A.D. 1654
‘April last, 1654, my Lord Protector sent his letter to Mr. Vice-Chancellor to borrow a MS. (Joh. de Muris) for the Portugal Ambassador. A copy of the Statute was sent (but not the book), which when his Highness had read, he was satisfy’d, and commended the prudence of the Founder, who had made the place so sacred108.’
Cromwell’s gift of MSS. See under 1629.
Notes
108 Barlow’s Argument against Lending Books out.