Yea, the Universities of this Realm, are not all clear in this detestable Fact: But cursed is the Belly which seeketh to be fed with so ungodly Gains, and so deeply shameth his natural Country. I know, says he, a Merchantman (which shall at this time be nameless) that bought the Contents of two noble Libraries for forty Shillings Price; a Shame it is to be spoken. This Stuff hath he occupied instead of gray Paper, by the Space of more than these ten Years, and yet he has Store enough for these ten Years to come. A prodigious Example is this, and to be abhorred of all Men, which love their Nation as they should do. Yea, what may bring our Nation to more Shame and Rebuke, than to have it noised abroad, that we are Despisers of Learning? I judge this to be true, and utter it with Heaviness, that neither the _Britons_, under the _Romans_ and _Saxons_, nor yet the _English_ People under the _Danes_ and _Normans_, had ever such Damage of their learned Monuments, as we have seen in our Time. Our Posterity may well curse this wicked Fact of our Age, this unseasonable Spoil of _England’s_ most noble Antiquities. _Bale_’s Declaration upon _Leland_’s Journal, published 1549. And Dr _Thomas Fuller_, in his Church History, speaking of the same Thing, tells us, Divinity was prophaned, Mathematics suffered for Correspondence with evil Spirits, Physic was maimed, and a Riot committed on the Law itself. However, notwithstanding this Devastation which was then made among our Manuscripts, our Colleges, and some of our Libraries, will furnish us with a great Number relating to almost all Parts of Learning: Some of which, more especially the most ancient ones, I shall here first give a Catalogue of, and then some more modern ones, confining myself to those which more especially relate to Physic and Chirurgery. And, first, we have in the _Norfolk_ Library, belonging to the Royal Society, _Libellus de Arte Medicinali in Lingua Pictica conscriptus._ And in Cottonian Library, _Præcepta nonnulla Medicinalia; partim & Divina ad dierum rationem Saxonice. Galbe. A._ 2. 3. 1. _Exorcismi quidam & Medicinalia; partim Latine partim Saxonice. Galbe. A._ 2. _Medicinalia quædam Saxonice & Latine Vitel. B._ 3. 4. _Herbarium, Latine & Hibernice ordine Alphabetico. Vitel. F._ 14. 34. _Tractatulus de Morbis, Latine & Hibernice mutilis initio & fine._ _Astronomica quædam & Medica Literis Saxonicis Membr. in Corpus Christi Coll. in Oxon._ _S. Dustan de Lapide Philosophorum._ In the same College. _Tractatus Botanicus in Lingua Cambro-Britannica._ In Jesus Coll. Oxon. _Medicinales Quæstiones Magistri Henrici de Wynton super Isagogen Joannitii._ In New College Library in Oxon. _Liber Phlebotomiæ._ By the same Author, in the same Library. _Tractatus de effectibus quatuor Qualitatum, secundum magistrum Ursonem._ In New College Library. _Practica Chirurgiæ. Tho. Sculling, continens quatuor partes._ In New College Library.