[266] Ibid. p. 17. De Duobus Decanis et eorum officio.
[267] Commiss. Docts. (Cambridge), ii. 44. Statutum de libris Collegii.
[268] Commiss. Docts. (Cambridge), ii. 432. De libris Collegii.
[269] The words are "in libraria communi ... ad sociorum communem usum continue remanere."
[270] Commiss. Docts. (Oxford), Vol. i. Statutes of New College, p. 97. De libris collegii conservandis et non alienandis.
[271] Commiss. Docts. (Oxford), Vol. i. Statutes of All Souls' College, p. 54. De custodia bonorum ad capellam pertinentium.
[272] Ibid. Vol. ii. Statutes of Magdalen College, p. 60. De custodia librorum, ornamentorum, jocalium, et aliorum bonorum collegii.
[273] Ibid. Statutes of Corpus Christi College, p. 89. De custodia bonorum Collegii.
[274] This passage is quoted in a short account of Pembroke College Library, drawn up by Matthew Wren, D.D., while Fellow, as the preface to a volume dated 1617, in which he recorded the names, of those who had presented books to the Library. The words at the end of the statute are: "sub cautione idonea custodi librorum exposita sine fraude."
[275] The history of Merton College has been most admirably written, in Mr Robinson's series of College histories, by my friend Bernard W. Henderson, M.A., Fellow and Librarian. His researches have thrown a new light on the library, and especially on the date of the fittings. My most cordial thanks are due to him, to the Warden and to the Bursar, for their kindness in allowing me access to the library, and also to all the documents referring to it.