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In Etymology I was chiefly interested by Benson’s Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum; Buxtorf’s Hebrew Lexicon; Calepini Dictionarium, Basileæ, 1542; Castell’s Lexicon; Munster’s Dictionarium Trilingue; Morel’s Latin Dictionary; Dufresne’s Glossary, Latin and Greek; Hickes’ Thesaurus and Anglo-Saxon Grammar; Lhuyd, Archæologia Britannica; Montfaucon’s Palæographia Græca; Pagnini Thesaurus Linguæ Sanctæ; Scapulæ Lexicon; Spelman’s Glossary; Stephani Lexicon; and Suidæ Lexicon, Cantabrigiæ, 1705, in 3 folio volumes.

The Classical department includes the Works of Ælian, Æsop, Agapetus, Appian, Aristotle, Aulus Gellius, Ausonius, Cæsar, Callimachus, Claudian, Demosthenes, Eutropius, Herodian, Hesiod, Isocrates, Juvenal, Lucian, Lucretius, Lycophron, Macrobius, Martial, Nicander, Ovid, Pausanias, Persius, Plautus, Plutarch, Quintilian, Sallust, Sophocles, Suetonius, Tacitus, Terence, Theocritus, Vegetius, Velleius Paterculus, Virgil, and Vitruvius.

I also noticed Apollodori Bibliotheca, Romæ, 1555; Athenæus Casauboni; Barnes’ Euripides; Ciceronis Opera Omnia, 1646; Diodorus Siculus, Ed. Pr. Græcè, Basileæ, 1539, 4to.; Dionysius Halicarnasseus, Lond. 1658, and Lipsiæ, 1691; Epicteti Enchiridion, Lugd. Bat. 1640; Herodotus, Francofurti, 1608, folio; Homeri Opera, Venetiis, 1527; the Delphin Horace, with the editions of Bond and Bentley; Ogilby’s Æsop; Plinii Historia Naturalis, 1593, in 3 folio volumes; the Epistles of Pliny the Younger; the Basil Editions of Pomponius Mela, and of Seneca; the Geography of Ptolemy, Thucydides, Francofurti, 1594, folio; and Xenophontis Opera, edente Wells, Oxonii, 1703, 8vo.

The Bibliographical books comprehend Blount’s Censura Literaria; Catalogus MSS. Coll. CCC. Cantab. à Nasmith, in 4to.; Leland’s Commentarii de Scriptoribus Britannicis, Oxonii, 1709; and Nicolson’s Historical Libraries.

The Works on Natural History include Culpepper’s English Physician; Evelyn’s Sylva of 1664; Grew’s Rarities; Morison’s Catalogue of Plants in the Botanic Garden of Oxford, &c.; the Phytologia Britannica, London, 1650; Raii Historia Plantarum, Compendium Plantarum Angliæ; & Methodus observandi Plantas.

Of Legal Works I noticed only the Corpus Juris Civilis; Gibson’s Codex Juris Ecclesiastici, &c.; Fulwood’s Leges Angliæ; Fitzherbert’s Natura Brevium; Wilkins’ Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ; and Wottoni Leges Wallicæ.

In Chronology and Geography I observed Isaacson’s Chronology & Petavii Rationale Temporum; Ortelii Thesaurus Geographicus; and Wells’ Geography.

In Mathematics these shelves are equally deficient, having only the London Euclid of 1666; and the Opera Mathematica of Wallis.

In English Literature this Collection contains the Works of Bacon, Boyle, King Charles the First, Cowley, Locke, Milton, Mede, Speed, and other authors of less reputation; Chaucer’s Tales, in black letter, by Pynson, a copy which had formerly belonged to Thomas Pope Blount, the author of the Censura Literaria; the Life of Dugdale, 1713; Butler’s Hudibras, London, 1678; and Ben Jonson’s Works, London, 1640.

The Miscellaneous volumes afford some pieces of Dodwell and Selden; the Works of Dante and Guicciardini & Machiavelli; Politian, Scaliger, and Kennett’s Antiquities of Rome; Leland’s Collectanea de rebus Britannicis, Oxonii, 1715, in 6 volumes 8vo. edited by Hearne; Lyrani Rep. Lugd. Bat. 1528, in 5 folio volumes; Polydore Vergil de Rerum Inventoribus; and some pieces of the learned Vossius.

