[311] Ibid., ii. 346; Simpson, Reg. S. Pauli, 13, 78, 133, 173, 227.

[312] Pp. 1, 325-327.

[313] In the fifteenth century the bishops of Wells were good friends of learning: Skirlaw gave books to University College, Oxford; Bowet left a large library; Stafford gave books; Bekynton was the companion of the most cultivated men of his time. Dean Gunthorpe is well known as a pilgrim to Italy, who returned laden with manuscripts (see p. 192).

[314] Hist. MSS. Rept. 3, App. 363a.

[315] Mun. Acad., 649.

[316] Mun. Acad., 652-653.

[317] L. A. R., viii. 372; Canon Church’s account of the library, in Archaeologia, lvii. pt. 2, is very full and interesting.

[318] Surtees Soc., xxxv. 36-40.

[319] Hunter, Notes of Wills in Registers of York, 15.

[320] Surtees Soc., xxxv., 45-46.

[321] Ibid., iv. 385; xlv. 89, 91.

[322] W. Salt Arch. Soc., vi. pt. 2, 211.

[323] Capit. Acts, v. 3.

[324] Harwood, Hist. and Antiq. of the Ch.... of Lichfield (1806), 109.

[325] Vict. County Hist. of Berkshire, ii. 109.

[326] Vict. Hist. Warwickshire, ii. 127 b.

[327] Ibid., ii. 128 a.

[328] Johannes Rous, capellanus Cantariae de Guy-Cliffe, qui super porticum australem librariam construxit, et libris ornavit.—Gentleman’s Magazine (N.S.), xxv. 37. The chapel of Guy’s Cliffe was erected by Richard Beauchamp for the repose of the soul of his “ancestor,” Guy of Warwick, the hero of romance.

[329] Mr. W. T. Carter of the Warwick Public Library, has kindly given me much information about St. Mary’s Church library.

[330] Arch. Inst. City of York (1846), 10-11; Surtees Soc., iv. 102-103, 196; xlv. 57-59, 159, 171, 220-222, 221n.; xxvi. 2-3; xxx. 219, 275; Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331; Mun. Acad., 648-649; Library, i. 411; Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, 253.

[331] Cox, J. C., and Hope, W. H. St. John, Chronicles of the Colleg. Ch. of All Saints, Derby (1881), 175-177.

[332] Ibid., 157.

[333] Library, i. 417.

[334] Stow, i. 194. Leland, iv. 48, has a note of four MSS. “in bibliotheca Petrina Londini.” Possibly this library was formed by Rector Hugh Damlet, who was a learned man, and gave several books to Pembroke College, Cambridge.—James¹⁰, 184.

[335] Archaeologia, xlv. 118, 120.

[336] R. H. S., vi. 205.

[337] Sandys, i. 606; Le Clerc, Hist. Litt. (2nd ed.), 430.

[338] N. Bishop’s Collectanea, now at Cambridge; Wood, Hist. and Antiq. U. of O., ed. Gutch, 1796², vol. ii. pt. 2, 910.

[339] Mun. Acad., 270.

[340] Clark, 144; Pietas O., 5; Lyte, 97; Oriel document.

[341] O. H. S. 5 Collect., i. 62-65.

[342] Univ. Arch. W. P. G., 4-6.

[343] Mun. Acad., 226-228.

[344] Ibid., 267.

[345] Mun. Acad., 265.

[346] Ibid., 261 et seq.

[347] After the Black Death, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, possibly Corpus Christi, Cambridge, Canterbury College and New College, Oxford, were founded, and University (Clare) Hall, Cambridge, was enlarged, partly, at any rate, to repair the ravages the plague had made among the clergy.—Camb. Lit., ii. 354; cf. Hist. MSS., 5th Rep., 450.

[348] Mun. Acad., 267.

[349] Ibid., 266; O. H. S. 35-36, Ansley, 222, 229, 279, 313, 373, 382, 397.

[350] Mun. Acad., 266.

[351] The indenture in which the books are catalogued mentions nine books received before: possibly these were the gift of 1435.—Mun. Acad., 758; O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 177.

[352] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184-90.

[353] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 184.

[354] Mun. Acad., 758.

[355] O. H. S. 35, Ansley, 246.

[356] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 187-89; Mun. Acad., 326-29.

[357] Athenæum, Nov. 17, ’88, p. 664; Hulton, Clerk of Oxford in Fiction, 35.

[358] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 197, 204.

[359] See lists of Gloucester’s books in Mun. Acad., 758-65; O. H. S., Anstey, 179, 183, 232.

