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France, and that the refugees of 1685 greatly improved the 

 home manufacture. 



Purchases of books were not made very numerously in the 

 latter part of the sixteenth and in the seventeenth centuries. 

 But one Oxford College, Corpus Christi, was distinguished for 

 frequently buying books, and I conclude had from the beginning 

 a special fund for the purpose. They ceased indeed to buy 

 during the reaction under Mary Tudor, and while they were 

 under Laud's influence. Generally it seems Colleges relied on 

 benefactors, especially among the members of their own foun- 

 dation. Thus I have little doubt that the noble Caxtons 

 which Eton College possesses were put there by Savile, for I 

 have found no notes of purchases in the annual accounts. 



I have not pretended to collect all the entries of books 

 bought by Corpus Christi College and other societies, but 

 have merely taken some illustrations which throw light on the 

 studies of the College, or on local needs. In 1585 Corpus 

 Christi College paid 27^. for a Hebrew lexicon, and in the 

 same year New College bought Stephens' edition of Diodorus 

 Siculus for los. In 1586, a Canterbury parish gave 41 s. for a 

 Church Bible; and in 1587, 4^. fid. for a Book of Common 

 Prayer. In the same year Corpus Christi College paid $os. 

 for the Theatrum Vitae Humanae, Magdalen College 70^. for 

 the Summa Aquinatis, and 32.?. for two volumes of Bellar- 

 mine. In 1592 Corpus Christi College bought Ursini trac- 

 tatus, et Zanchii Miscellanea for iij., Zanchius de attributis 

 et operibus for 185., and Zonaras cum aliis for los. In 1593 

 Lord Pembroke bought two Greek grammars at 2s. each, and 

 in 1594 Eton a Church Bible for 30?. In 1595 Corpus Christi 

 College gives 105. for Joseph Scaliger de Emendatione Tem- 

 porum. In 1596 a Chapel Bible cost Oriel College 15^ &<? 

 In the same year Corpus Christi College gave 36 s. 6d. for 

 Averroes. In 1597 it pays 5?. for the Theories of Coper- 

 nicus. In i. ',98 the Canterbury parish gives 4s. for a Prayer- 

 book, and in 1599 3*. +d. for a book of Statutes. In 1600 a 

 Psalter costs Oriel College 2s. id. 