The Catalogue of this Collection, formed by Dr. Fothergill, was compiled by the Rev. John Coulthred, of Hickleton, in a 4to. volume, which has this memorandum at its close. “This Catalogue when transcribed (by the Rev. John Coulthred) contained about one thousand five hundred and twenty volumes.”

It will be perceived, in looking over the preceding pages, that the addition of Dr. Fothergill’s books to the York Minster Library, caused several duplicates in that Collection; but I have preferred incurring tediousness by repetition, to impairing the integrity of the Library by the omission of these volumes.

It only remains for me to notice the Manuscripts in the possession of the Dean and Chapter of York. These interesting remains of the Monastic Library of York include many copies of the Sacred Scriptures in the Latin Vulgate then in use, one bearing date A.D. 692, and various portions of the Sacred Writings. Of these I particularly noticed,

S.S. Bibliorum Pars. viz. Regum libri IV. Isaiah, Jeremiah,
Esekiel, Daniel, Osea, Joel, Amos, Abdia, Jonah, Micah, Nahum,
Abacoc, Zephaniah, Haggæ, Zacchariah, Malachi, Job, Psalmi,
folio.

Pars altera Bibliorum, viz. Proverb, Ecclesiastes, Cantica,
Sapientia, Ecclus. Paralipomena, Esdras, Esther, Tobias,
Maccabees.

S. Jerome’s Version of the Old and New Testament, Ezechiel, and
Paralipomena.

A Fragment of the Book of Ruth, and other portions of Holy Writ.

Of the Fathers I noticed Augustine and Origen.

Of Theological Writings I observed those of Bellarmine; Boetius de Trinitate; Grosteste, Manuel de Pecheur; Fothergill on Liturgies, in 8 volumes; Jewel’s Tracts against Dissenters and Papists; and Grosthead’s Sermons.

I also noticed the Legenda Sanctorum, and the Speculum Spiritualium, formerly a Reliquary to the Priory of Mount Grace.

The Historical Manuscripts here preserved are a Collection of Passages of State under Queen Elizabeth and King James; Sir John Harington on the King of Scots’ Right of Succession; the Life of Cardinal Wolsey; Thomæ de Eccleton de Adventu Minorum in Angliâ; and Fabian’s Chronicle.

Of the Manuscripts relating to the Antiquities of York, I observed a Register of the Lands of St. Mary’s Abbey, York; Hutton’s Antiquities of York; Drake’s History of York; and Torr’s Manuscripts on the same subject, in 8 volumes, now deposited in the Record Room of the Dean and Chapter of York.

The only Classical Manuscript which occurred to me was Cicero, Rhetoricorum ad Herennium.

Of Rituals I noticed the Breviarium Eboracense; the Missale Eboracense; the Rituale Eboracense; the Psalterium Eboracense; and the Manuale Sacerdotum de Kirkstal.

Among the miscellaneous volumes I noticed the Methodus Nova Plantarum; Bracton de Legibus; Nalson’s Heraldry; and some Manuscripts which formerly belonged to Rievaulx Abbey, brought hither at its dissolution.

Four old Catalogues of the York Minster Library are preserved among the manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of York.

These Manuscripts are all preserved with great care in cases under lock and key.

In this room I also found a case of Sir Edward Thomason’s Series of Medals illustrative of the Scriptures, of which the author has presented a set to every crowned head in the world, and received suitable presents in return from each of them.

The care and attention bestowed upon the Library is highly creditable to the taste and liberality of the Dean and Chapter. I believe the credit of converting the ancient Episcopal Chapel, which had for many years been used as a stable below, and a hay-loft above, into the present Gothic Library, is due, as I have already said, to Dean Markham, and greatly must every tasteful antiquary rejoice in the restoration of this elegant building. The large Gothic room is arranged with every attention to comfort, and is adorned by portraits of Toby Matthews, and of Dr. Fothergill. The ante-room is appropriated to the reception of Dr. Burge’s Books of Divinity, and numerous political and polemical Tracts, chiefly the scum thrown up by the troubled waters of the English mind during the Great Rebellion.

THE END.

PRINTED BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, CHISWICK. 1849.