[360] He also owned some French manuscripts: what he gave to Oxford formed part of a much larger private library.

[361] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 294-95.

[362] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 285-86, 300-1, 318.

[363] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 9, 46.

[364] O. H. S. 35, Anstey, 245-46.

[365] O. H. S. 35-36, Anstey, 326, 439.

[366] The plan resembled that of the old library built by Adam de Brome. For notes on the architectural history of this library, see Pietas O.

[367] Mun. Acad., 58, 59; cf. Smith, Annals of U.C., 37-39.

[368] Commiss. Docts., Oxford, i., Statutes, p. 24.

[369] Lyte, 181.

[370] Paravicini, Ball. Coll., 169, 173.

[371] O. H. S. 5, Collect., i. 66.

[372] Hist. MSS., ix. 1, 46.

[373] O. H. S. 32, Collect., iii. 225; cf. Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., App. 135a; Walcott, W. of Wykeham, 285.

[374] Hist. MSS. 9th Rep., i. 46; Reg. Abp. Whittlesey, fo. 122, cited by Lyte, 181.

[375] Rogers, Agric. and Prices, iv. 599-600.

[376] O. H. S. 32, Collect., 223, 214-15.

[377] See the gifts to Exeter College, O. H. S. 27, Boase, passim.

[378] Mun. Acad., ii. 706.

[379] Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 140a.

[380] Hist. MSS. App. 2nd Rep., 129; O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlvii.

[381] Brantingham gave £20 towards the building; More, £10. Account of building expenses, amounting to £57, 13s. 5½d., is given in O. H. S., 27, Boase, 345; see p. liii.

[382] O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlviii. In 1392 “iiiis pro ligacione septem librorum et Id pro cervisia in eisdem ligatoribus, VId erario pro labore suo circa eosdem libros, et IId Johanni Lokyer pro impositione eorundem librorum in descis.”

[383] Ibid., xlviii.

[384] The building, which is still standing as a part of Trinity College, cost £42; fittings, £6, 16s. 8d. Blakiston, Trin. Coll., 26.

[385] James, xlvii.

[386] Cf. Willis, Arch. Hist. Camb., ii. 410.

[387] Willis, iii. 410.

[388] Hist. MSS. 2nd Rep., 141a

[389] O. H. S. 27, Boase; O. H. S. 5, Collect., 62. At C. C., Christ Church, and St. John’s Colleges the least useful books could be sold if the libraries became too large.—Oxford Stat.

[390] Camb. Lit., iii. 50.

[391] Cam. Soc., xxvi. 71.

[392] I.e. for practically nothing, a mere song.

[393] Wood (Gutch), 918-19.

[394] With Bodley’s noble work this book has no concern. The story has been told briefly in Mr. Nicholson’s Pietas Oxoniensis, and with more detail in Dr. Macray’s Annals of the Bodleian.

[395] MS. français, I. 1.

[396] Delisle, Le Cabinet des MSS., i. 152.

[397] Cooper, i. 128, 152, 224.

[398] Surtees Soc., xxx. 78-79.

[399] Bradshaw, 19-34; Willis, iii. 404.

[400] Cooper, i. 170; Rotuli Parl., iv. 321.

[401] Willis, Arch. Hist. Camb., iii. 11.

[402] Ibid., iii. 12.

[403] Ibid., iii. 5.

[404] Bradshaw, 35-53; C. A. S. Comm., ii. 258.

[405] Willis, iii. 25.

[406] Mullinger, ii. 50.

[407] Willis, iii. 25.

[408] Ibid., iii. 25-26n.

[409] C. A. S. Comm., ii. 73; Willis, iii. 402.

[410] Surtees Soc., iv. 385.

[411] Willis, i. 370.

[412] Willis, i. 537.

[413] Lyte, Eton, 28-29.

[414] James², 72-83.

[415] James², 70-71; and see p. 144.

[416] Willis, i. 356.

[417] Lyte, Eton, 37; Willis, i. 393.

[418] Willis, i. 414.

[419] Lyte, Eton, 101.

[420] James¹⁴, viii.

[421] Lyte, Eton, 29.

[422] C. A. S. Comm., ii. 165.

[423] C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. (8vo. ser.) 398.

[424] Ibid., 399.

[425] C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. (8vo. ser.), 399.

[426] James (M. R.)¹⁰, xiii.-xvii.; C. A. S., ii. (8vo. ser. 1864), 13-21.

[427] MS. 232, in the library, contains his will, a list of his books with their prices, another catalogue, and a register of the borrowers of the books from 1440 to 1516.

