[110] This is the amount stated in the _Book of Benefactors_ (MS.). Dr. Bernard, in his _Life of Ussher_, makes the sum £1,800. [111] Brereton’s _Travels_, published by the Chetham Society in 1844. [112] When the House of Commons was debating whether they should admit Ussher to the Assembly of Divines Selden said, “They had as good inquire whether they had best admit Inigo Jones, the King’s architect, to the company of mouse-trap makers.”--Elrington’s _Life of Ussher_, p. 231. [113] MS., of which a copy was given to the Library by Mr. Edward Evans, 1887. [114] The Library of Trinity College, Dublin. An address delivered at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Library Association, by John K. Ingram, LL.D., F.T.C.D., President. [115] A separate room was provided for the Museum in 1777. [116] In the judgment of the learned Dr. Rudolph Siegfried, formerly Professor of Sanskrit in this University, the name of Edward Lhuyd as a comparative philologist deserved to stand “right after” that of Bopp. [117] The Bodleian was the first Library to acquire this privilege, James I. having induced the Company of Stationers to give it a copy of every work entered at their Hall. In the reign of Anne the Royal Library acquired the privilege, and when George II., in 1757, gave his library to the British Museum, he transferred this privilege with it. The Act of 1801 granted it to eleven libraries, but most of these have commuted it for an annual grant. [118] Lithography would have had the appearance of greater exactness, but to a great extent only the appearance, for some of the pages are so obscure that the lithographic artist would have been unable of himself to trace the letters, and would be as dependent on a scholar for guidance as the engraver was. The errors of even so practised a decipherer at Tregelles suffice to prove this. [119] _Rendiconti del R. Istitecto Lombardo_, ser. ii., vol. xix., fasc. 4. [120] See Hermathena, No. xviii., 1892. The colophon is as follows:--“Rogo beatitudinem | tuam [=sce] præsbiter | patrici ut quicumque | hunc libellum manu te | nuerit meminerit colum | bae scriptoris qui hoc scripsi | himet evangelium per xii dierum spatium gtia [=dni] [=nri] s.s.” The only doubtful letters are “hi” before “met.” If I read them rightly, the colophon must be a copy, the syllable “mi” being omitted. Moreover, the book is copied from one in which the leaves containing the summaries or “breves causæ” were somewhat disordered, and the copyist had not sufficient knowledge to correct the disorder. There are blunders, too, which could hardly have been committed by Saint Columba. [121] “Oroit agus bendacht cholumb chille do Flaund mace mailsechnaill do Righereim la sa ndernada cumddach so.” [122] MacGeoghegan: _Annals of Ireland_ (MS. T.C.D.), an. 590, p. 52. [123] _Topographia Hiberniæ_, ii., c. 38. [124] Graves: _Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy_, vol. iii., pp. 316, 356.