FOOTNOTES

[1] D’Israeli’s Commentaries, II. 317, 318.

[2] D’Israeli’s Commentaries, II. 328.

[3] Vide Præf. ad partem secundam Whartoni Angliæ Sacræ, concerning this tract.

[4] The Prior of Christ Church Canterbury, and his Monks, sixty-four in number, were banished by King John, in 1207, on account of the opposition which they made to his nomination of an Archbishop. Their places were filled with Monks from the Monastery of St. Austin. After seven years’ banishment they were restored; £1000 was given them as a recompense for all detriment, and they received a charter of Restitution.

[5] “Of the original,” says Sir Peter, “the fearmer weare partly consumed, and the letters dimmed, and allmost worne out by time, the devourer of all things. In which Booke I found contayned the principall passages of affaires betweene the two kingdomes of England and Fraunce under the reignes of King Edward the Third and King Henry the ffifth.”... “Out of this I intreated a special friend to extract Certain Disputations, &c.”... “It may be remarked that in the arguments employed by the ambassadors of both countries, the circumstance of King of England’s using the title and arms of France is particularly and minutely discussed.”

[6] Suidas.

[7] See Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. 256.

[8] From an address prefixed to the Satires, and from another prefixed to the Certaine Poems, it is evident that they were intended for, if not committed to, the Press. The former appear, from various allusions to Marston’s Scourge of Villanie, published in 1598, to have been written near that period. Probably they might be suppressed, in consequence of the order towards the close of Elizabeth’s reign, signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, that Marston’s Pigmalion’s Image and Certaine Satyres, Hall’s Satires, Snarlinge Satires, &c., should be burnt, and “that no Satyres or Epigrams be printed hereafter.”

[9] In his History of English Poetry, vol. iii. p. 182, &c.

[10] As connected with this subject, a foot note may not unappropriately be devoted to “Alexandri VII. Papæ, et Cardinalium Effigies per Joan. Jacob. de Rubeis. Romæ, 1658,” folio. This volume being one of the many curious and valuable presents made to their Library by Dr. John Bargrave, of the Cathedral. He had been a great traveller, and lived chiefly in Italy during Cromwell’s usurpation. On the margins and backs of the engravings he has written many curious remarks from printed books and manuscripts, and has added several pleasant and interesting anecdotes, the fruits of his own observation. On the margin of the Pope’s picture he has remarked that “this picture, and all the rest following are extraordinarily like the persons, drawn and cut by excellent hands; I knowing them all by sight (and some by discourse) as well as I knowe any of my brethren the Canons of Chr. Church, Canterbury.” Dr. Bargrave’s Cabinet of Antiquities and other Curiosities, together with an Account of his Benefactions to the Library, in manuscript, is preserved in the Library with due care.

[11] “Durham Cathedral as it was before the dissolution of the Monastery,” edited by Dr. Chr. Hunter, Durham, 1733, pp. 92-96.

[12] Table Talk, i. 84-5.

[13] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. p. 204, and 210-14.

[14] Appendix in Cat. p. 430-5.

[15] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. p. 128-9.

[16] Ibid. p. 71.

[17] Antiq. Litt. Septentrion. p. 295.

[18] Among the Cottonian MSS. marked “Nero, D. IV.” Consult Raine’s St. Cuthbert, pp. 34, 35, 46, 47, 78, and 229.

[19] Cat. Codd. MSS. Dunelm. pp. 18, 19.

[20] Ibid, pp. 3, 4, A. I. 3, and Raine’s St. Cuthbert, p. 131, where a facsimile of one of the Initial letters is given.

[21] For some account of this Dr. Hunter, see _Nichols’ Literary Anecdotes_, and _Surtees’ History of Durham_, iii.

[22] Some amusing literary chit-chat concerning this gentleman, the productions of whose private press are familiar to most topographical collectors, will be found in Nichols’ Literary Anecdotes.

