0 1 6
The Bookes of Moses, in English, 1530 0 3 9
Bale's Actes of English Votaryes, 1550 0 1 3
The Boke of Chivalrie, by Caxton 0 11 0
The Boke of St. Alban's, by W. de Worde 1 1 0

These are only very few of the rare articles in English
literature; of the whole of which (perhaps upwards of 200 in
number) I believe the boke of St. Albans brought the highest
sum. Hence it will be seen that this was not the age of
curious research into the productions of our ancestors.
Shakspeare had not then appeared in a proper _variorum
edition_. Theobald, Pope, and Warburton, had not
investigated the =black-letter= lore of ancient English
writers for the illustration of their favourite author. This
was reserved for Capell, Farmer, Steevens, Malone, Chalmers,
Reed, and Douce: and it is expressly to these latter
gentlemen (for Johnson and Hanmer were very sparing, or very
shy, of the black-letter), that we are indebted for the
present spirit of research into the works of our ancestors.
The sale of the _books_ lasted 50 days. There was a second
sale of _pamphlets, books of prints, &c._, in the following
year, which lasted 10 days: and this was immediately
succeeded by a sale of the doctor's _single prints and
drawings_, which continued 8 days. Dr. Rawlinson's
benefactions to Oxford, besides his Anglo-Saxon endowment at
St. John's College, were very considerable; including,
amongst other curiosities, _a series of medals of the
Popes_, which the Doctor supposed to be one of the most
complete collections in Europe; and a great number of
valuable MSS., which he directed to be safely locked up, and
not to be opened till seven years after his decease. He died
on the 6th of April, 1755. To St. John's College, where he
had been a gentleman commoner, Dr. Rawlinson left the bulk
of his estate, amounting to near 700_l._ a year: _a plate of
Abp. Laud_, 31 volumes of _Parliamentary Journals and
Debates_, a set of _Rymer's Foedera_, his _Greek_,
_Roman_, and _English coins_, not given to the Bodleian
Library; all his plates engraved at the expense of the
Society of Antiquaries; his diploma, and his _heart_; which
latter is placed in a beautiful urn against the chapel wall,
with th