In the closet next that chambre.

Firste, vij rackettes for the tennys.

Itm. a boxe of leather full of painted antiques.

Itm. a boxe covered with vellat wheren were pictures of nedleworke.

Itm. a litle boxe of leather with table men '.

Itm. two poyses of tynne 2.

Itm. a boxe of woodde with vj hawkes whoodes embrawdered. Itm. a woodden boxe with xxx haukes whoddes of dyvers sortes, xij payer of hawkes belles smalle and greate, and a fawconers glove. Itm. a deske covered with printers leather furnysshed with boxes with counters of tynnes, and having a paire of syssorres, a payer of compas, a penne knyfe, and a poyntell cased in metall. Itm. an other like deske furnysshed with boxes withoute counters, with a penne knyfe, and a payer of sisorres.

6

Itm. an other like deske with a paier of sisorres a penknyfe with boxes without counters.

Itm. an other like standishe with boxes not furnished.

Itm. a square coffre covered with leather having in yt lxxij hawkes whodes, iij lewres, and viij papers with hawkes belles.

Itm. a standisshe covered with purple vellatt furnysshed with iij boxes and with counters all of metall, with a penne knyfe. Itm. a buckler of steele painted in a case of leather.

Itm. a pair of gilte spurres.

Itm. two here brusshes.

Itm. two glasses paynted.

Itm, two baggs with table men and chesse men.

Itm. a stocke bagge with divers lether purses having in theym -ure [query wire] of gold and silver.

peces of

Itm. an olde tassell of crymson silke.

Itm. an instrument of tynne for water.

Itm. two stone bowes of ewe 7.

Itm. a leather bagge with instrumentes of bone, and a crosse bowe

Two dozen hawks' hoods cost in September, 1531, 6s. 8d. ; and 13s. 6d. were given for a dozen of gilt bells for hawks.—Privy Purse Expenses, p. 159.

The term, "printers' leather," tends perhaps to show that printers were then also bookbinders, though the latter term often occurs. p. 189, ibid.

5 Probably a pencil.

Query, Counters for cards. 7 Bows for shooting stones.

See

Itm. a payer of tables of bone with chestmen belonging to the

same.

Itm. a case of leather with lyames' of Carlisle making.
Itm. a long case for plattes 2 covered with vellat.

Itm. a paier of beades of bone.

Itm. a little folding table with a glasse and an ymage.

Itm. lxv lyames and collors of dyvers sortes.

Itm. xviij lures enbrawdered, and xvj other lures playne.
Itm. a combe case of white bone, unfurnished.

Itm. twoo Combe cases of woodd, unfurnyshed.

Itm. a Diall of bone.

Itm. two boxes with the picture of the frenche King and the ffrenche Quene.

Itm. Ix hawkes whoddes embrawdered hanging uppon the walle. Itm. dyvers candells and peces of candells of waxe, whereof three be paynted and gilte.

of a

Itm. foure olde banners clothes of silke, and an olde pece cusshion of clothe of golde, and a Cassak of crymsen and grene silke.

Itm. a smalle cheste of white bone. f. 54 to 56.

In the kinges withdrawing chambre.

Firste one faire instrument being regalles and virgynalles3. Itm. a hanging clocke closed in glasse with plomettes of leade and metalle belonging to the same.

Itm. a greate writing table of Slatte.

Itm. a table with the king's picture and other pictures.
Itm, a skrene of wycker.

Itm. a plate of latten for a candlesticke in th' entree.

Itm. twoo Cuppbordes with ambries, ij tabells with trestells, one forme and one stoole.

A leash or string to lead a hound. It may be inferred from this entry that Carlisle was celebrated for the manufacture of them. 2 Plans of places or towns. See a long note to the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII., p. 343.

3 For" Regalles" see a former note. Virginals is thus explained in the volume whence that note was copied : "The Virginal was that which afterwards took the name of spinnet, and differed from it only in shape. The spinnet was triangular, the virginal oblong, like our small piano fortes." Two pairs in one coffer, with four stops, cost, in April, 1530, 31.; and at the same time the price of a little pair was 20s.-Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VIII., p. 37.