[23] The copy of this Bible, which successively belonged to Tutet and Bindley, is remarkable as being the identical copy which one Thornton, by an artful counterfeit, sold to the Duke of Lauderdale, for seventeen guineas, pretending that the Epistle to the Romans began with “Paul an Kneawe,” &c. which, as Mr. Wanley has informed us, was effected by the erasure of the true words, “the servaunt”—and the insertion of the false reading, effacing also Matthew’s Preface, and all the dates except one, of which he erased the numerals xvii. at the end of M.DXXXVII. whereby the date stood thus, M.DXX. which is earlier than that of any English Bible. As it does not appear the above false reading was ever printed, it is not of much consequence, though noticed by _Lewis_, p. 47; _Cotton_, p. 4; and by _Clarke_, p. 30. See also the _Bibliotheca Harleiana_, 1. No. 154.

[24] The first edition of this version, was for many years the most popular one in England, as its numerous editions may testify. After the appearance of King James’s translation, the use of it seems to have declined: yet a fondness for its notes still lingered; and we have several instances of their being attached to editions of the royal translation, one of which kind was printed so lately as 1715, but without place or name of printer.[25]

From the peculiar rendering of the text in Genesis iii. 7, the editions of this translation have been commonly known by the name of Breeches Bibles.

The copy at Balliol College is an exceedingly fine one, printed upon large paper. See _Cotton’s List_, p. 14, and Appendix.

[25] A copy of this edition is in the All Souls’ Library at Oxford.

[26] This may be accounted for, as there are at least seven different editions bearing this date; one in black letter, one in Roman type, with black lines round each page, and five others printed in the usual Roman type, without the lines.

[27] This is the first edition of the new translation by Royal Authority, made in the reign of James the First, and commonly called King James’s Bible. Its rarity in a perfect state is very great, the engraved title prefixed to the Work, being frequently wanting. To settle the controversy respecting the genuineness of the text of the authorised version now in use, this edition of the Bible has been literally reprinted with the greatest care at the Oxford University Press.

[28] “This edition has been commonly reported to be by Sir John Cheke, but upon what authority I know not: certain it is that he did translate the Gospel of St. Matthew into English, a few verses of which were printed by Strype in his Life of Sir John: but that translation varies considerably from the present. Strype, after mentioning this proceeds to say, ‘Cheke also translated the New Testament into English, with Annotations; which was printed both in octavo and decimosexto, but this last without the Notes; which copy Christopher Barker, Queen Elizabeth’s printer, gave to the Company of Stationers, anno 1583, with some others, for the relief of the poor of the said Company, &c. &c.’ p. 172, of the Oxford edition, 1821.

“N.B. This account is not contained in the former edition of 1705.”—_Cotton List._ p. 10.

[29] A portion of this edition, beginning with the Epistle to the Galatians, in the Christ Church Library, Oxford.

[30] This little volume is so rare and so curious as to merit more particular description. The title which is supplied by manuscript runneth thus:

“The Actes of the Apostles, translated into English meter, and dedicated to the Kynge’s most excellent Majestye by Christofer Tye, Doctor in Musyke, and one of the Gentlemen of hys Graces moste honourable Chappell, with notes to eche Chapter, to synge, and also to play upon the Lute, very necessarye for studentes after theyr studye to fyle theyr wyttes, and also for all Christians that cannot synge to read the good and godlye storyes of the lyves of Christ hys Appostles. 1553.” Then followeth the Dedication. “To the vertuous and godlye learned Prynce Edwarde the VI. by the Grace of God, King of Englande, France and Irelande, the Supreme head, your grace’s humble lovynge, and obedient servaunte Christofer Tye wysheth the continuance of God hys feare to dwell in your grace’s heart, longe to reygne in muche honoure, healthe, wealthe, and victorye.”

Then followeth a metrical Preface, consisting of 25 stanzas, and beginning thus:—

“Consydrynge well, most godly kyng,
The zeale and perfect love
Your Grace doth beare to eche good thyng
That geven is from above.
&c. &c.”

The text, with music for four voices, meane, tenour, counter-tenour, bassus: beginneth in this wise.

“In the former Treatyse to thee
Dere frend The o phi lus
I have written the verite
Of the Lord Christ Jesus.

“Whiche he to do and eke to teache
Began until the daye
In whiche the Sprite vp hym did feache
To dwell above for aye.”

The concluding stanza of chapter the fourteenth and last runneth thus:

“Howe he the doore of fayth untyde,
The Gentyls in to call,
And there longe tyme they dyd abyde
With the disciples all.”

