Library of Chichester.

The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Chichester is preserved in the Chapter House, which forms the Eastern termination of the Cathedral.

This room, of very fair proportions, is lighted by several large windows, and adorned with Portraits of George I. and the Dukes of Richmond and Newcastle over the fire-place at the east end, and of William and Mary, in one picture, over the doorway at the other.

Upon the desk lie some Episcopal relics which have been of late years found in the Cathedral, and which have been engraved in one large plate for the benefit of the curious.

The Books are placed upon open shelves in tall cases of stained wood, with cornices, standing against the wall, three marked R. T. Y. being on one side, and three marked S. W. Z. on the other side of the room.

The contents of these cases are alphabetically enumerated in a thin folio volume in an old hand, the sizes of the Books being omitted, but reference being made to their position on the shelves, whereby the eye may be made to supply this deficiency. To this Catalogue, which bears the title of “Librorum in Bibliothecâ Ecclesiæ Cicestrensis Catalogus Alphabeticus,” interfoliary additions have from time to time been made.

In another Book are entered the Books which may be borrowed from the Library.

This Collection is very respectably attired, being chiefly bound in old calf, occasionally gilt, and consists chiefly of Theological and Historical Works, in tolerably good preservation.

The impressions of the Sacred Volume comprehend

The Biblia Polyglotta Waltoni, 1657, with Castell’s Lexicon.

Biblia LXX, per Holmes & Parsons. Oxonii, v. a. 6 v. folio.

Biblia Græca, Basil. 1545, Sacra Biblia, Junii, 1593.

Biblia Latina Vulgata. Parisiis, 1691.

Biblia Latina. Hanoviæ, 1605, & Basileæ, 1579, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia Hebraica, per Kennicott. Oxon. 1776, 2 v. fol.

Biblia Hebraica & Chaldaica, per Buxtorf. Basileæ, 1618, 2 vols. folio.

Biblia LXX, per Grabe. Oxonii, 1707, in 4 v. fol.

Biblia LXX, per Bos. Francof. 1719, 2 vols. folio.

The Bible in English by Field. Cambridge, 1669.

The Bible in English, by Baskett. Oxford, 1715.

The Novum Testamentum Syriace, et Græce, apud Stephanum.

The Codex Bezæ. Cantab. 1793.

Evangelium Matthæi, per Barrett. Dublin, 1801, 4to. in blue morocco.

The New Testament by Griesbach, Wetstein; and by Kuster, Lipsiæ, 1723; Millii, Oxon. 1707, 2 vols. folio, Vratislaviæ, 1782.

In Divinity, the Works of S. Basil, Bernard, Bingham, Bochart, Bramhall, Chrysostom, Clemens Alexandrinus, Le Clerc, S. Cyprian, S. Cyril, Cudworth, Epiphanius, Episcopius, Gregory, Nyssen, and Nazianzen, S. Hilary, Hospinianus, Horne, Jackson, Jewel, Justin Martyr, S. Isidore, Justinian, Lightfoot, Limborch, More, Patrick, Pearse, Philo Judæus, Paley, Pococke, Porteus, Stillingfleet, Sherlock, Tertullian, Theophylact, Jeremy Taylor, Wake, Whitby, Wells, may be seen in conjunction with

Ambrosii Opera. Basileæ, 1567, 3 vols. folio.

Anselmi Opera. Colon. Agrip. 1612.

Athanasii Opera, Colon. 1686, 2 vols. folio.

Augustini Opera. Parisiis, 1555, in 7 vols. folio.

Beverigii Pandectæ Canonum.

Boyle’s Theological Works.

Bulli Opera Theologica. Londini, 1703, folio.

Burkitt on the New Testament.

Burnet on the XXXIX Articles.

Calvini Opera. Genevæ, 1589, 10 vols. folio.

Calvin’s Institutes.

Cassiodori Opera. Venetiis, 1729.

Chamieri Controversiæ.

Chillingworth’s Works, 1684.

Here I may remark that in the Cloisters of this Cathedral, according to a plain mural tablet,

“Hic reducem expectat animam Gulielmus Chillingworth, A.M. Coll. Trin. Oxon. Socius, &c. omni literarum genere celeberrimus, Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ adversus Romanam Propugnator invictissimus.”

