[424] This statement rests on the authority of Dr Caius, _Hist. Cant. Acad._ p. 89. Cum duae bibliothecae erant, altera priuata seu noua, altera publica seu vetus dicebatur. In illa optimi quique; in hac omnis generis ex peiori numero ponebantur. Illa paucis, ista omnibus patebat. [425] _Arch. Hist._ III. p. 401. [426] See above p. 45. Dr James has printed the verses from Bodl. MSS. Laud. 697, fol. 27, _verso_, in _Camb. Ant. Soc. Proc. and Comm._ VIII. 213. [427] The whole series is given in _Arch. Hist._ III. p. 461. [428] I quote this account of the glass at Eton from Dr James, _ut supra_, p. 214. [429] De Lisle, _Cabinet de Manuscrits_, vol. II. p. 200. [430] _Voyage Litteraire_, ed. 1717, II. 158. [431] Bliss, _Reliquiae Hearnianae_, II. 693; _ap._ Macray, _Annals_, p. 4. [432] See above, p. 188. [433] See Index. [434] _Arch. Hist._ Vol. II. p. 270. [435] See above, p. 192. [436] See Index. [437] _Arch. Hist._ Vol. III. p. 30. Conyers Middleton, _Bibl. Cant. Ord. Meth._ Works, Vol. III. p. 484. [438] See above, p. 192. [439] See above, p. 105. [440] _Du pret des livres dans l' abbaye de Saint Ouen, sous Charles V._ par L. Delisle. _Bibl. de l' Ecole des Chartes_, ser. III. Vol. I. p. 225. 1849. [441] _Le Librairie des Papes d' Avignon_, par Maurice Faucon, Tome II. p. 43, in _Bibl. des Ecoles Francaises d'Athenes et de Rome_, Fasc. 50. [442] _Archaeologia_, Vol. 47, p. 120. I have to thank my friend Mr P. T. Micklethwaite, architect, for this quotation. CHAPTER VII. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES. SUPPRESSION OF THE MONASTERIES. COMMISSIONERS OF EDWARD VI. SUBSEQUENT CHANGES IN LIBRARY FITTINGS. S. JOHN'S COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE. QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. LIBRARIES ATTACHED TO CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. CHAINING IN RECENT TIMES. CHAINS TAKEN OFF. I have now traced the evolution of the bookcase from a clumsy contrivance consisting of two boards set at an angle to each other, to the stately pieces of furniture which, with but little alteration, are still in use; and I hope that I have succeeded in shewing that the fifteenth century was emphatically the library-era throughout Europe. Monasteries, cathedrals, universities, and secular institutions in general vied with each other in erecting libraries, in stocking them with books, and in framing liberal regulations for making them useful to the public.