Chapter I: Front Matter (1)

NOTES ON THE
Cathedral Libraries
OF ENGLAND
❦

NOTES ON THE
CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES
OF ENGLAND

BY BERIAH BOTFIELD

LONDON
1849

TO
THE RIGHT REVEREND
CHARLES THOMAS,
LORD BISHOP OF RIPON,
THE INSTRUCTOR OF HIS EARLIER, AND THE
FRIEND OF HIS MATURER YEARS,
THESE NOTES ON THE
Cathedral Libraries of England
ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY HIS
SINCERELY ATTACHED PUPIL
AND SERVANT,
BERIAH BOTFIELD.

Preface.

The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Churches of England have been so often described, and so profusely illustrated that little remains to be accomplished in that direction. But these descriptions are in many instances ancillary to the illustrations, and while the minutest details are given of the Church itself, little or no mention occurs of the literary treasures contained within its precincts. The reason of this is obvious. The Antiquarian would naturally dwell with complacency on those stately fabrics which, thanks to the piety of earlier years, still adorn the cities of our land. The Historian will recount with satisfaction those venerable foundations by which the light of knowledge and the blessings of religion were diffused in a less enlightened age than that in which we have the happiness to live. Moreover these Collections, though belonging to public bodies, are, strictly speaking, of a private character, being of limited accessibility and restricted use.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter is chiefly available for the use of the Clergy of the Cathedral Church, and under proper regulations becomes a convenient place of study for the clerical student or the lettered divine. The Libraries thus preserved have, as might be expected, great similarity of character. They often combine in a peculiar manner the learning of the middle ages, with the literature of a later date. Chiefly embracing theological subjects, they contain no small amount of classical lore, and a large proportion of historical research. Among much that is obsolete there is more that is valuable, and amid much that is trifling there is more that is important.

The contents of these Libraries have hitherto been known only to those who have had access to their shelves, but thanks to the courtesy of those entrusted with their custody, I have in every instance carefully perused the Catalogue, and minutely examined every volume which I have ventured to describe. This I have done at various times and different intervals, occasionally revisiting the same Collection whenever the opportunity of doing so occurred, but often hurried in my examination from unwillingness to encroach upon the time or avocations of those to whose kindness I have been indebted for the prosecution of these enquiries. No one can be more sensible than myself of the imperfections and omissions of a work compiled under such circumstances, and I shall feel deeply indebted to any one who will undertake to correct the one or to supply the other. None but those who have been accustomed to exact the most scrupulous accuracy from themselves can rightly estimate the difficulty of its attainment by others. Just as those who are most sensible of their own deficiencies most readily make allowance for the failings of others.

“There is a philosophy in the aridity of Bibliography which few bibliographers have discovered; there is a chronology of ideas as well as facts, and the date of an opinion is far more interesting than any on the Colophons.”[1]

This may be safely admitted, provided the date can be ascertained with sufficient accuracy to render permanent the interest it may inspire. But this it must be conceded is a point of no small difficulty, since “opinions and feelings are long silently propagated before they can assume the lasting form of published works.”

“Those revolutions in public opinion which are silently operating, without yet manifesting any overt acts, can only be detected in those histories of mankind which are furnished by themselves—Books! These are the precursors or the recorders of whatever is passing in Europe.”[2]

Those who laudably endeavour to resuscitate the defunct literature of a past age may best defend their pursuit in the language of the ingenious and lamented Leyden. “However injudicious our ancient authors may be reckoned in the selection of their materials, and the arrangement of their topics; however defective in the arts of composition or polish of style, they can never divest themselves of the manners and habits of thinking familiar to the age in which they lived. It is this circumstance which stamps a real value on the rudest compositions of an early period; a value which continually increases with their antiquity.”

If the true test of the value of a book be, where can you learn what it will teach you? and if the answer be nowhere, then we may safely concede both merit and value. Such I am far from presuming to be the characteristic of the present work; but assuredly no where else can be found any collected account of the Ecclesiastical Libraries, attached to the Cathedrals of England, and forming not the least interesting portion of their several Capitular possessions.

The Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts in possession of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, Exeter, Wells, Lichfield, Durham, Worcester, Westminster, are enumerated in the third volume of Hickes’ Thesaurus, entitled Antiquæ Litteraturæ Septentrionalis liber alter, seu Humphredi Wanleii Librorum Vett. Septentrionalium, qui in Angliæ Bibliothecis extant, necnon multorum Vett. Codd. Septentrionalium alibi extantium Catalogus Historico-Criticus, Oxonii, 1705, folio.

In the same author’s Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum Angliæ et Hiberniæ in unum collecti, &c. Oxoniæ, 1698, folio, we find Catalogues of the Manuscripts preserved in the Chapter Houses of York, Durham, Carlisle, Worcester, Salisbury, Westminster, Winchester, Lichfield, Hereford, Exeter, and Canterbury, affording abundant evidence of the diligence and accuracy of Humphrey Wanley.

In Clarke’s Repertorium Bibliographicum there is some account of the most celebrated British Libraries, London, 1819, 8vo. including Notices of the Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth Palace, the Cathedral Library of Canterbury, the Christ Church Library at Oxford, and the Manuscripts in the Chapter House at Westminster.

I have purposely omitted from this Work all mention of the Parochial Libraries of England, such as those of Wimborne Minster in Dorsetshire; Halifax in Yorkshire; Castleton in Derbyshire; Langley in Buckinghamshire; Tong and Whitchurch in Shropshire. The latter in particular is a beautiful Library, purchased by a former Countess of Bridgewater from one of the Prestons, and left as an heirloom to the living. The late Francis Henry, Earl of Bridgewater, left all his books in augmentation of this Library, and also bequeathed several sums of money for founding other Libraries of a similar kind at Middle, Ellesmere, and other places. I have reluctantly excluded the Library at Bamborough Castle, in Northumberland, so interesting as containing a vellum copy of the Book of Troy, by Pynson; as well as the Libraries of Sion College; Archbishop Tenison’s; the Dissenters, in Red Cross Street; and the Baptist Museum, at Bristol. To go beyond these would be to describe the Libraries of the British Museum; the London and Royal Institutions, the London Library, and those of the different learned and Scientific Societies, and of the Clubs of London. All these are foreign to my purpose, which embraces only Libraries of a strictly ecclesiastical character. I have introduced the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth as belonging to the Primate, and the Library of the Dean and Chapter of St. George’s, at Windsor, as appertaining to the Sovereign Head of the English Church.

I have chosen to designate these Collections as Cathedral Libraries, because with the above exception, the only Capitular Library described in this volume which is not at present in connection with a See, is the venerable foundation of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. This from its connection with the ancient Palace of Westminster must always be regarded as classic ground in the History and Antiquities of England.

I have added no index to this book, because the work itself is little more than an index to the contents of the Collections which it professes to describe, and a mere repetition of proper names would have added to the bulk without increasing the utility of the volume. Hasty as these notes may have been, and confessedly imperfect as they are, they may yet serve to excite if not to satisfy the awakened interest in the Curiosities of English Literature.

