Sir John Evans communicated to the _Archæologia_[31] some most interesting extracts from the Private Account Book of Sir William More of Loseley, in Surrey, in the time of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, which contains an inventory of a collection of about one hundred and twenty volumes. This inventory gives us a vivid idea of the contents of a country gentleman’s library in the sixteenth century. There are the best chronicles of the time, as Fabyan, Harding, &c., translations of the classics, and some in their original languages, statutes, new books of justices and other legal works, books of physic, dictionaries, &c., and each of the books is marked with a price. The most expensive books:--_Cronica Cronicarum_, xxs; Minister’s _Cosmografye_, xvjs; un byble, xs; a calapyne, xs [Calepino’s Vocabulary of the Latin Tongue]; Fabyan’s _Cronicle_, vs; Statuts of Henry theight, xijs; all the Statuts of Kyng Edward the VI., ijs; all the Statuts of the Quene, ijs; Chausore, vs. There were four New Testaments, “one in ffrench,” xxd, two “in Italion,” respectively xxjd and ijs vjd, and one “in lattyn,” xijd. The _Legenda Aurea_ was priced iijs iiijd; Tullye’s _Officys_ translated, viijd; ij bokes conteyning Tully’s _Philosophy_, ijs vjd; Cezar’s _Commentary_, xvjd; ij bokes of Machevale’s works in Italion, iijs iiijd; Hardyng’s _Cronycle_, ijs vjd; _Utopea_, viijd. Of low-priced books we find--A lyttle cronicle, id; Lydgates’ _Proverbs_, id; Alexander Barkley’s _Eclogs_, id; Skelton’s Work, iiijd; and _Triumph of Petrark_, vjd. Sir Egerton Brydges also quoted from a Household Book an interesting list of about the same date as the above-- _Anno_ 1564. Iteme, for booke of the dysease of horses iiijd Iteme, for printing the xxv orders of honest men xxd Iteme, pd for a Lytlton in English xijd Iteme, for a diologge betwine the cap and the heade ijd Iteme, pd for the booke of the ij Englishe lovers vjd Iteme, for a French booke called the historye xvjd de noster ternes Iteme, pd for iij French bookes, the on called xxs[32] Pawlus Jovius