[236] I have taken 1 toise=6·39 feet.
[237] I have to thank M. Léon Dorez, of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, for kindly lending me his transcript of this catalogue, and for continual help in all my researches.
[238] Printed in Didron, Annales Archéologiques, 1845, iii. 228. The article is entitled: Un grand monastère au XVIme siècle. I owe this reference to my friend Mr W. H. St John Hope, Assistant Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries.
[239] Voy. Litt. i. 101, 102.
[240] Dictionnaire de l'Architecture, i. 267.
[241] For the history of this library see Bouillart's work cited at the foot of Fig. 37; and Franklin, Anciennes Bibliothèques de Paris, Vol. i. pp. 107-134.
[242] For the historical information contained in this narrative, which originally appeared as a paper in the Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm. ix. 37 for 18 February, 1895, I am indebted to an article in The Builder, 2 April, 1892, pp. 259-263, by my friend the late Rev. E. Venables, Canon and Precentor of Lincoln.
[243] This list has been printed in the Appendix to Giraldus Cambrensis (Rolls Series), vii. 165-171.
[244] Memorandum quod in ista indentura continentur omnes libri existentes in libraria ecclesie beate Marie Lincoln de novo sub seruris cathenati, cuius quidem indenture una pars consuitur in fine nigri libri dicte ecclesie et altera pars remanet in.... The rest of the line is illegible. I have to thank the Rev. A. R. Maddison for kindly lending me his transcript of this valuable MS.
[245] For this plan I have to thank my friend T. D. Atkinson, Esq., of Cambridge, architect.