Sir Robert Sidney: 102 new volumes in folio, to the value of one hundred pounds, being all very fair, and especially well bound with his arms.
Merton College: 38 volumes of singular good books in folio, &c.
Mr. Philip Scudamor: 50 volumes: greatest part in folio.
Mr. William Gent: 100 volumes at the least.
Mr. Lawrence Bodley: 37 very fair and new bought books in folio. (There were seven other donations—in money, from 4 to 10l.)
Another list of benefactors; read in Convocation, July 17, 1601.
Sir John Fortescue, Knt.: 47 volumes: of which there are 5 Greek MSS. of singular worth.
Mr. Jo. Crooke: Recorder of the City of London: 27 good volumes; of which 25 are in folio.
Mr. Henry Savile: all the Greek interpreters upon Aust(in).
Mr. William Gent, of Glocester Hall: 160 volumes; of which there are 50 in folio.