On the death of Hearne (June 10, 1735) fifteen of the MSS. of Thomas
Smith, D.D., of Magdalen College, the well-known and learned non-juror,
came to the Library, Smith having bequeathed them to Hearne on this
condition. With them came also copies of Camden's _Britannia_ and
_Annales Eliz._, with MSS. notes by their author. The rest of Smith's
MSS. appear to have come to the Library together with the mass of
Hearne's collections, included in Rawlinson's bequest in 1755. They
amount altogether to 138 thin volumes, containing notes, extracts and
letters on all kinds of subjects. There is a very full _written_
catalogue of their contents, in two volumes. Three Greek MSS. were given
by Smith himself on his return from his travels in the East about 1681.