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Southwark, St. Mary Overy. Ashmole, 1285.

---- John de Lecchelade, a Canon. Rawlinson, B. 177.

Stafford, St. Mary. Auct. F. V. 17; Hatton, 74.

---- The Minorites. Auct. F. V. 18.

Stafford, St. Thomas, near. Auct. F. III. 10.

Staindrop, Durham, The College. Rawlinson, A. 363 (given by Thos.

Heddon, Vicar of Gainford, in 1515).

Tattershall, Linc. Bodl. 419.

Thorney, Cambr. Bodl. 680; Laud Misc. 364; Tanner, 10.

t.i.tchfield, Hants. Digby, 154.

Towcester, Northampt., H. Malyng, Provost. Bodl. 731.

Trentham, Staff. Laud Misc. 453.

Tynemouth. Laud Misc. 657.

Valle Crucis, De, Denbigh. E Mus. 3.

Waltham. Laud Lat. 109; Laud Misc. 515; Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 62 (given by Peter, Archdeacon of London); Rawlinson, C. 330.

Wardon, Bedfords.h.i.+re. Laud Misc. 447.

Warter, Yorks.h.i.+re. Fairfax, 9.

Waverley, Surrey. Bodl. 527.

Westminster Abbey. Rawlinson, C. 425 (_Pontificale_).

Winchcombe, or Winchelc.u.mbe, Glouc. Douce, 368.

Winchester Cathedral ('Domus S. Swythini'). Bodl. 767.

Windsor. Bodl. 208, 822.

Witham, or Wytham, Somerset. Bodl. 801 ('Ex dono Joh. Blacman').

Worcester Cathedral. Auct. F. _infra_, I. 3; Digby, 150(?); Bodl. 861 (removed in 1590), 868; Junius, 121.

---- 'Fratres Praedicatores.' Rawlinson, C. 780.

York Minster(?) Rawlinson, C. 775.

---- Succentor(?) Douce, 225.

---- St. Mary's Abbey. Rawlinson, B. N. Auct. 11; Arch. A. Rot. 21; (see p. 329.)

---- Hosp. of St. Leonard. Rawlinson, B. 455.

[Many of Laud's MSS. came from a Carthusian Monastery near Mentz, and from the Monastery of Eberbach, in the Duchy of Baden. It is worth mentioning that No. 233 amongst his Miscellaneous MSS. belonged to John Lydgate, and No. 576 to John Foxe. Several others had been previously in the possession of Archbp. Usher, and of Lindsell, Bishop of Peterborough.

No. 76 of Digby's MSS. was bought by Dr. John Dee, at London, May 18, 1556, 'ex bibliotheca Joh. Lelandi.']

[367] This list does not profess to be complete. But it is believed to comprehend most of the MSS. which afford distinct evidence of former owners.h.i.+p of this kind.

[368] _Picus Mirandula de Providentia Dei_, 1508. Given to the library of the Church by Rich. Sparchiford, Archdeacon of Salop, Oct. 19, 1557.

It had previously belonged to Linacer.

[369] 'Hunc librum emit ... a magistro Philips, rectore collegii Exon, a^o. Xi. 1468, una c.u.m volvella solis et lunae.'

[370] _Galani Conciliatio Eccl. Armenae c.u.m Romana_, 1650. It is satisfactory to be able to add, that the Bodleian obtained this book, as Bishop Booth obtained the Robertsbridge MS. (_infra_) 'modo legitimo;' a memorandum records that it was 'bought of Fletcher the bookseller.'

[371] On the last leaf of this MS. there is a list, faintly written with a style, of some twenty MSS. (including 'triplices cantus' for the organ), written by one monk, to which the memorandum is added: 'Hec sunt opera fratris W. de Wi[=c]b. per quadriennium apud Leom. (_i.e._ Leominster, a cell to Reading) commorantis.' The list commences, 'Nota quod frater W. de Wi[=c]b. (_probably Wic.u.mbe_), precibus domini J. de Abbend. tunc precentoris, hortatu vero et precepto domino R. de Wygorn.

tunc supprioris, collectarium cotidianum secundum usum Rading correxit et de duobus unum fecit.' The book may have belonged to either Reading or Leominster.

[372] The usual anathema is subjoined on any one stealing the book from the house of St. Mary 'de Ponte Roberti,' or in any part mutilating it; which is followed by this self-exculpatory note on the part of a subsequent possessor: 'Ego Johannes, Exon. episcopus, nescio ubi est domus praedicta, nec hunc librum abstuli, sed modo legittimo adquisivi.'

This _John_ would seem to be John Booth, who was Bishop of Exeter from 1466 to 1479.

[373] The name of Peter Fader is found also in MS. Arch. Seld. B 26.

APPENDIX D.

_List of MSS. and Miscellaneous Objects of interest exhibited in the Library._

GLa.s.s CASE NEAR THE ENTRANCE OF THE LIBRARY.

1. A Telugu MS. on palm-leaves, brought from India by Sir Thos. Strange, formerly Chief Justice of Madras, together with a style employed for writings of this kind, and a pocket-knife. Given by Sir T. Strange's daughter, Mrs. Edmund Foulkes, in 1864.

2. Drawings and engravings of Buddhist idols; brought from a Joss-house in a Llama monastery in Pekin, in 1862, and given to the Library by Lieut.-Col. Gibbes Rigaud, of the 60th Rifles.

3. Autograph book of distinguished visitors.

This book commences at the year 1820. Among the autographs which it contains may be mentioned the following in particular:--

Her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 8, 1832, with the d.u.c.h.ess of Kent; Dec. 12, 1860.