eum_, vol i.,
155; also Herbert's _Typographical Antiquities_, vol ii., p.
1137. A copy of this volume has found its way into the
Advocates' Library at Edinburgh; _Cat. Adv. Libr._, vol ii.,
p. 99. Ruddiman, who was formerly the librarian of this
latter valuable collection, had probably read Hearne's
commendation of it:--namely, that it was "a very scarce, and
yet a very useful, book." _Bened. Abbat._, vol. i., p. LIV.
Mr. Heber possesses a curious copy of it, which was formerly
Herbert's, with the margins filled with his MS. addenda.]

[Footnote 339: "Of the translation appointed to bee read in
churches, in Kinge Henry the 8, his daies," printed in the
largest volume, 1539. "THO. MORLEY, Bachiler of Musique, and
one of her Maiestie's Royal Chappell, _his Conzonets_, or
little short songes to three voyces. Prin. by Tho. Est.
1593. 4to." See p. 10., pt. i., p. 17, pt. ii., of
_Maunsell's Catalogue_; but let the reader consult p. 248,
ante, concerning this "largest volume" of the Holy
Scriptures.]

Let us, however, not forget that we have reached the reign of JAMES
I.; a monarch who, like Justinian, affected to be "greatly given to
study of books;"[340] and who, according to Burton's testimony, wished
he had been chained to one of the shelves of the Bodleian
library.[341] Of all literary tastes, James had the most strange and
sterile. Let us leave him to his _Demonology_; but notice, with the
respect that it merits, the more rational and even elegantly
cultivated mind of his son PRINCE HENRY;[342] of whose passion for
books there are some good evidences upon record. We will next proceed
to the mention of a shrewd scholar and bibliomaniac, and ever active
voyager, ycleped THOMAS CORYATE, the _Peregrine of Odcombe_. This
facetious traveller, who was as quaint and original a writer as old
Tom Fuller, appears (when he had time and opportunity) to have taken
special notice of libraries; and when he describes to us his "worm
eaten" copy of _Josephus's Antiquities_,[343] "written in ancient
Longobard characters in parchment," one cannot but indulge a natural
wish to know something of the present existence of a MS. which had
probably escaped Oberthuer, the last laborious editor of Josephus.

[Footnote 340: "Greatly gyuen to study of bokys:" _Rastell's
Chronicle, or Pastyme of People_, p. 28, edit. 1811, 4to.]

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