In the same year a Canon of
York enriches Beverley Church with all his books of canon
and civil law. Books were also chained in the church of
St. Mary of Oxford. Bishop Lyndwood of St. David's
bequeaths a copy of his digest of the synodal constitutions
of the province of Canterbury for chaining in St. Stephen's
Chapel, "to serve as a standard for future editions" (1443).
Richard Browne, or Cordone, who has left books to Wells,
reserves for the parish church of Naas in Ireland a Catholicon
and other manuscripts (1452). To Boston Church a
rector of Kirkby Ravensworth bequeaths several books,
but one named John Bosbery was to have the use of them
for life: among the gifts was Polichronicon (1457). Canon
Nicholas Holme leaves Pupilla Oculi to the parish church
of Redmarshall (1458). A chaplain bequeaths one book
to St. Mary's Church, Bolton, another to St. Wilfrid's
Church, Brensall in Craven, and a third to All Saints'
Church, Peseholme, York (1466). Sir Richard Willoughby
orders church books and a Crede mihi to be given to
Woollaton Parish Church (1469). Robert Est, possibly
a chantry-priest in York Minster, enriches the parish
church of his native Lincoln village, Brigsley, with a copy
of Legends of the Saints, Speculum Christiani, Gesta
Romanorum cum aliis fabulis Isopi et mutis narrationibus,
and a Psalter (1474-75).
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