ok-binding and book-illumination, before he had
been brought over into this country by William the Conqueror.[251] (A
character, by the bye, who, however completely hollow were his claims
to the crown of England, can never be reproached with a backwardness
in promoting learned men to the several great offices of church and
state.)

[Footnote 250: "This yere deyd thomas archbisohop of york
and gyralde was archebishop after him; a lecherous man, a
wytch and euyl doer, as the fame tellyth, for under his pyle
whan he deyde in an erber was founde a book of curyous
craftes, the book hight Julius frumeus. In that booke he
radde pryuely in the under tydes, therefor unnethe the
clerkes of his chirche would suffre him be buryed under
heuene without hooly chirche," _Polychronicon: Caxton's
edit._, sign. 43., 4 rect. (fol. cccxlij.) Godwyn says that
"he was laide at the entrance of the church porch." "Bayle
chargeth him (continues he) with sorcery and coniuration,
because, forsooth, that, after his death, there was found in
his chamber a volume of Firmicus: who writ of astrology
indeed, but of coniuration nothing that ever I heard."
_Catalogue of the Bishops of England_, p. 453--edit. 1601.
Concerning Girard's favourite author, consult Fabricius's
_Bibl. Lat.: cura Ernesti_, vol. iii., p. 114, &c., edit.
1773.]

[Footnote 251: Leland tells us that Herman erected "a noble
library at Sailsbury, having got together some of the best
and most ancient works of illustrious authors:" _de
Scriptor. Britan._, vol. i., 174: and Dugdale, according to
Warton (_Monasticon Anglican._; vol. iii., p. 375), says
that "he was so fond of letters that he did not disdain to
bind and illuminate books."]

LOREN. If you proceed thus systematically, my good Lysander, the
morning cock will crow 'ere we arrive at the book-annals even of the
Reformation.

LYSAND. It is true; I am proceeding rather too methodically. And yet I
suppose I should not obtain Lisardo's forgiveness if, in arriving at
the period of HENRY THE SECOND,[252] I did not notice that
extraordinary student and politician, BECKET!

[Footnote 252: I make no apology to the reader for
presenting him with the following original character of our
once highly and justly celebrated monarch, Henry II.--by the
able pen of Trevisa. "This HENRY II. was som