[2]
[1] There is an imperfect catalogue of their library in Leland,
iii. 57.
[2] Leland 3, 286.
Roger de Thoris, afterwards Dean of Exeter, presented
a library to the Grey Friars of his city in 1266.[1] What
became of it we do not know. About the same time, in
1253 to be exact, the will of Richard de Wyche, Bishop
of Chichester, is notable for its bequests to the friars; thus
he left books to various friaries of the Grey Brethren--at
Chichester his glossed Psalter, at Lewes the Gospels of St.
Luke and St. John, at Winchelsea the Gospels of St.
Matthew and St. Mark, at Canterbury Isaiah glossed, at
London the Epistles of St. Paul glossed, and at Winchester
the twelve Prophets glossed; as well as some volumes to
the Black Friars--at Arundel the Book of Sentences, at
Canterbury Hosea glossed, at London the Books of Job,
the Acts, the Apocalypse, with the canonical epistles, and
at Winchester the Summa of William of Auxerre.[2] Such
friendliness for the Mendicants was far from common
among the secular clergy. Besides the southern places
mentioned in this bequest, friaries in the east, at Norwich
and Ipswich, and in the west, at Hereford and Bristol, had
goodly libraries.
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