To return, however, to the department immediately under review, I may proceed to notice

Cave’s Primitive Christianity & Lives of the Fathers.

Calmet’s Dictionary of the Bible.

Several Concordances, by various hands.

The Works of Samuel Clarke, in 4 vols. folio.

Collyer’s Sacred Interpreter.

Cotelerii Patres Apostolici. 1724.

Critici Sacri & Pole’s Synopsis.

Du Pin’s History of the Canon of the Old and New Testament.

Erasmus in Nov. Test. Basil. 1522, and other Works, with his Life by Jortin.

Eusebii Præparatio et Demonstratio Evangelica.

Fabricii Codex Pseudigraphus Veteris Testamenti. 2 vols. 8vo.

Forbes on Religion.

Faber on Pagan Idolatry.

Irenæi Opera, per Grabe. Oxon. 1702, folio.

Grabe’s Spicilegium. Oxon. 1698, 8vo.

Gray’s Connection.

Grotii Opera Theologica. Londini, 1679, 4 v. fol.

Hammond’s Paraphrase and other Works. 1684, 4 vols. folio.

Heylin’s Theological Tracts.

Hieronymi Opera per Victorium. Parisiis, 1609, 3 vols. folio.

Howel’s Synopsis Canonum.

Hyde’s Religio Veterum Persarum.

Lactantius cura Sparke. Oxon. 1684.

Lardner’s Credibility.

Lowth’s Isaiah.

Maltby’s Works. 1803.

Melancthonis Opera. Witebergæ, 1580, 4 vols. fol.

Norris on the Beatitudes.

Page’s Harmonia Sacra.

Pearsoni Opera Posthuma.

Petavii Dogmata Theologica.

Prideaux’s Connection.

Schleusner’s Lexicon Novi Test.

Shuckford’s Connection.

Stockii Clavis Nov. Test.

Stradæ Prolusiones.

Suiceri Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus.

Tillotson’s Sermons. 1700, 14 vols. 8vo.

Wall’s Infant Baptism.

Zanchii Opera Theologica, together with the Sermons of Andrews, Barrow, Conybeare, Fysher, Hoadly, Horsley, Sanderson, and Saurin.

As connected with the Church Service I may add to these Henry the VIII.’s Primer, 1545; the Liturgia Anglicana Octoglotta, 1821; Baskett’s edition of the Common Prayer, London, 1754; and a beautiful large paper copy of the Common Prayer, printed by Bill and Barker at London in 1662, folio, bound in green velvet and ruled with red lines; the gift of the Rev. Thomas Baker to the Cathedral Library; also “the Sealed Copy” of the Common Prayer of the same date, so called from its containing the original Letter Patent of Charles II. upon vellum, “for lodging a corrected and authentic copy of the Common Prayer Book in this Cathedral.” “N.B. The great Seal attached to these Patents is preserved in the Chapter House.” This interesting volume is unpretendingly attired in dark calf.

To these I may add the

Breviarium Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1594, and the

Missale Romanum. Antverpiæ, 1614.

The principal Works relating to Ecclesiastical History in this Collection are Allix’s Albigenses; Wharton’s Anglia Sacra; Baronii Annales & Martyrologium Romanum; Brandt’s History of the Reformation in the Low Countries; Bedæ Opera, Basileæ, 1583; Bedford’s Scripture Chronology, 1730; Bower’s Lives of the Popes; Burnet’s Reformation; Codex Theodosianus Gothofredi; Corpus Juris Civilis et Canonici, Lugd. Bat. 1624-7; Cotelerii Ecclesiæ Græcæ Monumenta; Concilia Generalia, Colon. Agr. 1567; Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ à Wilkins, Lond. folio; Strype’s Annals, Lives, and Memorials; Du Pin’s Ecclesiastical History; Cave’s Historia Literaria Scriptor. Eccles.; Echard’s Ecclesiastical History; Ecton’s Thesaurus; Eusebii Historia Ecclesiastica; Le Neve’s Fasti Anglicani; Fleury’s Ecclesiastical History, by Adams, 1727, 5 vols.; Fuller’s Holy War, and Church History of Britain; Gibson’s Codex and Synodus Anglicana; Godwin de Præsulibus Angliæ, Cantabr. 1743, 2 vols. folio; Gratiani Compendium Juris Canonici et Civilis, Venetiis, 1580, 3 vols. folio; Heylin’s History of the Reformation; Lyndewode’s Provinciale, Oxon. 1679; Inett’s Origines Anglicani; Mosheim’s Ecclesiastical History; Reyneri Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Angliâ, Duaci, 1626; Ribadeneira, Vitæ Sanctorum; Rycaut’s Lives of the Popes; Sanderus de Origine et progressu Schismatis Anglicani, Parisiis, 1610; Spelman’s Concilia; Spotswode’s Church of Scotland; Polano’s History of the Council of Trent; Quick’s Synodicon in Galliâ Reformatâ; Tornielli Annales; Usseri Annales & Antiq. Eccl. Britt.; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy; Warner’s Ecclesiastical History; and Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Biography.

