[1] When Duke Humphrey's Library was completed, and the books were removed thither, this upper room took the place of that beneath it as the Convocation House, 'in which upper room,' says Hearne, 'was brave painted glass containing the arms of the benefactors, which painted glass continued till the times of the late rebellion.' (Bliss, _Reliquiæ Hearnianæ_, ii. 693.) [2] The original treasure-chest, from which all academic money-grants are still said to be made, is preserved in the Bursary of Corpus Christi College, in which college it was kept in accordance with the statutes of the University, tit. xx. § 1. [3] The Bishop's Bibliomania is thus noticed by a contemporary, W. de Chambre, in his _Continuatio Hist. Dunelm._ (_Hist. Dunelm. Scriptt. tres_; Surtees Society, 1839, p. 130):--'Iste summe delectabatur in multitudine librorum. Plures enim libros habuit, sicut passim dicebatur, quam omnes Pontifices Angliæ. Et præter eos quos habuit in diversis maneriis suis, repositos separatim, ubicunque cum sua familia residebat, tot libri jacebant sparsim in camera qua dormivit, quod ingredientes vix stare poterant vel incedere nisi librum aliquem pedibus conculcarent.' The bedroom of the late centenarian President of Magdalene College, Dr. Routh, was in this respect just like Bishop Bury's; and as the latter sent his library from Durham to be in some sort a nucleus for an University Library at Oxford, so the former bequeathed his to Durham that it might assist the development of the University Library there. [4] _Philobiblion_, cap. xix. [5] His love of literature was evinced by the motto which, according to Leland, was frequently written by him in his books: 'Moun bien mondain.' (Hearne's _MS. Diary_, xxxvi. 199.) Hearne, in his esteem for the memory of this 'religious, good, and learned Prince,' quaintly says that he used, whenever he saw his handwriting in the Bodleian Library (where it occurs several times), 'to show a sort of particular respect' to it. (_Preface to Langtoft_, p. xx.) Was this 'sort of respect' a reverential kiss, such as that with which (as Warton in his _Companion to the Guide_ tells us) he saluted the pavement of sheeps' trotters, supposed by him to be a Roman tesselated floor? [6] Register of Convoc. F., ff. 53^b, 54^b. The subsequent gifts are entered in the same Register as follows:-- 1. Last day of Feb., 1440. A letter to thank the Duke for 126 volumes brought by John Kyrkeby. (f. 57^b.) 2. Nov. 10, 1441. Letter acknowledging ten books (Treatises of Augustine, Rabanus, &c.,) received through Will. Say, proctor, and John Kyrkeby. (ff. 59^b-60.) 3. Jan. 25, 1443. Letter of thanks for 139 volumes. (f. 63.) 4. Oct. 1443. Letter for another gift, number of volumes not specified. (f. 66.) 5. Feb. 25, 1443 (-4?). Catalogue of 135 volumes. (ff. 67-68^b.) 6. Feb. 1446. Letter of thanks for another gift, not specified. (f. 75^b.)