“Without doubt,” says Richard de Bury in his Philobiblon, translated by Inglis, quoting Seneca in his Epistles, “Leisure without letters is death, and the Sepulture of the living man;” so we justly conclude from a converse meaning, “that to be employed with Literature and Books is life.”

_Norton Hall_, 5 March, 1849.

CONTENTS.

Page

Library of Bristol 1

Library of Canterbury 5

Library of Carlisle 49

Library of Chester 55

Library of Chichester 74

Library of Durham 89

Library of Ely 124

Library of Exeter 132

Library of Gloucester 159

Library of Hereford 172

Library of Lambeth Palace 189

Library of Lichfield 259

Library of Lincoln 268

Library of London 297

Library of Manchester 328

Library of Norwich 330

Library of Christ Church, Oxford 348

Library of Peterborough 369

Library of Ripon Minster 384

Library of Rochester 390

Library of Salisbury 405

Library of Wells 417

Library of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster 430

Library of Winchester 465

Library of Windsor 484

Library of Worcester 491

Library of York Minster 502

CORRIGENDA.

Transcriber’s Note: These corrections have been applied to the text.

P. 3, l. 14, _for_ militare, _read_ militari.
12, 6, _for_ obtineti, _read_ obtinet.
43, 17, _for_ Attica, _read_ Attici.
58, 28, _for_ coronis, _read_ corona.
60, 21, _for_ Barrow; _read_ Barrow’s.
62, 19, _for_ Mircæ, _read_ Mireæ.
63, 10, _for_ Periphis, _read_ Periplus.
19, _for_ Liveliæ’s, _read_ Livelie’s.
64, 29, _for_ Aristidii, _read_ Aristidis.
32, _for_ Commeline, _read_ Commelini.
128, 23, _for_ Horologia, _read_ Heröologia.
138, 1, _for_ polist, _read_ philist.
263, 8, _after_ whereof, _insert_ the.
286, 1, _omit_ and.
286, 13, _after_ Church, _insert_ are.
317, 27, _after_ man’s _insert_ Villare.
319, 10, _for_ Anglia, _read_ Anglica.
322, 8, _for_ rum, _read_ rus.
324, 13, _for_ heorici, _read_ heroici.
352, ult. _for_ Rhetoris, _read_ Rhetores.
354, ult. _for_ Zonoras, _read_ Zonaras.
356, 7, _for_ du, _read_ des.
357, 11, _for_ Anglianæ, _read_ Anglicanæ.
360, 15, _for_ Varillais’, _read_ Varillas’.
361, 17, _for_ rum, _read_ rus.
380, 25, _for_ there formed, _read_ the reformed.
400, ult. _omit_ the.

NOTES UPON THE CATHEDRAL LIBRARIES OF ENGLAND.

Bristol.

Had these unpretending memorials of the literary treasures of our Cathedral Churches been written earlier, they might have given some idea of the loss sustained by that of Bristol in the memorable riots of the 31st of October, 1831.

The Chapter-house, so much admired for the beauty of its Saxon architecture, was at that time the receptacle of about six or seven thousand volumes, constituting the Library of the Dean and Chapter.

The lawless ruffians, who fired the adjoining Palace, threw the greater number of these volumes into the flames, and the Catalogue, of which, unfortunately, no duplicate was kept, shared a similar fate.

The mob appeared most anxious to destroy the larger volumes, under the idea that they were Bibles, “but,” added my informant, who visited the delinquents in prison, “I found many of them reading the sacred volume, which, in their madness, they would fain have extirpated.”

Other books of this Library were thrown into the river Avon, many into ditches, and almost all were more or less dirtied and torn, having been thrown about the streets, and otherwise defaced. Of these, however, about eleven hundred were recovered from old clothes mops, and dealers in “Marine stores,” that convenient designation, under which another person’s property is so frequently misappropriated; and this wreck of the Library, which is now deposited in the Vestry, must form the subject of the present notice.

As the Chapter-house was completely cleared of every book before the populace quitted the place, the volumes which have been recovered all present the most deplorable signs of the rude treatment they received.

So complete was the work of destruction, that only a calf-bound copy of Walton’s Polyglott, and a set of Doddridge’s Expositor were preserved entire; together with a copy of Harris’s Voyages.

So that of all the sets of books which once adorned the Library, single volumes alone remain to testify that such works as Rapin’s History of England; Camden’s Britannia; the Commentaries of Patrick, Whitby, and Nicolas de Lyra; the Works of S. Cyril, Eusebius, Bellarmine, Thomas Aquinas, Cave, Puffendorf, and Gerard; with Newton’s Prophecies; Calmet’s Dictionary; Conybeare’s Sermons; Whiston’s Sacred History; Hudson’s Josephus; Spencer de Legibus Hebræorum; Leydekker de Statu Reipublicæ Hebræorum; and some tracts against Popery, were once contained within its walls.

Alas! it is not for the Bibliographer to imitate the genius of Cuvier, and from the disjointed members of any body to discover what in its integrity it must have been, and bid those dry bones live. From the relics of a Library it is not possible to collect what it must have been in its perfect state; and here we must drop the metaphor, “ex ungue leonem.”

It may be interesting, however, to enumerate some of those single volumes which have been recovered from the wreck, and we may begin with the well-known Breeches Bible, bound in old calf, being that printed at London by Christopher Barker, in 1599, in 4to. The Bible printed at Oxford, in 1807, folio; Bacon’s Thesaurus, Butler’s Analogy, Pitt’s Virgil, Ogilby’s Homer, Cary’s Account of Ancient Time, folio; Corpus Juris Civilis Gothofredi, folio; Vegetius de Re Militari, Parisiis, 1535, folio, in a vellum wrapper; Crellii Opera; Livii Opera Parisiis, 1552, folio; Blackmore’s Prince Arthur, a Poem; and Camden’s Annals.

In closing this necessarily imperfect account of what remains of the Bristol Cathedral Library, I am happy to say, that the beautiful Chapter-house was not involved in the ruin of the adjacent Palace, but, having suffered only trifling injury, has been subsequently restored to its pristine appearance.

The books will henceforth be deposited in a small room adjoining the Chapter-house, which is now building for their reception, in the hope that their number may be increased by some future benefaction or bequest.

It is well known that the Library of the present Dean of Bristol, Dr. Beke, who has now nearly reached the span of human life, is most valuable and extensive, and were such a collection to be appropriated to the Cathedral, then would the Bristol Cathedral Library rise again, Phœnix-like, from the flames; and the venerable donor of so munificent a bequest, would, by all true Bibliopolists, be in their flowing cups freshly “remembered.”

I cannot shut the door of the Bristol Cathedral without noticing, truncated though it be, the symmetry of its Gothic Architecture, and feeling more than ordinary sensations of melancholy within its precincts.

For the mailed Barons of Berkeley, who here lie in grim repose, one has little sympathy; but for the beautiful, the young, cut off in the springtide of early enjoyment by that insidious and fatal malady, Consumption, it is for these, whose monuments, thick as leaves in Val’ombrosa, are strewed around, that the heart of an Englishman must ever heave the sigh of unavailing regret; nor can the current of his thoughts find a purer channel than that afforded by Mason’s beautiful memorial of his “dear departed saint.”

