[12] Wood's Hist. Oxon, b. i. p. 81.
[13] "Gutch has printed in his 'Collectiana' an order from the Queen's commissioners to destroy all capes, vestments, albes, missals, books, crosses, and such other idolatrous and superstitious monuments whatsoever.'—vol. ii. p. 280."
[14] Fuller's Church History, b. vi. p. 335.
[15] Wood's Oxon, vol. i. b. i. p. 107
CHAPTER II
Duties of the monkish librarian.—Rules of the library.—Lending books.—Books allowed the monks for private reading.—Ridiculous signs for books.—How the libraries were supported.—A monkish blessing on books, etc.