Dr. Richard Middleton Massey, formerly of Brasenose College, gave (with
a few other books) a very curious and valuable series of Registers of
the Parliamentary Committee for augmentation of poor vicarages, from
1645 to 1652, in eight folio volumes, with one earlier volume containing
a list of livings in the diocese of Norwich, with their values and
incumbents. To local antiquaries these proceedings are full of interest,
while their historical and biographical value is equally great. They are
now numbered Bodl. MSS. 322-330. Of the printed books given by Dr.
Massey, most of those in octavo were placed at the end of Bishop
Barlow's books, in the shelves marked _D. Linc._
Three thousand pounds were offered by the University for the library of
Isaac Vossius, but refused. But the books were shortly afterwards sold
to the University of Leyden for the same sum[172].
[172] _Reliquiæ Hearn._ i. 205, 6.