Of Works connected with English History and Antiquities, the shelves of this Library may supply the curious enquirer with Adams’s Index Villaris, and sixty volumes of the Acts of Parliament, the gift of Bishop Buckner to the Chichester Cathedral Library; Ashmole’s Order of the Garter, 1672; the English Baronetage, 1741, in 5 vols. 4to.; Barwick’s Life; Battely’s Antiquities of Canterbury; Crawfurd’s Memoirs of Scotch Affairs, Edinburgh, 1726; Dart’s Westminster Abbey; Echard’s History of England; Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, 1655, 3 vols. folio; Warwickshire, Coventry, 1675; Baronage, and View of the Troubles; Kippis’s Biographia Britannica; Borlase’s Cornwall and Scilly Islands; Buck’s History of Richard III.; Buchanani Historia Scotorum, Edinburgi, 1583; Crawfurd’s Peerage of Scotland; Burnet’s History of his own Times; Carte’s History of England; Davies’s Celtic Researches; Dallaway’s Western Sussex, and Cartwright’s Rape of Bramber; Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici, 1675; Clarendon’s Rebellion, Oxford, 1702, 3 vols. folio; Fabian’s Chronicle, 1542; Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Fuller’s Worthies; Holinshed’s Chronicle, 1586, with Giraldus Cambrensis’s History of Ireland, and Hector Boethius’ Historia Scotorum; Grafton’s Chronicle, wanting the Title; Harding’s Chronicle, 1543; Hacket’s Life of Archbishop Williams; Grew’s Rarities of Gresham College; Hanway’s Travels; Lord Herbert’s Life of Henry VIII.; Journals of the Lords and Commons; Johnston on the English Monarchy, 1636; Icon Basilike, 1649; Kennet’s Parochial Antiquities, with his History of England and other Works, and North’s Examination of Kennet’s History of England; Laud’s Life; Leland’s Itinerary, edited by Hearne, Oxford, 1745, 8vo.; Lyttelton’s Henry II.; Lloyd’s State Worthies; Mackenzie’s Scottish Writers, Edinburgh, 1708; Madox’s Formulare Anglicanum, Baronia Anglica, and History of the Exchequer; Maitland’s London; Maurice’s Richmond Hill; Monasticon Hibernicum, 1723; Nicolson’s Historical Library; North’s Lives of the Norths; Peck’s Memoirs of Oliver Cromwell; Higden’s Polychronicon, printed by Wynkyn de Worde at London in 1495, a perfect copy in old calf; Nalson’s Collections; Price’s Salisbury Cathedral; Parker’s History of his own Times; Rapin’s History of England; Thorpe’s Registrum and Custumale Roffense, both half-bound; Robertson’s History of Scotland; Rossi Warvicensis Historia Regum Angliæ, edente Hearne, 1745; Rushworth’s Historical Collections; Slayter’s History of Great Britain, 1619; Speed’s Chronicle, History of Great Britain, Theatre and Maps; Stow’s Chronicle, 1615; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; Tanner’s Bibliotheca Britannica; Pitseus Catalogus Scriptorum Angliæ, Parisiis, 1619; Triveti Annales, et Adami Murithmensis Chronicon, curâ Hall, Oxonii, 1722, 8vo.; Ward’s Gresham College; Weever’s Funeral Monuments; Whitelocke’s Memorials, 1709; Willis’s Cathedrals; Wood’s Athenæ Oxonienses; A few Political Tracts; Several Laudatory Verses from both the Universities to several of the Stuarts, and the Records of the Kingdom.

To the above I have pleasure in adding a few of the foundations upon which the History of Britain is built.

