228. Samme's Antiq. p. 578.

[311] Stowe's Annales, 4to. 1605, p. 97. See also Hearne's Hist.
Glastonbury.

[312] _Will. Malm. ap. Gale Script._ 311.--Coopertoria Librorum
Evangelii. For many other instances of binding books in gold, and
sometimes with costly gems, I refer the reader to _Du Cange_
verb-Capsae, and to _Mr. Maitland's Dark Ages_.

[313] Warton says, that this library was at the time the "_richest
in England_." In this, however, he was mistaken.

[314] John of Glast. p. 423.

[315] John of Glastonbury Edt., Hearne, Oxon, 1726, p. 451. Steven's
Additions to Dugdale, vol. i. p. 447.

[316] Printed in _Tanner's Notitia Monastica_, 8vo. Edit. 1695, p.
75, and in _Hearne's History of Glastonbury_, p. 141; but both these
works are scarce, and I have thought it worth reprinting; the reader
will perceive that I have given some of the items in English--the
original of course is in Latin.

[317] John of Glas. p. 262.

[318] Librario dedit. bibliam preciosam.--_John of Glast._ p. 262.

[319] Among them was a "Dictionarum Latine et Saxonicum."--_Leland
Collect._ iii. p. 153.

[320] Leland, in his MSS. preserved in the Bodleian Library, calls
Whiting "_Homo sane candidissimus et amicus meus singularis_," but
he afterwards scored the line with his pen. See _Arch Bodl._ A.
Dugdale Monast. vol. i. p. 6.

[321] See Hume's Hist. Engl.; Moffat's Hist. of Malmsbury, p. 223,
and Will. Malms. Novellae Hist. lib. ii.; Sharpe's translation, p.
576.

[322] William of Malmsbury, translated by the Rev. J. Sharpe, 4to.
_Lond._ 1815, p. 107.

[323] MS. _Cottonian Domit._ A. viii. fol. 128 b.

[324] Saxon Chron. by Ingram, p. 343.

[325] Dugdale's _Monastica_, vol. i. p. 534. Leland gives a list of
the books he found there, but they only number about 20 volumes. See
_Collect._ vol. iv. p. 159.

[326] MS. Harleian, No. 627, fol. 8 a. "Liber Geneseos versificatus"
probably Caedmon's Paraphrase was among them, and Boethius's
Consolation of Philosophy.

[327] Godwin Cat. of Bishops, p. 317.

[328] Will. of Malms. de Gestis Pont. Savile Script. fol. 1601, p.
256, _apud Lotharingos altus et doctus_.

[329] I use a transcript of the Exeter MS. collated by Sir F.
Madden. _Additional MSS._ No. 9067. It is printed in Latin and Saxon
from a old MS. In the Bodl. Auct. D. 2. 16. fo