CHAPTER IV. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES.

Absence of privacy in a Franciscan Friary 55 Books of individual Friars 56 The two libraries, and their contents 57 Grostete’s bequest of books 57 Extant MSS. formerly in the Franciscan Convent 59 Alleged illegal detention of books by the Friars in 1330 60 Richard Fitzralph’s statements 60 Richard of Bury, on the libraries of Mendicant Friars 61 Dispersion of the books of the Oxford Franciscans 61 Leland’s description of the library in his time 62