“Take, holy Earth! all that my soul holds dear:
Take that blest gift which Heaven so lately gave:
To Bristol’s fount I bore with trembling care
Her faded form; she bowed to taste the wave,
And died. Does youth, does beauty read the line?
Does sympathetic fear their breasts alarm?
Speak, dead Maria! breathe a strain divine:
E’en from the grave thou shalt have power to charm.
Bid them be chaste, be virtuous like thee;
Bid them in duty’s sphere as meekly move,
And if so fair, from vanity as free,
As firm in friendship, and as fond in love.
Tell them, though ’tis an awful thing to die,
’Twas e’en to thee; yet the dread path once trod,
Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high,
And bids the pure in heart behold their God.”

Library of Canterbury.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury is kept in a long and lofty room adjoining the Cloisters, which in olden time was the Chapel of the Prior. The books are arranged in classes upon open shelves, in projecting cases, which are distinguished by letters of the alphabet, and occupy the spaces between the windows; the end of the apartment nearest the Baptistery, containing the manuscripts in closed cases; and the other end of the room, having a light gallery, with open shelves above and below for the reception of printed books.

The Dean and Chapter have it in contemplation to alter this arrangement entirely, by placing the folios and quartos upon open shelves all round the room, with a light gallery for the octavos above, and to light the apartment by a skylight in the roof, instead of the present windows; and to remove the damp, which at present pervades the Library to a very injurious extent, by the addition of suitable fire-places.

This alteration, the expense of which is estimated at nearly £1000, though tending to impair the venerable appearance of this “antique oratory,” cannot fail to be beneficial to the books, many of which have been recently rebound by Mr. Gough of London, and some of the older volumes having been repaired and gilt. The whole collection has a freshened aspect.

The books are chiefly bound in calf, and are generally in very good condition, though only warmed occasionally by a stove. From a small fund possessed by the Dean and Chapter, they are enabled to employ from five to six hundred a year in the purchase and reparation of books. Their Library is also continually augmented by the customary donation of each Prebend upon his installation; and by a gift of forty pounds from the Archbishop of Canterbury, who once in every four years holds a visitation in his Cathedral, being sumptuously entertained at the Deanery, and leaves that sum, according to ancient usage, for the use of the Library.

It is creditable to the Curators of this Library that two Catalogues of its contents have already been printed, once in 1743, and again in 1802, and that another is in contemplation: so that I trust the Rev. John Stratton, the present Librarian, upon whom the task devolves ex officio, will render this new Catalogue more complete than either of its precursors.

The Catalogue at present in use in the Library is that printed in 1802, inlaid and interleaved in two volumes quarto, and bound in rough calf. There is also a register kept, of books borrowed from the Library.

The Catalogue which was printed for the use of the members of the Church in 1802, is an octavo volume of two hundred and thirty-nine pages, entitled a “Catalogue of the Books, both Manuscript and Printed, which are preserved in the Library of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1802.” It is divided into two parts, of which the first is an alphabetical index of the books both manuscript and printed, with reference to the shelves upon which they were placed when the Catalogue was compiled. The second part contains the Catalogue of the printed books only, being the contents of the Cases from A I. to LL IV. specifying the titles, imprints, and dates of each work. But as the present Librarian has entirely changed the arrangement of the books in these cases, they having been formerly arranged according to their size, but now according to their subjects, the utility of this Catalogue, as affording facility of reference, is entirely gone. The third portion of this Catalogue contains an enumeration of the manuscripts in the order in which they occur in the closed cases, A to E, in which they are kept.

I shall be excused for transcribing the introductory remarks to this Catalogue, since the book itself is solely circulated among the members of the establishment, and the matter is most pertinent to the subject of the present notice; so here it is:—

“Of this Library, a Catalogue, as it was called, appeared in 1743; but it is merely an alphabetical list of printed books only, without any statements of the place or year in which the books are printed, and without any guide to the shelves on which they had been placed. The present Catalogue, by its two-fold arrangement, is intended to inform the reader of most particulars relating to the books, to point out to him their situation in the Library, and at the same time to preserve them in their respective classes.

“The Dean and Chapter, desirous to promote the utility of their Library, lately caused it to be carefully examined, as well as considerably enlarged; and in consequence of the examination, several manuscripts were found concealed under a heap of rubbish in a private closet. These Manuscripts, having been investigated by some of the members of the Church, are now deposited, (as the subjects of them required,) partly in the Chapter-room, and partly in the Library. To the presses in the latter an addition is thus made of twelve volumes since the publication of a Catalogue of the Manuscripts in this Library, by a member of the Church, in 1793. Other Manuscripts also, since that period, have been presented to the Dean and Chapter. This Library, it may be observed, is rich in Manuscript materials relating to the Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the country, and to Saxon literature in general; as the articles under Records, Registers, and Somner, will evince.”

I may add, that this Library suffered severely from fire in former ages, and was despoiled of some of its fairest treasures during the Cromwellian Usurpation. It cannot consequently boast of many tomes of the olden time, but it contains many valuable and useful works, which will more plainly appear when we come to analyze its contents. The books are marked by the armorial bearings of the Dean and Chapter of “Christ Church Canterbury,” engraved and pasted within the covers. This precaution, however, proved ineffectual against the carelessness of so many persons to whom books had been lent some years ago, that the Reverend Guardians of this collection have of late years exercised draconic vigilance in the preservation of their literary treasures.

Many indeed of the clergy of Canterbury, who are unusually numerous, would gladly avail themselves of access to this Library; an indulgence which methinks might be granted under such regulations as should ensure the integrity, while extending the usefulness of the collection.

It is matter of great congratulation to the Dean and Chapter, that so many valuable Manuscripts relating to Saxon literature in general, and the County of Kent in particular, should be contained within the walls of this Library. Whoever wishes rightly to estimate the labours of the indefatigable Somner, should examine this collection, where will be found two copies of his excellent Dictionarium Saxonico-Latinum, from one of which, as appears by the signatures of the Compositors, his valuable work was printed in 1659. The Title, Recommendatory Verses, Dedication, Preface, List of Subscribers, and Errata, are here carefully preserved. Here also are kept with equal care, his “Treatise of the Roman Ports and Forts in Kent,” folio, a work which was published in 1693, his remarks upon the Goodwin Sands, and a life of the Author, by White Kennet, afterwards Bishop of Peterborough. Somner’s “Discourse of Portus Iccius, wherein the late conceipts of Chiffletius in his topographicall discourse thereof are examined and refuted; the judgment of Cluverius concerning the same port asserted and embraced; and the true site thereof more clearly ascertained.” This work was translated into Latin, and published at Oxford, in 1694, by Dr. Edmund Gibson, afterwards Bishop of London. Somner argues for Boulogne, Chifflet for Mardyke. His “Littus Saxonicum per Britanniam,” the design of which treatise was, to overthrow the opinion of Selden in his Mare Clausum, and to vindicate the opinions of Camden, Cluverius, Merula, and Ortelius, concerning this shore. His emendation of the Concilium Berghamstedense, A.D. 697, as given by Spelman, vol. 1, p. 194, exhibiting at one view the textus Roffensis, ejusdem exemplaris correctio, D. H. Spelmanni versio et versio nova. A specimen of the attentive correction which Somner was accustomed to bestow; and of which his manuscript notes in several of the printed books in this Library afford additional proof. His “observations upon the Commissary of Canterbury’s Patent,” which Mr. Battely in his Preface to “the Antiquities of Canterbury,” where a great part of this discourse is printed, supposes to have been the first fruits of those labours which Somner devoted to the study of Antiquity. To which I may add, his “Scholia et Animadversiones in Leges Henrici Primi,” folio. “In Dni Henrici Spelmanni Eq: Aurat. Glossarium Adversaria; Item, in Watsii Glossarium; et in eximii viri Gerardi Johannis Vossii de vitiis sermonis et Tractatum Adversaria.” and his Miscellanies; consisting chiefly of Letters relating to the affairs of the Cathedral, and the Diocese of Canterbury; and containing some curious remarks upon the characters, residences, &c. of many Incumbents in the Diocese.

