum," by some 
 attributed to the mythical Laurence Coster (4), (5), (6), (7), (8). 
 The Italian Translation of Pliny, by Jenson, 1476, with its 
 superb illuminations (10). The ponderous volumes of Canon 
 Law, by the same priuter, in 1476 and 1477 (118), (119), and 
 (120). *The Indulgences, printed by Lettou in 1480 (110), 
 (111); by A. de Keysere in the same year (11); and the frag- 
 ment printed by Caxton in 1481 (101). The rare first edition 
 of the Hebrew Pentateuch of 1482 (13). The fragments of the 
 printing of Th. de Rood (14) and Machlinia (15). The unique 
 "Saintes" Missal, 1491 (19). The special presentation copy 
 of the Historia Bsetica, 1493 (20). Two copies of the first 
 Primer printed in England by De Worde from Caxton's types, 
 one of them the property of and enriched by the writing of 
 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 5 
 
 Queen Katheriue Parr (23), (24). The unique copy of the 
 Proceedings of the Wurtzburg Synod (18). Two copies of the 
 Sarum Hours by Pigouchet in 1498 (25), (74). Two copies of 
 the Sarum Breviary of 1499 (121), (112). Two copies of Pynson's 
 first Sarum Missal of 1500 (133), (146). The very beautiful 
 French translation of Seneca, by Verard (134). The unique and 
 hitherto undescribed copy of Faques' Psalter of 1504 (147). The 
 fine Sarum Manual (99). The large and beautiful copy of Sarum 
 Hours, with a miniature of its owner (75). Bp. Fisher's work, 
 printed by De Worde, 1508 (29). The apparently undescribed 
 edition of the Sarum Missal, printed at Paris in 1511 for De 
 Worde and Faques (113). The fine copy of Hours (94). The 
 "Troye Book" by Pynson, 1513 (128). The charming copy of 
 the Sarum Missal of 1514 (33). Two copies of the first edition 
 of the rare York Missal, 1516, one hitherto undescribed (36), 
 (96). The magnificent Mentz Livy of 1518, in two volumes 
 (37). The second and fourth editions of the Greek Testament 
 of Erasmus (115), (124), (125). The unique work of P. des 
 Groux, 1519 (39). The three fine copies of Pynson's Sarum 
 Missal of 1520, the first with specially printed additions (40), 
 (130), (150). The unique specimen of Skot's printing, 1521 
 (42). Two copies of Bp. Tonstall's work, one of them with his 
 autograph (43), (116). The splendid and unique Liege Missal 
 of 1523 (45). The richly bound copy of Sarum Hours of 1528 
 (138). The fine specimen of printing in Greek (100). Galen's 
 works, partly translated by Dr Linacre, the presentation copy 
 to King Henry VIII. (95). The unique Aldine Ovid of 1533 
 (48). Byddell's Prymer in Englysshe, 1535 (151). The grand 
 and unique copy of the Great Bible, 1539, specially prepared 
 for Lord Keeper Cromwell (126). The very fine and large 
 French Bible of 1548, in two volumes, the presentation copy to 
 King Edward VI. (53). The historically interesting address to 
 Philip and Mary of England (56). The probably unique Hebrew 
 Prayer-book of 1557 (60). Archbp. Parker's privately printed 
 works 1572 (61), (62). The very singular specially printed 
 titles by Day, 1575 (102), (103), (104), (105), (106). Holbein's 
 Dance of Death, engraved by W. Hollar (87). The unique 
 little book of devotional prayers, 1704 (64), and the sumptuous 
 
6 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 edition of Te'le'maque, printed at the French Royal Press in 
 1785, in four volumes (86), a work which, with those by Molini 
 (65), Nepveu (88), P. and F. Didot (142), (143), rivals the 
 beauty of the earlier examples in the brilliancy of the press- 
 work and the fineness of the vellum. For in many modern 
 specimens of vellum-printing, owing chiefly to a faulty selection 
 and preparation of the substance used, and to its varying 
 thickness, the effect is unsatisfactory. Perhaps the only example 
 in the following list entitled to this condemnation is the 
 Coulthart pedigree (68). 
 
 The best thanks of the writer are principally due to Mr 
 Bradshaw, Fellow of King's College, the most obliging and 
 learned Librarian of the University, for whose uniform courtesy 
 and ever ready assistance to him in his, often it is to be feared, 
 somewhat troublesome enquiries he here desires to tender his 
 best thanks and acknowledgements. He is also much indebted 
 to the Master of Clare; the Master, and the Rev. S. S. Lewis, 
 the Librarian, of Corpus Christi College ; the Rev. Dr Wood, 
 President of St John's ; the Hon. the Master of Magdalene ; 
 the Master of Sidney; the Rev. J. B. Pearson, the Librarian of 
 Emmanuel ; the Rev. R. Sinker, the Librarian of Trinity ; the 
 Rev. E. T. S. Carr, of St Catharine's ; the Rev. W. W. Skeat, 
 of Christ's ; Mr R. L. Bensly, of Gonville and Caius ; the Rev. 
 W. G. Searle, of Queens' ; to the Master, and Dr Westmorland, 
 of Jesus ; to Dr Latham, of Downing ; to the late Master of St 
 Peter's; to Mr 0. Johnson, of the University Library, and Mr 
 White, Sub-librarian of Trinity; and to all other gentlemen 
 who either gave him access to the respective libraries under 
 their charge, lent him their personal assistance, or afforded him 
 information. 
 
 S. S. 
 
 17, QUEENSBOROUGH TERRACE, LONDON, W. 
 
 Feb. 8, 1877. 
 
COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE NUMBER OF VELLUM-PRINTED 
 BOOKS CONTAINED IN SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL LIBRA- 
 RIES OF EUROPE^ 
 
 This table is mainly based on that given in the Preface to 
 M. Yan Praet's Catalogue des livres imprimes sur velin de la 
 Bibliotheque du Roi, 6 vols., Paris, 1822 — 28, but for the number 
 at present in the British Museum the writer is indebted to 
 Mr R Garnett, and Mr Bullen, who had the vellum books in 
 our National Collection counted. They were found to amount 
 to 675 works ; but, as some Hebrew books were not included, 
 in round numbers they may be reckoned as amounting to 
 about 700. For the computation of those in the Bodleian he 
 has to thank Mr Coxe, Bodley's librarian ; while, for the number 
 of those at Chatsworth, and at Ashburnham Place, he is in- 
 debted to the courtesy of the Duke of Devonshire, and to 
 that of the Earl of Ashburnham. 
 
 M. Yan Praet estimates the number of books of this class 
 known in his day (a. D. 1822) at about 2700, of which 1467 
 were under his charge in what is now the great National 
 Library at Paris. The following comparison is not an accurate 
 one, for some of the libraries given by Yan Praet, notably the 
 great Paris library, must since his day have added to their 
 collections, and the Munich Library is omitted ; but it is the 
 only one readily attainable. This preface by M. Yan Praet will 
 be found to give also some interesting information about this 
 class of books, and to describe the several kinds of vellum, 
 varying with the different sort and age of animal, that has been 
 used to supply this material for the printer's use. 
 
8 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 A. D. No. 
 
 National Library, Paris (1822)... 1467 
 
 Mazarine Library — (1822)... 12 
 
 Ste Genevieve ... — (1822)... 64 
 
 The Imperial Library, Vienna (1822)... 50 
 
 The Royal Library, Copenhagen (1822)... 34 
 
 The Vatican Library, Rome (1822)... 30 
 
 The Magliabecchi Library, Florence (1822)... 37 
 
 TheRiccardi — — (1822)... 28 
 
 The British Museum Library (1877)... 700 
 
 The Bodleian Library, Oxford (1877)... 250 
 
 The Library of the Duke of Devonshire (1877)... 97 
 
 The Library of the Earl of Ashburnham (1877)... 100 
 
 The Library of the Earl Spencer (1822)... 108 
 
 The Library of the Duke of Marlborough 
 
 (xv. Cent, books only) (1822)... 30 
 
 In dispersed libraries : — 
 
 Count Maccarthy's Library, sold in (1807)..- 601 
 
 Harley, Earl of Oxford, Library, sold in (1743)... 210 
 
 Due de la Valliere Library „ (1784)... 167 
 
 The Pinelli Library „ (1789)... 77 
 
 The number of vellum books in the University Library, 
 Cambridge, including fragments, is about 70; and the sum 
 total in the Cambridge libraries amounts to 150 volumes, or, 
 excluding duplicates, 135 separate works. 
 
THE TITLES IN FULL OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS BRIEFLY 
 REFERRED TO IN THE FOLLOWING NOTES. 
 
 Ames (F.), Typographical Antiquities, by William Herbert. 1785. 4to. 
 
 3 vols. 
 Beloe (W.), Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books. 1807. 8vo. 6 vols. 
 Bernard (Edw.), Catalogi Librorum MSS. Anglise et Hiberniae in unum 
 collecti. Oxon. 1697. Fol. 
 
 A few very rare printed books are given amongst the Cambridge 
 and Bp. Moore's MSS. 
 Blades (Wm.), Life and Typography of William Caxton. 1861 — 3. 4to. 
 
 2 vols. 
 Botfield (Beriah), Cathedral Libraries of England. 1849. 8vo. 
 
 — — Bibliotheca Membranacea Britannica. Published by 
 
 the Philobiblon Society. II., Art. 4. 1855. 8vo. 
 
 This work, so far as Cambridge books are concerned, simply 
 copies Hartshorne, without any additions or corrections. 
 Bradshaw (H.), Catalogue de livres de la Bibliotheque de 1' University & 
 Cambridge imprimes sur velin. Published in Le Bibliophile, Londres, 
 Septembre et Novembre, 1863. 8vo., pp. 105—108 and 123—127. 
 
 This has been of great service to the writer. There have however 
 been several additions since its publication. For an interesting 
 account of the rise and progress of the University Library, see a 
 contribution to the short-lived Cambridge University Gazette, 
 1869, Nos. 9 — 15, by the present librarian, Mr Bradshaw. 
 British Museum, Catalogue of Hebrew Books in the Library of the. 
 1867. 8vo. 
 
 The MS. Catalogue of printed Books in the British Museum has 
 been much referred to, though it is not specially quoted in the 
 notes. 
 Brunet (J. C), Manuel du Libraire. Paris. 1860—70. 6 vols. 8vo. 
 Campbell (M. F. A. G.), Annales de la Typographic Neerlandaise au XV. 
 
 Siecle. La Hayo. 1874. 8vo. 
 Cotton (H.), Typographical Gazetteer. Oxford. 1831. 8vo. 
 
 At the end is a list of vellum books in the Bodleian, but Mr 
 Douce's and other books have since been added. 
 
10 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 Dallaway (J as.), Anecdotes of the Arts. 1800. 8vo. 
 
 De Morgan (A.), Arithmetical Books from invention of printing to the 
 
 present time. 1847. Svo. 
 Dibdin (T. F.), Typographical Antiquities, based on Herbert's Ames. 
 
 1810—19. 4to. 4 vols. 
 
 Introduction to Greek and Latin Classics. 1827. Svo. 2 vols. 
 
 ■ Bibliographical Decameron. 1817. 8vo. 3 vols. 
 
 Bibliotheca Spenceriana. 1814: — 5. Svo. 4 vols. 
 
 iEdes Althorpianse. 1822. Svo. 2 vols. 
 
 Catalogue of the Cassano Collection. 1823. 8vo. 
 
 Bibliographical Tour in France and Germany. 1821. 8vo. 3 vols. 
 
 Bibliographical Tour in Northern Counties, &c. 1838. 8vo. 
 
 2 vols. 
 
 Library Companion. 1824. 8vo. 
 
 Dickinson (F. H.), List of printed Service-Books according to the ancient 
 
 uses of the Anglican Church. 1850. 8vo. 
 
 This list is incorporated in Bohn's ed. of Lowndes's Manual, and 
 first appeared in the Eccleslologist. 
 Douce (Francis), Holbein's Dance of Death. 1858. 8vo. 
 Graesse (J. G. T.), Tresor de livres rares. Dresden. 1859-— 69. 7 vols. 
 
 4to. 
 Gough (R.), British Topography. 1780. 4to. 2 vols. 
 
 Has lists of Salisbury and York Missals in vol. n. 
 Grenville (T.), Rare and Curious Books in the Library of Rt. Honourable 
 
 T. G. 1842—8. Svo. 
 Hain (L.), Repertorium Bibliographicum. Stuttgartd, &c. 1826—38. 
 
 8vo. 4 vols. 
 Hartshorne (C. H.), Book Rarities of Cambridge. 1829. 8vo. 
 Holtrop (J. W.), Monumens typographiques des Pays-Bas. La Haye. 
 
 1868. Fol. 
 
 Catalogus librorum in sseculo XV . imp. in Bibl. Hagana. Hagse- 
 
 comitum. 1856. Svo. 
 
 IIorne (T. H.), Introduction to the Study of Bibliography. 1814. 8vo. 
 
 2 vols. 
 Johnson (J.), Typographic 1824. 12mo. 2 vols. 
 Linde (A. van der), De Haarlemsche Costerlegende. Translated and 
 
 noted by J. H. Hessels. 1871. Svo. 
 Lowndes (W. T.), Bibliographer's Manual. By H. G. Bohn. 1864. 8vo. 
 
 6 vols. 
 Maitland (S. R.), Early printed books in the Lambeth Library. 1843. 
 
 8vo. 
 Martin (J.), Catalogue of privately printed books. 2nd ed. 1854. 8vo. 
 Panzer (G. W.), Annales Typographici ad annum 1536. Nuremberg. 
 
 1793—1803. 11 vols. 
 Renouard (A. A.), Annales de rimprimerie des Aide. Paris. 1825. Svo. 
 
BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 11 
 
 Rossi (J. B. de), Libri Stampati di litteratura sacra ebraica. Parma. 
 
 1812. 8vo. 
 Searle (W. G.), Manuscripts &c. in Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 1876. 
 Sinker (R.), Catalogue of Fifteenth-century Printed Books in Library of 
 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 1876. 8vo. 
 Steinschneider (M.), Catalogus Librorum Hebraeorum &c. Berolini. 
 
 1852—1860. 4to. 
 Tiraboschi (Gir.), Biblioteca Modenese. Modena. 1781. 6 vols. 
 Uffenbach (Zach Conr. von) Reisen durch Engelland &c. Ulm. 1754. 
 3 vols. 8vo. 
 
 The third vol. pp. 1 — 84, contains the account of the Baron's visit 
 to Cambridge and its libraries, and notes the principal objects of 
 interest there in 1710. 
 Van Praet (J.), Catalogue des livres imprimes sur velin de la Biblio- 
 theque du Roi. Paris. 1822—28. 8vo. 6 vols. 
 
 When a reference to Van Praet, 1st Cat. is given, this Catalogue 
 is intended, and it moreover shows that the Paris Library contains 
 a vellum copy of the work under notice. 
 — Catalogue des livres imprimes sur velin, dans les bibliotheques tant 
 publiques que particulieres. ' Paris. 1824 — 1828. 8vo. 4 vols. 
 Referred to as Van Praet, 2nd Cat. 
 Waagen (Dr), Treasures of Art in Great Britain. 1854. 3 vols., and 1857 
 
 Suppt. 8vo. 
 Westcott (B. F.), History of the English Bible. Cambridge. 1868. 8vo. 
 
 %* Where no place is given in the above list, London is to be understood 
 as the place of printing. 
 
LIST OF PLACES, PRINTERS, OR PUBLISHERS. 
 
 ENGLAND. 
 
 Westminster 
 
 Caxton (Wm.), 101 
 
 Worde (W. de), 23, 24 
 Oxford 
 
 Rood (Theod.), 14 
 London 
 
 Lettou (John), 110, 111 
 
 Machlinia (W. de), 15 
 
 Worde (W. de), 29, 113, 131 
 
 Pynson (Rich.), 40, 43, 99, 114, 
 116, 128, 130, 133, 146, 148, 
 150 
 
 Faques (Wm.), 113, 147 
 
 Skot (John), 42 
 
 Bankes (R.), 131 
 
 Grafton (Rich.), ) , 2g 
 
 Whitchurch (Edw.), > 
 
 Byddell (John), j .-, 
 
 Marshall (Wm.), I 
 
 Day (John), 61, 62 
 
 Day (Richd.), 102, 103, 104, 105, 
 106 
 
 Simson (G.), j 63 
 
 White (W.), i 
 
 Barnes (John), 64 
 
 Edwards (John), ) 65, 87 
 
 Molini and Coy, 5 65 
 
 Cooper and Wilson, 66 
 
 Harrison and Sods, 68 
 
 Without printer's name, 131 a , 144 
 York 
 
 Gachet (John), 36, 96 
 Cambridge 
 
 Clay (C. J.), 107 
 
 HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. 
 
 Speculum, Printer of the, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 
 Louvain 
 
 Bergagne (Ant.), 56 
 Audenarde 
 
 Kevsere (A. de) 11 
 Antwerp 
 
 Ruremundt (Chr ), 97 
 
 Hillenius (Mich.), 52 
 
 Loe (Jean), 53 
 Leyden 
 
 Zeverinus (John), 32 
 
 GERMANY. 
 Mextz 
 
 Gutenberg (John) ? 1 
 
 Fust (John), » 
 
 Schoeffer (Peter), i 2 ' 93 ' 145 
 
 Schoeffer, (John), 37 
 Bamberg 
 
 Sensenschmidt (John), 17 
 
 Pfeyl (John), 28 
 Strasburg 
 
 Ribelius (V.), 139 
 Cologne 
 
 — ? 12 
 Augsburg 
 
 Ratdolt (E.), 22 
 
 Ratdolt (J.), 34 
 Ulm 
 
 Zainer (J.), 9 
 Nuremberg 
 
 Stuchs de Sultzbach (G.), 16 
 Wurtzburg 
 
 Reyser (G.), 18, 73 
 
BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 13 
 
 Basle 
 
 Froben (Jno.), 115, 124, 125 
 Vienna 
 
 Allantse (L.), 44 
 
 DlLINGEN 
 
 Mayer (S.), 57 
 
 FRANCE. 
 Paris 
 Pigouchet (Ph.), 25, 74 
 Vostre (Simon), 25, 74, 77, 129 
 Verard (Ant.), 27, 76, 79, 134 
 Higman (N.), 19, 83 
 Richard (J.), 108 
 Kerver (Th.), 26 
 Remade (G.), 26 
 Barbier (J.), ) „ a 
 Le Rouge (G.), j 
 Hopyll (W.), 30, 31, 33, 45, 149 
 Byrckman (Fr.), 30, 31, 33, 45, 
 
 97, 122, 149 
 Ponset le Preux, 35 
 Sutor (R.), 113 
 Bienayse (J.), 113 
 Ferrebouc (Jac.) 113 
 Gormontius (J.), 39 
 Hardouyn (Gil), 82, 94 
 
 — (Germ.), 84, 85, 138 
 Roche (J. de la), 81 
 Eustace (G.), 81, 83 
 Regnault (Fr.), 46, 47, 50, 107, 
 
 117, 127 
 Colinseus (S.) ?, 95 
 Amazeur (Jo.), 58, 98, 109 
 Merlin (Gu.), 58, 98, 109 
 Estienne (A.), ? 141 
 Imprimerie du Roi, 86 
 
 Nepveu, 88 
 Didot (P.), 142 
 
 — (F.), 92, 143 
 Tross (E.), 143 
 
 Without Printer's name, 41, 55, 
 72, 75, 112, 121 
 Rouen 
 Morin (M.), 108 
 Olivier (P.), 36, 96, 123, 137 
 Cousin (Jac), 123, 137 
 
 ITALY. 
 
 Rome 
 
 Silber (E.), 20, 21 
 
 De Romanis, 67 
 Venice 
 
 Jenson (Nic), 3, 10, 118, 119, 120 
 
 Manutius (Aldus), ) 4g 
 
 Asulanus (Andr.), ) 
 
 Liechtenstein (P.), 44 
 Bologna 
 
 Chajjim (Abrah. b.), 13 
 
 — ?51 
 Milan 
 
 Zanotus Castilioneus, 136 
 Verona 
 
 Sabiones (Stephanus et fratres) 
 100 
 Mantua 
 
 Cohen e Gazolo (Jac. b. Naph.) 
 60 
 Sabionetta 
 Foa (Tobias), 59 
 
 SPAIN. 
 
 Toledo 
 
 Rodericus (Petr.), 140 
 
BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM 
 
 IN THE 
 
 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. 
 
 1. (One leaf of) Biblia Latin A, without date, place, or 
 printer's name {Mentz, not later than August 14, 1456). 
 Folio. [16i x 11J inches.] 
 
 A fragment, in fine condition, of the famous Mazarine Bible, being 
 leaf 209 of tlie first volume, commencing with the words: — "sancti sanct- 
 orum." Bought at the Culemann sale, Sothebys, 1870, No. 171. Only seven 
 copies of this Bible printed on vellum appear to be known. Mr Grenville's 
 copy, in the British Museum at present, seems to be almost the only one in 
 this country. A similar copy at the sale of Mr Perkins' library in June, 
 1873, sold for the immense sum of £3400, and is now in the possession of 
 the Earl of Ashburnham. Other vellum copies are in the National Library, 
 Paris, and at Berlin. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Catalogue, i. p. 15. 
 
 Dibdin's Bibl. Tour, 2nd Ed., n. 107. 
 
 Repertorium Bibliographicum, 267. Brunet, i. 867. Hain, *3031. 
 Bibl. Spencer., i. 3. 
 
 2. (Three leaves of) Psalterium Latinum, Moguntice, per 
 Joh. Fust et Pet. Schoeffer, August 14, 1457. Folio. [16 x 8 j 
 inches.] 
 
 A portion of the celebrated Mentz Psalter, the first printed book with 
 a date. These leaves begin severally: — Ejus Cantate, Dixit insipiens, 
 omnis homo, and contain one of the large initials, and several of the 
 smaller ones, printed in colours. Presented in 1870 by Mr Henry 
 Bradshaw. Fellow of King's College, and University Librarian. Two leaves 
 were in the destroyed library at Strasburg, and one leaf is in the library at 
 Gotha. Only seven or eight complete copies of this Psalter are known, 
 and all are printed on vellum. Copies are to be seen in the British 
 Museum, Lord Spencer's collection, the Royal Library at Windsor, the 
 National Library, Paris, and the Imperial Library at Vienna. Van Praet, 
 
16 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 1st Cat., i. p. 204; and Supplement, p. 32. Bibl. Spenc, i. 107. Panzer, 
 II. 111. Hain, 13479. 
 
 3. ClCERONIS (M. T.) Epistolarum Familiarum, LIBRI 
 xvi. (Venetiis) a Kicolao Jenson Gallico, 1471. Quarto. 
 [11 x 7f inches.] 204 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter. The first page has an illuminated border, 
 and the initials throughout are also illuminated. A MS. entry states that 
 in 1657 this copy belonged to Joan. Baptista Maurenus of Verona. It 
 formed a part of Bp. Moore's Collection, presented by George I. in 1715, 
 and is therefore not the same as that in the dispersed Harleian Collection 
 referred to by Van Praet, which appears to have been the only other copy 
 on vellum. The present resting-place of the Harleian copy is unknown. 
 Mr Bradshaw in Bibliophile (1863) 126, this copy. Dibdin's Intro. 
 Classics, i. 418, this copy. Hartshorne 43, this copy. Van Praet, 2nd Cat., 
 p. 255. Panzer, in. 76. Hain, 5168. Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc, iv. 489. 
 
 4. (Two leaves of) Donatus Abbreviates. By the printer, 
 and in the type, of the Dutch Speculum humance Salvationis. 
 Quarto. [8£ x 5 \ inches.] 30 lines to the page. 
 
 Purchased at the Culemann sale, London, 1870, No. 218. Nothing is 
 known with any certainty as to the date of this or the following four works 
 from the same press. Mr Holtrop mentions a work by this printer in the 
 Library of The Hague with MS. notes, proving it to have been purchased 
 between the years 1471 — 74. And this is the earliest date that can at 
 present be assigned to these books. For an account of these so-called 
 "Costeriana," see Mr Hessels' Introduction to his translation of Dr Van 
 der Linde's "Haarlem Legend." 
 
 Holtrop (J. H.), Monumens Typographiques des Pays-Bas, 31. 
 
 Hessels (J. H.), Translation of Dr A. Van der Linde's (p. 31) Haarlem 
 Legend, Introd. xvn., and Mr H. Bradshaw's List of Types and Devices 
 used by printers in Holland in xv. Cent. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., p. 4, &c. 
 
 5. (Two leaves of a) Donatus. Another edition by the 
 same printer. Quarto. [8£ x 6 inches.] 27 lines to the page. 
 
 The 1st and Sth leaves, purchased at the Culemann sale, Xo. 217 (1). 
 
 6. (Four leaves of a) Donatus. Another edition by the 
 same printer. Quarto. [8 x 5J inches.] 27 lines to the page. 
 
 Also from the Culemann sale, Xo. 217 (2). 
 
 7. (One leaf of) Galli (Alex.) Doctrixale. By the same 
 printer. Quarto. [8 x 5| inches.]. 29 lines. 
 
 One leaf, purchased at the Culemann sale, Xo. 44. 
 
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 8. (Four leaves of) Galli (Alex.) Doctrinale. Another 
 edition by the same printer. Quarto. [8-| x 6 inches]. 29 lines. 
 
 Four leaves, presented by Mr Henry Bradshaw in 1870. 
 
 9. (Fragments of) Boccaccio (G.) Der kurcz sin von 
 etlichen frowen, VON denen J. Boccacius in latin beschriben 
 hat, und Doctor H. Steinhowel getiitschet. Ulm, Jo. Zainer, 
 (1473). Folio. 
 
 Slips of two leaves only found in the contemporary binding of a copy of 
 the "Vitas Patrum" by the same printer. Mr Bradshaw says that no copy 
 on vellum has been hitherto described. 
 
 The work is a German translation of the Compendium de praeclaris 
 mulieribus by Boccaccio. 
 
 Bradshaw (in Bibliophile, 1863) 127. This copy. Hain *3333. 
 
 10. Historia Naturale de C. Plinio Secondo tradocta 
 di lingua latin a in fiorentina per Christophoro Landino al 
 Serenissimo Ferdinando Re di Napoli. Venetiis, opus Nicolai 
 Jansonis Gallici, 1476. Folio. [15 J x 10 inches.] 415 leaves. 
 
 Printed in a beautiful Roman letter. The first pages of the several 
 books are surrounded by magnificent illuminated borders in the Renais- 
 sance style, and the initials, large and small, form graceful miniatures. 
 Dr Waagen in his "Art Treasures" describes this copy at considerable 
 length, and states " that it forms a convincing proof to what a degree, even 
 after the invention of printing, it remained customary to ornament books 
 with miniatures, so that the serious occupation of learning might not be 
 without the beautiful and cheerful ornament of art." He then proceeds 
 to give a detailed account of its rich and elaborate illuminated decorations, 
 which he considers to be of Milanese origin, and " in drawing, modelling, 
 precision, delicacy of execution and power, and fullness of the colours, to 
 rank amongst the finest of the kind." The borders form architectonic 
 frames to the pages, and figures and medallions are frequently introduced. 
 The work itself is the first edition of the Italian version of Pliny, and the 
 master-piece of Jenson, the ingenious Frenchman, who was sent by King 
 Charles VII. to acquire the art of printing at Mentz. 
 
 This copy is from Bp. Moore's library. Other copies on vellum are in 
 the National Library Paris, Douce collection at the Bodleian, at Holkhara 
 Hall, in the Hunterian Collection Glasgow, and in Lord Spencer's Collec- 
 tion. 
 
 Waagen (Dr), Art Treasures, in. 452 — 3, this copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., in. p. 53, this copy, 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph. 123, this copy. 
 
 Dibdin (T. F.), Classics, n. 319, this copy. 
 
 Dibdin, Northern Tour, n. 737. Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc, n. 316. 
 
 Panzer, in. 113. Hain, 13105. 
 
 S. 2 
 
18 BOOKS PEINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 11. Litters Indulgentiarum (Audenarde. Arend de 
 Key sere). March, 1480. Broadside. 
 
 No printer's name, but in Keysere's types. 
 
 This Indulgence was issued by the Master of the Hospital of St John 
 of Jerusalem, for assistance against the Turks. It was recovered by 
 Mr H. Bradshaw from the binding of a copy of "Boetius," printed at 
 Ghent, by the same printer, in 14S5, now in the University Library, and 
 had been used as printer's waste. Mr Bradshaw informs the writer that 
 as the Indulgence was only valid up to 31st March, 1480, it must have 
 been printed at Audenarde before A. de Keysere moved from thence to 
 Ghent. Presented by Mr Bradshaw in 1870. 
 
 Campbell (M. F. A. G.), Typographic Neerlandaise au XV. siecle,p. 443, 
 this cojjy. 
 
 12. (A Fragment of) Psalterium Latixum {Cologne, about 
 1480 ?) 
 
 A small slip of a Latin Psalter, printed in Germany. Used in binding a 
 copy of the " Manipulus Curatorum," printed at Cologne, by Conrad de 
 Homborch, in 1480. Purchased at the Culemann sale in 1870. 
 
 13. Hebrew Pentateuch, Bologna, Abraham ben Chayim 
 de Tintori (a.d. 1482). Folio. [12f x 9 inches.] 
 
 First Edition of the Hebrew Pentateuch, printed in beautiful large 
 square HebreAv type. This copy is in very good condition; there is 
 nothing to indicate any of its former possessors. It has been recently pur- 
 chased. Other copies are : (1) one that belonged to Abbe de Pvossi ; (2) that 
 of Count d'Elci at Florence; (3) at the Bodleian; (4) the National Library, 
 Paris; (5) the Library at Modena; (6) the Chapter Library at Verona; 
 (7) and one recently acquired by the British Museum. 
 
 De Rossi, Annales Sec. xv., pp. 22, 25. Dibdin, Bib. Spenc, n. 31G. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., i. p. 10. Cotton, Typ. Gaz., 341. 
 
 Steinschneider, Cat. No. 2. Panzer, I. 214. 
 
 Brit. Mus. Hebr. Cat., p. 107. . Hain, 12568. 
 
 14. (One leaf of) Johannis Lattebury Moralisationes 
 
 super threnos Jeremiae. Without place or printer s name 
 (Oxonii, Theod. Rood de Colonia), 1482. Folio. 
 
 The last leaf of signature F detached from the binding of a book. A 
 complete copy on vellum is to be found in the library of the Chapter of 
 Westminster. The University Library has two copies on paper. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106, this leaf. Cotton, Typog. Gaz., 212. 
 
 Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc, rv. 355. Panzer, rv. 28. Hain, 9928. 
 
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 15. (Two leaves of) Hor,e ad usum Ecclesle Saris- 
 BURiENSis. Without place, date, or printer s name (Londint, tijpis 
 Willelmi de Machlinia apud Flete bridge, circa 1484). Octavo. 
 
 One of these leaves, forming the commencement of the second part of 
 this very early book of " Sarnm Hours," has a woodcut border. There are 
 17 lines to the page. Ames speaks of a copy of a small book of devotion 
 with the same types as the "Nova Statuta." It probably was a complete 
 copy of this Edition. Presented by Mr Bradshaw. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., p. 107, these leaves. Ames, 78. 
 
 Johnson, Typographia i. 219. 
 
 16. (One leaf of) Miss ale Romanum Nurmberge per 
 Georgium Stuchs de Sidtzbach, 1484. Quarto. [8 x 6J inches.] 
 
 This Roman Missal, adapted for the use of the order of S. Francis, is 
 printed in red and black in two columns of 30 lines each. 
 
 This leaf is identical with folio 203 in the copy of this Missal on vellum 
 at the British Museum (C. 9. a. 4). The University Library has a copy on 
 paper. Presented by the writer in 1875. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., i. p. 83. Panzer, n. 197. Hain, 11384. 
 
 17. Missale Frisingense, per Jo. Sensenschmidt de Ba- 
 benberga. 2 Kal. Sept. (Aug. 31), 1487. Folio. [15x10$ 
 inches.] Has 12 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The Missal according to the use of Freisingen in Bavaria. Purchased. 
 Panzer, i. 143. Hain, 11302. 
 
 18. Acta Synodorum Herbtpolensium, 1452 et 1453. — 
 Constittjtiones ECCLESI.E Herbipolensis. — Reformationes 
 Rudolphi Episcopi anno 1470. — S. Thoivle de Aquino de peri- 
 culis contingentibus circa sacramentum. — Statuta Gotfridi 
 Episcopi 1447 (in German). Without place, date, or printers 
 name. (Wurtzburg, Geo. Reyser, 1490 — 95.) Folio. [10fx7f 
 inches.] 1st part 114, 2nd part 4, 3rd part 18, in all 136 
 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Gothic type, 32 lines to the page. Rudolff, Bp. of Wurtz- 
 burg, died in 1495, and this copy, the only one known on vellum, appears 
 to have been printed for his special use. It bears the well-known device 
 of one of his successors, "Julius del gr* Ep s Wlrceb ac Fr ancle orient: 
 dux? stamped on the gilt edges of the book, which is in its original vellum 
 binding and is in perfect condition. 
 
 Not from Bishop Moore's collection. 
 
 Bradshaw, in Biblioph., 108. This copy. 
 
 Panzer, I. 461, No. 9. Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc. iv. 508. 
 
 2—2 
 
20 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 19. Missale Xanctonense. Parisiis per Johannem Hig- 
 man in vico clausi brunelli prope scholas decretorum, 15 Apr. 
 1491. Folio. [12f x 9 inches.] 186 leaves. 
 
 This very fine copy of the Missal according to the use of Saintes (in 
 France) is the only one of this edition known, either on vellum or paper. 
 The first sheet contains no more than the Calendar of six leaves, so it is 
 possible that the first and eighth leaves are wanting. The capitals are 
 illuminated ; it was one of Bishop Moore's books, and in the list of some of 
 his printed books in Bernard's Catalogue of MSS. (1697), it is justly stated 
 that both the vellum and the type are most beautiful. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Angl. Hib. n. 381, no. 71. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Cat., i. p. 122. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, in Biblioph. 106. This copy. 
 
 Panzer, n. 295. Hain, 11438. Brunet, in. 1766. 
 
 20. Verardi (Caroli) Historia B^etica, acta ludis 
 Romanis, 11 Kal. Mail, 1492. At the end Marcellint Elegia. 
 Eomce per Eucharium Silber alias Franck. 7 Mart. 1493. 
 Quarto. [8f x 5J inches.] 40 leaves. 
 
 This is the copy specially prepared for, and presented by the author to, 
 the Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Home, whose arms are painted 
 in the elaborate illuminated border surrounding the first page ; on the 
 blank page opposite is the dedication, in manuscript : — "Reverendo... 
 Joanni Medince Episcopo Astoricertsi." It is in fine condition. This 
 work is a drama in Latin prose, the subject of which is the Conquest of 
 Granada, in 1492, by Ferdinand and Isabella. At the end of the volume 
 is a song or vaudeville in Italian, with the musical notation engraved on 
 wood. This is Bishop Moore's copy, a similar one is in Lord Spencer's 
 library but in bad condition. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Angl. Hib. n. 381, no. 112. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Cat. in. 133. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw (Biblioph.), 125. This copy. Panzer, n. 508, no. 525. 
 
 Hain, 15941. Dibdin, Cassano Cat. 123. 
 
 21. Verardi (Marcellini) Tragicomedia, Fernandus 
 Servatus. Without place, date, or printer's name (Roma?, 
 E. Silber, 1493). Quarto. [8| x 5J inches.] 16 leaves. 
 
 This copy is bound with the preceding, and is evidently from the same 
 press. The author was a nephew of the last mentioned. The first page 
 has also an illuminated border. 
 
 Bp. Moore's copy. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Angl. Hib. n. 381, no. 113. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, Bibliophile, 125. This copy. Hain, 15943. 
 
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 22. Missale Brixinense (Augustce Vindelicorum) per 
 Erhardum Ratdolt, 16 Kal. Septembr. (17 Aug.) 1493. Folio. 
 [12 J x 8J inches.] Has 6 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The Missal according to the use of Brixen (in the Tyrol). There is the 
 printer's large device at the end, and at the beginning of the volume is a 
 very large emblazoned coat of arms the full size of the page. The place of 
 printing is not given in the imprint, a portion of which runs as follows : 
 " per Erhardum Ratdolt." 
 
 Purchased. 
 
 Panzer, i. 120. Hain, 11273. 
 
 23. Hor,e ad usum Ecclesle Sarisburiensis, without 
 place, date, or printer's name. {Westminster, printed in Caxtons 
 house by Wynkyn de Worde, about 1494.) Quarto. [7f x 5|- 
 inches.] 166 leaves. 
 
 This book of Hours, after the use of Sarum, or Salisbury, is printed 
 with Caxton's types, with 22 lines to the page, and has woodcuts, and 
 woodcut borders to every page, which though variously disposed, are the 
 same as in the " Fifteen Oo's," the unique book with borders printed by 
 Caxton preserved in the British Museum. The type is the same as that 
 used in the " Scala Perfectionis," printed by W. de Worde in 1494. The 
 volume is imperfect at the beginning and end. This is the first edition of 
 the Primer published in England. The complete copy at Lambeth states 
 it to be "Enprynted by the commaundementys of the moost hye and 
 vertuous pryncesse our lyege lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God quene of 
 Englond and of fraunce and also of the ryght hye and moost noble pryncesse 
 Margarete moder to our Souerayn lord the Kyng, &c." Some of the 
 prayers are in English. 
 
 This copy contains various autographs of the Parr family, including one 
 of Katherine Parr (afterwards Queen of Henry VIII.), who has written on 
 the bottom margin of one of the pages : — 
 
 Oncle wan you do 
 
 On this loke, 
 
 I pray you remember wo 
 
 Wrote thys in your bo(ke). 
 
 Your louuinge nys, Katherin Parr. 
 From Bp. Moore's library. 
 
 24. Another copy of the same Edition. 
 
 Also on vellum and from Bishop Moore's library, but less complete. 
 The only other similar copy is the complete one above referred to, with 
 four pages reprinted, but without date, in the Lambeth library. The 
 British Museum has an imperfect paper copy of an edition wanting 
 
22 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 79 leaves, page for page the same as this and in the same type, only 
 different in setting up throughout. 
 
 Camb. Antiquar. Soc. Proceedings, xi. 9. These copies. 
 
 Bradshaw (Biblioph.), 108. These copies. 
 
 Maitland (S. R.), Early books at Lambeth, pp. 228 and 394. 
 
 25. Hoile ad usum EccLESiiE Sarisburiensis. Parisius 
 per Philippum Pigouchet, pro Symone Vostre. 16 Maii, 1498. 
 Octavo. [6§ x 4 \ inches.] 128 leaves. 
 
 The " Almanac" is from 1488—1508. There are 26 lines to the page. 
 The woodcuts and woodcut borders are uncoloured. Pigouchet's device is 
 on the title; there are 13 large cuts : the borders, which include a Dance 
 of Death, are varied, and are the best of Pigouchet and Vostre, who ex- 
 celled all others in these enrichments. The last two leaves have prayers 
 in English. From Bishop Moore's library. Other copies, on vellum, are in 
 the Gough and Douce collections at the Bodleian, Oxford, in the library 
 of M. Firmin Didot, at Paris, from the Libri sale, in the British Museum, 
 and in the Fitzwilliam Museum. See post, No. 74. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Aug. Hib. il 381, no. 116. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw (Bibliophile), 108. This copy. 
 
 Lowndes (Bohn), 1111. Ti his copy. 
 
 Panzer, n. 230. Brunet, v. 1582, No. 40. Hain, 8863. 
 
 26. Hor,e secundum USUM Romanum. Paris, Thielman 
 Kerver pour Gillet Remade, 5 Janvier, 1503. Octavo. [8| x 5 J 
 inches.] 98 leaves. 
 
 The large woodcuts, 18 in number, are illuminated, but the woodcut 
 borders are left uncoloured. The Almanac has been erased, and a minia- 
 ture painting of the Virgin and Child supplies its place. Each page has 
 29 lines. Folios 1 and 16 are wanting. Bound in purple morocco. Pre- 
 sented in 1870 by the writer. 
 
 Brunet, v. 1618, No. 174. 
 
 27. Missale Sarum, without place or printers name, 
 {Paris) impensa Anthonii Verard mercatoris Parisiensis, 29 
 Jun., 1504. Folio. [13J x 9J inches.] 288 leaves, 4 of 
 vellnm. 
 
 The title is wanting in this copy of the Salisbury Missal. 
 Dickinson. Service Books, 16. This copy. 
 Lowndes (Bohn ed.), 1576. This copy. 
 
 28. Missale Bambergense. Johannes Pfeyl incola civitatis 
 Bambergensis, 3 Febr., 1506. Folio. [12 J x 8f inches.] 186 
 leaves, 10 of vellum. 
 
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 The Canon which comprises the vellum leaves in this Edition of the 
 Bamberg Missal is printed in very large Missal type. This copy has been 
 acquired by purchase. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106. This copy. 
 
 Panzer, vi. 172. 
 
 29. John Fisher (Bishop of Rochester^ Treatyse 
 concernynge the fruytfull sayings of davyd the kynge, 
 IN THE seven penytencyall Psalmes, deuyded in seven 
 Sermons. London, Wynhyn de Worde, " in the flete strete at 
 the signe of y e Sonne" 16 June, 1508. Quarto. [7 \ x of inches.] 
 146 leaves. 
 
 Bp. Moore's copy. The only other copy in this state is Mr Grenville's 
 copy at the British Museum, which, however, seems to have only 142 
 leaves. 
 
 Dibdin. Typog. Antiq., n. 138. This copy. 
 
 Hartshorne, 148. This copy. Bradshaw, Biblioph. This copy. 
 
 Botfield (B.), Bibl. membr. Brit, sub anno... :77m copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Cat. I. p. 148. Bibli. Grenvill., i. 245. 
 
 30. Miss ale Sartjm. In Parisiorum Academia opera 
 Wolfgangi Hopylii, impensis Francisci Byrkman 7 Febr., 1511 
 (1510—11), et 10 kal. Apr. 1510 (23 Mar. 1510—11). Folio. 
 [12| x 8 J inches.] 316 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 The first date is in the imprint, the second on the title. 'Dean 
 Holds worth's copy, bequeathed in 1649, see under No. 40, post. Abp. Laud's 
 copy, wholly on vellum, is in Trinity College, Dublin. See also No. 122 
 and 149, post. 
 
 Dickinson, 16. This copy. Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. 
 
 Gough, K, Topography, n. 332. 
 
 31. Missale Leodiense. In Parisiorum academia, a 
 Wolfgango Hopylio impensis Francisci Byrckman 1 Sept., 1513. 
 Folio, [llf x 8 J inches.] 300 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 Bishop Moore's copy. A similar one of this edition of the Liege 
 Missal is in the National library at Paris. 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106. This copy. 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I., p. 202, No. 292. 
 
 32. Missale Trajectense. In opido Leydensi partium 
 Hollandice impressor bibliopola Johannes Zeverinus, Kal. Jun., 
 1514. Folio. [12J x 8 inches.] 296 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 Bp. Moore's copy. Another copy of this edition of the Utrecht Missal 
 appeared in a Catalogue of Jo. Palinck of Brussels, 1860. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106. This copy. Brunet, in. 1767. 
 
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 33. Missale Sarum. In Parisiorum academia, opera 
 Wolfgangii Hopylii, impensis Francisci Byrckman, 28 Nov., 
 1514 Folio. [121 x gi inches.] 314 leaves. 
 
 A very noble copy of the Salisbury Missal, in beautiful condition and 
 printed on the finest vellum. The title is illuminated, and the initials 
 throughout are delicately shaded with gold. There are several woodcut 
 borders uncoloured. It is from Bishop Moore's library. A copy on paper 
 is in Emmanuel College library ; another copy, on paper, was priced at 
 ,£110 in Mr Quaritch's large Catalogue, 1874, No. 1349. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. 
 
 Dickinson, 17. This copy. But it is not stated to be on vellum. 
 
 34. Missale Katisponense. In Augusta Vindelicorum 
 (without printers name) expends et sumptibus Jorgi Ratdolt 
 Civis Augustensis, 5 Jan., 1515. Quarto. [10 x 7J inches.] 
 348 leaves, 12 of vellum. 
 
 This copy of the Ratisbon Missal has the woodcuts in the Canon of the 
 Mass illuminated, and is in the original stamped vellum binding, with 
 knotted thongs attached to the principal divisions of the book. Purchased. 
 Another precisely similar copy is in the possession of the writer. 
 
 Graesse Tresor, iv. 548. 
 
 35. iEGiDii (de Columna) Romani, Tractatus Aureus 
 de formatione corporis humani in utero, philosophis et 
 medicis nee non Theologis et Canonistis valde utilis et neces- 
 sarius... correct us per...Johannem Benedictum Moncetum de 
 Castilione Aretino. (Without place or year, Paris), P onset le 
 Preux (1515). Quarto. [7J x 5 inches.] 50 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter, 48 lines to the page. 
 
 On the first page is the printer's large device. The dedication to King 
 Henry VIII. is dated Paris, 9 Feb., 1515. On the last page is " Tumul- 
 tuarium Panegyricum Carmen Fr. Lodovici Silvii Mauri Philologi 
 Sarlani" addressed to Plenry de Hornby, then Master of St Peter's 
 College, at Cambridge, and sometime Chancellor of the Lady Margaret, 
 Countess of Richmond. Bp. Moore's copy. The University Library has 
 also a copy on paper. The above seems the only one known on vellum. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph. , 123, this copy. 
 
 36. Missale Eboracense Opera Petri Olivier Rothomagi 
 commorantis, sumptibus et expensis Johannis Gachet mercatoris 
 librarii juxta prefatam ecclesiam (Eboracensem) commorantis, 
 
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 5 Febr., 1516. Folio. [12J x 8| inches.] 200 leaves, 2 of 
 vellum. 
 
 The woodcut capital, beginning the word Missale in the title of this rare 
 Edition of the York Missal, is very large, and is an imitation of the largest 
 engrossed capitals of the time. It contains a scroll with the printer's 
 name, M. P. HOLIVIER. 
 
 A facsimile is given by Noel Humphreys in his Hist, of Printing. In this 
 copy the corners of some of the leaves are mended. It is from Bp. Moore's 
 Collection. Only four other copies seem known. They are : a recently dis- 
 covered copy at Pembroke College (see No. 96 post); 2 copies in the 
 Gough and Douce Collections at Oxford; and another at Stonyhurst College. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 108, this copy. 
 
 Dickinson, 19, this copy. 
 
 Lowndes, 1575, this copy. 
 
 Gough, Topography, n. 425, this copy. 
 
 Brunet, in. 1768. 
 
 37 — 38. Livius T. Patavinus Historicus cum L. Flori 
 Epitome, indice copioso et annotatis in libros vii. belli Mace- 
 donici. Moguntice, in cedibus Ioannis Scheffer, Nov. 1518. 
 Folio. [14 x 9f inches.] 460 leaves, bound in two volumes. 
 
 Printed in Roman character, and in fine condition. There are hand- 
 some woodcut initials, and an elaborate woodcut border to the title. This 
 magnificent work is entitled to rank amongst the finest of vellum printed 
 books. Bp. Moore's copy. 
 
 Mr Bradshaw states that the description given in Van Praet is inexact, 
 and he gives a collation in the Bibliophile. 
 
 The only other copy on vellum is in the Imperial Library, Vienna. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Cat., I. p. 15. This copy. 
 
 Beloe's Anecdotes, iv. 47. This copy. 
 
 Dibdin's Classics, n. 165. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 126. This copy. Hartshorne, 43. This copy. 
 
 Panzer, vn. 411. 
 
 39. Des Groux (Petri) Oratio de divi Ludovici 
 Francorum Regis prseconiis. Ejusdem sermo de eterna et 
 temporali verbi generatione. Without place or printer s name 
 (Paris), Veneunt in cedibus Joannis Gormontii ad insigne 
 Geminorum Gipjporum (1519). Quarto. [7f x 5f inches.] 
 74 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman type, 27 lines to the page. 
 
 The dedication to Cardinal Louis de Bourbon, dated "ex regali ludo 
 Navarrico 13 Kal. Apr. 1519," has a large woodcut initial, bearing the name 
 
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 and arms of Francis of Cleves, to whom the author was tutor at that time. 
 The work seems quite unknown to bibliographers. This copy came from 
 the Colbert Collection. It bears on its title "Bibliothecse Colbertinae." 
 It also has the library mark of "Charles Barlow, Esq., of Emmanuel 
 College, Cambridge, 17...," and was presented to the University in 1738 by 
 "William Thurlbourn, the well-known Cambridge bookseller. 
 
 Hartshorne, 46. This copy. Bradshaw, Biblioph., 125. This copy. 
 
 40. Missale Sarum. Londini, per Bichardum Pynson in 
 flete strete apud divum Dunstanum, 9 kal. Jan., 1520 (24 Dec, 
 1520). Folio. [15 x 10J inches.] 210 leaves. 
 
 This copy was specially printed for the Chapels or Chantries, founded 
 by Sir Robert Rede, Lord Chief Justice, in 1509, one of the executors of 
 Henry VII., and founder of the lectureship still known by his name at 
 Cambridge. His arms with those of his wife — On a bend wavy 3 bitterns 
 for Rede, impaling quarterly 1 and 4, a Fess between 3 Boars' heads couped. 
 2 and 3 a chevr. between three bugle horns for Alphegh, with an Inscription 
 below, " Orate specialiter pro animabus Roberti Reed militis nupercapitalis 
 Justiciarii dni Regis de Co I baco et Margaretae consortis sue, parentum, 
 amicorum et beuefactorum suorum omniunique fidelium defunctorum Qui 
 quidem Robertus obiit anno diii 8 Jun. MDXVIII."— are printed on a curtain 
 of vellum placed over the Royal Arms on the verso of folio 9. This special 
 Inscription is also printed below the woodcut of the Crucifixion, and is 
 the only authority for the exact date of Rede's death. This magnificent 
 volume is finely printed, and has woodcut initials. Nothing can exceed 
 the brilliancy of the vellum and the printing, unless, perhaps, it be the (if 
 possible) finer copy in the Pepysian Library. See 130, post. The entry of 
 St Edward the Confessor's name is struck out of the Calendar. 
 
 This copy formed a part of the large library of about 10,000 volumes 
 bequeathed to the University in 1649 by Dr Richard Holds worth, Master 
 of Emmanuel, and Lady Margaret Professor as well as Dean of Worcester. 
 The writer is informed by Mr Coxe, Bodley's librarian, that a similar copy 
 with Rede Inscriptions, is at the Bodleian. Other copies of the ordinary 
 edition on vellum are at Emmanuel Coll., post (No. 148), at Magdalene 
 Coll., post (No. 130), referred to above; and at St John's Coll., Oxford. 
 A copy in private hands was shown at the Loan Collection of the Caxton 
 Celebration in 1877, JS T o. 262. The copy in the National Library, Paris, is 
 on paper, with 4 leaves only of vellum. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. Dickinson, 17. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., i. p. 226. Cotton, Typog. Gaz , 344. 
 
 Dibdin, Typog. Antiq., n. 425. Ames, p. 121. 
 
 41. Baculi Curatorum. Hi sunt per quos deffendere 
 potuerunt oves sibi commissas. (Paris, about 1520). Quarto. 
 [7 J x 5-J inches.] 6 leaves. 
 
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 This is part of an Edition of Statuta Synodalia printed in Gothic letter, 
 in Latin and French. 
 
 Presented in 1870 by the writer. 
 
 42. The Body of Policy. London. John Shot "without 
 Fewegate in saynt Pulkers parysshe," 17 May, 1521. Quarto. 
 [8§ x 5| inches.] 90 leaves. 
 
 This is a translation from the French original of Christine de Pisan, the 
 learned authoress of the 14th century, and is the only known specimen of 
 John Skot's printing on vellum. Ames, without doubt, had this copy under 
 his notice (though he does not specially refer to it) when he drew up the 
 description of this book. There are woodcuts, the pages are ruled with 
 red, and the initials illuminated. From Bp. Moore's Collection. A copy of 
 the same translation in manuscript is to found in the Holdsworth Collec- 
 tion in the University Library. 
 
 Hartshorne, 165. This copy. Bradshaw, Biblioph., 123. This copy, 
 Herbert Ames, 317. Dibdin, Typogr. Antiq., in. 74. 
 
 43. TONSTALLI (CUTHBERTl) De ARTE SUPPUTANDI libri 
 quattuor. Londini in cedibus Richardi Pynsoni, Prid. Id. Oct. 
 (14 Oct.), 1522. Quarto. [10^ x 7| inches.] 204 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman character. There are fine woodcut initials, and a 
 rich woodcut border surrounds the title, in which the initials of the de- 
 signer, Hans Holbein, appear. It is in the finest condition. This book 
 was a farewell to the sciences on the author's appointment to the see of 
 London (see the Preface), and is decidedly the most classical that ever was 
 written on the subject in Latin. The author had read everything on the 
 subject in every language which he knew, as he avers in his dedicatory 
 letter to Sir Thos. More, and had spent much time, he says, ad ursi ex- 
 emplum in licking what he found into shape. This copy was given to the 
 University in 1528 by the author, Bishop Tonstall, and bears his autograph 
 note of gift, " Cuthbertus Londoniesis eps studiosis dono dedity A similar 
 copy is at Christ's College (see post No. 116), and a third at Corpus Christi 
 Coll., Oxford. 
 
 Hartshorne, 161. This copy. Dibdin, Library Comp. 573. This copy. 
 
 Dibdin, Typograph. Antiq., n. 478. Dibdin, Bibliog. Dec. n. 368. 
 
 De Morgan (A.), Arithmetical Books, 13. 
 
 44. Missale Pataviense. Venetiis in cedibus Petri 
 Liechtenstein, impensis Lucce Allantse bibliopolce Viennensis, 
 1522. Quarto. [8^ x 6 inches.] 370 leaves, 6 of vellum. 
 
 This copy of the Passau Missal has a fine device of the printer, and was 
 acquired by purchase. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106. This copy. Graesse, iv. 548. 
 
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 45. Missale Leodiense. Parisiis per Wolfgangum 
 Hopylium impressorem, impensis Francisci Byrchman bibliopolce 
 4 kal. Dec. (28 Nov.), 1523. Folio. [12§ x 8f inches.] 410 
 leaves. 
 
 This most magnificent copy of the Liege Missal is printed on the finest 
 vellum in large Missai type. The initials are gracefully illuminated, the 
 larger ones containing miniatures, the whole painted in the best style of 
 the art of the period. The large woodcut of the Crucifixion opposite the 
 commencement of the Canon has been carefully removed, and is replaced 
 by a fresh leaf of vellum, blank on the one side, and embellished on the 
 other with a large and beautifully painted miniature of the same subject, 
 executed entirely by hand. It is in every way a splendid volume, and 
 from its profuse decorations might almost be mistaken for an elaborately 
 ornamented manuscript Missal. Even the Edition seems to be unknown, 
 and this, Bishop Moore's copy, may be therefore considered unique. 
 
 Hartshorne, 45. This copy. Bradshaw, Biblioph. This copy. 
 
 46. Missale Sarum. In Parrhisiorum academia (without 
 printers name), impensis Francisci Regnault librarii jurati uni- 
 versitatis Parisiensis in vico sancti Jacobi ad intersignium 
 Elephantis, penult. Oct. (30), 1526. Folio. [12J x Of inches.} 
 304 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 This was Bp. Moore's copy. Another is at the Bodleian. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. Dickinson, 17. This copy. 
 
 Gough, Topography, n. 341. 
 
 47. Missale Sarum. Parisiis (without printer s name), 
 impensis Francisci Regnault librarii jurati universitatis Parisien- 
 sis in vico sancti Jacobi in inter signio Elephantis ult. Mai., 1532. 
 Folio. [12| x 8£ inches.] 304 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 This copy formed a part of the valuable bequest of Dean Holdsworth 
 in 1649. (See also under No. 40.) 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. Dickinson, 18. This copy. 
 
 48 — 49. Ovidii Nasonis (P.) Opera. Venetiis, in cedibus 
 ho3redum Aldi (Manutii) et Andreai (Asulani) Soceri, 1533 — 4. 
 Octavo. [6-| x 4 inches.] 3 vols. 1st vol. 32 and 204 leaves ; 
 2nd vol. 12 and 180 leaves ; 3rd vol. 24 and 232 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Italic letter, 30 lines on a page. 
 
 This copy, the only one on vellum known, belonged to the celebrated 
 scholar, N. Heinsius, and was sold with his library in 1682. It next 
 belonged to Heneage Finch, Earl of Nottingham, whose name is on the 
 
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 title-page, and to whom Bishop Moore was tutor, and came into the 
 Library with the books of that bishop. The third volume was stolen soon 
 after it came to Cambridge, and passed with Dr Rawlinson's Collection to 
 the Bodleian. One of the volumes still at Cambridge has the Aldine 
 Anchor stamped in gold on both sides of the old calf binding. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph. This copy. 
 
 Renouard, Ann. des Aide, 2nd Ed., I. 260. 
 
 Cotton's Typographical Gaz., 345. 
 
 Dibdin's Introd. Classics, n. 265. 
 
 50. Missale Sarum. Parisiis, impr. in vico Sancti Jacobi 
 in cedibus FrancisciRegnault librarii jurati Universitatis Parisi- 
 ensis, 1534. Folio. [13 inches x 9 inches.] 304 leaves, 2 of 
 vellum. 
 
 This volume was purchased. Another copy seems to be in the British 
 Museum. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. Dickinson, 18. 
 
 51. Siddur, or Jewish Daily Prayers after the Roman 
 Rite. 'Bologna, 297 (a.d. 1537.) Octavo. [5 J x 3f inches.] 
 
 Printed in Hebrew character. There is an elaborate woodcut border to 
 the title. This copy was recently acquired by purchase. Similar copies are 
 in the Bodleian and British Museum. 
 
 De Rossi, Ann. heb. typ., MDL— MDXL., p. 39, No. 253. 
 
 Steinschneider, Cat., No. 2074. 
 
 Brit. Mus. Cat. Hebr. Books, p. 483. 
 
 52. Missale Tornacense. (Without place or printers 
 name) iwpensis Michaelis Hillenii Antverpios 24 Mart. 
 1540. Folio. [12| x 8J inches.] 274 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 Bp. Moore's copy. There is another copy of this Edition of the Tournay 
 Missal in the National Library, Paris. Van Praet quotes it as printed at 
 Antwerp. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 106. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I. p. 37, No. 33. 
 
 53 — 54. La Sainte Bible. Anvers, par Jean Loe, 1548. 
 Folio. [15 x lOf inches.] 528 leaves, bound in two volumes. 
 
 Printed in Gothic letter, with woodcut initials. This Edition is a 
 translation by Jacques le Fevre d'Estaples. This copy has on the second 
 leaf the Royal Arras of England, illuminated in gold and colours, and 
 a special inscription to King Edward VI., printed in red and black. There 
 are woodcuts. The book is in perfect condition. The leaves have their 
 
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 rough edges and are uncut, and it formed a part of Bp. Moore's Library. 
 A similar copy, apparently the only other one known, and having a special 
 inscription to Lord William Paget, Lord Chamberlain to the King, is in the 
 National Library, Paris. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 105. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I. p. 37, No. 33. 
 
 Brunet, I. 8S5. 
 
 55. Le Livre des Statuts et ordonances de l'ordre de 
 Sainct Michel. Without place, date, or printer s name. Paris 3 
 about 1550. Quarto. [8 \ x 6 inches.] 40 leaves. 
 
 This copy of the Rules of the Military Order of St Michael, founded in 
 1469 by Louis XI., was presented to the University by William Thurlbourn, 
 the Cambridge bookseller. It bears the price mark, 10s. 6d., of Tom 
 Osborne, the well-known bookseller, who furnished the shelves of 
 Dr Rawlinson and of many other collectors, and purchased the printed 
 portion of Lord Harley's splendid library in 1743. 
 
 Similar copies are at the Bodleian, National Library Paris, and at 
 several other places abroad. 
 
 Hartshorne, 41. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 126. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., v. p. 121. No. 141. 
 
 Cotton, Typ. Gaz., 2nd Ed., 351. 
 
 56. Oratio ad Philippum et Mariam Keges de restituta 
 in Anglia religione. Lovanii, apud Antonium Mariam Ber- 
 gagne Typ. Jur., 1555. Quarto. [8| x 6 inches.] 16 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter, 23 lines to the page. Woodcut device on title, 
 and woodcut initials . 
 
 Written by Antonio Fiordibello, of Modena, who accompanied Cardinal 
 Pole on his visit to England as papal legate. See under that name in the 
 Biblioteca Modenese of Tiraboschi, vol. n. pp. 288—302. Bp. Moore's 
 copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 125. This copy. 
 
 Tiraboschi, Bibl. Moden. n. 301, where the date is wrongly given as 
 1545. 
 
 57. Missale Augustense. Dilingce, in cedibus Sebaldi 
 Mayer, mense Julio, 1555. Folio. [14 x 9| inches.] Has 
 8 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The Cardinal Bishop of Augsburg in his preface remarks that all the 
 Missals printed in the diocese before his time had been destroyed through 
 
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 war and other causes. This copy of the Augsburg Missal is printed in large 
 type, and is in its original binding of oak boards, covered with stamped 
 vellum, with bosses and clasps complete. Recently purchased. 
 
 A copy entirely on vellum is in the Royal Library, Munich. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Cat., i. p. 135. Brunei, iil, 1766. 
 
 58. Missale Sarum. Parisiis, typis Joannis Amazeur, pro 
 
 Gulielmo Merlin super pontem nummulariorum ad sylvestris 
 hominis sigmcm e regione horologii Palatii, 1555. Folio. 
 [13| x 9 inches.] 312 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 The name of the printer does not appear in the title, but in the imprint. 
 The engravings, two in number, on the vellum leaves in the Canon of this 
 Edition of the Sarum Missal are large and fine. That of God the Father 
 crowned with a papal tiara, and surrounded by the Apostolic symbols, on 
 the second vellum leaf, is a rare one, and seldom found in printed Missals. 
 The 1st page has a large woodcut of St George and the Dragon, and the 
 Arms of France and England. On the title of this, Bp. Moore's copy, is 
 written in an old hand, "Pray for ye good prosperite and welfare of Richard 
 Perkens the elder, who gave this Mass Booke to ye parish Church off 
 Sanct. Petr. of Tempsforde 28 day of Xovr. Anno D. 1557." Tempsford 
 is in the county of Bedford. 
 
