[4 Dec., 1545.]

This bill Indentyd made the iiijth of December in the xxxvijthyere of the Raigne of or soueraigne lorde Kinge Henrye the eightWitnessethe that I sr John Willms[266] Knight Tresoror of the courteof Thaugmentacyons of the reuenues of or seyd soueraigne the Kingecorone Haue Receuyd of John Scudamore esquyer Rceuor of the seyd courtewthin the counties of Salope Worc’ Herefford and Stafford by thandes ofWillam Scudamore his sone Certen plate and ornamentes latlye belongingto the late Colleidge of Burton apon [sic] Trent in the seidcountie of Staff’ as hereafter pticlerly is resyted
That is to seye
Plate
Fyrst iiijor Chalesis wth theyr patentes gylte weyng xlix oz. di.
Itm ij Chalesie wth there patentes whight weing xxxiij oz. iij. quart.
Itm a shippe wth a spone whight weying xij oz. quart.
Itm ij Sensers whight weying xlvij oz.
Itm the garnyshing of a Crosse p’cell gyllt weying vj oz.
Itm the garnyshing of a gospell boke p’cel gilt weing xviij oz. di.
Orname’tes
First on Vessement wth ij Tynnades of count’faite tysshue wth albes to the same belonging.
Itm a vesment wth ij Tynnacles of Redd velwet and ij albes to the same belonging

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Itm a Cope of Taunnye velwet wth an offer[e]s of red turkye satten
Itm iij Copes of whight damaske wth Flowers of nedle worke wroght
In witnes whereof to this presentes I have sett to my seale the daye and yere aboue writen.
John Williamz.

APPENDIX XIV
LIST OF BOOKS AT BURTON ABBEY

(British Museum. Addit. MS. 23,944. See p. 200.)

The following list shows what books the Abbey of Burton possessed in the early part of the thirteenth century: it is not probable that many of them had disappeared by the sixteenth century. If we had a list of the books in the Abbey Library at the time of its Dissolution we should be able to form some idea as to the extent to which the Revival of Learning had influenced the monks there. Failing this we may notice with interest the number and character of English books at the end of this Catalogue, including Apollonius Anglicus (see note infra), which appears to be the only “pagan” book in the collection.

The list begins Hos habet Libros Ecclesia Burtonne, and the succeeding entries are therefore in the accusative case, e.g., “Bibliothecam in duobus codicibus.” I have, however, printed them in the nominative throughout.

Bibliotheca[267] in duobus codicibus
Omeliarum ab Adventu usque Pascham
 et Vita Sanctae Moduennae
 et Bernardus, super “Missus est [Angelus”][268] }
in uno codice
Psalterium secundum Augustinum in tribus voluminibus
Augustinus, de Civitate Dei
Augustinus, super Johannem
Augustinus, de sermone Domini [in Monte]
 et de decem cordis[269]
 et contra quinque haereses
 et Ieronimus, super Josue
in uno codice
Augustinus, Exameron[270]
Augustinus, Contra Iulianum [haeresis Pelagianae defensorem]
Augustinus, de Disciplina Christianorum
 et ejusdem epistola ad quendam comitem[271]
in uno codice
Regula Sancti Augustini a quodam exposita
 et cantica psalterii
 et Hugo, de Disciplina Novitiorum[272]
in uno codice
Hugo, super Ecclesiasten[273]
Gregorius, super Job, in tribus voluminibus[274]
Dialogus Gregorii[275]
 et liber qui vocatur scintillarum[276]
in uno codice
Gregorius, super Ezechielem
Pastoralis Gregorii[277]
Liber xl omeliarum Gregorii[278]
Registrum [Epistolarum] Gregorii in duobus codicis
Ambrosius, super “Beati Immaculati”[279]
Ambrosius, de Officiis [Ministrorum]
 et Hugo, de Archa Noe[280]
et Beda, de situ [urbis] Ierusalem
in uno codice
Beda, super Lucam
Hystoria Anglorum secundum Bedam
Item alius liber vetustior
Decem collationes patrum
 et Liber qui vocatur Paradisus[281]
in uno volumine
Vitae patrum
Robertus,[282] super Canticum Canticorum
 et Sinonima ysidori[283]
 et Liber Effrem[284]
 et Regula Sancti Basilii
 et Decessus Bedae presbyteri
in uno codice
Item, Canticum Canticorum cujus auctorem ignoramus
Prognosticon futuri sacculi[285]
Ailredus, de Oneribus ysaiae[286]
 et Didascalion Hugonis[287]
in uno codice
Speculum Karitatis
Prosper,[288]
 et Diadema Monachorum
in uno volumine
Miracula Sanctae Mariae
Vita Sanctae Moduennae quam Martinus scripsit[289]
 et alia quam Briennius scripsit[290]
Item alia antiquissima
Passionale Octobrii et Decembrii mensis
Vita Sanctae Katerinae
 et Sancti Martini
in uno codice