To the church of St. Mary's,
Nottingham, the vicar leaves a Golden Legend, a Polichronicon,
besides Pupilla Oculi, and a portiforium to Wragby
Church, and a missal to Snenton Church (1476). Sir
Thomas Lyttleton befriends King's Norton Church by
leaving it a Latin-English dictionary, and that of Halesowen
in Worcestershire by leaving a Catholicon, the Constitutiones
Provinciales (possibly Lyndwood's digest, the Provinciale),
and the Gesta Romanorum (1481). A man of Leicester
was sued by the church wardens of the parish church of
Welford, in the county of Leicester, on a charge of having
taken away certain books belonging to the church and
sold them (1490). The vicar of Ruddington bequeaths
three books, "ad tenendum et ligandum cum cathena ferrea
in quadam sede in capella B. M. de Rodington" (1491).
Thomas Rotherham, benefactor of Cambridge University
Library, gave to the church of Rochester ten pounds for
building a library (1500). To Wetheringsett Church a
chaplain of Bury carefully reserves "a book called
Fasiculus Mors [Fasciculus morum], to lye in the chauncell,
for priests to occupye ther tyme when it shall please them,
praying them to have my soule in remembraunce as it shall
please them of their charite" (1519).
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