 Other copies are at British Museum (imperfect); Nat. Library, Paris; 
 Bodleian and Queen's Coll., Oxford; and see Nos. 93, 109. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 107. This copy. Dickinson, 19. 
 
 Herbert Ames, 1580. Gough, Typography, u. 356. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., i. p. 228. 
 
 59. Hebrew Pentateuch. Sabionetta, Tobias Foa> 317 
 (A.D. 1557). Duodecimo. [4J x 3 inches.] 
 
 Printed in Hebrew type, and recently purchased. Other copies in the 
 same state are in the British Museum and Bodleian Libraries. 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I. p. 12. Cotton, Typog. Gaz., 346. 
 
 Steinschneider Cat., No. 149. Biit. Mus. Cat. Hebr. Books, p. 108. 
 
 60. Siddur, or Jewish Daily Prayers after the Roman 
 Kite. Mantua, Jakob b. Naphtali Kohen e Gazolo, 317 (a.d. 
 1557). Octavo. [6 x 4J inches.] 
 
 Printed in Hebrew typo. The title is encircled by a woodcut border. 
 Mr R. L. Bensly, the sub-librarian of the University, informed the writer 
 that no copy of this Edition is to be found in the British Museum or 
 Bodleian Libraries, that though Steinschneider in his Catalogue of 
 
32 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 Hebrew books mentions it, he was indebted for the notice to De Rossi, and 
 that he misdescribes the rite, which is Roman not Italian. 
 
 De Rossi, Libri stampati, p. 49. 
 
 Steinschneider, No. 2033. 
 
 61. De Antiquitate Brittanic^: Ecclesi^e et Privile- 
 ges Ecclesise Cantuariensis, cum Archiepiscopis ejusdem 70. 
 Londini, in cedibus Johannis Daij, 1572. Folio. [11 x 8 inches.] 
 261 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 This work was written by Archbishop Parker, who states (see Strype'.s 
 Abp. Parker) in a letter accompanying the copy sent by him to the Lord 
 Treasurer Burleigh, that it was composed in his leisure hours. It is also 
 considered the earliest instance of a privately-printed book in England. 
 The two vellum leaves are the principal title and the title to the lives of 
 the Archbishops; these and the capitals are illuminated. The volume is 
 ruled throughout with red lines. It does not contain the life of the 
 Archbishop, and is one of the earlier copies issued. The title is enclosed 
 by the rich emblematic woodcut border used in his largest works, see also 
 post, Nos. 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, and there are marginal notes iu 
 a hand of the time. 
 
 Mr Martin enumerates twenty- two copies in all, almost all entirely of 
 paper. Such copies are at St Peter's College, the gift of Andrew Perne, 
 at Corpus Christi, the gift of Thomas Baker, the Cambridge antiquary; 
 and another and later copy also in the University Library. Lord Spencer 
 has a similar copy with two vellum leaves. The copy under notice belonged 
 to Bishop Moore. 
 
 Martin (J.), Cat. of Priv. pr. books, 1, 7, 14. This copy. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 126. This copy. 
 
 Dibdin, Typ. Antiq., iv. 126. 
 
 Strype, Parker, n. 244. 
 
 62. Catalogus Cancellariorum, Procancellariorum, 
 Procuratorum, ac eorum qui in Academia Cantebrigiensi ad 
 gradum Doctoratus aspiraverunt et numerus omnium gradua- 
 torum 1500 — 1571. Without place, printers name, or date 
 (London, John Day, 1572). Folio. [11 x 8 inches.] 27 leaves, 
 2 of vellum. 
 
 Although this copy is bound with the preceding book, it is a distinct 
 work, as may be seen by two distinct copies given by Archbishop Parker 
 himself to the libraries where they may now be found. The two vellum 
 leaves are illuminated, and are the title and that bearing the plan of the 
 schools. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 127. This copy. 
 
 Dibdin, Typ. Antiq., iv. 127. 
 
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. 33 
 
 63. Broughton (Hugh). A concent of Scripture. (With- 
 out place, date, or printers name, London, Gabriel Simson and 
 William TVJiite, 1596.) Quarto. [9 x 6 J inches.] 43 leaves, 
 besides four leaves of paper. 
 
 The first leaf has been cancelled and has been replaced by an engraved 
 title. On leaf 7 is an engiaved map of the world. The other plates are 
 on leaves 40—43, which are printed on one side only and are allegorical 
 representations of (1) Beasts, (2) Man, (3) Nebuchadnezzar, (4) Rome, with 
 English descriptions below. On the four paper leaves at the end are im- 
 pressions resembling the others with Hebrew inscriptions. It is printed for 
 the most part in two columns in Roman letter, but in the text, Hebrew 
 type is used, forming the earliest example of Hebrew printing in England, 
 and the engravings are specimens by William Rogers of the earliest copper- 
 plate engraving in this country. The author, Hugh Broughton, was a 
 noted Rabbinical scholar, and the work is dedicated by him to Queen 
 Elizabeth. The names of the printers, without the date, is attached to a 
 paper copy in the King's library, British Museum. Simson and White were 
 fined, 18 Aug., 1595, 10 shillings, for printing part of a book by Mr Broughton 
 without authority, and were ordered to bring the leaf into Stationers' 
 Hall. It is very probable that this may refer to the work under notice. 
 Bp. Moore's copy. The Bodleian has two copies, one with the plates 
 printed on paper only. 
 
 Ames (Herbert), 1263—7. Van Praet, 2nd Cat., I. 41, No. 75. 
 
 Dibdin, Bibliomania, 531. Cotton, Typ. Gaz., 346. 
 
 Lowndes (Bohn), 285. 
 
 64. A Form of Prayers, used by His late Majesty, 
 
 King William III., when he received the Holy Sacrament. 
 London, printed for J. Barnes, 1704. Duodecimo. [5| x 3 inches.] 
 48 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter, with 15 lines to the page, and compiled from 
 the King's original papers, with a preface by John Moore, Bishop succes- 
 sively of Norwich and Ely. This copy, the only one known on vellum, came 
 to the University with the rest of that Bishop's collection. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 108. This copy. . Lowndes (Bohn), 1955. 
 
 65. Il Castello di Otranto. Storia Gotica. J. S. In 
 Londra : Presso Molini, Polidori Molini e Co. Haymarket, 
 ed. J. Edwards, Pall Mall, 1795. Large Octavo. [8J x 5J inches.] 
 134 leaves, besides seven plates, printed on white satin, mounted 
 on vellum and coloured. 
 
 s. 3 
 
34 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 The English original of this romance, written by Horace Walpole, has 
 the pretence of being a translation by William Marshall. Of the Italian 
 original, written by Onuphrio Muralto, canon of Otranto, J. Sivrac, whose 
 initials appear on the title of this Italian translation, affects to be merely 
 the editor. He was the author of an English Grammar written in French, 
 London, 1794, 8vo. This copy is bound in blue morocco, and is a most 
 beautiful volume. Purchased 1840 — 50 by the Rustat fund. Six copies 
 were struck off on vellum. Similar copies are in the library of the Duke 
 of Devonshire, at Eton Coll., and in Nat. Library, Paris. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph., 125. This copy. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I. 286, No. 444. 
 
 Dibdin (T. F.), Bibl. Decam., n. 346—378. 
 
 66. Fry (Edmund). Pantographia, containing accurate 
 copies of all the known Alphabets in the World, with explana- 
 tion of the force or power of each letter, and specimens of well- 
 authenticated oral languages. London, Cooper and Wilson, 
 1799. Octavo. [10 x 6J inches.] 170 leaves. 
 
 A complete body of comparative Philology; the specimens of characters 
 are executed with great neatness. In this copy the author has added M.D., 
 to his name on the title, and has written at the top " To the University of 
 Cambridge." It is said that this gift was procured by the eminent scholar, 
 Richard Porson. Two copies only were printed on vellum. 
 
 Bradshaw, Biblioph. , 1 24. This copy. 
 
 Home, Bibliography, 454. 
 
 Lowndes, 844. 
 
 67. Il Convito o i Lapiti dal Greco di Luciano. Roma, 
 1815. Nella stamperia de Romanis, con licenza de Superiori. 
 Octavo. [9 x 5| inches.] 28 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter. Opposite the title there is a large frontis- 
 piece measuring 6 x 5f inches, engraved by Pinelli, representing the quarrel 
 between the Lapithee and the Centaurs. In vellum-gilt binding. Presented 
 by the writer in 1870. Another copy in this state is in the National Library 
 at Paris. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat. Supplement, 122. No. 486. 
 
 68. Knowles (George Parker). A genealogical and 
 heraldic account of the Coultharts of Coulthart and Coltyn, 
 chiefs of the name, from their first settlement in Scotland in the 
 reign of Conarus to the year of our Lord 1854, to which are 
 added the pedigrees of seven other considerable families that 
 
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. 35 
 
 through heiresses became incorporated with the family. 
 London. Harrison and Sons, 1855. (Privately printed.) Octavo. 
 [9| x 6 J inches.] 11 leaves. 
 
 Supplement to ditto, 1 leaf. 
 
 69. Knowles (George Parker). A genealogical account 
 of the Rosses of D Alton, co. Dumfries. London, by the same 
 printers, 1855. Octavo. 4 leaves. 
 
 70. — — — — . COULTHART OF COULTHART, 
 
 Collyn, and Ashton-under-Lyne. A pedigree on a large folding 
 sheet, with woodcuts. London (1853). [31 x 24£ inches.] 
 
 71. — — — — . Notes and memoranda to 
 the Coulthart and Ross pedigrees. (London, 3 Feb., 1864). 
 Octavo. 8 leaves. 
 
 The five foregoing articles are bound together : they were printed on 
 vellum for private circulation only. For the entire demolition of this 
 extraordinary fictitious pedigree, dating from " Coulthartus, a Roman 
 lieutenant who fought under Agricola," see Popular Genealogists, 
 Edinburgh. 1865, pp. 22 — 53, written anonymously by George Burnett, Lord 
 Lyon. Similar copies, without the Supplement of 1864, are in the libraries 
 of the British Museum and Inner Temple. This copy, specially referred to 
 in page 51 of the above work, was sent by Mr J. R. Coulthart, for whom it 
 was drawn up by Mr Knowles, to Mr J. Gough Nichols, the antiquary, and 
 contains original letters on the subject from Mr Coulthart, from George 
 Burnett, Lord Lyon, from Wm. Courthope, Somerset, and from Sir J. 
 Bernard Burke, Ulster, to Mr Nichols. Presented by the present writer in 
 1875. 
 
 72. (One leaf of) HoRiE B. M. Virginis. (France, c. 1520 ?). 
 Octavo. 
 
 From the sequentise of the Gospels, printed in Missal type in red and 
 black. 25 lines to page, text 5| x 3| inches. On the reverse is an illumi- 
 nated full-page woodcut of the Betrayal 6£ x 3| inches. Presented by the 
 present writer in 1877. 
 
 3—2 
 
36 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. 
 
 73. (One leaf of) Missale Herbipolense. (In civitate 
 Herbipolensi per Georgium Reyser), 1481. Folio. [14 J x 10 
 inches.] 
 
 This is the leaf opposite the commencement of the canon of the Mass, 
 and contains a large copper-plate engraving, measuring lOf x 7j inches, of 
 the most delicate and graceful execution, representing Christ on the cross 
 with S. Mary and S. John, attended by angels. Views of Wurzburg and 
 of the Castle of Marienburg are in the background. This fine work of art 
 is attributed to Albrecht Glockenton of Nuremburg. Purchased at the 
 Liphart sale, Frankfort, Dec. 1876. Passavant says this engraving almost 
 always occurs on vellum. An imperfect vellum copy of this Wurzburg Missal, 
 with the engraving of the crucifixion wanting, is in the Bodleian. A paper 
 copy of the later ed. of 1483, a re-issue, with nine vellum leaves, the tenth 
 with the large engraving being, as in the Bodleian copy, abstracted, is in 
 the British Museum. 
 
 Dibdin, Bib. Dec. I. 31. Cotton, Typ. Gaz. (1824), p. 67. 
 
 Passavant, Peintre-graveur, n. 127 — 8. 
 
 There are several engravings on vellum in the magnificent collections 
 of the Fitzwilliam Museum, but, inasmuch as they do not form portions of 
 any printed book, they will not fall within the scope of this work. 
 
 74. Hor^e ad usum Sarttm. Parisius per Philippum 
 Pigouchet, 1498, 16 May. Octavo. [7 x 4J inches.] 128 
 leaves. 
 
 For a description of this edition of the Salisbury Hours, and references, 
 see under the finer copy in the University Library, No. 25. The copy 
 under notice wants seven leaves : — signatures C 7 , E 2 - 3 , F 4,5 , L 2,3 , thus having 
 121 leaves, with 26 lines to the page. The name of the former owner, 
 Mr Thos. Kerrich, F.S A., Librarian of the University, is on the fly-leaf. 
 It was presented with other books by the representatives of the Rev. R. E. 
 Kerrich, M.A., Christ's College, in 1873. 
 
 75. Hor^ ad Usum Sarum. Without place, date, or 
 printers name (but probably printed in Paris by Simon Vostre 
 about 1500). Octavo. [9x6 inches.] 120 leaves. 
 
 This beautiful book is unfortunately imperfect, having at present only 
 111 leaves, the first leaf and the whole of sheet E being wanting, but the 
 signature title is S for Sarum. It has twelve large woodcuts besides the 
 "anatomy," some of them measuring 7|x5 inches, which appear to be 
 impressions from Vestre's largest series of wood-blocks. The whole with the 
 elaborate woodcut borders are illuminated in a very superior style of art. 
 
FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. 37 
 
 There are 30 lines to the page. The title and the Almanac have disappeared 
 being probably on the same leaf, and there is, though the book seems 
 perfect at the end, no imprint, nor any thing to give a clue to its 
 date or printer. On the last leaf is painted a miniature of a lady in an 
 heraldic surcoat, kneeling ; above her are two shields of arms. A MS. note 
 opposite, written by F. Townsend, Windsor Herald, 1797, describes her as 
 Catherine Norland, daughter of Thomas Norland, grocer and alderman of 
 London in the time of King Henry VI.: her first husband, Thomas Windout, 
 was sheriff of London in 1497. Her second was Sir Richard Haddon, Knt., 
 Lord Mayor of London in 1506. Dr Walter Haddon, Master of Requests in 
 the time of Queen Elizabeth, and fellow of King's Coll. Camb., was her 
 grandson. On the fly-leaf at the beginning of the volume is written " See 
 Maskell, Mon. Rit. Eccl. Angl. vol. I. p. clv — clvii Paris, Simon Vostre, 
 1507," and Mr Searle has described this copy as of this edition. On turn- 
 ing to the place however in Mr Haskell's book, it will be found that he says 
 nothing about the Fitzwilliam copy, but gives at length the contents of a 
 Sarum Book of Hours in his possession printed by Vostre in 1507. This 
 book, which with the rest of Hr Haskell's service-books are now in the 
 British Museum (C. 41 a\ has the title as given above in the Mon. Rit. ; the 
 date being taken approximately from the Almanac, however, proves on 
 examination to be of an entirely different and much inferior edition to the 
 Fitzwilliam copy, not agreeing in number of leaves, lines, character of type 
 or size. The writer has been unable to identify this edition with any at 
 the British Museum. This volume formed a part of Lord Fitzwilliam's 
 magnificent bequest to the University in 1815. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitzw. Mus., 172. This copy. 
 
 76. Heures a l'usaige de Rome. Paris, Antoine Verard, 
 21 Jul, 1508. Octavo. [7x4 inches.] 
 
 Has the device but not the name of Verard. The word " Rome" has 
 been in the colophon in MS. The woodcuts are illuminated; there are no 
 borders. The Almanac is from 1503 — 20. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.) 172. No. 3. This copy. 
 
 77. Heures a l'usaige de Paris. (Paris) Simon Vostre 
 (1508). Octavo. [8i x 5J inches.] 
 
 The following arms have been painted over the initials of the shield in 
 Vostre's device on page 1 of this volume of Paris Hours : Az. a chevr. or 
 betw. 2 apples proper and a garbe of the second, and a label added with 
 the motto EAIII2 KAI EY2TA9EIA : there is also an inscription painted. 
 The Almanac runs from 1508 to 1528. With the above trifling exception 
 the whole of the woodcuts and woodcut borders are uncoloured : it is in 
 the most perfect preservation, and forms a remarkably fine specimen of 
 this class of book. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. Mus. 172. No. 2. This copy. 
 
 Brunet (1864), v. 1590. No. 75. 
 
38 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 78. Heures a l'usage de Home. Paris, par Jehan 
 Barbier pour Guillame le Rouge, 1509, Aout 22. Octavo. 
 [of x 3f inches.] 
 
 The woodcuts are illuminated. At the beginning is a miniature of a man 
 kneeling at a prie-Dieu before a vision of the Blessed Virgin and Holy 
 Child. On a blue cloth covering the prie-Dieu is a shield charged with a 
 merchant's mark. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), M SS. in F. M. 173, No. 4. 
 
 Brunet, v. 1668, No. 352 or 353 nearly. 
 
 79. Heures a l'usage de (Paris). Paris, 21 Juing, 1510. 
 Anthoine Verard. Octavo. [7| x 4J inches.] 
 
 The Almanac is from 1503 — 20. The large woodcuts are illuminated, 
 and each page has rich borders painted by hand. On the title-page is 
 inscribed " Du Mon re de fueilleintines de Paris." Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), 173, No. 5. This copy. Brunet, v. 1610, No. 148. 
 
 80. Heures a l'usage de Sens. Paris, pour Simon Vostre 
 (1512). Octavo. [7 x 4j inches.] 
 
 The large woodcuts are illuminated : there are woodcut borders. The 
 Almanac is from 1512 — 1530. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in F. M. 173, No. 6. This copy. 
 
 81. Heures a l'usage de Bourges. Paris, Iehan de la 
 Roche pour Guillaume Eustace libraire du roy, 1514. Octavo. 
 [8| x 5 inches.] 
 
 The large woodcuts are illuminated ; there are no woodcut borders, but 
 painted ones in the style of the Renaissance. Bound in olive morocco. 
 Almanac from 1507 — 1528. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in F. M. 174, No. 7. This" copy. 
 
 82. Heures a l'usage de Rome. Paris, par Gillet 
 Hardouyn (1516). Octavo. [7 x 4 J inches.] 
 
 The woodcuts are uncoloured: there are no borders. The "Almanac" 
 is from 1516 — 1527. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in F. M. 174, No. 8. This copy. 
 
 83. Hor^: secundum usum Ecclesi^e Romans. Paris, 
 par Nicolas Hygman pour Guillaume Eustace, 20 Sept. 1517. 
 Octavo. [8 x 5 inches.] 
 
 The woodcuts are illuminated : there are borders. Lord Fitzwilliam's 
 copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), 174, No. 9. This copy. 
 
FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM. 30 
 
 84. Hor.e secundum Usum Romanum. Parisiis, Germain 
 Hardouyn (1532). Octavo. [6J x 4J inches.] 
 
 The Almanac is from 1532—45. The woodcuts are illuminated. Lord 
 Fitzwilliam's copy. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. 175. This copy. 
 
 85. Hor.e (seu Orarium) secundum Usum Sarum. 
 Paris, Germain Hardouyn (1533). Octavo. [5 J x 3| inches.] 
 102 leaves, 29 lines. 
 
 The first leaf is wanting, but on sign. B 7 b is to be found the title of this 
 book of Salisbury Hours : — " Horae sanctissimse ac intemeratse Virginis 
 Mariae secundum usum ac consuetudinem insignia ecclesise Sarum:" at the 
 end, " Impressum est hoc Orarium Parisiis in sedibus Germani Hardouyn," 
 etc. The Almanac is from 1533 — 1546. Lord Fitzwilliam's copy. A copy 
 like this, wanting the title, but only on p>aper, is in the British Museum. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. Mus. 175. This copy. 
 
 86 — 86 c . Fenelon (Fr. de Salignac de la Mothe). Les 
 A ventures de Telemaque. Paris. DeVimprimeriede Monsieur. 
 1785. Quarto. [13-§ x 10-J inches.] In four volumes. 
 
 A most sumptuous edition of this favourite work, produced under the 
 direction of P. Firmin Didot, and printed in very large and elegant type. 
 This copy has twenty-four large (8 x 5| inches) and beautifully coloured 
 engravings by Parisot from the drawings of Moette, which were in the 
 picked copies substituted for the mediocre designs by Monnet, generally 
 placed in this edition. The edges are uncut. These volumes were pre- 
 sented in 1836 by Mr Jonathan Hatfield, of Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 Four copies only were printed on vellum. A copy of this edition (probably 
 on vellum though not so specified) in M. Gonzales' library, splendidly bound 
 in two volumes, sold in Paris in 1876 for £120. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. Mus. 176. This copy. 
 
 Brunet, n. 1215. 
 
 87. Le Triomphe de La Mort, grave d'apres les desseins 
 de Holbein par W. Hollar. Explication des sujets du 
 Triomphe de la Mort de Jean Holbein. Without date, 
 place, or printer's name. {London, J. Edwards, 1790). Octavo. 
 [7| x 4| inches.] 43 leaves. 
 
 Thirty subjects of Holbein's Dance of Death engraved by Hollar in 
 1651 : being re-impressions from the old plates with explanations printed in 
 French. This appears to be the edition published by Mr Edwards, the 
 London bookseller, in 1790, some copies of which had a French text. This 
 copy, which is in beautiful condition, and appears to have belonged to Lord 
 
40 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 Fitzwilliam, unfortunately wants the first leaf, containing the title above 
 down to "W. Hollar". The second title commencing with "Explication 
 &c.,' ; remains. There are no engraved borders in any of these later impres- 
 sions, but in the copy under notice each page is surrounded by a delicately 
 painted ribbon border of burnished gold, terminating in tasselled ends. 
 There is a MS. note purporting that at the sale of M. Paris in 1791 it sold 
 for twelve guineas. Six copies appear to have been struck off on vellum. 
 A complete copy on discoloured vellum, without any decorations and very 
 inferior to the above, is in the British Museum, it has 44 leaves. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. Mus. 177. This copy. 
 
 Douce (F.) Dance of Death, 113. Brunet, in. 258. . 
 
 88 — 91. Breton (M.), La Chine en miniature, ou choix 
 de costumes, arts et metiers de cet empire. Paris, Nepveu, 1811. 
 Octodecimo. [5J x 3| inches.] In four volumes. 
 
 There are 74 engravings beautifully coloured, and these exquisite little 
 volumes are bound in purple morocco extra, lined with satin and leather 
 joints. They were presented in 1817 by Mr N. Atcheson, F.S.A. Brunet 
 must be in error in stating that only one copy was printed on vellum, as 
 Van Praet mentions another in the National Library, Paris, in the General 
 Supplement to both his Catalogues, at the end of the 2nd Cat. published in 
 1828. 
 
 Searle (W. G.), MSS. in Fitz. Mus. 176. This copy. 
 
 Brunet, I. 1225. 
 
 Van Praet, Gen. Supplement at end of the 2nd Cat. p. 129. 
 
 92. Credo du Sieur de Joinville, without name, place, 
 or date. {Paris, Firmin Didot, 1837.) Quarto. [8J x 7 inches.] 
 15 leaves. 
 
 This is the lithographed facsimile of an illuminated manuscript of the 
 xin. century written in old French with 26 long lines to the page, with the 
 twenty-five miniatures in outline. It is one of the thirty copies struck off 
 on vellum for the Societe des Bibliophiles by F. Didot, but this copy is 
 without the modern French translation forming the second part. La Croix 
 gives a copy of one of these outlines, and states that the original MS. was 
 formerly in the National Library, Paris, but that it was (1874) supposed 
 to be in England. Another copy on vellum, in the Grenville collection, 
 British Museum, also is incomplete. This "Credo" or Creed is broken up 
 into paragraphs written in red, each of which has a lengthy commentary by 
 De Joinville, illustrated by miniatures of Bible scenes and of the adventures 
 of St Louis in the Holy Land. Presented in 1873 by the writer. 
 
 Searle, MSS. in F. M. 177. This copy. Brunet, m. 558. 
 
 Bibl. Grenville, Part il 472. 
 
 Lacroix, Military and Religious Life, fig. 109, p. 129. 
 
ST PETER'S COLLEGE. 41 
 
 ST PETER'S COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 93. Biblia Latina Vulgata. In civitate Moguntina per 
 Johannem fust civem et Petrum schoiffer de gernssheym clericum. 
 1462. Folio. [16J x llf inches.] 239 leaves. 
 
 This is the second volume of the two, into which this, the first printed 
 Bible with a date, is divided. It commences with the Book of Proverbs, 
 the first page opening with the following summary printed in red: 
 " Epistola Sancti Ieronomi presbiteri ad Chromatium et Eliodorum episco- 
 pos de libris Salamonis." The colophon in this copy has been almost 
 entirely erased, only a few of the letters in red being faintly visible. This 
 was done possibly with the intention of passing the book off as a ms. Fust 
 and Schoifier's device in red, however, remains intact. The initial letters 
 throughout are richly illuminated, and the whole volume is perfect and in 
 fine condition, save that one initial has been cut out in the middle of the 
 volume. At the end of the volume are thirty additional leaves in manu- 
 script, being a glossary of Hebrew and Greek names, and words with Latin 
 interpretations, arranged alphabetically in narrow columns. On the first 
 page is a note in an old hand to the effect that in the year 1581 it belonged 
 to a certain Edward Orwell. This important example of early typography 
 was presented in 1662 by Dr Cosin, Bishop of Durham, late Master of the 
 College, and appears to have escaped notice. Similar copies in this 
 country are in the British Museum, the Hunterian library, Glasgow, and 
 in the libraries of Lord Spencer and the Duke of Marlborough. The 
 Bodleian, as here, has one volume only — the first. A complete copy on 
 vellum sold for .£780 at the Perkins sale, July, 1873. 
 
 Panzer, n. 114. Hain, *3050. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., I. p. 18, 2s T o. 17. 
 
 Dibdin, Bibl. Spenc. I 11. Dibdin, Northern Jour. n. 737. 
 
 Cotton, Typog. Gazetteer, 339. 
 
 CLARE COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 94. Heuees a l'usaigE de Romme, imprimees a Paris par 
 Gillet Hardouyn Imprimeur demourant au bout du pont nostre 
 Dame Devant Sand Denis de la Chartre a Vensigne de la Rose 
 (1512). Large Octavo. [9x6 inches.] 92 leaves. 
 
 There is no date, but the "Almanack" runs from 1512 — 1523. The 
 book is printed in Gothic letter, 30 lines to the page. Leaf sign. L 7 is 
 wanting. So that there are at present 91 leaves. There are twenty large 
 illuminated woodcuts ; beside the anatomy and the printer's device ; eight 
 of which measure 8 x 4f inches, and fill the whole page. The rich wood- 
 cut borders to each page are uncoloured, and the volume forms altogether 
 
42 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 a magnificent specimen of a Book of Parisian Hours. On the first page is 
 written " Aul. Clar. ex dono Richard Mowse hujus collegii alumn? The 
 MS. Library Catalogue states the gift to have been made in the year 1692. 
 Brunet gives nothing exactly corresponding with this edition, under 
 " Hardouyn" in vol. v. No. 234 in title seems to agree, but its Almanac is 
 for a later period. 
 
 95. Galeni (C.) Pergameni De Causis Pulsuum latine 
 per Cruserium, Libri quatuor : — 
 
 De prsesagatione ex pulsibus per Creuserium Libri quatuor. 
 — De Pulsuum usu Thoma Linacro Anglo interprete Liber 
 Unus. Without date, place, or printers name (but probably the 
 edition printed at Paris by Simon Colinceus, 1532). Folio. 
 [14 x 9J inches.] 67 leaves. 
 
 Printed in a large and beautiful Roman letter, 45 long lines to the 
 page. An edition of these same three treatises bound up with others by 
 the same writer, and printed by Simon Colinseus, at Paris, in 1532, is 
 in the National Library, Paris, and seems to correspond completely in 
 number of leaves and lines to a page with the copy under notice. See col- 
 lection given by Van Praet. 
 
 The Initials throughout this very beautiful volume are delicately illu- 
 minated on gold grounds, the vellum is of the finest quality, it is ruled in 
 red throughout, and from the following inscription evidently is the presen- 
 tation copy to King Henry VIII., from one of the translators of the work. 
 On the first page, painted in large burnished gold capitals is Invictissimo 
 + Illustrissimoque + Henrico + Octavo + Regi + Anglic + et + Francle 
 + Domino + Hybernle + ac + Wallle + Cornubleque + Principi + Her- 
 mannus + Cruserius + Campensis + S + P + D. The translator of the last 
 piece in the volume is the celebrated Dr Linacre, founder of the College 
 of Physicians and of the Medical lectures at Oxford and Cambridge. The 
 old and much worn binding of velvet, which perhaps might have given 
 some indication as to the donor, or former possessor, has recently been 
 replaced by a handsome covering of red morocco worthy of the volume. 
 The only other similar copy seems to be that at Paris, mentioned above, 
 which is a presentation copy to King Francis I. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat. in., p. 63, No. 83. Brunet, n. 1450. 
 
 PEMBROKE COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 96. Miss ale Eboracense, Rotkomagi, opera Petri Olivier, 
 Bumptibus Johannis Gachet juxta ecclesiam prefatum {Eboracen- 
 sem), 5 Febr. 1516. Folio. [12J x 9 inches.] 192 leaves, 2 of 
 vellum. 
 
PEMBROKE COLLEGE. 43 
 
 This is a recently discovered copy of this rare York Missal, making five 
 copies now known of this edition. This under notice is a larger but less 
 perfect copy than that in the University Library, No. 36 ante (which see 
 for notes and references). This volume lay in fragments unidentified until 
 very fortunately the title was found and the scattered leaves bound to- 
 gether. Eight leaves are wanting. The donor was the celebrated Launce- 
 lot Andrews, Bp. of Winchester, and Master of the College in 1589, who 
 amongst other benefactions gave a fine series of Bibles to the library. 
 
 97. Missale Sarum. Antwerpice, Christophori Rure- 
 muridi arte atque sedulo labore, prudentice Francisci Byrck- 
 man bibliopoles eximii. 28 March, 1527. Folio. [12§ x 8 
 inches.] 308 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 Similar copies are at the British Museum, the Gough Collection at the 
 Bodleian, and in the National Library, Paris. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat., i. p. 221. Dickinson, 18. 
 
 GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 98. Missale Sarum, Parisiis, typis Joannis Amazeur pro 
 Gulielmo Merlin, 1555. Folio. [13f x 9J inches.] 2 leaves of 
 vellum. 
 
 For an account of this edition of the Sarum Missal, and for refer- 
 ences, see ante under No. 58, the smaller University copy. There is 
 a third copy at St Catharine's Coll. (No. 109). 
 
 CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 99. Manuale ad Usum Sarum. London: Bicardus Pynson 
 ad intersignium Sancti Georgii in flete strete commorans, penes 
 ecclesiam Sancti Dunstani anno domini 1506. Folio. [12 J x 8 J 
 inches.] 136 leaves. 
 
 The whole of the Calendar (probably consisting of 6 unnumbered leaves) 
 and leaves 1, 38, 109, 110, and 112 — 116 are wanting in this copy of the 
 Salisbury Manual. It begins on leaf 2 with the " Benedictio salis et aquae :" 
 at the end is Pynson's device and the imprint partly copied above. The 
 volume is finely printed in two columns in red and black, with small wood- 
 cuts, the letter-press being remarkably brilliant, and the vellum white and 
 even. It is in a fine old calf binding stamped in diaper. This copy 
 probably came with Archbishop Parker's books to the College ; for though 
 his Manuscripts have been kept separate, the printed portion of his collec- 
 
44) BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 tion appears to have been distributed throughout the general library. The 
 only other similar copy is preserved at Stonyhurst College. 
 
 Hartshorne, 245, who wrongly calls it a Missal. This copy. 
 
 Dickinson, 13. 
 
 100. ESErHSEIS nAAAIAI KAI AIAN O^EAIMOI. 
 
 Expositiones antiquse ac valde utiles in Acta Apostolorum in 
 Septem epistolas in Pauli omnes. Ex diversis sanctorum patrum 
 commentariis ab Oecumenio et Aretha collects. Veronce, apud 
 Stephanum et fratres Sabios, 1532. Folio. [13 J x 8f inches.] 
 128 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Greek letter, in long lines. This copy contains the Acts and 
 the Catholic Epistles, and appears to be the first volume only of the 
 complete work. It is not a little singular that what would seem to be its 
 complement, the second and third volumes of this very vellum copy, are in 
 the Bodleian Library, together forming what would appear to be the only 
 copy known on vellum. For the following collation I am indebted to the 
 kindness of the Rev. S. S. Lewis, the Librarian : — On the back of the title- 
 page is a dedication in latin by Donatus Yeronensis to Henry VIII. : then 
 follows on 2 pages, a dedication in latin to Pope Clement VII. : then 2 
 pages in Greek, headed TOI2 3>IAEAAH2I. (The rest is continuously in 
 Greek.) Then 2 pages of notes on the Lives of the Twelve Apostles, and 
 
 1 page, notes on the Life of St Paul : — 2 pages of Analysis of the Acts of 
 the Apostles by chapters : — 1 page of Old Testament testimonies to Christ : — 
 5^ pages of argument and analysis of the Acts by chapters : — 3 pages of 
 argument of the Epistles in iambic verse, ^ page of address of the Editor to 
 his readers, headed O rr\v /3i/3\oi/ enavopdcoaas tois avayiva>(TKOV(n : — 
 
 2 pages headed, Ii.poXey6p.eva els ras irpai-eis <a Xpyaoaropov : then 
 follow 232 pages with the pagination printed in black ink, the first page 
 headed with E£HrH2I2 T£N IIAAAI AriQN ANAPi2N, &c , &c, the last 
 page ending with TeXos rrjs lovda KadoXtrfs €iti(ttoXt)s. There are 254 pages 
 exclusive of the leaf upon which the title is printed. As in the preceding 
 case, there is nothing to show precisely who was the donor of this book, 
 the first edition of the Commentaries of (Ecumenius and Arethas, but 
 probably it came, like the preceding volume, with Abp. Parker's collection. 
 It is in the original binding of oak boards covered with stamped vellum. 
 
 Panzer, vill. p. 582. Cotton, Typog. Gaz. 345. 
 Brunet, iv. 162. 
 
KIxNG's college. 45 
 
 KING'S COLLEGE LIBBARY. 
 
 101. Litters Indulgentiarum, issued by John de Gigliis, 
 legate of Pope Sixtus IY. for assistance against the Turks. 
 Westminster, William Caxton, 1481. Broadside. 
 
 This is a slip measuring 9| inches long, with margin, and containing 
 four lines in width of an edition of this Indulgence printed by Caxton, 
 but differing from that facsimiled by Mr Blades, n. 184, fig. 40. It was 
 discovered by Mr Bradshaw in the binding of a xvth century book in this 
 library, which had been rebound in the last century, but from which the 
 later workman, most fortunately, had not altogether obliterated the traces 
 of the original binder. 
 
 102. Boetius (Anitius Manlius Severinus). Yir et 
 eruditione et nobilitate prsestantissimus ex Manlio Torquato 
 Romano turn Consularis turn Patricius, DE UNO ET Trino. 
 Dedit hide collegio Rich. Dayus eiusdem socius, Anno. Dom. 1575. 
 Folio. [12-J x 9 J inches.] 
 
 103. Augustinus (D. Aurelius), Ypponensis Episcopus 
 et Ecclesige Doctor prsestantissimus. De quantitate anim^e. 
 Dedit hide collegio Rich. Dayus eiusdem socius. Anno. Dom. 1575. 
 Folio. [12£ x 9J- inches.] 
 
 This and the preceding Article are Title-pages specially printed on vellum 
 by John Day, the celebrated printer, or by his son Richard Day, who was 
 in partnership with his father. They are severally prefixed to two fine 
 folio MSS. on vellum of the xnth century, bound in one volume, and presented, 
 as the titles indicate, in 1575 to King's College, by Richard Day, who was 
 a fellow of that society. The first-mentioned manuscript has the beautifully 
 interlaced illuminated initials usual in rich books of its age. The titles are 
 printed in roman letter within the very elaborate woodcut border of 
 symbolic figures used by John Day for some of his folio books, such as 
 Cunningham's Cosmographical Glasse, 1559, or the De Antiquitate Brit. 
 Eccl. See ante No. 61, which border is described by Dibdin, Typ. Antiq. 
 iv. 73. 
 
 104. Chrisostom (D. Joh.) Constantinopolitani Episcopi et 
 Doctoris Ecclesise singularis Opus in Matth^eum Evangelistum. 
 Dedit hide collegio Rich. Dayus eiusdem socius, An. Dom. 1575. 
 Folio. [11 J x 8 inches.] 
 
46 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 105. Augustini (D. Aurelii), YpjDonensis Episcopi. De 
 vita Christiana liber : ad Jultanum comitem epistola. 
 Dedit huic collegio Rich. Dayus eiusdem, socius, An. Dom. 1575. 
 Folio. [Hi x 8 inches.] 
 
 106. — — — — . Sententia de Retrac- 
 tione liber Epistola AD Aurelium. Dedit huic collegio Rich. 
 Dayus, eiusdem socius, An. Dom. 1575. Folio. [11 J x 8 inches.] 
 
 As in Articles 102 — 3 these three are specially printed vellum title-pages 
 prefixed to manuscripts in this case of the xivth century. The volume is a 
 smaller folio than the preceding. It is scarcely necessary to point out the 
 interest and singularity of such unique evidences of the taste and liberality 
 of these noted printers. 
 
 107. Statutes of King's College, Cambridge. Cam- 
 bridge, printed by C.J. Clay, M.A., at the University Press, with- 
 out date (but printed in 1862). Quarto. [10^ x 8 -J inches.] 
 26 leaves. 
 
 The page is surrounded by a border of red lines, the vellum is of good 
 quality, and it is needless to say that the printing is finely executed. Three 
 copies were printed on vellum ; one is deposited in the College muniment 
 room, the other two probably are in the possession of the Provost for the 
 time being, and of Eton College, respectively. This volume is the only 
 Cambridge-printed book of this class the writer has been able to discover 
 preserved in the place itself. The only other books printed on vellum 
 issued by the University press appear to be the three following unique 
 copies, all unfortunately in other collections. 
 
 Galeni, de Temperamentis, Cantabrigia per Jo. Siberch. 1521. In the 
 Bodleian. 
 
 Codex Th. Bezae Cantabrigiensis ed. T. Kipling, CantabHgia in prelo 
 Academico, 1793. Folio. In the British Museum, from the library of 
 George III., two splendid volumes measuring (19 x 12| inches.) This seems 
 the only copy struck off : it contains no note of any kind or inscription, and 
 nothing seems known of any other copy on vellum. 
 
 The Holy Bible. Cambridge, Pitt Press, 1837. Large Quarto. One 
 copy of this the " Royal Edition" was struck off on vellum. It was intended 
 for William IV., but he dying before it was issued, it was presented to her 
 present Majesty, and probably is in the Library at Windsor. 
 
 It is to be regretted that the question of cost, at least in the case of the 
 two more recent impressions, appears to have prevented the University 
 from printing a second vellum copy to be retained by the University itself. 
 Clarke in his Repertorium, p. 60, states that a copy of the Royal Visit to 
 Oxford, printed on vellum (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1S15), was presented 
 by the University of Oxford to the sister University, but the archives of 
 
47 
 
 our University Library have been searched, and no trace of any such volume 
 having been received can be found. It may have been considered by the 
 person commissioned to deliver it as of too interesting a character to 
 deposit in a working library like that of Cambridge. Van Praet copies 
 Clarke, and mentions also as being at Cambridge, Sampsonis (R.) Oratio, on 
 vellum, London, T. Berthelet n.d. It cannot be found there : his authority is 
 the Oxford Cat. of 1697, where it is included amongst Bp. Moore's books. 
 Lowndes' Manual, last edition, p. 2182, quotes a similar copy as occurring in 
 the Bindley sale. See also under No. 48 ante. 
 
 QUEENS' COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 107*. Missale Sarum. Parisiis, per Franciscum Regnault, 
 1529. Quarto. 4 leaves of vellum. 
 
 For notes and references to this edition, see post No. 117. 
 
 ST CATHARINE'S COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 108. Missale Sarum, opera et industria magistri Martini 
 Morin impressoris Rothomagi juxta insignem prioratum Sancti 
 Laudi commorans, impensa vero Johannis Richardi mercatoris 
 + + et in papiro et in pergameno venale facili pretio cunctis pro- 
 duction et exhibitum. 4 Decembr. 1497. Folio. 4 leaves of 
 vellum. 
 
 The above imprint is printed in red : on the vellum leaves in the canon 
 of the mass are two large illuminated woodcuts of the Crucifixion and of 
 the glorified Christ. The Canon is a Sarum, and not a Roman, one. There 
 are copies wholly on vellum in the British Museum, the Queen's Library at 
 Windsor, the library of the Duke of Devonshire, and at the College of St 
 Edmond's, Herts. 
 
 Gough, Topog. 328. Van Praet, 2nd Cat. I. p. 148. 
 
 Dickinson, 15. Lowndes, 1576. 
 
 109. Missale Sarum. Parisiis ; typis Joannis Amazeur pro 
 Gulielmo Merlin, 1555. Folio. 2 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The two large woodcuts on the vellum leaves are coloured. This copy 
 is free from any disfigurations of the services for St Thomas (a Becket) the 
 martyr's day ; it has also parchment labels attached to the sides of the 
 leaves marking out the most important passages in the book. At the end 
 are pasted special prayers and thanksgivings for the reconciliation of 
 England under Philip and Mary. For further notes and details concerning 
 this edition, see under No. 58 ante, the copy in the University Library, 
 and also No. OS ante, under another copy at Cams Coll. 
 
48 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 JESUS COLLEGE LIBEAEY. 
 
 110. Litters Inditlgentiarum. Issued by John Ken- 
 dale (Grand Prior of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 
 England), to contributors towards the expenses of the Rhodian 
 expedition. London, John Lettou (March) 1480. Broadside. 
 
 The document begins, u Frater Johannes Kendale Turcipelerius 
 Rhodi" &e, and ends with the date : " millesimo quadringentesimo octua- 
 gesimo." 
 
 111. Another edition of the same Indulgence by the same 
 printer, 1480. Broadside. 
 
 These Indulgences were discovered, January, 1876, in Jesus College 
 Library, by Mr Bradshaw, in the binding of a Latin Bible, dated Cologne, 
 1480, and bound in London soon after, by John Lettou: they were cut into 
 slips and used as guards for the quires, but Mr Bradshaw was able to 
 obtain complete copies of both editions. Another edition of this Indul- 
 gence, printed by Caxton, is in the British Museum: see Blades' Caxton, n. 
 p. 79, and see also No. 101, ante. John Kendal, the Grand Prior in 
 England, was also locum tenens of the Grand Master of the Knights of St 
 John of Jerusalem in Italy, Flanders, and Ireland. The word Turcipele- 
 rius is explained to mean General of the Infantry of the Order of St John 
 of Jerusalem. 
 
 112. Breviaritjm secundum Usum Sarum. Without place, 
 date, or printers name. (Parisiis, 1499 ?). 8vo. [of x 3f 
 inches.] 112 leaves. Pars Hyemalis. 
 
 This is a very imperfect copy of the same edition of the Sarum Breviary 
 as the more perfect one in St John's College Library. See post, No. 121, 
 for the description of this edition. In the present copy the Proprium 
 de tempore and Proprium Sanctorum are wanting. 
 
 113. Missale Sarum. Venundatur in aedibus magistri 
 Wynandi de Worde : aut Richardi Facques commorantibus in 
 cymiterio Sancti Pauli London. At the end: Absolutum in 
 alma Partrisium Acad, anno Xpi Syderum conditoris millesimo 
 quingentesimo undecimo, vj Kl maij. Lmpensis atque sumptibus 
 Wynandi de Worde, Richardi faques, J oh. bienayse et Jacobi 
 
 ferrebouc diligentia vero magistri Rudolphi sutoris in pago 
 divi Jude iuxta Carmelitas. Then follows the large tri- 
 partite device of De Worde as figured in Dibdin's Typ. Antiq. 
 II., No. v. of this printer's marks; and beJow it: sane hoc pres- 
 
JESUS COLLEGE. 41) 
 
 sorum digessit arte magister Wynandus de Worde incola 
 Londinii. Folio. [13-J x 9| inches] 2 leaves of vellum. 
 
 This edition of tho Sarum Missal seems unknown ; it is handsomely 
 printed in red and black in two columns, and the vellum leaves, as is usual 
 in such books, are at the commencement of the Canon of the Mass, the first 
 one is occupied by the usual large woodcut of the Crucifixion. At the top 
 of the title in an old hand is written : " Liber Thos. Emerson prec. Is." The 
 edition is not noticed in Dickinson's English Service Books nor in Lowndes' 
 Manual by Bohn, and no copy appears in the British Museum or the 
 Bodleian catalogues. J. Johnson in Typographia i. 332, mentions a later 
 Service book, printed like this for D. de Worde, in Paris, but by a different 
 printer, Paris being then the chief manufacturing centre, so to speak, of 
 Service books for the neighbouring countries. See also under the Great 
 Bible of 1539, at St John's, post No. 126. 
 
 CHRIST'S COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 114. Missale Sarum. Londiniis, per Ricardum Pynson 
 8 Kal. Mart, 1512. Folio. [10£ x 7J inches.] 4 leaves of 
 vellum. 
 
 On the Title is a large woodcut of the Royal Arms. Of the four vellum 
 leaves in the Canon of the Mass, the first, containing as usual the large 
 woodcut of the Crucifixion, and the last are wanting in this copy which 
 shows signs of considerable use. 
 
 Similar copies are at the Bodleian, and Balliol Coll., Oxford, and at 
 the library of Bamborough Castle, 
 
 Dickinson, 16. This copy. 
 
 115. Novum Testamentum omne, multo quam antehac 
 diligentius ab Erasmo Roterdamo recognitum Basilece in 
 cedibus Joannis Frobenii, mense Martio, 1519. Folio. [12 J x 8f 
 inches.] 344 leaves. 
 
 This is a beautiful copy of the 2nd edition of the Greek Testament of 
 Erasmus. The title is surrounded with an elaborate woodcut border, and 
 there are large woodcut initials. The pages are ruled with red; the 
 margins have not been sufficiently respected by the binder, but the volume 
 is in perfect condition and forms a fine example of printing on vellum. The 
 " Annotations," which would make a second volume, are wanting ; see post 
 No. ]24 — 5 for a later edition of both volumes. 
 
 The College has also a copy of this edition on paper, and a comparison 
 of the two volumes well shows the far superior beauty and brilliancy of the 
 impression on vellum. The only other copies of this edition, in this state, 
 S. 4 
 
50 BOOKS PRINTED OX VELLUM. 
 
 seem to be at Basle, and in the Chapter Library at York. Dibdin mentions 
 another copy as belonging to Sir M. Sykes, but the last edition of Brunet 
 states that the latter proved to be an imperfect copy of the 1st edition of 
 1516. 
 
 Panzer, vi. p. 211. Van Praet, 2nd Cat. I. p. 15. 
 
 Dibdin (T. F.), Libry. Comp., 25". Brunet, v. 735. 
 
 Botfield (B.), Cathedral Libr., p. 504. 
 
 116. TONSTALLI (CUTH.) De ARTE SUPPUTANDI, Londilli 
 
 incedibus Richardi Pynsoni Prid. Id. 1552. Quarto. [11 x 8£ 
 inches.] 172 leaves. 
 
 This copy is imperfect, wanting the two first, the last, and several other 
 leaves, in all about thirty. The complete number is 204. See ante under 
 No. 43 for the description of this edition and references. The margins of 
 several of the pages have been sadly mutilated, but it is a very large copy 
 and the perfect remaining portions are in the finest condition. On one of 
 the margins the donor's name is written in an old baud : "Ex danQ Cuth- 
 bertz Watson olhn hujus Coll. Sociits." 
 
 117. Missale Sarum, Parisiis,per Franciscum Regnault, 
 in vico Sancti Jacobi e regione, templi MatMtinorum ad rign/um 
 
 elephantis, 1529. Quarto. [9| x 7^ inches.] 4 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The vellum leaves are folios 155 — 158, inclusive ; at the end is the 
 device of the printer, and the volume is in fine condition. 
 Similar copies are at Queens' Coll., see ante No. 107*, the Bodleian, and 
 Oriel College, Oxford. 
 
 Dickinson, 19. This c<>j>ij. Cough's Topography, n. 344. 
 
 ST JOHN'S COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 118. Boxifaci Pap.e VIII. Liber Sextus decretalium 
 una cum apparatu domini Jobannis Andreas per singularem 
 juris utriusque doctorem dominum Alexandruni Neuum emen- 
 datus. Venetiis, opera atque impensa Xicolai Jenson Galilei, 
 1476. Folio. [151 x 10J inches.] 
 
 Printed in Gothic letter, in two columns. This work, known as the 
 " Sext," formed, like the two succeeding works, a portion of the Canon Law 
 or the ecclesiastical Constitutions of the Roman Catholic Church. For an 
 account of the distinguished Canonist of the XIYth century, John Andreas, 
 Bishop of Aleria, see Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, in. 274. 
 
 This copy was the gift of Thomas Morton, Fellow of the College, and 
 Bishop of Durham in 1632. 
 
 Four copies on vellum only appear to be known. The only one in this 
 
ST JOHN'S COLLEGE. 51 
 
 country is in Lord Spencer's library, another, the Pinelli and Macarthy 
 copy, is in the National Library, Paris. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat- n. 16. Panzer, in. 114, No. 223. 
 
 Hain, *3592. Holtrop, Bibl. Hagiana, 393, No. 407. 
 
 119. Clementis Pap.e V. Constitutiones una cum ap- 
 paratu D. Johannis Andrese. Venetiis, cere atque industria 
 Nicolai Gallici, 1476. Folio. [15J x lOf inches.] 
 
 This copy of the work, known as the " Clementines," is bound with the 
 preceding but is an entirely distinct work ; it is printed in Gothic letter, in 
 two columns, and of course comes from the same donor, Bp. Morton. Five 
 copies on vellum, besides this, appear to be known, including Lord 
 Spencer's, and one in the National Library, Paris. 
 
 Van Praet, 1st Cat. n. p. 24. Panzer, in. p. 114, No. 222. 
 
 Hain, *5417. Holtrop, Bibl. Hagiana, 393. 
 
 120. Geatiani Deceetum, cum apparatu Bartholomsei 
 Brixiensis et Johannis Theutonici. Venetiis Impress, singulari 
 industria atque impensa Xicolai Jenson, Gallici, 1477. Folio. 
 [16 J x 11 inches.] 
 
 Printed in Gothic letter, two columns of 64 lines each. These " Decre- 
 tals" or Decrees of Gratian, first arranged in 1150, comprise ecclesiastical 
 legislation from the time of Constantine the Great, at the beginning of the 
 ivth to that of Pope Alexander III. at the end of the xnth 
 century. This most ponderous volume of Canon Law, like the two 
 preceding works, is in fine coudition, and is also due to the beuefaction of 
 Bp. Morton. No similar copy appears to be in this country, but there are 
 copies in the National Library, Paris, and in the library of Wolfenbutel. 
 
 Hartshorne, 383. This o>j>//. Van Praet, 1st Cat. n. p. 5. 
 
 Tanzer, in. p. 123. Hain, 7890. 
 
 121. Beeviaeium secundum ustjm Ecclesle Salisbuei- 
 ensis. Without place, date, or printer s name (Parisiis 1499 ?). 
 Octavo. [5J x 3J inches.] 304 leaves. 
 
 This, the Pars Hyemalis of an edition of the Salisbury Breviary, is 
 printed in two columns of 37 lines in each. Three leaves are wanting, one 
 of which is supplied by paper; the existing number is therefore 302. It 
 contains : Calendar, 8 leaves ; Psalter and Litany, 72 leaves ; Commune 
 Sanctorum, 24 leaves; Dedication Service and Servitium B. Mariae V. 
 8 leaves. Pars hyemalis (Advent to end of Whitsunweek) : Proprium de 
 tempore, 144 leaves; Proprium Sanctorum, 48 leaves. For the above col- 
 lation the writer is indebted to Mr Bradshaw, the University Librarian. 
 
 This edition corresponds in size, appearance, No. of columns and lines, 
 with an edition unfortunately containing the Pars ^Estivalis, or other part 
 
 4—2 
 
52 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 only of a Sarum Breviary in the British Museum, C. 41 a., at the bottom of 
 the last page of which is "Imprcssus Parians anno dni M.CCCC nonagesi- 
 mo nono " without the printer's name. In the copy under notice the tabula 
 festorum mobilium takes the year 1486 for its starting point. At the end u 
 written "anno dni M.CCCCXXXIII anno regis Senrici Octavi XXV' 1 " but 
 the book is without doubt a deal older than this. The initials arc illumi- 
 nated and the volume is in very good condition, and is one of the books 
 given to the college by Henry Wriotheslv. Bad of Southampton, of Trinity 
 Hall, the patron of Shakespeare. For another copy of this edition, see 
 No. 112. 
 
 122. Missale Sarum, In Paririorum Academia oj 
 Wolfgangi Hopylii, impensis Francisci Byrkman 7 Febr., L511 
 (1510—11) et 10 KaLApr. 1510 23 Mart, L510— 11). Folia 
 [12J x H'-\ inches.] '1 V &ves of v. •Hum. 
 
 Other copijes of this edition are in the University Library let ante, 
 No. 30 for remarks respecting this edition and for references , and in tho 
 library of Emmanuel College [see Bfo. 1 19, post . 
 
 123. Missale Sabux. [Rothomagi) Petr. ( 
 
 Jacobi Cousin, 1519,24 Decembr. Folio. [10}x7Jin< 
 
 2 leaves of vellum. 
 
 In this copy the title is wanting. Inside the cover is written the 
 donor's name : ",.r </■.,:■> Magiitri '• m I Eederia Burbrooke \ / 
 
 n#, hn futgue CoUegii alumnus* Porremai ting this edition 
 
 and references. Bee post No, I37j under the more perfect but similar copy 
 at Trinity College. 
 
 124. Novum Testamentum ex Ebasmi Roterodami re- 
 cognitions. BasU&B in CBdibus Joannis Frobenii mense 
 
 Martin, i:>27. Folio. [13] x U\ inches.] 297 leaves. 
 
 This is the fourth edition of the Greek Testament <>f Erasmus, and the 
 first that he corrected from the Compluteiisian 1'olygh.tt. It contains in 
 three columns the Greek text, the Latin version of Erasmus and the Latin 
 Vulgate. This copy is in fine condition, but, unfortunately, the elaborate 
 wood-cut border has been cut away from the title ; there are. however, 
 other borders remaining in the volume. Dr Dibdin in his Introduction to 
 the Classics mentions a vellum copy at St John's College, Cambridge, but 
 wrongly states it to be the fifth edition, of 1535. See also No. 115. From 
 the College Book-plate inserted in this volume it would appear to have 
 entered the library in or before the year 1 700, as that date appears on it. 
 No similar copy of this edition seems known. 
 
 Dibdin, T. P., Intr. Classics, I. in. This copy. 
 
 Panzer, vi. 257. Brunct, v. 1516. 
 
st John's college. 53 
 
 125. Adnotationes Erasmi Roterodami in Novum Testa- 
 mentum Basilese apud Joannem Frobenium meiise Februario, 
 1527. Folio. [131 x 9 inclies.] 321 leaves. 
 
 This volume of Commentaries is in the paper copies often bound with 
 the preceding, but is here, being on vellum, bound separately, and it forms a 
 volume nearly equal in size to the Greek Testament. The date on its title, 
 it will be seen, is placed a month earlier than on that of the Testament. 
 
 The number of leaves stated above is that at present remaining, at 
 least 9 or 10 are wanting at the end of the volume. 
 
 Panzer, vi. 257. 
 
 126. The Byble in Englyshe truly translated after the 
 veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, (Paris and) London, 
 By chard Grafton and Edward Whitchurch. Apryl, 1539. 
 Folio. [16£ x 11 J inches.] 532 leaves including a blank one 
 after the second part of the Prophets, 
 
 This is the first edition of the " Great," or Crumwell's Bible, and this 
 copy is that specially printed on vellum for Thomas, Lord Crumwell, under 
 whose auspices this edition was issued. This edition was prepared for the 
 press by Coverdale, and as the resources of the English press were not 
 adequate to carry it out as Crumwell wished, Coverdale, with Grafton and 
 Whitchurch, proceeded to Paris to superintend its printing there, on a 
 magnificent scale, by llegnault, in 1538 ; but on Dec. 17 in that year, when 
 the work was nearly finished, an order from the Inquisitor General for 
 France stopped the further progress of the work. Coverdale and Grafton 
 managed to convey the presses, types, and workmen to London, where the 
 edition was completed. This Bible is printed in large black letter, with 
 five large and elaborate woodcut titles to the several portions of the 
 volume, and numerous woodcuts. These five titles are beautifully illumi- 
 nated, all the large woodcuts are similarly treated, and there arc hundreds 
 of initials delicately painted in gold and colours, the whole finished in a 
 manner equal to the best illuminated manuscripts of that date. This truly 
 magnificent book is in the most desirable condition, the vellum of even 
 texture and perfect whiteness, with ample margins, and assuredly warrants 
 Mr Hartshorne's assertion respecting it, that it "maybe considered the 
 finest book on vellum that exists." Br J. S. Wood, the President of the 
 College, obligingly informs the writer that though there is no authentic 
 information, yet it is highly probable that this Bible came from Archbishop 
 Williams (the munificent contributor to the erection of the library) whose 
 books were to have come to St John's, but thero is some mystery about 
 his library, and it is not certain whether any of his books came to the 
 College, which, however, has the MS. Catalogue of his library, where there 
 is the following* entry, "Bible, English, printed on Velams very faire 1539," 
 with the words " covered with red velvet " added in a different hand. The 
 
54 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 binding is now different, being of purple morocco of much later date, but it 
 seems very likely that the book is the same. Mr Thos. Baker, the Anti- 
 quary, in 1710 shewed this copy to the literary Baron von Uffenbach, who 
 visited the Cambridge libraries in that year; see the Illrd volume of 
 Uffenbach's Reisen durch Holland, Engelland, &c, Ulm, 1754, where 
 this copy is described. Van Praet, by a mistake, in quoting the Baron, 
 places this book and a 1465 Mentz Cicero in " Peterhouse College library," 
 which has neither, though it possesses a volume of the Mentz Bible of 1462, 
 on vellum; sec ante, No. 93. From a letter written by Coverdale and 
 Grafton to Crumwell, and dated Paris, June 23 (1538), the writers state 
 that they intend to print two copies only on vellum, one for Crumwell 
 himself and the other for the King : the latter has disappeared. The 
 vellum copy in the British Museum, at one time frequently considered 
 identical with this, is a later, and entirely different edition (Cranmer's), 
 with altered titles and woodcuts, printed in 1540, after Crum well's death, 
 therefore the copy under notice has the additional interest of being unique, 
 and is quite perfect. 
 
 Hartshorne, 404. This copy. Lowndes, Bonn's Ed., 176. This copy. 
 
 Cotton (Dr) Eds. of Bible 15, 279. This copy. 
 
 Uffenbach (Z. C. von), Reisen m. 53. This copy. 
 
 Westcott (B. P.), Hist. Bible, 95. This copy. Dibdin, Typ. Ant. in. 438. 
 
 127. Missale Sarum, Impressum Parisiis in vico Scti 
 Jacobi in cedibus Francisci Regnault librarii jurati almce 
 Parisiensis. Without date, (but not later than 1550). Folio. 
 [13 x 9 inches.] 234 leaves. 
 
 This fine vellum copy of the Salisbury Missal is imperfect, the title, the 
 first leaf of the Calendar, and the woodcut of the Crucifixion are wanting, 
 so there are at present 231 leaves. The page consists of two columns, each 
 of 43 lines. On folio 1 is a large woodcut and border. With the above 
 exceptions the volume is well preserved and is in a fine old binding of 
 leather-covered thick oak boards with massive bosses. Regnault the printer 
 died about the year 1550. Presented to the college by Thomas, Earl of 
 Southampton, son of the donor of the above described Sarum Breviary. 
 See ante, No. 121. 
 
 Hartshorne 388, This copy. Dickinson 19, This copy. 
 
 MAGDALENE COLLEGE, PEPYSIAN LIBRARY. 
 
 128. The Hystory sese and dystruccyon of Troye, 
 translated by john lydgate monke of the monastery of 
 Bury, and Emprynted'at the commaundment of oure Souraygne 
 Lord the kynge Henry the VIII. By Richarde Pynson, prynter 
 unto his most noble grace, 1513. Folio. [12 x 8§ inches.] 
 
MAGDALENE COLLEGE. 55 
 
 On the title is a large woodcut of the king's arms, and on the reverse is 
 a singular cut of the city of Troy, with soldiers before it firing great guns, 
 &c. ; there are many other cuts dispersed throughout the volume, amongst 
 them a fine large one of King Henry V. sitting in a large room, with officers 
 attending him, receiving this book from Lydgate the monk, who is kneeling. 
 The book is in verse, printed in double columns, and is a paraphrase of 
 Guido de Colonna entitled Historia Trojana, which is taken from Dares 
 Phrygius. This beautiful copy is in a sound, well-preserved state, and is in 
 a somewhat ancient binding of oak boards covered with brown calf with 
 gilt edges. Bequeathed by the well known diarist, and Secretary to the 
 Admiralty, Samuel Pepys, coming with the rest of his choice library 
 into the possession of the College in 1703. Only three other copies of this 
 book in any state are known, the only other on vellum is at Bamborough 
 Castle, and is in every way inferior to this. 
 
 Hartshorne, 244, This copy. 
 
 Repertorium Bibliographicum 120, This copy. 
 
 Dibdin, Typog. Antiq. II. 447. 
 
 129. Heures a lusaige dlt Mans, Paris, pour Simon 
 Vostre libraire demourant en la rue neufue a le seyne S. Jehan, 
 leuangl. 1515. Octavo. [6| x 4J inches.] 130 leaves. 
 
