Old English libraries

by Ernest Albert Savage

[286] Building accounts in C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo. ser. iv. 296.

[287] Oliver, 366-375.

[288] Between 1385 and 1425 the bishops giving books to Exeter College, Oxford.

[289] Oliver, 359, 360, 366-375.

[290] List in Oliver, Lives, 376; C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 306 (8vo. ser.).

[291] Oliver, 376.

[292] C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 312.

[293] I have to thank my friend Mr. Tapley Soper, F.R.Hist.S., for his willing help in sending me information about this library.

Our account of church libraries will appear inadequate if it is not borne in mind that we do not propose to go beyond the manuscript age. An excellent account of modern church libraries is given in English Church Furniture, in this series. Also see Clark, 257.

[294] Reliquary, vii. 11 (Floyer).