Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867: With a Preliminary Notice of the earlier Library founded in the Fourteenth CenturyMacray, William Dunn
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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
Macray, William Dunn
Bodleian Library
[221] By Bishop Jeremy Collier, in Mr. Laurence's Chapel on College
Hill, London. (See a communication from the present writer in _Notes and
Queries_, 3rd series, iii. 244.) He appears to have endeavoured to
conceal from the world his clerical character. In a letter to T.
Rawlins, of Pophills, Warw. in 1736, he requests him not to address him
as _Rev._ (Ballard's MSS. ii. 6.) Some volumes of Sermons in his
handwriting are among his MSS. His writing is of a very broad, rude, and
clumsy character; and it is singular that his brother Thomas wrote a
hand very similar. Richard usually signs only with his initials,
separated by a cross, 'R + R.'
[222] The small note-books kept on his journeys, containing epitaphs,
inscriptions, accounts of places visited, &c., are preserved (but,
unfortunately, in an imperfect series) among his Miscellaneous MSS.
[223] See _Notes and Queries_, 3rd series, i. 225.
[224] Two beautiful miniature portraits of James Edward, son of James
II, and his wife Clementina Sobieski, which could not, probably, at the
time be safely exhibited, have recently been exhumed by the Librarian
from the obscurity to which they had been consigned, and are now hung in
the Picture Gallery. In Feb. 1749/50, Rawlinson sent Kelly's 'Holy
Table,' a marble slab, covered with astrological figures (engraved in
Dr. Dee's _Actions with Spirits_), which, he says, had been subsequently
in the possession of Lilly. It is now in the Ashmolean Museum.
[225] By the terms of his will, dated June 2, 1752, and printed in 1755,
he bequeathed all his MSS. of every kind (excepting private papers and
letters) to the Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University, to
be placed in the Bodleian Library, or in such other place as they should
deem most proper, for the use and benefit of the University, and of all
other persons, properly and with leave resorting thereto with a view to
the public good; and to be kept separate and apart from every other
collection. With these he gave also all his books printed on vellum or
silk (of which latter kind there are two or three small specimens), all
his deeds and charters, and all his printed books containing any MSS.
notes, together with various antiquities and miscellaneous curiosities.
His MS. and printed music he bequeathed to the Music School. Of the
Musical library preserved in this room, a MS. Catalogue was made a few
years ago by Rev. Robert Hake, M.A., then Chaplain of New College, now
Precentor of Canterbury.
[226] _Apropos_ of log-books, it may be mentioned that whereas it
appears from the eighth Report of the Deputy-Keeper of the Records, p.
26, 1847, that the earliest log among the Admiralty Records is of the
year 1673, there are several of about the same date and a little earlier
to be found in Rawlinson's collection.
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