APPENDIX, No. IV. LIST OF BENEFACTORS TO THE LIBRARY, ABSTRACTED FROM THE REGISTER. "A Record of such books as haue bene giuen by Gentlemen and others, since the tenth day of June, in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand sixe hundred and fifty two, to this publike Library at which time, both the Grammar Schoole, and this Library were first opened. : All praise to God alone. Fol. 2.] COMPANY OF LEATHERSELLERS. Amen."* Fox-es Acts and Monuments, 3 vol. fol. Purchas-es Pilgrimes and Pilgrimage, 5 vol. fol. ROGER DANIEL, esq. Master of the Company, 1652. Jackson on the Pentateuch. 4o. 2h.] WILLIAM HUMBLE, esq. Warden, 1652. Speed's Maps, fol. History of Great Britain, fol. WILLIAM MANBY, the elder, esq. Clerk of the Company. Mr THOMAS WOODSTOCK, one of the Company. 1653. Downame on Justification, fol. Byfield on St. Peter, fol. *This title, and the first four inscriptions on the following leaf, were written by the Rev. Abraham Colfe. 3.] EDWARD LLOID, third son to Sir Charles Lloid, Knight Euripides, Gr. Lat. cum Annot. Gasp. Stiblini. Fol. 40. EDWARD JEFFREYS, M.A. Fellow of Jesus Coll. Oxford, Pollucis Onomasticon Gr. 40. Mr PLUME, Minister of Greenwich, June 30, 1666. Vossii Etymologicon Lat. fol. Mr WILLIAM CLAGETT, of Greenwich, gent. June 5, 1674. 3b.] Mr SAMUEL HOWLAND, of the Inner Temple, gent. April 7. 1675. Senecæ Tragœdiæ a Delrio, 2 vol. 4o. Mr SAMUEL ALDERSON, formerly a Scholar here. Vossius de Vitiis Sermonis. 40. -Veterum Poetarum temporibus. 4o. (Wanting.) Mr WILLIAM CLEGAT, of Greenwich, gent. Dec. 6, 1678. JOHN NEWMAN, [Master of the Grammar School,] June Cowper's [Latin] Dictionary. Mr THURLOE, of Gravesend, 1684. Demosthenes, Gr. Lat. Herodotus, Gr. Lat. SIMON MASON, esq. of Gransden, co. Hunt, July 28, 1689. Dionysii περιηγησις. "Mr FLEETWOOD, Rector of St. Augustin's London, 4] "A Catalogue of the bookes brought into December 27. 1657." This list contains 60 articles in folio, and 29 in quarto: the following are not now in the Library.—Coelii Rhodigini anti quarum lectionum, vol. I.- Clicthovei ser. vol. I.—Barronii Annalium tom. primus, (which was found a few months ago in perfect and rotten.)-Burges his Defence of B: Morton, 40.-Hakewill of the power and providence of God. 1 vol. (wanting in 1711.) Fol. 7] A continuation of the Catalogue is subjoined, written by different hands, whereby it appears in what order, and how many at a time, the books came into the Library. The first is wanting, -Fulke's Annotations on ye New Test. in folio; also Demosthenis Orationes, 1 vol. fol. gb. 9. } "These bookes were bought by ye COMPANY OF LEtherSELLERS in ye year 1693, with ye money then due by Mr Calf's will at 20s per annum to buy bookes." They are 23 volumes in folio, and 3 in quarto. The remaining books are accompanied by the names of the Benefactors, written on the opposite page. 9b. 10. S "Hyginus was bought wth money for a playday, & forfeitures for not speaking Latin." Sir THO. CUDDON, Knight, Chamberlain of London, and and Master of the Company, 1699. Forum Romanum [i. e. Rob. Stephani Thesaurus] 4 Mr THOMAS WELHAM, once a Scholar here. [July 2, 1701.] Mr JOHN SMITH, formerly a Scholar; Aug. 1, 1710. Walker's Idioms. Mr THOMAS MISSENDEN, formerly a Scholar; 1711. Schrevelii Lexicon. Mr THOMAS WHITE, gent. of Black-heath, June, 1712. [formerly a Scholar.] Clarendon's History of the Civil War. [3 vol. fol.] Rev. WHITE KENNETT, S.T.P. Dean of Peterborough.1 "Somners Life, and History of the Roman forts and ports in Kent." (Now wanting.) 