To the unwearied pen of Somner we are indebted for the transcription of the following Works.

“Orosius, Saxonicè;” transcriptus è pervetusto Libro illo MS.
Bibl. Cottonianâ, in quo Chronologia Saxonica invenitur exarata.

“Cædmonis Paraphrasis Saxonica.” Transcriptus è pervetusto
Libro MS. in Bibl. Deuvesianâ charactere Saxonico exarato.

“Medicinalis Anglicus Saxonicè.” Transcriptus è pervetusto
Libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Regiâ apud S. Jacobum.

“Pentateuchus et Liber Josuæ Saxonicè.” Folio. Transcriptus è
pervetusto Libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ.

“Statuta Eccl. Christi Cantuar. ab Henrico octavo fundatore.”

“Chartæ Odonis Prioris, Eccl. Chr. Cant. anno 1167.”

“Chronica Gervasii de combustione et reparatione Eccl. Cantuar.
1174.” This Chronicle was published in the Decem Scriptores,
the joint labour of Twysden and Somner, in 1652, and was
translated into English, and published in the Historical
Description of Canterbury Cathedral in 1783.

But, besides the entire transcription of the above-mentioned Works, which are carefully preserved in this Library, the diligence of Somner has made copious extracts, which are also kept here:—“Ex Chronicis Will. Thorne.”—Fol. “Ex Gotcelini libro de translatione S. Augustini Anglor: Apost: et Sociorum ejus in Bibliothecâ Deuvesianâ.”[3] “Ex Registro Manuscripto S. Augustini Monast: collect: à Thom: Thaneto.” “Ex veteri Libro MS. olim Ecclesiæ Christi Cant: modo in Bibliothecâ Comitis Arundell. cui titulus, ‘Registrum sive Martyrologium Ecclesiæ Christi Cant:’”—“Ex veteri Libro MS. sc. Registro (ut inscribitur) temporalium Ecclesiæ et Episcopatus Roffensis abbreviatio, et circa tempora (1319) Haimonis de Slethe, 46. ejusdem Sedis Episc: (ut opinor) qui in Episcoporum ibi memoratorum catalogo ultimum locum obtinet.” “Ex libro Roffensi in 4to.”—& “E pervetusto libro MS. in Bibliothecâ Cottonianâ, Orosii historiam continente, manu Saxonicâ, cui titulus, ‘Chronica Saxonica Abingdoniæ ad annum 1066.’” Folio.

If to the above we add some Papers concerning Christ Church Yard, and an Account of what was laid out on the Church from 1660 to 1662, together with several Transcripts from ancient records, chronicles, and registers, relating to Canterbury, Kent, and Saxon literature, we shall have gathered a very fair idea of the contributions of Somner to the literature of his country, and be disposed to assign the Cantian Antiquary a place in the same temple with Dugdale and with Hearne.

I have already mentioned that Manuscripts in this Library relating to the Cathedral and City of Canterbury are very numerous; so voluminous indeed that I must request the reader to accept the following account rather as exemplary than descriptive.

First then, among the Manuscripts relating to the county of Kent, we have a Table or playne Particular of the whole Shyre; the Customs of Sandwich and Lydd; some Particulars respecting the Monastery and Town of Faversham; the Rentals of Godmersham and Chertham; the Rents of Assize at Marden, and Milton; an Index to the Ledger-book of the Priory of Dover, &c. De Monasterio et Prioribus S. Martini de Dovor. An Account of Lands in the Manor of Wingham paying rents, &c. to the Archbishop of Canterbury; and of the Lands of the Bishoprick of Rochester. To which I may add the Registrum Monasterii S. Augustini, a large quarto volume, upon vellum. This curious Manuscript was purchased by the late Dr. Farmer, formerly a Prebend of Canterbury, at a book-stall in London, and by him presented to the Cathedral Library, which contains also the “Registrum Domini Willim̅ Sellyng, Præcentoris, a decimosexto die Aprilis Anno Dn̅i millesimo quingentesimo vicesimo primo, tempore Thomæ Hampton abbatis hujus loci, necnon anno regni regis Henrici octavi duo decimo.” 4to. This Manuscript, which is partly on vellum and partly on paper, was the Register of St. Austin’s Monastery, and is believed to be the last; the establishment having been dissolved 30 Henr. VIII. Its ancient Library of course shared the fate of the Monastery, and was dispersed. Some few, however, of its manuscript volumes were transferred to the adjacent Cathedral, where are now preserved,

“S. Augustini Sermones de Verbis Domini, cum Indice præfixo,”
folio, inscripti super membranis.

“Evangelium Sancti Matthæi, Latinè, cum largâ expositione
cujusdam Anonymi,” folio, optime conservatum.

“Vetus Logica; Liber de Articulis Fidei; Priscianus de
Constructionibus; Liber de Accentibus; Donati Barbarismus,”
folio, in membranis; and a volume containing

“Correctorium totius Bibliæ Roberti Grosthead Episc: Lincoln.”
“Tabula secundùm ordinem alphabeti, in lib. exemplorum Sacræ
Scripturæ.” “Liber Exemplorum S. Scripturæ Fratris Nicol de
Hanapis;” & “De orbis situ.”

All of which originally formed a part of the library of the Monastery of St. Augustine, the ruins of which still arrest the attention of the passing stranger.

Those who feel an interest in what once composed Monastic Libraries, will rejoice to peruse, in the account-book of some officer of the Monastery, the “Reparationes circa Libros in Librariâ super Capellam Domini Priori,” and to be informed that a list of books formerly in this Library is given by Dart in the Appendix to his History of the Church of Canterbury.

