[806] At a visitation of St Mary’s Winchester by Dr Hede in 1501, “Elia Pitte, librarian, was also well satisfied with that which was in her charge.” V.C.H. Hants. II, p. 124.
[807] Test. Ebor. I, p. 179.
[808] Sharpe, Cal. of Wills, II, p. 327.
[809] Test. Ebor. II, p. 13.
[810] Ib. III, p. 262.
[811] Ib. III, p. 199. See an interesting list of books left by Peter, vicar of Swine, to Swine Priory some time after 1380. King’s Descrip. Cat. MS. 18.
[812] Reg. Stafford of Exeter, p. 419.
[813] Test. Ebor. II, p. 66.
[814] For Barking books (including a book of English religious treatises) see M. Deanesly, The Lollard Bible, pp. 337-9. Besides the books mentioned in the text there are fine psalters written for nuns at St Mary’s Winchester, Amesbury and Wilton in the libraries of Trinity College, Cambridge, All Souls College, Oxford, and the Royal College of Physicians respectively. There is an interesting book in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (McClean MS. 123), which belonged to Nuneaton; it contains (1) the metrical Bestiary of William the Norman, (2) the Chasteau d’Amours of Robert Grosseteste, (3) exposition of the Paternoster, (4) the Gospel of Nicodemus, (5) Apocalypse with pictures, (6) Poema Morale, etc.
[815] Wright and Halliwell, Reliquiae Antiquae, II, p. 117.