Isack, a monk of Worcester, for his lifetime, and after
his death to Worcester Priory. A manuscript now in the British
Museum was bought in 1473 at Oxford by Clement of Canterbury,
monk and scholar, from a bookseller named Hunt for twenty
shillings, in the presence of Will. Westgate, monk.[2] In a
manuscript of the Sentences is a note telling us that it was
the property of Roger, archdeacon of Lincoln: he bought
it from Geoffrey the chaplain, the brother of Henry, vicar of
North Elkington, the witnesses being master Robert de Luda,
clerk, Richard the almoner, the said Henry the vicar, his
clerk, and others.[3] An instance of a different kind will
suffice. When, after a good deal of rioting at Oxford,
many of the more studious masters and scholars went to
Stamford, the king threatened that if they did not return
to Oxford they would lose their goods, and especially their
books. The warning was disregarded, but the threatened
forfeiture of their books was evidently thought to be a strong
measure.[4]
[1] Written at the end of the manuscript, which is in the Douce
collection.-- Warton, i. 182-83.
[2] MS.
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