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dition to smaller donations made at sundry 

 times, he gave nearly £600 towards the erec- 

 tion and furnishing of a new chapel. He fur- 

 ther annexed to the college the advowson of his 

 native parish of Fresingfield, purchased for that 

 purpose ; and, at his death, he bequeathed to 

 it the bulk of his valuable collection of books, 

 valued at £2500.* 



Amidst these splendid instances of his public 

 liberality, it will not be doubted that his private 



* It Las been already stated that the Archbishop, within a 

 short period of his deaths sent Mr. Needham to remove the 

 portion of his Hbraiy which he had left in a warehouse at Lam- 

 beth, to Emanuel College. From the books which he earned 

 with him to Fresingfield, he appears to have made a resen-e for 

 his heirs of those which were suited to the reading of a private 

 gentleman, and to have destined the rest for the college. His 

 MS. papers also he destined for the same quarter, with the 

 exception of such as Mr. Wharton wished to retain. It ap- 

 pears, however, that his executors were backward in fulfilling 

 his mtentions. Mr. Wharton found some difficulty in obtaining 

 even those papers which were necessaiy for his publication of 

 Laud's Diary 3 and it seems certain that none of the remaining 

 MSS. or of the books from Fresingfield, ever found their way 

 to Emanuel College. See an interesting letter on this subject 

 from Mr. Needham, Archbishop Sancroft's chaplain, given at the 

 end of this chapter. It is stated that Archbishop Sancroft's 

 nephews sold his MS. papers for eighty guineas to Bateman the 

 bookseller ; of him they were purchased by Bishop Tanner, and 

 presented to the Bodleian libraiy. See Anecdotes of British 

 Topography, p. 58. 



