[382] Stevenson's Suppl. to Bentham's church of Ely, p. 52. "It is worth notice," says Stevenson, "that in the course of a few years, about the middle of the 14th century, the precentor purchased upwards of seventy dozen parchment and thirty dozen vellum."
[383] Spelman Antiquarii Collectanea, vol. iii. p. 273. Nigel, who was made bishop in 1133, was plundered by some of King Stephen's soldiers, and robbed of his own copy of the Gospels which he had adorned with many sacred relics; see Anglia Sacra, i. p. 622.
[384] Warton's Anglia Sacra, it is related that William Longchamp, bishop in 1199, sold them to raise money towards the redemption of King Richard, pro Regis Ricardi redemptione, tom. i. 633. Dugd. Monast. i. p. 463.
CHAPTER XI
St. Alban's.—Willigod.—Bones of St. Alban.—Eadmer.—Norman Conquest.—Paul and the Scriptorium.—Geoffry de Gorham.—Brekspere the "Poor Clerk".—Abbot Simon and his "multis voluminibus".—Raymond the Prior.—Wentmore.—Whethamstede.—Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester.—Lydgate.—Guy, Earl of Warwick.
