List of early-printed Classical Books Lists of Subscribers (Dec. 1885, 1886) (Supplement) THE EAGLE. FOUNDERS AND BENEFACTORS OF (Continued from Vol. XIII. page 341.) HE honour of a place in the Catalogue of Benefactors and a remembrance in the services of Commemoration was at first reserved for those who endowed Fellowships and Scholarships or gave to the College its chief buildings. Donations to the Library were otherwise recognised. In its Liber Memorialis the College constructed of walls of parchment (chartaceum parietem extruxit) a memorial of those who built and enriched its Library. A few extracts from the College accounts will shew that they did not spare expense in their desire to make it a worthy memento of the liberality it recorded. 1627 To Mr. Scott for three dozen vellum ruling and squaring and frontispiece Daniel Boise for binding the book.... £4 18 0 8 4 £13 6 8 1634 To Sr. Crashaw for drawing the pictures several benefactors at 6s a piece ...... £2 14 0 The two last entries determine the two coats of arms which have no inscription under them to be those of Bp. Lloyd of Norwich and Sir Francis Leicester. Scott and Ivory, above mentioned, are referred to in a note in Mr. Mullinger's History of the University, Vol. II. p. 468. Both compiled accounts of the Foundations of the University. Copies of Scott's MS. exist both in the British Museum and in the University Library. The College accounts shew that we purchased one which appears to have been lost. John Ivory, who styled himself a herald painter, published his account in Cambridge in 1672. Sr (Ds.) Crashaw is the well-known poet of that name, who migrated from St. John's to Pembroke and afterwards was elected Fellow of Peterhouse. The three pictures of Lady Margaret, King Charles I. and Bp. Williams are copies painted on canvas of others in possession of the College, The records of the Lib. Mem. are not in chronological order, but arranged rather in regard to the rank of the donors, room being left here and there for later insertions. This order is adhered to in the following pages. When a benefactor is commemorated in the general list the notes are omitted here. The first names in the Liber Memorialis are those of Bishop Williams and Sir Ralph Hare, accounts of whom were given in a former paper. Next follows: THOMAS MORTON, D.D., Bp. of Durham, gave £300 worth of books and £400 to buy more books. He sent £100 in each of the years 1628, 1634, 1637 and 1639. The account of this benefaction in the Lib, Mem, having been written in 1637 does not include the last of these gifts. He was born at York in 1564, the 6th child of 19 born of the same parents, educated partly at York, where the notorious Guy Faux was one of his school fellows, and partly at Halifax, from which latter place he came to St. John's in 1582, being entered under Mr. Ant. Higgins, afterwards Dean of Ripon. He was Constable Scholar in 1584, Keyton Fellow 1592, shortly after which he was made University Lecturer in Logic. After being Chaplain to King James, Dean of Gloucester, then of Winchester, he was consecrated Bishop of Chester in 1616, translated to Lichfield in 1618, and to Durham in 1632. In 1612, when he was Dean of Winchester, he was one of the |