600 PAPER, PARCHMENT, INK, BOOKS, ETC. 



them, occasionally scribes were hired for the service. Thus 

 Gascoigne gave many books to Balliol, Oriel, Durham, and 

 Lincoln Colleges, and Humphrey of Gloucester founded a 

 library for Oxford. The Lord Walter Fitz Hugh gave a Bible 

 to King's Hall, which the society bound in two volumes 

 (1428) at the cost of $s. $d. But in 1443 King's Hall, Cam- 

 bridge, purchased twenty-seven volumes from John Paston's 

 executors he had been their steward at a cost of .8 17^. ^d. 

 In 1447 the same college buys a Psalter for 3^. 8d., and a 

 Donatus for is. In 1449 twenty new processionals cost 

 All Souls 113^. 4d. In 1453, a bo k f Wicklifs is bought 

 for Js. 6d. ; one against him for 3.5-. 6d., and More's book on 

 Wicklif and others to the amount of 42^. In the year 1459, 

 Fastolfe's books are highly priced, a fair mass book being set 

 at 10, a holy legend at the same sum, and two new great 

 antiphons at 13 6s. Sd. together. 



In 1460-1 I find the purchase of a copy of the Acts of Parlia- 

 ment for is. Sd. This must have been the parliament of 

 October 7, 1460, in which the Acts of the Coventry parliament 

 were rescinded, and the Duke of York became for a few weeks 

 the actual ruler of England. 



One would wish that the map of the world, purchased in 

 1462 at the great cost of 5, for New College Library, had 

 been preserved, and to see what were the repairs to a book 

 called Terence, which cost King's College is. lod. in 1466. 



In 1481 Magdalen College buys Alexander de Anima in five 

 books for 335-. 4^., and in 1486 Oriel purchases -A. New Life 

 of the Virgin Mary for 3^. In 1497 copies of the Acts of 

 Parliament are bought at Oxford for 13^. 4^., that probably of 

 Jan. 16, 1497, unless indeed those of 1487, 1489, 1492. and 1495 

 are included. In 1499 an Antiphonal cost York Cathedral 

 89* 6\d. 



In 1502 Magdalen College bought Hugh de Vienna's works 

 in seven volumes for 46^. 4^. In 1522, the owner of Hun- 

 stanton purchased a Chronicle Book for 6s. 8d. Four hymnaria 

 for the quire at Magdalen cost is. $d. each in 1531, and a Bible 



