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BISHOP JEWELL'S LIBRARY
By MAGDALENENSIS.
What became of Bishop Jewell's library? Cassan mentions (*Lives of Bishops of Salisbury*, vol. ii. p. 55.) that "He had collected an excellent library of books of all sorts, not excepting the most impertinent of the Popish authors, and here it was that he spent the greatest and the best part of his time," &c. Bishop Jewell died Sept. 22. 1571. In the Account Books of Magdalen College, Oxford, I find the following items:— "A. D. 1572. Solut. Dno Præsidi equitanti Sarisbur. pro libris per billam, iijli xvis. "Solut. pro libris Dni, episcopi Sar., cli. "A. D. 1574. Solut per Dom. Præsidem pro lib…
Topics: Libraries, Historical Books, Bishop Jewell's Life
Locations: Salisbury, Magdalen College, Oxford