36
17.6
Sir James
Ware. De Hibernia.
1654. (
A major treatise on Irish antiquities. In 1639 he had
published
De Scriptoribus Hiberniae
which is not in the Library).
17.7
Nicholas French, Roman Catholic Bishop of Fems.
The Narrative of the Sale and Settlement of
Ireland.
1668. (
English version of a Latin book, attributed to Bishop French, published at
Louvain, 1668).
17.8
Edmund Borlase.
The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion.
1680.
17.9
Richard Lawrence.
The Interest of Ireland in its Trade and Wealth.
1682.
Dublin.
17.10
Roderick O'Flaherty,
Ogygia.
1685. (
Described in
A New History of Ireland
,
IV, p. 375, as "the
most learned exposition of Gaelic loyalty to the Stuart dynasty and to the concept of the
Kingdom of Ireland”).
17.11
William Atwood.
The History and Reasons of the Dependency of Ireland Upon the Imperial
Crown of the Kingdom of England.
1698.
18.
Plume’s Will (as of 1703) states “I
have erected
over the school ... a library room”. The
inscription on the bell for the tower states that it was cast at Whitechapel in 1699 (Cecil Deedes
and H. B. Waiters,
The Church Bells of Essex,
1909,
privately printed, p. 332), which suggests
that the tower’s rebuilding was at least nearing completion by then. The bell is no longer in the
tower.
19.
Gift recorded in the Maldon Borough Chamberlains’ Accounts for 1699 (Essex Record Office
D/B 3/3/320). Another item in that account roll is for money spent on bell ringing ‘‘when the
Bishop of London was in Towne”. That may, perhaps, be associated with some formalities at the
completion of the building work, for St. Peter's parish lay then within the Diocese of London,
the Bishop’s licence had been necessary c. 1620 for the use of the former church as the grammar
school and this new building, partly under the control of trustees, would require some
permission from the Bishop as well.
20.
Portraits of Edward IV, Edward VI, Mary I, James I, Charles 1 and James II, and of
Archbishops John Whitgift and William Laud and Bishop Brian Duppa. Another “divine” is
unidentified: was he Dr Hacket?
21.
P. S. Baldwin, D. Ettey, K. E.G. Harris (eds.).
A Catalogue of the Petyt Library at Skipton,
Yorkshire.
1964.
Coulthurst Trust, Gargrave, Yorks.
22.
Gordon Goodwin.
A Catalogue of the Harsnett Library at Colchester.
1888.
23.
Andrew Clark. “Notes on the Knightbridge Pamphlets”,
Essex Review
XII (1903), pp. 238-242.
Dr Clark noted 130 folio volumes and “over” 280 others, “a dozen to twenty items often being
bound together”. A number of the titles are additions to Knightbridge's 1677 bequest.
24.
Jean E. Mortimer. “The Library Catalogue of Anthony Higgin, Dean of Ripon (1608-1624)”,
Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, X, pp. 1-75.
25.
C. B. L. Barr. “The Minster Library”, in G. E. Aylmer and R. Cant (eds.),
A History of York
Minster,
1977,
Oxford University Press, pp. 500-501;
26.
E. N. Da Andrade.
A Brief History of the Royal Society.
1960,
p. 18,
27.
The term “title” is used here deliberately. There are some 5,000
volumes,
excluding additions
made after 1704 and some of the volumes contain two or more distinct titles, though few have so
many as some of the volumes in the Knightbridge Library (23 above). By “title” is meant a work
which has its own title-page, its own page-numbering, even if it is by the same author as other
titles bound with it. The Catalogue [I] does not contain all these titles and the present Librarian
has in progress a slip-index of those which [1] omits.
28.
The counting of titles on which this study is based was done with independent checks by
volunteers over the period 1960-1968, with additions to the yearly totals from the present
Librarian’s slip-index. It cannot be guaranteed to provide an exact grand total of Dr Plume’s
books; that and the analysis of the Library’s stock is provisional but it is a very large sample and
can be claimed to provide a sufficiently accurate impression.