[416] Otterb. cxvi.; see also MS. Cot. Nero. vii. fo. 32 a.
[417] Otterbourne Hist. a Hearne, edit. Oxon, 1732, tom. i. 2.
[418] Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, vol. ii. pt. 11, p. 205. For a list of his works see Bale; also Pits. p. 630, who enumerates more than thirty.
[419] Marked Otho, b. iv.
[420] MS. Arundel. Brit. Mus. clxiii. c. A curious Register, "per magistrum Johannem Whethamstede et dominum Thoman Ramryge," fo. 74, 75. Upwards of fifty volumes are specified, with the cost of each.
[421] Julius Cæsar was among them.—Cot. MS. Claud. d. i. fo. 156.
[422] MS. Cod. Nero, D. vii. fo. 28 a. He "enlarged the abbot's study," fo. 29, which most monasteries possessed. Whethamstede had a study also at his manor at Tittinhanger, and had inscribed on it these lines:
"Ipse Johannis amor Whethamstede ubique proclamor
Ejus et alter honor hic lucis in auge reponer."
See also MS. Cot. Claud. D. i. fo. 157, for an account of his many donations.
[423] Weever's Funerall Monuments, p. 562 to 567. I have forgotten to mention before that Whethamstede built a new library for the abbey books, and expended considerably more than £120 upon the building.