To return from this digression to the Manuscripts relating to the Church, See, and City of Canterbury; I may enumerate

1. Redditus Eccl: Christi Cantuar: in membranis.

2. Relevia recepta anno secundo et sequentibus post reversionem
Conventûs ab exilio, 1215, in membranis.[4]

3. Nomina Monachorum Eccl. Christi Cant: a tempore exilii eorum
1207, ad annum 1533.

4. Obituarium Monachorum Eccl. Chr. Cant. ab 1286 ad 1507.

5. Gablum de diversis terris.

6. A Receiver’s Book of Church Rents in the time of the
Monastery. Liber Redituum Locabilium Prioris Ecclesiæ Cant.
Episcoporum in Provinciâ Cant. Decimæ.

7. Spiritualium et Temporalium secundùm Registrum Papæ et Regis.

An account of certain Manors taken into Queen Elizabeth’s hands, from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and what recompense she made out of Lands, of Abbies, Rectories, impropriate Rents, Tithes, &c.

8. Part of a Register of the Archbishop’s Manors.

9. De Prærogativis Archiep. Cantuar. written upon vellum about
1334.

10. A list of Authors, with references to their Works, who
have written concerning the Archbishops of Canterbury; first,
of those who have treated of the Archbishops generally, and
secondly, of those who have composed single or particular
lives; by the late learned and celebrated antiquary, Dr. Samuel
Pegge. 4to.

These valuable papers were in the possession of John Nichols, Esq. F.A.S. by whom they were given to the Rev. Mr. Todd, and by Mr. Todd have been presented to this Library. To these may be added the

“Statuta Curiæ Cantuar. editæ per Rob. Winchelsea, Archiep.
Cant.” and the “Fasti Cantuarienses; or the History of the
renowned Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ in
Canterbury; a Poem in five Books; by John Boys of Hode Court.”
Folio, 104 pages.

This Poem appears by the Preface to have been intended for the press. It is dedicated to Gilbert (Sheldon) Abp. of Canterbury. The Author, it seems, was the intimate friend of Somner. At the end is a printed “Panegyrick to his Sacred Majesty” Charles II. in verse, by the same author, dated 1662. Other publications by Mr. Boys are there also noticed. This volume was purchased at the sale of the late Dr. Osmund Beauvoir, Master of the King’s School, Canterbury, by Thomas Park, Esq. F.A.S.; by whom it was presented through the Rev. Mr. Todd to this Library. Lastly, as relating to the City of Canterbury, I may add to the Manuscripts already mentioned, the Charter of King Edward IV. granted to the City of Canterbury in 1460. Nomina 161 Majorum Civitatis Cantuariæ ab anno 1449. Fundatio et Statuta Hospitalis Sancti Laurentii juxta Cantuariam, et Registrum Chartarum de terris ejusdem; folio, in membranis; and the Answers to the Articles of Enquiry, made by the Commissioners of Henry VIII. concerning the estates, goods, revenues, &c. of certain Hospitals in and near Canterbury; the first and last of these documents forming part of the valuable collections of Somner.

Of Manuscripts relating to the History and Antiquities of England, I noticed a Catalogue of the Religious Houses within the realms of England and Wales, with their orders, founders, and values; both such as were suppressed by King Henry VIII. and such as were left standing, or have been since erected. Several grants of Henry IV. V. and VI. and Edward IV. to several monasteries, abbies, &c. Constitutiones Othonis et Othoboni cum Glossâ Johanni de Acton. folio, in membranis. A Volume of Letters concerning State Affairs in the time of Queen Elizabeth, from 1569 to 1596. A curious volume in folio, containing:—

1. “The Names and Armes (emblazoned) of the Principall Captains as well of Noblemen as of Knights that were with the victorious Prince, King Edward the Third, at the Siege of Callys. 1346.”

2. “An Account of how many Ships and Mariners every Port sent throughout England to that Siege. Also the supply of Ships and Mariners from Bayon, Spayne, Ireland, Flaunders, and Gelderland.”

3. “An Account of all the Princes and Noblemen, Foreigners, that served at that Siege, with their pay, and of the whole charge of that Siege.”

4. “The Titles and Armes (emblazoned) of all the Noblemen that flourished in each King and Queen’s Reign from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth.”

5. “An Account of the Precedency of the Nobility in several Processions of Queen Elizabeth and King James.”

6. “The Order of Precedency of the Nobles, both Men and Women, by Jasper, Duke of Bedford, (Uncle to Henry VII. and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) at the appointment of Henry VII.” “The Armes and Names of all the Nobilitie, Privi-Councelers, and Chiefe Officers of England in 1588.” Certain Disputations in point of Law concerning the Kings of England’s right to their Succession in the Kingdom of France; from an ancient MS. copied by Sir Peter Manwood in 1615, folio.[5] Fragmentum Historiæ Saxonicæ manu recenti, 4to. which formerly belonged to Somner, who has written on the first page “Florentius Wigorn. optimus hujus histor. interpres. W. S.” Canuti Regis Leges Saxonicæ, 4to. Veterum Statutorum Regni Collectio, cum Indice præfixo, 8vo.

To the above may be added Erdeswick’s Antiquities of Staffordshire, folio, 84 pages; and a Rentall of all the lands, rents, and pencions in the Cytie of Worcestre, and suburbes of the same, belongyng to the Cathedrall Churche of Worcestre, &c. folio.

I come now to the mention of a very interesting Work, being no less than “Isaaci Casauboni Ephemerides,” folio. This is the Diary of the Life of that eminent scholar and critic, Isaac Casaubon, Prebendary of this Church, written in Latin with his own hand, commencing in the 39th year of his age and in the year of our Lord 1597. He died in 1614.

The curious and learned reader will be highly gratified by several circumstances recorded in this volume respecting classical authors, in the illustration of whom Casaubon had been engaged. Bentley, it has been said, was indulged with the use of this volume. It was probably the gift of Meric Casaubon, son of Isaac, and also a Prebendary of this Church. From a passage in this Diary we learn that Isaac Casaubon, being a layman, received the royal dispensation to hold this Prebend.

Of Classic Authors I may notice a beautifully written Manuscript of M. T. Ciceronis Epistolæ, in folio, presented to the Library by Dr. Kingsley, Archdeacon and Prebendary, in 1663. At the beginning of this MS. is the following note:—“This Booke I Edmund Witherpoll found in the Lybrary off owre Ladye’s Churche in Bulleyn the xxv day of Sept. Anno Domini 1544.” Edmund Witherpoll probably accompanied Henry the Eighth in his expedition against Boulogne, and brought away this literary treasure with him.

Of Theological Manuscripts I must content myself with enumerating the

Biblia Latina Thomæ de Banchester, cui præfigitur Tractatus
Moralium super Genesin, qui dicitur Solatium fidelis animæ,
folio, in membranis.

Stephani (Langton) Archiep. Cant. Moralia in Isaiam, Jeremiam,
et Ezechielem Prophetas, folio, in membranis.

Ejusdem Moralia in libros Josuæ, Judicum, Ruth, in quatuor
libros Regum, in Tobiam, Hester, Esdram, et duos libros
Maccabæorum, folio, in membranis.

Ejusdem Moralia in XII Prophetas Minores, folio, in membranis.

Joannis Duns Scoti Questiones Theologicæ, folio, in membranis.

