[290] He will find it in Charlton's History of Whitby, 4to. 1779, p. 113.
[291] Marked MS. N. B. 17.
[292] Wright and Halliwell's Rel. Antiq. vol. ii. p. 180.
[293] It is printed in Hearne's History of Glastonbury, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library, Ed. Oxon, 1722, Appendix x. p. 291.
[294] Bibliothecam optimam cum duobus armillis ex auro purissimo fabricatis.—Heming. Chart, p. 95.
[295] Thomas's Survey, of Worcester Church, 4to. 1736, p. 46. The Scriptorium of the monastery was situated in the cloisters, and a Bible in Bennet College, Cambridge, was written therein by a scribe named Senatus, as we learn from a note printed in Nasmith's Catalogue, which proves it to have been written during the reign of Henry II. It is a folio MS. on vellum, and a fine specimen of the talent of the expert scribe.—See Nasmith's Catalogus Libr. MSS., 4to. Camb. 1777, p. 31.
[296] Since writing the above, which I gave on the authority of Green (Hist. of Worc. vol. i. p. 79), backed with the older one of Thomas (Survey Ch. Worc. p. 70), I have had the opportunity of consulting the reference given by them (Heming, Chart. p. 262), and was somewhat surprised to find the words "Et bibliothecam, in duobus partibus divisam," the foundation of this pleasing anecdote. "Bibliothecam," however, was the Latin for a Bible in the middle ages: so that in fact the Lady Godiva gave them a Bible divided into two parts, or volumes.
[297] Chalmer's Hist. of the Colleges of Oxford, p. 458. Wood's Hist. Antiq. of Oxon, lib. ii. p. 48.
[298] Green's Hist. Worc. p. 79.
[299] Sir W. Dugdale's View of the Troubles in England, Folio, p. 557. We can easily credit the destruction of the organ and painted windows, so obnoxious to Puritan piety; but with regard to the Bibles, we may suspect the accuracy of the Royalist writer, col. 182.