Hereafter followeth the Colophon:

“Imprinted at London by Nycolas Hyll for Wyllyam Seres.” “Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum.” This rare volume is a small duodecimo, printed in black letter; but the present copy has unfortunately several leaves supplied by Manuscript. It is in old calf-binding.

[31] This rare and beautiful volume is the first edition of the Genevan version of the New Testament. It is also the first in which the verses are distinguished. It is to be observed, that the translation differs from that which three years afterwards was printed at the same place, together with the Old Testament. This book is in a small and beautiful Roman character, with the marginal Notes in a smaller Roman letter; but the heads of the chapters and scripture references are in italics. The verses are divided by figures as at present; and this is the first edition in which such a division occurs. A full page contains 37 lines. The title, ornamented by a neat wood-cut representing Time drawing Truth from a cave, runneth thus: “The newe Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, conferred diligently with the Greke, and best approved translations. With the arguments, aswel before the chapters as for every Boke & Epistle, also diversities of readings, and moste proffitable annotations of all harde places: wherunto is added a copious table.” “AT GENEVA, Printed by Conrad Badius, M.DLVII.” On the reverse of the title appears “The order of the bookes of the New Testament.” Then follows “An Epistle declaring that Christ is the end of the Lawe by John Calvin,” occupying eight leaves. The address “To the reader,” which follows upon two leaves, is succeeded by “The argument of the Gospel,” one leaf. St. Matthew and the other Evangelists, &c. occupy the leaves numbered from i. to ccccxxx. The table and supputation of the years from Adam to Christ, fol. ccccxxxi.–ccccli. On the last leaf is the Colophon. “PRINTED BY CONRAD BADIUS,” “M.D.LVII. THIS X OF JUNE.” On the reverse are the Errata.

[32] This volume is usually attributed to Archbishop Parker, and its rarity is so great that it has been generally maintained that the book was not printed for sale, but that the few copies of it which are now found were presents from the Archbishop to his friends. Copies are in the Bodleian and other College Libraries.

[33] This volume has much the appearance of having been printed in Holland. At the end of this edition of the Psalms is found “An Act for a publique Thanksgiving to Almighty God every yeare on the fift daye of November, enacted 5 Nov. 1605, composed into easie meeter, a songe meete for yong and old.” This metrical Act of Parliament is inserted at full length in the Appendix to Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible, pp. 151-156.

[34] Printed as a specimen of this new Translation. There was also another specimen, containing only the first eight Psalms, probably printed a little before the present. Of this several passages differ, both from the second specimen and the adopted version. Copies of each are in the Bodleian; the earlier, a sheet and a half, has no title. The whole version was licensed to be sung in churches, and the first edition of it printed in the next year. It is to be observed that the version of the specimen above recorded differs in many places from that which was afterwards adopted, as may be seen in the Appendix to Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible, pp. 150, 151.

[35] See Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses. Edit. 1815, 4to. vol. II. p. 474.

[36] Dr. Cotton remarks that “The book was probably printed either at Paris or St. Germains. By the approbations prefixed, it appears that this version was intended to supersede that in the Douay Bible, which was now considered to be too antiquated for general use. It should be observed that there are two kinds of title pages to the volume; some copies have a vignette, for which in others a blank space is left. Some also are without the errata at the end.” List of Editions, &c. p. 74.

[37] This first edition was afterwards much altered by its author. See a specimen of it in Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible. Appendix, pp. 148-9.

[38] The Evangelia Gothica Junii. Dordraci, 1615, 4to. Evangelia IV. Armenicè. Amstelodami, 1698, 4to.: and the Gospels in Saxon and English, by John Fox. London, 1571, 4to. may here claim appropriate notice.

[39] The archives of Lambeth Palace contain a curious Manuscript of Caxton’s Chronicle, from Brute to the beginning of the reign of Henry VI. in folio, preceded by a portrait of that monarch, and bearing at the end the date of 1460, followed by these words: “An after that ther bred a raven at Charyng Crosse at Londen. And never was seen noon brede there before. And after that came a gret dethe of pestilence that lasted iij yer. And peple dyed myhtely in every place, man woman and chylde. On whose soulys God have mercy. Amen.”