Ejusdem, in quartum lib. Sententiarum, folio, in membranis.

Expositio sive Glossa Regulæ S. Beati Benedicti, 4to.

Ephrem Syri Preces, Græcè, 12mo. most beautifully written.

Testamenta duodecim Patriarcharum.

Narratio e libro qui Græcè vocatur Suda.[6]

Meditationes beati Bernardi, 8vo, in membranis. A Volume which
formerly belonged to the Monastery of St. Mary Overy, Southwark.

I may conclude this notice of the Canterbury Manuscripts with the mention of the Chronicon ab origine Mundi, cui præfigitur Tabula subsequentis operis secundùm ordinem Alphabeti, folio, which ends in 1338; and a Chronographye of the most notable things from the beginning of the world to the year 1592, by John Nettleton, gent. my Master, and writ by me Wm. Byrche; together with the Stimulus Conscientiæ, or Pricke of Conscience, an English Poem, by Richard Hampole,[7] an eremite of the order of St. Augustine, who flourished in 1349, 4to.; and another curious Volume of English Poetry in 4to., entitled Epigramma Satiron; or “The times whistle, or a newe daunce of seven Satires, whereunto are annexed divers other poems comprising things naturall, morall, and theologicall, compiled by ______ gent.”

“Septem compacta cicutis
Fistula.”

The name of the compiler is in this first title erased. He announces the design of those Seven Satires in a long Introduction.

“From the Rhamnusian goddesse am I sent,
On Sinne t’inflict deserved punishment:
All-seeing Sunne, lend me thy searching eye,
That I may finde, and scourge impietie;”
&c. &c. &c.

To these Satires are added “Certaine Poems, comprising things naturall, morall, and theologicall. Written by R. C. gent.”[8]

In proceeding to give some account of the printed books contained in the Library of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, I will first notice the impressions of the Holy Scriptures which are contained therein, namely, the

Biblia Maxima, Joannis de la Haye. Lutet. Paris. 1660, in 19
vols. folio.

Biblia Polyglotta per Ariam Montanum. Antverpiæ, 1569, in 8
vols. folio.

Biblia Polyglotta per Brianum Waltonum. Londini, 1657, in 6
vols. folio, cui Castelli Lexicon Heptaglotton, Londini, 1669,
accedit.

Biblia Hebraica cum Commentariis Rabbinicis, per Danielem
Bombergum. Venetiis, 1515, in 4 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxonii, 1776, in 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Sacra, cum Glossa ordinaria, Parisiis, 1590, in 6 vols.
folio.

Biblia Sacra Vulgatæ Editionis. Romæ, 1592, folio. Basileæ,
1591, 8vo. Lugduni, 1618, 8vo. and Antverpiæ, 1629, in 5 vols.
16mo.

Biblia Latina Tremellii et Junii. Hanoviæ, 1602, in 2 vols.
4to.—Hanoviæ, 1603, folio, and Genevæ, 1617, in 4 vols. folio.

Biblia Septuaginta, Romæ, 1587, folio; Londini, 1653, in 2
vols. 12mo.; et edita per Grabe, Oxonii, 1707, dupl. edit. in 2
vols. folio, and in 8 vols. 8vo.

Biblia Belgica. Leydæ, 1596, 4to.

Biblia Española. Amst. 1661, 8vo.

La Biblia Traslatata in lingua Italiana da Giov. Diodati, 1607,
4to.

The Great English Bible, published by order of Henry VIII.
London, November, 1540, folio.

English Bible. London, 1551, folio.

The Holy Bible of 1585, the Bishops’ Version, in fol.

The Bible printed at Doway in 1609, in 3 vols. 4to.

The Bible printed by Barker at London, in 1640, folio; by
Baskett at Oxford, in 1717, folio; and by Baskerville at
Cambridge, in 1763, folio.

To which I may add the Bible edited by D’Oyley and Mant, and the Welch Bible printed at London in 1630, 8vo.

I may here notice the Psalter edited by Baber, and the Liturgia Anglicana Octoglotta, printed by Bagster.

Of editions of the New Testament separately published, we find

The Nov. Test. Polyglottum Eliæ Hutteri. Norimbergæ, 1599, in 2
vols. folio.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, Rob. Stephani. Lutet. Paris. 1550, folio.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Gregorii. Oxonii, 1703, folio.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Millii. Oxonii, 1707, folio.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, Joannis Leusden. Amst. 1698, 12mo.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, J. J. Wetstenii. Amstel. 1751, in 2
vols. folio.

The Nov. Test. Græcum, Griesbachii. Oxonii, 8vo.

The Nov. Test. Arabicum. Londini, 1727, 4to.

The Nov. Test. Copticum a Dav. Wilkins. Oxonii, 1716, 4to.

The Nov. Test. Gallicum. Genevæ, 1618, 12mo.

The Rhemish New Testament. Rheims, 1582, 4to.

The Doway New Testament. Antwerp, 1600, 4to.

Evangelia Gothica et Anglo-Saxonica. Franc. Junii. Dordrechti,
1665, 4to.

The Saxon Gospels, by John Foxe. London, 1571, 4to. To this I
may add the

Psalterium Latino-Saxonicum Vetus Johannis Spelmanni. Londini,
1640, 4to. and

“The whole Psalter translated into English Metre, which
contayneth an hundredth and fifty Psalmes. Imprinted at London
by John Daye, dwelling over Aldersgate, beneath S. Martyns.”

“Cum Gratia et Privilegio
Regiæ Majestatis per
Decennium.”

4to. with the device of the Printers, whose Colophon I have transcribed above, as it seems to militate against the supposition entertained by Warton,[9] that the Work was never published, but that the Archbishop permitted his wife to present the Book to some of the nobility.

“This copy, very curiously bound, was probably given by her to the Church of Canterbury,” says the compiler of the Catalogue of its Library; but I know not on what grounds beyond mere conjecture; and I regret to add that the ancient binding has been replaced by a modern suit of morocco, the colour of which has been so much impaired by damp that I could scarcely believe it had once been purple.

These Psalms, translated into English Metre by Archbishop Parker, were finished in 1557, and a few years afterwards printed. The Book is extremely scarce, excepting in public libraries. Strype, the ecclesiastical historian, relates that he could never obtain a sight of it. At the sale of the Books belonging to the late Dr. Farmer in 1798, a copy of this Work was sold for three pounds six shillings; and in Mr. Bright’s sale, in 1845, for forty pounds ten shillings.

Of Works of Divinity in this Library, the number is so considerable that I must content myself with noticing the

Magna Bibliotheca Veterum Patrum et antiq. Scriptorum
Ecclesiasticorum per Margarinum de la Bigné et alior. Colon.
Agrip. 1618-22, in 16 vols. folio.

Bibliothecæ Græcorum Patrum Auctarium per Franc. Combesis.
Paris. 1672, in 3 vols. folio.

SS. Patrum Barnabæ, Hermæ, Clementis, Ignatii, et Polycarpi
Opera, per Jo. Bapt. Cotelerium. Lutet. Paris. 1672, in 2 vols.
folio.

