A brief list (filling sixty small octavo pages) was printed at the
Clarendon Press, of the _Editiones principes_, the fifteenth-century
books, and the Aldines, then in the Library. The name of the compiler
does not appear. It is entitled, 'Notitia editionum quoad libros Hebr.,
Gr. et Lat. quæ vel primariæ, vel sæc. xv. impressæ, vel Aldinæ, in
Bibliotheca Bodleiana adservantur.'
Four cabinets of English coins were presented by Thomas Knight, Esq., of
Godmersham, Kent. Among them was an ornament (now exhibited in the glass
case near the Library door) said to have been worn by John Hampden when
he fell at Chalgrove Field[269]. It consists of a plain cornelian set in
silver, with the following couplet engraved on the rim:--
'Against my King I do not fight,
But for my King and kingdom's right.'
The Curators renewed a request, made ineffectually some time before,
that the several Colleges would make out returns for the Library of all
such books in their own collections as did not appear in the Bodl.
Catalogue. In the year 1801 they acknowledged the receipt of such lists
from Magdalen[270], Balliol, Exeter, and Jesus; Oriel sent a list
subsequently (in 1808?); but these were all that were ever forwarded.
[269] Lord Nugent, in his _Memorials of Hampden_, erroneously mentions
this as being preserved in the Ashmolean Museum. He also repeats two
mistaken readings first given in Miss Seward's _Anecdotes_, iv. 358 (a
volume dedicated to Price, the Librarian), where a small woodcut of the
ornament is given.
[270] A complete Catalogue of the Library of this College, compiled by
Rev. E. M. Macfarlane, M.A., of Linc. Coll., was issued by the College,
in three handsomely-printed quarto volumes, in 1860-62. The books of all
writers belonging to the College, are entered separately in an Appendix
in vol. iii.