The text of this Manuscript differs greatly from the Chronicle of England, printed by Caxton in 1480, and is much more diffuse, but it appears never to have been completed.

[40] Vide Hickesii Thesaurus Septentrionalis. II. 289.

[41] Thus.

[42] Thus.

[43] Thus.

[44] “This grand work was attended with most injurious consequences to the learned author; it cost him the assiduous labour of seventeen years, and ruined both his health and fortune.

“Some passages in his dedication to Charles II. most affectingly represent the calamities he had endured; and which he appears to have borne with most exemplary resignation. His library, household furniture, and three hundred copies of the Lexicon perished in the fire of London. ‘Magna pars Bibliothecæ meæ, cum multâ supellectile et trecenis Lexici Heptaglotti exemplaribus, in flammis periit Londinensibus.’ To this misfortune were added several private accidents, ‘membrorum confractiones, luxationes, contusiones;’ and from incessant study an almost total blindness, ‘oculorum lumen, perpetuis atque indefessis vigiliis tantum non ademptum.’ The publication of his work procured him no compensation for his large expenses, and his indefatigable diligence. At the time of his death, in 1685, about five hundred copies were unsold; these were placed by Mrs. Crisp, his niece and executrix, in a room of one of her tenants’ houses in Surrey; where for many years they lay at the mercy of the rats, who made such havoc among them, that when they came into the possession of this lady’s executors, scarcely one complete volume could be found out of the remainder, and the whole load of learned rags only fetched seven pounds.”—_Clarke_, _Rep. Bibl._ pp. 33, 34.

[45] Of this valuable and highly interesting volume, the first-fruits of an attempt to print the Scriptures in the English tongue, and the chief cause of the persecution and subsequent death of the translator, a single copy only was supposed to exist. Of the manner in which this found its way into the Harleian Library, and of the value set upon it by Lord Oxford and Mr. Ames, a short but interesting account is given in the following extract from a letter preserved in the Bodleian Library. It is in the handwriting of Ames, is addressed to Mr. George Ballard, and dated Wapping, June 30, 1743. “I cannot forbear telling you of my good success in buying at Lord Oxford’s sale the Phœnix of the whole library; I mean the first English Testament that ever was printed in the year 1526. It has been thought no perfect one was left from the flames. My lord was so well pleased in being the possessor of it, that he gave the person (Mr. John Murrey) he had it of, ten guineas, and settled an annuity of twenty pounds a year during the person’s life, which is yet paid him. The particulars are too many to commit to a letter; the old historians, and Fox, give a good account of it.”

Herbert’s account, given in a note at p. 1535, may form a sequel to this: “This first edition was in the possession of Mr. Ames, who bought it for fifteen shillings out of the Harleian Library, No. 420, sold by T. Osborne, 1743. Mr. John White purchased it for 15_l._ 4_s._ 6_d._ at the auction of Mr. Ames’s books, No. 1252, sold by Langford, 1760, and sold it for 21_l._ to Dr. Gifford, who at his decease bequeathed it, with many others, to the Baptist Museum, Bristol.” Unfortunately this otherwise perfect copy wants the title page.

“But it has been my fortune, in examining the Library of St. Paul’s Cathedral, to discover a second copy. Unluckily it is imperfect, both at the beginning and end; and its former owner, as if afraid of a second Bishop Tonstall, has contrived most ingeniously to disguise and disfigure it, by intermixing the leaves of the Gospels and Epistles with each other in the strangest manner. The volume is in half-binding, lettered (for what reason I know not) ‘Lant’s Testament.’ Surely it well deserves to be carefully taken to pieces and examined: the deficient parts should be supplied by a transcript from the Bristol copy, and inserted in their proper places, lest an unhappy accident should deprive us of either of them; the volume should then be rebound, and placed under lock and key, and under the special superintendence of the librarian.”—_Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible, &c._ Oxford, 1821, pp. 1, 2.