SS. Patrum Opera, Gregorii Neocæsariensis, Macarii Ægyptii, et
Basilii Seleuciæ Epistolæ, folio. Parisiis, 1622.

SS. Patrum Opera, Amphilochii Iconiensis, Methodii Patavensis,
et Andreæ Cretensis. Parisiis, 1644, folio.

Ambrosii Opera. Paris. 1586, in 2 vols. folio.

Athanasii Opera, Gr. et Lat., edita à Petro Nannio, 2 vols.
folio.

Augustini Opera. Basileæ, 1569, in 7 vols. folio; and Paris.
1679, in 8 vols. folio.

Basilii Opera. Parisiis, 1618, in 3 vols. folio.

Bernardi Opera. Basil. 1566, folio.

Bellarmini Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1620, in 5 vols. folio: et
Disputationes, Lutet. Paris. 1620, in 4 vols. folio.

Bonaventuræ Opera. Moguntiæ, 1609, in 4 vols. fol.

Calvini Opera. Genevæ, 1583, in 11 vols. folio.

Chamieri Panstratia Catholica. Genevæ, 1626, in 4 vols. folio.

Chrysostomi Opera, Gr. et Lat. Ducæi. Parisiis, 1636, in 11
vols. folio: and Græcè, per Henricum Savilium, Etonæ, 1613, in
8 vols. folio.

Clementis Alexandrini Opera; Sylburgii. Lutet. 1629, folio.

Cypriani Opera, per Fell. Oxonii, 1682, folio.

Cyrilli Alexandrini Opera. Paris. 1638, in 7 vols. fol.

Cyrilli Hierosolymitani et Synesii Cyrenensis Opera. Lutet.
Paris. 1640, folio.

Two 8vo. editions of the Rationale of Durandus of 1580 and 1592.

Epiphanii Opera per Petavium. Parisiis, 1622, in 2 vols. folio.

Episcopii Opera. Amstel. 1650, in 2 vols. folio.

Erasmi Opera. Lugd. Bat. 1703, in 11 vols. folio.

Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica. Paris. 1628,
folio.

Gregorii Nazianzeni Opera. Lutet. Paris. 1609, in 2 vols. folio.

Gregorii Nysseni Opera. Paris. 1638, in 3 vols. fol.

Hieronymi Opera. Paris. 1609, in 3 vols., and Francos. 1684, in
4 vols. folio.

Hilarii Opera. Paris. 1652.

Hospinianus de origine ac progressu Monachatûs. Tiguri, 1588,
folio, and his other works.

Ignatii et Polycarpi Epistolæ, Jac. Usserii. Oxonii, 1644, 4to.

Ignatii et Barnabæ Epistolæ. Isa. Vossii. Amstel. 1646, 4to.

Ignatii Epistolæ, per Tho. Smith. Oxonii, 1709, 4to.

Irenæi Opera. Parisiis, 1710, folio.

Isidori Epistolæ. Lutet. 1638, folio.

Isidori Hispalensis Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1617, fol.

Justini Martyris Opera. Paris. 1551 and 1636, fol.

Lactantii Opera. Basileæ, 1563, folio, and Oxonii, 1684, 8vo.

Lanfranci, Archiep. Cantuar. Opera et Vita. Lutet. Paris. 1648,
folio.

Lutheri Opera. Witebergæ, 1582, in 7 vols. folio.

Melancthonis Opera. Basileæ, 1541, in 2 vols. fol.

Many pieces of Du Moulin’s.

Œcumenii Comment. Lut. Par. 1630, 2 vols. folio.

Origenis Commentaria. Rothom, 1668, in 2 vols. folio.

Petavii Dogmata Theologica. Lutet. Paris. 1644, in 5 vols.
folio; with his Doctrina Temporum, and other Works.

Philonis Judæi Opera, Basileæ, 1526, Paris. 1640, and Londini,
1742, à Mangey.

Procopii et Riberæ Commentaria.

Suarez Opuscula Theologica. Lugd. 1600, 4to.

Tertulliani Opera. Paris. 1634, folio.

Theodoreti Opera Sirmondi. Lutet. Paris. 1642, in 4 vols. folio.

Theophylacti Opera Varia.

Tostati Opera. Col. Agrip. 1613, in 12 vols. folio.

Vincentii Sermones. Antv. 1572, 3 vols. 8vo.

Whitakeri Opera Theologica. Genevæ, 1610, 2 vols. folio.

Zanchii Opera. Hanoviæ, 1507, in 2 vols. 4to.

To which I may add the Critici Sacri. Londini, 1660, in 9 vols.
folio.

Poli Synopsis. Londini, 1669, in 5 vols. folio.

Bibliotheca Polonorum Fratrum. 1656, in 8 vols. folio; and

Walchii Bibliotheca Theologica and Suiceri Thesaurus
Ecclesiasticus.

Those who have persevered in perusing this long Catalogue of early Divinity, will have obtained a very good idea of the nucleus around which most of our Cathedral Libraries have been formed, and may figure to themselves a long array of ponderous folios, attired in the dusky calf of the seventeenth century. Of the more recent theological writers, the list being less copious, may also prove less fatiguing; including numerous Sermons by Blair, Horne, Sherlock, Secker, South, and other writers; the Hulsean Lectures, and the Works of Andrews, Barrow, Benson, Bull, Beveridge, Bingham, Chillingworth, Samuel Clarke, Cosins, Hall, Hammond, Hooper, Horsley, Jackson, Jones, Jewel, Lardner, Lightfoot, Leslie, Lowth, Newcome, Paley, Pococke, Potter, Prideaux, Skelton, Shuckford, Stanhope, Stillingfleet, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, Usher, Warburton, and Waterland.

This department also embraces Butler’s Analogy; Campbell on the Gospels; Sale’s Koran; Chappelow on Job; Daubeny’s Guide to the Church; Dwight’s Theology; Faber on Pagan Idolatry; Hey’s Theological Lectures; Kett on Prophecy; Horne’s Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures; Macknight on the Epistles; Marsh’s Michaelis; Pearson on the Creed; Porteus’s Lectures; and Stackhouse’s History of the Bible. To which I may add, Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible; the Commentaries of Arnald, Grotius, Hammond, Lowth, Patrick, Taylor, Wetstein, and Whitby; with the Concordances of Buxtorf, Cruden, Kircher, Newman, Stephens, &c.

In Ecclesiastical History this collection is particularly rich; both as relates to the affairs of the Church in general, and to the Ecclesiastical History of England in particular. In proof of this assertion I may adduce

Echard and Collier’s Ecclesiastical History.

Conciliorum Collectio Maxima, per Labbeum et Cossartium. Lutet.
Paris. 1672, in 18 vols. folio.

Concilia per Binium. Col. Agr. 1606, in 5 vols. and Lut. Par.
1636, in 10 vols. folio.

Concilia Galliæ Narbonensis. Paris. 1668, 8vo. and Spelmanni
Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1639-64, 2 vols. folio.

Wilkins’s Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ. Londini, 1737, in 4 vols.
folio.

