books that I have hitherto gathered, within these three
weeks. And whatsoever any man shall confer for the storing
of it, such order is taken for a due memorial of his gift as
I am persuaded he cannot any way receive a greater
contentment of any thing to the value otherwise bestowed.
Thus much I thought to signify unto you: and to request you
to hear how you rest affected.

Yours, to use in any occasion,

THO. BODLEY.

From my house, June 6."

"_Sir Henry Savile to Sir R(obert) C(otton)._

SIR,

I have made Mr. Bodley acquainted with your kind and
friendly offer, who accepteth of it in most thankful manner:
and if it pleaseth you to appoint to-morrow at afternoon, or
upon Monday or Tuesday next, at some hour likewise after
dinner, we will not fail to be with you at your house for
that purpose. And remember I give you fair warning that if
you hold any book so dear as that you would be loth to have
him out of your sight, set him aside before hand. For my own
part, I will not do that wrong to my judgment as to chuse of
the worst, if better be in place: and, beside, you would
account me a simple man.

But to leave jesting, we will any of the days come to you,
leaving, as great reason is, your own in your own power
freely to retain or dispose. True it is that I have raised
some expectation of the quality of your gift in Mr. Bodley,
whom you shall find a gentleman in all respects worthy of
your acquaintance. And so, with my best commendations, I
commit you to God. This St. Peter's day.

Your very assured friend,

HENRY SAVILE."

It only remains now to indulge the dutiful sons of ALMA
MATER with a fac-simile wood-cut impression of the profile
of the venerable founder of the Bodleian Library, taken from
a print of a medal in the _Catalogi Librorum Manuscriptorum
Angliae, &c._, 1697, fol.; but whether it have any
resemblance to the bust of him, "carved to the life by an
excellent hand at London, and shortly after placed in a
niche in the south wall of the same library," with the
subjoined inscription, I cannot at this moment recollect.

[Illustration:

THOMAS SACKVILLUS DORSET, COMES,
SUMMUS ANGLIAE THESAURAR. ET
HUJUS ACAD. CANCELLAR.
THOMAE BODLEIO EQUITI AURATO
QUI BIBLIOTH