 On the first page below S. Yostre's device is the above title and in 
 addition the following : — " Avec les figures et signes de l'apocalypse, la vie de 
 Thobie et de judic, les accidens de Thornine, le triomphe de Cesar, les 
 miracles de nostre dame." There is no date, but the Almanac extends from 
 1515 — 1530. The volume is in capital condition. The large woodcuts 17 in 
 number, and the woodcut borders to each page are uncoloured ; it is, like 
 most of Pepys' books, bound in brown sprinkled Cambridge calf with a 
 portrait of the owner inserted : neither Van Praet nor Brunet mention this 
 edition of the Le Mans " Hours", which has 22 lines to the page. 
 
 130. Missale Saru:m. Londini per Richardum Pynson, 
 in Flete Strete apud divum Dunstanum commorantem, 1520. 
 9 kal. Januarii. Folio. [15} x 10^ inches.] 
 
 The arms of England and France are on the title, and other large wood- 
 cuts appear in this volume, which is printed in two columns in black and 
 red, in a fine square missal type ; it is the same edition as Xos. 40 and 
 150, but is without the special arms and inscriptions of the former copy 
 in the University library, which see for references. The copy under notice 
 is the finest of the three at Cambridge, even surpassing that in the Uni- 
 versity library, and is in the finest possible condition, and nothing can be 
 more splendid than the beauty of the vellum and the brilliancy of the letter 
 press ; it is wholly uncoloured, and is bound in old blue morocco with gilt 
 edges, and forms a magnificent example of typography. 
 
 Hartshorne 245, This copy. 
 
56 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 131. Calendar or Almanac, London, Wynhyn de Worde, 
 1523. Broadside. 
 
 The writer was unable to find this Calendar described by Mr Hartshorne. 
 The old MS. Catalogue contains several old Calendars, but neither he nor 
 the librarian of the College were able to identify this, it is however scarcely 
 likely that any books so carefully guarded as Pepys' books are should dis- 
 appear, and therefore he has admitted it provisionally. This however 
 forms the only instance in which he is unable to speak with certainty as to the 
 existence of any book admitted on this list. 
 
 Hartshorne 238, This copy. 
 
 131*. Calendar or Almanac, without place, name, or 
 printed date, (but probably London, and dated in MS. 1539). 
 Broadside. [30 x 4f inches.) 
 
 This Ephemeris or perpetual Calendar, folds up into a small size for the 
 pocket, and seems wholly printed from wood-blocks. The woodcuts which 
 are rudely coloured represent astronomical objects and signs, with their 
 various astrological influences. In addition to the date there is also iu 
 MS. that the Calendar is "secundum usum Sarum non Romanum," the rest 
 is thumbed out. As De Worde died about 1 534-5, if the date denote the 
 year of printing, it cannot be the same Calendar as that mentioned by 
 Mr Hartshorne, see above. 
 
 132. The Assyse of Bread, what it ought to waye after 
 the pryce of a quarter of wheat, and also the assyse of al maner 
 of wood, lathe, bourde, and tymbre and the waight of butyre 
 and chese, enprynted at the request of Mychaell Englysshe and 
 John Rudstone alderman of the Cyte of London. Enprynted 
 by Bychard Bankes cum privilegio. (London c. 1527). Quarto. 
 12 leaves. 
 
 The above title is over a woodcut in four compartments ; the printer's 
 name is given at the end: there are other cuts in the volume which is 
 printed in black letter on coarse parchment. The John Rudstone mentioned 
 above was Lord Mayor in 1528. The work is bound with sundry other 
 tracts. The writer is indebted for this notice to Mr W. Carew Hazlitt, who 
 in a communication to him of June 8, 1877, states he lately saw it in the 
 Pepysian, but did not take the press mark : he allows his name to be used 
 as an authority for its existence ; the writer has in vain searched every 
 likely item in the insufficient Catalogue. Mr Hartshorne's account is very 
 inexact. 
 
 Hartshorne 238, This copy. 
 
TRINITY COLLEQE. 57 
 
 TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 133. Missale Sarum, London, Rich. Pynson, mandato et 
 impensis Keverendissimi Joh. Morton Presbyteri Cardinalis 
 Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi 1500, Jan. 10. Folio. [12J x 8f 
 inches.] 252 leaves. 
 
 This is the second edition of the Salisbury Missal printed in England. 
 (The earliest being the very rare edition printed by J. Notarie and Joh. 
 Barbier in 1498, a copy of which is preserved in the University Library.) 
 The Canon (5 leaves) of the copy under notice is supplied by MS. The leaf 
 containing the Royal arms and those of Cardinal Morton, at whose expense 
 this Missal was issued, has been removed, and the imprint with Pynson's 
 device has been very carefully erased. Red lines are ruled under each line 
 of type, and thus with so much of its identity destroyed, and the capitals 
 and woodcut borders, of which there are several, illuminated most brilliantly, 
 the volume bears a close resemblance to a MS. on vellum, and was probably 
 intended to pass as such. On the first page is emblazoned— Quarterly, 1 and 
 4, Az. a griffin passant, or holding a branch vert ; 2 and 3 Arg. 3 cross bows 
 stringed and barbed gules. It is finely printed in red and black 39 lines 
 to the page, is in splendid condition and is bound in a fine old stamped 
 vellum binding on oak boards with metal bosses and clasps complete. 
 Presented by Sir Edward Stanhope, Fellow of the College in 1566, founder 
 of the librarianship of Trinity College, and a considerable benefactor both 
 in money and books to the college library. Similar copies of this Missal 
 are at Emmanuel College, see post No. 146, St John's Coll. Oxford, and in 
 Lord Spencer's library. Brunet states that this edition of the Sarum Missal 
 was so rigidly suppressed that but one copy, Lord Spencer's, is known ; here 
 then are three others. 
 
 Sinker (R.), XV. Century Books in Trin. Coll. Camb. p. 3. No. 9. This copy. 
 
 Dibdin (T. P.), iEdes Althorp. n. 193. 
 
 Van Praet, 2nd Catalogue i. p. 148. Hain, 11424. 
 
 Ebert (F.) Bibliog. Diet. 1120. Brunet i. 1244. 
 
 134. Les (Euvres de Senecque, translateez de Latin en 
 Francoys par maistre Laurens de Premier fait Paris pour 
 Anthoine Verard, (without date, but about 1500 — 1503.) Folio. 
 [12| x 9 inches.] 120 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Gothic letter, 40 lines to a page. On the second leaf is a 
 finely painted miniature about 6 inches square, representing the translator 
 on his knees in the act of offering his work to King Charles VI. and his 
 uncles the Dukes of Berry and of Orleans. The perfect state of preservation 
 in which this beautiful volume is, the purity of the vellum, the brilliancy of 
 the printing, and the grace of the paiuted capitals, all warrant the belief 
 
58 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 that this copy may have been specially prepared for one of these Royal 
 personages. Another copy on vellum is in the National Library, Paris. 
 
 Sinker (R.) XV. Cent. Books in Trim Coll. p. 41, No. 153. This copy. 
 
 Hartshorne 282, This copy. Brunet v. 277. 
 
 Van Praet 1st Cat., in. 18. Hain, 14595. 
 
 135. Hor,e secundum usum (Romanum), tuithout place, 
 date, or printer s name. (Paris, 1497.) Octavo. [6§ x 4J 
 inches.] 126 leaves. 
 
 This Book of Hours is defective at the end, wanting the last leaf, also 
 the 108th and 119th. It is printed in Gothic letter, with 22 lines to the 
 page. On leaf 18& below the cut of the tree of Jesse is the title of the 
 Book. "Hore intemerate virginis Marie secundum usum" (a blank left in 
 the book). The use is Roman. On the first page is a representation of the 
 San Graal or miraculous Chalice ; there are woodcut borders to every page, 
 and including the anatomical man eighteen large woodcuts, all uncoloured. 
 
 The Almanac is from 1497 — 1520. Presented July 1873, by the writer. 
 
 Sinker (R.) XV. Cent. Books in Trin. Coll. p. 50, No. 178, This copy. 
 
 136. Liber Confobmitatum, opus aure.e et inexplica- 
 BILIS bonitatis et continentiae : Conform itatum scilicet vitae 
 B. Francisci ad vitam domini nostri Jesu Christi. Mediolani, in 
 JEdibus Zanoti Castilionei, 1513. Folio. [12x8 inches.] 244 
 leaves, 2 of vellum. 
 
 The second edition, an exact reprint of the original edition of 1510. 
 The two vellum leaves in this copy are, a duplicate title page, which has a 
 different woodcut border to the paper one, and leaf 16, containing the 
 dedication : " Reverendissimo dno dno Marco Vegerio, Episc. Prenestinen, 
 &c." On both titles is a large woodcut of our Lord Christ bearing his cross, 
 followed by St Francis bearing a cross also, and there are several woodcut 
 borders and initials. Gothic letter, 2 columns. This work, written by 
 Fr. Barthol. Albizzi, the Tuscan Cordelier, is equally celebrated for its 
 blasphemy and absurdities, and has been ably exposed in the famous 
 Alcoran des Cordeliers. Panzer gives the curious colophon in full This 
 copy in perfect preservation is from the Libri collection, formed part of the 
 magnificent bequest of nearly 10,000 volumes, by Mr Grylls, (formerly 
 scholar of the college), in 1863. 
 
 Panzer vn. p. 393, No. 129. Brunet in. 1053. 
 
 137. Missale Sarum. (Bothomagi) opera magistri Petri 
 Olivier expensis Jacobi Cousin elimatissime impressum, 1519, 
 24 Decembr. Folio. [lOf x 1\ inches.] 2 leaves of vellum. 
 
 The Initial of the word "Missale" on the title of this Salisbury Missal 
 is of considerable size, and printed in red ; it is similar to that used by the 
 
TEINITY COLLEGE. 59 
 
 same printer in the York Missal of 1516, see No. 36, and like it has the 
 printer's name P. Holivier on a ribbon. Mr Dickinson, and Mr Bohn in 
 his edition of Lowndes, who copies Mr Dickinson's list of Service Books, 
 quotes this edition as printed at Paris by Olivier, probably the imprint 
 being misunderstood, there being no place of printing mentioned, and a 
 portion of it running "juxta exemplar pridem parisiis impressum," then 
 follows " opera Magistri Petri etc." as above, the word parisiis may have 
 caused the mistake. The College is indebted to a former College butler 
 for this volume, for inside the cover is written in an old hand " Ex dono 
 Johannis Valerin Hujus Collegii Promi." A similar but less perfect copy is 
 at St John's College, see No. 123. 
 
 138. Hor^e AD usum Sarum, Parisius per Hermanum 
 Hardouyn commorantem inter duas portas Palatii Regis ad 
 inter signum divce Margarete, 1528. Octavo. [6-| x 4 inches.] 
 120 leaves. 
 
 This edition of the Sarum Hours is without date. The Almanac or 
 Easter table runs from 1528 — 1541. This volume is printed in Gothic 
 letter, 32 lines to the page, is in very fine condition and quite perfect. On 
 the first leaf is the printer's device. The large woodcuts, twelve in number 
 besides Hardouyn's device, are illuminated and have painted borders of 
 architectural character, but there are no woodcut borders in the volume. 
 At the beginning opposite page 1, a much larger illuminated woodcut from 
 a different edition, representing the Annunciation, has been inserted. The 
 binding has been a very sumptuous one : the sides which probably were 
 originally covered with fish skin are enclosed by broad chased rims of 
 silver gilt, with cusps or projections from the inner edges. In the centre 
 of each side is a silver gilt boss set with a jasper or hyacinth stone, and 
 the silver gilt clasps, one of which remains, are similarly ornamented with 
 gems. At the beginning is the MS. note " Donum Domince Anne Sadler" 
 This Dame Anna Sadleir was also the donor of several invaluable MSS. to 
 the library. The letter of thanks from the college (in which, by the way, 
 this very beautiful volume is styled a MS.) is dated Aug. 10, 1660. A 
 similar copy, but very inferior in size, measuring only 6x3^ inches, and in 
 poor condition, is in the Maskell Collection, British Museum. 
 
 139. Sturmii (Johannis) De Periodis Liber Unus, 
 Argentorati, Vuendelinus Ribelius, 1550. Octavo. [6§ x 4 \ 
 inches.] 38 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter, on the title is a woodcut of a female figure 
 holding a square, a saw, and other implements. On the second leaf is the 
 following dedication to the Princess Elizabeth by the author : " Ad Illus- 
 trissimum D.D. Elizabetam Henrici Octavi Anglise Regis Filiam Joannes 
 Sturmius de Periodis;" and in the preface, the author, John Sturm, Rector 
 of the Protestant College at Strasburg and sometimes called the German 
 
60 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 Cicero, makes mention of the industry and intelligence of the Princess 
 under her tutor Roger Ascham, and expresses a hope that this work might 
 be so fortunate as to teach her something that her tutor had omitted to 
 do. The work seems to be a treatise on the Art of Composition or Logic. 
 It is bound in old blue satin with gilt edges, is in fine condition and has 
 every appearance of being intended for presentation. No similar copy 
 appears to have been described by bibliographers. 
 
 140. Mariana (Joannis) Hispani, e Soc. Jesu, De 
 Rege et Regis Institutione Ltbri III. ad Philippum III. 
 Hispaniae Regem Catholicum. Toleti, apud Petrum Eodericum 
 typo, Regium Cum Privilegio, Anno 1599. Quarto. [8x6 inches.] 
 232 leaves, 4 of vellum. 
 
 The title and three following leaves are of vellum in this copy. The book 
 is very handsomely printed in large Roman letter with woodcut initials 
 and handsome woodcut head- and tail- pieces. On the title is a large cut 
 of the arms of Spain. This is the very rare original edition of a work 
 the publication of which caused considerable excitement, and which was 
 suppressed in Spain at the request of the French Court after it had incurred 
 the censure of the Parliament of Paris. It has 27 long lines to a page. 
 From the Grylls Collection, bequeathed to the college in 1863, see ante, 
 No. 136. 
 
 Erunet in. 1422. 
 
 141. Valens (Petrus) de Natali dominico Lemmata pro 
 strenis. Without date, place or printers name. {Paris, Ant, 
 Estienne about 1620?). Quarto. [8 J x 6 inches.] 4 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Italic letter, the dedication on the first page is illuminated 
 in gold and colours and runs as follows, "ad Illustriss. atque omnique 
 pietate colendum D.D. FR. A. RVPIFVCAL1X), SRE Cardinalem 
 magnum Franciae Eleemosynarium Msecenatem meum ac Patronum 
 Optimum/' In this copy the second "que" after "omni" has been care- 
 fully covered by a painted panel, and it may perhaps be that presented by 
 the author, the Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Paris, to his 
 patron the literary Cardinal de la Rochefoucault who procured him his post 
 aud who was the founder of the college and library of Ste. Genevieve, and 
 whose name is latinized in the above dedication. From the Biographie 
 Universelle, supplement, it appears that most of the works of Valens were 
 printed by Ant. Estienne, though this one is not mentioned. The book 
 contains the following MS. notes: "E libris Antonii Martis huj. conventus 
 Maj. Fr. Paris 1669," and below this " Communis bibliotheca majoris ac 
 
 collegii (word illegible) Parisiensis." Presented in 1876 by the writer. 
 
 A similar copy without any decorations is in the National Library, Paris. 
 
 Van Praet 1st Cat. iv. 100, No. 127. 
 
trinity college. 61 
 
 142. Tasso (Torquato) Aminta, Favola boschereccia, 
 Parigi di torchi di P. Didot il magg. 1813. Octavo. [8 \ x 5 J 
 inches.] 65 leaves. 
 
 Has a preface by Abbot Serassi. An edition unnoticed by Van Praet, 
 Brunet, or Graesse. The present is one of the two copies finely printed on 
 vellum, it is bound in brown morocco extra, lined with red morocco, the 
 inside almost covered with delicate tooling, with silk linings and morocco 
 joints, by Spachmann of Paris. From the Marchetti collection, with illumi- 
 nated book-plate. Presented by the writer in 1877. 
 
 143. Holbein (Hans), Alphabet of Death, illustrated 
 with borders engraved on wood with Latin sentences and 
 English quatrains, selected by Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris. 
 Firmin Didot Freres for Edwin Tross, 28 Rue des Bon Enfants y 
 1856. Octavo. [8J x 5£ inches.] 18 leaves. 
 
 Printed in Roman letter, the figures, ornaments and subjects from the 
 Dance of Death are facsimiles of those in Simon Vostre's books of " Heures," 
 the finest of their kind. Presented by the writer in 1870. 
 
 Brunet in. 259. 
 
 144. The Lord's Prayer. London privately printed, 1877. 
 Quarto. 19 leaves, 4 of vellum. 
 
 Printed in pica and bourgeois type by Cowper's Parlour printing-press, 
 on satin, vellum, vegetable parchment, and on paper of different materials 
 and colours. Presented by the writer in 1877. No attempt has been made 
 to draw up a list of the very few articles at Cambridge printed on satin, 
 but it may be allowable to mention one or two here. An Almanac for the 
 year 1769 once belonging to the Prince bishop of Osnaburgh, and several 
 prints in the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a large and curious chart of 
 the beautiful Fishery of Whittlesea Mere, by John Bodger of Stilton, May 
 1786, in the Free Library. 
 
 EMMANUEL COLLEGE LIBRARY. 
 
 145. Ciceronis (Marci Tullii) Officia et Paradoxa, 
 Johannes Fust Moguntinus, civis manu Petri (Schoeffer), 1465. 
 Small folio. [10 x 6| inches.] 87 leaves. 
 
 The imprint is printed in red, and runs " Presens Marci tulii clarissi- 
 mum opus Johannes fust Moguntinus civis non atramento plumali canna 
 neque aerea sed arte quadam perpulchra Petri manu pueri mei feliciter 
 effeci finitum Anno Mcccclxv." 
 
 There are four most exquisitely illuminated borders of different designs. 
 Two of these represent cut flowers on a dead gold ground. The borders 
 
§2 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 are placed one at the commencement of each book and in all of them 
 the Prince of Wales feathers, the Portcullis, and the Arms of England 
 appear. These painted decorations are equal to those in the finest 
 contemporary illuminated MSS. The first Initial contains a miniature 
 painting of a youth and his tutor with a book open between them. This 
 has been engraved by Mr Hartshorne, who strangely omits to state that 
 the book is printed on vellum ; both Mr Hartshorne and an earlier authority 
 the Rev. James Dallaway in his anecdotes of the Arts quote this miniature 
 as an authentic likeness of Henry VIII. when young; a modern MS. note in 
 the College Catalogue states this copy to have belonged to Prince Arthur; 
 it is in a fine state of preservation, but unfortunately some half century 
 ago it was rebound in Russia leather, and probably then all evidence as to 
 its former owners was removed, for there is nothing to show in what way 
 this interesting example of the first printed Classic came to the College, 
 but most probably with Archbishop Sancroft's books, for it was in the 
 possession of the College when Bernard's Cat. of MSS. was made in or before 
 1697, and was shown to Baron von Uffenbach in 1710 on his visit to the 
 library. 22 other copies are mentioned by Van Praet, of which 12 are in 
 this country, at the British Museum, Lord Spencer's library, at Oxford and 
 elsewhere. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Brit. Hibern. 1697 n. 90, No. 47, This copy. 
 
 Uffenbach (Z. C.) Reisen durch Engelland &c. in. 51, This copy. 
 
 Dallaway (Jas.) Anecdotes, 429, This copy. Hartshorne, 376, This copy. 
 
 Van Praet 1st Cat. ir. p. 51, This copy. Panzer, ir. 115. 
 
 Cotton (II.) Typog. Gazeteer, 340. Uain, 5238. 
 
 146. Missale Sarum, London, Rich. Pynson mandate et 
 impensis Joh. Morton Cardinalis Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi 
 1500, Jan. 10. Folio. [10$ x 7J inches.] 
 
 This Salisbury Missal has been a good deal cut down by the binder. It 
 has the imprint with Pynson's device in red., it also has the leaf with the 
 Royal Arms and those of the Cardinal whereby the similar and far less 
 perfect though larger and better preserved copy at Trinity College was 
 identified; see ante, No. 133, where remarks and references concerning this 
 edition will be found. The copy under notice is uncoloured, and has 
 stamped on the sides of the old calf binding the Arms of Archbishop 
 Sancroft, who bequeathed it with the rest of his valuable library of printed 
 books to this his College. 
 
 147. PSALTERIUX EX MAXDATO HEXRICI SEPTIMI REGIS, 
 
 London, per Gullielmum Faquez, 7 Feb. 1504. Octavo. 
 [of x Sh inches.] 166 leaves. 
 
 This copy has at present 166 leaves, the title and several other leaves 
 are wanting, but the first leaf which contains Faques' device of intersecting 
 triangles, and the last ou which are the French verses given by A mes as 
 ending the volume, are still remaining. The whole is finely printed in red 
 
EMMANUEL COLLEGE. 63 
 
 and black with a chain border round each page. The first Initial B is a 
 fine woodcut one worked off in red and black. This appears to be the only 
 known copy printed on vellum and to have been hitherto unnoticed ; so 
 rare is it, in any form, that only two other copies both on paper are 
 known to exist, (1) Mr Grenville's copy at the British Museum, and (2) Mr 
 Donee's at the Bodleian, which like this has no title. 
 
 Ames (Herbert) p. 309. Cat. Grenville Library, Part II. 376. 
 
 Dibdin, Typ. Ant. in. 7. Lowndes (Bohn) 1990. 
 
 148. Missale Sarum, impressum in opulenti civitate London, 
 per Richardum Pynson hujus Artis ingeniosissimum mandato 
 et impensa regis Henrici septimi, 10 Kal. Jan. (Dec. 23), 1504. 
 Folio. [14 J x 9| inches.] 4 leaves of vellnm. 
 
 This missal has Pynson's device. Lord Spencer has a copy printed 
 wholly on vellum, its deficiencies have been restored in facsimile from this 
 copy which has only a few vellum leaves and is perfect. In the Maskell 
 Collection, British Museum, is an imperfect vellum copy. 
 
 Lowndes (Bohn) 1576 and Dickinson p. 16, This copy. 
 
 Ames p. 116. Dibdin, Typ. Antiq. n. 424. 
 
 Dibdin, iEd. Althorp. n. 196. Van Praet 2nd Cat. I. p. 148. 
 
 149. Missale Sarum. In Parisiorum Academia opera 
 Wolfgangi Hopylii impensis Francisci Byrkman, Feb. 1510 et 
 10 Kal. apr. 1510. Folio. [12 J x 8-J inches.] 2 leaves of vellum. 
 
 In this copy the last leaf is wanting. Other copies are in the University 
 Library, No. 30 ante, which see for notes and references, and in St. John's 
 College, No. 122 ante. 
 
 150. Missale Sarum. Londini per Richardum Pynson in 
 flete strete, 9 Kal. Jan. 1520. Folio. [15J x 10^ inches.] 210 
 leaves. 
 
 This copy of this fine edition of the Salisbury Missal is in good condition 
 but not so fine or large as the similar copies in the Pepysian Library 
 Magdalene College, No. 130, or in the University Library, No. 40, to which 
 refer for notes and references. 
 
 150*. Hor^e AD usum Sarum. Title : Enchiridion, pre- 
 clare ecclesie Sarum : denotissimis precationibus, ac venustis- 
 simis imaginibus et ijs quidem non paucis refertum. [Small 
 device of Thielman Kerver.] Parisijs Ex officina libraria 
 vidue spectabilis viri Thielmanni Keruer, 1528. Imprint: Im- 
 pressum est hoc orarium Parisiis in edibus vidue, spectabilis viri 
 Thielmanni keruer in vico diui iacobi ad signum vnicornis, 
 Expensis quidem probi viri Alardi plomier mercatoris fide- 
 
64 BOOKS PRINTED ON VELLUM. 
 
 lissimi. Anno salutis nostre, millesimo quingentessimo vigesimo 
 octauo. die .ij. septembris. 16mo. [4 J x 2| inches.] 232 leaves. 
 
 The Table for finding Easter runs from 1528 to 1546 inclusive. The 
 title (as above) occupies the first page ; and the imprint (as above) is below 
 a woodcut of the " Arma redemptoris mundi" on the last page of this spot- 
 lessly perfect little volume, which is a real 16mo. and not a small 8vo. The 
 old stamped gold edges still remain ; but the original covering has been re- 
 placed by a calf binding of the eighteenth century; by which process all 
 trace of ownership (and with this probably the Sancroft book-plate) has 
 been removed, except the library mark ] . 5 . 65 on the title-page and on the 
 back of the book. The lettering on the back is " Enchiridion Ecclesise Sarum," 
 so that it is somewhat strange that it should have escaped the notice of 
 those who have been for so many years on the look out for treasures of this 
 kind. Mr Bradshaw came upon it by accident, when looking along the 
 open shelves for an entirely different book, whilst this last sheet was passing 
 through the press, and the writer is indebted to his kindness for the pre- 
 ceding notice. 
 
 There appears to be a pa}jer copy in the Maskell Collection, British 
 Museum, and there seems to be one like this on vellum in the Donee 
 Collection, Oxford. 
 
 151. A Goodly Primer in Englysshe, newly corrected 
 and printed verie necessarie and profitable for all them that 
 ryghte assuredly understande not ye Latine and Greke tongues. 
 Imprinted at London in Flete strete by John Byddell dwellynge 
 at the signe of the Sonne next to the Cwidite for William 
 Marshall the year of our Lord God 1535, the 16 day of June. 
 Quarto. [7£ x 6 inches.] 140 leaves. 
 
 The title, first leaf of the Calendar and several other leaves are wanting 
 in this copy, but the last leaf with the imprint remains, there are at present 
 104 leaves. This, one of the first editions of the Primer wholly in English, 
 is printed in large black letter in red and black with woodcut initials. From 
 the class mark this volume apparently formed a portion of the original dona- 
 tion of Sir Walter Mildmay, who not only founded the College but well 
 furnished the library with books. At the writer's suggestion Mr Pearson the 
 librarian moved it from the comparative insecurity of the open shelves to the 
 locked-up case containing the MSS. and some of the rarer printed books. It 
 is reprinted in Dr Burton's volume entitled "Three Primers put forth in the 
 reign of Henry VIII." Lord Spencer and Lord Ashburnham have similar 
 copies. The library at Emmanuel possesses also copies on paper of the 
 Primers of (1534?) 1545, 1546, 1549, and a dateless edition, printed by 
 Byddell. 
 
 Hartshorne 377, This copy. Dibdin, Typ Ant. in. 389 — 332. 
 
 Dibdin, Bibliog. Decam. n. 360. Van Praet 2nd Cat. I. 150. 
 
 Lowndes, ed. by Bohn, 1970. 
 
APPENDIX, 
 
 BEING A LIST OF WOBKS IN MANUSCEIPT AND PEINT EEFEEEING 
 TO OE ILLUSTEATIVE OF THE BIBLIOGEAPHY AND PAL^O- 
 GEAPHY OF CAMBEIDGE LIBEAEIES. 
 
 This list is an attempt to show what has been done to 
 extend the knowledge of the contents of the Libraries of the 
 University. 
 
 It is to be hoped that before long, Catalogues of the very 
 valuable collection of fifteenth-century printed books in the 
 University Library, so greatly added to by the zealous care and 
 skill of the present librarian; and of the extensive, but as yet 
 too little known, treasures of. early English-printed books in the 
 same collection, may be published. Also that a Catalogue of the 
 large and important section of European manuscripts in Trinity 
 College Library may be printed to follow those of the Oriental 
 portions, which have already appeared. This is required to 
 complete the series of Catalogues of the manuscripts in the 
 principal collections : those of the University, the Fitzwilliam, 
 Corpus Christi, Caius, Queens', and St John's having been 
 published in a separate form, whilst Lists of the rarer portions 
 of the printed books in the University Library would in some 
 measure make up for the want of a general printed Catalogue, 
 which the limited resources of the University exchequer would 
 seem to preclude it from ever attempting to undertake. 
 
 %* The printed books in this list are arranged chrono- 
 logically, but works by the same writer are placed together, 
 and so follow the date of his first production. 
 
 S. 5 
 
t)6 APPENDIX. 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS, British Museum. 
 In MSS. Baker, forming MSS. Harleian 7028—7050. 
 
 Public Library, Benefactors to MS. Baker n. 103, xx. 350. 
 
 Clare Hall, Cat. of library „ n. 163. 
 
 Corpus Christi, Cat. library, 1660 „ vi. 25—27. 
 
 Pepys (S.), The disposition of his library „ rv. 208. 
 
 St John's Coll., gifts and bequests to libr. „ xn. 204, 221, 222, 256, 
 
 XIX 276. 
 
 Trinity Coll., notices of books in ,, xx. 276. 
 
 Trinity Hall Library, Cat. of „ n. 404—8. 
 
 Volumes xxrv. — XLn. of Baker's MSS. are at Cambridge. 
 
 MSS. Harleian. 
 
 Libri MSS. Trin. Coll., Cant, (differs from 
 
 Oxford Cat.) MS. Harleian, 694, 184. 
 
 MSS. Thos. Gale » 224. 
 
 Cat. MSS. Coll. Johan. ad. 1675 (wanting in 
 
 Oxford Cat.) „ 272. 
 
 Addend. Bibl. Caiens. 1673 » 302, 338. 
 
 Coll. Immanuelis Codices (differs from Oxford 
 Cat.) „ 384. 
 
 Coll. Sydneiensis MSS. (differs from Oxford 
 
 Cat.) „ 390. 
 
 Appendix ad Catalogum bibl. Pub. (wanting in 
 
 Oxford Cat.) „ 398. 
 
 Appendix ad Catalogum Coll. Benedicti 
 (omitted in Oxford Cat.) „ 402. 
 
 Cat. MSS. in ColL Jesu (fuller than in Oxford 
 
 Cat.) „ 408. 
 
 Coll. Reginalis Codices MSS. (wanting in Ox- 
 ford Cat.) „ 409. 
 
 Libri historici in Bibl. publ. Cant MS. Lansdowne 940, f. 26. 
 
 Concerning books presented by K. Geo. I. ... „ 988, f. 276. 
 
 Inventariuin Libr. Matth. Parker in Coll. 
 
 Corp.Chr. 1574 MS.Bibl.Reg.App., 66,15, 1. 
 
 (A Catalogue of the printed books given by the Archbishop.) 
 
 Copy of Visitation of County of Cambridge in 
 libr.ofCaius MS. Add. 5812, MS. Cole xv. 
 
 Books received into the Public Library, Cam- 
 bridge ,i 5820, MS. Cole 
 
 xxiil, f. 68—86. 
 
 Memoranda of books in C. C. Coll., by Dr 
 
 Tanner „ 6261, ff. 130—150. 
 
 Donation of books by Abp. Parker to 
 
 C. C. C „ 6403, f. I. 
 
APPENDIX. 67 
 
 Memoranda of printed books and MSS. in the 
 library of Dr John Moore, by Dr Tanner... MS. Add. 6261, ff. 54, 55 ; 
 
 6262, ff. 31, 47. 
 Memoranda of MSS at Pembroke, by Dr 
 
 Tanner „ 6261, f. 161. 
 
 Notes of MSS. at Emmanuel, by Dr Tanner ... ,, 6262, ff. 192—3, 
 
 f. 213. 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS, Bodleian, Oxford. 
 
 Notice of Welsh MSS. at Cambridge MS. Tanner, xxn. 38. 
 
 Listof MSS. in Public Library „ lxxxviii. 105. 
 
 Appendices to James' Cat. Pub. Libr „ cclxviii. 170, 
 
 272, 209. 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS, Camb. University Library. 
 
 Books in Dr Holdsworth's library Dd. viii. 45. 
 
 Catalogue of University Library, including the 
 
 Lambeth Collection Mm. iv. 2. 
 
 Catalogue of MSS. University Library Oo. vn. 53, 55. 
 
 Benefactors to Public Library MS. Baker xxxviii. 197. 
 
 Catalogue of Books in Corpus Christi Coll Gg. iv. 8. 
 
 MSS. in the Library of Christ's, 1785 Mm. v. 41, f. 60. 
 
 MSS. given by Whitgift to Trin. Coll Baumgartner Papers vn. 30. 
 
 Letters in the Library, Emmanuel Coll Baker xxx. 413. 
 
 PRINTED BOOKS. 
 
 Parker (M). De Antiquitate Brit. Ecclesise. London, 1572. fol. At 
 the end are lists of the MSS. given to the Public Library by the author, 
 Archbishop Parker. 
 
 Caius (John). Historia Cantebr. Academige. London, 1574. 4to. At page 
 85 is a list of the books then remaining in the Public Library, Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 Hentzner (Paul). A journey into England in 1598. Printed from the 
 Latin. Strawberry Hill, 1757. 8vo. Mentions the large MS. psalter of 
 Osorius, Bp. of Cadiz, taken by the Earl of Essex on the capture of the 
 city, as being in the library of King's College ; where it may be still seen. 
 
 James (Thos.). Ecloga Oxonio-Cantabrigiensis, tributa in duos libros. 
 London, 1600. 4to. This .is a catalogue of all the MSS. in the Oxford 
 College libraries and in the University and College libraries at Cam- 
 bridge. 
 
 Soriverius (Pet.). Manes Erpeniani. Lug. Bat. 1625. 4to. At the end 
 is a catalogue of the Oriental MSS. of T. Erpenius. These were pre- 
 sented by the Duchess of Buckingham to the University in 1632. 
 
 5—2 
 
68 APPENDIX. 
 
 Bernard (E.) Catalogus librorum MSS. Angliseet Hibernise. Oxon. 1697. 
 fol. This is known as the "Oxford" Catalogue. As concerns MSS. at 
 Cambridge, this is, so far as many Colleges are concerned, a mere re- 
 print of James' Catalogue, but it includes some additions, and gives the 
 collections of Bp Moore, Dr Gale, and S. Pepys, which afterwards came 
 to the University, Trinity and Magdalene Libraries. Vol. II. contains 
 lists of MSS. at the University or "Public" Library, Peterhouse, 
 Pembroke, Corpus Christi, Trinity Hall, Caius, Kings', Queens', Jesus, 
 Trinity College, Sidney, and Emmanuel. 
 
 Waxleii (Humphredi) Librorum Vett. Septentrionalium Catalogus qui 
 in Anglise bibliothecis extant. Oxon. 1705. fol. On page 106 begins 
 Catalogus MSS. Anglo-Saxonicorum qui adservantur in bibliothecis 
 Aead. Cantabrigiensis. Coll. Corp. Chr., pp. 106 — 151. Biblioth. publicse, 
 152—165. Trinity Coll. 166—173. Trinity Hall, 172— 173. These Cata- 
 logues are very full, and types to represent the Anglo-Saxon character 
 are used. The volume forms Vol. II. of Dr Hickcs' Ling. Septentr. 
 Thesaurus of the same date and place. 
 
 A Catalogue of the library of Wisbech, in the Island of Ely. 1718, 8vo. 
 
 Catalogus Librorum MSS. in Bibliotheca Coll. Corporis Christi in Cantabrigia 
 quos legavit Mattheus Parkerus. 1722 fol. Drawn up by Dr Stanley. 
 
 Middletox (Dr Coxyers). Bibliotheca? Cantabrigiensis ordinandi 
 methodus qusedam. Cantab. 1723. 4to. 
 
 — — Origin of printing in England, Camb. 1735. 
 
 4to. At the end is a list of books printed by Caxton, in the Public 
 Library, Cambridge. 
 
 Catalogus Libr. Orientalium MSS. quibus Academioe bibliothecam locu- 
 pletavit Rev. Vir Georgius Lewis, 1727. bvo. 
 
 Nicolsox (W.) Historical Libraries. London, 1736. fol. The preface gives 
 short notices of the Cambridge libraries and of the library of Bp 
 Moore. 
 
 Catalogue of Duplicates in the Royal Library, Cambridge, sold by auction 
 at Cambridge, March 29th and Dec. 1st, 1742. 8vo. 
 
 Osiaxdri (J. A.) Orationum Academicarum biga, quorum prior agit de 
 manuscripto Codice Cantabrigiensi Gr?eco-Latino Theodori Beza?, 
 Tubingen, 1742. 4to. 
 
 Loxo (R.) Astrological MSS. at Pembroke Coll., Philos. Trans, xlviii. 
 No. 43. 1751. 
 
 Kexxicott (Bex j.) The state of the printed Hebrew text of the Old 
 Testament considered. Oxford, 1753-9. 8vo. In the second part is 
 an account of the various Hebrew MSS. at Cambridge. 
 
 Uffexbach (Z. C.) Reisen durch Engelland, &c. Ulm, 1754. 3 vols. In 
 the 3rd vol., pp. 1—84, are notes made of MSS. seen by him on his 
 visit to Cambridge in the year 1710. 
 
 Lelaxdi Collectanea, De rebus Britannicis. London, 1770. 8vo. Tom. in. 
 (often bound as Vol. rv.), pp. 15 — 21, gives a list of some MSS. in the 
 following Cambridge libraries at Leland's visit, about 153S: — Barn- 
 
APPENDIX. 69 
 
 well Priory, the greater and less Public Library, Augustines, Domini- 
 cans, Franciscans, Jesus Coll., Benet Coll., Trinity Coll., Kings' Hall, 
 Valence Mary (Pembroke), Queen's Coll., Clare Coll., Gunvyle Coll., and 
 Peterhouse. 
 
 Tyson (M.) An account of an Illuminated MS. in the library of C. C. 
 Coll. Camb. 1770. 4to. With a plate of a miniature with portraits 
 of Henry V., &c, in the MS. of Bonaventura's Life of Christ, at Corpus 
 Christi Coll. See also Archseologia, n. p. 194. 
 
 Catalogus librorum in Bibliotheca Aulae divse Catharinse Cantabrigiae. 
 Cant. 1771. 4to. Priv. pr. 
 
 Nasmith (J.) Catalogus Librorum Manuscriptorum quos Collegio Corporis 
 Christi et B. Marine Virginis legavit M. Parker Archiep. Cant. Cam- 
 bridge, 1777. 4to. 
 
 Catalogue of Mr Capell's Shaksperiana, presented by himself to Trinity 
 College, Cambridge. Printed from an exact copy of his own MS. 1779. 
 8vo. Reprinted by Mr. Hartshorne. pp. 290 — 319. 
 
 Astle (Thos.) Origin and Progress of Writing. 1784. 4to. In the 
 various plates facsimiles of the text of MSS. in the Public Library, and 
 in those of Corp. Chr., Trinity, and Emmanuel Colleges are given. 
 
 Codex Bezse. Ed. Thomas Kipling, DD., Cambridge. 1793. 2 vols. fol. 
 
 Ritson (J.) In his numerous publications of ballads and ancient songs, 
 1783 — 1830, and Jamieson (Rob.) in similar publications, 1806, have 
 made use of the rich stores of early English literature in the MSS. of 
 University Library. 
 
 The first Report of the Parliamentary Committee on public Records, 
 London, 4th July, 1800, fol., gives, pp. 360—374, lists of historical MSS. 
 in the Cambridge libraries. See also the appendix to this Report, 
 London, 1820, pp. 336 — 352, for additions. 
 
 Montagu (BasiL). Enquiries respecting the University Library of Cam- 
 bridge. Camb. 1805. 8vo. Gives a list of the few books received in 
 1803 from the Stationers' Company. 
 
 Christian (E.) Vindication of the right of the Universities to a copy of 
 every new publication. Camb. 1807. 8vo. 
 
 Clarke (E. D.) Greek marbles preserved in the Library of the University. 
 Camb. 1809. 8vo. 
 
 Catalogus Librorum qui in Bibliotheca Cathedralis Eliensis adservantur 
 1815. R. 8vo. pp. 130. See also Botfield's Cathedral Libraries, p. 
 131, under Ely. 
 
 The Classical Journal, London, 1818 — 21, vols. xvn. 183 — 8, xvm. 92 — 95, 
 and 251 — 3, describes the classical, biblical, and biblico-oriental MSS. 
 in the Public Library. 
 
 Repertorium bibliographicum (W. Clarke), London, 1819, Svo, 107 — 121, 
 gives concise lists of rare books in the Pepysian, University, Benet, St 
 John's, and Trinity libraries. 
 
 Dibdin (T. F.) Bibliographical Decameron in., 275, 1817, describes the 
 Pepysian Library ; and in his Library Companion, 1824, Bibliomania, 
 
70 APPENDIX. 
 
 1811, and Introduction to the Classics, 1827, are many references to 
 books at Cambridge. 
 
 The Roxburghe Club printed: Six Bookes of Metamorphoseos of Ovyde, trans- 
 lated by Wm. Caxton, from a MS. in the Pepysian Library, Cambridge. 
 1819. 4to. Seynt Graal, from a MS. in C. C. Coll. 1863-4. 4to. 
 
 Dyer (G.) Privileges of the University of Cambridge, 1824, 2 vols., 8vo., 
 has short lists of some of the Oriental, English, Latin, and Greek MSS. 
 in the University Library, also of the MSS. at Corpus Christi and 
 Emmanuel. 
 
 Horne (T. H.) A Catalogue of the library of Queens' College, Cambridge, 
 methodically arranged. Camb. 1827. 8vo. 2 vols. This includes 
 the small collection of MSS. 
 
 Wright (Thos.) Alma Mater, 1827, 8vo., has a woodcut of a MS. Indul- 
 gence in Trin. Coll. Library. 
 
 Retrospective Review, 2nd series, n. 490 — 500, 182, art. by Mr Hartshorne, 
 on the Cambridge libraries. 1828. 8vo. 
 
 Hartshorne (C. H.) Book Rarities in the University of Cambridge, 
 London, 1829, 8vo., gives lists of rare printed books in the Public 
 Libr., pp. 1—173; King's, 176—216; Pepysian, 217—269; Trinity, 
 271—319; St John's, 323—461. Shorter lists: Corpus Chr., 245n, 
 385; Queens', 266, 149 : Emmanuel, 375; Pembroke, 192, 333n. Also 
 woodcuts of initials, &c, from the Public Library, p. 173, 219, 269, 273, 
 319, 323; Trinity, p. 1, 216, 219, 273, 323; King's, 177, 178; St John's, 
 p. 1, 177; Emmanuel, p. 375. 
 
 — — Ancient Metrical Tales (from MSS. at Cambridge), 
 
 London. 1829. 8vo. 
 
 Haenel (Gustav) Catalogi Libr. MSS. qui in Bibliothecis Galliae, 
 Helvetise, Belgii, Britannise, etc. Lipsise, 1830. 4to. Supplement 
 with additions to the Oxford Cat., comprising short lists of the MSS. at 
 Christ's Coll., Clare Hall, Magdalene Coll., Old Library, and Trinity 
 Hall. 
 
 Shaw (H.) and Madden (F.) Illuminated ornaments. London, 1833. 4to. 
 Two borders from MSS. in the Fitzwilliarn Museum are given. 
 
 Mr Hunter's Report on MSS. illustrative of English History or Law in the 
 Cambridge libraries is printed in the appendix to the General Report 
 of the Committee on Public Records. London, 1 837. fol. pp. 336—352. 
 
 Some account of the Cambridge libraries is in the Report on Public 
 Libraries. London, 1849. pp. 144 — 153. 
 
 Lamb (John). Letters, statutes, and other documents from the MS. Library 
 ofC. C. Coll. 1500—1572. London, 1838. Svo. 
 
 The Maitland Club printed Lancelot du Lak from a MS. in Camb. Uni- 
 versity Library. 1839. 4to. 
 
 The Camden Society has printed : — Warkworth's Chronicle, from a MS. in 
 Peterhouse Library. 1839. 4to. Diary of Dr John Dee, from a MS. 
 in Trin. Coll. 1842. 4to. And Thornton R-omances from MSS. at 
 Cambridge. 1844. 4to. 
 
APPENDIX. 71 
 
 The Cambridge Portfolio, Camb. 1840, 4to, has some representations of 
 initial letters and descriptions of MSS. in the libraries there. 
 
 Cokeie (G. E., D.D.) Catalogue of the Original Library of St Catharine's 
 Hall. 1475. Publications of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 1840. 
 4to. 
 
 — — An ancient Calendar preserved in the library of Jesus 
 College. Camb. Antiquar. Society Communications, Vol. I., 147, 1851. 
 
 — — List of books presented to Pembroke College, Cam- 
 bridge, by different donors during the 14th and 15th centuries. Camb. 
 Antiq. Soc. Comm., Vol. i. 11. 1860. 
 
 — — Catalogue of the books given to Trinity Hall, Cam- 
 bridge, by the Founder. Camb. Ant. Soc. Communications, n. 73. 
 1864. 
 
 Vogel (E. G.) Literatur friiherer und noch bestehender den europaischer 
 offentlicher und corporationsbibliotheken. Leipzig, 1840. 8vo. On p. 
 389 &c. is a list of works referring to Cambridge. 
 
 Halliwell (J. 0.) Account of MSS. once belonging to Durham Cathedral, 
 now in Jesus Coll. Library, in Gent's Mag., Feb., 1840, p. 151. 
 
 — — Manuscript Rarities of the University of Cambridge. 
 London and Camb. 1841. 8vo. 
 
 — Historia Coll. Jesu Cantabr. Shermanni from MS. in 
 Jesus Coll. Ed. for Camb. Ant. Soc. 1840. 
 
 — — Catalogue of the books bequeathed to Corpus Christi 
 Coll. in 1439 by Tho. Markaunt. Camb. Antiq. Soc. 1848. 8vo. 
 
 Cowie (M.) Catalogue of MSS. and scarce books in St John's College, 
 Camb. 1842—3. 4to. Camb. Ant. Soc. Pubs. 
 
 Westwood (J. O.) Palseographica Sacra Pictoria, London, 1845, 4to, has 
 facsimiles and descriptions of the following Cambridge MSS. : — The 
 Syriac Pentateuch (plate No. 6), Codex Bezse (No. 10), Latin and 
 Anglo-Saxon Psalter (No. 41), Anglo-Saxon Gospels of Leofric (No. 45) 
 in the University Library; the Latin Gospels of St Augustine (No. 11), 
 St Augustine on the Trinity (No. 10), Anglo-Saxon Gospels of iElfric 
 (No. 45) at Corpus Christi; the Psalter of Edwine (No. 43) at Trinity; 
 the Latin Psalter (No. 18) at St John's Colleges. 
 
 — — Illuminated Illustrations of the Bible. London. 1846. 
 8vo. The last plate is a facsimile from a xn. Cent. Apocalypse at 
 Trinity Coll. 
 
 — — Miniatures and ornaments of Anglo-Saxon MSS., 
 1868, fol., are facsimiles of the Book of Prayers of Bp iEthelwold, 
 plate 24, and p. 43, and of the Book of Deer (plate 51), and descriptions 
 only of Gospels of St Luke and John, p. 47, and Anglo-Saxon Psalter 
 of Sir N. Bacon, p. 120, in the University Library ; facsimiles of the 
 Psalter of St John's (plate 30), do. of Latin Gospels (plate 42), and 
 description of Psalter of Edwine, p. 146, in Trin. Coll. Descrip. of 
 Gospels of Bp Ethelstan, p. 143, in Pembroke Coll. Descriptions of 
 Latin Gospels of SS. John and Luke, p. 49, Red Book of the Peak, p. 
 
72 APPENDIX. 
 
 94, Psychomachia of Prudentius p. 108, and the Psalter of Thomas a 
 
 Becket, p. 115, in Corpus Christi Coll. 
 Goodwin (J.) Evangelia Augustini Gregoriana. A description of MSS. 286 
 
 and 197 in Parker Library, C. C. Coll., with eleven plates. Cambridge 
 
 Ant. Soc. 1847. 4to. 
 C ran well (Edw.) Index to English Books printed before 1600 in Trin. 
 
 Coll., Cambridge. 1847. 8vo. 
 Index to the Baker MSS,, by four members of the Cambridge Antiq. Soc 
 
 Camb. 1841. 8vo. 19 of the 42 vols, are at Cambridge, the rest at 
 
 British Museum. See ante under Manuscripts. 
 Smith (J. J.) Catalogue of the MSS. in Gonville and Caius Coll., Camb. 
 
 1849. 8vo. 
 
 — — Pictorial Illustrations of the Cat. of MSS., Camb. 1853. 
 4to. With accompanying text in 8vo. 
 Collett (W. R.) Early printed books in Gonville and Caius Coll., Camb. 
 
 1850. 8vo. 
 
 The Caxton Society has printed Walteri Abbatis Dervensis Epistolse, from 
 a MS. in St John's College, Cambridge. 1850. Svo. 
 
 Dickinson (F. H.) List of printed service books of Anglican uses. Lond. 
 1850. 8vo. Many volumes at Cambridge are particularized. 
 
 The Percy Society has printed :— Six ballads from MSS. in Corp. Chr. Coll., 
 1844, 8vo., and an Anglo-Saxon Passion of St George, in the Camb. 
 Univ. Library. 1850. 8vo. 
 
 Cotton (H.) Editions of the Bible in English, 1505—1820, Oxford, 1852, 
 8vo., specifies many editions in the Cambridge libraries. 
 
 Preston (T.) Catalogus bibliothecse Burckhardtianae cum appenrlice 
 librorum aliorum orientalium in bibliotheca Academise Cantabrigiensis 
 asservatorum. Camb. 1853. 4to. 
 
 Waagen (Dr). Treasures of Art in Great Britain, in. 444 — 454, describes 
 some MSS. &c. at Cambridge. 
 
 Novello (Vincent). The Fitzwilliam music, being a collection of pieces 
 selected from MSS. of Italian composers in the Fitzwilliam Museum, 
 now for the first time published by permission of the University of 
 Cambridge. London, 1S54. fol. For some remarks by Mr Gold- 
 schniidt on the autograph musical MSS. of Handel, Boyce, Blow, 
 Purcell, and Croft, and on the rest of the musical collection in the 
 Museum, see Cambridge Reporter (1877), p. 497. 
 
 Paleario (Aonio). Trattato del Beneficio di Giesu Christo. Verona, 1543. 
 A reprint from one of the only two copies known, in St John's Coll., 
 with an English translation from an unpublished MS. in the University 
 Library, and a French translation. Edited by Churchill Babington. 
 London and Camb. 1855. Small 4to. 
 
 Catalogue of the MSS. preserved in the Library of the University of Cam- 
 bridge. (This does not include the Oriental portion.) Cambridge, 
 1856 — 67. Svo. 6 vols, including index by Mr H. R. Luard. 
 
 Chronicles of Great Britain, published under the direction of the Master of 
 
APPENDIX. 73 
 
 the Rolls. 1858. 8vo. In progress. The following is a list of some 
 of the Cambridge MSS. that have been published in this series. A 
 facsimile of a page from each is given : — La Estoire de Seint Aedward 
 le Rei, The Buik of the Chroniclis of Scotland, Capgrave's Chronicle, 
 Richard of Cirencester, Pecock's Repressor of overmuch blaming the 
 Clergy, in the University Library; Historia Monasterii St Augustini 
 Cantuariensis, in Trin. Hall Library; Memoriale Fratris Walteri de 
 Coventria, in Corpus Christi Coll. The descriptive Cat. of MSS. relating 
 to the history of Great Britain and Ireland, by Thomas Duffus Hardy, 
 in the same series, 3 vols., 1862 — 1871, contains notices of many MSS. 
 in the Cambridge libraries. In Vol. in. are several facsimiles of MSS. 
 of Matthew Paris in Corpus Christi Coll. Ed. by Mr H. R. Luard and 
 others. 
 
 Sotheby (S. L.) Principia Typographica. London, 1858. 4to. On pp. 
 65, 66, is a description of the Biblia Pauperum, a Block-book in the 
 library of Corpus Christi. 
 
 Hardwick (C.) Some account of a scarce "Lyfe of St Radegunde" (pr. by 
 R. Pynson) in library of Jesus Coll. Communications to Camb. Antiq. 
 Soc, I. p. 29. 1859. 8vo. 
 
 Scrivener (F. H.) Codex Augiensis, a Grseco-Latin MS. in Trin. Coll., 
 Camb., with facsimile. Camb. 1859. Svo. 
 
 — — Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament. 
 Camb. 1861. 8vo. On page 465 are indexed the Greek MSS. in the 
 Cambridge libraries. 
 
 — — Codex Bezse Cantabrigiensis, with notes and facsimiles. 
 Camb. (1863.) Svo. 
 
 Cooper (C. H.) Memorials of Cambridge. Camb. 1860. Svo. In the 
 
 3rd vol. is a fuller list of the benefactions to the University Library 
 
 than had appeared up to the date of its publication. 
 Blades (W.) Life and Typography of William Caxton. London. 1861 — 3. 
 
 4to. 2 vols. Contains the "Caxtons" in the Cambridge libraries. 
 
 Perhaps a copy of the "Polychronicon," 14S2, at St Cath. Coll., a 4to. 
 
 leaf of the " Image of Pity," in the University Library, and the little 
 
 slip at King's Coll., p. 45 ante, are the only ones omitted. A new 
 
 edition of Mr Blades' book has appeared in a cheaper form. 
 Philpott (Henry) Documents relating to St Catharine's Coll. Camb. 
 
 1861. 8vo. Priv. pr. 
 Bradshaw (Henry) On the Recovery of the long-lost Waldensian MSS. 
 
 Communications to the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, n. 203. 1862. 
 
 Svo. See also post for a later work, by Dr Todd, of Dublin, on the 
 
 Waldensian MSS. generally. 
 
 — — Two Lists of Books in the University Library, one 
 made in or ante 1424, the other in 1473. Camb. Antiq. Soc. Commun., 
 II., 239. 1863. A few mentioned in the earlier list are still on the 
 shelves of the Library. 
 
 — Catalogue des livres de la Bibliotheque de FUniversite 
 
74 APPENDIX. 
 
 a Cambridge imprimes sur velin. This Catalogue appeared on pp. 105 
 —108 and 123—127 of Le Bibliophile. Londres, 1863. 8vo. 
 Bradshaw (Henry). The Printer of the Historia S. Albani, with a photo- 
 graphed facsimile of "Tractatus de Successionibus ab Intestato," 
 from the copy of the work in the Camb. University Library. Camb. 
 1868. 8vo. 
 
 — — The University Library (an account of its history and 
 progress), contributed by the Librarian to the Cambridge University 
 Gazette, commencing on Wednesday, Feb. 1869, and continued for 
 several weeks. As this paper is defunct, copies are difficult to meet 
 with. A reprint of it would be valuable. 
 
 — — A Classified Index of the xv. Century Books of M. J. 
 De Meyer, sold at Ghent, Nov., 1869. London, 1870. The greater 
 portion of these, as specified in the book, were transferred into the 
 Camb. University Library. 
 
 — — On two hitherto unknown MS. poems by John 
 Barbour, discovered in the University Library. Camb. Antiq. Soc. 
 Communications, in. 111. 1866. 8vo. 
 
 Paley (F. A.) Manuscripts at Cambridge, in the Home and Foreign 
 Review, Oct., 1862, pp. 471 — 500, has descriptions with long extracts 
 from the following MS. Service books : — The Book of Cerne, Book of 
 Deer, Codex Bezse, York Manual,. Tewkesbury Missal, Missal and Pro- 
 cessional, Psalter, Do., Life of Edward the Confessor, in the University 
 Library ; Persius xin. Cent., in Clare Coll. ; St Augustine's Gospels and 
 Irish MS. of vn. Cent., in Corpus Christi Coll. ; the Psalter in St John's 
 Coll., and the Psalter in Trinity Coll. 
 
 Searle (W. G.) Catalogue of the Library of Queens' College in 1472. 
 Camb. Antiq. Soc. Commun., n. 165. 1862. 8vo. 
 
 — — Catalogue of the Illuminated MSS. in the Fitzwilliam 
 Museum, Cambridge. 1876. 8vo. 
 
 Catalogue of Adversaria and Books containing MS. notes in the Cambridge 
 University Library. Camb. 1864. 8vo. (A portion of the Cat. of 
 MSS.) 
 
 Mayor (J. E. B.) Letters of Archbishop "Williams relating to St John's 
 College Library. Camb. Antiq. Soc. Communications, il 25. 1864. 
 
 The Early English Text Society in 1865 and succeeding years has printed 
 the following, amongst other works, from MSS. at Cambridge : — Chaucer 
 on the Astrolabe, Merlin, or the Early History of King Arthur, King 
 Horn, Lancelot of the Laik, Piers the Plowman, Three Fyttes of Thos. 
 Ercedoune, in the University Library; The Holy Grail, Genesis and 
 Exodus, in Corpus Christi Coll. ; William of Palerne, or William and the 
 Werwolf, in King's Coll. ; The Bruce, King of Scotts, The Romans of 
 Partenay, Old Homilies, Piers the Plowman, The Pilgrim's Sea Voyage, 
 Generydes, in Trinity Coll. Edited by W. W. Skeat, F. J. Furnivall, 
 R. Morris, and others. 
 
 Todd (J. H.) Books of the Vaudois preserved in Trin. Coll., Dublin, and 
 
APPENDIX. 75 
 
 other libraries. 1865. 12mo. Describes the Waldensian MSS. at 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Ellis (A. A.) Notes extracted from the Bentley MSS. in Trin. Coll., Cam- 
 bridge. Camb. 186-. 8vo. 
 
 Pearson (J. B.) Index to the English books in library of Emmanuel printed 
 before 1600. Camb. 1869. 8vo. 
 
 Aufrecht (Th.) Catalogue of Sanksrit MSS. in the library of Trin. Coll., 
 Camb. 1869. Svo. 
 
 Sinker (R.) Testamentum xn. Patriarcharum. Camb. 1869. Svo. 
 Describes several Greek and Latin MSS. of the Testamentum in the 
 Cambridge libraries. 
 
 — — Catalogue of the xv. century printed books in the library 
 of Trinity College. Camb. 1876. Svo. 
 
 The Book of Deer, a Scotch or Pictish MS. of the ninth century, in the Uni- 
 versity Library, Cambridge. Edited for the Spalding Club by John 
 Stewart, M.D. Edinburgh, 1869. 4to. plates. 
 
 Skene (W. F.) Coronation Stone. Edinburgh, 1869. 4to. Has a photo- 
 lithograph of the coronation of Alexander III., from the MS. of Fordun 
 in the library of C. C. Coll., Cambridge. 
 
 Edleston (J.) Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton, from MS. originals 
 in Trin. Coll., Camb. 187-. Svo. 
 
 Luard (H. R.) List of Documents, &c, in the Registry of the University 
 which concern the University Library. Cambridge, 1870. Svo. 
 
 Palmer (E. H.) Catalogue of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, and 
 Samaritan MSS. in library of Trin. Coll., Camb. 1870. Svo. 
 
 Walton (H. B.) and Medd (P. G.) The first Prayer-book of Edward VI. 
 1870. Svo. Several copies at Cambridge are mentioned, but the 
 authors do not mention the copy in Pembroke College. 
 
 Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. 1870, etc. fol. In pro- 
 gress. The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth Reports contain full 
 descriptions of and extracts from documents and MSS. illustrative of 
 English history in Christ's, Corpus Chr., King's, Pembroke, Queens', 
 St John's, St Peter's, Trinity, Downing, Sidney, Emmanuel, St 
 Catharine's, Magdalene, and Pembroke Colleges, also those in the 
 Registry of the University and belonging to the Corporation of the town 
 of Cambridge. 
 
 The Palaeographical Society, London, 1873, fol., in progress, has photo- 
 graphed in Pt. ii., plates 14 and 15, the Codex Bezse; in Pt. in., plates 
 33 and 34, and in Pt. iv. plate 44, portions of the Gospels of St 
 Augustine, in Corpus Christi Coll. 
 
 Campbell (M. F. A. G.) Annales de la Typographic Neerlandaise au xv. 
 siecle. La Haye. 1874. 8vo. In this Cat. references are made to a 
 large number of early printed books from presses in the Low Countries, 
 in the University Library at Cambridge. 
 
 Pink (J.) Cat. of Books in the Free Library, Cambridge, Reference De- 
 partment. 1874. Svo. At the end is a list of books relating to the 
 topography of the county. 
 
76 APPENDIX. 
 
 Schiller-Szinessy (Dr S. M.) Catalogue of the Hebrew MSS. preserved in 
 the University Library, Cambridge. Vol. i. Camb. 1876. 8vo. In 
 progress. 
 
 Hazlitt (W. C.) Collections and Notes, 1867-76. London. 1876. 8vo. 
 (An account of Early English Literature.) Many rare works in the 
 University, Pepysian, and Emmanuel Libraries are noted, especially in 
 the additions at the end. The Handbook to the popular, poetical, and 
 dramatic literature of Great Britain, London, 1867, has also many 
 references to Cambridge rarities. 
 
 History of Nepaul. translated from the Purbatiya, with an introductory 
 sketch by Daniel Wright, M.D. Cambridge, 1877. In an appendix a 
 list is given of the very ancient Sanskrit MSS. procured for the Uni- 
 versity Library by Dr Wright in 1876. 
 
 Taylor (C.) Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, in Hebrew and English, with 
 specimen pages of the Cambridge University MS. of the Mishnah 
 Jerushalmith from which the text is taken. Cambridge, 1877. Svo. 
 
 Zangemeister (Karl). Description of the Latin MSS. of the Early Fathers 
 in the libraries of the British Museum, at Oxford, Cambridge, &c, in 
 the Proceedings of the Academy of Vienna, Dec. 1876. 
 
 Lightfoot (J. B., D.D.) St Clement of Rome, with translations of the 
 newly-recovered portions of the Epistles from a Syriac MS. in the 
 Camb. University Library and a Greek MS. at Constantinople. London, 
 1877. 8vo. 
 
 Lupton (J. H.) Dean Colet's Letters from MSS. in the C.C.C.C, Trinity, 
 and University Libraries. This work has been announced. 
 
 Waitz (G.) Reise nach England und Frankreich im Herbst 1877. — Beilage 
 of the Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft filr alter e deutsche Geschichts- 
 kunde. Vol. iv. Hannover, 1878. Svo. 
 
INDEX OF VELLUM BOOKS. 
 
 Fol 
 
 Fol. 
 
 iEgidii (de Cohimna), De formatione Corporis. (Paris, 1515.) 4to, 
 Augustinus (S. Aurelius), De quantitate Animse. (London,) 1575. 
 „ ,, De vita Christiana, &c. (London,) 1575 
 
 „ „ Sententia de Betractatione, &c. London, 
 
 Fol ..-'• 
 
 Baculi Curatorum. (Paris, about 1520.) 4to . 
 
 Biblia Latina. (Mentz, not later than Aug. 14, 1456.) Fol. 
 
