What became of the specimen chapter of _Genesis_ it is impossible to say. Bishop Walton, as he himself states, acquired possession of the scholia to the end of _Numbers_ and the remainder of Young’s Greek and Latin MSS., Wood informs us, came to the hands of Dr. Owen, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford. Assuming the matrices to have existed, their natural location would be either the Royal Printing Office, or the foundry in which already had been deposited the Greek types and matrices used in the _Catena on Job_. If, however, they remained in the St. James’s Library, it is possible to conceive of their disappearance for a considerable period, as Whitelock’s principal duties during his term of office appear to have been to check the depredations which in Young’s own time had already deprived the Library of many of its treasures.[384] {203} At the Restoration, the Keepership of the Library was bestowed on Thomas Rosse, by whom was once more revived the suggestion of reproducing the Alexandria Codex in facsimile, not this time by means of type, but by copper-plate. This circumstance is thus related by Aubrey in his inedited _Remains of Gentilism and Judaism_, preserved among the Lansdowne MSS. in the British Museum.[385] “. . . . y^e Tecla MS. in S^t James Library . . . was sent as a Present to King Charles the First, from Cyrillus, Patriark of Constantinople: as a jewell of that antiquity not fit to be kept among Infidels. Mr. . . . Rosse (translator of Statius) was Tutor to y^e Duke of Monmouth who gott him the place (of) Library-Keeper at S^t James’s: he desired K. Cha. I (_sic_) to be at y^e chardge to have it engraven in copper-plates, and told him it would cost but £200; but his Ma^{ty} would not yeild to it. Mr. Ross sayd ‘that it would appeare glorious in History, after his Ma^{ty’s} death.’ ‘Pish,’ sayd he, ‘I care not what they say of me in History when I am dead.’ H. Grotius, J. G. Vossius, Heinsius, etc., have made Journeys into England purposely to correct their Greeke Testaments by this Copy in S^t James’s. S^r Chr. Wren sayd that he would rather have it engraved by an Engraver that could not understand or read Greek, than by one that did.” The Manuscript was subsequently handed, in 1678, to Dr. Thomas Smith to collate and edit, with a view to its reproduction; but once again the scheme fell through, and (with the exception of Walton’s _Polyglot_) it was not till Grabe, in 1707, published his _Octateuch_ (accompanying his preface by a small copper-plate specimen of the MS.), that any considerable portion of the Bible appeared from this ancient text.