462 
William de Beauchamp, Earl of War- 
wick, by his will, dated the morrow after 
the Epiphany, 1268, (53, Henry III.) 
Reft “¢ to Joan his daughter, a kind of 
eanopy, fometime belonging to it. Wel- 
flan, and a book of Lancelot, whish he the 
faid teflator had lent her.’ (Dugd. 
Warw. 312.6.) This, indeed, fhews that 
Tearning could not even at that time have 
been fo great a rarity mong the ladies as 
fome hiftorians would make it at periods of 
eur hiftory confiderabiy later. Though 
Lancelot du Lac, it mut be owned, was 
eurious reading for a female. 
In the twenty-firft of Richard IT. 1398, 
mm the recitation of the perfonal eftate of 
the exiled Hugh le Difpenfer, we find 
%,000 fheep, 1,000 oxen and fteers, 1,200 
kine with their calves, and 40 mares with 
their colts of two years, 110 draft horfes, 
z,coo hoggs, 300 bullocks, 4o tuns of 
wine, 600 hacons, 0 carcafes of martie- 
woals. bcef, 600 muttons im larder, and 40 
tens of cider, armour, plate, jewels, and 
monty, better than 10,000 pounds, 36 
facks of wool, and a hbrarie of books. 
¢Sir Robert Cotton’s Records, fol. edit. 
P- 372 } 
A curious though imperfect catalogue 
ef the Pafon library occurs in another part 
ef the valuable work already quoted : pro- 
bably made about 1466. They are the 
Books of Fobu Pafion, who to the roman- 
tic poetry, and the legends of the time, 
appears to have added even clafic reading, 
4 few of the principal works are here enu- 
merated; and the reader whodefires more 
wainvée intelligence with regard to their 
eontents may confult Warton’s Hittory of 
Englith Poetry, and Ames’s Typogra- 
phical Antiquities. 
«¢ 4 Book bad of my Hoftefs, at the George, 
of the death of Arthur, beginning at 
Cafiibelan. 
Guy Earl of Warwick. 
King Richard Czur de Lion. 
4 Chronicle to Edward the lil. 
@ Book of Troilus. 
he Green Knight. i 
Ballad of Guy and Colbrond. 
Lhe Life of St. Chriftophere 
fULLY DE SENECTUTE. . 
FULLY DE AMICITIA. 
4 Book de Sapientia. 
4 Book de Othea ( on Wifden. ) 
Mineold Bock of Blazonings of Arms; and 
By. Book of Knighthood, and the manner 
ef making of Knighis; of Fujis; of 
Fournaments; Fighting ia Lifis ; 
Paces holden by Soldiers ; Chailenges ; 
Statutes of War.; and de Regimine 
Principum.” 
Lhe Aatiquary. No. IIT. | 
[June 1, 
Another inftance occurs in the will of 
Anne Lady Mountjoy, who died toward 
the clofe of September, in the zoth year 
of Edward IV. 1481. ‘*To her daughter 
& bmond (her literary daughter it fhould * 
fa} the leit a book of Englith, being a 
Legend of Saints ;:a book of French called 
Lukan; ancther book ot French of the 
Epiftles and Gofpels 5; and a Primer, with 
clafps of filver gilt, covered with purple 
velvet ;"” while to her daughter Mountjoy, 
the jeft only a pair of pottle-pots of filver. 
This, it will be remembered, was at the 
time when Faxe Shore is. reprefented to 
have been taught reading and writing as 
-a rare accomplifhment for a women. | 
Earl Tiptoft when returning from Je- 
rufalem, made a fhort ftay at Padua and 
Venice, where we areaflured he made large 
purchafes of books. (Walpole’s Royal 
and Noble Authors.) In thort, befide the 
cafual introduction of curious works, by 
Pilgrims and itinerant ecelefiaftics, we had 
long before this period regular channels 
of importation. ‘The Jews, particularly 
in regard to the Arabians, were our com- 
mon agents not only in what related to 
commercial, but literary intercourfe, 
The laf inftance I fhall mention, is 
only introduced to thew that learning was 
not intirely confined to tke religious even 
in the zerthern extremity of the ifland. 
At Speke-hall, in Childwell, five miles 
from Liverpool, is a curious piece of 
wainfcot, brought by Sir Edward Norris, 
from the brary of ibe King of Scotland, 
after the battle of Floddon. (Gough's 
Camden, vol. ili. p. 137-) 
To continue any particulars concerning 
private libraries after the diffolution would 
be needlefs. In fome few inftances the beft 
treafures of our conventual libraries were 
transferred to the royal oneof Henry VIII. 
But, for the generality, we are affured by. 
Faller in his Church Hiftory (b. vi. 
P- 334.) “* that fuch as purchafed the 
buildings of monatteries, had in the fame 
grant the LIBRARuES (the ftufling thereof) 
conveyed unto them.” ; 
Fam, Sir, &c. S. 
= ee 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sik 
EA DING in thenumber for February . i 
of your Mifcellany, the charaéter of 
an Univer/ily Dunne, I was reminded of an 
etymology, I had fomewhere feen, of the 
word Dua, that was new tome, and will 
probably be fo to moft of your readers. 
By fome it has been derived from the 
Freach word donnez, give me, implying 
-a demand of fomething due; and by 
ethers 