 Mentz, 1462. Fol 
 
 Byble in Englyshe (The). London, 1539. Fol. 
 
 Bible, La Sainte. Antwerp, 1548. Fol 
 
 Boccaccio (G.), Der Kurcz von etlichen Frowen. Ulm, (1473.) 
 Boethius (A. M. S.), De uno et trino. London, 1575. Fol. 
 Bonifacius, Papa, VIII. Liber Decretalium. Venice, 1476 
 Bread, the Assyze of. (London, c. 1527.) 4to. 
 Breton (M.), La Chine en miniature. Paris, 1811. 18mo. 
 Breviariurn Sarisburiense. (Paris, 1499 ?) 8vo. 
 Broughton (H.), A Concent of Scripture. (London, 1596.) 4to 
 Calendar or Almanac. London, 1523 .... 
 „ (London,) 1539 .... 
 Chrisostom (Joh.), in MatthaBum. London, 1575. Fol. 
 Cicero (M. T.), Epistolse familiares. Venice, 1471. 4to. 
 ,, ,, Officia et Paradoxa. Mentz, 1465. Fol. . 
 Clemens, Papa, V. Constitutiones. Venice, 1476. Fol. 
 Donatus abbreviatus. (Printer of the Dutch Speculum). 4to. 
 „ Another edition, by the same printer. 4to. 
 „ Another edition, by the same printer. 4to. 
 Erasmus (D.). See post, under Testamentum Novum. 
 ESErHSEI2, Expositiones in Acta Apostolorum, &c. Verona 
 Fol 
 
 NUMBEE 
 35 
 
 Fol. 
 Fol 
 1575 
 
 1532 
 
 Fenelon (Fr.), Les Aventures de Telemaque. Paris, 1785. 4to. . 
 Fiordibello (Antonio) Ad Philippum et Mariam Keges. Louvain, 1555. 
 4to 
 
 Fisher (Bp.), Seven penitential Psalms. London, 1508. 4to. 
 Fry (Edmd.) Pantographia. London, 1799. 8vo. . 
 
 103 
 
 105 
 
 106 
 41 
 1 
 93 
 126 
 53 
 9 
 102 
 118 
 132 
 88 
 112, 121 
 63 
 131 
 131* 
 104 
 3 
 145 
 119 
 4 
 5 
 6 
 
 100 
 86 
 
 56 
 29 
 66 
 
78 
 
 INDEX OF VELLUM BOOKS. 
 
 Galenus (C), De Pulsibus per Creuserium et Linacrum. Paris, 1532 
 
 Fol 
 
 Gallus (Alex.), Doctrinale, by the printer of the Dutch " Speculum." 4to 
 ,, ,, Another edition by the same printer. 4to. 
 
 Gratianus, Decretum. Venice, 1477. Fol 
 
 Groux (Petr. des), Oratio de divi Ludovici prseconiis. Paris, 1519. 4to. 
 Herbipolensium Synodorum Acta, &c. (Wurtzburg, 1490.) Fol. 
 Holbein (Hans), Alphabet of Death. Paris, 1856. 8vo 
 
 ,, ,, Le Triomphe de la Mort par Hollar. London, 1790. 8vo 
 
 Horse after the use of Bourges. Paris, 1514. 8vo. . 
 Horse after the use of Le Mans. Paris, (1515). 8vo. 
 Horse after the use of Paris. Paris, (1508). 8vo. 
 
 Paris, 1510. 8vo. 
 Horse after the use of (Eome). Paris, 1497. 8vo. 
 Horae after the use of Kome. Paris, 1503. 8vo. 
 Paris, 1508. 8vo. 
 Paris, 1509- 8vo. 
 Paris, (1512). 8vo. 
 Paris, (1516). 8vo. 
 Paris, 1517. 8vo. 
 Paris, 1532. 8vo. 
 Horse after the use of Sarum. (London, 1484). 8vo 
 
 (Westminster, 1494). 4to. 
 Paris, 1498. 8vo. 
 Paris, about 1500. 8vo. 
 Paris, (1528). 8vo. 
 Paris, 1528. 16mo 
 Paris, (1533). 8vo. 
 Paris, 1512. 8vo. 
 1520?) 8vo. 
 London, 1480. Fol. . 
 ,, ,, Another Edition. London, 1480. Fol. 
 
 Audenarde, 1480. Fol. 
 ,, ,, Westminster, 1481. Fol 
 
 Joinville (Sieur de), Credo. Paris, 1837. 4to. 
 Knovrles (G. P.), Genealogy of the Coultharts, &c. London, 1855 
 Lattebury (Jo. de), Moralisationes. (Oxford, 1482). Fol. 
 Liber Conformitatum, (Barth. Albizzi). Milan, 1513. Fol. 
 Livius (T.), Decades tres. Mentz, 1518. Fol. 
 Luciano, II Convito o I Lapiti. Borne, 1815. 8vo . 
 Lydgate (Jno.), Historye, sege and dystruccyon of Troye. 
 
 1513. Fol 
 
 Manuale Sarum. London, 1506 
 
 Mariana (Joan.), De rege, et regis institutione. Toledo, 1599. 4to 
 Michel (St.), Livre des Statuts de. (Paris, 1550.) 4to. 
 Missale Augustense. Dilingen, 1555. Fol. 
 ,, Bambergense. Bamberg, 1506. Fol. . 
 ,, Brixinense. Augsburg, 1493. Fol. 
 
 Horse after the use of Sens. 
 Horae, fragment of. (Paris, 
 Indulgence, Letters of. 
 
 8vo. 
 
 London 
 
 95 
 7 
 8 
 
 120 
 39 
 18 
 
 143 
 87 
 81 
 
 129 
 77 
 79 
 
 135 
 26 
 76 
 78 
 94 
 82 
 83 
 84 
 15 
 23, 24 
 25,74 
 75 
 
 138 
 
 150* 
 
 85 
 
 80 
 
 72 
 
 110 
 
 111 
 11 
 
 101 
 92 
 68 
 14 
 
 136 
 37 
 67 
 
 128 
 99 
 
 140 
 55 
 57 
 28 
 22 
 
INDEX OF VELLUM BOOKS. 
 
 79 
 
 Missale Eboraeense. Rouen, 1516. Fol. 
 
 ,, Frisingense. Bamberg, 1487. Fol. 
 
 ,, Herpibolense. Wurzburg, 1481. Fol 
 
 ,, Leodiense. Paris, 1513. Fol. 
 
 Paris, 1523. Fol. . 
 
 ,, Pataviense. Venice, 1522. 4to. 
 
 ,, Ratisponense. Augsburg, 1515. 4to. 
 
 ,, Romanum. Nuremberg, 1484. 4to 
 
 ,, Sarum. Rouen, 1497. Fol. 
 
 „ „ London, 1500. Fol. . 
 
 ,, ,, London, 1504. Fol. 
 
 „ „ Paris, 1504. Fol. 
 
 Paris, 1510—11. Fol. 
 
 ,, ,, London and Paris, 1511. Fol. 
 
 „ ,, London, 1512. Fol. . 
 
 „ „ Paris, 1514. Fol. 
 
 ,, „ Rouen, 1519. Fol. 
 
 ,, ,, London, Pynson, 1520. Fol 
 
 „ „ Paris, 1526. Fol. 
 
 ,, ,, Antwerp, 1527. Fol. . 
 
 „ ,, Paris, 1529. Fol. 
 
 „ „ Paris, 1532. Fol. 
 
 „ „ Paris, 1534. Fol. 
 
 „ M Paris, n. d. Fol. . 
 
 Paris, 1555. Fol. 
 
 ,, Tornacense. Antwerp, 1510. Fol. 
 
 ,, Trajectense. Leyden, 1514. Fol. 
 
 ,, Xanctonense. Paris, 1491. Fol. 
 Ovidius Naso (P.), Opera. Venice, 1533—4. 8vo. 
 Parker (Matthew), De Antiq. Britan. Ecclesiae. London, 1572. 
 
 „ „ Catalogus Cancellariorum. London, 1572 
 
 Pentateuoh, Hebrew. Bologna, 1482. Fol. . 
 
 „ ,, Sabionetta, 1557. 12mo. 
 
 Plinio (C), Historia Naturale. Venice, 1476. Fol. 
 Policy, The Body of. London, 1521. 4to. 
 Prayer, The Lord's. London, 1877. 4to. 
 Prayers, Form of, used by K. William III. London, 1704 
 Prymer in Englysshe. London, 1535. 4to. 
 Psalterium latinum. Mentz, 1457. Fol. 
 
 ,, ,, (Cologne, about 1480.) 
 
 „ ex mandato Henrici VII. Regis. London, 1504. 
 Senecque, Les CEuvres, trans, par Laurens de Premier fait. Paris 
 
 Fol 
 
 Siddur, or Hebrew Prayer-book. Bologna, 1537. 12mo. 
 
 ,, „ ,, Mantua, 1557. 8vo. 
 
 Statutes of King's College. Cambridge, (1862.) 4to. 
 Sturmius (Jo.), De Periodis Libertinus. Strasburg, 1550. 8vo 
 Tasso (Torqaato), Aminta. Paris, 1813. 8vo. 
 
 123 ; 
 40, 130 
 
 107 
 
 FoL 
 Fol. 
 
 36, 96 
 17 
 73 
 31 
 45 
 44 
 34 
 16 
 
 108 
 133, 146 
 
 148 
 27 
 30, 122, 149 
 
 113 
 
 114 
 33 
 
 137 
 
 150 
 46 
 97 
 
 117 
 47 
 50 
 
 127 
 98, 109 
 52 
 32 
 19 
 48 
 61 
 62 
 13 
 59 
 10 
 42 
 
 144 
 64 
 
 151 
 
 2 
 
 12 
 
 147 
 
 134 
 51 
 
 60 
 107 
 139 
 142 
 
 68, 
 
 n. d 
 
80 INDEX OF VELLUM BOOKS. 
 
 Testamentum (Novum), ab Erasmo recognitum. Basle, 1519. Fol. . 115 
 
 „ „ „ Basle, 1527. Fol. . 124 
 
 „ ,, Annotationes Erasmi in. Basle, 1527. Fol. . 125 
 
 Tonstalli (Cuthb.), De arte supputandi. London, 1522. 4to. . 43, 116 
 
 Valens (Petr.), de Natali dominico. (Paris, about 1620.) 4to. . . 141 
 
 Verardi (Car.) Historia Bsetica. Rome, 1493. 4to. .... 20 
 
 „ (Marcell.), Fernandus Servatus. (Borne, 1493.) 4to. . . 21 
 
 Walpole (Horace), H Castello di Otranto, London, 1795. 8vo. . . 65 
 
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THE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE LIBRARY AT 
 LAMBETH PALACE. 
 
 In Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (ii. 519) there is a short 
 biography of John Theyer. He was bora apparently in 1597 
 and his career — not an eventful one — does not now concern me 
 particularly. It is the conclusion of Wood's article which 
 supplies me with a text : " His death hapned at Gowper's-hill 
 [near Gloucester] on the 25th of Aug. in sixteen hundred 
 seventy and three, and two days after <he> was buried among 
 his Ancestors in the Church -yard at Brockivorth, particularly 
 near to the grave of his grandfather — Theyer, who had married 
 the sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near 
 Glocester. He then left behind him a Library of ancient 
 Manuscripts consisting of the number of about 800, which he 
 himself had for the most part collected. The Foundation of it 
 was laid by his grandfather, who had them from Prior Hart, 
 and he from the Library of Langthony when it was dissolved, 
 besides Household stuff belonging to that Priory. Afterwards 
 Charles Theyer (grandson to our author John Theyer, who in 
 his last will had bequeathed them to him) did offer to sell them 
 to the University of Oxon, but the price being too great, they 
 were sold to Robert Scot, of London, bookseller, who soon after 
 sold them to his Majesty, King Ch. II., to be reposed in his 
 Library at S. James's, he having first, as I have been informed, 
 cull'd them." 
 
 Following up the data of this paragraph, we are led in the 
 first place to ask whether any record exists of the contents of 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. \ 
 
I THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 the Theyer Collection before its absorption into the Royal 
 Library. We find that in Bernard's Catalogi Manuscriptorum 
 Angliae (1697), ii. pp. 198—203, is a list of 312 MSS. belonging 
 to Charles Theyer, of Gloucestershire : and a comparison of 
 this list with Casley's Catalogue of the Royal MSS. shews that 
 with very few exceptions the books enumerated now form part 
 of the Royal Library. In other words, the collection of Charles 
 Theyer, described by Bernard, is that which Charles II. 
 bought. It is clear that when Bernard's Catalogue was issued 
 the Theyer MSS. must have been for some years at St James's: 
 but I do not find any note of the fact either in Preface or 
 Appendix. It will be further noticed that the number of 
 books (312) differs widely from that specified by Wood (about 
 800). An explanation of this fact is not immediately forth- 
 coming. 
 
 We should expect at this stage of our investigation to find 
 that the Theyer MSS. in the Royal Library were traceable in 
 large part to Lanthony Priory. That, however, is not the case. 
 Of a large number which I have myself examined, not more 
 than two or three are Lanthony books. Worcester and 
 Gloucester have contributed largely to the collection : and this 
 is not surprising when we know that the ancestral abode of 
 the Theyers was in the immediate neighbourhood of Gloucester. 
 But as to Lanthony — clearly there is something more than 
 meets the eye in the history as given by Wood. We can 
 hardly doubt that he is correct in his account of the connexion 
 between the old Theyer and Prior Hart, and the presence of 
 many books from Lanthony on Theyer's shelves. We also see 
 that these books must have been diverted to some other 
 quarter before the purchase of the collection by Charles II. 
 Can we at this time of day ascertain either when the diversion 
 took place, or where the Lanthony books are now ? I believe 
 we can. 
 
 It would clearly be a very great help if we could arm our- 
 selves with a document showing what books were in the 
 Library whose relics we are pursuing. Such a document is 
 very fortunately accessible. The Harleian MS. 4G0 contains a 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 3 
 
 catalogue of the Lanthony Library made in 1380, which has 
 been printed by M. H. Omont of the Bibliotheque Rationale 1 . 
 It enumerates some 500 volumes, and at a later stage a word 
 will be said as to its arrangement and contents. 
 
 With this catalogue before us we are in a better position to 
 prosecute our researches. Yet I doubt if anything but an 
 accident could conduct us to a successful issue. And such an 
 accident has befallen me. In January, 1899, I was permitted 
 by the kindness of His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 seconded by the prompt assistance of Mr Kershaw, the 
 Librarian of Lambeth Palace, to make a systematic examina- 
 tion of the MSS. in the Archiepiscopal Library. It was my 
 hope that among them there would prove to be a large con- 
 tingent from Canterbury : but the Canterbury books, though 
 interesting, are not numerous. To some extent, however, I was 
 compensated for this disappointment by the discovery that a 
 very large number of the Lambeth MSS. are from Lanthony 
 Priory. 
 
 I have mentioned the name of this establishment a good 
 many times without any explanator} 7 note. So I will just 
 remark here that there are three Lanthonies known to fame. 
 The first ' Lanthonia prima ' was an Augustinian Priory in 
 Wales, founded in 1108; the second, 'Lanthonia secunda/ a 
 daughter of the first, and by far the more important, founded in 
 1136 in the outskirts of Gloucester ; the third, Lanthony of the 
 present day, an establishment presided over by the Rev. Mr 
 Lyne, purports to have some connexion with the order of 
 St Benedict. Throughout this paper when reference is made 
 simply to Lanthony, the second Lanthony — that at Gloucester — 
 is intended. It is of this house that we possess the Library 
 catalogue ; and perhaps it will be well to place here the few 
 words which have to be said about that. 
 
 The books are entered in order as they stood on the shelves. 
 There were five cupboards (armarii), containing respectively 
 five, four, five, six, and one, shelves. It is natural to suppose 
 
 1 In Centralblatt fur Bibliotheks-Wissenschaft, 1892,207—222. 
 
 1—2 
 
4 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 that the fifth press, to which the one shelf belongs, was 
 intended to provide for further acquisitions 1 . 
 
 The other characteristic of the catalogue is that it is 
 digested into subjects. 
 
 The first bookcase contained mainly Bibles, and glosses and 
 commentaries upon various books of the Bible. In the second 
 were the writings of Clement of Lanthony, the most prominent 
 scholar the house produced, and those of Jerome, Ambrose, 
 Gregory, Bede, Isidore, and others. The third began with 
 Augustine, and contained also Hugo of St Victor, and minor 
 theologians, while on its fifth shelf were the books on physic. 
 The fourth was the most varied in contents, comprising Canon 
 Law, Miscellaneous Divinity, History, Grammar, Poetry, 
 Philosophy, and Custumaries 2 . The fifth had dictionaries and 
 a few service-books, together with some miscellaneous volumes 
 of the theological class. 
 
 Whether considered in the light of its catalogue, or in that 
 of the extant volumes, this collection as a whole does not rise 
 above mediocrity. The house produced, as I have said, but 
 one writer who attained anything like celebrity, in its Prior 
 Clement. His Harmony of the Gospels is a sufficiently 
 common book. Nine or ten volumes are specially connected 
 with his name in the catalogue. One among these I have 
 identified, and believe to be in his autograph. It is a com- 
 mentary on the Acts, and is among the few Lanthony books 
 
 1 The number of volumes in the several shelves varies very curiously. The 
 annexed table in which Roman numerals are used to designate the cupboards, 
 and Arabic for the shelves, will shew this : 
 
 1 
 
 10 vols. 
 
 III 
 
 8 vols. 
 
 III1 
 
 12 vols. 
 
 IV 1 
 
 20 vols. 
 
 VI 
 
 2 
 
 13 „ 
 
 2 
 
 14 „ 
 
 2 
 
 20 „ 
 
 2 
 
 24 „ 
 
 
 3 
 
 24 „ 
 
 3 
 
 16 „ 
 
 3 
 
 18 ,, 
 
 3 
 
 35 „ 
 
 
 4 
 
 13 „ 
 
 4 
 
 20 „ 
 
 4 
 
 17 „ 
 
 4 
 
 64 „ 
 
 
 5 
 
 40 „ 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 
 5 
 
 6 
 
 32 „ 
 41 „ 
 
 
 21 vols. 
 
 2 Namely, the Custumaries of St Victor's, Cluny, the Chartreuse, Merton, 
 and an old one of Lanthony itself. 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 in the British Museum (Royal 2 . D . V). Otherwise, the 
 catalogue contains very few entries that excite curiosity. The 
 MSS. themselves are for the most part good normal twelfth 
 century books. There is seldom anything earlier. A Psalter 
 with English glosses (no. 427) is almost the only one I can 
 point to which is older than the monastery itself. 
 
 As I have said, the number of Lambeth MSS. which I 
 assign to Lanthony is very large — well over a hundred. The 
 question will inevitably occur to my readers — on what grounds 
 is each individual book identified ? In a large number of cases 
 we have the definite inscription, liber Lanthonie or the like to 
 guide us. Where this is absent I have very often been led to 
 the mark by the occurrence of a certain handwriting on the 
 fly-leaves. It is a hand of the xvth century, which has furnished 
 a great many of the books with tables of contents. Sometimes 
 I have found it coupled with a Lanthony inscription, sometimes 
 alone. In either case the provenance is certain. Then there 
 is the name of a certain Canon Morgan, of Carmarthen, who 
 may possibly be the writer of the tables of contents aforesaid : 
 this, again, may occur either in conjunction with the other 
 indications, or apart from them. Lastly, there are cases in 
 which the contents of a volume, and its presence side by side 
 with a number of books which are certainly from Lanthony, 
 enable me with fair certainty to identify it with some entry in 
 the catalogue. Doubtful items of course there are in my list : 
 but I think it will be found that the evidence is fairly given in 
 most instances. 
 
 I will now treat shortly of the Lambeth MSS. as a 
 collection, and try to bring out the chief points of interest 
 in their history. The manuscript library at Lambeth consists 
 of somewhat over 1200 volumes, which are divided into 
 several distinct collections. First, there are the Codices 
 Lambethani, numbering nearly 600, collected mostly by Arch- 
 bishop Bancroft (d. 1610). Then come Wharton's papers, 
 the collections of Sir George Carew (chiefly Irish), of Arch- 
 bishop Tenison, of Bishop Gibson : next the Miscellanei, and 
 last the MSS. of Archbishop Manners-Sutton. It is only 
 
6 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 with the first block, the Codices Lambethani, that I am con- 
 cerned now. The later collections are for the most part 
 papers, of great interest, but of rather recent date. 
 
 It is well known that during the Protectorate the Lambeth 
 books were made over to the University of Cambridge, and 
 remained there until the Restoration. In Mr Bradshaw's 
 Collected Papers a detailed account of the transaction may be 
 readily found. Among the MSS. in the University Library 
 there still remain several catalogues of the printed books and 
 MSS. received by the University from Lambeth: and a very 
 slight inspection of these serves to show that the Lanthony 
 books already formed part of the Archbishop's Library. Of the 
 book-buying archbishops before the. Civil War we know that it 
 was Bancroft who was the principal contributor to the Lambeth 
 Library. His successor, Abbot, though he did add to the 
 collection, did not, so far as I can discover, achieve much in the 
 way of acquiring MSS. We must suppose provisionally, I 
 think, assuming that Wood's story of Prior Hart of Lanthony 
 is true, that Archbishop Bancroft bought from the elder Theyer 
 a large number of MSS. including the greater part of the books 
 which had belonged to Prior Hart ; and we must suppose that 
 Wood was mistaken in thinking that the Theyer MSS. passed 
 intact into the possession of John and of Charles Theyer. 
 
 That is the last, I think, which need be said about Lan- 
 thony for some time. The most interesting of the Lambeth 
 MSS. come from other sources, at which we will glauce briefly. 
 
 Canterbury naturally claims the first place in our list : its 
 contribution is interesting if not large. The Gospel- book of 
 MacDurnan, that famous specimen of Irish art, was given to 
 Christ Church by King iEthelstan. How it came to Lambeth 
 is not known : but it has a binding on it, and red chalk marks 
 therein, which shew beyond question that it was once the 
 property of Archbishop Parker. Sixteen other Lambeth MSS. 
 are from Christ Church. Taking them roughly in order as 
 they stand on the shelves, we note a late but very important 
 obituary, of which Wharton made large use in his Anglia 
 Sacra: an early copy of Anselm's Letters; a volume of Richard, 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 7 
 
 Abbot of Preaux, upon Genesis, whereof the second volume is 
 at Trinity College, Cambridge ; the Canterbury Letters, edited 
 in the Kolls Series by the Bishop of Oxford ; and a fine Psalter 
 which belonged to John Holyngborne. He was a monk of the 
 Priory late in the xvth century, and seems to have been active 
 either in collecting old books, or at least in writing his name in 
 books which already belonged to his monastery. I have 
 met his name rather frequently. The well-known pictured 
 Apocalypse of the xmth century (no. 209) is regarded by the 
 authorities of the Palaaographical Society as being a production 
 of Canterbury artists. It contains the arms and effigy of a 
 Lady de Quincey. 
 
 From St Augustine's Abbey we have eleven volumes. The 
 oldest — of the eighth or ninth century — contains our only copy 
 of a short tract by Victor inus, Be fabrica mundi. In another 
 are some palimpsest leaves of an early Kalendar. A third is a 
 chronicle which is attributed in the Abbey Catalogue to Sprot 
 or Sport. 
 
 Bury St Edmund's has six volumes to its credit. Five of 
 them were unknown to me when I wrote my Essay on its 
 Library : which Essay begins, I am glad to say, to need a 
 supplement. The additions here are of considerable interest. 
 A copy of the Arithmetic and Music of Boethius was once the 
 property of Dr John Dee. I dare not now embark upon a 
 disquisition I should much enjoy concerning that unlucky 
 scholar's MSS., the sources whence he obtained them, and their 
 present resting places. Many years ago Mr J. O. Halliwell 
 printed the list of his MSS. for the Camden Society ; and of late 
 it has become possible for me to detect and locate a very fair 
 number of his most interesting possessions in this department. 
 He drew largely, I may say, from St Augustine's, Canterbury, 
 through the medium, I suspect, of John Twine; and a great 
 many of his books are, with Brian Twyne's library, now at 
 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 
 
 There is further an early MS. of Alcuin's Letters from Bury, 
 at Lambeth, as early, perhaps, as any that exists. It is bound 
 up with the Collations of Cassianus, and has been so bound since 
 
8 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 the early part of the fifteenth century at least. There is a title- 
 page in the volume describing both books, and this description 
 is couched in words which recur in the Catalog us scriptorum 
 of John Boston, of Bury. Moreover, it is in the handwriting 
 which I have always suspected to be the autograph of that 
 remarkable bibliographer. Lastly, I will mention a Bible, 
 rather a good one, of the ordinary thirteenth century type, but 
 made interesting by a long note in sixteenth century English. 
 Iu this the pedigree of the book is traced from the year 1384 to 
 a date very near that of its absorption into the Lambeth 
 Library. 
 
 Durham Priory sends a small but very noteworthy set of 
 books. This foundation has certainly preserved more of its 
 original library in situ than any other in the country : but still 
 the number of Durham MSS. which I have encountered in 
 various English libraries is growing to a remarkable figure. 
 The items at Lambeth include first a sumptuous copy of the 
 Historia A urea of John of Tyuemouth, and second a tenth 
 century copy of Ennodius in Caroliugian minuscules, which 
 once belonged to John Foxe, the martyrologist. 
 
 If adequate materials for the investigation could be found, 
 the question of the history and contents of the Library of Ely 
 Priory would be a very appropriate and interesting subject for 
 some members of this society to take up. As yet, I have hit 
 upon no trace of a catalogue, nor seen any document which 
 gives the least idea of the importance or extent of the collec- 
 tion. Two clues there are to the identification of Ely books, 
 which I believe to be unfailing. One is the presence in the 
 margin of this sign II ; the other, the occurrence of the name 
 of Robert Stew T arde, which is usually accompanied by a sketch 
 of the Stuart arms. This Robert was the last Prior of Ely, and 
 was fond of writing his name in books. So was Augustine 
 Sty ward, a relation of Robert's, who was Mayor of Norwich. I 
 have set down seven Lambeth books as possibly from Ely : but 
 in the case of some I waver between Ely and Norwich. 
 
 One of the better known Lambeth MSS. is a volume which 
 contains three distinct parts. First a late xvth century paper 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 9 
 
 copy of Roger Bacon's Opus Tertium — very likely from Oxford 
 — used by Mr J. S. Brewer. Next, a tenth century Aldhelm 
 with one fine Saxon drawing, reproduced as the frontispiece to 
 Todd's Catalogue ; and last, a MS. from Lanthony. It is satis- 
 factory to me to be able to point out the provenance of the 
 Aldhelm. On its fly-leaf is the inscription " cxxx. al. ca." 
 Marks like this, consisting of a Roman number, followed by 
 the abbrevations "al. ca." or "al. p.," always mean that the book 
 containing them was once the property of the Abbey of the 
 Holy Cross at Waltham. Another book in this same collection 
 gives proof of this assertion (though the fact is known and has 
 been noted by Macray in his Annals of the Bodleian). It is 
 marked " cxli. al. ca.,' and has, besides, a distich beginning 
 
 Crux sibi sancta librum de Waltham vendicat istnm. 
 
 The meaning of the letters " al. ca." and " al. p.," as yet un- 
 interpreted, I take to be " almariolum canonicorum " and 
 " almariolum prioris." 
 
 There is another highly interesting composite volume 
 (no. 149), of which the second part comes, I believe, from 
 Lanthony, but the first, a tenth century Bede on the Apoca- 
 lypse, certainly does not. It has at the end an inscription in 
 fine large capitals (printed by Todd) to the effect that in the 
 year 1018 it was given by the Alderman iEthelward to a Church 
 of St Mary, at a place whose name has been entirely obliterated, 
 partly at least by the use of galls. On the same page and not 
 noted by Todd is another short inscription in green capitals, 
 " In nomine Domini. Amen. Leofricus pater." 
 
 Now in 1018 the see of Devon was still at Crediton, and 
 Leofric, a great book-man, as we know, was its bishop : and its 
 church was dedicated to St Mary : and an Expositio Bede 
 super Apocalypsim is in the list of the Latin books which 
 Leofric procured for Exeter. Crediton therefore must be the 
 name that stood in the erasure. Leofric may have scratched it 
 out when he transferred the book to Exeter, and a later attempt 
 to revive it has completed its deletion. 
 
 For Exeter MSS. in bulk we have to go to the Bodleian, 
 where, owing to the surprising liberality of an early Chapter, 
 
10 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 there are over eighty. In them we very soon learn to recog- 
 nise a hand that writes descriptive titles and the like. It is 
 that of John Grandison, Bishop of Exeter (1327—1360), and 
 no mean scholar, but less known now-a-days for that than for 
 the screen crowded with imagery wherewith he masked the 
 western front of his Cathedral Church. There are traces 
 of his literary activity at Lambeth. In a twelfth century 
 Augustine he writes that he gives it to his Church of Exeter, 
 because he had taken great pains with the correction of it at 
 Paris : and elsewhere in the book is a note written by him 
 when studying at that famous university (in 1314). 
 
 Such are some of the more immediately interesting results 
 of my examination of the external history of the Lambeth MSS. 
 Naturally many riddles remain unsolved. I shall hope to learn 
 in the future what library w 7 as the home of no. 52, marked " de 
 sexto ordine xlii lls ." I suspect it of having come from one of 
 the great London houses. I should be glad also to throw some 
 light on the great Bible (no. 3, 4) of which a description and 
 some illustrations will be found in Mr Kershaw's interesting 
 volume on the Art 'Treasures of the Lambeth Library. That 
 the two volumes (which were not originally connected) are of 
 English and not German execution I am well convinced. The 
 beautiful Psalter (no. 233) I believe to be East Anglian ; but a 
 study of its heraldry is needed before a verdict can be pro- 
 nounced. It intimately resembles in certain particulars a MS. 
 acquired not long ago by the Fitzwilliam Museum from the 
 late Mr William Morris. 
 
 It seems not inappropriate, in conclusion, to reckon up 
 shortly the services which the occupants of the see of Canter- 
 bury have rendered to the world in the preservation of ancient 
 literature. Whether we have any books which St Augustine 
 may confidently be said to have handled is doubtful. Theodore 
 of Tarsus has been persistently credited with the importation 
 of several extant MSS., but one only — the Laudian MS. of 
 the Acts — can be now said even to have been possibly his, or 
 connected with him. From Plegmund (891) we have the 
 blackened fragments of a copy of Gregory's Pastoral Care 
 (Cotton, Tiberius B. xi.). Duustan, as archbishop, owned no 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 11 
 
 single book that we have now. The one that has the best 
 claim to have been his dates from the time when he was Abbot 
 of Glastonbury. In the Christ Church Catalogue Lanfranc is 
 credited with a Homiliary, a Priscian, and three copies of 
 Paul's Epistles. These I have never seen : but at Trinity 
 College, Cambridge, there is a Corpus Canonum which he 
 brought to England from Bee, and many relics exist, both 
 there and elsewhere, of the school of calligraphy which I 
 believe him to have introduced. To Anselm, perhaps the 
 greatest writer of them all, I can unfortunately assign not 
 one book ; but St Thomas a Becket collected a large and 
 valuable library in whose composition I seem to trace the 
 influence of his friend, John of Salisbury. At present I have 
 marked about half-a-dozen extant books as having been his 
 property. Stephen Langton gave six volumes to Christ 
 Church : one remains. Robert Winchelsey about 45 : I have 
 identified two. Of the libraries of Mepham, Whittlesea, 
 Courtenay, Chicheley, there are in like manner, inconsider- 
 able remnants. Warham's books are at New College ; 
 Cranmer's in many places ; Pole's at New College ; Parker's 
 at Corpus Christi, Cambridge ; Whitgift's (with over 200 
 MSS.) at Trinity, Cambridge ; Bancroft's at Lambeth; Laud's — 
 most numerous of all — in the Bodleian, and at St John's, 
 Oxford. A few waifs have made their way to other places. 
 Juxon and Sheldon were no great collectors : the latter is 
 responsible for a few MSS. at Lambeth. Sancroft's mostly went 
 to Emmanuel College : others are among the Tanner MSS. at 
 the Bodleian. Tenison had a large library : part of his MSS. 
 are at Lambeth, and others which were in the Parish Library 
 of St Martin's in the Fields were dispersed in 1861. The best 
 of these are in the British Museum. Wake's are at Christ 
 Church, Oxford. Seeker's — mostly autograph Biblical collec- 
 tions — at Lambeth. There also are the Greek MSS. procured 
 for Manners-Sutton. 
 
 The list is an impressive one. In this regard, as in many 
 others, I would say with all due respect that the see of Augus- 
 tine has a lasting claim on the gratitude of England. 
 
CODICES LAMBETHANI. 
 
 1. Service book with music xiv 
 
 2. Hugh Broughton's Tables of the 
 
 Prophecies etc. with diagrams xvi 
 
 3. 4. Bible xii 
 
 3 contains Genesis — 4 Begum, Isaias — Malachias, Job, with 
 pictures, resembling on the whole the great Winchester Bible : 
 
 it is of English, not German execution. 
 4 contains Psalter — Apocalypse. 
 
 It has no large pictures. 
 
 At the end an erased inscription. 
 
 Kershaw, p. 69. 
 
 Concordance, etc. 
 
 alii celo or tile terre 
 sue diuitiis or con- 
 uertendo 
 
 o. 
 
 XV 
 
 Has a note on the * erection ' of Peterborouj 
 
 Peterborough 
 into a Cathe- 
 
 7. 
 
 8. 
 
 xv 
 
 XV 
 
 dral Church (1541), and the entry ' Thys bowke belongs to the 
 Library of Peterborow 1541.' et impinguati 
 
 6. St Alban's Chronicle with pictures 
 Kershaw, p. 59. 
 
 Gradual 
 Kershaw, p. 40. 
 
 xii, xiii Lond. St Paul's 
 nomina region um 
 
 In the Catalogue of 1458 (Dugdale, History of St Paul's, 
 p. 392) under the letter F is entered 
 
 Cronica Radulphi de Diceto. 2 fo. Nomina regionum 
 
 Radulphus de Diceto etc. 
 Liber ecclesie Scl Pauli London. 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 13 
 
 9. Lyra super Psalmos etc. — Apoca- 
 
 lypsim xiv future- super 
 
 10, 11, 12. Historia aurea Joh. de 
 
 Tynemouth xiv Durham 
 
 10. Title : Prima pars Historie auree. 
 
 11. Secunda pars Historie auree cum tabula. 
 
 12. Ff. Tercia pars Historie auree (erasure): a xv th cent, 
 prophecy of St Thomas, at end, is signed Ffyshborne. 
 
 In Catalogi Veteres (Surtees Society) p. 56 is the entry 
 
 D. Prima pars Historiae Aureae. 2 fo. Baptisimns mortem. 
 
 E. Secunda Pars Historiae Aureae. 2 fo. Franci a Fran- 
 
 cone. 
 
 F. Tertia pars Hist. Aur. cum vitis SS. Etheldredae Sex- 
 burgae et Withburgae et cum vitis SS. David Patricii et Bre- 
 gurici in principio. 2 fo. quintini martiris corpus. 
 
 13. Joh. Andreae super Sextum etc. xiv Lanthony 
 Given by John Leche. 
 
 14. Digest. xiv utilitatibus 
 The names of Johannes de Newynton and others occur. 
 Also : liber Philippi Goter. 
 
 15. Printed (N. T. of ' Mazarine ' Bible). 
 Kershaw, p. 34. 
 
 16. Azo super Codicem xiii Yorkshire 
 Liber Hugonis de Skefding impignoratus Mag. Stephano 
 
 de Hedon pro xl s (dated 1273). 
 
 Skeffling and Hedon are both in Holderness. 
 
 17 wanting 
 
 18. Sext, etc. xiii Lanthony 
 The name (xv) Madoc ap Rys, occurs at the end of art. 2. 
 
 indulgencias 
 
 19. Paper, xvi 
 
 20. Martyrology etc. xvi Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 Used by Wharton and others. 
 
14 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 21. Innocentius iv super Decretales xiv Lanthony 
 Given by John Leche : has good Italian ornament. 
 
 22. Scala mundi etc. late xv anno primo 
 
 or centesimo 
 Belonged to Lord Lumley. 
 
 23. Alex. Neckam super Cantica etc. xiv ? Lanthony 
 Has the xv th cent, title and : ortus or quibus 
 jus 5 ti ^ Perhaps no. 472 in Catalogue. 
 
 On f. 1: Alex, nequam super cantica cum aliis ex dono 
 G. Houeden. 
 
 Good borders and initials. 
 
 24. 
 
 (1) Martinus Polonus 
 
 xiv 
 
 sanguine 
 
 
 (2) Dictionarium Theologicum : 
 
 
 
 
 five columns to a page 
 
 xiii 
 
 quam esca 
 
 
 (3) Document of Abp Warham 
 
 xvi 
 
 
 25. 
 
 Wycliffite Bible. 
 
 
 
 26. 
 
 Decretals mut. init. 
 
 XV 
 
 ei idcirco 
 
 27. 
 
 (1) Codex Justiniani 
 
 xiv 
 
 dl ceterarum 
 
 (2) Comment. xiii huiusmodi 
 
 28. Unum ex quatuor xii Lanthony 
 Catalogue no. 11. Zacharias de concordia iiii or Euuangelist- 
 
 arum in uno volumine magno. (in libro) aiiter iuuencus 
 
 or eodem. Et cum 
 
 29. Cassiodorius in Ps. ci-cl xiii Lanthony 
 Catalogue 58 — 60. Cassiod. super Psalt. in tribus voll. 
 
 magnis. 
 
 30. Decretals : xv th cent, title xiii ? Lanthony 
 At the end: liber Radulfi tuprest de Westm precio duarum 
 
 marcarum. quem abbas 
 
 31. Decretals xiv astruendam 
 
 32. Bradwardine de Causa dei xiv quem et or cel us 
 
 princeps 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 15 
 
 33. Ryngsted super Proverbia. Lon- 
 
 don, Franciscans xv per tas 
 
 (1) ffrater Tho. Kingston. (2) Thome Vmfry sacerdotis 
 ecclesie S. Pauli. (3) Lord Lumley. 
 
 34. Wycliffite. Kershaw, p. 35. 
 
 35. Paper. 
 
 36. Alexandri Distinctio etc. xiii Lanthony 
 xv th cent, title headed, In hoc uolumine continentur, etc. 
 
 in the Lanthony hand. tatis exequitur 
 
 37. Digest. xiii Lanthony 
 Legauit mag. Johannes de Leech', ecclesie Lanthonie iuxta 
 
 Gloucestriam. 
 
 38. Ps. Chrysostomi opus imperfectum xv 
 
 In two hands, one like that of Thorney Miracula B. V. M. 
 
 at Sidney Sussex College. 
 
 39. Leges Longobardorum etc. xiv Lanthony 
 Bequeathed by John Leche : older inscription liber mag.... 
 
 emptus ab yuone de e'atest (?) eius oxon. 
 
 40. Postilla super Psalmos xiii ? Ely 
 On fly-leaf. Psalterium glosatum (xiii) caput libri or simi- 
 
 litudinem 
 Charter of Hugo de Northwold (1229): entries of lands at 
 Norwold. 
 
 41. Distinctiones Mauricii xiv early ? Lanthony 
 Good border and initial. Mark erased (?) at bottom of f. 1. 
 
 See Catalogue 191, 192. di. q. homo 
 
 42. Marianus Scotus xii Abingdon 
 Iste est liber lxxxviij in inuentario almarioli claustr . 
 Lumley. Adjudged to Abingdon in view of insertions in 
 
 the text. 
 
 43. Ianuensis Sermones xiv sublimis 
 
 44. Augustinus in Joannem xii ? Lanthony 
 Cat, 167? . bibebat quod 
 
16 
 
 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 Cat. 473 ? 
 46. Clementines 
 
 45. Isidori Etymologiae. Fine small 
 
 hand xii 
 
 A Hebrew scribble on last fly-leaf. 
 
 ad portum eterne 
 
 Ireland 1477 
 
 Written by Roderic Olacthnain, Prior of Fons Vini de 
 Lothra ordinis S. Augustini. 
 Colophon in red at end. 
 
 47. Decretales xiii genitam 
 
 48. Higden Polychronicon xiv 
 
 The name Rawson in blue and gold, and in red, on fly-leaf. 
 
 annorum or scripta sunt 
 
 49. Durandi Repertorium etc. xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 Repertorium Durandi. T. liber fratris Thome de Wyveles- 
 
 bergh de adquisicione. de librario S. Augustini Cant. D. 
 xvi. e. 4°. et de differences 
 
 Catalogue, f. 130. 
 
 50. Augustini tractatus xv 
 
 51. Petrus Londoniensis de Visionibus xiii 
 De vj t0 online xlii lls : at bottom of f. 1. 
 Lumley. Arundel. 
 
 52. Mariale xiv 
 
 Porro si 
 
 London (?) 
 experimentum or 
 per eum uidebant 
 
 Cogitaui or in- 
 terne, cautus 
 
 53, 54. Paper, xvi. 
 
 55. Aristotelis Metaphysica 
 
 Liber R. de Gloucestria Canonici 
 
 Lanthon. 
 Cat, p. 214, note 3. 
 
 56. Gregorii Moralia 
 
 Fine round hand. Cat. 415-17. 
 
 57. Epistolae Pauli sec. Longobar- 
 
 dum 
 
 xiv 
 
 xn 
 
 xm 
 
 Lanthony 
 et architectores 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 muuerum 
 
 Lincoln Fran- 
 ciscans 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 17 
 
 fratram nrinomm de Lincoln. sibi mutauit 
 
 fratris Kadulfi de Cortage. 
 
 58. S. Thomas super Quartum xiv Lanthony 
 Liber Lanthon : iuxta Gloucestrie per qnam uile 
 Will: priorem. 
 
 59. Anselmi Epistolae xii & xv Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 Title. Epistole Anselmi maiores. D. ii. g. x. Mark P. 
 
 et amplector 
 Lumley. Omitted accidentally by Edwards, but entered in 
 the MS. of the Catalogue (Galba E. iv). It is also in Ingram's 
 list, no. 145. 
 
 60. Johannes super sextum xiii ? Dinsley Temple 
 
 or Dingley 
 Iste liber pertinet ad priorem de dyneleke biterenmense 
 
 61. (1) Neckam super Psalterium xiii urin stat 
 
 (2) Bulls : notes by Bale. munt et exigunt 
 
 (3) Henr. de Hertley sermo de S. Thoma. 
 Marked Bundle, 2. 5. 
 
 62. Ric. Pratellensis in Genesim xn Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 Mark Oh minat sed 
 Vol. ii. is at Trinity College, Cambridge, B. 3. 14. 
 Edwards, p. 147. 
 
 63. Lombardus in Psalmos 'per R. 
 
 Decani ' xii Lanthony 
 
 Psalt. mag. P. Lumbardi. Liber Lanthonie iuxta Glouc. 
 Cat. no. 51, 2. uerba domini 
 
 64. Gregorii Registrum xii ? Exeter 
 C on fly-leaf. enim fluctus 
 
 Qo. Missal of Jean Aubepine, Bp of Limoges 1484 
 Kershaw, p. 62. 
 
 Q6. Paper, xvi. 
 
 67. Boethii Arithmetica etc. xii Bury St Edm. 
 
 Liber S. Aedmundi. B. 318. 
 Arithmetica boecii cum multis astronomic 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 2 
 
18 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 Musica eiusdem boecii. 
 
 Belonged to John Dee. His name is erased, but ' 1558 30 
 Junii Londini' remains. It is no. 167 in his Catalogue (ed. 
 Hallivvell, Camd. Soc). 
 
 68. Durandi Rationale : Italian initial xiv Lanthony 
 
 Given by John Leche. non diligamus 
 
 69 Missal of Abp Chicheley xiv Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 Kershaw, p. 31. 
 
 70. Burley super Porphyrium etc. xiv Lanthon}^ 
 Liber monasterii siue prioratus Lant. iuxta Glouc. emptus 
 
 per fr. Ric. Calne...a.d. 1413. rationi quidditatem 
 
 71. (1) Cantor in Psalmos xiii Lanthony 
 Roberto Leckoford Canonico Lantoniensi. spinas 
 Cat. no. 53. 
 
 (2) Langton in Isaiam Lanthony 
 
 Cat. no. 146. egestionem 
 
 72. Legenda Aurea (Caxton) mut. init. xv 
 
 73. (1) Will. Neubrigensis xii saris impium 
 
 (2) Four Sermons, one on St Alban. 
 
 (3) Pastor Hermae meus in hoc 
 eifjui fiift\iov TaXficorov kcli (friXoreis. 
 
 This is Robert Talbot, Prebendary of Norwich, the friend of 
 Leland. 
 
 74. Burley in Aristotelem etc. xiv prime generalium 
 'scriptus a.d. M°CCC°xcrY 
 
 75. Apocalypse, French xiii de asye 
 Kershaw, p. 55. 
 
 76. (1) Aug. Retractationes etc. xiii, xiv Rochester 
 Liber de claustro Roffensi per Laurentium de London. 
 
 (2) Encheridion S. Aug. Aug. de spiritu et anima. 
 Liber sentenciarum prosperi sz apti 
 
 77. Ezechiel et Daniel glosati xiii Lanthony 
 Cat. no. 14. Ex preteritis 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 19 
 
 78. Speculum Parvulorum 1448 Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 Liber compositus et perquisitus dompni W. Chartham 
 
 mouachi huius ecclesie. tain crucem 
 
 79. Summa Dumbletou xiv memorie plo nis 
 
 80. (1) Hugutio. Bad hand xiii Lanthony 
 Cat. 574. dicitur cannula 
 
 (2) Bernardus Papiensis xiii adquisierit 
 
 81. Job et Daniel glosati. Fine initial xii Lanthony 
 Title. Iob et Daniel in red and black on fly-leaf. 
 
 in summis or et erat 
 
 fuerit oportet 
 
 Lanthony 
 ciuit modo xpm 
 
 Cat. no. 15. 
 
 82. Pictaviensis summa xiii 
 
 83. Historia Scholastica xiii 
 ...canonici Lanthon. 
 Cat. 260, 1. 
 
 84. Brute Chronicle in English with 
 
 rough drawings xv 
 
 Kershaw, p. 41. 
 
 85. Libri Begum glossati xii 
 Title. Liber regum as in no. 81. 
 Cat. no. 28. 
 
 86. Homiliarium xiv 
 Hand like that of 38. 
 
 87. Pupilla Oculi etc. xv 
 
 ii. anthicus in ueteri 
 Pasted into the volume is a large and early copper engraving 
 of the Nativity, Adoration, etc. 
 
 88. Aug. contra Maximinum etc. xii 
 Cat. no. 170. 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 ipse gestaret 
 
 l. sacramenti 
 
 89. Biblia. 
 
 Historiated initials. 
 
 xiv 
 
 Lanthony 
 net per se ipsum 
 
 epistolam 
 
 xiii Bury St Edm. 
 
 90. Biblia 
 
 Title. Biblia integra Johannis Yx worth. 2. mea hoc 
 
 Inscription at end : ff Thys boke was put out to be lyned by 
 
 9 9 
 
20 
 
 THE LAMBETH M LNU8CRIPTS. 
 
 Stephen Edrych parson of Shatisham on to Master Bugb 
 Candederby for the Bum of xl ....1384, after the detb of whych 
 Stephen the saide booke came to the hands of one M' John 
 Yxworth sumtyme moncke of Bury," etc. I' then passed to 
 "Roger Ducket t, scholar at the Grammar School, Bury, who in 
 1573 gave it to Robert Chabenor. 
 01. Paper, xvii. 
 
 92. Bractoo nil Ely or Norwich 
 
 Names occur of Nicholas Stewarde and Augustine Stewarde 
 (Mayor of Norwich ). 
 
 ' Lanthony 
 
 XIV 
 
 I i i i 
 
 xii & xi 
 
 suo optimus 
 
 Lanthony 
 perfecta ilia 
 
 Lanthony 
 mea ad 
 
 93. Bracton mut. utnnque xiv 
 Cat. ]>. 220, note 3. 
 
 94. Vitae Sanctorum 
 
 95. Aug. in Qenesim 
 Cat. no. 183, 4. 
 
 96. (1) Ebroicensis Epistola 
 
 (2) Qregorius in Ezechielem 
 Title. Greg. Buper Ezech. W. de folkyngham. 
 
 (3) Gregorii Homiliae xl xii Lanthony 
 Iste Liber constat ecclesie conuentuali Lanthoa prime in 
 
 Wallia ex mutuo concedit decanus herford 
 Cat. no. 120. 
 
 97. S. Thomas in Metaphysics etc. 
 Givm by Richard ( Jalne In 1 U5 
 
 98. Paper, xvii. 
 
 99. Brute Chronicle 
 
 Initials R. E. 
 Rogerus Cestrien&is. 
 
 100. Alexander in Aristotelem etc 
 
 101. Cassiani Collationes 
 Cat, no. 210. 
 
 102. Lucas et Johannes glosati. Fine 
 
 initials 
 Cat, no. 19. Begins with the Goapel-Canonf 
 
 Xlll 
 
 Lanthony 
 libro de anima 
 
 xiv 
 
 onuatas auro 
 
 xv Late 
 
 po malis 
 
 xiii 
 
 \ Lanthonj 
 
 
 institution! 
 
 xii. xiii 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 
 -Canons. 
 
 In montem 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
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 103. Decretals 
 
 Liber decretalium ecclesie b. 
 Gloucestr. 
 
 Cat. no. 235. 
 
 104. R. Higden Polychronicon etc. 
 Contains a Wheel of Fortune. 
 
 xiii Lanthony 
 
 marie Lanthonie iuxta 
 
 xiv, xv percussa est m 
 
 105. (1) Ric. Barre super Bibliam. 
 
 Large hand xiii Bury St Edm, 
 
 Liber Ricardi Barre super bibliam. R. 36. 
 
 (2) John Beleth. Extraordi- 
 
 narily small hand xii 
 
 Supplement (xiv). Hunc librum scripsit philippus capel- 
 lanus cuius anima requiescat in pace amen. 
 
 (3) Innocent. Decretals xiii secundum varie- 
 
 tatem 
 Comment follows : one or two scribbles in Hebrew. 
 
 106. Cypriani Epistolae etc. xii Lanthony 
 Liber Lanthoniensis ecclesie: qui eum alienauerit aua- 
 
 thema sit. 
 
 Cat. no. 190. 
 
 107. Hugo de Folieto. Table in red 
 
 frame on fly-leaf xii 
 
 Liber S. Marie de bildewas. 
 
 108. Acts in Slavonic. Paper. 
 
 109. Gregorii Moralia xii 
 Liber S. Marie de bildewas. 
 
 110. Exodus glosatus xiii 
 Cat. no. 26, 7. 
 
 111. Egidius in Aristotelem xiv 
 
 Buildwas 
 
 Build was 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 addatur 
 
 ? Norwich 
 
 Title on fly-leaf and on f. 1, like those in Norwich books. 
 
 si non est 
 
 112. Polychronicon xiv Lanthony 
 
 The name of Hugo de Lacy (founder of Lanthony) is on the 
 
 last leaf. summariam or dicitur 
 
22 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 113. Paper, xvi, xvii. 
 
 114. Libri Juclicum etc. glosati xiii Lanthony 
 Cat. no. 20. Belongs to the same set as 110. 
 
 dictionem quia 
 
 115. Sententiae xiv Utrum debeat or 
 
 cum esse homines 
 
 116. (1) Brito etc. xiii, xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 De libris S. Aug. Cant. Dist. Thome Abbatis. Jordanis 
 Liber T. Abbatis. Cat. f. 13. 
 
 (2) Bromyard. Mut. init. Bad hand. 
 
 117. Gawain Douglas's Virgil. Paper, xvi. 
 
 118. Henry of Huntingdon xii Merton 
 Liber Wyke donatus per executores suos ecclcsie. 
 
 b. marie merton in Com. Suit. (xvi). ditum nostrum 
 
 Lumley. 
 
 119. Johannes Supplier in Apoca- 
 
 lypsim (so title) xiii Lanthony 
 
 Cat. no. 130. laborantes ecclcsie 
 
 120. Hugutio xiv ? Bury 
 Iste liber est fratris Johannis Weysnham 1 464. proaui pater 
 A Robert de Wesyngham occurs in a Bury MS. (Harley 51). 
 See my Essay on the Abbey of Bury, p. 53. 
 
 121. Armachanus. Paper, xv. ideo videtur 
 
 122. P. Cantoris Verbum abbreviatum xiii ? Lanthony 
 
 quantitatem 
 Cat. no. 157. or statim 
 
 123-126. Paper, xvii. 
 
 127. I. de Abbatisvilla Sermones etc. xiii deputata 
 
 128. Johannes super Sextum xiv Lanthony 
 Left by Nicholas Kaerwent. 
 
 129. Joh. Damasceni Sententiae etc. xiv Lanthony 
 Left by John Leche. 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCHIPTS. 
 
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 130. Matthaeus glosatus xii 
 
 131. Brute Chronicle. Paper. 
 
 132. Mauricii Distinctiones xiv 
 Initial and border. 
 
 133. Hubertus super Regulam S. 
 
 Augustini xiv 
 
 Cat. no. 478 ? 
 
 134. (1) Isaias glosatus xii 
 
 Cat. no. 21 ? 
 
 (2) Jeremias glosatus xiii 
 
 135. Vita S. Thomae etc. xiii 
 Lumley. 
 
 136. Epistolae S. Thomae xii 
 
 ysaac autem 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 ad laborem 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 in contemplacione 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 
 trinitatem 
 
 or dicit dominus 
 
 uerba or turn est 
 
 etiam assessorum 
 
 comitem or 
 ne punienda 
 
 nulla notio 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 ut de ration e 
 
 137. Bartholomaeus de proprietatibus 
 
 rerum xiv 
 
 138. Seneca xiii 
 ' Bundle, 2. 7.' 
 The rest paper, including Vita Edwardi and Vita Thomae. 
 
 139. (1) Regulae Juris etc. xiii empcionem 
 
 mice ultra 
 
 (2) Liber iste est m. arnulfi quern N. capellanus dedit 
 
 illi. 
 
 140. Paper, xvi, xvii. 
 
 141. Aug. de Trinitate. Title on p. 1. xiii ? Exeter 
 C on fly-leaf. 
 
 142. (1) Pictavensis summa etc. 
 (2) 
 
 (3) Unum ex quatuor. Alex- 
 
 andri de Hospreng 
 D. ii. G. xii ua . Edwards, p. 202. 
 
 143. Burley. Paper and vellum. 
 
 nituntur 
 
 xiii, xiv nee comiennit 
 xiv totum human um 
 
 xiii 
 
 Chr. Ch. Cant, 
 notatur 
 
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 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 144. (1) Gregorii Pastoralis etc. xiv S. Aug. Cant. 
 Di. viii. gradu v°. sunt admirentur 
 Collectiones Thome de Cirencestria. Liber S. Aug. Cant. 
 At end : Liber Thome Cyrencestria quern dedit ecclesie S. 
 
 Aug. Cant, pro animabus patris et matris sue et omnium 
 fidelium defunctorum. Cat. f. 115. 
 
 (2) Gregorius in Ezechielem xii in eo lamenta- 
 
 Like Christ Church hand. tiones 
 
 145. (1) Ps. Chrysostomi opus im- 
 
 perfectum etc. xv Lanthony 
 
 From Richard Calne ' tempore quo fuit scolaris oxonie.' 
 (2) Chrysostomus de Peniten- 
 
 tia etc. xii Croyland 
 
 Inscription partly erased : liber iste de armariolo Croylondie 
 
 a.d. M. cc. septuag librum qui vocatur C S. iosephi 
 
 de mirabilibus mundi pro memoriali. 
 
 Also : liber Croylondie. 
 Bundle, 2. 8. 
 
 146. Ambrosius super Lucam 
 Cat. no. 122. 
 
 xii ? Lanthony 
 
 de publicano or 
 
 storum domini 
 
 Lesnes 
 
 147. (1) Beda super Parabolas xii 
 
 In red : hie liber est ecclesie b. marie de liesnes etc. 
 
 Hand very like Christ Church : an odd panelled initial in 
 
 red and green. 
 
 (2) Beda super Marcum xii ? Lanthony 
 
 Good initial. Cf. Cat. no. 136. uocatur 
 
 148. (1) Beda super Genesim 
 
 xii 
 
 Lanthony 
 tas cum 
 (2) Albinus super Genesim. Late title on last page : 
 In isto uol. continentur. 
 
 149. (1) Beda super Apocalypsim 
 Chain-mark at bottom of f. 1. 
 Aug. de adulterinis coniugiis etc. 
 
 x, XI 
 
 transitus 
 
 x, xi Crediton (Exeter) 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 25 
 
 f. 138. Given by ^Ethelward to St Mary's Church at 
 (name obliterated by galls : see Preface) in 1018. 
 On the same page is: 
 
 f sdpel f 8e]?elperd ealdorman gret. 
 
 And in green capitals : 
 
 A : IN NOMINE DOMINI. AMen. 
 LEOFRICUS PATER. 
 
 (2) Aug. Enchiridion etc. 
 Title at top of fly-leaf cut off. 
 Cf. Cat. 186. 
 
 xn 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 quod remissio 
 
 or autem ab alio 
 
 150. Aegidius de Regiinine Princi- 
 
 pum etc. xv 
 
 From John Leche. 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 151. Aug. et anselmi tractatus xiii Lanth. or Glouc. 
 Iste liber est de {erasure: ? ecclesia Lanth. iuxta) Glouc.' 
 Vol. 2 in a large xiii th cent. hand. 
 
 152. Gregorii moralia xii, xiii 
 Cat. no. 45-7. 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 uel etiam 
 
 153. (1) Isaias glosatus 
 
 xv th cent, title. Cat. 33-35, 71. 
 ' (2) Gospels : fine large hand 
 (3) Lucas glosatus 
 
 xn 
 
 xu 
 xiii 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 sacrifices 
 
 genu it ioatham 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 
 xv th cent, title. In isto uol. continetur lucas glosatus. 
 Item diuersi sermones cum aliis, etc. 
 
 154. Exodus glosatus xii 
 Liber mag. philippi de sancto breauel. 
 Cat. no. 26, 7. 
 
 155. Paper, xvi. 
 
 156. Historia scholastica 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 xiv 
 
 tenebre vnde 
 
 Rob. Hare 1566. 
 
 At end a Cautio of 1488. 
 
 157. 
 
 158. 
 
 xvi. 
 Armachanus 
 
 xiv 
 
 auctoris qui 
 
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 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 159. Vitae Sanctorum (controversy 
 
 about S. Dunstan), paper and 
 
 vellum xvi Chr. Cb. Cant. 
 
 Liber d. Jacobi Hartey monachi ecclesie Christi Cant. 
 Later names : Will. Hadley, John Sarysbury, Ric. Hatton. 
 
 160. Polychronicon. Good ornaments xiv Franciscan 
 Memoriale fr. Willelmi broscumbe magistri. K. ij. 
 
 contra nature 
 
 I. Winterus (xvi). 
 161. Bernard us super Cantica 
 
 162. Repertorium Bibliae (paper) 
 
 163. Vita S. Bernardi 
 On fly-leaf: Alwoldesle Cathedralium. 
 Lumley. 
 
 Xlll 
 
 XV 
 
 ex dignitate 
 or eorum legitur 
 
 xiv dei domum suam 
 
 164. Epistolae Pauli sec. Anselmum 
 Title on fly-leaf. Cat. no. 155, 6. 
 
 xn 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 dilectis 
 
 165. (1) Canones Poenitentiales xii, xiii Lanthony 
 
 (2) Homiliae xii nocentem cum 
 
 Title as in no. 153 and the name Morganus canonicus de 
 
 Kermerd. 
 
 prudentiam 
 
 166. Legal 
 
 xiv 
 
 167. Paper, xvi. 
 
 
 168. Ockam. Paper and vellum 
 
 XV 
 
 169. Bradwardine de causa dei 
 Title (xv) at top of f. 1. 
 Lumley. 
 
 xiv bonum et malum 
 or vel si oporteat 
 
 170. Psalterium glosatum. Good out- 
 line initial 
 Cat. no. 48 sqq. 
 
 xii early Lanthony 
 eos et dominus 
 
 171. Constitutions 
 
 xiv accepta a sacer- 
 dote 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 27 
 
 172. Concordance xiv 
 
 Has two letters of fraternity to Giles Tylor and Christina 
 his wife, 
 
 (1) From Austin Friars. Salopie, 1383. 
 
 (2) From Carmelites. Bristol, 1382. 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 
 XI 
 
 173. Egesippus 
 Visiones. 
 
 Names : master dan Thomas hobyll. 
 
 Euerard. 
 Cat. no. 129. 
 
 174. Petrus de Crescentiis 1440 
 Edo. Orwell, 1586. 
 
 175. 
 
 176. (1) Petrus Comestor sermones xiii 
 Cat. no. 145. 
 
 (2) Io. Beleth. 
 
 (3) Comm. in Psalmos. 
 
 (4) „ „ „ 
 
 177, 8. Paper, xv, xvi. 
 
 179. (1) Henry of Huntingdon etc. 
 
 sue successorem 
 
 xm 
 
 (2) Statutes 
 
 (3) Paper, xvi. 
 
 180. Russel in Cantica etc. 
 
 est ne sit 
 
 Lanthony 
 hunc modum 
 
 asinam 
 
 his ut uerba 
 
 que carnaliter 
 
 sit britannia 
 or diuisa 
 
 xv 
 
 xiv 
 
 ? Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 Postille super cantica fr. Thome Stoyl. h 1 ille 
 
 T. Stoyl was monk of Chr. Ch.: see Defectus librorum, 1337. 
 
 181. Polychronicon 
 
 Liber Th. dakecomb 1550. 
 
 xiv 
 
 bique et per 
 
 182. (1, 2) Paper, xvi. 
 
 (3) De penetentiis et remissionibus : Bundle 2. 4. 4. 
 
 (4) Expositio Gallice in orat. Dominica: Bundle 2. 4. 1. 
 
 183. Chronica T. Rudborne. Paper, xv. 
 
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 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 184. Egidius de Regimine Princi- 
 
 pum etc. late xv Westminster 
 
 I. Foxus. Has arms of Westminster Abbey. et grosse 
 
 185. Hildeberti Sermones xii St Auo\ Cant. 
 Liber S. Aug. Cant. Sermones Noui Abbatis Rogerii D. 
 
 claudi erant 
 
 viii. G. ii. Cat. f. 49. 
 
