he
cloisters, into a library, which he enriched with the valuable works
from the collection of Sir Richard Baker, author of _The Chronicles of
the Kings of England_, which cost him 500_l._ A catalogue of this
library is in Harl. MS. 694. There is also a MS. catalogue, compiled in
1798 by Dr. Dakin, the precentor, arranged alphabetically.'

A portrait of Archbishop Williams is hung in the library of St. John's
College, Cambridge.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 34: The chronology given in this work is still the standard
adopted in editions of the English Bible.]

[Footnote 35: 'After this, hearing his Majesty would not abate anything
of his fine, he desired that it might be taken up by 1000_l._ yearly as
his estate would bear it, till the whole should be paid. But that was
not granted: Kilvert [the solicitor for the prosecution] was ordered to
go to Bugden and Lincoln, and there to seize upon all he could and bring
it into the Exchequer. Kilvert, glad of the office, made sure of all
that could be found, goods of all sorts, plate, books, etc. to the value
of 10,000_l._, of which he never gave account but of 800_l._ The timber
he felled, killed the deer in the park, sold an organ which cost 120_l._
for 10_l._, pictures which cost 400_l._ for 4_l._, made away with what
books he pleased, and continued revelling for three summers in
Bugden-house. For four cellars of wine, cyder, ale, and beer, with wood,
hay, corn, and the like, stored up for a year or two, he gives no
account at all; and thus a large personal estate was squandered away,
and not the least part of the King's fine paid all this while, whereas
if it had been managed to the best advantage, it would have been
sufficient to have discharged the whole.'--_Biographia Britannica_, vol.
vi. p. 4288 (note).]

JOHN SELDEN, 1584-1654

John Selden, the distinguished legal antiquary, historian, and Oriental
scholar, who was styled by his friend Ben Jonson 'a monarch in letters,'
and 'vir omni eruditionis genere instructissimus' by Archbishop Laud,
was born on the 16th of December 1584 at Salvington, near Worthing, in
Sussex. His father was John Selden, a farmer, known as the 'Minstrel' on
account of his proficiency in music. Aubrey describes him as 'a
yeomanly man of about forty pounds a year, who played well on the
violin, in which he took much delight.' Selden was first educated at the
free grammar school at Chichester, and afterwards proceeded with an
exhibition to