Thomae Hornar de Petergate pro hornyng et naillyng
superscriptorum librorum, 2s. 6d. Radulpho Lorymar de
Conyngstrete pro factura et emendacione xl cathenarum pro
eisdem libris annexis in librario predicto, 23s. Id.[1]
[1] Surtees Soc., xxxv., 45-46.
From time to time a few other bequests were made:
thus, Archdeacon Stephen Scrope bequeathed some books
on canon law, after a beneficiary had had them in use
during his life (1418). Robert Ragenhill, advocate of the
court of York, enriched the church with a small collection
(1430); and Robert Wolveden, treasurer of the church,
left to the library his theological books (1432).[1]
[1] Ibid., iv. 385; xiv. 89, 91.
Section IX
The Sacrist's Roll of Lichfield Cathedral, under date
1345, contains en inventory of the books then in possession
of the church. All of them were service books, excepting
only a De Gestis Anglorum.[1] Thereafter we cannot discover
a notice of the library until 1489, when Dean Thomas
Heywood gave L 40 towards building a home for the books.
Dean Yotton assisted in the good work. By 1493 the
building was finished. It stood on the north side of the
Cathedral, west of the north door, or "ex parte boreali in
cimeterio.
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