[4] The only volume now remaining
of this collection once belonged to Duke Humfrey, and as
the list contains a fair number of classical books--Aristotle,
Liber policie Platonis, Tullius in noua rethorica, Seneca,
Sallust, Ovid, Julius Caesar, Plutarch--besides a book of
Poggio Bracciolini, it seems likely that King's College, and
perhaps Eton, received some of the books promised by the
Duke to Oxford University and begged for repeatedly and
in vain by that University, after his death.[5]
[1] Willis, i. 370.
[2] Willis, i. 537.
[3] Lyte, Eton, 28-29.
[4] James 2, 72-83.
[5] James 2, 70-71; and see p. 144.
Likewise at Eton--which may be referred to appropriately
here--the king desired to have a good library.
"Item the Est pane in lengthe within the walles . ccxxx.
fete in the myddel whereof directly agayns the entre of
the cloistre a librarie conteynyng in lengthe . lij . fete and
in brede . xxiiij . fete with . iij . chambres aboue on the
oon side and . iiij . on the other side and benethe . ix.
chambres euery of them in lengthe . xxvj . fete and in brede
. xviij . fete with . v. utter toures and .
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