[227] Item structura ij fenestrarum in Libraria tam in opere lapideo, ferrario et vitriario, ac in reparacione tecti descorum et ij ostiorum, necnon reparacione librorum se extendit ad iiij^{oo}x^i. xvj^o. et ultra. _Hist. Dunelm. Scriptores tres._ Ed. Surtees Soc. p. cclxxiii. [228] _Regist. Abbatiae Johannis Whethamstede Abbatis monasterii sancti Albani iterum susceptae_: ed. II. T. Riley, Rolls Ser. Vol. I. p. 423. [229] _Hist. and Ant. of Worcester._ By V. Green, 4to. Lond. 1796. Vol. I. p. 79. The measurements in the text were taken by myself in 1895. [230] _Monumenta Franciscana_, ed. J. S. Brewer, Rolls Ser. Vol. I. p. 319, from a document called "Prima fundatio fratrum minorum Londoniae," MSS. Cotton, Vitellius, F. xii. [231] Stow's _Survey_, ed. Strype, fol. Lond. 1720, Book 3, p. 130. [232] _History of Christ's Hospital_, by Rev. W. Trollope, 4to. Lond. 1834, App. p. xxiii. The view of the library (fig. 32) is borrowed from this work. [233] I have to thank M. Joseph Garnier, Archiviste du Departement, for his great kindness, not only in allowing me to examine these precious relics, but in having them conveyed to a photographer, and personally superintending a reproduction of them for my use. [234] This plan is not dated, but, from internal evidence, it forms part of the set to which the bird's-eye view and the general ground-plan belong. They were taken when "des projets," as the heading calls them, were being discussed. One of these was an increase of the library by the addition of a long gallery at the east end at right angles to the original construction. [235] _Voyage Litteraire de deux Religieux Benedictins_, 4to. Paris, 1717, I. 198, 221. [236] I have taken 1 _toise_=6.39 feet. [237] I have to thank M. Leon Dorez, of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, for kindly lending me his transcript of this catalogue, and for continual help in all my researches. [238] Printed in Didron, _Annales Archeologiques_, 1845, III. 228. The article is entitled: _Un grand monastere au XVI^{me} siecle_. I owe this reference to my friend Mr W. H. St John Hope, Assistant Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries. [239] _Voy. Litt._ I. 101, 102. [240] _Dictionnaire de l'Architecture_, I. 267. [241] For the history of this library see Bouillart's work cited at the foot of Fig. 37; and Franklin, _Anciennes Bibliotheques de Paris_, Vol. I. pp. 107-134. [242] For the historical information contained in this narrative, which originally appeared as a paper in the _Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm._ IX. 37 for 18 February, 1895, I am indebted to an article in _The Builder_, 2 April, 1892, pp. 259-263, by my friend the late Rev. E. Venables, Canon and Precentor of Lincoln. [243] This list has been printed in the Appendix to _Giraldus Cambrensis_ (Rolls Series), VII. 165-171.