Note 216 — ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY. (continued 3)
Reading edition
In the Benefaction Book this gift is entered under 1793, but it is mentioned in the Preface to vol. iii. of the State Papers, dated May 29, 1786, as having been 'lately' given. Another copy of part of the History, partly written by William Edgeman, who was Hyde's secretary at Scilly and during his first exile, came to the Library among Rawlinson's MSS., by whom it was bought at the sale of the Chandos Library in 1747 for £1 10s.!