[1] In 1452-53 he built a new
library at a cost of more than L 150. Another library was
erected for the College of the Black Monks at Oxford, for
L 60.[2] It was described as a "new erection of a library
joyning on the south-side of the chapel, containing on each side
five or more divisions, as it may be partly seen to this day
by the windows thereof, to which he gave good quantity of
his own study, and especially those of his own composition,
which were not a few, and to deter plagiaries and others
from abusing of them, prefixt these verses in the front
of every one of the same books, as he did also to those that
he gave to the publick library of the University:
"Fratribus Oxoniae datur in munus liber iste
Per patrem pecorum prothomartyris Angligenarum;
Quem, si quis rapiat raptim, titulumve retractet,
Vel Judae laqueum, vel furcas sentiat; Amen
[1] A lot of forty-nine, with prices attached, is given in
Annales a J. Amund., ii. 268 et seq.
[2] Gloucester House, now Worcester College.
"In other books which he gave to the said library these:
"Discior ut docti fieret nova regia plebi
Culta magisque Deae datur hic fiber ara Minervae,
His qui Diis dictis libant holocausta ministris
Et circa bibulam sitinnt prae nectare limpham
Estque librique loci, idem dator, actor et unus.
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