[340] I have described these fragments in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc., Vol. viii. p. 18.
[341] See my paper in Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm., Vol. ix. p. 37.
[342] Scrinia reserata: a Memorial ... of John Williams, D.D.... By John Hacket. Fol. Lond. 1693, pp. 46, 47.
[344] Arch. Hist. of ... Monastery of Chr. Ch. Cant. 8vo. 1869, p. 65. This chapel was pulled down at the end of the 17th century and the present library, called the Howley library, built in its place.
[345] I have to thank my friend Mr W. H. St John Hope, Assistant Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries, for first drawing my attention to it; and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury for leave to use it.
[346] Reparaciones facte circa libros qui continentur in libraria supra capellam domini prioris videlicet in le new byndyng and bordyng cum coopertoriis and le claspyng and chenyng eciam cum diuersis libris ex dono eiusdem prioris videlicet Anno domini Mo ccccco viijo and Anno Regni Regis henrici vijo xxiii.
[347] This word seems to have been used at Canterbury to denote any piece of joinery. We have already seen it applied to a carrell (p. 99).
[348] See above, [p. 102.] The catalogue has been printed by Edwards, Memoirs of Libraries, i. pp. 122-235.
[349] Vix certè limen intraveram cum antiquissimorum librorum vel solus conspectus religionem, nescio an stuporem, animo incuteret meo; eâque de causâ, pedem paullulum sistebam. Leland, De Script. Brit. ed. Hall, i. 41.