. A.W. Pollard, in a note to Mr. Madan's article in _Bibliographica_,
states that Thomason had great difficulty in getting the money for
these books: 'On March 28th, 1648,' he tells us, 'the five hundred
pounds was ordered to be paid from the arrears of the two months'
assessments for the Scots army before Newark; on Sep. 25th it was
charged on the composition of Colonel Humphrey Matthews; and on Nov.
16th, Thomason, being still unpaid, was consoled by interest at the rate
of eight per cent.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 38: Arber, _Transcript of the Register_, vol. iii. p. 686.]

[Footnote 39: Copies are preserved in the British Museum and the
Bodleian Library, and it is reprinted in Beloe's _Anecdotes_ vol. ii. p.
248.]

[Footnote 40: Vol. iii. p. 304.]

[Footnote 41: Thomason was implicated in Christopher Love's plot against
the Commonwealth. There are several entries in the _Calendar of State
Papers_ which refer to his imprisonment. Mr. A.W. Pollard, the editor of
_Bibliographica_, has given a list of them in a note (vol. iii. p. 298)
to Mr. Madan's paper on the Thomason Collection in that publication.]

[Footnote 42: Probably Dr. Thomas Barlow, librarian of the Bodleian
Library.]

[Footnote 43: Gough, _Anecdotes of British Typography_, second edition,
p. 699, note.]

[Footnote 44: _Memoirs of Hollis_, vol. i. pp. 121, 192; vol. ii. p.
717.]

[Footnote 45: _Journals of the House of Commons_, 24th March 1648.]

SIR SYMONDS D'EWES, BART., 1602-1650

Sir Symonds D'Ewes, one of the most eminent of the antiquaries and
collectors of the first half of the seventeenth century, was born in
1602. He was the son of Paul D'Ewes of Milden, Suffolk, and Cecilia,
daughter and heiress of Richard Simonds of Coxden, Chardstock,
Dorsetshire. In 1618 he was sent to St. John's College, Cambridge, but
left in 1620, and entered at the Middle Temple, being called to the Bar
in 1623. He soon, however, gave up his legal practice, and devoted
himself to the study of history and antiquities. D'Ewes was made a
knight in 1626, and created a baronet in 1641. He was twice married, and
died in 1650. The baronetcy became extinct in 1731.

[Illustration: BOOK-STAMP OF SIR SYMONDS D'EWES, BART.]

D'Ewes possessed a very fine collection of manuscripts, which were sold
by his grandson to Sir Robert Harley, afterwards Earl of Oxford,
notwithstanding the injunction of D'Ewes, in his will, that his library
should not be sold or dispersed.