used it: "Sunt
sane quaedam vetustatis indicia chronico more et patrio sermone, per
annos Domini ordinata," p. 2.

[234] "Henrici archidiaconi Huntendunensis Historia Anglorum," Rolls,
1879, p. 201.

[235] He derived his name from Bury St. Edmund's, near which he was born
on January 24, 1287. He was the son of Sir Richard Aungerville, Knight,
whose ancestors had come to England with the Conqueror. He became the
king's receiver in Gascony, fulfilled missions at Avignon in 1330 when
he met Petrarca ("vir adentis ingenii," says Petrarca of him), and in
1333. He became in this year bishop of Durham, against the will of the
chapter, who had elected Robert de Graystanes, the historian. He was
lord Treasurer, then high Chancellor in 1334-5, discharged new missions
on the Continent, followed Edward III. on his expedition of 1338, and
died in 1345.

[236] See "Registrum Palatinum Dunelmense," ed. Hardy, Rolls, vol. iii.
Introduction, p. cxlvi.

[237] The best edition is that given by E. C. Thomas, "The Philobiblon
of Richard de Bury," London, 1888, 8vo, Latin text with an English
translation. The Introduction contains a biography in which some current
errors have been corrected, and notes on the various MSS. According to
seven MSS. the "Philobiblon" would be the work of Robert Holkot, and not
of Richard de Bury, but this appears to be a mistaken attribution.

[238] "Occupant etenim," the books are represented to say, "loca nostra,
nunc canes, nunc aves, nunc bestia bipedalis, cujus cohabitatio cum
clericis vetabatur antiquitus, a qua semper, super aspidem et basilicum
alumnos nostros docuimus esse fugiendum.... Ista nos conspectos in
angulo, jam defunctae araneae de sola tela protectos ... mox in capitogia
pretiosa ... vestes et varias furraturas ... nos consulit commutandos"
(chap. iv. p. 32).

[239] Chap. viii. p. 66.

[240] Chap. i. pp. 11, 13.

[241] "Sicut quondam Athenarum civitas mater liberalium artium et
literarum, philosophorum nutrix et fons omnium scientiarum Graeciam
decoravit, sic Parisiae nostris temporibus, non solum Franciam imo totius
Europae partem residuam in scientia et in moribus sublimarunt. Nam velut
sapientiae mater, de omnibus mundi partibus advenientes recolligunt,
omnibus in necessariis subveniunt, pacifice omnes regunt...."
"Bartholomaei Anglici De ... Rerum ... Proprietatibus Libri xviii.," ed.
Pontanus, Francfort, 1609, 8vo. Book xv. chap. 57, "De Francia," p. 653.

[242] "Philobiblon,