[363] MS. Harleian, No. 3658, fo. 74, b. It will be found printed in Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 167. The catalogue was evidently written about the year 1350.
[364] Cottonian Charta, 11-16. I am sorry to observe so little attention paid to this curious fragment, which, insignificant as it may appear to some, is nevertheless quite a curiosity of literature in its way. Its tattered condition calls for the care of Sir Frederick Madden.
[365] Leland Script. Brit. p. 321, and MSS. Bibl. Lambeth, Wharton, L. p. 661. Libris Prioris Gregorii de Ramsey, Prima pars Bibliothecæ Hebraice, etc. Warton Dissert ii. Eng. Poetry.
[366] Bale, iv. 41, et ix. 9. Leland. Scrip. Brit. p. 452.
[367] Ailward, Bishop of London, gave many books to the library of Ramsey monastery, Hoveden Scrip. post. Bedam. 1596, fol. 252. Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. ii.
[368] In the year 1327, the inhabitants of Bury besieged the abbey, wounded the monks, and "bare out of the abbey all the gold, silver ornaments, bookes, charters, and other writings." Stowe Annals, p. 353.
[369] He particularly notices a Sallust, a very ancient copy, vetustis simus.
[370] And also to Lanfranc, he was elected in the year 1065.
[371] Harleian MS. No. 2278.
[372] Or Atheldryth.