 186. Psalter 
 Kershaw, p. 42. 
 
 187. Bernard us super Cantica 
 Cat. no. 140. Odd initials. 
 
 188. Flores Historiarum 
 
 late xv 
 
 xii 
 
 xiv 
 
 A few leaves in the middle are of cent. xiii. 
 
 189. Hugo de Sacramentis xiii 
 
 Liber lanthoniensis ecclesie. Cat. no. 217, 18. 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 oris sui 
 
 sec. lxx. inter- 
 pretes 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 190. 
 
 (1) Biblia 
 
 (2) Brito. 
 
 xiv 
 
 191. Beda super Parabolas, mut. init. xii 
 Bundle 2. 10. Cf. Cat. no. 345. 
 
 192. (1) Rebot Historia Carmeli- 
 tarum. Belonged to Bale 
 (2) The same in English. 
 Liber Johannis Caw r . 
 
 xv 
 
 XV 
 
 XV 
 
 193. Ordinale Carmelitarum 
 
 194. De Sedacione Schismatis 
 Liber ecclesie xpi Cant. (xv). 
 Ingram, no. 172. 
 
 195. Priscian. xv th cent, title 
 Liber ? lanthoniensis ecclesie ex dono gaufredi 
 Meneuensis episcopi. Cat. no. 372. 
 
 xv 
 
 xn 
 
 196. Priscian 
 
 Liber Lanthonie iuxta Gloucest'. 
 
 xi, xn 
 
 hanc garula 
 ? Lanthony 
 
 debriare 
 
 monachorum 
 
 quando ut 
 
 Chr. Ch. Cant, 
 tuor sunt 
 
 Lanthony 
 gl'aribus 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 Cat. no. 371 etc. 
 
 Philosophi 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 29 
 
 A rhyming poem on the fly-leaves, beginning : 
 In aspectam nube tectam 
 sero arthon intuens. 
 Dum mirarer et testarer 
 nubes esse renuens. 
 
 197. Psalterium glosatum xii 
 Cat. no. 48 sqq. Very odd rude pale initials. 
 
 198, 1986. Consuetudines Petrobur- xiv, xv 
 
 genses of Abbot Richard Ashton. 
 John Trentham. 
 
 p. 29. 
 Cata- 
 mark, 
 
 199. Historia Bibliae xii 
 Sententiae etc. 
 
 200. (1) Bacon, paper xv 
 
 (2) Aldhelm. Kershaw 
 
 Front, to Todd's 
 log ue. Walt ham 
 cxxx al. ca. ? ix 
 
 (3) Distinctiones super Psalte- 
 
 rium etc. xiii 
 
 xv th cent, title. Above, in pencil : 
 
 Iste liber est de prioris lanthonie prime. 
 
 On the fly-leaf is a note on king Anna. 
 A Litany has Kyneburga (of Gloucester). 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 astiternnt 
 
 Peterborough 
 Written by 
 
 uitulos 
 or desperaui 
 
 Walt ham 
 
 dante 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 201. Ausr. in Genesim 
 
 202. Aug. Sermones etc. 
 
 xm 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 tendit 
 
 xii, xiii deus pater 
 
 Contemporary table headed: 
 
 Isti sunt libri quos corpus continet istud. 
 
 203. Aug. Confessions etc. 
 
 xii, xm 
 
 Exetei 
 
 Damus ecclesie nostre Exon. quia multum laboraui in 
 corrigendo. J. Exon. (Grandison.) 
 
 On f. 118 : Ego J. de G. scripsi hec dum studerem parisiis, 
 and other like notes. 
 
30 
 
 THE LAMBKTH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 204. Gregorii Dialogi etc. x ?Ely 
 Interlaced work in initials: minuscule hand: heading in 
 
 capitals. 
 
 At end : Da ajfter seadgares cininges ford side on dam 
 ge];alce. 
 
 On the last leaf a wheel in yellow. 
 
 Arms of Robert Stewarde, last Prior of Ely. 
 
 205. Bartholomaeus de Casibus xiv ab excommuni- 
 Scribbles at end, and some macaronic verses. catione 
 
 206. (1) Comm. in Matthaeum xv late 
 John Aleyn de Oxbourgh on fly-leaf at end. 
 
 (2) Io. de Rupella xiii 
 
 Vnde malum. Roberti de Hoi. Senior. 
 
 207. Epistolae Pauli glosatae. Good 
 
 outline initials xii 
 
 Liber ecclesie b. Thome martiris de liesncs. 
 
 208. Isaias glosatus 
 
 xn 
 
 celesti 
 ip(s)e est 
 
 Lesnes 
 gratie nobis 
 
 Lanthony 
 visio or ceram 
 
 xv th cent, title. Morgan us canon de Kermerd. 
 
 209. Apocalypse, pictured xiii 
 Lumley. 
 
 Kershaw, p. 47. 
 
 Pal. Soc. It contains the picture and arms of a Lady de 
 Quincey : probably executed at Canterbury. At the end are 
 full-page paintings of the Life of St John, the Story of Theo- 
 philus, and various saints. 
 
 210. Baldewini opera 
 At end : liber sancte marie Joreuallis. 
 
 211. Th. Bekynton Epistolae 
 
 212. Nic. de Clemangiis 
 Lumley. The fly-leaf is a document. 
 
 213. Missal xiv ? Irish 
 Masses of SS. Finnan, David, Chad, etc. at end. 
 
 xii, xiii 
 
 Jervaux 
 
 
 tio ut res 
 
 xv late 
 
 Wells 
 
 
 cession is 
 
 xv late 
 
 cure sue 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 31 
 
 214. Aug. tractatns. Several volumes. 
 xiv th cent, table 
 At end : 
 Chatteris etc 
 
 xii, xiii, xiv Ely 
 
 Inquisitio jurisdictionis prioratus de Ely in 
 
 tacionibus 
 
 215. Athanasius de Trinitate xii, xiii 
 xv th cent, title. Memoriale de Lanthonia. 
 Cat. no. 111. 
 
 216. Oculus sacerdotum xiv 
 Cat. p. 212, note 3. P. Laur. at end. 
 
 217. (1) lob glosatus xii 
 Cat. no. 66. 
 
 (2) lob glosatus, fragment xii 
 Cat. no. 67 ? 
 
 (3) Matheus imperfectus [et 
 
 Johannes glosatus in -1- 
 volumine] xii 
 
 De v t0 gradu primi armarii. Cat. no. 16, 85. 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 penitentiam 
 
 Lanthony 
 deus ait 
 
 Lanthony 
 quad am 
 
 218 
 
 (4) Pauli Epistolae 
 
 . (1) Gregorii Pastoralis 
 xv th cent, title. Cat. no. 124, 5. 
 (2) Cassiani Collationes 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 autem 
 
 genuit 
 
 xii e fidem 
 
 xii Lanthony 
 
 necessitas 
 xiv Bury St Edm. 
 
 Liber S. Edmundi Regis in quo continentur I. 23 
 
 Ioh. Cassianus de septem collacionibus patrum. 
 
 (3) Alcuini Epistolae ix Bury St Edm. 
 
 Mut. init. Title (xiv) written on 1st page of erased text. 
 On the fly-leaf of the Cassian is gratiarum 
 
 E. 43. Epistole Albyni siue Alcuyni. 
 
 On the same leaf (recto) and in the same hand is a para- 
 graph beginning : 
 
 Vir illustris et facundus Johannes Cassianus multa scripsit 
 utilia inter que patrum antiquorum regulas et instituta et 
 xxiiii 01 ' collaciones eorundem conscripsit que certe opuscula 
 multam edifjcacionem, etc. 
 
 At the end is a statement about the reading of the Colla- 
 tions ' ut habetur in regula ca.° xiii et ca. lxxiii .' 
 
32 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 Vide originalia xxiiii collacioimm patrum in registro librorum 
 in J. 35. 
 
 219. Gisleberfcus in Psalterium. Fine 
 
 initial to Ps. i xii ? Lanthony 
 
 At top of f. 1 psalterium Gileberti uniuersalis. contra 
 
 Small hand of Christ Church type. Cat. no. 54. eura 
 
 220. Lucas glosatus xiii ? Lanthony 
 Cat. no. 33-5. vbi domino or deum 
 
 secundum 
 
 221. Tabula Coldrini etc. xv Exeter or Ottery 
 Table to Holkot signed ' hec orum.' 
 
 Will of John Grandison, followed by a note on his foundation 
 of Ottery St Mary. 
 
 Sermons xiv and xv in many hands. 
 Letters, f. 262 sqq., paper. Lumley. 
 
 222. Legenda Aurea xiv Crich 
 Per manus Willelmi de Weston vicarii de Crych. retro 
 Rich. Hauk, Vicar of Crich, gives the book to the parish. 
 
 223. Golden Legend in English verse xiv 
 
 Written by R. W. of J?is toun. To a gode man of )?e same is 
 cleped Thomas of Wottoun. 
 Johannes Raynscroft. 
 
 224. Anselmi opera xii quod hec or 
 Written by William of Malmesbury. bonus equus 
 Inscription (xv) : Liber M. T. Stevynson ex dono M. J. 
 
 Mersham cuius anime deus propicietur. 
 
 Liber m. rowlandi philipp. vicarii de croydon. 
 At top of original table of contents : 
 
 Disputat anselmus presul cantorbiriensis 
 Scribit willelmus monachus malmesberiensis 
 Ambos gratiflce complectere lector amice. 
 At the top of f. 1 of text : -xxvj- 
 
 On fly-leaves at end Cautiones : one of xiii s iiij d ciste uni- 
 uersitatis. 
 
 225. 6. Paper, xvi, xvii. 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 33 
 
 227. Comm. in Psalmos (Egredimini) 
 xv th cent, title. Cat. no. 48 etc. 
 
 xii, 
 
 xiii 
 
 Lanthony 
 prophetie 
 
 228. Matthaeus glosatus 
 Cat. no. 41-44. 
 
 
 
 
 xii, 
 
 xiii Lanthony 
 In nullo or natus 
 
 229. Matthaeus glosatus 
 Cat. no. 41-44. 
 
 
 
 
 xiii 
 
 
 Lanthony 
 id in terram 
 or liber 
 
 230. Matthaeus glosatus 
 Cat. no. 41-44. Erasure 
 
 on 
 
 fly- 
 
 leaf. 
 
 xiii 
 
 
 Lanthony 
 hie est or cui 
 prima 
 
 231. Matthaeus glosatus 
 
 
 
 
 xii 
 
 
 Lanthony 
 
 xv th cent, title. Morganus canon, de Kermerd. liber 
 
 Cat. no. 41-44. 
 
 232. Seneca de Beneflciis: de de- 
 
 mentia xii non est 
 
 Erasure on fly-leaf. 
 
 233. Psalter. Exceedingly fine xiv 
 
 The blank page following Kalendar has in pencil 
 Memento mei domine quod J. Rowham. 
 
 At the bottom of f. 1 of text are just such grotesques as in 
 the Morris MS. at the Fitzwilliam Museum (no. 242). 
 
 There are armorial line-fillings. Those of commonest 
 occurrence are : 
 
 (1) cheeky of arg. and gu. (2) az. cinqfoils or. (3) gu. 
 3 lions or. (4) gu. 3 butterflies (?) arg. (5) chequers or and 
 az. (6) az. two bends sinister arg. 
 
 Exaudi domine (ci) has a crowned man kneeling at an altar. 
 In the spandrels are arms : arg. 2 chevrons az. in chief 
 2 bezants gu. 
 
 Dixit dominus is cut out. 
 
 Ad dominum (cxix). A lady kneeling. Arms in the span- 
 drels arg. 2 fesses gu. in chief 3 bezants of the second. 
 
 The Kalendar in French, in blue, red, and gold. 
 
 Feb. S. William Conf. 
 
 Mar. Patrice, Edward, Cuthbert. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. 3 
 
34 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 Ap. Richard, Alphege, Wlfrid euesk de Beuerlee. 
 June 7. Seint Will', de euerewyk. 
 
 9. Transl. de S. Edmund le erceueske. 
 
 10. Transl. S. emund Ca?itu. 
 
 Botolf. Transl. of Edward k. m., Paulin, Etbeldred. 
 Oct 6. Transl. S. hue de Nich' (= Lincoln). 
 
 Wlfrid euesk, fredeswide. 
 Nov. emoun erceueske, Edmoun roy e. martir. 
 Kershaw, p. 56. 
 
 234. Paper, xvi. 
 
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 462. Paper, xvi. 
 
 463. Atlas. Fine title with Garter 
 
 and Arms of France and 
 
 England quarterly xvi 
 
 Robert Hare 1564. Contains (1) Table, (2) 12 maps, (3) 
 compass in cover inscribed in English. No doubt by Baptista 
 Agnese. 
 
 464. 5. Paper, xvii. 
 
 466. Musica W. Chelle. Paper, xvi. 
 467-70. Paper, xvii. 
 
 471. (1) Virgil. Title (xiii) on f. 1 
 
 at bottom xii Florentem 
 
 Picture of Meliboeus, and Tityrus piping. 
 
 (2) Alexandreis xii, xiii Primus 
 
 or Interior. 
 
 472. W. Hilton. Well written xv 
 
 f. 260. This boke was maad of the goodis of Jon Killum, 
 etc. 
 
 At end a note that 'this boke be deliuered to Richard Colop 
 Parchemanere of London after my discesse.' 
 
 Also ' per me dom. Job. Giaunt. 1493.' 
 
 473. Summa de Vitiis. Mut. init. xiii 
 
 At end a note of obits of John Rychemund, Rob. Keteryng, 
 monks ' monasterii appostolorum petri et pauli.' Also the 
 names Roger Byrde, Rich. Oxford. 
 
 474. Horae. Kershaw, p. 39. 
 
 475. (1) W. Hilton xv 
 Job. Barkham 1612. 
 
 (2) Vita Roberti Bethune. 
 
 Large hand xii Lanthony 
 
 Title : Vita domini Roberti de Bethune herfordensis Epi- 
 
 scopi. gentia 
 Cf. Cat. no. 341. 
 
 G. A. S. Octavo Series. 4 
 
50 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 476. Bible. Minute hand. xiii inter omnes 
 
 477. Pictor in Carmine (ff. 3-11) xiii 
 Themata, 
 
 Concordance, 
 and much else, in small hands. 
 
 478. (1) Andreas Floccus xv late 
 Liber Will. Horman (Head Master of Eton). 
 
 (2) Lyndwood's Provincial. 
 
 479. Lyndwood xv late 
 
 At end is ' Alma redemptoris mater,' with musical notes. 
 
 480. Sermons. (Hora est) xiii et erexit 
 
 481. Hugo de S. Victore etc. Many 
 
 hands xiii etc. Lanthony 
 
 xv th cent, title on last page. 
 liber nonus at top, and old title in red. 
 
 482. Epistolae Pontificum xv-xvi Canterbury 
 Foreign : good stamped binding with ihesus MARIA. 
 Matthaeus Davis. 
 
 483. Lincolniensis. Oculus Moralis, 
 
 etc. xiv Durham 
 
 Liber S. Cuthberti Dunelra. ...cuius usus conceditur 
 
 domino Roberto Ebchester. De coi A lium or duricia 
 
 484. Pore Caitif etc. xv 
 
 485. Flores Bernardi. Small, like a 
 
 Bible xiii ? Lanthony 
 
 Cf. Cat. no. 141. solus 
 
 486. Albertus in Sententias xiii ? Thurgarton 
 
 nomen tribuo 
 Constat Ric. Forsett Canonicus(?) de Th ton (xv). 
 
 487. Saxon Homilies. (Cum appro- 
 
 pinquasset) xii, xiii on J?isse liue 
 
 488. Sermons etc. Paper and vellum xiii Buildwaa 
 
 The vellum sermons are ' monasterii de buldewas per d. 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 51 
 
 Joh. quowsal abbatem.' Given to Henr. de Valle, monachus 
 Sarresmace (?). 
 
 489. Saxon Homilies. A small book, 
 
 well written, inner corners of 
 the leaves mutilated xi 
 
 490. Paper, xvi, xvii. 
 
 491. Chron. etc. Paper and vellum xv 
 
 492. Hampole xv 
 
 493. Brute Chronicle xv late quod demones 
 John St Leger. Petrus Shee. 
 
 494-5. Paper xvi, xvii. 
 
 496. Horae. Foreign, not good xvi 
 Kershaw, p. 65. 
 
 497. Ailred etc. Sermons. Binding : 
 
 skin over boards xii, xiii Reading 
 
 hie est liber S. Marie de Rading. plagis 
 
 498. Paupertas xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 De librario S. Aug. Cant. dist. 9. g. 6. et pereuntibus 
 Cat. f. 57. 
 
 499. Collections. Bound in skin over 
 
 boards xii ora. de uero 
 
 Old table on a label sewed to f. 1. Minute hand, much 
 contracted. 
 
 500. Hampole. Very neat 
 
 501. Secreta Secretorum. English 
 ' Sheldonianus.' John Campe. 
 
 502. Grammatica. Many hands 
 Apparently a lot of fragments. 
 
 503. Galfridus Monumetensis 
 Liber d. Ricardi ap Robert Cantariat. s. anne infra monast. 
 
 Shaftonie. redes 
 
 Given by Fr. Bernard in 1684. W. Lambard 1566, Th. 
 Lambard 1637. 
 
 4—2 
 
 xiv 
 
 facti sum us 
 
 XV 
 
 
 xii, xiii 
 
 
 xiv 
 
 Shaftesbury 
 
52 
 
 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 504. Robert de Aluesbury xiv Qe touz 
 On f. 1 (xvi): -g- Rob. de Aluesbury. 
 
 505. Michael de Massa 1430 Sail (Norf.) 
 ' Fecit fieri Mag. Will, de Wode, Rector de Salle, quern 
 
 scripsit Edmundus South welle in Rectoria de Salle, a. d. 1430. 
 In skin over boards : circuit edge. Given by Sheldon. 
 
 506. Will. Worcester xv 
 507-21. Paper, xvi, xvii. 
 
 522. Grosseteste. French poem xiv St Aug. Cant. 
 Di. xvi. Gra. mi. Tractatus domini Lincoln, et multa alia 
 
 in Gallico. Erasure follows. a adam 
 
 Small pictures in text : 
 
 1. Lincolniensis teaching a crowd. 
 
 2. f. 41). Monk adoring Crucifix. 
 
 3. f. 65. Monk adoring Virgin and Child. 
 
 4. f. 73. St Fraocis(?) preaching. 
 Cat. f. 112a. 
 
 523. Lincolniensis Oculus Bioralis xiv 
 524-6. Paper, xvii. 
 
 nus m ceterorum 
 
 o'li 
 
 Chronicle. French 
 
 xiv 
 
 528. IV Evangelia (Codex Ephesinus) 
 
 Graece xii 
 
 529. Lyra etc. xv 
 Italian. Initial with bust <>f Francis or Lyra. 
 
 _ • 
 
 studiosos 
 
 530. Aurora xii, xiii 
 
 Erasure of two lines at bottom of f. 1. 
 
 venire 
 
 531. Aurora. Vellum wrapper : very 
 
 like the last. Mut. init. xii. xiii 
 
 532. Wycliffite, xv 
 
 533. Bible 
 
 N. T. etc. 
 
 xm 
 
 le reseruamt 
 
 534. Bible 
 
 Xlll, XIV 
 
 Arklow 
 
 On the fly-leaf an undertaking of the Prior and Dominicans 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 53 
 
 of ' Arclowe ' to keep the anniversary of Robert Dowdall etc. 
 (xiv). 
 
 Litany has Edmund, 
 
 535. Psalter. Small foreign pictures 
 
 of the Passion xv 
 
 Kalendar Dominican. 
 Wenefreda. 
 
 Kershaw, p. 68. 
 
 536. Musica Ecclesiastica xv 
 Mag. hugo barker. 
 
 Dom. Joh. Laythlay. 
 
 537. Paper, xvii. 
 
 538. Constitutions. Mut. init. xv 
 539. 
 
 dit et 
 
 English 
 Fremund, 
 
 ad deum 
 
 tur si 
 
 Hildebrandi in Matthaeum Horn. 
 
 xli-lxxxiiii xii seminat 
 
 In a very curious hand. Notes of xiv, xv. 
 
 540. Psalterium Ivonis xii Lanthony 
 
 Label on fly-leaf: psalterium Iuonis (David ?). domine quid 
 After the first word or two the rest of each verse is 
 
 indicated by initials only. 
 Cat. no. 61. 
 
 541. Wyclifrite, xiv. 
 
 542. Aug. Regula etc. Mut. init. 
 
 xm 
 
 ? Lanthony 
 sed sicut 
 
 543. Statutes, xv. 
 
 544. Bible xiii 
 
 545. Horae of Lewkenor family xiv 
 
 Picture of the Rood of Bromholm. Kershaw, p. 66. 
 
 546. Devotions. English late xv 
 
 547. Wycliffite N. T. xiv 
 
 548. Arabic. 
 
 549. Paper, xvii. 
 
 ceptis 
 
54 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 550. Hugonis etc. Sermones. (Ibo 
 
 mild ad montem mirre) xii in valle 
 
 Many hands. The Eegula S. Augustini occurs. 
 
 551. WyclifFe Questiones xv 
 Wrapped in a leaf of Aug. xi-xii. 
 
 552-5. Paper and vellum, xvi, xvii. 
 
 556. Statutes xvi 
 
 557. Collectanea. Mut, init. 'Bundle 
 
 3 rd ' xiii ?Lanthony 
 
 On f. 187 : ' Col J. super matth. secundum fr. W. de Ethel.' 
 
 558. Psalter etc. Kershaw, p. 58 xiii Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 qui non 
 
 Rough pictures. Full page : Annunciation, Nativity, Angel 
 and Shepherds, Adoration of Magi, Massacre of Innocents, Jesse 
 tree, ' Psalterium dompni Joh. Holyngborne.' (Monk of Christ 
 Church.) 
 
 There are other full page pictures at the Nocturnes. At 
 f. 140 the hand changes to one of xiv, xv th cent. 
 
 In the Litany : 
 
 Martyrs : Thoma ii, Aelphegi ii. 
 
 Confessors: Augustine cum sociis, Odo, Dunstane ii, Ed- 
 munde...Wlgani...Cuthbert, Swithun, Fursey, Wilfrid, Paulinas, 
 Romanus, Wlstan, Richard, Hugo...Cuthlace, Columban. 
 
 Virgins: Etheldreda, Mildreda, Eadburga, Ositha, Fredes- 
 wida. 
 
 Then follow Cantica Monialia, Hymns, Office of the dead, etc. 
 
 559. Horae. (Devotions) xiv ? 
 
 560. Horae. On binding : iacob il- 
 
 luminator ME FECIT XV 
 
 English verse at end. 
 
 561. Horae xv early 
 
 562. xvi. 
 
 563. Psalter. Kershaw, p. 76. Ban- 
 
 croft's initials on the cover xiii St Neots 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 55 
 
 Kalendar. Obits of Abbots of Bee and Abps. 
 
 31 July. Neotus in blue. 
 
 7 Dec. Transl. S. Neoti in red. 
 Hymns for St Neot at end. 
 Fine initials : at Dixit dominns is the Creation of Eve. 
 
 564. Registrum Brevium xiii, xiv 
 
 Pretty initial and ornaments. 
 
 565-6. Paper, xvi. 
 
 567. Registrum Brevium. Larger xiv 
 Belonged to Cosin. 
 
 568. Paper, xvii. 
 569-766. Oriental 
 
 CODICES CAREWANI. 
 
 596. French poem on the Conquest 
 
 of Ireland. Mut. at each end xiii 
 
 598. Bray's Conquest of Ireland xv 
 
 622. Giraldus Cambrensis xv manus et 
 
 633. Iohn Yonge xv 
 
 At end : 
 Gracia nulla perit nisi gracia Blakmonachorum" 
 Est et semper erit litill thank in fine laborum 
 
 per me IJ Robart Rawson. 
 
 CODICES TENISONIANI. 
 
 643, 4. Bulls. • 
 
 693. Petronius, paper xvi 
 
 Daniel Roger. John Lawson. 
 742. Siege of Thebes. Lydgate xv 
 
 752. Frontinus. Old cover xiii ceptis 
 
 Vegetius. 
 Title on 2 Dd cover in ink. 
 
56 
 
 THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 756. Bible 
 
 Biblia m ri barison. 
 
 xm 
 
 759. Sallust xv Italian 
 
 Title on fty-leaf (xv) in English hand. cum moribus 
 
 761. Vita S. Edwardi xiii Westminster and 
 
 Gloucester 
 
 Left by Islip Abbot of Westminster with Th. Seabroke 
 
 Abbot of Gloucester. The inscription to this effect is, I think, 
 
 by Robert Hare. laurentio 
 
 853. English Verse xv 
 
 Ed. Furnivall, E. E. T. S. Religious Pieces. 
 
 877. Hugo de claustro animae xiv 
 
 Small foreign book. 
 
 CODICES MISCELLANEI. 
 
 1106. (1) Flores Historiarum xiv 
 
 W. Darelli (Prebendary of Canterbury d. 1566) 
 N. Brigam (d. 1559). 
 Earl of Clarendon. 
 (2) Chronicle 
 1 per me Eliam de T?^'kyngham.' 
 
 1152. Bible 
 
 1158. Psalter. Mut. 2 columns 
 Sarum Litanies at end. 
 
 1170, 71. Chronological Rolls. 
 
 latinos 
 
 xii 
 
 Peterborough 
 dclxxix 
 
 xiii 
 
 litteras 
 
 xiv, xv 
 
 
 CODICES MANNERS-SUTTONIANI. 
 1208. Armachanus late xv alienando 
 
 xiii Canterbury 
 
 1212. Canterbury Privileges 
 Lumley. 
 
 1213. Documents 
 
 xiv 
 
 St Aug. Cant, 
 yname 
 
THE LAMBETH MANUSCRIPTS. 5 7 
 
 In isto libello multa et diuersa sunt compilata undecunque 
 collecta prout patet in secundo folio proxime subsequent^ 
 
 Et est liber fratris Will 1 de Byholte cuius anime propicietur 
 deus Amen. 
 
 It was 'assigned' by W. de Byholte to Petrus de 
 Wroteham. 
 
 At end, partly cut off, is : 
 
 Will 1 de Byholte — Itinera Justiciariorum. 
 
 (Unnumbered) 
 
 Gospels of MacDurnan x Chr. Ch. Cant. 
 
 In Parkerian binding, and marked with Parker's red chalk. 
 
 2 fo. Eliud 
 On f. 3 b 
 
 + M3:iELBRIDVS • MAC 
 
 DVRNANI • ISTV • TEXTV 
 
 PER TRPTVADRV • DO 
 
 DIGNE • DOGMATIZAT 
 >J< AST • AETHELSTANVS 
 
 ANGLOS^EX^A • REX • ET 
 
 RECTOR • DORVERNENSI 
 
 METROPOLI • DAT • P • ^EVV 
 
 At the end of Matthew is an ADglo-Saxon charter of Abp 
 Wulfstan, and a Latin donation of Canute in the Christ Church 
 hand. 
 
 See Kershaw, p. 27. 
 
 Westwood. Miniatures and ornaments of Anglo-Saxon 
 and Irish MSS. 
 
 Pal. Soc. 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTE. 
 
 I will here venture to add a short note of* such other 
 Lanthony MSS. as have come under my notice. I shall be 
 very glad to hear of additions to the list. 
 
 Catalogue (printed by H. Omont). 
 
 45-47. Libri moralium Gregorii in tribus voluminibus 
 magnis. 
 
 Probably two volumes at Trinity College, Oxford (39, 40), 
 given by Fr. Baber, Chancellor of Gloucester. 
 
 107. Clemens super Actus Apostolorum, liber mediocris. 
 British Museum, Royal MS. 2. D. v. Probably autograph. 
 
 113. Jeronimus super Ezechielem, magnum volumen. 
 Trin. Coll. Oxford 68. Given by Baber. 
 
 114. Jeronimus super Danielem, magnum volumen. 
 
 Trin. Coll. Oxford 69. ' Liber Lantoniensis ecclesie.' Given 
 by Baber. 
 
 117. Jeronimus super Mattheum, magnum volumen. 
 Trin. Coll. Oxford 33. Given by Baber. 
 
 148. Liber Ysidori de differenciis, mediocre volumen. 
 Cambridge University Library, Dd. 10. 25. ' Liber lantonie. 
 
 158. Paschasius de corpore Domini [et Lanfrancus contra 
 Berengarium]. 
 
 Trin. Coll. Oxford 51. Given by Baber. 
 
 168. Aug. de verbis Domini et de verbis apostoli, magnum 
 volumen. 
 
 Queen's Coll. Oxford 309. 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTE. 59 
 
 225. Exceptiones Roberti de Bracii, mediocris liber. 
 British Museum, Royal MS. 8. D. viii. 
 
 234. Decreta W(alteri) prions in uno volumine cooperto 
 viridi pelle. 
 
 Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 154, containing many Lan- 
 thony documents. 
 
 p. 220, note 3 . Libri de jure terre qui dicitur Gracton 
 {I. Bracton). Sold at the Phillipps' sale 1896, lot 136 : of 
 cent, xiii, xiv : contained Lanthony documents. 
 
 In addition to this I have encountered other books too late 
 to be included in the fourteenth century catalogue. These are : 
 
 Trinity College, Oxford. 
 
 13. Hymns and Prayers : were owned by John Leche. 
 
 14. Nicolai de Munshulle opus grammaticum : belonged 
 
 to John Leche. 
 16 A . R. Hampole's Prick of Conscience : belonged to 
 
 John Leche. 
 49. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: belonged to John Leche. 
 
 Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 
 
 83. Polychronicon (xv) : ' olim abbatiae Lanthoniensis.' 
 192. Rationale Lanthoniense (xiv). 
 
 Both these books were given by Henry Parry to the College. 
 It is probable that among his other gifts some at least are from 
 Lanthony. They are : 
 
 32. Bernardi meditationes etc. xiii 
 
 33. Sermones etc. xiii 
 
 36. Sermons etc. in French xiv early 
 
 38. Regula S. Augustini xiii 
 
 Vita S. Thomae ? = Cat. no. 273 
 
 42. Mariale xiv 
 
 Barlaam et Josaphat etc. 
 
 44. Sarum Pica xv 
 
 48. Paterius etc. xiii 
 
60 ADDITIONAL NOTE. 
 
 52. 
 
 P. Lombardi Sententiae xiii 
 
 55. 
 
 Ricardi de Pophis Summa xiv 
 
 
 (belonged to John Dee) 
 
 59. 
 
 Anticlaudianus etc. xiii 
 
 
 ? Cat. 316 a Gloucestershire book 
 
 62. 
 
 Grammatica latina versifice xiii 
 
 ? Cat. 442 
 
 68. Constantinus de febribus xiii 
 
 ? Cat. 460 
 
 72. Jo. Andreae Summa xv 
 
 78. Brute Chronicle in French xv 
 
 103. Anon. Universalia etc. xv 
 
 107. Will. Heddim super Aristo- xiv 
 
 telem de Anima 
 
 114. Aristotelis Physica etc. xiii 
 
 119. Kelwarby super Priscianum xiii 
 etc. 
 
 [122. Gospels xi. Irish] 
 
 139. Cassiodorus de anima etc. xn 
 
 ? Cat. 211 
 157. Chronicles of Worcester, and xii 
 Marianus Scotus 
 Probably from Worcester : belonged to T. Straynsham 
 (monk) who gave it to W. T. Powycke, monk of Great Malvern, 
 in 1480. 
 
 159. Historia scholastica xiv 
 
 a Gloucestershire book 
 162. Pupilla oculi xiv 
 
 194. Aug. de quantitate animae etc. xii 
 ? Cat. 180 
 
I. INDEX OF PLACES TO WHICH MANUSCRIPTS 
 CAN BE TRACED. 
 
 Abingdon 42 
 Arklow '534 
 
 Bristol (St Augustine's) 355 
 Buildwas 107, 109, 488 
 Bury St Edmunds 67, 90, 105, ? 120, 
 218 2 ' 3 , ?342 2 , ?362 
 
 Canterbury : 
 
 Christ Church 20, 59, 62, 69, 78, 
 142 », 159, ?180, 194, (209), 242, 
 243, 244, 303, 415, 482, 558, 
 1212, Gospels of MacDurnan 
 St Augustine's 49, 116, 144 1 , 185, 
 414, 419, 430, 498, 522, 1213 
 
 Crediton 149 L 
 
 Crich 222 
 
 Croyland 145 2 
 
 Dover 241 
 
 Durham 10, 11, 12, 325, 483 
 
 'Dyneleke' 60 
 
 Ely ?40, ?92, 204, 214, ? 425 4 , ?431 3 , 448 
 Exeter ?64, ?141, (149 1 ), 203, ?221, 
 ?364 
 
 Gloucester ?151, 761 
 
 Henton 410 
 
 Hertford 420 
 
 Ireland 46, ?213, 401, 412, 534, 596 
 etc., Gospels of MacDurnan 
 
 Jervaux 210 
 
 Lanthony 13, 18, 21, ?23, 28, 29, 
 ?30, 36, 37, 39, ?41, ?44, ?45, 55, 
 ?56, 58, 63, 68, 70, 71 1 ' 2 , 77, 80, 
 81, 83, 85, 88, ?93, ?95, 96 J > 3 , 97, 
 ?101, ?102, 103, 106, ?110, 112, 
 114, 119, ?122, 128, 129, ?132, ?133, 
 ?134, ?138, 145 1 , ?146, ?147 2 , 148, 
 149 2 , 150, ?151, ?152, 153 ] ~ 3 , 154, 
 ?164, 165 1 , 170, ?173, 176 1 , ?187, 
 189, ?190, 195, 196, ? 197, 200 3 , 
 ?201, 208, 215, ?216, 217 1 -*, 218 1 , 
 ?219, ?220, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 
 ?235, ?237, ?238, 239, ?240, 335 *-», 
 ?337, ?338, 339, P342 1 , 343, 345, 
 346, 7349, 356, 360 1 , ?363, 365^ 2 , 
 ?372, ?373, 375, ?376, 377, 378 ] - 2 , 
 380 J - 2 , ?381, ?385, ?387, ?389, 390, 
 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 
 398, ?408 2 , 409, ?421, 427, 431 4 >e, 
 ?442, ?444 2 , 449, 451, 452, 475 2 , 
 481, ?485, 540, ?542, ?557 
 
 Lesnes 147, 207 
 
 Limoges 65 
 
62 
 
 INDEX OF PLACES. 
 
 Lincoln, Franciscans, 57 
 London 51 : 
 
 All Hallows the Great 352 
 
 Franciscans 33 
 
 St Paul's 8 
 
 St Thomas of Aeon ?433 
 
 Malmesbury ?224 
 Merton 118 
 
 Newstead 261 
 
 Norwich ?92, ?111, ?425 4 
 
 Beading 371, 497 
 Eochester 76 
 
 St Neots 563 
 St Servan 440 
 Sail 505 
 Shaftesbury 503 
 
 Thurgarton ?486 
 
 Waltharn 200 2 , 353 
 Wells 211 
 
 Westminster 184, 761 
 Witham 436 
 
 Ottery St Mary ?221 
 
 Peterborough 5, 198, 198&, 360 2 , 1106 2 Yorkshire 16 
 
II. INDEX OF OWNERS AND SCRIBES OF THE 
 MANUSCRIPTS. 
 
 .Ethelward 149 
 
 Aleyu, J. (of Oxburgh) 206 
 
 Ap Robert, Rich. 503 
 
 Arnulfus 139 
 
 Arundel 51 
 
 Aubepine, Jean 65 
 
 Bale, John 61, 192 
 Barker, Hugo 536 
 Barkham, J. 475 
 Batte, J. 357 
 Beaufoy 415 
 Bedford, Duke of 430 
 Bemound, T. 330 
 Bernard, Fr. 503 
 Blacman, J. 436 
 Brigam, N. 1106 
 Broscumbe, W. 160 
 Byholte, W. de 1213 
 
 Calne, Ric. 70, 97, 145, 393, 396 
 
 Campe, J. 501 
 
 Caw, J. 192 
 
 Chabenor, Rob. 90 
 
 Chartham, W. 78 
 
 Chicheley, Abp 69 
 
 Cirencestria, T. de 144 
 
 Clarendon, Earl of 1106 1 
 
 Colop, Ric. 472 
 
 Cope, Alan 450 
 
 Corne(?), Ric. 430 
 
 Cortage, Rad. de 57 
 
 Cosin, Bp 567 
 
 Cranmer, Abp 355 
 
 Dakecomb, T. 181 
 Danyell, J. (Prior) 329 
 
 Darell, W. 1106 
 Davis, Mat. 482 
 Dee, Dr J. 67 
 De Quincey 209 
 Dowdall, Rob. 534 
 Draper, T. 415 
 Duckett, Roger 90 
 
 Edward IV. ? 265 
 Estmond, J. 361 
 Everard 173 
 
 Folkingham, W. de 96 
 Forsett, Ric. 486 
 Foxe, J. 184, 325 
 
 Gaufrid (Bp of St David's) 195 
 
 Gloucester, R. de 55 
 
 Glowcetre, J. 452 
 
 Goter, Ph. 14 
 
 Grandison, J. (Bp) 203, (221) 
 
 Graunt, J. 472 
 
 Hadley, W. 159 
 
 Hare, Rob. 156, 341, 463, ?761 
 
 Harison 756 
 
 Hartey, Jac. 159 
 
 Hatton, Ric. 159 
 
 Hauk, Ric. 222 
 
 Hedon, Steph. de 16 
 
 Higgin, Anth. 348 
 
 Hobyll, T. 173 
 
 Hoi., Rob. de 206 
 
 Holyngborne, J. 558 
 
 Hornian, W. 478 
 
 Hospreng, Alex, de 142 
 
 Hypkyn, Rob. 439 
 
64 
 
 INDEX OF OWNERS AND SCRIBES. 
 
 Islip, Abbot 761 
 Ivinghoe, Nic. de 399 
 Ixworth, J. 90 
 
 John, II. Abbot of St Albans 420 
 
 Kaerwent, Nic. 128 
 Killum, J. 472 
 Kingston, T. 33 
 Korn, T. 370 
 Kyrkele, W. de 400 
 
 Lacy, Hugo de 112 
 
 Lambard, T. 503 
 
 Lainbard, W. 503 
 
 Lund, Abp 303, 323, 454 1 
 
 Laur., P. 216 
 
 Lawson, J. 693 
 
 Laythlay, J. 536 
 
 Leche, J. 13, 21, 37, 39, 68, 129, 150, 
 
 375 
 Leckoford, Rob. 71 
 Leofric 149 
 Lewkenor 545 
 Locke, Nic. 401 
 London, Laurence of 76 
 Luinley, Lord 22, 33, 42, 51, 59, 118, 
 
 135, 163, 169, 209, 212, 221, 
 
 362, 1212 
 
 Malmesbury, William of, scribe 224 
 Marchall, Roger 342 
 May, J. 352 
 Mersharn, J. 224 
 Morcotte, H. 367 
 
 Morgan of Carmarthen 165, 208, 231, 
 360, 409, 449 
 
 N. Capellanus 139 
 Nettleton 348 
 Newj-nton, Jo. de 14 
 Norton, Rob. de 352 
 
 Ochomayn, Edm., scribe 412 
 Okahvyll, Donald 412 
 Olacthnain, Roderick 46 
 Orwell, Ed. 174, 371 
 
 Parker, Abp, Gospels of MacDurnan 
 
 Parker, Jo. 430 
 
 Philip, Capellanus, scribe 105 
 
 Philip, Rowland 224 
 
 Poltemore, 364 
 
 Rawson 4ft, 633 
 Raynscroft. J. 223 
 Roger, Dan. 4 1H. r,<>3 
 Bowham, .1. 233 
 R. W., scribe 223 
 1; s, Madoc ap 18 
 
 St Briavel, Ph. de 154 
 
 St Leger, J. 493 
 
 Sancroft, Abp ? \'< \ 
 
 Sarysbury, J. 159 
 
 Seabroke, T. Abbot 761 
 
 Shee, Pet. 193 
 
 Sheldon, a.bp 505 
 
 Skefding (Skeffling), Sago de h\ 
 
 Southwell, Edm., teribe 505 
 
 Stewarde, An-. 92, 125 
 
 ■loin. 431 
 
 Nic. 92 
 
 Bob. 204, 131, 448 
 Stevvnson, T. 22 4 
 StoyL T. 180 
 
 Talbot, l; b. ::; 
 Taylor, Ed. 354 
 Trentham, J., tcribe 1'.'-. 
 
 Tuprest(?i, Rad. 30 
 Tylor, Giles 172 
 
 Umfry. T. 33 
 
 Wabch, J. 360 1 
 Waynflete, Bp 450 
 Weston, W. de 222 
 Weysnham, J. 120 
 Willelmus fil. Dunecani 440 
 Winter, J. 160 
 
 Wode. W., Rector of Sail 505 
 Wottoun. T. 223 
 Wyke, 118 
 Wyvelesbergh, T. de 49 
 
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 PRINTED BY J. & C. F. CLAY, 
 AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 
 
HENRICO MONTAGU BUTLER S.T.P. 
 
 COLLEGII SS. ET INDIV. TRINITATIS MAGISTRO 
 
 LIBELLUM DICAT 
 
 R. S. 
 
PEEFACB. 
 
 A GOOD many years ago I began filling up fragments of 
 time by working out a complete list of my predecessors in the 
 Librarian ship of Trinity College, and adding any biographical 
 details concerning them which came in my way. As time 
 went on, the details grew considerably, and ultimately took 
 form in a book, which the Cambridge Antiquarian Society is 
 kind enough to think worth publishing. It is doubtless true 
 that a majority of the Librarians spoken of in the following 
 pages were little known beyond the bounds of their own College 
 and University ; still, carefully worked-out details of the past, 
 however trifling, often have an importance indirectly to historical 
 workers, and I am hopeful that some of the points established 
 here may be not without their value. 
 
 Moreover, the special character of the Librarianship gives 
 it, I think, an additional interest. It is, to the best of my 
 belief, the only College Librarianship in either University, 
 which forms an integral part of the foundation of its College ; 
 and further, the curious provision in the will of the founder, by 
 which the Archbishop of Canterbury was empowered in certain 
 cases to interpose, has more than once led to a curious 
 history 1 . 
 
 1 Of course the College would necessarily require some official to take charge 
 of the Library before the Stanhope foundation ; but the Library-keeper of those 
 earlier days was evidently merely a College servant, whose position relatively to 
 others is amusingly shown by a Conclusion of 25 Feb. 160|-, which rules con- 
 cerning payments made at graduation to " the two chief Butlers and Tonsor, the 
 Janitor, Chapel-Clerk, and Library-Keeper." 
 
Vlll PREFACE. 
 
 Looking back upon so long a line of predecessors, I have 
 ventured upon the egotism of including the present Librarian. 
 Remembering that now, save for one short break of a few 
 weeks, I have been a member of the foundation of my College 
 for nearly forty years, I could not but wish to link myself on to 
 those who had been Librarians before me. 
 
 It was suggested to me that I should begin my book with a 
 memoir of Sir Edward Stanhope. That I have not done so, is 
 due to no lack of respect and gratitude to my "pious founder/ 5 
 but simply to the fact that I have not discovered anything 
 more about him than is contained in the short life given in 
 Cooper's Athence Cantabrifjienses\ with its accompanying refer- 
 ences. It is mainly thence that I draw the following brief 
 epitome of facts. 
 
 Edward Stanhope was the fourth, or fourth surviving son of 
 Sir Michael Stanhope, Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull (who 
 was beheaded, 26 Feb. 155 J, as an accomplice of his brother-in- 
 law, the Lord-Protector Somerset), by his wife Anne, daughter 
 of Xich. Rawson, Esq., of Aveley in Essex. She died 20 Feb. 
 158 J. He was educated at Trinity College, and was admitted 
 Scholar in 1560 (the College records do not give the date more 
 minutely), Minor Fellow 23 Sept. 1564, and Major Fellow 
 30 April, 1566. It may be noted that he discharged the follow- 
 ing College offices. He was Lector Graecae Grammatics in 
 1567, Sublector quartus in 156S, Lector Linguae Graecae in 1570 
 and Thesaurarius Tertius in 1571-2. He took the degree - of 
 B.A. 156f, M.A. 1566, LL.D. 1575. He supplicated for in- 
 corporation as M.A. at Oxford, 6 Sept. 1566 2 , on the occasion 
 of Elizabeth's visit, and as LL.D. on 1 Sept. 1578 3 . 
 
 He was Prebendary of Botevant in York Minster from 
 25 Nov. 1572 until 9 Aug. 1591 4 . Among those who had held 
 this Prebend before him were John Colet, Dean of St Paul's. 
 and Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham. On 5 June, 1577, 
 
 1 Vol. ii., p. 470 f. 
 
 2 Boase, Register of the University of Oxford, vol. i., p. 264. 
 '■' Ibid. vol. ii., part 1, p. 349. 
 
 4 Le Neve-Hardy, vol. iii., p. 177. 
 
PREFACE. IX 
 
 he was sworn a Master in Chancery; and not later than 1578, 
 he was appointed Chancellor of the Diocese of London. He 
 became Vicar-General of the province of Canterbury in 1583, 
 was Member of Parliament for Marlborough in 1586, and be- 
 came Rector of Terrington in 1589. On 31 May, 1591, he 
 was collated to the Prebend of Kentish -Town (or Cantlers) in 
 St Paul's Cathedral 1 , and, at a date subsequent to 8 Dec. 1594, 
 he became Chancellor of that Cathedral 2 , in succession to the 
 famous Dr John Dee, who had been one of the original fellows 
 of Trinity College. He was knighted 23 July, 1603 ; and 
 died 16 March, 160§. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, 
 and an inscription drawn up by William Camden was set up to 
 commemorate him on the eastern wall near the great north 
 door 3 . 
 
 An extract of so much of his will as concerned his founda- 
 tion at Trinity College is contained in the manuscript volume 
 of " Wills and Charters " in the possession of Trinity College. 
 There is also a transcript in the Baker MSS. in the British 
 Museum 4 , and a copy therefrom in the University Library 5 . 
 
 Curiously enough, Sir Edward Stanhope had an elder 
 brother, also a Sir Edward Stanhope, and the latter was one of 
 the executors to the will of the former 6 . 
 
 I must confess that the combination of lay and clerical 
 functions in the same man and at such a date, struck me as 
 curious — at once a rector and prebendary, and also a knight 
 and M.P. It might indeed be said that the case is one of a 
 lay Rector, but even so the Prebend remains. I was almost 
 
 1 Le Neve-Hardy, ii. 405. 
 
 2 Ibid. ii. 361. 
 
 J The inscription is given in Cooper's Athena, I.e. 
 
 4 Baker MSS., vol. xi., pp. 334 f. (MSS. Harl., 7038). 
 
 5 Baker MSS., D. 9, pp. 300 f. {Cat. of MSS. in Lib. of Univ. of Camb., 
 vol. v., p. 565). 
 
 6 This duplication of names must often have caused confusion, and Mr 
 Foster (Alumni Oxon. sub nom.) must be in error in speaking of Dr George 
 Stanhope as a son of the Sir Edward Stanhope we are now considering, who 
 seems never to have married, and who devised his estate of Wellwood to the five 
 sons successively of his brother, Sir Edward, George being the third. 
 
X PREFACE. 
 
 tempted to think that two Edward Stanhopes might have 
 been " conflated " into one record, but the only other I can 
 trace is the brother of the founder of the Librarian ship, to 
 whom I have already referred. Unfortunately, he, like his 
 brother, was also knight and M.P. 
 
 At this stage I consulted my friend, the Rev. Dr W. Sparrow 
 Simpson, sub-dean and librarian of St Paul's, on the chance 
 that perhaps something in the statutes of St Paul's in force at 
 the end of the sixteenth century might throw some light on 
 the matter. Dr Simpson, however, tells me that there was 
 nothing exceptional in the case of St Paul's. If indeed we 
 are dealing here with a case of survival from pre-Reformation 
 laxity, one can only wonder that such a survival should have 
 been tolerated under the strong-handed rule of Elizabeth and of 
 Whitgift. 
 
 It certainly is hard to conceive that Sir Edward Stanhope 
 was in Holy Orders. His epitaph describes him as " in publicis 
 Ecclesiae et Reipublicse negotiis versatissimus," which would 
 hardly have been said of a cleric even of an earlier generation, 
 without some notice of his being in Holy Orders. 
 
 Of pre-Reformation laxity there is abundance. Dr Simpson 
 refers to the case of Colet, who was admitted to a rectory when 
 he was only nineteen years old, when therefore he could not 
 possibly have been in priest's orders 1 . This was in 1485, how- 
 ever, and there should be considerable difference between that 
 date and 1591. 
 
 Dr Simpson kindly mentioned the matter to the Rev. George 
 Hennessy, who is engaged in a most important w r ork, a new 
 edition of that part of Newcourt's Repertorium which refers 
 to the beneficed clergy. Mr Hennessy states that he has met 
 with numerous instances of laymen holding Prebendal stalls 
 in St Paul's and elsewhere. These instances, however, are of 
 pre-Reformation date 2 . 
 
 1 See Dr Lupton's Life of Colet, p. 116. 
 
 2 For example, he mentions the case of Sir Ri. la Vache, who petitions the 
 Pope for a Canonry of London, with expectation of a Prebend, for his son 
 Edward, aged 13. This was granted by the Pope, 4 July, 1361. Or again, take 
 
PREFACE. XI 
 
 Mr Hennessy is inclined to think that Sir Edward Stanhope 
 must have been in Holy Orders, though he has no proof to 
 offer. It may be said on the one hand that the character of 
 the rule in Church and State at the time lends support to this 
 view ; on the other hand, the wording of the epitaph and the 
 absence of any allusion therein to the clerical office must be 
 thought adverse evidence. I am afraid therefore that the 
 matter must be left in abeyance. 
 
 A striking post-Reformation parallel is suggested by Dr 
 Simpson in the person of the well-known Sir Thomas Smith, 
 the first Regius Professor of Civil Law in this University, and 
 Principal Secretary of State to Edward VI. and Elizabeth. 
 Yet he was also Rector of Leverington in the Isle of Ely from 
 1545 to 1549 ; and in 1547 he was appointed Dean of Carlisle. 
 He was deprived of the Deanery by Mary, but was restored 
 in 1559, and retained it till his death in 1577. Certainly, 
 however, no one would for a moment suppose from his epitaph 1 
 that he was in Holy Orders. Strype remarks, in connection 
 with the appointment to the Deanery, "being at least in 
 Deacon's Orders 2 /' but he cites no evidence on the point. 
 
 It may be remembered that, at the present day, the Queen 
 holds the first Cursal Prebend of St David's ; and Dr Simpson 
 mentions that many monarchs have been Honorary Canons in 
 Germany. 
 
 The numerous friends, from whom I have received help 
 in various points of detail, are all, I trust, mentioned in due 
 
 Thomas Bubbewith, who was appointed Prebendary of Wenlakesbarn in 1406, 
 but was only ordained acolyte and sub-deacon, 17 May, 1110. 
 
 The most astonishing case mentioned by Mr Hennessy is that of James de 
 Ispania, nephew of Queen Eleanor, who, though not ordained, was in 1306 
 Canon of London ; who, besides several Rectories, held Canonries and Prebends 
 in Wells, London, Dublin, Lichfield, Exeter, Sarum, York, Lincoln and else- 
 where. He obtained a dispensation from Pope Boniface VIII. to hold two 
 Rectories, the Deanery of Pontetract Castle and of St Leonard's, York, and other 
 Canonries and Prebends, not being ordained priest. James de Ispania was 
 absolutely a layman, not even in any of the minor Orders. 
 
 1 See Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, p. 152, ed. Oxford, 1820 : Cooper's 
 A thence, i. 372. 
 
 - op. eit., p. 31. 
 
Xll PREFACE. 
 
 course. To two successive Registraries of the University, the 
 late Rev. Dr Luard, and Mr J. W. Clark, my especial thanks 
 are due. The latter has allowed me to inflict upon him 
 questions on a multiplicity of details, in a way which many 
 men would call dvalBeta, and has helped me to clear up many 
 doubtful points. Since the manuscript of my work was tran- 
 scribed for the press, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the 
 Bishop of St David's, to both of whom my thanks were .due 
 (pp. 7, 35), have passed away. 
 
 In conclusion, I wish to remark that in a work of this kind, 
 where a large number of small details are drawn together from 
 a variety of sources, I am keenly alive to the paramount need of 
 accuracy and the difficulty of securing it ; though I believe I 
 have taken all possible pains. In the Preface to my Catalogue 
 of the Incunabula in the College Library, published in 187G, 
 I referred to the difficulty of securing accuracy in biblio- 
 graphical work, which is full of like perils. Certainly a further 
 experience of twenty-one years has taught me how hard it is, 
 spite of all pains, to avoid error. 
 
 R. S. 
 
 Tkinity College, 
 
 2ith February, 1897. 
 
LIBRARIANS OF TRINITY COLLEGE. 
 
 (I) William Hickes . 
 
 (II) Nicholas Parker 
 
 (III) Peter Hersent . 
 
 (IV) William Clutterbooke 
 (V) Thomas Griffith 
 
 (VI) James Manfeild . 
 
 (VII) John Laughton . 
 
 (VIII) Thomas Eotherham . 
 
 (IX) James Banks 
 
 (X) Nicholas Clagett 
 
 (XI) William Chicheley 
 
 (XII) Edward Peach . 
 
 (XIII) Samuel Doody 
 
 (XIV) Thomas Bentley. 
 (XV) William Gossip . 
 
 (XVI) Sandys Hutchinson . 
 
 (XVII) Timothy Lee 
 
 (XVIII) Thomas White . 
 
 (XIX) Thomas Green . 
 
 (XX) John Clark 
 
 (XXI) Charles Hoyle . 
 
 (XXII) Aldous Edward Henshaw 
 
 (XXIII) Charles Warren 
 
 (XXIV) James Ind Smith 
 (XXV) George Brimley . 
 
 (XXVI) Howard Warburton Elphinstone 
 
 (XXVII) John Glover 
 
 (XXVIII) William Aldis Wright 
 
 (XXIX) Sedley Taylor . 
 
 (XXX) Robert Sinker . 
 
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LIBRARIANS OF TRINITY COLLEGE 
 
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 SIR EDWARD STANHOPE'S FOUNDATION. 
 
 (I.) William Hickes. [1609-16H.] 
 
 Sir Edward Stanhope died 16 March, 160J, and his will, 
 which was dated 28 February, 160§ , was proved 25 March, 1608. 
 In this he bequeathed £700 to Trinity College, to buy lands for 
 the maintenance of a Library-Keeper and Under-Library-Keeper, 
 and most minute directions are therein given as to the con- 
 ditions of election and the tenure of office. Among other things 
 he ruled that the Library-Keeper was to be chosen " within one 
 Fortnight of the receipte of the foresaid £700 or within one 
 Fortnight after my Funerall, if the Librarie 1 be finished before 
 my death : and that my Executors be tyed to the paiment of 
 the first yeares annuitie of £30." Yet there seems to have been 
 some little delay. 
 
 The first person appointed on this Foundation was William 
 Hickes (or Hicks). I can find no record of his election in the 
 Conclusion Book, nor of his admission as Librarian in any of 
 the Admission Books ; yet he must have been appointed about 
 Lady-Day, 160f , for in the Senior Bursar's book for the year 
 
 1 This is of course the old Library in the north-west angle of the Old Court. 
 The range of which it forms part must have been finished between 1599 and 
 1601 (Willis-Clark, Architectural History of the University of Cambridge, vol. ii. 
 p. 481). 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. XXIX. 1 
 
2 WILLIAM HICKES. 
 
 ending Michaelmas. 1609, Mr Hickes receives two quarters' 
 stipend. 
 
 Although no Christian name is given, it was certainly 
 William Hickes (B.A., 160J ; M.A., 1609), since there had been 
 no other of the name at Trinity, since Henry Hicks (B.A., 15f|), 
 who would not only have been too old, but had never proceeded 
 to M.A. William Hickes was admitted scholar 12 April, 1605, 
 at the same election with Giles Fletcher. 
 
 I think it is possible that it was this William Hickes who 
 was collated Prebendary of Bedford Magna in Lincoln Cathedral, 
 20 Aug., 1612 1 (installed 23 Aug.); and whether there be any 
 connection between the two events or no, it will be noticed that 
 the vacancy in the Librarianship and the appointment to the 
 Lincoln Prebend both took place in 1612. In any case, the 
 Lincoln Prebendary must either have been our Librarian, or the 
 Oxford man of the same name mentioned below. There is only 
 one person from each University who satisfies the conditions. 
 I had hoped that the Lincoln Chapter Records might mention 
 the University, but my friend Chancellor Leeke tells me that 
 the only note to the name of the new prebendary is " artium 
 magister." If he were not the Librarian, he must have been 
 an Oxford man (B.A. 158£, from Brasenose : M.A. 1584, from 
 Magdalen: Chaplain of Magdalen, 1585-9) 2 , whose age perhaps 
 makes him more likely. 
 
 A person of the name w r as Vicar of Edmonton in 1589. 
 
 Prebendary William Hickes, be he which he may of the 
 tw 7 o, was on 7 Dec. 1625 inducted as Rector of Stoke-Hammond 
 in Buckinghamshire 3 , a living once held by good Bishop Hacket. 
 I thought it possible that the doubt as to the University might 
 have been cleared up by a memorial tablet in the church, but 
 the present Rector of Stoke-Hammond, the Rev. E. Pain, informs 
 me that there is none, nor is there any record of his burial. 
 He sends me, however, a note of the marriage of the Rectors 
 
 1 Le Neve-Hardy, Fasti Ecclesics Anglicance, vol. ii. p. 108. 
 
 2 Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 
 3 Lipscomb, History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, iv. 362. 
 Lipscomb adds, "He died about 1645." The date was actually 1646 (Le Neve- 
 Hardy, I.e.). 
 
NICHOLAS PARKER. 3 
 
 daughter, where the date may perhaps be thought to be some- 
 what in favour of our fixing upon the older man 1 . 
 
 There was another William Hickes of Trinity (B.A. 164^, 
 M.A. 1645), who might be the son of the Librarian. A William 
 Hickes, born at Oundle, 13 April, 1647, eldest son of 'William 
 Hickes, M.A." (not improbably the preceding) was admitted at 
 Merchant Taylors' School in 1657-8 2 . 
 
 One of the name was Rector of Tortworth, Gloucestershire, 
 in 1644 3 . 
 
 (II.) Nicholas Parker. [161J-1625.] 
 
 On 19 Feb. 161^, the entry occurs in the Conclusion Book, 
 " This 19th of February, the Library Keeper's place was granted 
 to Ds Parker." Again no Christian name is given, but the 
 only member of the College named Parker, then a B.A., was 
 Nicholas Parker 4 . He took the degrees of B.A. 160§, and M.A. 
 1612. He was admitted scholar 22 April, 1608; and on 
 22 Sept. 1610, Sir Parker and Sir Baker were chosen "conducts 
 potentia," that is, were elected not to fill up actual vacancies 
 among the chaplains, but vacancies which might subsequently 
 arise. On 23 Dec. 1614, Mr Parker was granted by the Master 
 and Seniors, a Paling (or Palin) Exhibition of £4, which he held 
 as long as he was Librarian. 
 
 The system of pre-election was often applied to the Chap- 
 lains ; we now find it in the case of the Librarianship, for on 
 9 March, 161f, we read in the Conclusion Book, "concluded 
 that S r Stoakes 5 shall be Library Keeper upon the next vacanc}^ 
 of the place." However, no vacancy occurred for nearly ten 
 years, and then, if I read the circumstances aright, it is con- 
 
 1 Catherine, daughter of William Hickes, the Rector, was married to Walter 
 Pake, on 2 February, 1628, that is presumably 162§. 
 
 - Robinson, Register of Merchant Taylors' School, p. 241. 
 
 :! Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 
 4 Before him was Samuel Parker, M.A. 1596, whose degree cuts him out, and 
 after him is none till John Parker, B.A. 1628. 
 
 8 This must be David Stokes, admitted Scholar, 5 April, 1611, B.A. 161|, 
 afterwards Fellow of Peterhouse, M.A. 1618, D.D. 1630, incorporated at Oxford, 
 1645. See Welch, Alumni West. p. 80; Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 
 1—2 
 
4 PETER HERSENT. 
 
 nected with a very curious line of procedure on the part of the 
 College. 
 
 Three meetings of the Seniority took place in September, 
 1625. At the first of these (Sept. 3), Mr Parker has letters of 
 Attorney to compound the matters between the College and the 
 sequestrators of Aysgarth. At the second (Sept. 16), Will. 
 Short was sent in Mr Parker's place, " being lately dead on his 
 journey into Yorkshire," for dispatch of the same business of 
 Aysgarth. At the third (Sept. 19), the Palm Exhibition which 
 " Mr Parker the Librarian " had held was filled up, and a new 
 Librarian was also chosen. Now while one cannot see on what 
 principle the College should choose its Librarian to arrange 
 College business in Yorkshire, still having regard to the sequence 
 of events in the three September Seniorities, and to the fact 
 that there was no other member of the Foundation of the 
 College at that time named Parker, we can hardly doubt that, 
 be the explanation what it may, it Avas Mr Parker the Librarian 
 who was so sent. He may himself have been personally con- 
 nected with Aysgarth, but we have no evidence of this. 
 
 (III.) Peter Hersext. [1625-1631.] 
 
 As we have already said, the new Librarian was elected on 
 19 September, 1625. The entry in the Conclusion Book runs 
 as follows, " At the same meeting Mr Hairsant was chosen into 
 the Library Keeper's place, which Mr Parker before him held ; 
 submitting himselfe to those lawes and orders which are men- 
 tioned in Sir Edward Stanhope's will and such others as the 
 Master and 8 Seniors from time to time should agree upon and 
 think fitt to make for the ordering of the Library and better 
 use of the Books therein." 
 
 We now have got a person of a less shadowy personality 
 than his two predecessors. Peter Hersent had been educated 
 at Westminster, was elected thence to Cambridge in 1616 1 , 
 and was admitted, with one other, Scholar of Trinity, on 
 2 May, 1617. 
 
