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[1] James (M. R.), lxxxi.
[2] Leland, Itinerary (1907), i. xxxviii.
Robert Talbot, rector of Haversham, Berkshire
(d. 1558), collected monastic manuscripts: the choicest of
them he left to New College. A portreeve of Ipswich,
named William Smart, came into possession of some hundred
volumes from Bury Abbey library. In 1599 he gave them
to Pembroke College, where they are now.[1] John Twyne,
(d. 1581), schoolmaster and mayor of Canterbury, certainly
once owned the fifteenth-century catalogue of the
St. Augustine's Abbey library, and seems to have possessed
many manuscripts. Both catalogue and manuscripts were
transferred to Dr. John Dee, the famous alchemist. The
catalogue, with some other books belonging to the doctor,
got to the library of Trinity College, Dublin. But the
manuscripts passed into the hands of Brian Twyne, John's
grandson, who bequeathed them to Corpus Christi College,
Oxford; they are still there.[2] John Stow, whose gatherings
form part of the Harleian collection, saved some books
which once reposed in claustral aumbries, mainly owing to
the protection and help of Archbishop Parker.
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