gotten in wonderful abundance, their carriage only to be
chargeable." He supposes that three months' trial would shew
the excellence of his plan; which he advises to be instantly
put into practice "for fear of the spreading of it abroad
might cause many to hide and convey away their good and
ancient writers--which, nevertheless, were ungodly done, and
a certain token that such are not sincere lovers of good
learning." [In other words, not sound bibliomaniacs.] See
the Appendix to Hearne's edition of _Joh. Confrat. Monach.
de Reb. Glaston._ Dee's "supplication" met with no attention
from the bigotted sovereign to whom it was addressed. A
project for a similar establishment in Queen Elizabeth's
reign, when a Society of Antiquaries was first established
in this kingdom, may be seen in Hearne's _Collection of
Curious Discourses of Antiquaries_; vol. ii., p. 324,--when
this library was "to be entitled THE LIBRARY OF QUEEN
ELIZABETH, and the same to be well furnished with divers
ancient books, and rare monuments of antiquity," &c., edit.
1775.]

[Footnote 328: In Mr. Gutch's _Collectanea Curiosa_, vol.
ii., p. 275, we have a "Letter from Queen Elizabeth's high
commissioners, concerning the superstitious books belonging
to All Soul's College:" the "schedule" or list returned was
as follows:

Three mass books, old and new, and 2 portmisses
Item, 8 grailes, 7 antiphoners of parchment and bound
---- 10 Processionals old and new
---- 2 Symnalls
---- an old manual of paper
---- an Invitatorie book
---- 2 psalters--and one covered with a skin
---- _A great pricksong book of parchment_
---- One other pricksong book of vellum covered with a hart's
skyn
---- 5 other of paper bound in parchment
---- The Founder's mass-book in parchment bound in board
---- In Mr. Mill his hand an antiphoner and a legend
---- A portmisse in his hand two volumes, a manual, a
mass-book, and a processional.]

[Footnote F: The two following pages are appropriated to
copies of the frontispiece (of the edit. of 1608), and a
page of the work, from a copy in the possession of the
printer of this edition of the _Bibliomania_.

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