of Genoa, on the
Gospels for the Sundays throughout the year].
Item a grette portuose [a large breviary].
Item Anoyer boke called Legenda Aurea [Legenda sanctorum
aurea of Jacobus de Voragine]. [l]
[1] Cox, J. C., and Hope, W. H. St. John, Chronicles of the
Colleg. Ch. of All Saints, Derby (1881), 175-177.
This is a respectable list for such a church. Some
sixty years before there were apparently only service
books (1465).[1]
[1] Ibid., 157.
From 1456 to 1475 charges occur in the accounts of
St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, for chains to fix psalters,
and for writing.[1] At St. Peter's upon Cornhill there would
appear to have been a good library. "True it is," writes
Stow, "that a library there was pertaining to this Parrish
Church, of olde time builded of stone, and of late repayred
with bricke by the executors of Sir John Crosby Alderman,
as his Armes on the south end doth witnes. This library
hath beene of late time, to wit, within these fifty yeares,
well furnished of bookes: John Leyland viewed and commended
them, but now those bookes be gone, and the place
is occupied by a schoolemaister.
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