A briefe Description of the Toune of Tottenham Highcrosse in Middlesex:
&c. The Turnament of Tottenham, &c. 1631.
The latter written long since in verse, by Mr. Gilbert Pilkington, at
that time as some have thought Parson of the Parish. 4to.
These pieces ye shall finde to contain 21 leaves; of the whiche, 4 leaves
belong to the “Turnament.”
A boke moche to be desired.
London; printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland
Row, St. James’s.
The loss thus sustained by the ancient Library of Lincoln Cathedral
by the sale of the volumes thus inconsiderately, and in my opinion
unjustifiably, detached, was compensated in some degree by the purchase
of other books with the proceeds, and the addition to the original
Collection of the books thus purchased. Many people will of course think
the exchange was advisable, and that useful volumes were judiciously
substituted for the antiquated lumber, to which the Roxburghe mania at
that time gave a fictitious value. Certainly if any proof were wanting of
the advantageous terms offered to effect the dismemberment of the Chapter
Library, it will be found in the nature and extent of that Collection
which was formed from the proceeds of that sale.
Much as I am inclined to disallow the right of any corporate body
to alienate the property bequeathed to it by any such process of
commutation, I think it right to annex a full account of the books
purchased, that the reader may be enabled to form his own judgment upon
the literary discretion of the Dean and Chapter.
The books thus permanently added to the Lincoln Library, are Chalmers’
Biographical Dictionary, in 32 octavo volumes; Warton’s History of
English Poetry; the Biblia Hebraica by Boothroyd, in 2 volumes, 4to.;
Bacon’s Liber Regis; the reprints of the Chronicles of Monstrelet,
Grafton, Fabyan, Arnold, Harding, and Rastall, in 4to.; Sharpe’s William
of Malmesbury, on large paper; Tyrwhitt’s Chaucer; Baker’s Chronicles;
Sparke’s Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Camdeni Annales; Wilkins’
Concilia Magnæ Britanniæ; Du Cange, Lexicon Græcum; Forcellini Lexicon
Latinum; Rymer’s Fœdera, in 20 folio volumes; the Art de verifier
les dates, in 3 folio volumes; the Antiquities, &c. of Montfaucon, in
15 folio volumes; Lyson’s Magna Britannia; Peck’s Stamford; Kennet on
Impropriations; Peck’s Desiderata Curiosa; Morelli Thesaurus; Fuller’s
Worthies; Gough’s British Topography; Madox’s Firma Burgi, Baronia
Anglicana, and History of the Exchequer; Cave’s Historia Literaria;
Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica, edited by Smith; Dupin’s Ecclesiastical
History; Strype’s Annals, and Lives of Cranmer, Parker, Grindall, and
Whitgift; and his Ecclesiastical Memorials; Rapin’s History of England,
by Tindal; Gale and Fell, Historiæ Anglicanæ Scriptores; Herbert’s
Henry VIII.; Stukeley’s Itinerarium Curiosum; the Gentleman’s Magazine
from its commencement in 1731 to 1817, the time when this commutation
was effected; Hickes’s Thesaurus Linguarum Septentrionalium; Stow’s
Chronicle by Howes; Somner’s Canterbury; Forduni Scoti-Chronicon, in
2 volumes, folio; Collyer’s Historical Dictionary; Wren’s Parentalia;
May’s History of the Long Parliament; the Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores,
in 4to.; Walker’s History of Independency; Inquiry as to Charles the
First; Collins’s Peerage; Locke’s Works; Rennet’s Register; Whitelocke’s
Memorials; Burnet’s Reformation; Drake’s York; Echard’s England; Willis’
Cathedrals; Harmer’s Errors of Burnet’s Reformation; Roper’s Life of
Sir Thomas More; Theriaque; Holinshed’s Chronicles; Hall’s Chronicle;
Froissart’s Chronicles; Gough’s Sepulchral Monuments; Dickinson’s
Southwell; Beausobre, Hist. du Manichéisme; Dugdale on Imbanking;
Fiddes’ Life of Wolsey; Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary; Historia Veterum
Persarum; Lingard’s England; Walker’s Sufferings of the Clergy;
Spelman’s English Works; Cotton’s Abridgment of the Records in the Tower;
Heylin’s Life of Laud; Callis on the Laws of Sewers; Sir Philip Warwick’s
Memoirs; Du Cange’s Lexicon mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis, cum Supplemento
Carpentierii; La Bible par le Cene, folio; and the Beauties of England
and Wales.
Such is the rough entry in the Catalogue of the additions, made by the
Dean and Chapter to this Library, but obtained only by the sacrifice of
books which it is nearly impossible to replace.
Of the books above mentioned, many would do honour to any library, and if
a certain fund were appropriated to the augmentation of this Collection
from the ample revenues of the Dean and Chapter, many more such might be
yearly added.
From the same source I have the satisfaction of adding a list of “Books
presented to this Library by Dr. Bayley, late Subdean. September 23,
1828.”
“Ciceronis Opera, Oliveti, Oxon. 1783, in 10 volumes, 4to.;
Parthenissa, a Romance, by Lord Orrery; Abernethy’s Discourses,
2 vols.; Sermons, 2 vols. and Tracts, 1 volume; Biblia Sacra
Junii & Tremellii, in 1 volume; Treatises on the Sabbath
Day, in 1 volume; Chillingworth’s Religion of Protestants,
in 1 volume; Stillingfleet’s Sermons, in 1 volume; Pemble’s
Works, in 1 volume; Whiston’s Primitive Christianity, in 2
volumes; Cunæus de Republica Hebræorum, 1 volume; Kennicott’s
Collections, 1 volume; and Reflections upon Learning, in 1
volume. In all 28 volumes.
“RD. GARVEY, _Librarian_.”
This donation, however small, from one of the ecclesiastical body who
violated the literary remains of Michael Honeywood, may be looked upon as
an expiatory sacrifice to the manes of that worthy divine, and may I hope
serve as an example to others who may be desirous of seeing the Lincoln
Library restored to its pristine magnitude and worth.
The Library of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln consists of four thousand
four hundred and fifty-one volumes, relating to theological, classical,
and historical subjects, carefully enumerated in a folio volume,
containing the names, dates, and sizes of the books in alphabetical
order, with reference to the shelves on which they are placed.