Balæi Centuria Scriptorum Britanniæ, Basileæ, 1557; Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores Decem à Somner & Twysden; Du Chesne’s Historiæ Normannorum Scriptores; Eadmeri Historia sui Temporis, edente Selden, Londini, 1623; Matthæi Paris. Historia Anglicana, edente Wats, Londini, 1740, folio; Matthæi Westmonasteriensis Flores Historiarum; Rerum Anglicanum Scriptores post Bedam, edente Savile; Florentiæ Wigornensis Chronicon; Polydore Vergilii Historia Anglicana, Basileæ, 1534, folio; Camdeni Anglica, Normannica, &c. à veteribus Scripta.

Of Law, the only books which met my observation were: Ayliffe’s Canon Law, London, 1734; Reports upon the Criminal Code, 1821, &c. in 7 vols. 4to.; Barrington on Ancient Statutes; Blackstone’s Commentaries; Jacob’s Law Dictionary; Lambard de Priscis Anglorum Legibus; Wottoni Leges Wallicæ, 1730; Leges Antiquiæ Francorum, per Lindenbrogium, 1614; Wilkins’s Leges Saxonicæ, 1721; Viner’s Abridgment of Law and Equity, in 23 folios, new in calf, gilt.

Of Numismatic Works, I am happy to record a beautiful copy of the Numismata Pembrochiana, 1746, upon large paper, bound in calf, richly gilt, with the leaves gilt upon the marble, the donation of Dr. Jo. Wickins, Rector of Petworth in 1763, to the Cathedral Library. The appearance of this Work in the folio form is very far above the usual dimensions of the ordinary 4to. To this I may add, Banduri Numismata, Parisiis, 1718, in 2 vols. folio; Clarke’s Coins; Evelyn on Medals; Folkes’s Coins; Harduini Nummi Antiqui, Parisiis, 1684; Landi Numismata Selecta, Lugd. Bat. 1695; Wilde, Numismata Antiqua Selecta, 1682; Wise Nummi Bodleiani, 1750; Nummophylacium Reginæ Christinæ, per Havercampium, Hagæ, Com. 1742; Vaillant Numismata, Paris. 1695.

Of Publications relating to the History and Description of different countries, and the world in general this Library cannot boast any Collection more copious than that constituted by, Æmilii Historia Francorum; Pighii Annales Romanæ Historiæ, Antverpiæ, 1598; Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of Athens; Anson’s Voyage, 1756; Astley’s Collection of Voyages, 1745, 4 vols.; Atlas Geographicus, London, 1711, in 5 vols. folio; Churchill’s Voyages; Robert’s Atlas; Birch’s Heads; Bezonii Historia Indiæ Repertæ, Francofurti, 1694; Maffei Historia Indica, Brixiæ, 1660; Blair’s Chronology; Collier’s Historical Dictionary; Du Halde’s China; Byzantinæ Historiæ Scriptores, Venetiis, 1729, in 23 vols. folio; Hales’s Analysis of Ancient Chronology; Chardin’s Travels; Flud Historia utriusque Cosmi, Oppenheim, 1617; Freheri Rerum Bohemicarum Scriptores, Hanov. 1602; Gualteri Tabula Chronologica; Coloniæ, 1616; Geographici Minores Græci, curâ Hudsoni, Oxonii, 1698, 4 vols.; Grævii Thesaurus Antiquitatum, 12 tom. folio; Gruteri Inscriptiones, 2 vols. folio; Heylin’s Cosmography; Hughes’s Natural History of Barbadoes, London, 1750, folio; Mariana and Molina’s Histories of Spain; Maundrell’s Journey; Montfaucon’s Antiquities, with his Palæographia Græca; Moreri Dictionnaire, 10 vols. folio, in French calf; Norden’s Egypt; Potter’s Greece; Newton’s Chronology; Puffendorf’s Law of Nations; Raleigh’s History of the World; Rerum Belgicarum Annales, Francof. 1583; Jovii Rerum Turcicarum Historia, Lugd. Bat. 1569; Keysteri Antiquitates Septentrionales, Hanoviæ, 1720; Rhenani Rerum Germanicarum Commentarii, 1551; Rycaut’s History of the Turks; Robertson’s Charles V.; Paruta’s History of Venice; Shaw’s Travels; Perrault’s Hommes Illustres; Pococke’s Description of the East; Postlethwayt’s Dictionary of Commerce; Sully’s Memoirs; Thuani Historia sui Temporis, 6 vols. folio, in calf; Watson’s Philip II. and it may be added Vossius de Historicis Græcis ac Latinis.

