The Library was largely enriched with books which were then modern, in
which it appears to have been very deficient, by the legacy of the
library of Rev. Charles Godwyn, M.A., Fellow of Balliol College. The
collection, which is still in the main kept undivided (although a few
folio and quarto volumes are placed in the general class marked _Art._),
consists chiefly of works in English and general history, civil and
ecclesiastical, published in the eighteenth century, and includes
besides the later Benedictine editions of the Fathers. There is also a
series of theological and literary pamphlets; to which have been added
of late years upwards of 2400 volumes, of all dates and on all subjects,
which are now all alike numbered, for convenience sake, in connection
with Godwyn's own. The residue of his property, after payment of all
claims and bequests, formed a further portion of his legacy; and the
interest upon £1050 which accrued from this source, still forms part of
the annual income of the Library.