The present state of this precious little tome will show that some of these recommendations have already been adopted, and the following collation may be acceptable to the inquiring bibliographer:—Title wanting. Text fol. i.-cccliii. Address to the Reader, 3 pages. Errata, 3 pages. St. Matthew begins on folio i. St. Mark on folio xliii. b. St. Luke on fol. lxxi. b. St. John on fol. __. Acts on fol. cliii. b. Romans, on fol. cxcix. Ephesians on fol. ccliii. b. St. James, on cccxv. and the Revelations on cccxxi. b. A full page contains 33 lines. The signatures run in eights, and the folios are consecutively numbered. There are no marginal notes, and no wood-cuts, except the initial letters. The following words are thus spelt: “Corrinthyans, Romayns, Galathyans, Collossyans, Tessalonyans, Hebrues.”

[46] In this address Tyndale complains heavily of George Joye, for having in his previous impression of the same year, altered Tyndale’s translation in many important instances, particularly in rejecting the word resurrection, and, concealing his own name, still uttering it as Tyndale’s genuine translation. He also gives at length the Colophon of Joye’s edition, in order that it might be distinguished from his own.

[47] A copy of this book was bequeathed by Dr. Gifford to the Baptist Museum at Bristol, and another was in the possession of the late Mr. Herbert. “The copy in Exeter College, at Oxford, a very fine one, is printed on yellow-stained paper. The British Museum has three copies, one on white paper, one on yellow, and a third most splendidly printed on vellum with illuminations. This last, formerly belonging to Anna Boleyn, was bequeathed to the Museum by Mr. Cracherode.”—_Cotton’s List_, p. 3.

[48] Copies of this last edition are in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, and in the Baptist Museum at Bristol.

[49] The Bridgewater copy of this Bible is printed upon yellow-stained paper, an occurrence which Dr. Cotton has shewn to be by no means so uncommon, as it has usually been considered. There are copies of this Bible in the Bodleian, and in the Libraries of Christ Church, All Souls, and Baliol, at Oxford. Mr. Bindley’s copy, formerly in the Harleian Library, contains a remarkable but self evident forgery mentioned by Lewis in his list of Editions of the Bible, p. 47.

[50] The present copy is wrongly lettered, 1553, and no mention whatever is made of this edition in Dr. Cotton’s List of Editions of the Bible.

[51] The first edition of this translation, rarely found in a perfect state. Of the six copies at Oxford, the Bodleian only is perfect. It contains portraits, engraved on copper, of Queen Elizabeth, Lord Leicester, and Secretary Cecil. For the difference between this edition and the reprint of 1572, see the _Appendix to Cotton’s List of the Editions of the Bible in English_, pp. 123-126.

[52] Willis’ Mitred Abbies in Leland’s Collectanea, 1774. VI. 145, &c.

[53] Willis’ Mitred Abbies in Leland’s Collectanea, VI. 154, ed. 1774.

[54] This interesting though brief Journal, was written by an Englishman unknown, and was first published from the original manuscript in the Hafod Library, by Mr. Blackwood at Edinburgh in 1818.

[55] The remaining Works of this learned Prelate contained in this Library are, History of Impropriations, 1704, 8vo.; and of Ecclesiastical Synods, 1701, 8vo.; and the Bibliothecæ Americanæ Primordia, London, 1718, 8vo.; to which may be added the Synodus Anglicana, edited by Bishop Gibson, in 1701, 8vo.

[56] See Selden’s Preface to the Decem Scriptores, p. 46.

[57] In the beginning of the Book Mr. Austin has entered the acknowledgment given upon that occasion in these words:

“I pray let this Scripture Book alone for he hath paid me for it, and therefore I would desire you to let it alone. By me Henry Topclyffe Souldier under Captain Cromwell, Colonel Cromwell’s son, therefore I pray let it alone.”

“Unto which godly Warrant for its Security,” adds Dean Patrick, “the fellow signed his name.”

The soldiers also destroyed the Records in the Chapter House, mistaking them for Papal Bulls. “A short and true narrative of the Rifling and defacing of the Cathedral Church of Peterburgh in the year 1643,” which occupies pp. 333 to 340 in the Appendix to Gunton’s History of that Church will amply repay perusal. Dean Patrick, the editor of that Work, has devoted his Preface to a particular Account of “the Book called Swapham,” and its reputed Author.

[58] See Britton’s Cathedrals, v. 5.

[59] In his Essay on the Mutability of Literature, in the first volume of the Sketch Book. London, 1823, pp. 227-9.

[60] See Willis’s Mitred Abbeys in Leland’s Collectanea, VI. 118, 127.