[305] Hist. MSS., 9th Rept., App. 46a.
[306] Ep., 126; Creighton, Papacy, iii. 53n.
[307] Stow, i. 328.
[308] Dugdale, Hist. of St. Paul’s, 392-398.
[309] Ibid., 399.
[310] Stow, i. 328.
[311] Ibid., ii. 346; Simpson, Reg. S. Pauli, 13, 78, 133, 173, 227.
[312] Pp. 1, 325-327.
[313] In the fifteenth century the bishops of Wells were good friends of learning: Skirlaw gave books to University College, Oxford; Bowet left a large library; Stafford gave books; Bekynton was the companion of the most cultivated men of his time. Dean Gunthorpe is well known as a pilgrim to Italy, who returned laden with manuscripts (see p. 192).
[314] Hist. MSS. Rept. 3, App. 363a.