Several Maps of North and South America, Egypt, Portugal, and the Pyrenees are also placed within this Library.

Of Etymological Works, there are few indeed, at least I only remarked, Calderini Lexicon Latinum et Italicum, Venetiis, 1587; Calepini Dictionarium Latinum, Lugd. Bat. 1559, in 2 vols.; Cooper’s Dictionary; Du Cange’s Glossary; Facciolati Lexicon; Hederici Lexicon; Hickes’s Thesaurus Septentrionalis; Johnson’s English Dictionary; Junii Glossarium edente Lye; Spelman’s Glossary; Julii Pollucis Onomasticon, Amstelod. 1706; Suidæ Lexicon; Kusteri Cantabrigiæ, 1705, in 3 vols. folio.

Of Works relating to Natural History or Science, the number is still less. Aldrovandi Ornithologia; Franzii Historia Animalium, Wittebergæ, 1613; Gerard’s Herbal, by Johnson; Johnstoni Historia Quadrupedum, &c.; Mantell’s Geology of Sussex; Newton’s Optics and Principia; and some Tracts by Leibnitz, being the only works of this character which attracted my observation.

Of Classic Authors, I have made a copious selection, that the reader may judge for himself of the value of this department of the Library by a cursory review of its contents. It is, in fact, only by thus descending into particulars that the true character of any Collection can be obtained. Hence it is that whenever in these pages a dry catalogue of books appears to be extended to an unusual length, the candid reader should look complacently upon the attempt to enable him to form his own judgment even at the risk of exhausting his patience.

I may begin with the Anthologia Græca edited by Owen in 1612, and continue in nearly alphabetical order, as the simplest and most intelligible method of reference, the list of Classics in this Collection.

Antoninus, Gatakeri. Londini, 1697, 4to.

Appianus. Amstelodami, 1670.

Apuleius, Pricæi.

Athenæus, Casauboni. Lugd. Bat. 1657.

Aulus Gellius: Ausonius: Historia Augustæ Scriptores. Lugd. Bat. 1671.

Corpus Poetarum Latinorum à Maittaire.

Cornelius Nepos. Oxonii, 1697.

Catullus Tibullus & Propertius, per Arthurum. Cantabrigiæ, 1702.

Ciceronis Opera Variorum, in 17 vols. 8vo.—Basileæ, 1534; Parisiis, 1539, in 2 vols. and 1654.

Demosthenes. Cantabrigiæ, 1731.

Diodorus Siculus, by Wesseling. Amsterdam, 1746, folio.

Diogenes Laertius, by Menage. Amsterdam, 1692, 2 vols. folio.

Dio Cassius, Reimari. Hamburg. 1750, 2 vols. fol.

Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1704, in 2 vols. folio.

Euripides, by Markland.

Eustathius in Homerum. Romæ. 1542, in 4 vols. fol.

Fabulæ Æsopicæ, per Camerarium. Lugd. Bat. 1564.

Pompeius Festus, Delphini. Amstelod. 1699, 4to.

Jamblichus, Galei. Oxonii, 1678, folio.

Galeni Opera, per Linacrum. Lugd. Bat. 1559.

Herodianus. Oxonii, 1699.

Herodotus, Wesselingii. Amstelod. 1763.

Hesiodus, Græcè. 1540.

The Horace of 1511, and that by Bentley, 1713, and among other editions of lesser note,

Horatius, Lambini. Francofurti, 1596.

Homeri opera à Barnes. Cantabr. 1711, et ejusdem Ilias curâ Clarke. Londini, 1729, 4 vols. 4to.

Josephus, Hudsoni. Oxonii, 1702, 2 vols. folio.

Justini Historia apud Stephanum. Parisiis, 1543, fol.

Longinus, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1710.

Livius. Parisiis, 1735, & Gronovii, 1679.

Lucanus, Oudendorpii. Lugd. Bat. 1728, 4to.

Lucianus. Salm. 1619.

Maximi Tyrii Dissertationes. Oxonii, 1677.

Martialis, Schrevelii. Lugd. Bat. 1670.

