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is bought for its. at Hunstanton in 1533. In King's College 

 fifteen books of Cantica are bought at i s. each in 1536. 



In 1538 Magdalen College buys the Statutes of the King- 

 dom for 14^-., and Polydore Vergil's History for 6s. %d. In 1539 

 many books are bought. New College spends IDS. in buying a 

 Bible for Abberbury Church, and ' half a Bible of the great 

 volume' is purchased at Whaddon for 8s. In 1539 Magdalen 

 buys the works of S. Augustine for 66s. %d. ; a medical treatise, 

 Artuarius de Urinis, for is. 2d., and Georgius Valla for los. 

 Next year this College buys a map of the world, now only 4^., 

 with a frame to it for 2^., a Suidas in Greek for $2s., and 

 Erasmus on the New Testament for 95-. Next year half a 

 Bible is bought at Cambridge for 5^., and the statutes of the 

 last Parliament (they were seventy in number) for is. 4^. 



In 1542 Magdalen gives 345-. for Theophylact and Eusta- 

 thius, and"8j. for Epiphanius ; and next year the Acts of the 

 Parliament of 1544. In 1547 the two books of Homilies cost 

 $s. 4d., an English New Testament 3^., an English Bible 13.$-., 

 and the Homilia Anglica is. id. The Homilies and Injunc- 

 tions in the same year are bought by Magdalen for io<^., and 

 in the Wardrobe accounts occurs the purchase of two works 

 of Erasmus for is. 4d., and of certain Prayer-books at is. in 

 satin, and %d. in vellum. These are for the use of Catherine 

 Parr, widow of Henry VIII. 



In 1548 New College buys half the Commentaries of 

 Erasmus for Swalcliffe Church, an Oxfordshire benefice in the 

 gift of the society, at the cost of 6s. This entry illustrates what 

 were conceived to be the duties of patrons. It purchases also 

 for 6d. a tract called Liber exemplarium et evangeliorum. Next 

 year it buys a book on the Communion for 6d., eight volumes 

 for 5 13^. 4^., and half Erasmus' Paraphrase for 6s. Magdalen 

 also buys books ; a Harmonia Mundi for 95-., another map for 

 4^., St. Augustine on the Psalms for us., a New Testament 

 and the Paraphrase of Erasmus for los. In the next year the 

 purchases are confined to Prayer-books and Psalters. 



In 1551 a Bible is bought for Elizabeth at Hatfield at a cost 



