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NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, No. 5.
In the library of St. John's College are some hundreds of volumes
bequeathed to it by Thomas Baker; most of these have little notices on
the fly-leaves, some thirty or forty of which seem worth printing. One
(Strype's _Life of Parker_) has marginal notes throughout the book, the
value of which will be duly appreciated by those who have read Baker's
notes on Burnet's _Reformation_. (See the _British Magazine_ for the
last year.)
Hereafter, if you do not object, I hope to send larger extracts from
Baker's MSS.; at present I confine myself to a single specimen, taken
from the fly-leaf of a copy of Noy's _Compleat Lawyer_, London, 1665.
(St. John's Library, Class mark, I. 10. 49)
"Gul. Noye de S. Buriens. Com. Cornub. Armig. unus Magistrorum
de Banco fieri fecit, 1626. On a window in Lincoln Inn's
Chapell. See Stow's _Survey_, &c. vol. ii. lib. ii. p. 73.
"This book has a former edition, London, 1661; but not so fair a
print, and without the Author's Life.
"See Fuller's _Worthies in Cornwall_, p. 200.
"See Mr. Gerard's Letter to Lord Strafford, dated Jan 3. 1634.
_Mr. Noy continues ill, & is retired to his house at Brentford:
I saw him much fallen away in his Face & Body, but as yellow as
Gold--with the Jaundice--his bloody waters continue with drain
his Body._
"See Lloyd's _State Worthies_, p. 892, 893. &c.
"Aug. 9. [1634] Wm Noy Esquire the King's Attorney died at
Brainford.--Mr. Ric. Smith's _Obituary_.
"See Wm Noy's Will (very remarkable) MS. vol. xxx. p. 309.
"16th Dec. 1631. Conc. Ornatissimo viro Gulielmo Noye, ut sit de
Consilio Universitatis--et annuatim 40th recipiat, &c.--Regr.
Acad Cant.
"See Howell's Letters, sect 6. pp. 30, 31.
"Rex 27. October. 1632 constituit Willielmum Noye Arm.
Attornatum suum Generalem, durante beneplacito.--Rymer, tom. 19.
p. 347.
"See his (W.N.) will, very pious except the last clause, which
is next to impious. vol. xxxvi. MS. p. 379.
"Young Noy, the dissipanding Noy, is kill'd in France in a
Duell, by a Brother of St. John Biron; so now the younger
Brother is Heir and Ward to the King.--A Letter to Lord Deputy
Wentworth, vol. ii. p. 2 dat. Apr. 5. 1636."
It may be as well to add, that the references to vols. xxx. and xxxvi.
of MS. are to two different copies of the will in two volumes of Baker's
MSS., in the University library. The word "dissipanding," in the last
quotation, doubtless is an allusion {212} to "dissipanda" in the will
itself. I once had occasion to take a copy of this will, and found the
variations between the two copies trifling.