 1 Welch. Alumni West. p. 85. 
 
PETER HERSENT. 5 
 
 He took his B.A. in 162$, and his M.A. in 1624. He appears 
 to have been a somewhat turbulent person, in the light of the 
 statement signed by him among the Admonitions at the end of 
 a book of Admission of Fellows, etc. : — " February 22, 1621. 
 Wheras I haue verie vnadvisedly and rashly strucken one 
 Mr. Halfhead, Manciple of o r Colledg, to the shedding of blood 
 [endaundgering of his eye 1 ], I doe acknowledg myself to haue 
 receiued an admonition for that fault tending to expulsion. 
 Peter Hersent." It will be seen that at this time Peter Hersent 
 was a Bachelor Scholar of the College, and with him was impli- 
 cated one Thomas Shirley, who makes the same apology. The 
 latter culprit was somewhat the older. He 2 had taken the 
 degrees of B.A. 16 If and M.A. 1619, and was elected Minor 
 Fellow in 1618. We thus actually have a regent Master and 
 Fellow of the College behaving in this outrageous way. 
 
 Hersent's election to the Librarianship on Sept. 19 was 
 followed by his admission on Sept. 24. The entry in the 
 Admission Book, rather fuller than the ordinary curt form, 
 runs, "Ego Petrus Hersent admissus fui et juratus custos 
 Bibliothecas a Dno. Edvardo Stanhop fundatse in praasentia 
 magistri et octo seniorum." 
 
 At the election to the Chancellorship of the University, 
 1 June, 1626, "Pet. Harsnet" voted for the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham 3 . 
 
 Mr Hersent was incorporated at Oxford, 5 June, 1628 4 . 
 There was another Peter Hersent at Oxford (Queen's College, 
 B.A. 1705), who may have been the grandson of the foregoing 5 . 
 
 1 The words in italics are crossed out in the original, and the words in 
 brackets are written above them. 
 
 8 It was Mr Shirley who succeeded to Mr Parker's Palin Exhibition. He 
 hanged himself in April, 1637. The story is told in the Baker MSS. D, § 9, 21 
 {Gat. of MSS. in Lib. of Univ. of Camb. v. 565). Baker had extracted the story 
 of the suicide from a letter of the Bev. G. Garrard to Lord Strafford, written 
 28 April, 1637 (Strafford Letters, ii. 72). Mr Garrard speaks of Shirley as 
 a Bachelor of Divinity, but there is no trace of this degree to be found in 
 the Begistry. 
 
 :< List in University Begistry, printed in Cooper's Annals, iii. 186 f. 
 
 4 Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 
 5 Ibid. 
 
6 WILLIAM CLUTTERBOOKE. 
 
 In Gratidatio Academiae Cantabrigiensis de Serenissimi 
 Principis reditu ex Hispanijs exoptatissimo (Cantab. 1623), are 
 elegiacs (p. 34) signed by P.H., C.T. These -are probably by 
 Peter Hersent. 
 
 Cole's MSS. xlv. 235, 261. Welch, Alumni West. p. 85. 
 
 (IV.) William Clutterbooke 1 . [1631-1641.] 
 
 The new Librarian, like his predecessor, was from West- 
 minster, whence he was elected to Cambridge in 1623 2 , and 
 was admitted scholar of Trinity, 9 April, 1624 3 . He took 
 the degrees of B.A. 162$, M.A. 1631, B.D. 1640. He was 
 elected Librarian 21 April, 1631, and admitted on April 27. 
 The Conclusion Book does not directly record his election, nor 
 do I find his admission in the Admission Book, but perhaps 
 the following entry in the Conclusion Book may be meant to 
 cover the latter: — "April 27, 1631. It was agreed that 
 Mr Clutterbooke, who was chosen Librarie Keeper in Mr Her- 
 sent's place the 21st of Aprill, should be admitted this day; and 
 so he was." We catch a stray glimpse of him once again a 
 few months after his election. In the Conclusion of Jan. 26, 
 163|, we read, "granted at the same time to... Mr Clotterbooke 
 to be in extra commons with allowance of. ..6 s 8 d ." This would, 
 I suppose, presumably point to an illness. 
 
 He was one of the writers of complimentary verses, prefixed 
 to Duport's Liber Job Graeco carmine redditus (Cantab. 1637) ; 
 and has three sets of verses in the Carmen Natalitium (Cantab. 
 1635), two sets in the ^wwSia (Cantab. 1637), and two sets 
 in the Voces Votivae (Cantab. 1640). In the first three of 
 these books he gives his name as Clotterbook, in the last he 
 signs himself, Guliel. Clutterbooke, S.T.B. Coll. Trin. 
 
 1 Also Clotterbook, Clotterbooke. The spelling at the head of the section is 
 that in which his appointment to the Librarianship is recorded. 
 
 ' 2 Alumni West. p. 93. A John Clutterbuck, possibly the brother of the 
 present, was elected to Oxford from Westminster in 1616 {ibid. p. 85). 
 
 3 Another of the scholars at this admission was Thomas Randolph, the well- 
 known poet. 
 
WILLIAM CLUTTERBOOKE. 7 
 
 A curious incident has to be recorded in connection with 
 the year 1638. According to Sir Edward Stanhope's will, if 
 the Librarianship became vacant in any way, or if the Librarian 
 had in any way forfeited his office, the Master and Seniors 
 must fill up the vacant post within fourteen days or the pre- 
 sentation was to lapse to the Archbishop of Canterbury. A 
 certain Samuel Turbervile 1 , a young graduate of the College, 
 apparently on the look-out for promotion for himself, main- 
 tained in 1638 that from various causes Mr Clutterbuck had 
 forfeited his post, and ultimately Archbishop Laud, accepting 
 this view, claimed the next presentation. 
 
 Of the correspondence which ensued, Mr Aldis Wright could 
 find, when Senior Bursar, no trace in the Muniment Room of 
 Trinity College ; but I have found draughts of two letters in 
 the Lambeth Library, one from Laud to the College, and the 
 other the answer of the College. Of each of these there are 
 three several draughts, inserted amid the correspondence between 
 Archbishop Wake and Bentley on the occasion of a similar 
 dispute in 1728 [Lamb. 1156]. So far as I am aware, neither 
 of these documents has ever been printed, and I accordingly 
 reproduce them here by the permission of the Archbishop of 
 Canterbury. 
 
 One of the draughts [no. 4] is in the opinion of my friend,- 
 Mr Kershaw, the Lambeth Librarian, in Laud's own hand- 
 writing. It contains both letters, that of Laud to the College, 
 and the answer, on the same sheet of paper, as though it were 
 desired to keep the correspondence together for convenience of 
 reference. The second draught [no. 4 bis] contains a certain 
 amount of additional matter in the answer of the College, and 
 it is this form of the answer therefore which I have subjoined, 
 noting one or two minor differences, other than those of mere 
 
 1 Samuel Turbervile took the degrees of B.A. 163|, and M.A. 1637. He was 
 the author of verses in Ducis Eboracensis Fasciae (Cantab. 1633), and in 
 Swydia, Sive Musarum Cantabriyiensium Goncentus et Gongratidatio (Cantab. 
 1637). He is perhaps the same Turbervile who was appointed chorister of the 
 College, 28 March, 1632. He had not been a scholar of the College, and there- 
 fore his appointment to the Librarianship would have been in defiance of 
 Sir Edw. Stanhope's will. 
 
S WILLIAM CLUTTERBOOKE. 
 
 spelling*. The third draught of the letter of the College is a 
 transcript in Bentley's writing [no. 43 ']. The original, however, 
 from which he transcribed it, can, as I have said, no longer be 
 found in the College Muniment Room. 
 
 (1) Archbishop Laud to the Master (Dr Comber) and Seniors of Trinity 
 College 2 . 
 
 S. in X* 
 
 After my hearty commendations etc. I am informed that the orders 
 set down and appointed by Sir Edw: Stanhope, Kn' & D r of Laws (a 
 worthy Benefactor to y r House) for the Practice & Reglement of yo r 
 Library-Keeper, have not been observed by him ; where upon your 3 
 Disposing of that place is devolved to me, as by the last Will and 
 Testament of the s a Kn 1 deceased you may plainly i percey ve. These are 
 therefore to pray & require you to give me a present accompt of this 
 business, & if the Information here mentioned be true, 1 shall expect 
 that you fail not likewise to send me the names of some discreet & able 
 young men of your Colledge, whom you conceive fittest for such an 
 Employment, that thereupon I may make Choice of some one of them, & 
 see him presently settled accordingly. So having nothing else to trouble 
 you with 5 at this time, I leave you to God's blessed Protection & Rest. 
 
 Your very loving Friend 
 
 W. Cant. 
 Lambeth, Nov. 28, 
 1638. 
 
 (2) The Master and Seniors of Trinity College to Archbishop Laud 6 . 
 May it please yo r Grace ; 
 Having received yo r Grace's Letter concerning our Library-Keeper's 
 
 1 This transcript is referred to in a letter of Bentley to Archbishop Wake, 
 15 Dec. 1728, " The rough Draught of the College's Answer to Archbishop Laud, 
 which could not be found when Dr Thomas Bentley drew up his Argument, has 
 yesterday been found in a Box of our Registry; and I thought it my duty 
 to copy it out and send it to your Grace the first opportunity..." (Correspondence 
 ofR. Bentley, D.D., p. 693). 
 
 2 This follows Laud's draught. I note the variations of what I have called 
 the "second draught," other than varieties of spelling. 
 
 3 "the." 
 
 4 .icta "and fully." 
 
 5 Omit. 
 
 6 Here for the reason given above, I have followed the wording of what 
 I have called the " second draught, " noting the variations in the copy in Laud's 
 writing. For a subsequent use of the fact of this double recension, see Bentley 
 Correspondence, p. 696. 
 
WILLIAM (JLUTTERBOOKE. V 
 
 Office being devolved to yo r Grace's Election ; we according to the Tenor 
 of yo' Grace's Letter requiring of us to be Inform'd of the true Estate 
 of that Matter, return you our opinion and judgment, as we concieved 
 before your Grace's Letter having had the same Inducement : most 
 humbly submitting the same to yo r Grace's better Interpretation. 
 
 May it please yo r Grace 
 
 There came to us one Mr Turberville, 
 sometime a Member of our Society, who accused to us the Library 
 Keeper of Loss of his place, & was likewise Petitioner to be Elected 
 thereto. 
 
 His Articles ag st : Him were four : 
 
 1. That he had accepted the Office of Poser in the University, contrary 
 to a clause in the Benefactor's Will, forbidding him on Loss of Place, 
 ipso facto, to accept of any office. 
 
 2. That he had read a certain Lecture in the College Hall for a Friend 
 (& who had another for his Deputy) contrary to some Words in the same 
 clause. 
 
 3. For not Keeping his Exits & Redits, by which the time of his 
 Continuance, strictly limited, might appear. 
 
 4. For that he had procured a Dispensation from the King's Majesty to 
 take the Degree of Batchelor in Divinity, which Degree by the Will is 
 prohibited to him. 
 
 May it please yo r Grace, 
 
 Having met together more than once for 
 the discussing of these Articles ; and using the best Advice of our Lawyers 
 which this Term tyme were left at home, we conceived, humbly submitting 
 to y r Gr: Judgment, 
 
 That the Poser's Place is no Office — being a work but of two Days, but 
 an Assistance 1 only to the Proctors, as app rs : by the words of the University 
 Statute & Proctor's Book P.... and by a Register'd Grace in the University 
 so calling it. Else also the Proctors to whom they are Assistant would be 
 said also to take an office. 
 
 For reading for his Friend in the Hall we likewise with Submission 
 conceived that it being not for himself, but as Deputy, was no breach 
 of the same clause voidiug his place, inasmuch as we see both by our 
 Statutes, and by daily pract ce : that such persons [who are not capable of 
 some offices in their own Persons are appointed & may execute the same 
 offices 2 ] for another in that place. 
 
 1 "Assistant." 
 
 2 A note is appended in the " second draught" in a line with the text, on the 
 blank space at the right hand of the column: — "These words are so defaced in 
 
10 WILLIAM CLUTTERBOOKE. 
 
 For the not keeping his Exits & Redits by w ch his Continuance & 
 Discontinuance must be known, we see not that any penalty is expressed 
 in the Will, but conceive it is left to the Master & Seniors censuring 1 , 
 of which there is mention in the same Will, pag...., neither did it appear 
 to us that he had been absent above his Days allow'd, for want of his 
 Exits & Redits, for which we gave him a Censure, & he alleged his absence 
 was in time of publick Calamity, which is excepted in the Will itself. 
 
 And last of all, for procuring a Dispensation to take a Degree contrary 
 to the Will, we know not that S r Edw : Stanhope's Will can hinder the 
 King's prerogative in his own Foundation. Besides that, the said 
 Dispensation was never used. 
 
 [One thing more we humbly crave Pardon to speak not in our own 
 regard, but for the Right of the College in succession. It is conceived by 
 our Council that tho' this place shou'd by any default be forfieted ipso 
 facto, yet a declaratory sentence is required before absolute Voy dance, as 
 we see it practised in like Cases, & as it may seem touched P. ... of the Will. 
 And that that Declaratory Sentence of Voydance belongeth to the Master & 
 Seniors upon Notice — and by consequence there is no Devolution unless a 
 Choice be not made or agreed upon in 14 days after such voidance 2 .] 
 
 Your Grace's offer is most Favourable, and we desire not to decline yo r : 
 Grace's Election, hut humbly submit ourselves to yo r Grace's judgment 
 and better Interpretation. - And if your Grace be not therewithal satisfied 
 we shall be ready to admit of such a person as yo r Grace shall commend 
 to us." 
 
 What the further course of this controversy was, I am quite 
 
 the Original, w ch is torn & but a rough Draught that they are here supply'd by 
 conjecture." The bracket and its contents are not in Laud's draught, but 
 a space is left. 
 
 1 "concerning of which." 
 
 2 In the "second draught" a note is appended in the blank space on the 
 left: — "These words between these [ ] are cross'd out & probably, on delibera- 
 tion of the M r and Sen rs were omitted." In Laud's draught, the upper part 
 of the second half of the sheet, where the words in brackets would have come, 
 has been cut off. In Bentley's draught the brackets are not found, and the 
 concluding paragraph of the letter, "your Grace's offer...," is omitted. In his 
 letter to the Archbishop of 31 Dec. 1728 {Bentley Corresp. p. 697) Bentley 
 declares that, in the Draught from which he copied it, this last paragraph was 
 crossed out, as evidently not consonant with the views of the Seniority when 
 the letter was sent. Clearly there is a Bentleian and an anti-Bentleian re- 
 cension, so to speak, and one can hardly doubt that there must have been 
 unfair dealing on the part of one side or other. In the absence, however, of all 
 trace of the original, it seems impossible to arrive at the truth. Yet Bentley's 
 letter above referred to declares that the cancelling of which he speaks has been 
 seen by the Master and Seniors. 
 
WILLIAM CLUTTERBOOKE. 11 
 
 unable to say. Whether the Archbishop was convinced by the 
 arguments of the Master and Seniors, or whether the influence 
 which had got Clutterbuck his dispensation stood him in further 
 good stead, or whether the increasing civil troubles gave Laud 
 weightier matters to think of, — at any rate in spite of the 
 humble surrender by the College, Clutterbuck remained 
 Librarian for more than three years after the date of the 
 Archbishop's letter given above, and took the degree of B.D. for 
 which he had obtained the Dispensation 1 . 
 
 This document is thus indexed in the College Register — 
 " King's letter allowing William Clotterbooke, Master of Arts 
 and Library Keeper, to take his Degree of Bachelor of Divinity." 
 It is thus endorsed, " By virtue of his Ma tie ' s letters above 
 written and now red before the Master and Seniors they gave 
 leave to M 1 ' Clutterbooke to take his degree of Bachelor of 
 Divinitie without p'iudice to his place. 19 September, 1038." 
 
 Clutterbuck signed the declaration in the Begistrary's book, 
 required before taking the degree of B.D., on 10 (or ll 2 ) June, 
 1640, so that the degree was presumably taken on St Barnabas's 
 Day. One of the preliminaries for this degree, until recent 
 years, was the preaching of a Latin Sermon before the Uni- 
 versity (Concio ad Clerum). It is this which is referred to in 
 the curiously worded Conclusion of 10 Jan. 1639 (i.e. 16}§); — 
 " This day leave was given to M r Clutterbooke to Clerum, by the 
 Master and 8 Seniors." 
 
 1 Au apparent allusion to this affair occurs in a short letter of Laud to 
 Trinity College, a transcript of which is given in the Letter Book of Dr Henry 
 Smyth (Master of Magdalene, 1626-12, and Vice-Chancellor, 1635-36). It is 
 dated 10 Dec. 1638, and superscribed in a different hand, " To Trin. Coll. about 
 the Library Keeper's place." It runs, "I doe desire you to be very carefull 
 of the observance of those thiuges which are given you by the will or other 
 ordinance of any benefactors ; for if that be not done it will disharten other 
 well minded men to doe that for Colledges w ch they would otherwise have beene 
 easilie induced to doe. So wishing all prosperouse successe to your selfe and 
 that whole Society, I leave you to God's blessed protection and rest. Your 
 lovinge friend, W. Cant." (Patrick MSS. vol. xxiii. § 1 : see Cat. of MSS. in the 
 Library of the Univ. of Camb. vol. v. p. 173.) This, however, throws no further 
 light on the history of the affair. 
 
 2 The writing appears doubtful. 
 
12 THOMAS GRIFFITH. 
 
 I cannot doubt that it was this William Clutterbuck who 
 became Rector of Wodeham Ferrers (Essex) in 1641, and of 
 Danbury (Essex) in 1662. Both of these livings were in the 
 gift of Sir Humphrey Mildmay and both were vacated by 
 Outterbuck's death in 1665. I learn through the kindness of 
 the Rev. Charles P. Plumptre, Rector of Wodeham (or Wood- 
 hain | Ferrers, and the Rev. John B. Plumptre, Rector of Danbury, 
 that there is no memorial of any kind, tablet, window, or the 
 like, of Clutterbuck, in either church. 
 
 There was a Laurence Clutterbuck at Trinity, B.A. 166§, 
 who might be the son of the foregoing. 
 
 Cole ; s MSS. xlv. 262. Welch, Alumni West. p. 93. 
 Xewcourt. Beg. Feci. ii. 20-5, 682. 
 White Kemiett. Beg. and Chron. 789. 
 
 (Y.) Thomas Griffith. [1641-167f.] 
 
 In the case of this Librarian I have met with a difficulty, 
 which I have utterly failed to solve, in spite of much help 
 from two successive Registraries, Dr Luard and Air J. W. Clark, 
 who most kindly took the utmost pains in the matter, but to no 
 purpose. 
 
 The former gave me a note of the M.A. degree of Thomas 
 Griffith in 1639, adding that he ought to be a B.A. of 163|, but 
 that of this degree there was no trace. Feeling bound to offer 
 a theory, I suggested (1) that there was some lacuna in the 
 B.A. list, or (2) that Griffith was incorporated from Oxford, 
 or (3) that he was granted the M.A. degree by Royal Mandate. 
 It turned out. however, that there was no lacuna in the MS., 
 and the absence of the note Oxoniensis or per Litteras Regias 
 seemed to be conclusive against the other ideas. I felt there- 
 fore forced to give the matter up as an unsolved puzzle, and 
 accounted for the irregularity by the troublous condition of 
 England at the time. 
 
 A vear or two ago, when working through some volumes of 
 Cole's MSS. in the British Museum, I came upon a list of 
 the Westminster Scholars elected to Trinity. Under the year 
 
THOMAS GRIFFITH. 13 
 
 1632 occurred the entry "Thomas Mutton als Griffith 1 ." As- 
 suming for the present this alias to be correct, we have every- 
 thing dovetailing together perfectly. 
 
 Thomas Mutton was educated at Westminster, was elected 
 to Cambridge in 1632 2 , was admitted Westminster scholar of 
 Trinity, 3 May, 1633, and took his B.A. degree in 163§, no M.A. 
 being recorded, corresponding to the absence of a B.A. for 
 Griffith. Doubtless Cole had due warrant for the alias, but 
 where he got his information from I cannot in the least say. 
 
 Dr Rutherford, the Head Master of Westminster School, 
 kindly informs me that there is nothing in the records under 
 his care which casts the least light upon it, while the books 
 of Trinity College and of the University Registry seem alike 
 to offer us two disjointed halves, not making a whole. 
 
 It then occurred to me that, assuming with Cole that the 
 two names belonged to one person, it was possible that he 
 shifted from the use of one name to the other between his 
 B.A. and M.A. degrees, and thus in the list of the scholars 
 given from year to year in the Senior Bursar's book as receiving- 
 payment the change would be visible. Unfortunately, while in 
 the Senior Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1637, 
 the name of Ds Mutton occurs in its place, so that the evidence, 
 if anywhere, is to be looked for in the two succeeding volumes, 
 we are suddenly pulled up by finding that the volumes for 
 these two years are wanting and that the series goes on again 
 with the volume for the year ending with Michaelmas, 1640. I 
 must therefore leave the matter for the present unsolved, merely 
 repeating that Cole must obviously have had some evidence, 
 though unfortunately I am quite unable to get at it. I should 
 add that Mr J. W. Clark most kindly had tracings made for me 
 of the signatures of Thomas Mutton at his B.A. degree in 1636, 
 and of Thomas Griffith at his M.A. in 1639, and I cannot 
 honestly say that they bear any particular resemblance to one 
 another. 
 
 Thomas Griffith became Librarian in 1641. There is no 
 
 1 Cole's MSS. vol. xlv. 263. 
 
 2 Alumni West. p. 104. 
 
14 THOMAS GRIFFITH. 
 
 reference to his election in the Conclusion Book, but his ad- 
 mission is recorded on Dec. 15 of that year: — " Thomas Griffith 
 iuratus et admissus in officium Bibliothecarium (sic) hujus 
 Collegij." Just as his earlier history forms an awkward puzzle, 
 so in a few years after his appointment we are faced with a 
 second puzzle of a different kind. In a Conclusion of 15 October, 
 1645, it is ruled, "Agreed then by the Master and present 
 Seniority that Mr Archer 1 be required to deliver up the key 
 of the Library for Sir Davies 2 and that he shall have the wages 
 for the present, which is due quarterly to the Library Keeper." 
 What had become of Griffith and how Mr Archer came to 
 be holding the key of the Library, I am quite unable to say. 
 Possibly, amid the civil troubles of the time, Griffith may have 
 left Cambridge, as the Conclusion of 19 June, 1646, suggests, 
 and the king's letter in his behalf in 1666 would show on which 
 of the two sides Griffith would range himself. If the key were 
 delivered to Sir Davies, it will be seen that he did not hold 
 it long. A Conclusion of 19 June, 1646, runs, " Then agreed by 
 the Master and Seniors that Mr Griffith be wholly removed 
 from the Library Keeper's place, for his long neglect thereof, etc.," 
 
 1 Mr Archer was doubtless the Thomas Archer who was entered a member 
 of Trinity College, 9 July, 1635; B.A. 16ff ; M.A. 1643. The only other Archer 
 of Trinity at all about this time was Anthony Archer, admitted Jan. 29, 163f , 
 but he does not seem to have taken a degree. 
 
 2 It does not seem possible to identify this Davies with certainty. There 
 was no scholar of the College of that name at the time, but on 27 October, 1645, 
 "Sir Davies, Oxoniensis" was admitted under Mr Bradshaw; and by an order 
 of Parliament, 23 Feb. 164|, Sir Davies and seven others are admitted into 
 eight vacant Fellowships. On 2 March, 164f, Sir Davies has the Civil Law 
 Fellowship given to him. On 7 March, 164f , the College sanctioned the Grace 
 for M.A. for Sir Davies [John Davies]. The University Register shows that on 
 22 April, 1646, John Davies is admitted to the same degree here as at Oxford 
 (I presume as a necessary preliminary before proceeding to M.A.). Mr Davies, 
 presumably the same person, was made Hebrew Lecturer at Trinity, 21 Sept. 
 1648, and became a Senior in 1649. It is not clear what is the Oxford record of 
 Sir Davies. The person who seems to fit in best is the John Davies admitted at 
 Queen's 10 Sept. 1636, B.A. (from Balliol) 25 June, 1640; the only other 
 possible one being one who took his B.A. from New College, 18 Dec. 1634. 
 I learn through the kindness of the Rev. T. V. Bayne, Keeper of the Archives, 
 that there is no note in the Oxford Register as to whether either of these men 
 migrated to Cambridge. 
 
THOMAS GRIFFITH. 15 
 
 and in one of 2 July following we read, " Then agreed that 
 Sir Holloway 1 should be elected into y e Library Keeper's place, 
 who was afterwards upon the taking of his oath, admitted." 
 
 The Conclusion of 19 June was subsequently erased, and, 
 in that of 2 July, the name of Sir Holloway was crossed out. 
 As a matter of fact, things must soon have righted themselves, 
 for, while Holloway receives the Librarian's stipend in 164G, yet 
 thenceforward Griffith receives it till his death. 
 
 Besides being Librarian, Griffith, like John Laughton and 
 Clagett after him, w 7 as a "Tutor" of the College 2 ; the earliest 
 instance of a pupil entered under him which I have noticed 
 being of 10 March, 164 J, and the latest 11 March, 165f. 
 
 After the stormy commencement, Griffith appears thence- 
 forward in tranquil guise, and in so critical a year as 1649, 
 we find (11 May) a Conclusion, " Then also given to M r Griffith, 
 Library Keeper, tenne pounds," no reason being stated. We 
 find a passing allusion to extra work done in the Library in aid 
 of the Librarian and Under- Librarian, the latter of whom would 
 at that time vacate his office on taking his B.A. degree : — 
 March 21, 16i§, "It is concluded that five pounds be given 
 to Sir Pockley 3 as a gratuity, he having done something which 
 is usefull in the Library." 
 
 1 Thomas Holloway was B.A. in 164f, M.A. 1649. He was made Lady 
 Elwis's Exhibitioner, 2s Jan. 1644. On 5 Nov. 1647, he was one of three 
 appointed chaplains, though he does not appear in the Senior Bursar's book as 
 such till 1649. 
 
 2 It is true that this might be "M* Griffiths the fellowe" [so named in 
 a Conclusion of 4 Dec. 1646], but I do not thiuk that this is likely. The Fellow 
 in question must have been George Griffith, socius minor in 1645, as there is no 
 other one of the name at all near this time. But George Griffith never holds 
 any of the offices discharged by all resident fellows, and so passes out of sight. 
 Nor does the University Register furnish any help. All that we find there is as 
 follows: a George Griffith from Oxford takes his M.A. in 1645 (there is no B.A. 
 to correspoud) and a Griffith (christian name not stated) took his B.A. and 
 LL.B. in 164f from Queens' and his M.A. in 1647. He died 6 Jan. 168f, 
 setat. 64. 
 
 3 Thomas Pockley (Eboracensis) was entered as sub-sizar under Mr Rolls, 
 12 March, 164f; admitted scholar, 13 April, 1649; fellow, 29 Sept. 1650. He 
 has leave given to travel "with college seal, and have traveller's expenses, when 
 M r Rich's time is up, if no one senior to him claims it," 19 Jan. 165|. On the 
 following 24 March, the patent is sealed, and three years' leave given. 
 
16 THOMAS GRIFFITH. 
 
 The next entry (3 Sept. 1657) refers, I should presume, to 
 the grant by Sir Edward Stanhope, but if so, I am quite 
 unaware what should have called for such a transcription at 
 this time. The Conclusion of the above date runs : — " Ordered 
 that the Senior Bursar pay twentie nobles to M r Griffith for 
 writing and examining a copie of the founder's Originall grant, 
 and a marke to M r Nealand for examining and binding it ; pro- 
 vided that they doe together with the Register (sic) exactly 
 examine it over againe." 
 
 In 1659, Mrs Elizabeth Peyton, widow, left legacies to her 
 friends Mr Thomas Griffith and three others, all of Trinity 
 College 1 . 
 
 From time to time Griffith's name occurs in the Conclusion 
 Book in connection with statements of dividend ; and, on 
 11 Dec. 1662, the Senior Bursar is directed to pay Mr Griffith 
 the sum of £8. 4s. 4-^d, the reason not stated. 
 
 However, on the next occasion of a special gift to him, there 
 was a very definite reason. In the winter of 166f (I am unaware 
 of the exact date), the Library roof was destroyed by a fire, 
 which also probably damaged the walls 2 , a fact which was 
 doubtless not without influence in aiding the project for building 
 a new and larger Library, which however was not taken in hand 
 till the time of the succeeding Master, Dr Barrow. The nearest 
 approximation I can give to the date of the fire is that furnished 
 by a Conclusion of 12 Jan. 166f , recognizing the special care 
 which had devolved on the Librarian : — 
 
 " Agreed then by the Master and Seniors that ten pounds 
 be given and payd by the Bursar to M r Griffith for his charges 
 and paines extraordinary in the Library upon the firing of it 
 and since." 
 
 We spoke above of political feeling possibly having some 
 influence on Griffith's career. Sir Edward Stanhope had been 
 very emphatic in ruling that his Librarian should in no case hold 
 any other post — "office, lecture, preferment, or preachershipp... 
 but the verie firste acceptaunce of anie of these Functions shall 
 
 1 Waters, The Chesters of Chicheley, p. 318. 
 
 2 Willis-Clark, ii. 531. 
 
THOMAS GRIFFITH. 17 
 
 presently disable him from continuing the place of Library 
 Keeper." Yet, in spite of this, we have at a Seniority on 
 22 Oct. 1666 the Conclusion, " Agreed then that Mr Thomas 
 Griffith be chosen Register (sic) in the place of Mr Rhodes." 
 The irregularity is explained by a subsequent Conclusion of 
 Nov. 8: 
 
 " Ordered then by the Master and Seniors that his maiesties 
 Letters in behalf of M r Griffith be entered and accepted, and 
 that M r Griffith be continued in both places of Library Keeper 
 and Register (sic) accordingly." This, I suppose, favours the 
 idea that Griffith's political views may have had some bearing 
 on the incidents referred to under 1645 and 1646. 
 
 Griffith held both posts to his death, nearly eight years later. 
 Alderman Newton, who succeeded him as Registrar, records in 
 his Diary, " M 1 ' Thomas Griffith of Trinity Colledge in Cam- 
 bridge dyed on Saturday morning at London the 21st March 
 1673 [i.e. 167f] about 3 of the clock 1 :' 
 
 Note. 
 
 Since the above section was written, I have learnt some facts, 
 through the kindness of the Rev. Thomas Williams, Rector of 
 Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, which may possibly explain 
 the curious alias I have referred to in connection with Thomas 
 Griffith. 
 
 From him I learn that Eleanor Williams, daughter of — 
 Williams of Conway, married as her first husband Evan Griffiths 
 of Pengwern, and bore him three sons, Robert, John and Thomas. 
 Evan Griffiths died in 1616. and his widow subsequently married 
 Sir Peter Mytton (or Mutton) 2 , Chief Justice of North Wales, 
 and bore him two daughters. Sir Peter died in 1637. 
 
 Mr Williams considers that there is reason for supposing 
 that Evan Griffiths died young and that his three boys would 
 thus be under the tutelage of their step-father. 
 
 1 Diary, p. 71: in publications of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 
 
 2 See Foster's Alumni Oxon. sub nom. It will be remembered that the name 
 Mytton, according to Welsh pronunciation, would be identical with the English 
 word Mutton. 
 
 G. A. S. Octavo Series. XXIX, 2 
 
18 JAMES MANFEILD. 
 
 Is it not then conceivable that they may in a loose sort of 
 way have borne their step-father's surname ? If then we assume 
 that the Thomas Mutton who took his B.A. in 163$ is the same 
 with the Thomas Griffith who took his M.A. in 1639, and the 
 same also with the Thomas Griffiths of the above note, the 
 difficulty is explained. 
 
 The date of Evan Griffiths' death, taken in conjunction with 
 the date of Thomas Griffith's B.A. in 163f , shews that Thomas 
 must have been a baby or a very young child at his father's 
 death. On his mother changing her name by re-marriage, the 
 three young boys may have been currently styled by the new 
 name, and by this name, we may suppose, Thomas passes 
 through his school life at Westminster and his early years at 
 Cambridge. Indeed he does not assume his true paternal name 
 until after his step-father's death. 
 
 Whether this suggestion be well-founded or not, it seems to 
 me to be at any rate far from improbable. 
 
 (VI.) James Manfeild. [167J— 1679.] 
 
 Thomas Griffith had died on March 21, and on March 24 his 
 successor James Manfeild 1 was appointed. The new Librarian 
 had been educated at St Paul's School, coming thence as an 
 exhibitioner to Trinity 2 . Here he was entered as a sizar, 
 20 February, 166|, under Mr Pulleyn, Isaac Newton's tutor, was 
 chosen into an unnamed Exhibition on 22 October, 1666, and 
 was admitted Scholar, 17 April, 1668, on the same day with 
 John Laughton, who succeeded him as Librarian. 
 
 He took the degrees of B.A. in 166|, and of M.A. in 1672, 
 and it will thus be seen either that he degraded a year, or that 
 he did not commence residence at the proper time. 
 
 He was elected Librarian on 24 March, 167 J, and was 
 admitted the same day. Two years later, 23 Feb. 167$, the 
 
 1 The name is found both as Manfeild and Manfield. The former is that in 
 which he signs his name on his admission as Librarian, and it is that given in 
 the School Register. 
 
 2 Gardiner, p. 52. 
 
JOHN LAUGHTON. 19 
 
 work began of digging the foundations for the present Library 1 . 
 Mr Manfeild was a subscriber of £20 to the fund for the erection 
 and fitting up of the Library. He only held the office of 
 Librarian till 1679, when (May 3) he was appointed Chaplain 
 in the place of Mr Scattergood, and Mr Laughton succeeded him 
 as Librarian. 
 
 From 1684 to 1686, Mr Manfeild was University Librarian. 
 I owe to Professor Mayor a statement of the voting at his 
 election, 
 
 Manfeild, James, M.A. — 116, 
 
 Broughton, Thomas, M.A., Jesus College — 78, 
 
 Shorting, M., M.A., Jesus College—? 
 
 He appears as Chaplain in the Senior Bursar's books till 
 1686, in which he receives one quarter's stipend : he must 
 therefore have ceased to be Chaplain at the end of 1685, or the 
 beginning of 1686. How the Chaplaincy and University 
 Librarianship were vacated, whether by death or otherwise, I 
 am quite unaware. 
 
 In the Threni Cantabrigienses (Cantab., 1669) are verses by 
 Jas. Mansfield (Trin.) ; and in the Musarum Gantabrigiensium 
 Threnodia (Cantab., 1670), by Jas. Manfield (Trin.). 
 
 (VII.) John Laughton. [1679—168}.] 
 
 In the person of John Laughton, we come to one who was 
 well known amid the literary men of his day, as we shall seek 
 to show. For some of the details as to his family and birthplace, 
 I am indebted to the kindness of my friend, the Rev. L. Borissow, 
 Precentor of Trinity College, who has received them from Miss 
 E. J. Laughton, of the Hollies, Tickhill, Yorkshire, the descendant 
 of John Laughton's elder brother William. John Laughton was 
 the younger son of John Laughton, gentleman, of Eastfield, 
 Tickhill, and was baptized there 17 Jan., 1649 2 . 
 
 1 Conclusion of 22 February : Willis-Clark, ii. 537. 
 
 2 It is suggested in the notes put in my hands, that, though in some family 
 papers it is stated that John Laughton " dyed a batchelor," he may more 
 probably be identified with the Kev. John Laughton, rector of Goadby- 
 Marwood, Leicestershire, who married Dorothy, sixth daughter of Anthony 
 Tate, Esq., of Burleigh Park. The College statutes, however, would prevent 
 
 2—2 
 
20 JOHN LAUGHTON. 
 
 He was entered, as pensioner, at Trinity College, under 
 Mr Bainbrig, 1 May, 1665 ; and admitted Scholar 17 April, 
 1668. He took his degrees in due course, B.A. in 166f, and 
 M.A. in 1672. He was appointed Chaplain in 1678 and Librarian 
 in 1679. I find no trace in the Conclusion-Book of his election 
 to the Librarianship, but he was admitted 13 May, 1679. 
 After a short time, however, he vacated his new office and went 
 back to his old one, for on 17 Feb. 168|, we find the Seniority 
 appointing Mr Thomas Rotheram Librarian, and Mr Laughton 
 Chaplain in the place of the said Mr Rotheram. On 22 Jan. 
 1686, Laughton was elected University Librarian 1 , and held 
 that post and his College Chaplaincy till his death in 1712. 
 He also held prebends both of Lichfield and Worcester. He 
 was collated to the former, 28 July 2 , 1696, and to the latter, 
 22 May 3 , 1700. 
 
 Laughton was an intimate friend of Sir Isaac Newton. 
 This is shewn, for example, by two letters to Conduitt, Newton's 
 nephew, from Humphrey Newton, who was Sir Isaac's amanu- 
 ensis at Trinity, 1683—9. In one of these, dated 17 Jan. 172J, 
 he mentions that Sir Isaac rarely went visiting, and had but 
 few visitors. Of these but three are named, of whom Laughton 
 is one 4 . 
 
 In a subsequent letter, 14 Feb. 172|, he remarks : " Mr 
 Laughton, who was then Library Keeper of Trin. Coll., resorted 
 much to [Sir Isaac's] chambers : if he commenced Dr afterwards, 
 
 1 know not 5 ." 
 
 Laughton from marrying, whether as Librarian or Chaplain. William Laughton 
 died in 1702, aged 60, and is buried in Tickhill Church, where there is a monu- 
 ment to him. For a very full genealogy of the Laughton family, reference may 
 be made to Hunter's South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 246. 
 
 1 Letters of Laughton at this period of his life, 1687 — 9, to Dr Charlett, 
 Master of University College, Oxford, are in the Ballard collection in the 
 Bodleian, xxiii. 1 — 13. 
 
 2 Le Neve-Hardy, i. 612. The vacancy on Laughton's death was filled 
 
 2 March, 171f. 
 
 3 Le Neve-Hardy, iii. 83. The vacancy here on Laughton's death was not 
 filled till 8 Nov. 1714. 
 
 4 Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, ii. 92, ed. 1855. 
 
 5 Ibid. p. 96. Laughton did not proceed beyond the degree of M.A. 
 
JOHN LAUGHTON. 21 
 
 He was also on intimate terms with Newton's friend, Charles 
 Montague, afterwards the first Earl of Halifax, who in a letter 
 announcing to Newton his appointment as Master of the Mint 
 (19 March, 169f) says, " Pray give my humble services to John 
 Lawton (sic). I am sorry I have not been able to assist him 
 hitherto, but I hope he will be provided for ere long, and tell 
 him that the session is near ending, and I expect to have his 
 company when I am able to enjoy it 1 ." 
 
 Laughton was a man of great literary activity, and his name 
 is frequently met with in the notices of scholars of his time. 
 He was eminent as a book-collector, and his collection, or, at 
 any rate, the choicer portion of it, was bequeathed to the College 
 Library 2 . 
 
 Of Laughton's own literary work we may notice, first, that 
 he often appears as a writer in the University tributes of 
 congratulation or condolence. He was the author of verses in 
 Hymenaeus Cantabrigiensis (Cantab. 1G83), Maestissimae ac 
 Laetissimae Academiae Cantabrigiensis Affectus (Cantab. 1684), 
 Illustrissimi Principis Ducis Cornubiae. . .Genethliacon (Cantab. 
 1688), Musae Gantabrigienses (Cantab. 1689), Lacrymae Ganta- 
 brigienses in Obitum Serenissimae Reginae Mariae (Cantab. 1694). 
 
 Besides these lighter effusions, he produced something more 
 solid as the editor of the beautifully printed quarto edition of 
 Virgil (1701: several times reprinted in octavo, 1702, 1707, 1711). 
 According to Hearne, he wrote the "very long" Preface to the 
 Cambridge edition (1687) of Vincentius Lirinensis*. He 
 supplied the list of the MSS. in Trinity College Library to the 
 Catal. Librorum MSS. Angl. et Hib. (1697). He corrected for 
 Tho. Smith a transcript of Camden's Annals of James*. He 
 helped Will. Piers in his edition of the Medea and Phoenissce 
 
 1 Brewster's Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton, ii. 191. 
 
 2 A detailed account of the early English part of this bequest will be found 
 in my Catalogue of English books printed before 1601 now in the Library of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge. 
 
 3 Hearne's Diary, 4 May, 1707 : vol. ii. p. 11, ed. Oxf. Hist. Soc. The 
 preface is repeated in the edition of 1689, but in neither is there any mention 
 of Laughton's name. 
 
 4 Smith's pref.to Camdeni Epist., London, 1691. 4to. 
 
22 JOHN LAUGHTON. 
 
 of Euripides, and Piers gratefully speaks of "humanissimus 
 bibliotheca? publ. prsefect us... amice et benevole, ut semper 
 solet." 
 
 There seems a general consensus among writers as to the 
 kindness and courtesy of Laughton as well as to his learning. 
 Grabe tells us how Laughton ("vir erga exteros supra modum 
 humanus") shewed him the Cambridge MS. of the Testaments 
 of the orii. Patriarchs 1 , and would have allowed him to copy it 
 had he so wished 2 . 
 
 Professor Mayor, to a note of whose 3 I owe most of the above 
 instances, also cites Moses du Soul (Solanus) as speaking, in 
 a note on Lucian 4 , of an emendation, "quam [restitutionem] 
 ante annos viginti a me repertam, non meis tantum libris 
 adscripseram, sed in codice viri doctiss. Joh. Laughton, biblio- 
 thecse Cantabrigiensis praefecti, amicitise causa." 
 
 The Strype correspondence in the University Library shews 
 how much aid Strype received from Laughton. In a letter of 
 Laughton's to Will. Gouge (7 Dec. 1689) Laughton tells of his 
 search in Trinity Hall Library and elsewhere for a MS. life of 
 Abp Parker 5 , and refers to materials for the Elizabethan bishops 
 generally. In 1697 — 8, he sends materials for Strype's life of 
 Sir Thomas Smith 6 . 
 
 In like manner, the references to Laughton in the Diaries 
 of Burman and of Uffenbach on their visits to Cambridge, are 
 couched in highly complimentary language. Burman reached 
 Cambridge, 17 July, 1702, and, on the following day, "the very 
 learned public Librarian, Laughton, escorted" him to see 
 St John's College, and its Library. On the following day, 
 Laughton shewed him Trinity Library and afterwards his own 
 
 1 Ff. i. 24. 
 
 2 Preface to Test. xii. Pair, in Spicilegium, vol. i. p. 336, ed. 1. Grabe 
 ultimately printed the text of the Testaments from a transcript of the Cambridge 
 MS. given him by John Mill, unfortunately of the most inaccurate character. 
 
 3 Cambridge under Queen Anne, p. 328. 
 
 4 Demosth. Encom. 33 fin. 
 
 5 Strype Correspondence, vol. ii. 21 {Cat. of 2ISS. in Lib. of Univ. of Camb. 
 v. 33). 
 
 6 Ibid. 1, 8, 11, 14, 15 {Gat. v. 31, 32). 
 
JOHN LAUGHTON. 23 
 
 "very curious library and coins. He is... a man of great 
 erudition; he has very lately edited Virgil 1 ." 
 
 Uffenbach's visit took place in the Long Vacation of 1710, 
 at a time when Laughton was unfortunately absent. This was 
 a great disappointment to Uffenbach, for he complains, with 
 reference to his visit to the University Library (1 Aug.), that of 
 the MSS. "we could see nothing well, because the librarian, 
 Dr 2 Laughton (or as they pronounce it, Laffton) was absent ; 
 which vexed me not a little, as Dr Ferrari highly extolled his 
 great learning and courtesy. Rara avis in his terris 3 ." Again, 
 under date 13 August, he laments not having seen various 
 learned and famous men, who were absent from Cambridge 
 during the summer: — "Among them it is only fair to name 
 first Dr Laughton, the bibliothecarium of the university. For 
 if he had been in residence, we should (thanks to his singular 
 courtesy, which was very highly commended to us 4 ) not only 
 have examined the public library more thoroughly and better, 
 but also his own collections in manuscriptis and nummis 5 ." 
 
 Besides his duties as Librarian, Laughton was a member of 
 the first body of Curators of the Press ever appointed (Grace of 
 21 Jan. 169 J). After the mention of the Vice-Chancellor, the 
 Heads and Professors, comes, "Mr Laughton Coll. Trin. Academise 
 Architypographus." I do not understand the exact force of the 
 title 6 . 
 
 Laughton's political opinions are sufficiently shewn by the 
 fact that he was appointed to preach the sermon at St Mary's 
 
 1 Mayor, op. cit. pp. 116, 117. Both Burman and Uffenbach very naturally 
 speak of Laughton as Dr. This, however, is an error ; he never proceeded 
 beyond M.A. 
 
 2 See preceding note. 
 
 3 Mayor, p. 140. See also p. 153. 
 
 4 In curious contrast to this is the letter (3 Aug. 1708) from Librarian 
 Hudson to Hearne : — " ...Call'd upon John Laughton. He did not so much as 
 invite me either to eat or drink with him ; w ch he might have done w fch out 
 being in danger of my accepting his offerr : neither could he be prevail'd with 
 to take a single copy of Livy. Leaving this poor mortal...." (In Hearne's 
 Diary, vol. ii. p. 123 ; ed. Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 
 
 5 Mayor, p. 194. 
 
 6 Wordsworth,- Scholce Academiccc, p. 385. 
 
24 JOHN LAUGHTON. 
 
 before the University on 14 Feb. 168 J, which was kept as a day 
 of thanksgiving for deliverance from Popery and arbitrary 
 power 1 . A brother Librarian, of a very different tone of 
 thought, honest Tom Hearne, evidently held him, on political 
 grounds, in high aversion. Thus in his Diary for 8 Oct. 1705, 
 Hearne remarks, " M r Laughton (John) Keeper of y e Publick 
 Library in Cambridge I am inform'd is a rank whig, a great 
 Talker, and very violent in his Aspersions of the true Ch. of 
 England Men 2 ." It is perhaps worth noting that Laughton was 
 a subscriber for Hearne's Leland 3 . 
 
 Laughton's death is noted by Rud in his Diary, edited by 
 Dr Luard for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. Under the 
 date 4 Sept. 1712, we read 4 , "M r Laughton dyed about 6 this 
 morning, at his niece Jenkins's house at Woodlayes near 
 Rotheram." Hearne too thus records it under 18 Sept., "M r 
 John Laughton, Keeper of the Publick Library in Cambridge, 
 died lately. He was a learned man, and understood Books well, 
 and left behind him a good collection, not only of Books, but 
 old coyns etc. 5 " Hearne again refers to Laughton's books in a 
 letter to Mrs Barnes, 29 Oct. 1712, "I have not yet heard how 
 M r Laughton's books have went. But I do not doubt but they 
 have been sold at great Prices, his collection (so far as I can 
 gather) being extraordinary 6 ." 
 
 Laughton's literary papers were bought at his death by 
 George Paul. In a letter of 21 Aug. 1713 to Strype, then 
 preparing his life of Whitgift, he remarks, " I have bought the 
 late Mr Laughton's MSS. and papers of all kinds, and am pretty 
 confident that there are many things amongst 'em w ch might be 
 useful to you in your design'd Life of Abp Whitgift 7 ." 
 
 1 Alderman Newton's Diary, p. 98, ed. cit. ; Cooper's Annals, iv. 2. 
 
 2 Vol. i. p. 53. The editor's note on this passage (p. 354) in contrasting 
 Hearne's verdict with Uffenbach's, speaks of Dr J. Laughton. As I have 
 already said (p. 23, n. 1), Laughton did not proceed beyond M.A. Moreover, 
 Hearne does not dispute Laughton's learning. 
 
 3 Hearne's Diary, vol. iii. p. 81. 
 
 4 p. 8. 
 
 5 Diary, vol. iii. p. 458. 
 
 6 Ibid. p. 477. 
 
 7 Strype Correspondence, vol. iv. 85 (Cat. vol. v. p. 94). 
 
THOMAS ROTHERHAM. 25 
 
 These are referred to in a letter of Thomas Baker to Strype 1 , 
 15 Aug. 1713. Shortly after this, Mr Paul died, as we learn from 
 a subsequent letter of Baker to Strype 2 . Baker had bought 
 the whole collection of Laughton's papers, yet does not seem 
 sure of his legal title. He asks Strype, if he have any of his 
 papers, to retain them till his title is clear. 
 
 The following is the inscription on a memorial tablet on the 
 wall of Tickhill Church, "Jane Farmary Widow and Relict of 
 Robert Farmary, Gent., gave a Plate to the Parish Church of 
 Tickhill, for the perpetual use of the communicants there, in 
 memory of her late dear brother, Rev. John Laughton, B.D. 3 of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, Keeper of the University Library, 
 who departed this life, Sept. 4, 1712. Son of John Laughton, 
 ofEastfield, Gent. 4 " 
 
 Laughton's arms were, quarterly, per fess indented, or and 
 gules 5 . 
 
 One regrets that this eminent Scholar has not found a 
 place, surely amid many men of lesser note, in the Dictionary 
 of National Biography. 
 
 (VIII.) Thomas Rotherham. [168J— 169$.] 
 
 Thomas Rotherham or Rotheram (for both spellings occur 
 even in his epitaph), was the son of Christopher Rotherham, 
 "armiger," and Barbara his wife, and grandson of Sir John 
 Rotheram, knight, of Someresse (Someries), in the parish of 
 Luton, Bedfordshire. 
 
 It would thus seem clear that Thomas Rotherham was de- 
 scended from John Rotherham, brother of Thomas Rotherham, 
 Archbishop of York (1480 — 1500), to whom Cambridge owes 
 so much ; for the estate of Someries, which had belonged to the 
 Wenlock family, was, on the death of Lord Wenlock, who was 
 killed at the battle of Tewkesbury in 1472, forfeited to the 
 
 1 Baker Papers, part ii. no. 73 (Cat. vol. v. p. 134). 
 
 2 Ibid. no. 75. 
 
 3 See p. 23, n. 1. 
 
 4 Communicated by Miss E. J. Laughton. 
 B Hunter, I.e. 
 
26 THOMAS ROTHERHAM. 
 
 Crown, and was by the Archbishop procured from Edward IV. 
 for his brother 1 . There the family of Rotherham abode for two 
 centuries, till it passed by marriage into the hands of the 
 Crawley family. Mr Guest, whose work I have cited, gives 2 
 a pedigree of the Rotherham family from the father of the Arch- 
 bishop, but I cannot find the name of Christopher Rotherham 
 occurring therein. 
 
 Christopher Rotherham had settled in London as a mercer ; 
 and after his death, his son was sent to St Paul's School, where 
 he was an exhibitioner, 1652 — 1662, and received a grant of £5 
 on election to the Exhibition 3 . 
 
 He was entered pensioner at Trinity College, under Mr 
 Duport, 24 March, 165§, " Londinensis, e Schola Paulina," the 
 school not being often noted in the Admission-Book at this early 
 date. 
 
 He was not a scholar of the College 4 . He took the degrees 
 of B.A. in 165$, and M.A. in 1660. On 9 April, 1661, he was 
 elected to a supernumerary Chaplaincy. The Conclusion of that 
 day runs that it was agreed that Mr Thomas Rotherham " be 
 chosen conduct of this Colledge to come into the next place 
 that shal be voide for him." A vacancy evidently occurred 
 soon, for in the Senior Bursar's book for the year ending 
 Michaelmas, 1661, Mr Rotherham receives one quarter's stipend, 
 the other three quarters going to Mr Yates, whom he replaced. 
 He retained the office of Chaplain for more than twenty years, 
 and then vacated it in favour of Mr Laughton, himself becoming 
 Librarian. He was elected Librarian 17 Feb. 168f, and ad- 
 mitted 8 March. The Conclusion Book under the former date 
 records, " Ordered then by the Master and Seniors that M r 
 Thomas Rotherham be and is chosen Library-Keeper, and that 
 M 1 ' John Laughton be chosen conduct in the place of the said 
 
 1 Guest, Historical Notices of Rotherham, p. 165. Mr Guest subjoins 
 descriptions of the house at Someries as seen by Camden and Gough. See also, 
 with some difference of detail, Lysons, Magna Britannia, i. 108. 
 
 2 op. cit. p. 99. 
 
 3 Gardiner, Admission Register of St Pauls School, p. 16. 
 
 4 We have here a clear breach of Sir Edward Stanhope's order that the 
 Librarian was to be " one that is or hath been scholler of the College." 
 
THOMAS ROTHERHAM. 27 
 
 M 1 " Rotheram. Jo. North, M r . Coll." A record of the fact also occurs 
 in the general Admission Book (sub ann. 1682), which is of so 
 unusual a type in that book, being indeed the only one of the 
 kind I have noted, that I transcribe it at length : — " Thomas 
 Rotherham, Artium Mag. fil. Christophori Rotherham Armig., 
 fil. Johannis Rotheram Equit. Aur. de Someresse in com. 
 Bedford, a Magist. et Sen. Coll. SS. et Individ. Trinitatis a 
 Sacellano electus Bibliothecarius ejusd. Coll. Feb. 15, 1682, et 
 admissus Mar. 8." 
 
 On 6 April, 1665, a Thomas Rotheram, who must be the 
 above, was incorporated as M.A. at Oxford, from Trinity College, 
 Cambridge 1 . Mr Foster (I.e.) adds, "perhaps Rector of Pett, 
 Sussex in 1695." As Librarian, Rotherham would have been 
 incapable of holding a living, which was expressly forbidden by 
 Sir Edward Stanhope's will, under pain of forfeiture ; but he 
 became Chaplain again by exchange with Mr Banks in January, 
 169 J , when such a plurality would have been possible. A sub- 
 sequent Librarian, Samuel Doody, held a Chaplaincy and College 
 living together in the last years of his life. 
 
 In the last year of Mr Rotherham's Librarianship, the books 
 were moved into the present Library, and in the Junior Bursar's 
 accounts for the year ending Michaelmas, 1695, we find the sum 
 of £3. 6s. Od. paid to the Porters for transferring them 2 . In the 
 following year, when Mr Rotherham had become Chaplain, we 
 have a Conclusion of 24 July, 1696, "Agreed then by the Master 
 and Seniors that ten pounds be given to M r Rotheram for his 
 trouble in removing the Books out of the old Library into the 
 new." Mr Rotherham had been a subscriber of £20 to the fund 
 for the erection and fitting up of the Library. 
 
 Mr Rotherham died 8 Nov. 1702, in the sixty-sixth year of 
 his age, and was buried in the ante-Chapel, on the east of the 
 entrance. On the tomb-stone are Rotherham's arms : — Vert, 
 three bucks trippant, or. Crest, a buck's head erased. Below 
 this, is the following epitaph, " Thomas Alius Christophori 
 Rotherham Armigeri filij Johannis Rotheram equitis de Someries 
 
 1 Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 ' 2 Willis-Clark, ii. 546. 
 
28 JAMES BANKS. 
 
 in parochia de Luton in comitatu Bedfordiae Art. Mag. & hujus 
 Collegij Sacellanus dignissimus obijt Nov. 8 (Dm. 1702 
 
 Anno jsetatis suae 66." 
 
 On the following Nov. 20, Mr Gale is chosen Chaplain in 
 place of Mr Rotheram, deceased. 
 
 Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana, iv. 48. 
 
 Blomefield, Collect. Cantab, p. Ill, ed. 1750. 
 
 (IX.) James Banks. [169f— 1706.] 
 
 James Banks (Bankes, Bancks) was entered as pensioner of 
 the College under Mr Boteler, 10 Sept. 1678. He did not 
 become a scholar 1 . He took the degrees of B.A. in 168f and 
 of M.A. in 1686. He was chosen " supernumerary conduct," 
 18 Dec. 1689, appearing as actual Chaplain in the Senior 
 Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1690, for which 
 year he divides the stipend with Mr Devereux. He vacated 
 the Chaplaincy and became Librarian, 14 Jan. 169 J . A Con- 
 clusion of that day runs, "Agreed also by the Vice-Master and 
 Seniors that M 1 ' Thomas Rotheram be conduct in the place of 
 M r James Banks, and that the said M 1 ' Banks be our Library 
 keeper in the place of M r Rotheram, they both consenting to 
 this exchange. William Linnet, Vice-Master." Yet though 
 this exchange took place in Jan. 169§, still in the Senior 
 Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1696, Rotheram 
 receives the full payment as Librarian, and Banks in the follow- 
 ing year. 
 
 On 3 July, 1700, a James le Bancks was incorporated M.A. 
 at Oxford from Trinity College, Cambridge 2 , who must be the 
 one now before us, as there was no other James Banks of Trinity 
 at that time. 
 
 On 19 Nov. 1706, James Banks, M.A., was instituted Rector 
 of Lilley, Herts, (then in the diocese of Lincoln), on the pre- 
 sentation of Launcelot Docwra, Esq., of Putteridge, on the death 
 of John Stone 3 . This living he resigned, and was succeeded by 
 
 1 See p. 26, n. 4. 
 
 2 Foster's Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 :J Clutterbuck's Herts, iii. 88. 
 
NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 29 
 
 Thomas Cheyne, 13 Nov. 1709. Of course the acceptance of the 
 living involved the cession of the Librarianship. 
 
 On 5 March, 1712, James Bancks was instituted Rector of 
 Bury, Lancashire, on the presentation of "Thomas Bancks, by 
 virtue of a donative from William, Earl of Derby, dated 12 June, 
 1676." Mr Banks held this living till his death, his successor, 
 John Stanley, being instituted 19 July, 1743 1 . My friend and 
 former pupil, the Rev. B. O. F. Heywood, M.A., of Trinity 
 College, now Curate of Bury, informs me that he knows of no 
 memorial of any kind of Mr Banks in Bury Church. 
 
 Mr Banks's shield is on the wall of the College Chapel, the 
 easternmost on the South side. The arms are, Sable, a cross or, 
 between four fleurs de lys argent. The tinctures must be con- 
 sidered doubtful. My friend the Rev. A. H. F. Boughey points 
 out that with the same coat there are variations in tincture 
 of the charges in different branches of the Banks family, and 
 it is not possible to say with certainty to which of these the 
 shield in the Chapel is to be referred. 
 
 (X.) Nicholas Clagett. [1706—1716.] 
 
 The spelling of the name of this Librarian varies between 
 Clagett, Claget, Claggett and Clegat. The spelling of the sur- 
 name here adopted is that in which he writes it when sworn in 
 as Librarian. For the Christian name, I have taken the 
 ordinary spelling, but Clagett in his will spells it Nicolas. 
 
 His father and grandfather both bore the same name as 
 himself. His grandfather was in 1636 Vicar of Melbourne, 
 Derbyshire 2 , and died as preacher of St Mary's, Bury St Ed- 
 mund's, 12 Sept. 1663. His son, Nicholas Clagett the second, 
 was also preacher at St Mary's, Rector of Hitcham, Suffolk, 
 Rector of Thurlow Parva, Norfolk, and Archdeacon of Sudbury. 
 He died 27 Jan. I72f , at the age of 73. Archdeacon Clagett's 
 brother, Dr Will. Clagett, was preacher at Gray's Inn, and died 
 28 March, 1688. 
 
 1 Baines's Lancashire, ii. 517, ed. Harland. 
 
 2 Foster, Alumni Oxon. sub nom. 
 
30 NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 
 
 Nicholas Clagett the third was educated at Bury St Ed- 
 mund's School under Mr Leeds, and was entered as sizar at 
 Trinity College, under Mr Laughton (formerly Librarian of the 
 College, and at this time Librarian of the University and 
 Chaplain of the College) on 14 April, 1702. During the years 
 1704, 1705, he acted as Under Librarian 1 . He Avas admitted 
 scholar 28 April, 1704 ; and took the degrees of B.A. 170|, M.A. 
 1709, D.D. 1724. 
 
 As we have said, Mr Banks's acceptance of a living vacated 
 the Librarianship, and three days after, carefully observing Sir 
 Edward Stanhope's prohibition of delay, the Seniority pro- 
 ceeded to a fresh election. Under 22 Nov. 1706, there is a 
 Conclusion, " Sir Clegat, Batchelor of Arts and Scholar of this 
 College, was elected Library Keeper, in the room of M r Banks, 
 who vacated his place by accepting a living. Ri. Bentley, 
 Mag 1 ' Coll." Clagett retained his post till 1716, but what led 
 to his resignation then I am unable to say. While he was 
 Librarian, he acted on several occasions as " Tutor," as Laughton 
 certainly, and Griffith as I believe, had done before him, though 
 this was not strictly speaking in accordance with Sir Edward 
 Stanhope's requirements. On 19 June, 1708, Thomas Trevor, 
 eldest son of Lord Trevor, was admitted as Fellow-Commoner, 
 under Mr Clagett; on 25 April, 1709, Thomas Sharpe, son of 
 the Archbishop of York, was so admitted, as Pensioner ; and on 
 1 Jan. 17 If, William Belasyse, son of Sir Henry Belasyse, of 
 Brancepeth, was so admitted as Fellow- Commoner (from Christ's 
 College). 
 
 In a letter of Bentley to Archbishop Wake, of 13 Aug. 1728, 
 while denying that his nephew, in his Librarianship, had ever 
 accepted any office or lecture in the College, and so broken Sir 
 Edward Stanhope's rule, he adds " but his Predecessors have 
 frequently." He then cites the first two of the above 2 . 
 
 Clagett was Librarian when Uffenbach paid his visit to 
 Cambridge in 1710, on which occasion he examined Trinity 
 
 1 Senior Bursar's books for those years, in Library account. 
 
 2 Bentley Correspondence, p. 681. 
 
NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 31 
 
 Library on July 29, 30, Aug. 4 1 . Uffenbaeh mentions that 
 it was his custom to confine his attention in the first in- 
 stance to what a librarian regarded as most remarkable, 
 " but afterwards I search for myself, having often found far 
 better for myself, owing to the ignorance of many librarians 
 which one cannot but wonder at and deplore 2 ." He then 
 proceeds to mention what Clagett showed him on this oc- 
 casion. Certainly he made a curious choice to begin with, a 
 transcript on vellum of the Codex Bezce made for Archbishop 
 Whitgift [B. 10. 3]. This was followed by "some oriental 
 MSS.," a missal on vellum, a volume of " very fine sketches 
 taken in Italy," and a "few coins in two drawers." Uffenbaeh 
 makes no personal comment on Clagett, as he does on good 
 Thomas Baker at St John's. A few years later, an English 
 traveller speaks cordially enough. Ralph Thoresby, on his 
 second visit to Cambridge, records in his Diary under the 
 date 7 July, 1714, "He [Dr Colbatch] very courteously showed 
 me the stately library, of which the obliging M 1 ' Claget is 
 Keeper, whose company also I enjoyed 3 ." 
 