1 This learned person was Bishop of Peterborough from 1718 to 1728, when when he died. His voluminous and valuable MS. Collections are preserved in the British Museum. He was the author of the books here named and of many others and it is not improbable from the fact of these his donatious, that he was a scholar here. "Synodus Anglicana." (80.) "The Case of Impropriations & Augmentations of poor Vicarages." (Wanting.) "The Piety & Charity of Qn. Anne, & the English Nation to the distress'd Protestant Palatines." (Wanting.) P. STUBBS, S. T. B. Archdeacon of St. Alban's. Maphæi Barberini Poemata. Bought by order of the COMPANY OF LEATHERsellers, Twenty volumes in folio, two in quarto, and three in 10b.] JAMES JURIN, M.D. June 29, 1732. Varenii Geographia. "Dissertationes Physico-Mathematicæ, ipso Auctore." (Now wanting.) Whether the entries were continued farther in this Register does not appear: beside the ten leaves here abstracted, there was nothing within the curious covers of this interesting Record, but the fragments of torn parchment leaves, which had been several years in that mutilated state, when the volume was re-made in 1830. BENEFACTORS SINCE THE REGISTER ENDED. 1726. Mr JEREMIAH BRIGHT, Master of the Company. History of the Old and New Test. Fol. NATH. HILLIS, Principal Surgeon to the King's Dockyard at Woolwich, formerly a Scholar. Bonanni delle Antiche Siracuse. Fol. THOMAS RAWLINSON. Sadoleti Epistolæ. 8°. JOHN LOCKER, F. S. A. Clerk of the Company. Vossii Aristarchus, 2 vol. 4o. Baconi Opera Moralia et Civilia, fol. APPENDIX, No. V. NOTICES EXPLANATORY AND ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE AUTOGRAPHS INGRAVED IN THE PLATES. No. 1. RI. DOVER. Richard Rogers, D. D. was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Dover in 1569, and chosen Dean of Canterbury in 1584. He died 19 May, 1597, (see Wood's Athena Oxon. II. 325 and 777) in the year after the marriage of his daughter Mary to Dr. Richard Colfe; at which time her mother Anne was living. His eldest son Francis Rogers, D.D. of Dartford, was a Justice of the Peace, and died 23 July, 1638, leaving, by his wife Thomasine, a (second) son, George Rogers, M. D. of London, of whose son, George Rogers, there is a short life in Wood's Athena Oxon. IV. 559. The Dean's other son, Goldwell Rogers, had an only daughter, Anne, the wife of Francis Lovelace, of Canterbury, living in 1632. 2. RICHARDUM COLFE. This is presumed to be the autograph of Dr. Richard Colfe, and is taken from the text of the Charter mentioned in the account of his life (at p. xi.), which is thought to be in his hand-writing. From the Heralds' 3. JOSEPH COLFE, the Doctor's brother. Visitation-book, of the year 1619. See p. xiv-xv. 4, 5, 6. The Reverend ABRAHAM COLFE. The first of these signatures is taken from the same Visitation-book (fo. 128b.), in which Mr Colfe, as well as his uncle, recorded his pedigree. The second is traced from the copy of Eusebius, described in the Catalogue, at p. 35; the third from a deed dated 26 May, 1647. He is thus described in the Matriculation-book of the University of Oxford "Abraham Colfe comitat. Cantiæ generosi filius ætat. 14." Nov. 8, 1594, Chr. Ch. He took his degree of B.A. 25 Oct. 1599. (Communicated by the Rev. Dr. Bliss.) 7,8. ISAAC COLFE, brother of Abraham. The former signature is taken from a bond dated 24 May, 1625; the latter from the same volume as No. 26; see the Catalogue, p. 24. His autograph also occurs in the book of signatures to the Thirty-nine Articles, in the Archives of the University of Oxford, under date 10 May, 1605. |