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no proof that books were among the things given by 

 them. 



[10] Registers and chartularies do not properly 

 fall under the description of manuscripts, when we 

 are speaking of a library. A manuscript properly 

 so called, which belonged to the library of Bath, is 

 not, I believe, known ; but beside the Red Book, now 

 at Long Lete, and once the property of Dr. Thomas 

 Guidott, and the Register at Lincoln's Inn, the volume 

 in Corpus Christi College Library, and another in the 

 Harleian Library, were doubtless once in the archives 

 of the monastery. 



[11] Sir George Smith Gibbes, M.D,, who spoke 

 much at length on this part of the subject in the 

 inaugural lecture which he delivered on the day of 

 the opening of the Institution. He was not at that 

 time a young man, so that it will not be surprising 

 that in the six-and-twenty years which have passed 

 since the paper was written, he has been gathered to 

 his fathers. He left Bath some years before his death, 

 and his loss was sensibly felt by the Institution. 



[12] Dr. Guidott printed in 1677 a tract which he 

 entitled The Lives and Character of the Physicians of 

 Bath, from the year mdxcviii. to this present year 