 Like his predecessor Laughton, we find Clagett aiding Strype 
 in his historical work. He catalogued for him the MSS. in 
 Trinity Library containing the proceedings against Barret and 
 Baro in 1595-6 4 . This now stands as B. 14. 9 5 . 
 
 I have already said that Clagett resigned the Librarianship 
 in 1716, though I do not know from what cause. About this 
 time, however, he was Chaplain to Charles, Earl of Sunderland 6 , 
 and he may have received some appointment from him, or have 
 been in attendance on his patron. Anyhow, in the autumn of 
 1717, he was made Rector of Pulham St Mary in Norfolk (his 
 
 1 Professor Mayor's translation in his Cambridge under Queen Anne, pp. 126, 
 131, 153. 
 
 2 Ibid. p. 126. 
 
 3 vol. ii. p. 232, ed. Hunter. 
 
 4 Cooper's Athence Cantab, i. 224: ii. 274, 551. 
 
 5 See Strype Papers, vol. vii. 39. Cat. of MSS. in Lib. of Univ. ofCarnb. vol. 
 v. 90. 
 
 6 Blomefield-Parkin, History of the County of Norfolk, iii. 266. 
 
32 NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 
 
 predecessor died 13 Oct. 1717) and retained it till 1721 \ 
 when he was succeeded by Michael Clagett, M.A., doubtless 
 a kinsman 2 . 
 
 On 5 Oct. 1721, Clagett was presented by the Earl of Sun- 
 derland to the Rectory of Brington, Northamptonshire. He 
 appears to have held this living till he became Bishop of Exeter, 
 for his successor, Will. Mayo, M.A., who had been his curate, 
 was not appointed till 30 Sept. 1742 3 . 
 
 Clagett was appointed Archdeacon of Buckingham, 1 Sept. 
 1722 4 . Nichols mentions 5 a curious incident of this part of his 
 life. While Clagett was at Hanover in 1723 with George I., the 
 king gave him the Rectory of St Martin's in the Fields, and 
 Clagett " actually kissed hands upon the occasion." The Lord 
 Chancellor, however, had already presented Zachary Pearse to 
 it, and on the king's return to England, the Chancellor carried 
 the day. 
 
 It may have been by way of consolation for this that Clagett 
 received his next preferment. He was appointed Dean of 
 Rochester, 8 Feb. I72f 6 . He next became Bishop of St David's, 
 in succession to Bishop Sydall ; the date of the conge d'elire 
 being 17 Dec. 1731, and that of the consecration, 23 Jan. 173J 7 . 
 
 At this period of his life, Clagett was a friend of Browne 
 Willis, the Antiquary, who in his will, dated 15 Dec. 1741, 
 bequeathed "coins of five guineas value" to the Bishop of St 
 David's and others 8 ; but in a subsequent codicil he revoked all 
 these bequests 9 . Willis survived the Bishop several years and 
 died in 1760. 
 
 From St David's, Clagett was translated to Exeter in suc- 
 cession to Bishop Weston, and the appointment was confirmed 
 
 1 Bloinefield-Parkin, I.e. 
 
 2 Presumably, Michael Clagett, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge ; 
 B.A. 110 r % M.A. 1713. 
 
 3 Baker, Hist, and Ant. of the County of Northampton, vol. i. p. 92 b. 
 
 4 Le Neve-Hardy, ii. 71. 
 
 5 Lit. Anecd. iii. 108 n. 
 
 6 Le Neve-Hardy, ii. 578. 
 
 7 Ibid. i. 304. 
 
 8 Nichols, Lit. Anecd. viii. 220. 9 Ibid. 223. 
 
NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 33 
 
 in Bow Church, 2 Aug. 1742 1 . For the details of Clagett's 
 Exeter life, save in so far as I refer to Le Neve, I am indebted 
 to the kindness of Winslow Jones, Esq., of Exmouth, to whom 
 also are due the accompanying references. Mr Jones further 
 mentions, though not as a certainly established fact, that 
 Clagett is said to have been collated by the Bishop (Willis) of 
 Winchester, to the Rectory of Overton, Hampshire, 31 Oct. 1731. 
 
 On 2 Aug. 1742, the day on which Clagett was confirmed as 
 Bishop of Exeter, he was instituted, in commendam, to the 
 Treasurership of Exeter Cathedral, vacant by the death of Bishop 
 Weston, on the presentation of George II. 2 , and was also ap- 
 pointed Archdeacon and Prebendary of Exeter 3 . On 19 Aug. 
 1742, he was installed and enthroned 4 , and on 21 Aug. he was 
 elected Canon Residentiary 5 , but he does not seem to have 
 attended a single meeting of the Chapter. 
 
 He died 8 Dec. 1746, and was buried on 11 Dec. at St 
 Margaret's, Westminster. He retained until his death the 
 Bishopric, Treasurership, Archdeaconry, Prebend and Canonry, 
 as well as the Rectory of Shobrooke. Dr George Lavington 
 succeeded to all his preferments. 
 
 This grim picture of the abuses which were tolerated in the 
 Church at the time is not even ended by death, for the note sub- 
 joined as to Bishop Clagett's will, which Mr Winslow Jones has 
 kindly sent me, shows that for a year after death the Canonry 
 was still in the grasp of the dead hand. 
 
 The will is dated 2 May, 1746, and a codicil 13 June, 1746, 
 and was proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 16 Dec. 
 following, by Samuel Clagett, the brother, and his friend Mr 
 Daniel Gill, the executors. 
 
 By his will Bishop Clagett desired to be buried in the 
 church or churchyard of the parish in which he should die, and 
 the burial to be ordered in the most frugal manner. All his 
 
 1 Le Neve-Hardy, i. 382. 
 
 - Archbishop Potter's Register, 279 b. 
 
 3 Ibid. 280, 280 b : Le Neve-Hardy, i. 396, 429. 
 
 4 Dean and Chapter Act Book for 1739 p. 190. 
 
 5 Ibid.' 195. 
 
 C, A. S. Octavo Series, XXIX. 3 
 
34 NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 
 
 personal estate is to be divided into three equal parts, and 
 distributed between his brother Mr Samuel Clagett of St 
 Edmund's Bury, and his sisters Mrs Jane and Mrs Margaret 
 Clagett. To his nephew Mr William Clagett he gave £1 and 
 no more, and to his nephew's mother one shilling, and he desired 
 his brother Mr Samuel Clagett and his friend Mr Gill to under- 
 take the execution of his will. By the codicil, he directed his 
 annus i^ost mortem in right of his Canonry of Exeter, to be 
 divided into three parts between his brother Samuel and his 
 sisters Jane and Margaret. 
 
 The following list of sermons published by Clagett is partly 
 taken from Nichols 1 , but the first two of those which he gives 
 are shewn by the dates to be by Nicholas Clagett the father. 
 
 1. The Duties and Obligations arising from the Advantages of Life. 
 A Sermon [on Luke xii. 48] preached at Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire, 
 Aug. 31, 1714, at the Anniversary Solemnity of the School-Feast. By 
 Nicolas Clagett, M.A., Library-Keeper of Trinity College in Cambridge... 
 
 1714 [Trin. Coll., Brit. Mus.] 
 
 2. A Sermon on the Consecration of White [Kennett], Bishop of 
 Peterborough 1718 
 
 3. A Sermon [on 1 Thess. v. 12, 13] preached at the Consecration of 
 Samuel [Bradford], Bishop of Carlisle, on Whitsunday, 1718 
 
 1718 [Trin. Coll., Brit. Mus.] 
 
 4. A Spital Sermon, Easter Tuesday, 1720 1720 
 
 5. Sermon concerning Edifying; preached at All Saints Church in 
 Northampton, Aug. 11, 1726, at the Triennial Visitation of the Rt. Rev. 
 Father in God, White, Lord Bishop of Peterborough. By Nicholas 
 Clagett, D.D., Dean of Rochester, Rector of Brington, and Chaplain in 
 Ordinary to his Majesty' 1726 
 
 6. The recompense of God's faithful stewards. A Sermon [on Matt. 
 
 xxv. 23] preach'd before the Governors of the several hospitals of 
 
 the City of London 1729 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 7. A Sermon [on 1 Cor. x. 24] preach'd on Monday in Easter 
 
 Week, March 26, 1733, being one of the Anniversary Spittal-Sermons 
 
 1733 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 8. A Sermon [on 1 Tim. ii. 1, 2] before the House of Lords 
 
 Jan. 30, 1735, being the day appointed to be kept as the day of the 
 martyrdom of King Charles the First 1 736 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 1 Lit. Anecd. i. 338. 
 
NICHOLAS CLAGETT. 35 
 
 9. A Sermon [on Acts xi. 18] preached before the Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Feb. 18, 1736 
 
 1737 [Trin. Coll., Brit. Mus.] 
 
 10. A Sermon [on Heb. xiii. 16] preached May 3, 1739, at the 
 
 yearly meeting of the children educated in the Charity schools in London 
 and Westminster. To which is annexed an account of the origin and 
 designs of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1739 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 Second edition 1740 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 11. A Sermon [on Ps. xcii. 1] preach'd...at "Westminster, on the 
 
 11th June being the anniversary of His Majesty's Accession to 
 
 the Throne, etc 1742 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 To these may be added 
 
 Articles of Enquiry upon which the Ministers, Church-wardens and 
 Side-men of every parish within the Archdeaconry of Buckingham are to 
 ground their presentments at the Visitation of the Archdeaconry of 
 Buckingham, etc 1732 [Brit. Mus.] 
 
 Clagett had verses in the Epicedium Gantabrigiense (Cantab. 
 1708) on the death of Prince George of Denmark, the husband 
 of Queen Anne. 
 
 The life of Archdeacon Clagett in the Biographia Britannica 
 was written from " Memoirs " supplied by his son, the Bishop. 
 
 The Bishop of Exeter kindly tells me that there is no 
 portrait of Bishop Clagett in the Palace at Exeter, and that 
 none is known to exist in or about Exeter. I have also to thank 
 the Bishop of St David's, who informs me that he possesses a 
 pencil sketch of Bishop Clagett, taken from a painting, the 
 present habitat which, however, he unfortunately forgets. 
 
 In the Dictionary of National Biography, it is remarked of 
 Clagett 1 , " he was doubtless educated at the grammar school in 
 his native town, and proceeded thence to Cambridge, but again 
 no particulars remain." One would have thought the Graduati 
 Gantabrigienses a sufficiently familiar book, a reference to which 
 would have given Clagett's College and degrees, when the 
 College books might be trusted to give further details, as we 
 have seen above. 
 
 1 Vol. x. p. 366 b. 
 
 3—2 
 
36 WILLIAM CH1CHELEY. 
 
 (XI.) William Chicheley. [29 Sept. 1716—12 Jan. 171f ] 
 
 Clagett had resigned his post as Librarian at some time in 
 the summer of 1716, though I am quite unaware as to the 
 cause. The Master and Seniors, however, permitted the post 
 to remain vacant longer than the fourteen days allowed by 
 Sir Edward Stanhope to elapse between the knowledge of a 
 vacancy coming to the College and the election of a new 
 Librarian ; and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Wake) accord- 
 ingly availed himself of the power bestowed upon him by the 
 will of the founder to appoint to the vacant post a person 
 qualified under the conditions laid down in the will. 
 
 In the famous dispute between Bentley and Archbishop 
 Wake in 1728, Bentley refers to the earlier incident of 1716, 
 and states 1 that the post vacated by Clagett had been allowed 
 to remain vacant in excess of the permitted time, in order that 
 it might be bestowed upon the best of the Scholars who failed 
 to obtain a Fellowship. 
 
 The Archbishop's nominee was William Chicheley 2 (or 
 Chichi ey). He was the third son of Admiral Sir John 
 Chichley, M.P., who was ninth in descent from William 
 Chichley, Sheriff of London in 1410, the youngest brother of 
 Archbishop Chichele, the founder of All Souls' College, Oxford'. 
 
 William Chicheley was educated at Westminster, then under 
 Dr Knipe, where he was admitted in 1705 4 . He was entered as 
 pensioner at Trinity, 28 June, 1709, under Mr Baker, being 
 then of the age of eighteen. In the Admission-Book, he is 
 described as the son of the late John Chicheley, eques auratus 
 of " Wimple" (Wimpole), Cambridgeshire. 
 
 He was admitted Scholar of the College, 22 April, 1710; 
 and took the degrees of B.A. I7lf, and M.A. 1716. 
 
 He was appointed Librarian by the Archbishop's mandate, 
 
 1 Bentley Correspondence, p. 680. 
 
 2 I spell the name thus at the head of the section because it is in this way 
 that Chicheley spells his name at his Admission to the Librai-ianship. 
 
 3 Alumni West. pp. 251, 252. 
 
 4 Ibid. p. 245. 
 
EDWARD PEACH. 37 
 
 10 Sept. 1716, and was admitted on Sept. 29. In his declara- 
 tion at Admission there is no reference to the action of the 
 Archbishop, as we shall see in the subsequent case of Hutchin- 
 son. The fact is thus noted in Edward Rud's Diary, under the 
 date 28 Sept. 1716, "They chose 5 Fellows... but were over- 
 reach'd by M 1 ' Chichely as to the Library-Keeper's place. It 
 had laps'd to the Archbishop, and M 1 ' C. brought down his 
 Grace's mandate. D r Asfhenhurst] did not like the man, and 
 thereupon insisted mightily upon rejecting the mandate ; which 
 D 1 ' B[entley] seem'd inclinable to do, till he was disswaded by 
 a wiser head, and so he was admitted 1 ." 
 
 Chicheley resigned the Librarianship after three months' 
 tenure. He died sine prole in 1737. 
 
 Cole's MSS. xlv. 235, 334. Alumni Westmon. 245, 251, 252. 
 In this latter, reference is made to documents in the possession of 
 C. H. Chichley Plowden, Esq. 
 
 (XII.) Edward Peach. [12 Jan. 171f— 2 Oct. 1717.] 
 
 The new Librarian, like his predecessor, retained his office, 
 it will be seen, for a few months only. 
 
 He was the son of Thomas Peach, of London, and had been 
 educated at St Paul's School, then under Mr Postlethwaite. 
 He was entered pensioner at Trinity, 11 April, 1710 (his father 
 being then dead), under Mr Cotes. He was admitted Scholar, 
 14 April, 1711, and took the degrees of B.A. in I7lf and M.A. 
 in 1717 2 . 
 
 He was elected Librarian, on Chicheley's resignation, on 
 12 Jan. 17 If , and was admitted on Jan. 25. On 2 Oct. 1717, 
 he was elected and admitted Chaplain, thus vacating the 
 Librarianship, and retained his Chaplaincy till 1737 inclusive 3 . 
 
 On 1 Oct. 1737, John Baker, D.D., was elected Chaplain, 
 and in the Senior Bursar's book for 1738, his name takes 
 Peach's place. How the vacancy had arisen, I do not know. 
 
 1 Diary, p. 18, edited by Dr Luard for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. 
 
 2 This last degree is wrongly omitted in the printed edition of the Graduati. 
 '■' His name occurs as Chaplain in the Senior Bursar's books from 1718 till 
 
 1737 inclusive, and then disappears. 
 
38 SAMUEL DOODY. 
 
 In Mr Foster's Alumni Oxonienses, occur the names of John 
 and Henry Peach, sons of Edward Peach, clerk, of Whitchurch, 
 Oxon., both of whom matriculated at St John's College, Oxford, 
 in 1757. Canon Slatter, the Rector of Whitchurch, kindly 
 informs me that Edward Peach was never Rector of Whit- 
 church, but that a curate of that name was there in 1737. He 
 can only trace one occurrence of the signature (viz. in 1737), 
 but from the identity of the handwriting of the entries in the 
 Register, he is disposed to think that the entries from 1727 to 
 1748 are in Peach's writing. 
 
 The name of Edward Peach does not occur in the list of 
 members of the University of Oxford given by Mr Foster, nor 
 is any to be found in those of Cambridge, save our present 
 Librarian. The following fact given me by Canon Slatter makes 
 it reasonably probable that the curate of Whitchurch had pre- 
 viously been the Librarian of Trinity. In 1723, Samuel Walker 
 became Rector of Whitchurch, and retained his post till 1768. 
 He had been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and had 
 taken his B.A. in 171|, M.A. 1716. He was therefore one year 
 senior in College standing to Peach, and they were scholars of 
 the College at the same time. Consequently, Walker may have 
 been glad to give to an old College friend the curacy of his 
 living, which was evidently a sole charge, from the continuous 
 appearance of one handwriting in the Register, which is not 
 Walker's, for twenty-one years. 
 
 (XIII.) Samuel Doody. [1717—1721.] 
 
 Samuel Doody was the son of Joseph Doody, of Stafford, 
 and was educated at the Charterhouse, under Dr Walker. 
 At the age of 17, he was entered as pensioner at Trinity, 
 30 June 1711, under Mr Pilgrim. He was admitted Scholar, 
 1 May, 1713, and took the degrees of B.A. 17 If and of M.A. 
 1718. On 3 July, 1722, he was incorporated as M.A. at Oxford, 
 as Samuel Darby 1 . 
 
 I do not find any reference in the Conclusion Book to his 
 
 1 Foster's Alumni Oxon., sub nom. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 39 
 
 election as Librarian, but he was admitted, 2 Oct. 1717. He 
 held his post for four years to the day, for his successor was 
 admitted 2 Oct. 1721. Doody became Chaplain on ceasing to 
 be Librarian, though again I find no record of his election or of 
 his admission. However, the date of Bentley's admission as 
 Librarian shews when the change was made ; and Doody clearly 
 became Chaplain at the beginning of the academic year 1721—22, 
 for in the Senior Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 
 1722, Doody receives the full year's stipend as Chaplain. 
 
 On 19 Dec. 1721, he was presented by the College to the 
 Vicarage of Monks' Kirby, in Warwickshire, holding the living 
 and the chaplaincy together. He died in the autumn of 1727 
 (I do not know the date more exactly), and on Oct. 28 the 
 vacant chaplaincy was given to Mr Smith, and on 29 Jan. 172| 
 the Vicarage was given to Mr Joseph Key, Master of Arts of 
 the College. The date of Mr Doody's death might perhaps 
 have been recovered from the Monks' Kirby Register, but 
 I learn through the kindness of the Rev. W. E. Jackson, the 
 present Vicar, that the Registers are missing for the years 
 1717—1733 inclusive. 
 
 A posthumous gleam of Mr Doody meets us in the Junior 
 Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1729, where 
 among payments received is one " from Mr Doody's Executor, 
 £10, for the plate lost by the said Mr Doody." 
 
 (XIV.) Thomas Bentley. [1721—1729.] 
 
 After one or two holders of the office, as to whom it is 
 difficult to do more than collect a few unimportant facts, we 
 come, in the person of the new Librarian, to a scholar who 
 himself stood high in the world of letters, and is still better 
 known from his connection with his famous uncle, Dr Richard 
 Bentley, Master of Trinity, the "awful Aristarch" of the 
 Dunciad. 
 
 Thomas Bentley was the son of James Bentley, the elder 
 brother of Richard Bentley, of Oulton near Wakefield, gentle- 
 man. He was educated at St Paul's School, then under Mr 
 
40 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 Postlethwaite ; and was entered, at the age of sixteen, as pen- 
 sioner at Trinity, under Dr Syke (Sike), on 19 Dec. 1707. We 
 have in the Appendix to Dr Luard's edition of Edward Rud's 
 Diary, a letter, dated 20 Nov. 1707, from Dr Bentley to Mr 
 Postlethwaite respecting his nephew. Thomas Bentley, when 
 staying in Trinity, had " given such a specimen of his studious- 
 ness and discretion," that his uncle had already been pressed by 
 several to admit him to the College. This Dr Bentley would 
 not do without communicating with Mr Postlethwaite, but since 
 the nephew is now sixteen years of age and would be capable of 
 taking Holy Orders by the time he commenced M.A. 1 , the uncle 
 proposes to admit him at Christmas and desires Mr Postle- 
 thwaite to send him to Cambridge as soon as the holidays 
 begin 2 . Another letter follows from Dr Bentley to Dr Stubbe, 
 the Vice-Master, dated 27 Jan. 1708, when Thomas Bentley 
 
 was in his first term of residence, in which he remarks, "I 
 
 particularly am glad that my nephew deserves your good 
 opinion 3 ." 
 
 Thomas Bentley was admitted Scholar, 13 May, 1709, and 
 Minor Fellow 2 Oct. 1714, becoming Major Fellow 8 July, 1715. 
 He took the degrees of B.A. 171£, M.A. 1715, and LL.D. 1724. 
 
 The younger Bentley was evidently an amiable man, of 
 scholarly tastes, and apparently of somewhat delicate health. 
 Thus in a letter of Jeremiah Markland to Mr Bowyer (22 Nov. 
 1764), it is remarked, "Dr Bentley used often to say to his 
 nephew, Tom, I shall thrash thee, meaning that he should out- 
 live him 4 ." The uncle was thirty years older than the nephew, 
 and survived him by six weeks. 
 
 The earliest literary work of Thomas Bentley appeared in 
 1713, while he was still merely a B.A. It was a small edition 
 of Horace [Q. Horatius Flaccus, ad nuperam Ricardi Bentleii 
 editionem accurate expressus. Notas addidit Thomas Bentleius 
 
 1 As a matter of fact, Thomas Bentley did not take Holy Orders, and thus 
 his Fellowship would have lapsed. 
 
 2 Op. cit. p. 41. 
 
 3 Ibid. p. 42. 
 
 4 Nichols, Lit. Aneed. iv. 331. See also Bentley Correspondence, p. 660. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 41 
 
 A.B. Coll. S. Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses alumnus. Cantab, 
 typis Academicis, impensis C. Crownfield, 1713], in which he 
 reproduced his uncle's text, with the various readings in the 
 margin, and with notes of a somewhat elementary character. 
 As Bishop Monk remarks 1 , doubtless the large size and high 
 price of Dr Bentley's Horace had led to a rather small circula- 
 tion, and probably the uncle was glad to give his text a wider 
 publicity through the agency of his nephew's " small " edition. 
 Moreover, it was not an unnatural thing, that Dr Bentley having 
 dedicated his Horace to the Earl of Oxford, Thomas Bentley 
 should dedicate his to Lord Oxford's son, Lord Harley. He 
 states that his uncle suggested the plan of the book, but had 
 not seen it before its publication. 
 
 Attacks were made upon this work from two very different 
 quarters. In 1717, Richard Johnson, Headmaster of Notting- 
 ham School, put forth a work, whose full title may be cited as a 
 specimen of the good old style : — " Aristarchus Anti-Bentleianus, 
 Quadraginta Sex Bentleii Errores super Q. Horatii Flacci 
 Odarum Libro Primo Spissos Nonnullos, Et Erubescendos : 
 Item per Notas Universas in Latinitate Lapsus foedissimos 
 Nonaginta Ostendens." In the Preface to this work it is sug- 
 gested that the work bearing the nephew's name is in reality 
 that of the uncle, who took the opportunity of applauding him- 
 self 2 . It is obvious that the charge is absurd and improbable 
 in the highest degree. 
 
 The next attack, which takes a different stand, came from a 
 very different quarter, Pope's Danciad. In the first edition of 
 this poem (1728) a couplet ran 
 
 "* * his mouth with Classic flatt'ry opes, 
 And the puft Orator bursts out in tropes 3 ." 
 
 In the edition of 1729, Welsted's name was inserted in the 
 place of the asterisks. In 1736, "Welsted" was replaced by 
 
 1 Life of Richard Bentley, Vol. i. p. 340, ed. 2. 
 
 2 " Cum sub fratris filii nomine libri compendium fecerit, in quo praeter 
 inverecunda ceetera, se Seculi Decus ipse appellat." Prof. p. viii. 
 
 :{ Book ii. 11. 187, 188. 
 
42 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 " Bentley 1 ." In this last edition, Pope gives the following 
 malignant note on the passage : — 
 
 " Not spoken of the famous Dr Bentley, but of one Tho. Bentley, a 
 small critic, who aped his uncle in a little Horace. The great one was 
 intended to be dedicated to the Lord Halifax, but (on a change of the 
 ministry) was given to the Earl of Oxford ; for which reason the little 
 one was dedicated to his son the Lord Harley. A taste of his Classic 
 Elocution may be seen in his following panegyric on the Peace of Utrecht. 
 ...But that this gentleman can write in a different style, may be seen in 
 a letter he printed to Mr Pope 2 ." 
 
 What the letter is which is referred to in the last sentence 
 does not appear. Presumably Thomas Bentley, who seems to 
 have been warmly attached to his uncle, had written a letter, 
 not now traceable, in the public journals. Mr Courthope 3 
 thinks that " probably the letter was written in consequence of 
 Pope's notes signed ' Bentley ' to the ' Sober Advice from 
 Horace,' which was published in 1734, and called forth a protest 
 from Richard Bentley the younger." Dr Monk 4 conjectured 
 "from circumstances" that the letter was written in 1740, but 
 Mr Courthope points out that the note itself appeared in the 
 edition of the Dunciad of 1736. 
 
 In 1718, Thomas Bentley brought out at Cambridge an 
 edition of Cicero's de Finibus. 
 
 It will be remembered that, in Dr Bentley's letter to Mr 
 Postlethwaite, he referred to the possibility of his nephew 
 taking Holy Orders. The younger Bentley, however did not so 
 proceed, and consequently under the then Statutes, his Fellow- 
 ship would lapse after the expiration of seven years from his 
 
 1 Pope's Works, vol. iv. p. 283, ed. Elwin and Courthope. The reading is 
 there cited of what is called the "first Broglio MS.," in which "Bentley" 
 stands in 1. 187. 
 
 2 Ed. cit. p. 145. 
 
 3 Ibid. p. 331. 
 
 4 Op. cit. vol. ii. p. 4C1. Here Dr Monk cites a letter from Pope to 
 Warburton, who had suggested to the poet "some ludicrous comparison, as 
 
 applicable to the uncle and nephew." He replies, "Your simile of B and 
 
 his nephew, would make an excellent epigram. But all satire is become so in- 
 effectual, when the last step that virtue can stand upon, shame, is taken 
 away...." Whatever Bentley's faults were, one can but feel indignant at this 
 Thersites-like malignity. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 43 
 
 M.A. degree. Some months before the limit was reached, 
 Mr Doody resigned the Librarianship, as I have already said, 
 and on 2 Oct. 1721, Bentley was admitted Librarian, but I find 
 no entry as to his election in the Conclusion-Book. 
 
 In Knight's Life of Dr John Colet [1724], Thomas Bentley's 
 name occurs in the list of subscribers. It will be remembered 
 that he had been a Pauline. 
 
 In 1725 and 1726, we find Thomas Bentley collating MSS. 
 for his uncle, and doing other learned work, at Paris, Lyons, 
 Borne and Naples. Seven letters from the nephew to the uncle 
 are printed in the Bentley Correspondence 1 , and describe the 
 work and movements of the former. The first of the seven is 
 written from Paris, and being imperfect the date is lost, but the 
 others range in date from 16 Nov. 1725 to 2 Aug. 1726, during 
 the whole of which time Thomas Bentley was on the Continent. 
 As these letters are in print, it is sufficient here to say that 
 they testify alike to very considerable learning on the part of 
 Thomas Bentley, and to affectionate relations between nephew 
 and uncle. At Paris, the traveller met, among other scholars, 
 Montfaucon, Banduri and Harduin. There is a remark in the 
 first letter from Rome, evidently referring to the Old Pretender ; 
 — " I have seen him. He has not elSos a%iov Tvpavvlhos 2 " In 
 a later letter, he has just seen the famous Vatican MS. (Cod. 
 B.)— " The Gr. Test, that Mico did for you. That's a Glorious 
 Old Book. I have a good mind to collate it again for 
 curiosity 3 ." 
 
 There is no direct reference in these letters to the Library of 
 which Thomas Bentley was Librarian. Once, when speaking of 
 Mark Antony's Aqueduct at Lyons, he says " in one place where 
 it crosses a valley, 'tis as high as our Library 4 ." Again, he asks 
 leave to purchase books at Rome, " that would be very fit for a 
 Library," and suggests some, adding, " It will look like doing 
 something as Library Keeper 5 ." 
 
 With the year 1728 came the curious and intricate dispute 
 between Richard Bentley and Archbishop Wake as to the 
 
 1 Pp. 627 sqq. 2 P. 636. 3 P. 656. 
 
 4 P. 646. 5 P. 660. 
 
44 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 Librarianship. The story is fully told in Bishop Monk's Life of 
 Bentley, and as it is a matter appertaining to the history of the 
 elder Bentley, rather than to that of his nephew, I shall only 
 briefly indicate the course of the dispute. There is, in the 
 Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, a large mass of papers [no. 
 1156], through which I have carefully worked, but nearly all of 
 special interest have been printed in the Bentley Correspond- 
 ence. I have already embodied in the section on Clutterbuck 
 the documents in connection with him, and some others will be 
 cited in a note appended to this and a following section. 
 
 On 28 June, 1728, Colbatch, alike one of the ablest as he 
 was one of the most persevering of Bentley's adversaries, 
 together with Parne petitioned the Archbishop to intervene in 
 the matter of the Librarianship, which they declared Thomas 
 Bentley had forfeited, both by his long absences from his post, 
 inasmuch as during six or seven years he had never been in 
 residence for more than three months in any one year, and also 
 because he had taken the degree of LL.D. in defiance, it was 
 said, of Sir Edward Stanhope's regulation. The petitioners 
 then recommend to the Archbishop, Sandys Hutchinson, B.A. 
 and scholar of the College, for the post. 
 
 The Archbishop having communicated with the Master, the 
 latter replies, and his letter is given in the Bentley Correspond- 
 ence 1 . As regards the first of the two charges, what I have 
 already said as to Thomas Bentley's Continental travels will 
 show that there was a good deal of laxity in the matter, and the 
 uncle does not dispute the fact, but defends it by saying that 
 his nephew had worked at Greek and Latin MSS. in various 
 Continental Libraries, with the view to publication ; that this 
 was done at his own expense, and that he had appointed a 
 Deputy Librarian. As regards the other charge it will suffice 
 to say that it is clear that Sir Edward Stanhope's meaning was 
 that no one should be appointed Librarian, who, at the time of 
 appointment, was of over M.A. standing. This is at once shown 
 by the fact that in the case of a Librarian proceeding to a 
 higher degree after his appointment, no penalty is provided by 
 
 1 P. 680. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 45 
 
 Sir Edward, which he is very careful to do in other cases. 
 Bentley goes also into other points, e.g. his nephew had not 
 taken any other office, though his predecessors had frequently 
 done so; Clagett is named as an example. He shows further 
 that various orders had become obsolete, and that the College 
 had itself very considerably increased the value of the post, and 
 pro tanto had a right to have a co-ordinate voice with the 
 Founder's Will. The land bought with the Stanhope bequest 
 brings in, says Bentley, £32 per annum, but the present charges 
 to the College of Librarian and Under-Librarian were £77. 
 
 A vigorous correspondence ensued, in which Richard Bentley's 
 letters are characterised by a marked ingenuity and by a system 
 of truly Fabian tactics. Though doubtless Thomas Bentley can 
 have had no special desire to retain a post at which he was 
 hardly ever present, yet an argument was drawn up in his 
 name, and this is subscribed by the Master and eight Fellows, 
 to the effect that they are satisfied with his reasons and that 
 the post is not vacant. Bishop Monk justly observes 1 that the 
 style of the document, professedly the work of the nephew, is 
 unmistakeably from the pen of the uncle. Indeed the last 
 paragraph, which Bishop Monk cites, can only be called con- 
 temptuous. 
 
 After a time, the Archbishop, probably getting weary of the 
 matter, proposed to Bentley (10 Dec. 1728) to leave the decision 
 to the Attorney-General (Sir Philip Yorke), and he, on 1 March, 
 I72f , declared that Thomas Bentley had not forfeited his post 
 under the conditions of Sir Edward Stanhope's will, and that, as 
 he had not received three admonitions for neglect from the 
 Master and Seniors, the post was not vacant. This would have 
 made an end of the matter, had it not been that the Arch- 
 bishop had already nominated as Librarian Sandys Hutchinson, 
 who had been recommended by Colbatch and Parne, and he 
 was disposed to stand upon his assumed rights. One would 
 have thought that, if the Attorney-General were right, as one 
 cannot doubt, there never had been a vacancy, and therefore 
 
 1 Vol. ii. p. 277. 
 
46 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 the Archbishop had no locus standi. At this stage, Thomas 
 Bentley resigned the Librarianship, and on 20 June, 1729, a 
 successor was appointed. The Conclusion runs " Agreed by the 
 Master and Seniors that Mr Gossipp be chosen into the place 
 of Library Keeper, now void by the voluntary cession of Dr 
 Thomas Bentley. Ri : Bentley." 
 
 The further story of the dispute has now no connection with 
 Thomas Bentley, but must be spoken of in connection with 
 Gossip and Hutchinson. 
 
 A note of Mr Bowyer refers to Thomas Bentley under the 
 year 1730. In that year, the oration before the University on 
 Jan. 30, in memory of Charles I., was delivered by John Taylor, 
 M.A., Fellow of St John's, afterwards Librarian and Registrary 
 of the University. On this Nichols 1 cites a MS. note of Mr 
 Bowyer ; — " Thomas Bentley, an awkward imitator of his uncle 
 Richard, attacked the Latinity of this Oration, criticising anony- 
 mously in a newspaper the first sentence, as an unusual con- 
 struction without two infinitive moods after fore ; which the 
 Doctor vindicated in conversation, by authorities both ancient 
 and modern. He was abused in the same channel for saying 
 the Scots sold their king ; a fact well attested." Bowyer does 
 not give his authority for his statement. 
 
 Some years later, in 1733, an accident befell Thomas 
 Bentley, the effects of which were disastrous, and might well 
 have proved fatal. He had had entrusted to him by Dr Mead 
 the unfinished notes of Dr John Davies on the Philosophical 
 writings of Cicero. These he was to edit, and to continue the 
 notes on the de Officiis from the point where Davies had left it 
 unfinished at his death. Accordingly Thomas Bentley devoted 
 himself to this work at his lodgings in the Strand, but having 
 contracted the dangerous habit of reading in bed, he managed 
 to set the house on fire, and had barely time to escape with his 
 life. All his papers were destroyed, including the whole of 
 Davies's notes, and some unedited scholia on Homer 2 . Bishop 
 
 1 Lit. Anecd. iv. 491 n. 
 
 2 Monk ii. 357. See the authorities there cited, especially the life of Davies 
 in the Biographia Britannica (vol. iii. p. 1618 n.). 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 47 
 
 Monk mentions to condemn an unfounded view which attributes 
 the fire not to Thomas Bentley, but to his uncle. 
 
 Thomas Bentley brought out two works in the concluding 
 years of his life. In 1741, appeared his edition of the Hymns 
 of Callimachus, Theognis, etc., with Latin translation and 
 notes 1 : and in 1742 an edition of Csesar, with Dr Jurin's notes 
 and emendations added. This work must have been published 
 not long before Thomas Bentley's death. He was in ill health and 
 was sent to Clifton for change of air. One day he went for an 
 excursion on the river, was taken very ill, and died before he 
 could be landed. He is buried in the church at Clifton, with 
 the following inscription : Hie jacet corpus | Thomaa Bentley 
 LL.D. | Qui obiit xxviii Maii | Anno 1742, | iEtat. 50 2 . His 
 famous uncle survived him a little more than six weeks. 
 
 Note A. 
 
 Among the documents of the Wake-Bentley controversy in 
 the Lambeth Library, are some papers connected with John 
 Kay, under-Librarian in 1728, which show that besides the main 
 dispute, of which I have already spoken, and of whose future 
 outcome I must speak in the two following sections, there was 
 also another curious side play. It is true that these papers 
 have no bearing on the life of any actual Librarian, but as (to 
 the best of my knowledge) nothing has ever appeared in print 
 on the matter, and as it throws further light on the troubled 
 College history, I have thought it worth dwelling on here. 
 
 John Kay, the son of William Kay of Caythorpe, was 
 educated at Kirk-Leatham School, under Mr Thomas Clark, 
 and thus was a schoolfellow of Gossip and Hutchinson. On 
 1 July, 1723, being then 18 years of age, he was entered as sub- 
 sizar at Trinity under Mr Walker, afterwards Vice -Master, 
 cruelly immortalized by Pope. 
 
 1 For some remarks as to the aim of this work, see Wordsworth, Scholcc 
 Academicce, p. 110. 
 - Monk ii. 408i 
 
48 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 Kay was under-Librarian during the years 1724 — 30 in- 
 clusive, as is shown by the Senior Bursar's books. He never 
 took a degree, a matter w 7 hich is referred to in the affidavit 
 subjoined, as well as in his letter to John Mawer, and else- 
 where, yet on 12 March, 172£, he w T as presented by the Vice- 
 Master (Baker) and Seniors to the Vicarage of Roxton, then 
 vacant by the cession of Mr Penson. 
 
 He evidently belonged to the party of Bentley's sympathisers 
 in the College, and so may well have been brought before the 
 Archbishop's notice by the leading members of that party, as 
 against Hutchinson, who was backed by Colbatch and Parne, 
 the Master's keenest foes. 
 
 The beginning of the story is told in the affidavit [Lambeth 
 1156, no. 29], and therefore, though the affidavit is itself of 
 later date than some of the other documents, I give it first. It 
 bears tw r o embossed stamps for sixpence each. It runs as 
 follows : 
 
 I, John Kay, under Library keeper of Trinity College in the University 
 of Cambridge, make oath, that on Thursday, 3rd October (as I believe) 
 about one of the clock in the afternoon, Dr Walker, one of the fellows of 
 the said College, called me from the gate, which is called the Queen's 
 gate, where I was with three or four other lads, and asked me if the Head 
 Library Keeper's place should be resigned, whether I could like it better 
 than the preferment I am now possessed of : I answered yes ; and gave 
 him my Reasons for it, which he said he approved of, and ordered me 
 to wait upon Dr Baker, one of the Fellows and Vice-Master of the said 
 College, and tell him so. Dr Walker likewise said that I must resign all 
 that I now had and take my Degree before I could be qualified for the 
 place. I afterwards (according to Dr Walkers directions) waited upon 
 Dr Baker at his chambers and gave him an account how far I had 
 proceeded in regulating the Catalogues of the Library, which he wished 
 me to go on with. Because if the Head Library Keeper's place should 
 become vacant, it might be some recommendation to the Bishop (sic). 
 At the same time he told me that we wanted a Resident Head Library 
 Keeper to keep it in order, and to prevent so many lads from coming 
 into the Library : he also said he would let me know when I should 
 wait upon the Master about it, because the Master liked to have even- 
 person speak for himself. 
 
 This is the sum of all that passed between Dr Walker, Dr Baker and 
 me to the best of my remembrance relating to the said Library Kee^r's 
 place. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 49 
 
 Dr Walker went out of town on Thursday the 3rd inst. immediately 
 after he had spoke to me, as is above mentioned and is not yet returned 
 to College, nor have I had any letter nor received any message from him 
 since he left this place. 
 
 Neither did Dr Baker speak one word to me about this affair from the 
 time above mentioned that I was with him at his chambers till Saturday 
 the 19th of this instant and so came to me to desire me to -recollect and 
 write down all that had passed between me, Dr Walker and himself, 
 concerning the Head Library Keeper's Place, which accordingly is now 
 done. 
 
 John Kay. 
 
 Jurat coram me viceno nono die Octobris 1728. 
 James Whiskin 1 . 
 
 The next reference in point of time is in a letter [no. 10] of 
 Parne to the Archbishop, dated 9 Oct. 1728, where it is 
 remarked, 
 
 " To my certain knowledge y e Place hath been offered to y e under 
 Librarian within these few days. Tho' as he had no degree, nor could 
 have any til y e Term began (which it doth tomorrow) and fearing y r Grace 
 might nominate one who might contest it with him, He hath not yet 
 accepted of it. Nor wil it do him any good, for he must quit other things 
 of very much worth, to have it." 
 
 We next come to an undated letter of the Archbishop 
 [no. 16], which, however, I should assign to about Oct. 14, to 
 the Master, in which after expressing his surprise that he had 
 not been informed of the result of the meeting of the Seniority 
 he remarks, 
 
 " Instead of this, I had an account which I thought I might depend 
 upon [this of course refers to Parne], that the place had been offered to 
 another person, who though not at that time qualified for it, (as having 
 no degree), yet, the term coming on, might soon obtain one ; and so my 
 right of nomination be defeated for want of being beforehand in asserting 
 it." 
 
 He therefore sent the nomination by Saturday's post 2 . 
 
 1 James Whiskin was Mayor of Cambridge in 1717, on the occasion of 
 George I.'s visit, and in 1728 on that of George II. (Cooper's Annals of Cam- 
 bridge, iv. 150, 198.) 
 
 2 Bentley Correspondence, p. 688. The Saturday would clearly be Oct. 12, 
 for Bentley, writing to the Archbishop on Sunday, Oct. 20, says that he 
 received the nomination from Mr Parne and Mr Hutchinson "last Wednesday 
 
 C. A. 8. Octave Series. XXIX. 4 
 
50 THOMAS BENTLEY. 
 
 No. 21 of the Lambeth papers is, I think, the answer to the 
 foregoing. It is a repudiation of the charge contained in the 
 Archbishop's letter, on the part of the Master and Seniors. 
 They declare that they had discussed the question on Oct. 1 
 and at several meetings since, and the delay was accounted for 
 by the Librarian's illness. There was no desire to waste time 
 so that the Archbishop's time for appointment might lapse. 
 They ask who it was that had written to the Archbishop. This 
 is dated Oct. 19, and is signed by the Master, and Drs Baker 
 V.-M., Hacket, Oraister and Paris, and Joh. Myers, B.D. 
 
 Closely following on this, we have Parne's letter to the 
 Archbishop of Oct. 24 [no. 19]. In this Parne states that he 
 has learnt that on the previous Monday (Oct. 21) a paper, in- 
 tended to be laid before the Archbishop, was sent round to 
 some persons to be signed in the name of the Master and 
 Seniors, though only half the Seniors were in College, and the 
 paper was not laid before the [next 1 ] most senior. Parne does 
 not know the contents of the document, as " it was managed so 
 very privately." He has learnt, however, one thing, that the 
 Archbishop is asked to tell the Master and Seniors who it was 
 that informed him of the offer of the Librarianship to the 
 Under-Librarian about the beginning of October. He asks the 
 Archbishop, if he thinks proper, either to send his letter to the 
 Master or to name him directly. 
 
 The Archbishop's answer to this is dated Oct. 25 [no. 20]. 
 He begins by citing part of his (undated) letter to the Master, 
 and part of the statement of the Master and Seniors to which I 
 have already referred, which concluded with the words " nor was 
 any offer made of the Library Keeper's place with our know- 
 ledge and privity/' The Archbishop will not mention Parne's 
 name, in spite of leave given, unless Parne "can effectually 
 justify" his account against this declaration. Clearly in face of 
 the mention of Dr Baker in Kay's affidavit, the declaration can 
 
 afternoon," i.e. Oct. 16, so that the letter of the Archbishop may well have 
 been written on Monday, Oct. 14. 
 
 1 This word in brackets is not in the original, but the sense clearly re- 
 quires it. 
 
THOMAS BENTLEY. 51 
 
 only be justified by explaining it of the corporate action of the 
 Seniority. 
 
 I would also refer to two letters of Mr Greaves, Commissary 
 of the University and Registrar of Trinity College, to the Arch- 
 bishop 1 . In the earlier of these [no. 25], dated 28 Oct. 2 , 1728, 
 from 7 King's Bench Walk, Temple, he mentions that he had 
 told the Archbishop at their interview that he had received 
 Kay's account in his own handwriting, which would have been 
 sworn to before him, had not he left Cambridge for London on 
 the previous Monday morning, before Kay had returned from 
 his living. This certificate [no. 18], dated Oct. 22, he had sent 
 to the Archbishop. The draught of the Archbishop's letter is 
 written on the back of Mr Greaves's letter, and in a second letter 
 from the latter [no. 27], dated Oct. 30, which explains the 
 confusion as to the two certificates, he forwards the affidavit 
 itself. 
 
 The only other letter I need mention is one from Kay to John 
 Mawer 3 [no. 24], at that time a B.A. scholar of the College and 
 a former schoolfellow of Kay. What we have at Lambeth, how- 
 ever, is evidently not the actual letter, but a very rough 
 draught. The writing is absolutely distinct from that of nos. 
 18 and 29, and can only be called a scrawl. It is neither signed 
 nor dated, but internal evidence connects it undoubtedly with 
 Kay, and the date must of course be October, 1728, and before 
 the interview with Dr Baker referred to in the affidavit. The 
 piece of paper is very jagged and torn, and before being used 
 for the draught of the letter, had evidently begun to be used 
 for another purpose, for there is a reference to Guillim's Heraldry 
 on the reverse side. 
 
 In this letter Kay asks for a little money, as he may have to 
 take a degree. He mentions the complaint to the Archbishop 
 
 1 See Monk's Bentley, ii. 272. 
 
 2 Wrongly endorsed on the outside, Oct. 29. 
 
 3 John Mawer was educated at Kirk-Leatham School under Mr Clark (for 
 whom see note under William Gossip), was entered as pensioner at Trinity 
 under Mr Smith, 20 June, 1721, and was admitted Scholar G Apiil, 1722. He 
 took the degrees of B.A. 172£, and M.A. 1736. 
 
 4—2 
 
52 THOMAS BEXTLEY. 
 
 about the Librarian ship, and adds that Dr Walker had asked 
 him if he would like to be Head Library Keeper. 
 
 "You will not be at a loss for rnv answer, seeing you know how much 
 I like a College life. So he referr'd me to Dr Baker for further informa- 
 tion, for he was going to take horse on some journey ; whom I have not 
 yet discoursed with, for he was engaged when I waited on him. I hope 
 our malcontents will get nothing by the troubles they give the M r , but I 
 may perchance be bettered by them and little to their satisfaction." 
 
 Kay then wishes Mawer to write an epithalamium for " Miss 
 Jugg's 1 " marriage. They made " a very handsome appearance 
 at Sturbridge 2 ." 
 
 Of Kay's subsequent history I know nothing. 
 
 Note B. 
 
 The extract in the following is not indeed strictly relevant 
 to the subject of this work, yet I have inserted it here as being 
 the only allusion to the architectural character of the Old 
 Library that I ever met with. It is taken from no. 7 of the 
 Lambeth documents, which is the answer by Colbatch and 
 Parne to Thomas Bentley's argument, Clearly, for some 
 reason, Bentley and his party fancied it suited their interest to 
 lay as much stress as possible on the immense change involved 
 in the removal to the "new Library"; Colbatch and Parne on 
 the other hand seek to minimise the difference. 
 
 The statement following is given as the second of two things 
 which have been affirmed, " which, if they are anything to the 
 purpose, are by no means true": — 
 
 " That the old Library was made out of Garrets, and wou'd only hold 
 three or four thousand Books ; and is now fitted into Garret Chambers 
 again. Whereas it was built on purpose for a Library, and just such a 
 Garret as a great part of the Bodleian Library is, that is a lofty Boom 
 with a vaulted and curiously wrought roof, though in the third story ; 
 and it would commodiously hold ten or twelve thousand books." 
 
 1 This is Miss Joanna Bentley. who was married to Mr Deuison Cumberland 
 in the summer of 1728. 
 
 2 Sturbridge Fair was "proclaimed"' on Sep. 13. See Wall-Gunning, p. 129. 
 
WILLIAM GOSSIP. 53 
 
 It continues, 
 
 " Great part of it on the Removal of the Books to the New Library 
 was fitted up by the Duke of Somerset into Lodgings for his own Family, 
 when any of them shou'd come here. Two of his Grace's sons succes- 
 sively kept in them ; nor is there any but our own, and one or two more 
 M re Lodges in Town which have so stately a set of apartments in them. 
 A Fourth part indeed or more of it was seized by the Ma' and let out, as 
 if it had been a Garrett over part of his Lodge." 
 
 (XV.) William Gossip. [1729.] 
 
 I have cited in the preceding section the Conclusion by 
 which Gossip was elected Librarian by the Master and Seniors, 
 in order to complete the story of Thomas Bentley's tenure. 
 
 William Gossip, " nlius G. (presumably Gulielmi) Gossip, e 
 comit. Ebor." was educated at Kirk-Leatham School in North 
 Yorkshire, then under Mr Clark 1 , and was entered as pensioner 
 at Trinity, under Mr Robert Smith, afterwards Master, 1 7 June, 
 1722, being then 17 years of age. 
 
 He was admitted Scholar, 3 May, 1723, and took the degrees 
 of B.A. 172f and M.A. 1729. He was elected Librarian, as I 
 have said, on 20 June, 1729, but I find no trace of his admission. 
 
 Clearly, if the Archbishop had been justified in his nomi- 
 nation of Hutchinson, the resignation of Thomas Bentley, and 
 the subsequent election of Gossip, could not affect matters ; 
 and the Court of King's Bench was applied to on behalf of 
 Hutchinson to issue a mandamus to the College to admit the 
 Archbishop's nominee. 
 
 The reception of the mandate on the part of the College is 
 
 1 In the Admission Book it runs "sab prsesidio D ni Clark," Dominus of 
 course standing for B.A. This must have been a slip on Gossip's part, for 
 Thomas Clark, who was Head-master of Wakefield Grammar School from 1703 
 to about Easter, 1720, and then became Head-master of Kirk-Leatham School, 
 was M.A. when appointed to Wakefield. For an account of this very able 
 Head-master see The History of Wakefield Grammar School by M. H. Peacock, 
 M.A., the present Head-master. Mr Peacock informs me that many of Mr 
 Clark's pupils followed him when he was transferred from Wakefield to Kirk- 
 Leatham. Whether Gossip was one of these does not appear. A subsequent 
 Head-master, the rtev. John Clark, Fellow of Trinity College, was one who 
 did so. 
 
54 WILLIAM GOSSIP. 
 
 shown by the following Conclusion of 25 September, 1729 : — 
 " Agreed by the Vice-Master [Baker] and Seniors, that whereas 
 a Mandamus hath been served upon the College from the Court 
 of King's Bench, for the Admission of a Library Keeper, nomi- 
 nated by His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, by a Power 
 claimed by His Grace under Sir Edward Stanhope's Will, 
 Mr Sharp be forthwith wrote to, to take opinion of council (sic), 
 how the College ought to proceed." 
 
 In the interval of waiting comes the one trace which I can 
 tind of Gossip's actually discharging the duties of Librarian. 
 A Conclusion of 23 Oct. 1729 orders: — "Agreed also that Mr 
 Gossip shall be appointed to take care that the several manu- 
 scripts, medals, great globes, and skeletons, belonging to the 
 College, be forthwith brought into the Library : and that he 
 revise the catalogue of the manuscripts ; and that he make a 
 catalogue of the medals : and that for the future no person be 
 permitted to take any manuscript 1 , medal, great globe or 
 skeleton, out of the College Library, without leave from the 
 Master and Seniors." Whether Counsel, when appealed to, 
 spoke discouragingly, or whether Bentley, in view of impending 
 contests, had had enough of the controversy, I cannot say. 
 Anyhow the decision arrived at is clearly due to Bentley 's 
 ingenuity : Hutchinson is to be accepted as Librarian, simply 
 under the terms of the Founder's will ; Gossip is to be addi- 
 tional Library Keeper, appointed by the College. It will be 
 remembered that Bentley had informed the Archbishop how 
 much the College had augmented the original Stanhope be- 
 quest. 
 
 Two Conclusions of 3 November, 1729, run as follows: — 
 " Agreed by the Vice-Master and Seniors, that Sandys Hutch- 
 inson, Batchelor of Arts of this college, be admitted Library 
 Keeper upon the terms and conditions of Sir Edward Stanhope's 
 last Will and Testament." 
 
 1 As regards AESS. an order to this same effect had been put forth by the 
 Seniority on 15 April, 1673, during the mastership of Isaac Barrow. The 
 repetition of the order on the present occasion is suggestive of considerable 
 laxity of practice. 
 
SANDYS HUTCHINSON. 55 
 
 "Agreed by the Vice-Master and Seniors, that Mr Gossip, 
 Master of Arts of the College, be appointed additional Library 
 Keeper, and that the College will make him satisfaction for his 
 trouble." 
 
 Yet it must be noted that spite of the promise to Gossip, 
 I find no trace of his name as receiving payment " for his 
 trouble " in either the Senior or the Junior Bursar's books. 
 The only reference to him of any kind is in the Junior Bursar's 
 book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1729, under " Extra- 
 ordinaries " : — " To Mr Gossip for searching y e Register at York 
 concerning y e Endowment of the Vic. of Kirby Lonsdale... 
 £00. 03. 04." 
 
 In 1729, there was a close contest for the Vice-Chancellor- 
 ship between Dr Lambert of St John's (Tory) and Dr Mawson 
 of Corpus (Whig), when the former received 84 votes as against 
 the 83 of the latter. Mr Gossip voted for Dr Mawson 1 . 
 
 (XVI.) Sandys Hutchinson. [1729—1740.] 
 
 The Archbishop's nominee was the son of Edward Hutch- 
 inson, of Boston, Lincolnshire, gentleman, who had died before 
 his son entered Trinity College. He was educated at Kirk- 
 Leatham School, under Mr Clark, and probably was one of those 
 who followed his schoolmaster thither from Wakefield. I have 
 already mentioned that I have learnt from Mr Peacock, the 
 present Head-master of Wakefield School, that a good many 
 boys did so follow their master. That Hutchinson was one of 
 these would seem to follow from the fact that he was a donor 
 to the Wakefield School Library in 1729 3 . 
 
 He was entered as pensioner at Trinity, on 23 June, 1724, 
 under Dr Smith, afterwards Master, being then 18 years of age. 
 He was admitted Scholar, 16 April, 1725, and took the degrees 
 of B.A. in 172|, and M.A. in 1731. He also incorporated as 
 M.A. at Oxford on 22 July, 1732 *. 
 
 * Cole's MSS. xl. 81. - Peacock, p. 169. 
 
 3 Foster, Alumni O.von. sub nom. 
 
56 SANDYS HUTCHINSON. 
 
 The manner in which he was connected with the dispute 
 between Dr Bentley and the Archbishop has been already 
 mentioned, the first occurrence of his name in the matter 
 being, so far as I have observed, in the petition of Colbatch and 
 Parne of 28 June, 1728 [Lambeth, 1156, no. 1 bis]. This seems 
 to have been sent to the Archbishop, together with a letter of Sir 
 Hardolph Wasteneys, the uncle of Hutchinson, dated Headon, 
 28 August, 1728 [Lambeth, no. 5 b], which is an answer to a 
 letter of the Archbishop, which does not seem to be forth- 
 coming. 
 
 Sir Hardolph urges the two main points on which Colbatch 
 and Parne laid stress, and appeals to their petition in corro- 
 boration, and maintains that the Archbishop has power to fill 
 up the place. He had clearly been shewn Bentley's letter of 
 Aug. 13 to the Archbishop, after the receipt of which the Arch- 
 bishop had evidently tried to quiet matters. Thus Sir Hardolph 
 remarks, " Your Grace is pleased to take notice in the close of 
 your letter that you have no authority in Trinity College 1 ,'' and 
 reminds him of his action in 1716, when Chicheley was ap- 
 pointed, and then presses the claims of his nephew " as a proper 
 person for the place." At the end of the letter is the following 
 postscript : — " I beg that your Grace will please to conceal the 
 name of my Nephew, till y r Grace has determined the affair in 
 his favour 2 ." 
 
 The reply of the Archbishop to the above is not forthcoming, 
 but, as appears from Sir Hardolph's second letter [no. 9], dated 
 Headon, 21 Sept. 1728, it bore the date Sept. 12. The second 
 letter, after going over old ground, asks for a Mandate to the 
 Master and Seniors to confer the post on his nephew (still 
 unnamed). There is a postscript to this letter also. Sir Har- 
 dolph states that his nephew is with him at Headon, and has 
 just received a letter from one of the Fellows of Trinity, who 
 tells him that if the Archbishop will be so good as to give him 
 
 1 See also Bentley Correspondence, p. 684. 
 
 2 It seems strange that Sir Hardolph should be thus urgent for privacy, 
 seeing that Colbatch and Parne had openly declared the name of their can- 
 didate in their petition. 
 
SANDYS HUTCHINSON. 57 
 
 the Mandate, it must be under the archiepiscopal seal, and that 
 the Master and Seniors must admit him in three days after 
 receiving it. He therefore suggests that the Mandate be sent 
 to Headon, and his nephew shall then return to Cambridge. 
 " It is the opinion of his friends there that if he got your 
 Grace's Mandate before the Seniors meet (which will be the 
 latter end of this month), they will never dispute it." 
 
 The Archbishop, who surely must have been heartily sick of 
 the affair, in a letter to Dr Bentley (undated, but clearly 
 written about the middle of October), tells him that he had 
 sent " a Nomination 1 ." This is referred to by Dr Bentley in 
 his letter to the Archbishop of Oct. 20 2 , — '"' Your Grace's nomi- 
 nation was delivered to me by Mr Parne and Mr Hutchinson 
 last Wednesday afternoon." The Archbishop himself was clearly 
 not anxious to fight for his own nomination, for in his subse- 
 quent letter of Dec. 10 3 , he expresses himself as quite willing 
 to leave the whole matter to the judgement of the Attorney- 
 General. 
 
 We have seen that legal steps were taken, though not 
 apparently till the following autumn, to force the College to 
 submit, and we have already shewn the final outcome which 
 was reached, doubtless through Bentley 's ingenuity. 
 
 On 3 Nov. 1729, the College accepted Hutchinson as Stan- 
 hope Librarian, and he was admitted on Nov. 11. The form 
 used on that occasion is unusual, and was evidently worded in 
 the light of the Conclusion of Nov. 3 : — " Sandys Hutchinson, 
 juratus et admissus in Librarium super nominationem Re- 
 verendissimi in Christo Patris Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis 
 secundum tenorem Testamenti Domini Edvardi Stanhope, 
 Militis, hujusce Collegii aliquando Socii." 
 
 Thomas Bentley had resigned in June, 1729, yet in the 
 Senior Bursar's book for the year ending Michaelmas, 1729, 
 Bentley receives the whole year's stipend; in 1730 and following 
 years Hutchinson's name appears alone, without Gossip's. 
 
 1 Bentley Correspondence, p. 688. 
 
 2 Ibid. p. 689. 
 
 3 Ibid. p. 692. 
 
58 SANDYS HUTCHINSON. 
 
 Hutchinson was one of the four editors of Stephani The- 
 saurus IAnguoe Latince, in four volumes folio ; Cambridge, 1734. 
 The other three were, the Rev. Edmund Law, M.A., Fellow of 
 Christ's [afterwards Bishop of Carlisle], John Taylor, M.A., 
 Fellow of St John's, and the Rev. Tho. Johnson, M.A., Fellow of 
 Magdalene. At this time, at any rate, Hutchinson was not in 
 Holy Orders 1 . 
 
 It was during Hutchinson's Librarianship that the Library 
 was robbed by Henry Justice. This unhappy man was a 
 Fellow-Commoner of the College, and pleaded at his trial 
 (March, 1736) that he was thereby a member of the Founda- 
 tion, and as such could not be said to steal when he was himself 
 part owner. Such a plea was of course quite inadmissible, and 
 Justice was transported 2 . 
 
 I do not know how Hutchinson's tenure of his office came to 
 an end. 
 
 Note. 
 
 I give this note on a point of genealogy here, so as not to 
 break the thread of the narrative. Although Sir Hardolph 
 Wasteneys is so careful to abstain from mentioning the name, 
 yet his nephew was of course Sandys Hutchinson, as is shewn 
 by the simple fact that in the petition of Colbatch and Parne, 
 which he forwards to the Archbishop, Sandys Hutchinson is 
 definitely named. 
 
 In Burke's Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies, it is stated 3 
 that Sir Edward Wasteneys, the third baronet [ob. 1678], 
 married Catherine Sandys, the great grand-daughter of Edwin 
 Sandys, Archbishop of York. They had two children, a son, 
 afterwards Sir Hardolph Wasteneys [ob. 1742], with whom the 
 title became extinct, and a daughter, Catherine, who married 
 Edward, the son of Samuel Hutchinson, of Boston, Lincolnshire. 
 
 1 For remarks on this edition, see Nichols, Lit. Anecd. ii, 65, iv. 494, v. 176. 
 
 2 For an account of the trial, see Proceedings at Session of Peace and Oyer 
 and Terminer for the City of London and County of Middlesex, March, 1736: 
 and for Justice's family, see Davies, Memoir of the York Press, p. 193. 
 
 a P. 555. 
 
TIMOTHY LEE. 59 
 
 It is added that the only child of this marriage was a daughter 
 and heiress. 
 
 It seems clear, however, that Sandys Hutchinson must also 
 have been a child of this last marriage, for if Burke were correct, 
 Sir Hardolph Wasteneys would not have had a nephew at all. 
 Moreover, Sandys Hutchinson too was the son of an Edward 
 Hutchinson of Boston, and his Christian name is the same as 
 the maiden name of Catherine Hutchinson's (nee Wasteneys) 
 mother. 
 
 (XVII) Timothy Lee. [1740-1742.] 
 
 Timothy Lee 1 was the son of William Lee, of Pontefract, 
 Yorkshire, and was educated at Westminster School under 
 Dr Friend 2 . 
 
 At the age of 18, he was entered at Trinity as pensioner, 
 6 Dec. 1732, under Dr Smith. He was admitted Scholar 
 20 April, 1733 ; and took the degrees of B.A. 173&, M.A. 1740, 
 and D.D. 1752. He also incorporated M.A. at Oxford, 30 July, 
 1741 3 . 
 
