The history and antiquities of Boston, and the villages of Skirbeck, Fishtoft, Freiston, Butterwick, Benington, Leverton, Leake, and Wrangle; comprising the hundred of Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln. Including also a history of the East, West, and Wildmore fens, and copious notices of the Holland or Haut-Huntre fen ... sketches of the geology, natural history, botany, and agriculture of the district; a very extensive collection of archaisms and provincial words, local dialect, phrases, proverbs, omens, superstitions, etc. By Pishey Thompson. Illustrated with one hundred engravings.

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SflVna5ti c Bi~baies in XtincafusI tc
ALTHOUGH the lists of the books found in the BOSTON FRIARIES, &C. are very
short and trifling, yet they are not more so than those which are given of other
religious houses in Lincolnshire; for instance,In BARDNEY Abbey, LELAND found
An old Chronicle in English.
A Life of St. Oswald in verse.
Commentaries of Bede on the Acts of the Apostles.
of Isidore on the Old Testament.,, of Anselm on the Epistles of St. Paul.
of Pompey upon Donatus.
In BOURNE Abbey only one book,A little History of Britain.
At CROYLAND LELAND mentions only
Fulcher. Turpin.
A History of King Richard in verse.
Two Commentators.
Dymmoc against Wickliffe.
Mr. HUNTER adds, these could be only a small part of the library.
DEEPING PRIORY Library, according to Mr. MERRY:WEATHER (see page 109), consisted of twenty-four volumes; Mr. HUNTER SayS, of twenty-three, among them a
history of the Isle of Ely.
REEVESBY Abbey Library contained
A Life of St. Modwen, by Geoffry Abbot of Burton.
A Commentary on the Twelve Apostles, by Robert of Burlington.
At SPALDING Abbey LELAND found,
A book of Adalbert, the deacon., of Alexander Necham.
At THORNTON ABBEY,
Three Theological books.
Peter de Vineis, pro Frederico contra Pontificem Romannm.
TUPHOLMIE ABBEY possessed
Fulcher's History.
And a fragment of an "Historiola de Britannia."
Complete catalogues exist of the Glastonbury, Peterborough, Deeping, Leicester,
Reading, Dover, and Ramsey Abbeys and Monastic Libraries. The Monastery of
Eye, near Peterborough, contained a very valuable MS., called the Red Book of
Eye, which was said to be the identical copy of the Gospels possessed by Felix, who
died in 642; this was not the Felix who was a monk at Croyland, for the latter
wrote the life of St. Guthlac, who died in 714 or 715. One of the most extensive
Monastic Libraries recorded is that which was possessed by the Priory of Bretton,
at Monk Bretton, near Barnsley, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. This consisted
of 150 distinct works, the greatest part of which were MSS. The books were preserved at Worsborough, near Barnsley, some time after the dissolution.1
1 See HUNTER on Monastic Libraries, and MERRYWEATHER'S Bibliomania inz the Middle Ages.