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[1324] _Epist. Acad._, 64, 65.

[1325] _Ibid._, 105, 196.

[1326] _Ibid._, 152.

[1327] _Ibid._, 35-37.

[1328] _Beckington Correspondence_, ii. 249, 250; _Epist. Acad._, 110.

[1329] _Epist. Acad._, 115-133.

[1330] _Ibid._, 134, 135.

[1331] _Ibid._, 136.

[1332] _Epist. Acad._, 155-157.

[1333] _Ibid._, 139, 140. It was also through Gloucester's influence that Bedford was induced to promise to endow his lectures.h.i.+ps; _Ibid._, 81-83, 95.

[1334] _Ibid._, 152, 153.

[1335] _Munimenta Acad._, 266, 267.

[1336] _Epist. Acad._, 114, 115.

[1337] The numbers are variously stated in different letters as 120, 126, and 129. This last corresponds with the number of books in the indenture; _Ibid._, 179-183.

[1338] _Ibid._, 177-179, 184.

[1339] _Ibid._, 177-179. This was not the first time that Gloucester had been likened to Julius Caesar.

[1340] _Epist. Acad._, 184.

[1341] _Munimenta Acad._, 758; _Epist. Acad._, 179.

[1342] _Epist. Acad._, 198, 204, 205.

[1343] _Ibid._, 232-237. The indenture mentions one hundred and thirty-five volumes as the total, but only one hundred and thirty-four are given in the list.

[1344] _Ibid., pa.s.sim._

[1345] Additional MS., 4608, f. 100, 100vo.

[1346] By counting the same items more than once Anthony Wood brings the total to five hundred and thirty-nine; Wood, _History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford_, 914, 915.

[1347] _Munimenta Acad._, 261-266.

[1348] _Ibid._, 326-328; _Epist. Acad._, 188-191.

[1349] _Epist. Acad._, 245.

[1350] _Epist. Acad._, 245, 246.

[1351] _Ibid._, 533.

[1352] It has been stated that these books were ultimately obtained, but there is no reason to believe this, though ten years later thirteen volumes, originally bequeathed by some one, were recovered; _Epist. Acad._, 483. Cf. Wood, _History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford_, 915. In 1453 we hear that all the volumes of this bequest were scattered in private hands; _Epist. Acad._, 318, 319.

[1353] _Epist. Acad._, 254.

[1354] _Munimenta Acad._, 735.

[1355] _Munimenta Acad._, 376.

[1356] _Ibid._, 329, 330; _Epist. Acad._, 256.

[1357] _Epist. Acad._, 241.

[1358] _Ibid._, 178.

[1359] _Ibid._, 198.

[1360] See Macray, _Annals of Bodleian_, 13.

[1361] On 1st March 1544 a certain John Stanshawe, gentleman, stole from the church of St. Mary 'unam Zonam de argent. aurat.

voc. le Duke Humfrey's gyrdyll.' _Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII._ (London, 1905), vol. xx. Part 1. p. 655.

[1362] _Epist. Acad._, 373. Letter of the University of Oxford to Wheathampsted.

[1363] Leland, _Collectanea_, iii. 58; Hearne, MS. Diary, x.x.xvi. f.

199. It is probable that this motto was used by Gilbert Kymer. It is found stamped on the binding of a medical work written for him and now preserved in the Bodleian Library (Laud MS., 558). Another binding which encloses another medical treatise written by the same scribe, and presumably also for Kymer, now in the Merton College Library, bears the same legend. (Merton College MS., 268.) My attention has been drawn to this by Mr. Gibson of the Bodleian Library.

[1364] The books alluded to are to be found in the indentures printed in _Epist. Acad., pa.s.sim_.

[1365] Leland, _Commentarii_, 453.

[1366] Livius, 2.

[1367] Basin, i. 189.

[1368] Capgrave, _De Ill.u.s.tribus Henricis_, 109.

[1369] Lincoln MS., 106, f. 359vo.

[1370] See Appendix A.

[1371] Bibliotheque de Ste. Genevieve, MS. francais, 777.

[1372] Cambridge University Library, MS. Ee. 2, 17.