'Here lies Fred., Down among the dead; Had it been his Father, Most had much rather; Had it been his Brother, Better than any other; Had it been a Sister, More would have mist her; Wer't the whole generation, Happy for the nation; But since it is only Fred., There is no more to be said.' [211] Rawl. MS. C. 989. A.D. 1749. A Runic Primstaff, or Clog Almanack, was given by Mr. Guy Dickens, a gentleman-commoner of Ch. Ch. It is now exhibited, together with another (_see_ p. 105), in the glass case near the entrance of the Library. Pointer, in his _Oxoniensis Academia_ (p. 143), mentions that an explanation of the Primstaff was given by himself; the Accounts show that it was also in this year. A number of coins were added to the Numismatic Museum, which had been collected by the late Librarian, Fysher. A.D. 1750. A copy _on vellum_, with illuminated initials, &c., of vol. i. (reaching to the Psalms) of the Vulgate Bible, printed by Fust and Schoeffer in 1462, was bought for £2 10_s._! The volume was imperfect at the end, ceasing at Job xxxii. 5, and seven leaves followed in contemporary and beautiful MS., which also ended imperfectly at Ps. xxxvi. 9, with one leaf wanting at the end of Job. But when the Canonici Collection of MSS. was received from Venice, in 1818, among some fragments which were found in one of the boxes were fourteen leaves of a MS. Bible, which were at once recognised as being part of those wanted to complete this book, and which left only four still deficient. The volume came to the Library from the collection of Nic. Jos. Foucault, 'Comes Consistorianus,' many other of whose MSS. and printed books came by Rawlinson's bequest; but through how many hands the missing leaves had passed in the seventy subsequent years ere they were thus marvellously restored to their place, it is impossible to tell[212]. [212] The story of this recovery has been already related by Archd. Cotton in his _Typographical Gazetteer_, p. 339, where by mistake he refers the original purchase to the year 1752. A.D. 1751. A benefaction from Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham, of £60 to the Librarian and of £10 for the purchase of books, appears for the first time in the Accounts for this year. These sums (which are still annually paid into the General Fund) proceed from a bequest of £200 _per ann._ from Crewe (who died Sept. 24, 1721) to the University. A proposal to give these same sums to the Library, with other assignments for the remainder, was brought forward in Convocation on June 5, 1723, but the scheme was then rejected[213]. And thus nearly thirty years seem to have elapsed from the time of the bequest before the share for the Library was definitely fixed and paid.