[428] Surtees Soc., xlv. 220-22.

[429] Willis, i. 200, 226; iii. 411.

[430] Clark, 140.

[431] In winter 1382 “viid. ob pro ligatura cuiusdam textus philosophie de eleccione Johannis Mattecote.” Winter 1405, “id. ob pro pergameno empto pro novo registro faciendo pro eleccione librorum”; winter 1457, “iiiid. More stacionario pro labore suo duobus diebus appreciando libros collegii qui traduntur in eleccionibus sociorum.” Autumn 1488, “iis. id. pro redempcione librorum quondam eleccionis domini Ricardi Symon.”—O. H. S. 27, Boase, xlix.

[432] P.R.O., Anc. Deeds, c. 1782.

[433] See further, Documents relating to the University and Colleges of Cambridge (3v. 1852); Statutes of the College of Oxford (3v. 1853), especially i. 54, 97; ii. 60, 89; and Mun. Acad. Cf. Willis, Camb., iii. 387.

[434] Lyte, 81.

[435] Ibid., 84.

[436] R. de B., ed. Thomas, pp. 246-48.

[437] Piers Plowman.

[438] Hous of Fame, l. 1198.

[439] Troilus, Bk. v. ll. 1797-98.

[440] Furnivall’s ed., Rolls S., pt. 1, p. 1.

[441] MS. Reg. 17, C. viii. f. 2; cited in Skeat’s Chaucer, v. 194.

[442] Warton, 96-99; Rashdall and Rait, New Coll., 60.

[443] Stubbs, Lect. on Med. Hist., 137.

[444] James (M. R.), 148.

[445] Coulton, Chaucer and his England, 99.

[446] James (M. R.), lxxii.; this number is probably correct, but owing to confusion between three Abbots of this name it is not certainly right.

[447] Ibid., lxxiv.

[448] Robinson, 4-7.

[449] O. H. S., 32, Collect. 36-40; also 9.

[450] Blakiston, Trin. Coll. 5, 7; A. de Murimuth, 171.

[451] R. de B., 197-199.

[452] “R. de Bury ... qui ipsum episcopatum et omnia sua beneficia prius habita per preces magnatum et ambitionis vitium adquisivit, et ideo toto tempore suo inopia laboravit et prodigus exstitit in expensis.”—Murimuth, 171.

[453] “Volens tamen magnus clericus reputari.”—Murimuth, 171.

[454] Skeat’s Chaucer, vi. 381.

[455] Hous of Fame, Works, iii. bk. ii. l. 656-58.

[456] Book of the Duchesse, 44.

[457] Legend of Good Women, prol. 30ff.

[458] Valerie: possibly Epistola Valerii ad Rufinum de uxore non ducenda, attributed to Walter Mapes; it is a short treatise of about eight folios; it is printed in Cam. Soc. xvi. 77. Theofraste: Aureolus liber de Nuptiis, by one Theophrastus.

[459] Ll. 669-85.

[460] Troilus, ii. 81-105.

[461] It seems to be Chaucer’s own; only about a third of the poem comes from Boccaccio’s Filostrato. Chaucer had a copy of Thebais of Statius.—Troilus, v. l. 1484.

[462] Letter-book K, fo. 39, July 4, 1426.

[463] From schedule of the possessions of the Guildhall College, July 24, 1549.—L. A. R., x. 381.

[464] Chichele Register, pt. 1, fo. 392b, Lamb. Pal.; L. A. R., x. 382.

[465] Conf. of Librarians (1877), 216; L. A. R., x. 382.

[466] Hist. MSS., 8th Rept., pt. 1, 268a.

[467] Gasquet², 20; Sandys, ii. 220; Legrand, Bibliographie Hellénique, i. (1885) xxiv., where the date is 1405-6.

[468] Epp. (ed. Tonelli, 1832-61), i. 43, 70, 74.

[469] “Cest livre est a moy Homfrey Duc de Glocestre, lequel je fis translater de Grec en Latin par un de mes secretaires, Antoyne de Beccariane de Verone.”—Cam. Soc. 1843, Ellis, Letters, 357.

[470] Gherardi, Statuti della Univ. e Studio Fiorentino, 364; Sandys, ii. 220; Einstein, 15.

[471] O.H.S., 35, Anstey, 17, 45.

[472] “Messer Andrea Ols” in Italian authority; identified by Dr. Sandys.

[473] O.H.S., 36, Anstey, ii. 389-91; Sandys, ii. 221-26; Einstein, 26.