[325] Vict. County Hist. of Berkshire, ii. 109.
[326] Vict. Hist. Warwickshire, ii. 127 b.
[327] Ibid., ii. 128 a.
[328] Johannes Rous, capellanus Cantariae de Guy-Cliffe, qui super porticum australem librariam construxit, et libris ornavit.—Gentleman’s Magazine (N.S.), xxv. 37. The chapel of Guy’s Cliffe was erected by Richard Beauchamp for the repose of the soul of his “ancestor,” Guy of Warwick, the hero of romance.
[329] Mr. W. T. Carter of the Warwick Public Library, has kindly given me much information about St. Mary’s Church library.
[330] Arch. Inst. City of York (1846), 10-11; Surtees Soc., iv. 102-103, 196; xlv. 57-59, 159, 171, 220-222, 221n.; xxvi. 2-3; xxx. 219, 275; Cox and Harvey, English Church Furniture, 331; Mun. Acad., 648-649; Library, i. 411; Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, 253.
[331] Cox, J. C., and Hope, W. H. St. John, Chronicles of the Colleg. Ch. of All Saints, Derby (1881), 175-177.
[332] Ibid., 157.
[333] Library, i. 417.
[334] Stow, i. 194. Leland, iv. 48, has a note of four MSS. “in bibliotheca Petrina Londini.” Possibly this library was formed by Rector Hugh Damlet, who was a learned man, and gave several books to Pembroke College, Cambridge.—James10, 184.