[246] William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum, Rolls Ser. p. 183.
[247] Ex eo quod visum est eis vtile et necessarium diuersis causis eos moventibus habere quasdam scolas competentes pro lecturis suis vna cum libraria ad conseruacionem librorum et vtilitatem inibi studere volencium qua hactenus caruerunt statuerunt ... quod super vna parte claustri eiusdem ecclesie huiusmodi scole edificentur ... cum libraria [etc.]. Chapter Act Book. I have to thank A. R. Malden, Esq., Chapter Clerk, for his kind assistance.
[248] Dugdale, History of S. Paul's Cathedral, fol. 1658, p. 132.
[249] I have fully described this library and its fittings in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm. 1891. Vol. viii., pp. 6-10.
[250] My account of the library at Lichfield is derived from the History and Antiquities of the Church and City of Lichfield, by Rev. Th. Harwood, 4to. Gloucester, 1806, p. 180; and the Chapter Act Book, which I was allowed to examine through the kindness of my friend the Very Rev. H. M. Luckock, D.D., Dean.
[251] Levasseur, Annales de L'Eglise Cathédrale de Noyon, 4to. Paris, 1633, p. iiii. A marginal note tells us that the gift of the Bailly de Chapitre was accepted 14 June, 1507.
[252] Voyage archéologique ... dans le Département de l'Aube. A. F. Arnaud. 4to. Troyes 1837, pp. 161-163.
[253] For the library belonging to the monastery see [p. 108].
[254] The deed is copied in MSS. Prattinton (Soc. Ant. Lond.), Vol. viii. p. 379. For this reference I have to thank the Rev. J. K. Floyer, M.A., librarian of Worcester Cathedral. See his Thousand Years of a Cathedral Library in the Reliquary for Jan. 1901, p. 7.
[255] My principal authority for the history of the Chapter Library is the Minute-Book of the Dean and Chapter of Rouen Cathedral, now preserved in the Archives de la Ville at Rouen, where I had the pleasure of studying it in September, 1896. A summary of it is given in Inventaire-Sommaire des Archives Départementales (Seine Inférieure), 4to. Paris, 1874, Vol. ii. I have also consulted Recherches sur les Bibliothèques ... de Rouen, 8vo., 1853.