On June 20, letters patent were granted by James I, styling the library
by the founder's name, and licensing the University to hold lands, &c.,
in mortmain for its maintenance, to an amount not exceeding 200 marks
_per annum_[38].
In the list of donors occur Sir Christopher Heydon, Sir Jerome Horsey
(whose gift includes a MS. of the Gospels in Russian, and rolls
containing forms of letters, &c., in the autograph of the Czar Ivan
Basilides), Sir Ralph Winwood (17 Greek MSS.), Robert Barker the
printer, and Sir Henry Wotton (a MS. of the Koran).
[38] Wood MS. F. 27.