Le Cointe Annales Ecclesiastica Francorum. Paris. 1665, 8 vols.
folio; and his Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain.

Broughton’s Dictionary of all Religions. London, 1737, in 2
vols. folio.

Picart’s Religious Ceremonies of all Nations. London, 1733, in
6 vols. folio.

The Acta Sanctorum, per Dacherium et Mabillonium. Lutet. Paris.
1668-77, in 6 vols. folio.

Anastasii Hist. Eccl. et Vitæ Paparum. 1602, 4to. and 1649,
folio.

Balei Acta Romanor. Pontificum. Basileæ, 1558, 8vo.

Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici. Antv. 1612-29, in 12 vols. folio.

Bower’s History of the Popes. London, 1748, 5 vols. 4to.[10]

I. Casauboni Exercitationes ad Baronii Annales. Genevæ, 1654,
4to.

Pagi Critica in Annales Baronii. Lut. Par. 1689, fol.

Cave’s Scriptorum Eccles. Hist. Lit. London, 1688, in 2 vols.
folio.

Cave’s Antiquitates Apostolicæ. Lond. 1677, in 2 vols. folio;
and Primitive Christianity. Lond. 1675, 8vo.

Historia Ecclesiastica Centuriatorum Magdeburgensium. Basileæ,
1624, in 3 vols. folio.

Codex Theodosianus, 1665, 4 vols. folio.

Gibson’s Codex, in 2 vols. folio.

Corpus Juris Canonici. Taurini, 1620, 3 vols. folio.

Durandi Speculum Juris. Francof. 1592, folio.

Ecton’s Thesaurus. 1766, 4to.

Howell’s Synopsis Canonum.

Geddes’s Church History of Æthiopia and Malabar.

Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity.

The Legenda Aurea. Coloniæ, 1485, folio.

Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History.

Osiandri Epitome Hist. Eccles. Tubingæ, 1607, in 4 vols. 4to.

Spondani Annales Sacri. Lut. Par. 1660, 5 vols. fol.

Tornielli Annales Sacri. Antv. 1620, in 2 vols. folio.

Usserii Annales. Lond. 1650-54, 2 vols. folio.

Waddingi Annales Minorum. Lugd. 1625, in 4 vols. folio.

Warner’s Ecclesiastical History. London, 1756, 2 vols. folio.

The Annals of Scottish Episcopacy.

Alfordi Annales Eccles. Britan. Leodii, 1663, in 4 vols. folio.

Bedæ, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Lovanii, 1566, 12mo.
Cantabrigiæ, 1644, folio.

Burnet’s History of the Reformation. London, 1679, in 3 vols.
folio.

Concertatio Ecclesiæ Catholicæ in Angliâ. Aug. Trev. 1588, 4to.

Cosins’ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Politeia. Oxonii, 1634, 4to.

Churton’s Life of Dean Nowell.

Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey.

Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum. Lond. 1655, &c. 3 vols. folio.

Fox’s Acts and Monuments of the Church. London, 1632, in 3
vols. folio.

Godwin, de Præsulibus Angliæ. Cantabrigiæ, 1743, folio.

Gough, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ Threnodia. Londini, 1661, 8vo.

Harpsfeld, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica. Duaci, 1622, folio.

Heylin’s History of the Reformation. London, 1661, folio.

Inett’s Origines Anglicanæ.

Lyndewode, Provinciale. Antv. 1525, and Oxon. 1679, folio.

Mac Crie’s Life of Knox.

Parker De Antiquitate Britannicæ Ecclesiæ. Hanoviæ, 1605, folio.

Parker De Archiep. Cantuar. Londini, 1729, folio.

Reyner’s Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ. Duaci, 1626,
folio.

Skinner’s Ecclesiastical History of Scotland.

Spotiswode’s History of the Church of Scotland. London, 1668,
folio.

Southey’s Life of Wesley, and Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ.

Stillingfleet’s Origines Britannicæ. Lond. 1685, fol.

Strype’s Annals of the Reformation. London, 1709, 4 vols. folio.

Strype’s Ecclesiastical Memorials. London, 1721, 3 vols. folio.

Tanner’s Notitia Monastica. Londini, 1744, folio.

Usserii Eccles. Britan. Antiquitates. Eblanæ, 1639, 4to.

Walker’s History of Independency. London, 1661, 4to.

Whartoni Anglia Sacra. Londini, 1691, in 2 vols. fol.

Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography.

Of Foreign History in general this Library possesses few works of any importance; the principal works being Bayle’s Dictionary; Banduri Imperium Orientale; Brabantiæ Monumenta Sepulchralia; Historiæ Byzantinæ Scriptores per Phil. Labbeum, Parisiis, 1648-50, in 21 vols. folio; Cluverii Italia, Sicilia, et Germania Antiqua; Freheri Rerum Germanicarum Scriptores, Francos. 1600, folio; Grimstone’s History of the Netherlands; Du Halde’s History of China; Guicciardini, Belgicæ Descriptio; Gyllii Constantinopoleos Topographia; Herreræ, Descriptio Indiæ Occidentalis; Heylin’s Cosmography; The Universal History, in 7 vols. folio; Laurenbergii Græcia Antiqua; Grævii Antiquitates; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, and other Works; Marsden’s Sumatra; Maurice’s Indian Antiquities; Mitford’s History of Greece; Pocockii Specimen Historiæ Arabum; Pontani Bohemia pia; Purchas’ Pilgrimes, London, 1625, in 5 vols. folio, a very fine clean copy, bound in calf; Robertson’s History of America, and Charles V.; Watson’s Philip II.; Hallam’s Middle Ages; Robinsoni Annales Mundi; Rycaut’s Ottoman Empire; Sandys’ Travels, and Europæ Speculum; Stuart’s Athens, incomplete; The Ionian Antiquities, and Wood’s Ruins of Palmyra; Six volumes of De Bry’s Voyages; Simsoni Chronicon Catholicum, & Wormii Monumenta Danica.

To the above may be added, Churchill’s collection of Voyages and Travels in 6 vols. folio. Bruce’s Travels. Pinkerton’s, and other works of Geography, and the Chronological researches of Beverigius, Bucherius, Carion, Cary, Calvisius, Fulcius, Helvicus, Isaacson, Marsham, Petavius, Pezron, Newton, Perizonius, Paludinus, Robinson, Scaliger, Simson, Strauchius and Ussher; with Hale’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; all of them very material “helps to history.” To which I may add Chalmers’ Biographical Dictionary, and Brady’s Clavis Calendaria.

Of Works relating to the History and Antiquities of Great Britain, I have much pleasure in being enabled to afford the reader a pretty copious selection; commencing with the Records of the Kingdom published under the authority of the Parliamentary Commission; and the Histories of England by Brady, Echard, Hume, Macauley, and Rapin. To these may be added,

Polydori Vergilii Historia Anglicana. Basileæ, 1555, folio.

Rerum Anglicarum Scriptores post Bedam præcipui: edente Savile.
1596, folio.

Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum. Francof. 1601,
folio; & Londini, 1570, folio.

Florentii Wigorniensis Chronicon. Francof. 1601, folio.

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