Produced by Simon Gardner, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Transcriber's Notes Variant spellings (and some apparent typographical errors) have generally been retained (e.g. "caligraphy" for "calligraphy"), especially in quoted documents. Where changes to the text have been made these are listed at the end of the book. Minor punctuation and format corrections have been made without special comment. In this plain text version of the book, italic typeface is represented by _underscores_. Small caps typeface is represented by UPPER CASE. Superscripted characters are preceded by the caret symbol (^). The text includes unicode characters including Greek (παραδειγμα) and Hebrew (תגן ספר). If special characters do not appear here then please change your browser settings. Old English text is identified by "[OE: ...]" with the following substitutions for symbols and diacritics where necessary: [=m], [=rs] macron over m, rs [-þ] bar through upright of bb [&] Tironian ampersand Additional uncommon symbols used the text are rendered as follows: [=c] macron over c Ɔ apostrophic C in Roman numeral dates Footnotes have been grouped together at the end of each dated section or after each Appendix. * * * * * ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867; With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth Century. BY THE REV. WILLIAM DUNN MACRAY, M.A. CHAPLAIN OF ST. MARY MAGDALENE AND ST. MARY WINTON COLLEGES; EDITOR OF "CHRONICON ABBATIÆ EVESHAMENSIS," &c. RIVINGTONS London, Oxford, and Cambridge 1868 PREFACE.