 He appears to have only narrowly missed a Fellowship. In 
 a letter from Thomas Goodwin 4 to Samuel Jebb, both of Trinity 
 College, it is remarked, " Yesterday came on the Election for 
 fellowships, when there were seven Vacancies and nine Candi- 
 dates : one of y e persons y* were throw r n out was Leigh [this 
 must be Timothy Lee], y e other you don't know." Goodwin 
 then sends greeting from Mr Leigh, who " is just recovered of a 
 
 1 An earlier Timothy Lee, born 18 Dec, 1659, possibly the grandfather of 
 the above, was admitted at Merchant Taylors' School in 1673. (Robinson, 
 p. 281.) 
 
 2 The name does not occur in the Alumni Westmonasterienses, which seemed 
 to me puzzling in the case of one who in due time became a Scholar of Trinity. 
 Dr Rutherford, the Head Master of Westminster, kindly gives me the explana- 
 tion : — "Apparently there was some reason why he should not be in College at 
 Westminster. He may have been over age or under age, or delicate, or the 
 like ; and at that time the Scholarships at Trinity and the Studentships at 
 Christ Church were not open to town-boys." 
 
 3 Foster, Alumni Oxon., sub nom. 
 
 4 Goodwin was afterwards Fellow; B.A. 174£, M.A. 1714. Jebb did not 
 proceed to a degree-. 
 
60 TIMOTHY LEE. 
 
 fit of sickness." Cambridge seems to have been visited by " a 
 very malignant Distemper" in the preceding summer 1 . 
 
 He was elected Librarian, 14 July, 1740, and admitted the 
 same day. The cause which had led to the vacancy is not 
 stated. 
 
 As will be seen, he vacated the Librarianship by accepting 
 a living. He married Penelope, daughter of Sir William 
 Chester, bart., and widow of John Price, of Covent Garden, 
 surgeon. She was one of the co-heirs of Sir Henry Wood, to 
 property in Suffolk 2 . 
 
 Mr Lee became Vicar of Pontefract in 174l\ Vicar of Felkirk, 
 near Barnsley, in 1743, and Rector of Ackworth, near Ponte- 
 fract, in 1744. He died at the age of 63, at Ackworth, 
 19 April, 1777, and was buried there, but do tombstone or 
 tablet to him is known there. His wife had died at Ackworth, 
 in 1762, of consumption and was buried there. 
 
 My cordial thanks are due to the Rev. •). 11. Littlewood, 
 Vicar of Felkirk, and the Rev. 11. Hewlett, Elector of Ackworth, 
 for the information tiny have kindly given me. -Mr Hewlett 
 has written for the " Ackworth Parochial Maga/inc' ;i seri 
 papers on the "Antiquities <>t Ackworth," and has senl me 
 copies of those which refer to Dr Lee and his relations to the 
 parish. Parts of these, in a condensed form, I subjoin. Dr Lee 
 was evidently a man of great energy, and varied parts. It is 
 recorded of him that he kept a pack of hounds fur the amuse- 
 ment of his parishioners, and it is not at all improbable that he 
 shared in the amusement himself He employed an expert t«» 
 make a transcript of all the Parish Registers, from the earliest 
 date to his own time, and also to make fair copies of the 
 ancient and half illegible deeds contained in the Parish Chest, 
 relating to the charities and other matters of local interest. 
 
 He assisted in the consolidation of the various charities 
 now grouped under the head of the "Poor's Estate." The great eat 
 
 1 This letter, with others to the same, is given in Wordsworth's Schohe 
 Academical, p. 312. 
 
 2 Gage, Hist, and Ant. of Suffolk, Thinnoe Hundred, pp. 393, 399. See also 
 Notes and Queries, 4th series, v. 519, vii. 3U4, 
 
TIMOTHY LEE. 61 
 
 work, however, carried out under his auspices was the enclosure 
 of the parish by a private Act of Parliament, passed in the year 
 1774, by which definite portions of land were assigned to the 
 various freeholders, in lieu of the " Common Rights " hitherto 
 enjoyed by them. Dr Lee considerably improved the method 
 of keeping the Parish Registers, and in the case of Burials was 
 in the habit of recording the cause of death. In reference to 
 this, Mr Howie tt calls attention to the terrible havoc wrought 
 in the parish a hundred and fifty years ago by small-pox, and 
 contrasts this with the comparatively rare presence of the 
 disease there of recent years. 
 
 During the Rectorship of Dr Lee, a Foundling Hospital was 
 established at Ackworth, on land bought in 1757 by the governors 
 of the London Foundling Hospital from Sir John Ramsden and 
 others. The intention was to found a branch institution, where 
 the weaker children might be benefited b}^ country air, and where 
 there would also be increased facilities for apprenticing the chil- 
 dren. For a time the children were lodged in a farm-house, but 
 ultimately extensive buildings were erected, which now form 
 the Friends' School. Dr Lee was one of the foremost and most 
 energetic members of the Hospital Committee and it was he 
 who designed the centre and principal building. The water 
 supply was planned and worked out by Smeaton, who built the 
 Eddystone Lighthouse. The total cost of the building was 
 £12,000, a much larger sum of course in those days than at 
 present. The Hospital remained at Ackworth from 1757 to 
 1778, when, owing to the withdrawal of a Parliamentary grant, 
 this and two other branches had to be given up. A work on 
 the history of the school, which took the place of the Hospital 
 (The History of Ackworth School, by Henry Thompson, of 
 Arnside), to which Mr Howlett acknowledges his obligations, 
 but which I have not succeeded in seeing, says of Dr Lee's 
 services to the Hospital : — " While speaking of the general 
 success of the Institution, it would be a mistake to omit 
 reference to Timothy Lee, D.D., to whom so much of that 
 success, if not absolutely due, was much indebted. He was a 
 gentleman who placed an intelligent and philanthropic mind 
 
62 TIMOTHY LEE. 
 
 almost entirely at the service of the young institution ; and 
 living within sound of its clock bell, was ever able to be at the 
 place, at important and critical moments, unstintingly lavishing 
 time and love upon its welfare." 
 
 It is worth adding that a special caravan was constructed 
 to carry the children and their nurses from London to Ack worth 
 by the Great North Road, the journey occupying in fine 
 weather six or seven days ; and that " Dr Lee invented an 
 ingenious kind of hammock, which was slung inside the caravan, 
 in which the little ones could sleep at night." 
 
 Strong evidence of the esteem in which Dr Lee was held in 
 his parish is furnished by the following statement, written on 
 the back of his portrait, which now hangs in Ackworth 
 Rectory : — 
 
 "Timothy Lee, S.T.P., was presented to the Rectory of Ackworth, 
 December, 1744. He died there April 19, 1777, aged 63, universally 
 lamented, as before he had l>cen beloved and honoured by his Parishioners. 
 
 "This portrait, painted by the elder Kellingbeck, of Ponterract, a few 
 years before Dr Lee's death, and esteemed to be a strong likeness, is pre- 
 sented by one of his successors to the Hector and Churchwardens of 
 Ackworth for the time being, for the use of the Parish, in the hope that 
 it may be allowed to remain in the Rectory House, ;<- a mark of respect to 
 the memory of the original." 
 
 Mr Howlett has most kindly had the portrait photographed 
 for me. Dr Lee is represented in gown and bands, and the nice 
 is a most striking combination of geniality and shrewdness. 
 
 As far as appears, Dr Lee had no children of his own, but a 
 mural tablet in Ackworth Church, to the memory of his step- 
 daughter and her husband, contains the only reference to 
 Dr Lee known to Mr Howlett in or about the Church. It 
 seems strange that neither the step-daughter, who left a charity 
 to the Parish, nor the parishioners, should have raised some 
 monument to one so " universally lamented." 
 
 The tablet runs as follows : — " Sacred to the Memory of 
 Anthony Surtees, Esq., one of His Majesty's Justices of the 
 Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and many years 
 Lieut. Col. of the 2nd West York Regiment of Militia. He 
 died 12th January, 1807, aged Go. Also of his wife Frances 
 
THOMAS WHITE. THOMAS GREEN. 63 
 
 Dorothea Surtees, who died 27th of March, 1802, aged 64. 
 She was the daughter of Penelope, the wife of John Price, Esq., 
 who afterwards married Timothy Lee, D.D. and Rector of this 
 Parish." 
 
 (XVIII.) Thomas White. [1742-1763.] 
 
 Thomas White was the son of Richard White, of Wakefield, 
 was educated at Wakefield School, under Mr [Benjamin] 
 Wilson 1 , and was entered as sub-sizar at Trinity, under Mr 
 [John] Wilson, on 21 March, 173 J, being then 19 years of age. 
 He was a Storie Exhibitioner from Wakefield School in 1740 2 . 
 
 He was admitted Scholar, 10 April, 1741 ; and took the 
 degrees of B.A. 174^, and M.A. 1745. He was elected 
 Librarian, 30 Dec. 1742, "on the cession of Mr Lee," and was 
 admitted the same day. 
 
 He held the Librarianship till his death 3 , 30 Aug. 1763. 
 He had taken Holy Orders 4 . 
 
 I have no details to mention as to Mr White's long tenure 
 of office of twenty-one years. The only notice of him which I 
 can find shews anyhow that it was not an inactive one. A 
 Conclusion of 15 Dec. 1767 runs, "ordered by the Master and 
 Seniors that the Senior Bursar pay the late Mr White's 
 Executrix seventy pounds for six Folio Volumes, containing 
 part of a new Catalogue of the Books in the College Library." 
 
 (XIX.) Thomas Green. [1763-1788.] 
 
 Thomas Green was the son of Thomas Green, of Wimeswould 
 (Wymeswould), Leicestershire, and was educated at Lough- 
 borough School under Mr Parkinson. 
 
 At the age of 18, he was admitted as sizar at Trinity, 
 
 1 Peacock, p. 135. Mr Benjamin Wilson was Head-master of Wakefield 
 School, from 1720 to 1751. He had been a Fellow of Trinity : B.A. 171f, 
 M.A. 1719. It has been thought by some that Goldsmith's portrait of Dr 
 Primrose is drawn from the Kev. Benjamin Wilson (Peacock I.e.). Mr John 
 Wilson was his younger brother. 
 
 2 Peacock, p. 189. 
 
 3 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xxxiii. p. 465. 
 
 4 Ibid. 
 
64 JOHN CLARK. 
 
 11 June, 1756, under Mr Whisson 1 . He was admitted Scholar, 
 11 May, 1759, and took the degrees of B.A. 1760, and M.A. 1763. 
 He was elected Librarian 12 Sept. 1763, and was admitted the 
 same day. The Conclusion recording his election states that 
 the post had become vacant through the death of Mr White. 
 
 He was elected Professor of Geology by the Senate, 7 May, 
 1778 2 , and retained both the Librarianship and the Professor- 
 ship till his death, which took place at Cambridge. 9 June, 
 1788 3 , when he was fifty years of age. He had taken Holy 
 Orders 4 . He was buried at St Michael's on June ll 5 . 
 
 A contemporary account states that in the autumn before 
 his death he had been deprived of the use of one side by a 
 paralytic stroke, while shooting in Huntingdonshire ; and he 
 was with difficulty brought home to College. He was thence 
 sent to Bath, but "found no relief from its waters." The writer 
 adds, "His goodness of disposition and his botanical knowledge, 
 made him regretted by all who knew him 6 ." 
 
 With regard to his Professorship, it is stated in the Cam- 
 bridge Calendar for 1820, in a notice, believed from the style 
 to be Professor Sedgwick's, that Professor Green " added some 
 valuable organic remains to the Woodwardian cabinets 7 ." 
 
 (XX.) John Clark. [1788-1803.] 
 
 John Clark was the son of John Clark, of London, and was 
 educated at Petersfield School, Hants., under Mr Street. He 
 was entered at Trinity as sizar, 3 June, 1780, under Mr Collier 8 , 
 being then twenty years of age. He was admitted Scholar, 
 
 1 See for Mr Whisson, Dr Luard's article in the Trident, p. 11. 
 
 2 Cambridge Chronicle for 9 May, 1778. 
 
 2 Cambridge Chronicle for 14 June, 1788. 
 
 4 Ibid. ; see also Gent. Mag. infra. 
 
 5 Venn, Begister of St Michael's Parish, p. 159, edited for the Camb. 
 Ant. Soe. 
 
 6 Gentleman's Magazine, vol. lviii., part 1, p. 565. 
 
 7 P. 37, referred to in Clark-Hughes, Life and Letters of Adam Sedgwick, 
 i. 194. It is there stated that Professor Green bequeathed books for the use of 
 the Lecturer. 
 
 8 Luard, u. s., p. 14. 
 
CHARLES HOYLE. 65 
 
 2 May, 1783. He took the degrees of B.A. (as 4th Senior 
 Optime) in 1784, and M.A. in 1788. He was elected Librarian, 
 23 June, 1788, and was admitted the same day. 
 
 In one of Porson's letters to Hailstone, dated 23 Feb. 1790, 
 he sends a jocular message to Mr Clark : — " Please to tell the 
 Right Rev d the librarian that I have got a copy of the new 
 Edition of Toup's critical works, published at Oxford, which 
 copy is at the library's service, if it chuses to accept it 1 ." I 
 suppose from this that Mr Clark was in Holy Orders, but I have 
 no other evidence. 
 
 He held the Librarianship till his death, as is shewn by the 
 Conclusion recording the appointment of his successor. 
 
 (XXI) Charles Hoyle. [1803-1804.] 
 
 Charles Hoyle was the son of Robert Hoyle, of Halifax, and 
 was educated at Hipperholme School, near Halifax, under 
 Mr Hudson. At the age of sixteen he was entered at Trinity, 
 11 July, 1789, as pensioner, under Mr Jones 2 . He was admitted 
 Scholar, 20 April, 1792; and took the degrees of B.A. 1794, 
 and M.A. 1797. He won the Seatonian Prize in 1804 and 1806. 
 He was elected Librarian, 31 May, 1803, and was admitted on 
 August 16. 
 
 The biographer of the Rev. Legh Richmond, who had taken 
 his degree from Trinity in the same year with Mr Hoyle, states 
 that an early (unnamed) friend had reported that Mr Richmond's 
 " first attempt to preach ex tempore in the very small church of 
 Yaverland, in the Isle of Wight, was a total failure." Much 
 ashamed, he declared that he would not try again, but did so on 
 the " urgent solicitation of our common friend, the Rev. Charles 
 Hoyle," and was most successful afterwards 3 . 
 
 In 1812, Mr Hoyle was presented by the Duke of Marl- 
 borough, whose domestic Chaplain he was, to the Yicarage of 
 
 1 Correspondence of R. Porson, p. 48 ; edited by Dr Luard for the Cambridge 
 Antiquarian Society. 
 
 2 Luard, w.s., pp. 16, 118. 
 
 3 Grimshaw, Memoirs of the Rev. Legh Richmond, p. Ill, ed. 11. 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. XXIX. 5 
 
66 ALDOUS EDWARD HENSHAW. 
 
 Overton in Wiltshire, and retained it till his death. He died 
 at Overton, and is buried in the churchyard there. The in- 
 scription on the head-stone runs, " In remembrance of the 
 Kev d Charles Hoyle, 36 years vicar of this parish, who died the 
 15th day of November, 1848, aged 76 years 1 ." 
 Mr Hoyle published the following' works : — 
 
 1. Moses viewing the Promised Land. Camb., 1804. [Seatonian Prize 
 Poem.] 
 
 2. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. Camb., 1806. [Seatonian Prize 
 Poem.] 
 
 3. Exodus, an Epic Poem in Thirteen Books. London, 1807. 
 
 This is dedicated to the Duke of Marlborough, whose domestic ( lhaplain 
 Mr Hoyle then was. 
 
 4. Three Days at Killarney, with other Poems 2 . London, 1828. 
 
 5. The Pilgrim of the Hebrides ; ;i lay of the North Countrie. By the 
 author of Three Days at Killarney 3 . London, 18.30. 
 
 6. Exodus, or the Curse of Egypt, a Poem 4 . 
 
 To these may be added, 
 
 7. A Sermon [on Matt. xvi. 18] preached at... Marlborough... at the 
 Visitation of the... Bishop of Salisbury. Bristol, 1823 [Brit. Mus.]. 
 
 In no. 4, the influence of Sir Walter Scott's hard of (hi Idet and Ladjf 
 of the Lake is very prominently marked. 
 
 (XXII.) Aldous Edward Henshaw. [1804-483?.] 
 
 Aldous Edward Henshaw was the son of Edward Henshaw, 
 of Cambridge, and was educated at Linton School, Camba, 
 under Mr Lodge. He was entered at Trinity, as sizar, under 
 Mr Jones, 6 July, 1798, being then 17 years of age. 
 
 He was admitted Scholar, 22 April, 1803, and took the 
 degrees of B.A. in 1804, and M.A. in 1807. He was elected 
 Librarian 14 Dec, 1804, and admitted Dec. 16. 
 
 1 Communicated by the Rev. F. W. Welburn, Vicar of Overton. 
 
 2 This is published anonymously. I assign it to Mr Hoyle, on the authority 
 of Halkett and Laing, col. 2584. 
 
 3 Ibid. col. 1913. 
 
 4 Whether this is a later edition of no. 3, or an independent poem, I do not 
 know. I take it from the London Catalogue of Books published in the years 
 1816—1831. 
 
CHARLES WARREN. 67 
 
 He took Holy Orders, and was " for many years officiating 
 minister at Bottisham, Cambs." He died 13 Dec, 1837, "at 
 the South-sea-house," aged 56 1 . 
 
 (XXIII.) Charles Warren. [1837-1840.] 
 
 Charles Warren was the third son of the Rev. Dawson 
 Warren, M.A. [of Trinity College, Oxford ; Yicar of Edmonton, 
 1796-1838], and was born at Edmonton, 16 Sept., 1808. He 
 was educated at Hammersmith school, under Mr Railton ; and 
 was entered at Trinity under Mr Peacock (afterwards Dean of 
 Ely), 19 March, 1827. 
 
 He rowed " three " in the first inter-university boat race in 
 1829, when the late Dean Merivale was " four," and the late 
 Bishop Selwyn " of Lichfield and New Zealand " was " seven." 
 
 He was admitted Scholar 23 April, 1830, and took the 
 degrees of B.A. 1831, and M.A. 1834. 
 
 He was ordained deacon, 29 April, 1832, and priest 28 April, 
 1833, by Bishop Marsh of Peterborough. He became curate of 
 Bnrton-Latimer, Northants. (29 April, 1832), of Edmonton 
 (30 May, 1834), and Perpetual Curate of St James, Enfield 
 Highway (16 July, 1835). 
 
 On 26 Dec, 1837, he was elected to the Librarianship, 
 vacant through the death of Mr Henshaw, and was admitted 
 the same day. He held this post until it was vacated by his 
 acceptance of the Vicarage of Over, on the Western borders of 
 Cambridgeshire. Of this the College had been the patron since 
 its foundation, but, in 1839, the presentation had somehow been 
 allowed to lapse. A Conclusion of 2 Dec. 1839 agrees that 
 " Mr Warren, now Librarian to the College, be recommended to 
 the Bishop of Ely, for his Lordship's License to the sequestration 
 
 1 Gentleman's Magazine, New Series, vol. ix. p. 215. He was of course not 
 Vicar, for he could not have held a living with the Librarianship, but Curate, 
 perhaps in sole charge. The living could be held with a fellowship : Mr Pugh 
 was Vicar 1810 — 26, and Mr John Brown (for whom see Luard, u.s. p. 107) 
 from 1826—37. Mr Henshaw also officiated at St Michael's, Cambridge, as we 
 see from Dr Venn's edition of the Parish Register. 
 
 5—2 
 
68 CHARLES WARREN. 
 
 of Over." The Bishop himself allowed the presentation to lapse 
 to the Crown, and it was by the Crown that Mr Warren was 
 actually presented. He was instituted 3 Sept. 1840. The 
 Librarianship, however, had been vacated some months before 
 this, for Mr James Ind Smith was elected on 12 March, 1840, 
 " in the room of Mr Warren, now Vicar of Over." This last 
 phrase, I presume, means that the living had been offered and 
 accepted, though the formalities were delayed. 
 
 Mr Warren was in 1842 Proctor in Convocation for the 
 Diocese of Ely. He resigned the living of Over in 1873, and 
 resided for the latter part of his life in Cornwall. He died at 
 Kenwyn, 17 Dec. 1883. 
 
 Mr Warren was the author of 
 
 1. Sermon for Enfield National School, 1837. 
 
 2. Indeterminateness of Unauthorised Baptism, 1841. 
 
 3. The Lord's Table the Christian Altar, 1842. 
 
 4. Address to Parishioners of Over on opening the National School, 
 
 1843. 
 
 5. Sermons for Over National School, 1845. 
 
 6. Ministry of the Word for Absolution, 1849. 
 
 7. Letters on Sisterhoods in Evening Journal, 1852. 
 
 8. Five Sermons for the National Society, 1855. 
 
 9. Swainson on Article xxix. Review in Ecclesiastic, Feb. 1857. 
 
 10. Discipline the Defence of Doctrine. Three papers [the second 
 
 called " The Church at the Revolution"] in Ecclesiastic, June — 
 Aug. 1857. 
 
 11. Sermon in Ely Cathedral at the Second Diocesan Choral Festival, 
 
 1860. 
 
 12. Ely Substitute for Diocesan Synods, 1866. 
 
 13. The Presbyterate in Synod, 1866. 
 
 14. Hymns for some Sundays and Saints' Days, 1867. 
 
 15. Notes on Appendix to Hymns Ancient and Modern, and three 
 
 other papers on Hymns in Literary Churchman, 1868 — 9. 
 
 16. Essay on Apocalypse in the Bible, with a sketch of an Interpreta- 
 
 tion of the Apocalypse of St John. By Pastor Emeritus, 1876. 
 
 17. Conciliar Authority for the Mixed Cup in the Holy Eucharist, 
 
 1883. 
 
 He was the editor of 
 
 1. Synodalia, a Journal of Convocation, 1853. 
 
 2. The Journal of Convocation, 2 vols., 1855 — 8. 
 
JAMES IND SMITH. 69 
 
 I have to return my cordial thanks to the Rev. C. F. S. 
 Warren, M.A., of Southfields, Longford, Coventry, the only 
 surviving son of Mr Warren, for his kindness in carefully 
 revising my notes concerning his father, and adding a number 
 of details previously unknown to me. 
 
 (XXIV.) James Ind Smith. [1840-1845.] 
 
 James Ind Smith was the son of Mr John Smith, of 
 Cambridge, who was University Printer from 1809 to 1836, 
 and was educated at Hingham School, Norfolk, under Mr 
 Browne. He was entered at Trinity College, 9 July, 1831, 
 under Mr Peacock, being then 18 years of age. He was ad- 
 mitted Scholar, 19 April, 1833. 
 
 He was awarded the Browne Medal for the Greek and Latin 
 Epigrams in 1834, and that for the Greek Ode in 1835 ; and 
 the Members' Prize for the Latin Essay in 1835 and 1836. He 
 took the degree of B.A. in 1836 (and was fifth in the First 
 Class of the Classical Tripos), and M.A. in 1839. 
 
 He was ordained deacon in 1839, and priest in 1840 by the 
 Bishop of Norwich (Stanley). He was elected Librarian in 
 succession to Mr Warren, 12 March, 1840, and was admitted on 
 July 7 following. 
 
 Like his predecessor, he vacated the Librarianship by the 
 acceptance of a living, being presented by the College on 
 25 April, 1845, to the Vicarage of Marsworth, Bucks., then 
 vacant by the resignation of the Rev. J. Weighall. This he 
 retained till 1847, when on his resignation, the Rev. J. Biass 
 Turner was (Nov. 1) appointed to succeed him. 
 
 Mr Smith married Ellen Frances, only daughter of John 
 Temple, Esq., of Malton, Yorkshire. She died 16 Sept. 1887 K 
 Mr Smith died 15 Nov. 1896, at Agra Villa, Belmont Hill, Lee, 
 aged 83. He had endowed during his lifetime a pension in 
 connection with the Printers' Pension Association. 
 
 1 Standard for 16 Sept., 1889. 
 
70 GEORGE BRIMLEY. 
 
 (XXV.) George Brimley. [1845—1857.] 
 
 To the vacancy caused by Mr Smith's acceptance of a 
 living, a new Librarian was appointed, whose name the posthu- 
 mous publication of his volume of Essays has made familiar to 
 a wide circle of readers. 
 
 George Brimley was the son of Mr Augustine Gutteridge 
 Brimley, and was born at Cambridge, 29 Dec. 1819. From the 
 age of eleven to that of sixteen, he was educated at a school at 
 Totteridge, Herts.; and for the next two years he read privately 
 with the Rev. Charles Clayton, Fellow of Caius College. On 
 5 Feb. 1838, he was entered at Trinity under Mr Whewell 
 (afterwards Master), subsequently passing under Mr J. W. 
 Blakesley (afterwards Dean of Lincoln), on Mr Whewell's resig- 
 nation of the Tutorship. 
 
 He commenced residence in October, 1838, and was ad- 
 mitted Scholar, 23 April, 1841. He read for the Classical 
 Tripos, first under the guidance of the Rev. C. J. Vaughan 
 (then Fellow of the College, afterwards Head Master of Harrow 
 and now Dean of LlandafT) and afterwards with the Rev. Henry 
 Thompson, Fellow of St John's College. 
 
 Even at this early period, the malady which ultimately 
 proved fatal had so weakened his constitution, that his chances 
 of success in a competition for honours were seriously affected. 
 
 I am informed, moreover, that Mr Brimley had no taste for 
 Mathematics, and this fact had doubtless not a little to do with 
 his not seeking a degree in honours. It will be remembered 
 that it was necessary at that time and for some years afterwards 
 to pass in the Mathematical Tripos as a condition to being 
 allowed to compete in the Classical Tripos. 
 
 On the issue of the degree list for 1842, Mr Brimley 's name 
 stood 17th in order among those who were not candidates for 
 Honours 1 . He took his B.A. degree in 1842, and M.A. in 1845. 
 During the three intervening years, he took, with considerable 
 success, a large number of private pupils to prepare for College 
 
 1 Cambridge Chronicle for 22 Jan., 1842. 
 
GEORGE BRIMLEY. 71 
 
 and University examinations, while continuing his studies with 
 a view to the Fellowship Examination. 
 
 Though he competed twice unsuccessfully, his work im- 
 pressed the Examiners as being exceedingly good. Through the 
 kindness of Mrs Robert Bowes, Mr Brimley's only surviving 
 sister, I have been permitted to read the testimonials sent in by 
 Mr Brimley on the occasion of a candidature to be presently 
 mentioned. In the general testimonial from the Master and 
 Fellows of Trinity it is remarked that though he was " not 
 elected [Fellow] he impressed the Examiners with a very high 
 idea of his classical attainments and of the elegance of his style 
 of translation." Among individual testimonials from Senior 
 Fellows who had examined Mr Brimley in the Fellowship 
 Examination, Mr Blakesley remarks that he "only just failed to 
 get a Fellowship, and no doubt but for his frequent illnesses he 
 would have got one." Mr J. M. Heath says, " had his Mathe- 
 matical knowledge been greater than it is, I have little doubt 
 that he would have been successful." 
 
 Early in 1845, Mr Brimley was a candidate for the Rector- 
 ship of the Ayr Academy and went down on a visit of inspection 
 to Ayr. I have already referred to some of the testimonials 
 sent in connection with this. In addition to these, there are a 
 large number of others all couched in very warm terms. Besides 
 signing the college testimonial, Dr Whewell, then Master, writes 
 a further very cordial little note. Mr Romilly speaks of his 
 "great range of reading coupled with remarkable accuracy." 
 Among others who write are Mr C. J. Vaughan, Mr Carus, and 
 the writer's dear old friend, the late Mr C. W. King. 
 
 From a letter which I have been privileged to see, written 
 by Mr Brimley to his father during his visit to Ayr, I gather 
 that while in many ways the post seemed attractive, yet the 
 nature of the work and the conditions of the post were such as 
 did not sufficiently commend themselves to him. It was rather 
 a shock to him, too, with his ideas of English public schools, to 
 find that the Ayr Academy was a mixed school for boys and 
 girls. It would appear that after consultation with his friends 
 at Cambridge he withdrew from his candidature. It cannot be 
 
72 GEORGE BRIMLEY. 
 
 doubted that his health could not long have stood the strain of 
 a schoolmaster s life, and moreover that his literary tastes had 
 a far freer scope amid the comparative leisure of a college life. 
 
 He was elected Librarian, 4 June, 1845, and was admitted 
 the same day. From this time forward, the College became his 
 home. He lived in rooms on the corner staircase of the Great 
 Court, by the Master's Lodge, which adjoined the older Library 
 of the College, and indeed had perhaps once formed part 
 of it. 
 
 Although Mr Brimley's delicate health stood in the way of 
 his attempting any larger work, such as mental powers like his 
 would naturally have undertaken had bodily strength allowed, 
 still he was able to contribute a number of articles to various 
 literary journals. At a very early period in his career he 
 had written papers for the Cambridge University Magazine 
 (1840-3), among these being articles on " Living Dramatists of 
 England," "Poetry, its nature and effect," etc.; while during the 
 later years of his life he wrote regularly for the Spectator and 
 occasionally for Frasers Magazine. 
 
 All these were published anonymously, the only signed work 
 being, I believe, the long article on Tennyson's Poems, which 
 appeared in the Cambridge Essays for 1855, and is apparently 
 the most elaborate piece of work which Mr Brimley left behind 
 him. 
 
 His literary work was characterized by a high conscientious- 
 ness in the way of careful study of the books he was discussing. 
 It both proved a solace to him in his gradually weakening 
 condition and was the means of bringing him into intimate 
 relations with some of the foremost literary men of the day. 
 Among them was the late Charles Kingsley. In the possession 
 of Mr and Mrs Robert Bowes are a large number of Kingsley's 
 letters, testifying to a warm and intimate friendship between 
 the two men. 
 
 Two of these letters are printed in the Letters and Memories 
 of Charles Kingsley, edited by his widow 1 . They refer to some 
 correspondence in the Spectator on the state of the Universities, 
 1 Vol. i. pp. 265, 267, ed. 2. 
 
GEORGE BRIMLEY. 73 
 
 and to Kingsley's belief that "there was a wide-spreading spirit 
 of unbelief among the undergraduates." The second letter 
 thanks Mr Brimley warmly for his " gallant letter " in the 
 Spectator. 
 
 With Mr F. D. Maurice, too, Mr Brimley was on terms of 
 very warm friendship, and a large number of letters from 
 Mr Maurice to his friend have been preserved. 
 
 I am informed that Mr Brimley's most intimate friend, 
 outside the circle of his own family, was certainly the late 
 Mr W. G. Clark, to whose work for his friend I refer subse- 
 quently. Mr Clark was with him a few days before his death. 
 
 The late Dr Hort was one of Mr Brimley's most intimate 
 friends. In the recently published biography of the former by 
 Mr A. F. Hort, the writer remarks that his father " saw much 
 of George Brimley, whose acute intellect he warmly appreciated," 
 and mentions Brimley's name in the very distinguished body of 
 guests at Hort's "Fellowship dinner 1 ." Dr Hort refers to 
 Mr Brimley's Essay on Tennyson to which I have already alluded, 
 in a letter to the Rev. J. Ellerton. He says of the volume of 
 Cambridge Essays, " The gem of it is Brimley's Article on 
 Tennyson, a genuine burst of hearty enthusiasm, ludicrously at 
 variance with all dear Brimley's pet theories (he now professes 
 to believe in nothing but 'nervous tissue'!) and except in one 
 or two groundless cavils, a worthy vindication against the 
 populace 2 ." 
 
 Another friend with whom Mr Brimley was much thrown 
 was the late Sir Arthur Helps, through their common friendship 
 with Mr J. W. Parker, the publisher. 
 
 Amid steadily increasing weakness, but with every solace 
 that the devoted care of his friends could bestow, the last few 
 years of Mr Brimley's life were passed. He died on 29 May, 
 1857, at his father's house, 13 Park Terrace, and was buried in 
 the Cambridge Cemetery. At the foot of the granite cross above 
 his grave is inscribed the text "Mercy and Truth are met 
 together." 
 
 1 Life and Letters of F. J. A. Hort, vol. i. pp. 173—4. 
 
 2 Ibid. 320. 
 
74 HOWARD WARBURTON ELPHINSTONE. 
 
 In the following year a collection of his Essays was brought 
 out by the late Mr W. G. Clark, then Fellow and Tutor of 
 Trinity, with a short, warmly appreciative memoir. He con- 
 cludes with a touching tribute from an unnamed friend, who, I 
 am informed, was Sir Arthur Helps: — "I believe he was an 
 unusually good man, whose goodness was not always prominent 
 to the ordinary observer, but who was intrinsically faithful, 
 true, brave, and affectionate.... His death is really a loss to 
 literature. He was certainly, as it appeared to me, one of the 
 finest critics of the present day. We shall not soon meet with 
 his like again." 
 
 The portrait prefixed to the volume is a steel engraving by 
 E. RadclifTe from a photograph by Mayall, taken in 1856. It 
 represents a strong intellectual face and withal a pleasant and 
 kindly one. The family possess also a portrait of Mr Brimley 
 as a young man, painted by Isaac Robert [?] Cruikshank about 
 1844, and a chalk drawing by A. Ludovici taken about 1850. 
 
 There is an error in the life of Mr Brimley in the Dictionary 
 of National Biography 1 , which states that he retained the 
 Librarianship " until a few weeks before his death." He was 
 Librarian until his death, as is shewn by the Conclusion which 
 records the election of his successor. The error is doubtless due 
 to the fact that the last six months of his life were passed not 
 in his college rooms, but at home. 
 
 I have to return my best thanks to my friend Mr Bowes for 
 his kind aid in making this notice as accurate as possible. 
 
 (XXVI.) Howard Warburton Elphinstone. [1857 — 1858.] 
 
 To the vacancy caused by the death of Mr Brimley, Mr 
 Howard Warburton Elphinstone was elected. 
 
 The new Librarian was the only son of Sir Howard Elphin- 
 stone, Bart., was born at Westminster in 1830, and was educated 
 at Eton under Dr Hawtrey. 
 
 He was entered at Trinity under Mr (afterwards Archdeacon) 
 Cooper, 4 Feb. 1850, and was admitted Scholar, 9 April, 1853. 
 
 1 Vol. vi., p. 344. 
 
JOHN GLOVER. 75 
 
 He took the degrees of B.A. (as 17th Wrangler) in 1854, 
 and M.A. in 1857. He was elected Librarian, 9 June, 1857, 
 and was admitted the following day. 
 
 He resigned the Librarianship in the following year, and 
 his successor, Mr John Glover, was appointed on 13 Dec. 1858. 
 
 Mr Elphinstone was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 
 1862. He was formerly Professor and afterwards Reader of 
 the Law of Real and Personal Property to the Inns of Court. 
 He was appointed Conveyancing Counsel to the Court, Nov. 
 1895. He succeeded his father as third baronet in 1893. 
 
 He is author of 
 
 1. A Practical Introduction to Conveyancing, 1871. 
 Second edition, 1881. 
 
 Third edition, revised, 1884. 
 Fourth edition, 1894. 
 
 2. [Jointly with Mr T. Key.] A Compendium of Precedents in Con- 
 veyancing, 1878. 
 
 Second edition, 1883. 
 
 3. [Jointly with Mr E. F. Norton and Mr James W. Clark.] Rules 
 for the Interpretation of Deeds, 1885. 
 
 4. [Jointly with Mr Clark.] On Searches, 1887—9. 
 
 (XXVII.) John Glover. [1858—1863.] 
 
 John Glover was the son of an officer in the army, John 
 Octavius Glover, w T ho served in the First Royals, and retired 
 from the service as Lieutenant-Colonel. He was born at 
 Waterford, 23 Dec. 1823, and was educated privately in Devon- 
 shire. 
 
 He was entered at Trinity under Mr Blakesley (afterwards 
 Dean of Lincoln), on 28 June, 1842. He was admitted Scholar, 
 19 April, 1844, and took the degrees of B.A. (as 18th Wrangler, 
 and 2nd in the Second Class of the Classical Tripos) in 1846 
 and M.A. in 1849. 
 
 He was ordained deacon by the Bishop of Winchester 
 (Sumner) in 1849, and priest by the Bishop of Cork (Wilson) 
 in 1850. He was admitted Chaplain of the College on 29 Oct. 
 1851, and on 13 Dec. 1858 was elected Librarian on Mr Elphin- 
 stone's resignation, and was admitted the same day. He was 
 
76 JOHN GLOVER. 
 
 the last who was sworn on admission ; after Mr Glover's admis- 
 sion, the old " juratus et admissus " becomes " professione facta 
 admissus." The Seniority on 4 March, 1859, allowed Mr Glover 
 to hold his Chaplaincy during a year of Grace. 
 
 The Vicarage of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, having 
 become vacant, Mr Glover was presented to it by the college, 
 1 Dec. 1862. The preliminary formalities evidently took some 
 time, for not till 25 March, 1863, was the vacancy caused by 
 Mr Glover's acceptance of Brading filled up by the election of 
 Mr W. A. Wright. 
 
 Mr Glover died on 5 July, 1884, at the house of his brother, 
 the Rev. George Glover, Vicar of Bourton, Dorset, and is buried 
 in the cemetery at Bourton. 
 
 Mr Glover was one of the compilers of the Catalogue of the 
 MSS. in the Library of the University of Cambridge. His name 
 occurs in vol. I. (1856) as undertaking the scientific and medical 
 MSS., conjointly with Dr Webster of Jesus College. In vols. II. 
 (1857), in. (1858) and IV. (1861) Mr Glover undertook this 
 work alone. In vols. in. and iv. he also took part of the work 
 on the Historical MSS. conjointly with Mr Luard and Mr Ventris. 
 
 During this work at the University Library he formed a 
 friendship, which ended only with life, with Professor J. E. B. 
 Mayor and the late Henry Bradshaw. 
 
 His name appears as joint editor with Mr W. G. Clark on 
 the title-page of the first volume of the first edition of the 
 Cambridge Shakespeare, 1863 ; but his departure from Cam- 
 bridge rendered it impossible for him to continue the work of 
 editing, and his place was taken by Mr W. A. Wright. While he 
 was Vicar of Brading, he edited for the Rolls Series, "Le Livere 
 de Reis de Brittanie, e Le Livre de Reis de Engletere," 1865. 
 
 I have to thank the Rev. Octavius Glover, B.D., Rector of 
 Emmanuel Church, Loughborough, and formerly Fellow r of 
 Emmanuel College, for kindly revising and making some 
 additions to the above details of his brother's life. 
 
WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. 77 
 
 (XXVIII.) William Aldis Wright. [1863—1870.] 
 
 As I have already said, Mr Wright was appointed to fill the 
 vacancy created by Mr Glover's acceptance of the Vicarage of 
 Brading. 
 
 The new Librarian was the son of Mr George Wright, of 
 Beccles in Suffolk, and was educated at the Grammar School 
 there, under the Rev. H. N. Burrows. At the age of 19, he 
 was entered at Trinity under Mr Thompson (afterwards Master), 
 on 6 June, 1850. 
 
 He was admitted Scholar, 9 April, 1853; was 18th Wrangler 
 in 1854, and took the degrees of B.A. in 1858 and M.A. in 
 1861. He was also created Hon. LL.D. at Edinburgh in April, 
 1879, Hon. D.C.L. at Oxford, 30 June, 1886, and Hon. Litt.D. 
 at Dublin, 28 June, 1895. 
 
 He was elected Librarian, 25 March, 1863, and was admitted 
 on May 28 following. He held the Librarianship till appointed 
 Senior Bursar, 9 June, 1870, and held the latter office till 
 December, 1895. He was admitted Fellow, 11 Oct. 1878 [sec. 
 Stat. XXII.], and has been Vice-Master since 3 Feb. 1888. 
 
 Mr Wright has published (inter alia) the following : — 
 [as joint-editor with the late Mr W. G. Clark] 
 
 1. The first edition of the Cambridge Shakespeare (except vol. I.), 
 1863—66. 
 
 and, as sole editor, 
 
 2. The second edition of the above, 1891 — 93. 
 
 3. Bacon's Essays, 1862. 
 
 4. „ Advancement of Learning, 1869. 
 
 5. [For the Roxburghe Club.] Pilgrimage of the Lyf of the Manhode, 
 an old English prose version of Guillaume de Deguilleville's Pelerinaige de 
 l'homme, 1869. 
 
 6. [For the Early English Text Society.] Generydes, a Romance (from 
 the unique MS. of this form of the text in the Gale collection in Trinity 
 College Library), 1873—78. 
 
 7. [For the Rolls Series.] The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of 
 Gloucester, 2 vols., 1887. 
 
 8. The Bible Word-Book, ed. 2, 1884. 
 
 9. Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Fitzgerald, 1889. 
 
78 SEDLEY TAYLOR. 
 
 10. Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, 2 vols., 1894. 
 
 11. Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble, 1871—83, 1895. 
 
 From 1870 to 1885 he was Secretary to the Committee for 
 revising the Authorised Version of the Old Testament. 
 
 (XXIX.) Sedley Taylor. [1870—1871.] 
 
 On Mr Wright's appointment as Senior Bursar he was suc- 
 ceeded as Librarian by Mr Sedley Taylor. The new Librarian 
 was the son of Mr George Taylor, of Kingston, Surrey, and 
 received his school education, first at Hofwyl under De Fellen- 
 berg, and afterwards at the school attached to University College, 
 London. He subsequently attended lectures at that College, 
 especially those of Professor De Morgan, and took the degree 
 of B.A. at the University of London. At the age of 20, he 
 was entered at Trinity under Mr Cooper, 8 Jan. 1855, and was 
 admitted Scholar, 25 April, 1857. He took the degrees of B.A. 
 (as 16th Wrangler) in 1859 and M.A. in 1862. 
 
 He was admitted Fellow, 11 Oct. 1861, and was elected and 
 admitted Librarian, 9 June, 1870, but resigned the Librarian- 
 ship in the May following in consequence of illness. Mr Taylor 
 has published the following : 
 
 1. The so-called "Real objective Presence" in the Lord's Supper no 
 doctrine of the Church of England. A letter to the Author of the " Kiss 
 of Peace," 1867. 
 
 2. The system of Clerical subscriptions in the Church of England; 
 its unjustifiable character and injurious results examined, 1869. 
 
 3. On French and German as substitutes for Greek in the University 
 Pass examinations, 1870. 
 
 4. Sound and Music: a non-Mathematical Treatise on the Physical 
 Constitution of Musical Sounds and Harmony, 1873. 
 
 5. The conduct of Her Majesty's Ministers on the Eastern question, 
 1877. 
 
 6. The Earl of Beaconsfield and the Conservative Reform Bill of 
 1867, 1877. 
 
 7. Memoranda extracted from the correspondence respecting Af- 
 ghanistan, 1878. 
 
 8. The Participation of Labour in the Profits of Enterprise, 1881. 
 
ROBERT SINKER. 79 
 
 9. What results may be expected to arise from an Extension of the 
 system of Participation by Labour in the Profits of Manufacturing, 
 Agricultural, and Trading Enterprises, 1881. 
 
 10. The Tonic Sol-Fa movement: what it is, and why Rich and Poor 
 should alike support it, 1883. 
 
 11. The late R. C. Rowe, formerly Fellow {In memoriam), 1884. 
 
 12. Inaugural Address delivered at the sixteenth Annual Co-operative 
 Congress held at Derby, June 2—4, 1884, 1884. 
 
 13. Profit-Sharing between Capital and Labour, to which is added a 
 Memorandum on the Industrial Partnership at the Whitwool Collieries 
 (1865 — 1874). Together with remarks on the Memorandum, 1884. 
 
 14. The Minor Notation of the Tonic Sol-Fa system. A paper read 
 at the Association of Tonic Sol-Fa Choirs, Feb. 26, 1887. 
 
 15. A System of Sight-Singing from the Established Musical Notation, 
 based on the Principles of Tonic Relation, 1890. 
 
 16. The "Substantial" and "Wave" Theories of Sound. Two letters 
 by A. Wilford Hale and Sedley Taylor, 1891. 
 
 17. A Record of the Cambridge Centennial Commemoration, on 
 Dec. 4 and 5, 1891, of Wolfgang Amade Mozart. Edited by Sedley 
 Taylor, 1892. 
 
 (XXX.) Robert Sinker. [1871.] 
 
 The present Librarian is the son of the late Mr Robert 
 Sinker, of Liverpool, and was educated at Liverpool College, 
 under Dr Howson, afterwards Dean of Chester. At the age of 
 19, he was entered at Trinity, under Mr Mathison (afterwards 
 Vice-Master), 15 Jan. 1858. 
 
 He was admitted Scholar, 13 April, 1861 ; and took the 
 degrees of B.A. 1862, M.A. 1865, B.D. 1880, D.D. 1890. He 
 was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Bohemian 
 Society of Sciences (Prague) 8 Jan. 1890. 
 
 He was ordained deacon in 1863 by Bishop Turton of Ely, 
 and priest in 1864 by Bishop Harold Browne of Ely. He was 
 admitted Chaplain on 10 July, 1865; was elected Librarian, 
 2 June, 1871, and admitted on Oct. 13 following. 
 
 He has published : — 
 
 1. The Testaments of the xn. Patriarchs ; an Attempt to estimate 
 their Historic and Dogmatic Worth : together with the text of the 
 Cambridge MS. and the various readings of the Oxford MS., 1869. 
 
80 ROBERT SINKER. 
 
 2. Appendix to above, with collation of the Roman and Patmos mss. 
 and Bibliographical Notes, 1879. 
 
 3. Catalogue of the Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in the Library 
 of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1876. 
 
 4. Catalogue of Books printed before 1601, now in the Library of 
 Trinity College, Cambridge, 1885. 
 
 5. Memorials of the Hon. Ion Keith-Falconer, 1888. 
 
 6. The Psalm of Habakkuk, 1890. 
 
 7. The Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1891. 
 
 He has also written many Calendar and Vestment articles 
 in Smith and Cheetham's Dictionary of Christian Antiquities 
 (1875 — 80), and one of the Essays in Lex Mosaica (1894); and 
 has edited Pearson's Exposition of the Greed for the Syndics of 
 the University Press. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Ackworth, 60 f. 
 Archer, Anthony, 14 n. 
 
 — Thos., 14 
 Ashenhurst, Dr, 37 
 Ayr Academy, 71 
 Aysgarth, 4 
 
 Bainbrig, Mr, 20 
 
 Baker, Dr John, V.M., 36, 37, 48, 
 
 49, 50 
 Baker, Thos., 5 n., 25, 31 
 Ballard MSS., 20 n. 
 Banks, Jas., 27, 28 f., 30 
 Barnes, Mrs, 24 
 Baro, Pet., 31 
 Barret, Will., 31 
 Barrow, Dr, M.C., 16, 54 n. 
 Bayne, Bev. T. V., 14 n. 
 Beccles, Suffolk, 77 
 Belasyse, Sir Hen., 30 
 
 — Will., 30 
 Bentley, James, 39 
 
 — Joanna, 52 n. 
 
 Bentley, Dr Ki., M.C., 7, 8, 10 n., 
 
 30, 36, 37, 39 f.. 42 
 Bentley, Ki. (ii), 42 
 
 — Thos., 8n., 39 f. 
 Bishop's Stortford, 34 
 Blakesley, Dean, 70, 71, 75 
 Borissow, Rev. L., 19 
 Boston, 55 
 
 Boteler, Mr, 28 
 Bottisham, 67 
 
 C. A. S. Octavo Series. XXIX. 
 
 Boughey, Rev. A. H. F., 29 
 Bourton, Dorset, 76 
 Bowes, Mr Rob., 74 
 Bowyer, Mr, 40, 46 
 Bradford, Bp, 34 
 Brading, 76 
 Bradshaw, Mr, 14 n. 
 Brancepeth, 30 
 Brimley, Aug. Gutteridge, 70 
 
 — Geo., 70 f. 
 Brington, Northants., 32 
 Broughton, Thos., 19 
 Brown, Rev. John, 67 n. 
 Browne, Bp Harold, 79 
 Browne Medal, 69 
 Browne, Mr, 69 
 Buckingham, 32, 35 
 
 Duke of, 5 
 Burman, 22 
 Bury, Lane, 29 
 Bury St Edm., 29, 30 
 Burrows, Rev. H. N., 77 
 Burton Latimer, 67 
 
 Cambridge Essays, 72 
 
 — University Mag., 72 
 Camden, W., 21 
 
 Carus, Rev. W., 71 
 Caythorpe, 47 
 Charlett, Dr, 20 n. 
 Charterhouse, 38 
 Chester, Sir Will., 60 
 Cheyne, Thos., 29 
 
 6 
 
82 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Chichele, Archbp, 36 
 Chicheley, Sir John, 36 
 
 — Will., 36 f. 
 Clagett, Jane, 34 
 
 — Margaret, 34 
 
 — Michael, 32 
 
 — Nic. (i.) 29 
 
 — — (ii.) 29, 35 
 
 — — (iii.) 15, 29 f. 36 
 
 — Samuel, 33, 34* 
 
 — Will, (i), 29 
 
 — — (ii), 34 
 Claggett see Clagett 
 Clark, John, 53 
 
 — John (Lib.), 64 f. 
 
 — Mr J. W., 12, 13 
 
 — Thomas, 47, 51 n., 53 
 
 — W. G., 73, 77 
 Clayton, Eev. Chas., 70 
 Clegat, see Clagett 
 Clerum, Concio ad, 11 
 Clotterbook, see Clutterbuck 
 Clutterbuck, John, 6 n. 
 
 — Laur., 12 
 
 — Will., 6 f., 44 
 Colbatch, Dr, 31, 44, 48 f. 
 Cole's MSS., 6, 12, 37 
 Collier, Mr, 64 
 
 Comber, Dr Thos., M.C., 8 
 Conduitt, Mr, 20 
 Cooper, Archd., 74, 78 
 Cotes, Eoger, 37 
 Courthope, Mr, 42 
 Craister, Dr, 50 
 Cumberland, Den., 52 n. 
 
 Danbury, 12 
 Darby, Sam., 38 
 Davies, Sir, 14 
 
 — Dr John, 46 
 Derby, Will., Earl of, 29 
 Devereux, Mr, 28 
 Diet. Nat. Biog., 25, 35, 74 
 Dispensation, 9 f. 
 Docwra, Launc, 28 
 Doody, Jos., 38 
 
 Doody, Sam., 27, 38 f., 43 
 Duport, Dr, V.M., 6, 26 
 
 Eastfield, 19 
 Edmonton, 2, 57 
 Elphinstone, Sir H., bart., 74 
 
 — Sir H. W., bart., 74 f. 
 
 Enfield Highway, 67 
 Eton College, 74 
 Exeter, 32 
 
 Farmary, Jane, 25 
 
 — Rob., 25 
 Felkirk, 60 
 Fellenberg, De, 78 
 Ferrari, Dr, 23 
 Fletcher, Giles, 2 
 Frazer's Mag., 72 
 Friend, Dr, 59 
 
 Garrard, Eev. G., 5 n. 
 
 Geology, Prof, of, 64 
 
 George I., 32 
 
 George, Prince of Denmark, 35 
 
 Gill, Daniel, 33 
 
 Glover, Eev. George, 76 
 
 — John, 75 f. 
 
 — John Oct., 75 
 
 — Eev. Oct., 76 
 Goadby-Marwood, 19 n. 
 Goodwin, Thos., 59 
 Gossip, Will., 46, 47, 53 f. 
 Gouge, Will., 22 
 
 Grabe, J. E., 22 
 Gray's Inn, 29 
 Greaves, Will., 51 
 Green, Thos., 63 f. 
 Griffith, Geo., 15 n. 
 
 — Thos., 12 f M 30 
 Griffiths, Evan, 17 
 
 Hacket, Bp, 2 
 
 — Dr, 50 
 
 Halfhead, Mr, 5 
 Halifax, Earl of, 21 
 Hammersmith School, 67 
 Harley, Lord, 41 
 
INDEX. 
 
 83 
 
 Headon, 56 
 
 Hearne, Tho., 21, 23 n., 24 
 Helps, Sir A., 73, 74 
 Henshaw, Aid. Ed., 66 f. 
 
 — Edw., 66 
 Hersent, Pet., 4 f. 
 Hey wood, Eev. B. 0. F., 29 
 Hicks, Henry, 2 
 Hickes, Will., 1 f. 
 
 — Catharine, 3 n. 
 Hinghani School, 69 
 Hipperholme School, 65 
 Hitcham, Suff., 29 
 Hofwyl, 78 
 Holloway, Thos., 15 
 Hort, Kev. Dr, 73 
 Howlett, Eev. H., 60 
 Howson, Dean, 79 
 Hoyle, Chas., 65 f. 
 
 — Eobt., 65 
 Hudson, Libn., 23 n. 
 Hutchinson, Catharine, 58 
 
 — Edw., 55 
 
 — Sandys, 37, 44, 45, 47, 
 
 54, 55 f. 
 
 Jackson, Eev. W. E., 39 
 Jebb, Sam., 59 
 Johnson, Ei., 41 
 
 — Thos., 58 
 Jones, Bp W. Basil, 35 
 
 — Thos. 65, 66 
 
 — Mr Winslow, 33 
 Justice, Henry, 58 
 
 Kay, John, 47 f. 
 
 — Will., 47 
 Kellingbeck, 62 
 Kennett, Bp, 34 
 Kershaw, Mr S. Way land, 7 
 Key, Joseph, 39 
 King, Eev. C. W., 71 
 King's Bench, Court of, 54 
 Kingsley, Eev. Chas., 72 
 Kirby-Lonsdale, 55 
 Kirk-Leatham School, 47, 51 n., 53, 
 55 
 
 Knight's Life of Colet, 43 
 Knipe, Dr, 36 
 
 Lambert, Dr, 55 
 Lambeth Lib., 7, 44, 47 f., 56 f. 
 Laud, Archbp, 7 f., 11 n. 
 Laughton, Miss E. J., 19, 25 n. 
 
 John, 15, 18, 19 f., 26, 30, 
 31 
 — Will., 19 
 Lavington, Bp, 33 
 Law, Edmund, 58 
 Lee, Tim., 59 f. 
 
 — Will., 59 
 Leeds, Mr, 30 
 Leeke, Eev. Chancellor, 2 
 Library, the Old, 1 n., 52 
 
 — the New, 19, 27, 52 
 Lichfield Chapter, 20 
 Lilley, Herts., 28 
 Lincoln Chapter, 2 
 Linnett, Will., V.M., 28 
 Linton School, 66 
 Littlewood, Eev. J. H., 60 
 Liverpool College, 79 
 Lodge, Mr, 66 
 Loughborough School, 63 
 Luard, Eev. Dr, 12, 24, 40, 64 n. 
 Luton, 25 
 
 Manfeild, Jas. , 18 
 
 Markland, Jer., 40 
 
 Marlborough, Duke of, 65 
 
 Marsh, Bp, 67 
 
 Mars worth, 69 
 
 Mathison, Eev. W. C, V.M., 79 
 
 Maurice, Eev. F. D., 73 
 
 Mawer, Joh., 48, 51 
 
 Mawson, Dr, 55 
 
 Mayo, Will., 32 
 
 Mayor, Eev. Prof., 19, 22, 31 n., 76 
 
 Mead, Dr, 46 
 
 Melbourne, Derb., 29 
 
 Members' Prize, 69 
 
 Merchant Taylors' School, 3, 59 n. 
 
 Merivale, Dean, 67 
 
 Miklmay, Sir Hum., 12 
 
84 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Monks' Kirby, 39 
 Monk's Life of Bentley, 41 f. 
 Morgan, Prof, de, 78 
 Mutton, Thos., 13 
 Myers, Joh., 50 
 Mytton, Sir Pet., 17 
 
 Nealand, Mr, 16 
 Newton, Aid., 17, 21 n. 
 
 — Humphrey, 20 
 
 — Sir Isaac, 18, 20, 21, 24 n. 
 
 Oulton, 39 
 Oundle, 3 
 Over, 67 f. 
 Overton, Hants, 33 
 
 — Wilts, 66 
 Oxford, Earl of, 41 
 
 Pain, Kev. E., 2 
 
 Pake, Walter, 3 n. 
 
 Palin Exhibition, 3, 4, 5 n. 
 
 Paris, Dr, 50 
 
 Parker, Archbp, 22 
 
 — John, 3 n. 
 
 — Mr J. W., 73 
 
 — Nich., 3 f. 
 
 — Samuel, 3 n. 
 Parkinson, Mr, 63 
 Parne, Thos., 44, 48 f. 
 Paul, Geo., 24 
 Peach, Edw., 37 f. 
 
 — Henry, 38 
 
 — John, 38 
 
 — Thos., 37 
 Peacock, Dean, 67, 69 
 
 — Mr M. H., 53 n., 55 
 Pearce, Zach., 32 
 Penson, Mr, 48 
 Petersfield School, 64 
 Pett, Sussex, 27 
 Peyton, Mrs Eliz., 16 
 Piers, Will., 21 
 Pilgrim, Mr, 38 
 Plumptre, Kev. C. P., 12 
 Kev. J. B., 12 
 
 Pockley, Thos., 15 
 Pontefract, 59, 60 
 Pope, Alex., 41 f. 
 Porson, Ri., 65 
 Posers, 9 
 
 Postlethwaite, Mr, 37, 40, 42 
 Press, University, 23 
 Price, Joh., 60, 63 
 — Penelope, 60 
 Primrose, Dr, 63 n. 
 Pugh, Mr, 67 n. 
 Pulham St Mary, 31 
 Pulleyn, Mr, 18 
 Putteridge, 28 
 
 Railton, Mr, 67 
 Randolph, Th., 6 n. 
 Rhodes, Mr, 17 
 Richmond, Rev. Legh, 65 
 Rochester, 32 
 Rolls, Mr, (Rowles), 15 n. 
 Romilly, Rev. Jo., 71 
 Rotherham, Abp, 25 
 
 — Barbara, 25 
 
 — Christ., 25, 26 
 
 — Jo., 25 
 
 — Sir Jo., 25 
 
 — Thos., 20, 25 f. 
 Roxton, 48 
 
 Rud, Edward, 24, 37, 40 
 Rutherford, Rev. Dr, 13, 59 n. 
 
 St David's, 32 
 
 St Margaret's, Westminster, 33 
 
 St Martin's in the Fields, 32 
 
 St Paul's School, 18, 26, 37, 39 
 
 Scattergood, Mr, 19 
 
 Seatonian Prize, 65 
 
 Sedgwick, Prof., 61 
 
 Selwyn, Bp G. A., 67 
 
 Sharp, Mr, 54 
 
 Sharpe, Abp, 30 
 
 — Thos., 30 
 Shirley, Thos., 5 
 Shobrooke, 33 
 Short, Will., 4 
 Shorting, M., 19 
 
INDEX. 
 
 85 
 
 Sike, see Syke 
 Sinker, Bob., 79 f. 
 Slatter, Rev. Canon, 38 
 Smith, James Ind, 69 
 
 — John, 69 
 
 — Dr Rob., M.C., 51 n., 53, 55, 
 
 59 
 
 — Sir Thorn., 22 
 
 — Thorn., 21 
 Smyth, Dr Hen., 11 
 Someries, 25, 27 
 Somerset, Duke of, 53 
 Soul, Moses du, 22 
 
 Society for Promoting Christian Know- 
 ledge, 35 
 
 Spectator, 72 
 
 Society for the Prop, of the Gospel 
 in Foreign Parts, 35 
 
 Stanhope, Sir Ed., 1, 4, 7, 8, 16, 
 26 n., 30, 36, 44 f., 54, 57 
 
 Stanley, Bp, 69 
 
 — John, 29 
 Stephani Thesaurus, 58 
 Stoke Hammond, 2 
 Stokes, David, 3 
 Stone, Joh., 28 
 Strafford, Lord, 5 n. 
 Street, Mr, 64 
 Stubbe, Dr, V.M., 40 
 Sturbridge Fair, 52 
 Strype, Jo., 22, 24, 25, 31 
 Sudbury, 29 
 
 Sumner, Bp, 75 
 
 Sunderland, Charles, Earl of, 31, 32 
 
 Surtees, Ant., 62 
 
 — Frances Dor., 62 
 Sydall, Bp, 32 
 
 Syke, Dr, 40 
 
 Tate, Anthony, 19 n. 
 — Dorothy, 19 n. 
 Taylor, Mr George, 78 
 
 — Jo., 46, 58 
 
 — Mr Sedley, 78 f. 
 Te&tamenta xii. Pair., 22 
 Thompson, Dr, M.C., 77 
 
 Rev. H., 70 
 
 Thoresby, Ra., 31 
 Thurlow Parva, Norf., 29 
 Tickhill, 19 
 Tortworth, 3 
 Totteridge, 70 
 Trevor, Lord, 30 
 — Thos., 30 
 Turbervile, Sam., 7 f. 
 Turner, Rev. J.B., 69 
 Turton, Bp, 79 
 
 Uffenbach, 23, 30 f. 
 
 Vaughan, Dean, 70 
 Vincentius Lirin., 21 
 
 Wake, Abp, 7, 8 n., 30, 36, 43 f., 54 
 Wakefield School, 53 n., 63 
 Walker, Dr, V.M., 38, 47, 48, 49 
 
 — Dr (ii), 38 
 
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 WarburtOD, 42 n. 
 Warren, Chas., 67 f. 
 
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 — Dawson, 67 
 Wasteneys, Catherine, 58 
 
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 Welburn, Rev. F. W., 66 n. 
 Welsted, Leon., 41 
 
 Wenlock, Lord, 25 
 
 Westminster School, 4, 6, 13, 36, 59 
 
 Weston, Bp, 32 
 
 Weighall, Rev. J., 69 
 
 Whewell, Dr, M.C., 70, 71 
 
 Whiskin, James, 49 
 
 Whisson, Mr, 64 
 
 Whitchurch, Oxon, 38 
 
 White, Ri., 63 
 
 — Thos., 63 
 Whitgift, Archbp, 24, 31 
 Williams, Eleanor, 17 
 
 — Rev. Thos., 17 
 Willis, Bp, 33 
 
 — Browne, 82 
 Wilson, Ben., 63 
 
 — Bp, 75 
 
86 INDEX. 
 
 Wilson, John, 63 Wright, Mr W. A., 7, 77 f. 
 
 Wimeswould, see Wymeswould Wymeswould, 63 
 
 Wimpole, 36 
 
 Wodeham Ferrers, 12 Yates, Mr, 26 
 
 Wood, Sir Hen., 60 Yaverland, 65 
 
 Worcester Chapter, 20 Yorke, Sir Philip, 45 
 
 Wright, Mr George, 77 
 
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