red volumes
of sermons, and the immense quantity of ancient charters and deeds
already mentioned.

Rawlinson also bequeathed to the University Hearne's daily diary and
note-books in about one hundred and fifty small duodecimo volumes, which
he had bought of the widow of Mr. William Bedford.

Among the printed books is a magnificent collection of the original
broadside proclamations issued during the reign of Elizabeth, and a set
of almanacs extending from 1607 to 1747, bound in one hundred and
seventy-five volumes.[73]

To St. John's College, Rawlinson bequeathed a large portion of his
estate, amounting to about seven hundred pounds a year, a few of his
printed books, a collection of coins, etc.; and to the College of
Surgeons he gave some anatomical specimens. He also left property to
endow a professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, and to provide a salary
for the Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. But all his endowments were
accompanied by eccentric restrictions, which remained in force until a
few years ago, when they were annulled by statute. He directed 'that no
native of Scotland or Ireland, or of any of the plantations abroad, or
any of their sons, or any present or future member of the Royal or
Antiquary societies,' should hold these endowments; and in the case of
the Ashmolean Museum, he further enjoined that the Keeper 'is not to be
a doctor in divinity or in holy orders ... neither born nor educated in
Scotland, neither a married man nor a widower, but one who hath
regularly proceeded in Oxford to the degrees of master of arts or
bachelor of law.'

Rawlinson wrote a considerable number of works, chiefly of an
antiquarian or topographical nature. Among the more important are _The
English Topographer_, _The History and Antiquities of the City and
Cathedral Church of Hereford_, _The History and Antiquities of the
Cathedral Church of Rochester_, _The History and Antiquities of
Glastonbury_; and a _Life of Anthony a Wood_. He also edited Aubrey's
_Natural History and Antiquities of Surrey_, and other books.

Although Dr. Rawlinson, like his father and his brother, was a warm
Jacobite, he does not appear to have taken part in any of the movements
for the restoration of the Stuart family to the throne. He entirely
occupied himself with antiquarian and literary pursuits, and the
formation of his noble collections. In order that he might devote as
much as possible of his income to the purchase of books and antiquiti