Ovidius, Antverpiæ, 1587; Burmanni, Amstelod. 1727, 4 vols. 4to.; and Heinsii, Amstelod. 1661.

Pausanias, Kuhnii. Lipsiæ, 1696, folio.

Petronius, Burmanni. 1709, 4to.

Photii Bibliotheca Hœschelii. Rothomagi, 1563, fol.

Platonis Opera, Serrani. 1578, in 3 vols. folio.

Plautus, Lambini. 1576.

Plinii Senioris Historia Naturalis, Dalecampii; Aureliæ Allobrogum, 1606; and Harduini, Parisiis, 1723, in 3 vols. folio.

Plinii Junioris Epistolæ. Amstelodami, 1659.

Plutarchi Vitæ, edente Bryant. Londini, 1729, in 5 vols. 4to.

Plutarchi Opera, Xylandri. Francof. 1599.

Polybius, Casauboni. 1609, folio.

Quintus Curtius, Erasmi. Parisiis, 1543.

Quintilianus, Burmanni. Lugd. Bat. 1720, 4to.

Sallustius. Parisiis, 1504, and Cantabrigiæ, 1710.

Seneca, Gothofredi.

Seneca Lipsii.

Silius Italicus, Drakenborchii. Trajecti ad Rhenum, 1717, 4to.

Strabo, Almeloveeni. Amstelodami, 1707, 2 vols. folio.

Suetonius, Grævii.

Tacitus, Variorum.

Terentius, Delphini.

Terence, by Hare. 1724.

Thucydides, Hudsoni. Oxonii. 1696, folio.

Valerius Flaccus, Heinsii. Amstelodami, 1680.

Velleius Paterculus; Vegetius. Parisiis, 1535.

Virgilii opera, per Jacobum Zachon. Venetiis, 1499, folio; in Roman Character, with a commentary.

Virgilius Delphini. 4to. and by Baskerville.

Xenophontis Opera, by Wells, with his Anabasis & Cyropædia, by Hutchinson.

It will be seen from this rapid survey of the classical department of this collection that none of the first, though several of the best editions are here to be found. I may here mention the

Schola Salernitana. Parisiis, 1553.

Erasmi Adagia. Hanoviæ, 1617.

Gesneri Bibliotheca. Tiguri, 1545; and

Joannis Sarisburiensis Polycraticus seu de Nugis Curialium. Lugd. Bat. 1495.

In English Literature, I have much pleasure in mentioning the Works of Bacon, Locke, and Temple, in 4to., uniformly bound in old calf; Tonson’s Shakespeare, London, 1725, in 6 vols. 4to. in old calf, gilt; Barclay’s Argenis, London, 1622; Bryant’s Mythology, 1775; Spence’s Polymetis; Cowley’s Works, 1684; Digges’ Compleat Ambassadour; Chamber’s Dictionary; Blair’s Lectures; Buchanan’s Poems; Chaucer’s Works, in black letter, by Robert Toye, London; Hayley’s Poems; Hutchinson’s Works, 1749, 12 vols.; the Works of James I. and Samuel Johnson; Milton’s Works, by Baskerville and by Newton; Prior’s Works; Selden’s Works, by Wilkins, London, 1726, in 3 vols. folio; Shaftesbury’s Characteristics, in 3 vols. 8vo.; Spenser’s Faery Queen; and I may add, Smith’s Catal. MSS. Cotton. et MSS. Oxon. Oxonii, 1696-7, with 3 vols. of Osborne’s Catalogues.

In conclusion, I may notice the Works of Petrarch; Voltaire’s Henriade, and Chamber’s Architecture, in 2 vols. folio; Bayle’s Dictionary, London, 1735; Macpherson’s Fingal, 1762; Thomæ Mori Opera Latina; Watson’s History of Halifax; and Nott’s Odes of Hafiz.

The only two Manuscripts which occurred to me on inspecting this Library, were the Statutes of Peterhouse College in Cambridge, and an Account of the Foundation of Christ Church at Oxford.

It is right to notice, what all chartered or collegiate bodies who possess Libraries, would do well to imitate, that all the volumes in this Collection are distinguished by a book plate, representing the sacred figure, above whose head is written “Decan. et Cap. Cicestr.” and below whose feet is inscribed “Liber Monumenti coram eo.”