[88]The following list of books at Beaulieu, taken by Leland (_Collect. de Rebus Brit._, vol. iv. p. 149), just before the dissolution, will show what was in those days an average ecclesiastical library:—“_Eadmerus de Vitâ Anselmi, et Vitâ Wilfridi Episcopi._ _Stephanus super Ecclesiasticum, Libros Regum, et Parabolas Salomonis._ _Joannes Abbas de Fordâ super Cantica Canticorum._ _Damascenus de Gestis Barlaam eremitæ, et Josaphat regis Indiæ._ _Libellus Candidi Ariani_” (most probably the _De Generatione Divinâ_). “_Libellus Victorini, rhetoris, contra Candidum_” (the _Confutatorium Candidi Ariani_, written against the preceding work). “_Tres libri Claudiani de Statu Animæ ad Sidonium Apollinarem._ _Gislebertus super Epistolas Pauli. Prosper de Vitâ contemplativâ et activâ._” [89]_Ellis’s Letters_, second series, vol. ii. p. 87. For Henry VIII.’s enforcement of Wolsey’s levies on Beaulieu, see _State Papers_, vol. i., part ii., p. 383. [90]Accounts of this palace—probably, as Mr. Walcott says, the King’s hunting lodge—may be found in the _Proceedings of the Archæological Institute_, 1846, p. 32, and the Rev. Makenzie Walcott’s _Church and Conventual Arrangement_, p. 115. [91]Her remains were lately discovered near the high altar, with part of the inscription on her gravestone. (See the Rev. F. W. Baker’s account in the _Gentleman’s Magazine_, vol. ccxiv. p. 63.) A carved head with a crown in the refectory preserves the memory of her husband, crowned at Aix-la-Chapelle King of the Romans, and whose heart was buried, in a marble vase, beside his wife. (Leland, as before, iv. 149.) Tradition says that Eleanor of Acquitaine was also buried here, but she lies with her husband at Fontevraud. [92]Warner (vol. i. 255) mentions that in his time there was still brandy in the steward’s cellars made from the vines growing on the spot. _Domesday_ gives several entries of wines (see Ellis’s _Introduction_, vol. i. pp. 116, 117), though none in the Forest district. But the term ‘Vineyards’ is still frequently found hereabouts as the name of fields generally marked by a southern slope, as at Beckley and Hern, near Christchurch, showing how common formerly was the cultivation of the vine, first introduced into England by the Romans. [93]In Brit. Mus., Harl. MS. 892, f. 40 _b_, is an extract from a most interesting letter written in 1648, describing the state of the refectory, which seems, with the exception of the alterations made in 1746, to have been much the same as at present. [94]Corrected from “the injunction which the Bishop of Hippo gives to the canons of his own order”—_errata_ [95]Quoted from Dugdale’s _Monasticon Anglicanum_, by Warner, vol. i. p. 249.