[446] Steven's additions to Dugdale's Monasticon from the MSS. of Anthony a Wood in the library at Oxford, vol. i. p. 129. Agnell himself was "a man of scarce any erudition."—Ibid.
[447] He is spoken of under a multitude of names, sometimes Grosthead, Grouthead, etc. A list of them will be found in Wood's Oxford by Gutch, vol. i. p. 198.
[448] He gives strict injunctions as to the study of the Scriptures in his Constitutiones.—See Pegge's Life of Grostest, p. 315.
[449] Utilitate Scientiarum, cap. xxxix.
[450] De Confess. Amantis, lib. iv. fo. 70, Imprint. Caxton at Westminster, 1483. The bishop is said to have taken a journey from England to Rome one night on an infernal horse.—Pegge's Life of Grostest, p. 306.
[451] Stephen's additions to Dugdale's Monasticon from Anthony a Wood's MSS. vol. i. p. 133.
[452] The Mendicant orders, unlike the monks, were not remarkable for their industry in transcribing books: their roving life was unsuitable to the tedious profession of a scribe.
[453] Leland's Itin. vol. iii. p. 59.
[454] Oliver's Collections relating to the Monasteries in Devon, 8vo. 1820, appendix lxii.
[455] Cottonian MSS. Vittel, F. xii. 13. fol. 325, headed "De Fundacione Librarie."