[226] Rites of Durham, p. 26.
[227] Item structura ij fenestrarum in Libraria tam in opere lapideo, ferrario et vitriario, ac in reparacione tecti descorum et ij ostiorum, necnon reparacione librorum se extendit ad iiijooxi. xvjo. et ultra. Hist. Dunelm. Scriptores tres. Ed. Surtees Soc. p. cclxxiii.
[228] Regist. Abbatiæ Johannis Whethamstede Abbatis monasterii sancti Albani iterum susceptæ: ed. II. T. Riley, Rolls Ser. Vol. i. p. 423.
[229] Hist. and Ant. of Worcester. By V. Green, 4to. Lond. 1796. Vol. i. p. 79. The measurements in the text were taken by myself in 1895.
[230] Monumenta Franciscana, ed. J. S. Brewer, Rolls Ser. Vol. i. p. 319, from a document called "Prima fundatio fratrum minorum Londoniæ," MSS. Cotton, Vitellius, F. xii.
[231] Stow's Survey, ed. Strype, fol. Lond. 1720, Book 3, p. 130.
[232] History of Christ's Hospital, by Rev. W. Trollope, 4to. Lond. 1834, App. p. xxiii. The view of the library ([fig. 32]) is borrowed from this work.
[233] I have to thank M. Joseph Garnier, Archiviste du Département, for his great kindness, not only in allowing me to examine these precious relics, but in having them conveyed to a photographer, and personally superintending a reproduction of them for my use.
[234] This plan is not dated, but, from internal evidence, it forms part of the set to which the bird's-eye view and the general ground-plan belong. They were taken when "des projets," as the heading calls them, were being discussed. One of these was an increase of the library by the addition of a long gallery at the east end at right angles to the original construction.
[235] Voyage Littéraire de deux Religieux Benedictins, 4to. Paris, 1717, i. 198, 221.