A.D. 1604
On June 20, letters patent were granted by James I, styling the library by the founder’s name, and licensing the University to hold lands, &c., in mortmain for its maintenance, to an amount not exceeding 200 marks per annum38.
In the list of donors occur Sir Christopher Heydon, Sir Jerome Horsey (whose gift includes a MS. of the Gospels in Russian, and rolls containing forms of letters, &c., in the autograph of the Czar Ivan Basilides), Sir Ralph Winwood (17 Greek MSS.), Robert Barker the printer, and Sir Henry Wotton (a MS. of the Koran).
Notes
38 Wood MS. F. 27.