io, &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 10_l._)

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.

_Mr. Thomas Allen, of do._, hath given 12 rare MSS., with a
purpose to do more, and hath been ever a most careful
provoker and solicitor of sundry great persons to become
benefactors.

_Mr. William Camden_, by his office _Clarentius_: 7 volumes;
of which 4 are manuscripts.

_Mr. Thomas James, of New College_: 100 volumes: almost all
in folio, and sundry good manuscripts. With about 50 other
donations, chiefly in money.

To Dr. Raves, Vice-Chanc. (Read in Convoc. May 10, 1602.)

A yet larger, and more complete, list will be found in Mr.
Gutch's publication of Wood's text. Let us next observe how
this distinguished bibliomaniac seized every
opportunity--laying embargoes upon barges and carriages--for
the conveyance of his book-treasures. The ensuing is also in
Mr. Gutch's work:

"_To the Right W. Mr. D. King, Dean of Christ-Church, and
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxon, or, in his
absence, to his Deputies there._

(Read in Convocation, July 8, 1608.)

SIR,

I have sent down, by a western barge, all the books that I
have of this year's collection, which I have requested Mr.
James, and other of my friends, to see safely brought from
Burcote, and placed in the library. Sir Francis Vere hath
sent me this year his accustomed annual gift of ten pounds.
The Lady Mary Vere, wife to Sir Horace Vere, in the time of
her widowhood (for so she is desired it should be recorded),
being called Mrs. Hoby, of Hales, in Gloucestershire, hath
given twenty pound. (He then enumerates about 15 other
donations, and thus goes on:) Thus I thought meet to