BISHOP JEWELL'S LIBRARY.

What became of Bishop Jewell's library? Cassan mentions (Lives of Bishops of Salisbury, vol. ii. p. 55.) that

"He had collected an excellent library of books of all sorts, not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish authors, and here it was that he spent the greatest and the best part of his time," &c.

Bishop Jewell died Sept. 22. 1571.

In the Account Books of Magdalen College, Oxford, I find the following items:—

"A. D. 1572. Solut. D^no Præsidi equitanti Sarisbur. pro libris per billam, iij^li xvi^s.

"Solut. pro libris Dⁿⁱ, episcopi Sar., c^li.

"A. D. 1574. Solut per Dom. Præsidem pro libris M^ri Jewell, xx^li."

Whether these books were a portion only, or the whole of the library of Bishop Jewell, I am unable to discover; nor am I aware at present whether Bishop Jewell's autograph is in any of the books of Magdalen College Library. The president was Lawrence Humphrey, author of a Life of Jewell.

Magdalenensis.