Kent) used to pay for binding their missals, according to the original endowment settled by Haymo de Hethe in 1327 (which compelled the vicars to be at the expense of the same--_Reg. Roff._, p. 205), Mr. Denne has not informed us. _Archaeologia_, vol. xi., 362. But it would seem, from Warton, that "students and monks were anciently the binders of books;" and from their Latin entries respecting the same, the word "conjunctio" appears to have been used for "ligatura." _Hist. of Engl. Poetry_, vol. ii., p. 244. Hearne, in No. III. of the appendix to _Adam de Domerham de reb. gest. Glast._, has "published a grant from Rich. de Paston to Bromholm abbey, of twelve pence a year rent charge on his estates to _keep their books in repair_." This I gather from Gough's _Brit. Topog._, vol. ii., p. 20: while from the _Liber Stat. Eccl. Paulinae_, Lond. MSS., f. 6, 396 (furnished me by my friend Mr. H. Ellis,[D] of the British Museum), it appears to have been anciently considered as a part of the Sacrist's duty to bind and clasp the books: "Sacrista curet quod _Libri bene ligentur et haspentur_," &c. In Chaucer's time, one would think that the fashionable binding for the books of young scholars was _various-coloured velvet_: for thus our poet describes the library of the Oxford Scholar: A twenty bokes, clothed in black and red Of Aristotle---- (_Prolog. to Cant. Tales._)