o reimburse all the charge that might grow
thereupon, he sent of late unto me 20 several volumes in the
foresaid tongues, and of his liberal disposition hath
bestowed them freely on the library. They are manuscripts
all (for in those countries they have no kind of printing)
and were valued in that place at a very high rate. I will
send them, ere be long, praying you the while to notify so
much unto the University, and to move them to write a letter
of thanks, which I will find means to convey to his hands,
being lately departed from London to Constantinople. Whether
the letter be indited in Latin or English, it is not much
material, but yet, in my conceit, it will do best to him in
English."

(The remainder of this letter is devoted to a scheme of
building the public schools at Oxford; in which Sir Thomas
found a most able and cheerful coadjutor, in one, _Sir Jo.
Benet_; who seems to have had an extensive and powerful
connection, and who set the scheme on foot, "like a true
affected son to his ANCIENT MOTHER, with a cheerful
propension to take the charge upon him without groaning.")

In April 1585, Queen Elizabeth granted Sir Thomas "a
passport of safe conveyance to Denmark"; and wrote a letter
to the King of Denmark of the same date, within two days.
She wrote, also, a letter to Julius, Duke of Brunswick of
the same date: in which the evils that were then besetting
the Christian world abroad were said to be rushing suddenly,
as "from the Trojan Horse." "These three letters (observes
Mr. Baker to his friend Hearne) are only copies, but very
fairly wrote, and seem to have been duplicates kept by him
that drew the original letters."

We will peruse but two more of these Bodleian epistles,
which Hearne very properly adds as an amusing appendix, as
well to the foregoing, as to his _Reliquiae Bodleianae_ (1703,
8vo). They are written to men whose names must ever be held
in high veneration by all worthy bibliomanacs.

"_Sir Tho. Bodley to Sir Robert Cotton._ (_Ex. Bibl.
Cotton._)

SIR,

I was thrice to have seen you at your house, but had not the
hap to find you at home. It was only to know how you hold
your old intention for helping to furnish the University
Library: where I purpose, God willing, to place all the