Note 174 — Chapter II · THE COLLEGES
Reading edition
It consists of 700 MSS. and 30,000 volumes. Other and earlier benefactors to the library were Perne (1574), Fulke Greville, Stephen Perse of Caius, and George Villiers Duke of Buckingham.
There is a library “Chest” and endowments, amounting to about £2000, plus the income of £4500 from the common university Fund.