Henry the Eighth indulged to profusion in the purchase of clocks; and numerous entries occur relative to them in the work just cited.

5 Upon the precise meaning of Laten or Laton our best Antiquarians are divided. It is generally supposed to be brass: a long note on the word will be found in the Privy Purse Expenses, p. 333.

6 Ambries were a kind of recess in cupboards for the deposit of valuable articles.-Ibid.

In the closet next the bedd chambre.

Firste twoo patternes for bridges'.

Itm. a square coffer with tilles, having a standishe furnysshed for ynk duste and counters, with a boke conteyning the ymage of both churches, with allso one payer of Sissors, twoo paire of compas, twoo Drawing Irons, and a penne of stele.

Itm. a greate booke called an Herballe.

Itm. twoo greate bibles in latten.

Itm. one booke of Aristotle.

Itm. a massebook covered with black vellvet.

Itm. vj other smalle bookes.

Itm. a great clocke closed in glasse with plometts.

Itm. iij rounde clockes of metalle, whereof twoo be cased in leather.

In the kynges gallery.

f. 56.

First a fayer steele glasse covered with white velvet enbrawdered. Itm. a payer of virgynalles.

Itm. a table with the picture of the frenche king.

In one chambre within the gallery.

Itm. an ymage caste in metalle.

In the next gallery.

First in a lobby in that Gallery a mappe of England, twoo cheyres and one table, a Cuppborde, and a barbe for a horsse.

[To be continued.]

LIBRARY OF THE EARL OF KILDARE, ANNO 1526.

AN account of early libraries is always an object of interest to literary men; and we shall therefore endeavour, from time to time, to present our readers with a series of such catalogues as are extant. The following is a list of the books belonging to Gerald Fitz Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, ancestor of the present Duke of Leinster. It is copied from the Harleian MS. 3756, which is described as "The Rental of Gerald Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare, Ao. 1518, together with a catalogue of his plate, library, horses, and harness given away, and an obituary of the Geraldys. This is a very large volume, of 226 folios of paper, not all written upon, very old and much damaged. On a leaf of parchment, at the beginning and end,

1 Evidently models of bridges.

2 The complete armour, or rather, in this instance, trappings, for a horse, which appear to have been made either of cloth of gold or silk. -Ibid.

is written, xxvii April, 1640, I receaved this booke from Mr. R. Dowles,' and under the former are the arms of Jolin, Duke of Newcastle, &c. from whom many of the MSS. came." ." The rental of the Earl, his plate, and the notices of his horses and harness given away, are not sufficiently curious to be extracted, though the number of horses given to people, of all ranks, from the king to the peasant, is extraordinary. The obituary of the family has, however, been transcribed, from its utility for genealogical purposes.

BOKIS REMAYNING IN THE LYBERARY OF GERALDE FITZ GERALDE, ERLE OF KYLDARE.

The xv. day of Februarij. Ao. Henrici viij. xvij.

FIRST, LATIN BOKYS.-Inprimis Hugo de Vianna sup' libru Mathei; Hugo de Vienna sup' spalteriu; Tria volumina op'is S'cti Anthonij cu tabula; Tria volumina Cronice Anthonini; Quatuo' volūina de Lira; Diallag' S'cti Grigorij; Tabula utilissima sup' Liram; Wirgilius cu glosa; Jacobi locher philomusi pocte epigramata; Opus Cornelij Urtelli poete; Virgilius cũ quatuo' coment'; Vocabula Juris ; Juvenalis cu glosa; Theodotus cu comento; Boecius de cōsolacione Phylosophye; Ortus Sanitat'; Therencius; Faciculus tempor'; Dediu'sitate Avium; Liber cronice in p'gameno; Liber Alixandre manqué; Ordinale; Suma Angelica; Caliopin'; Ortus vocabulor' et medulla gramatici; Comentaria Sesaris; Vegesius; Uthopia Mori; Hympni Andree poete; Novem Testamentiù; Cambrenc' de topogralfia; Laurencius valla; Biblia; Cronica Cronicarum.

YETT BOKIS IN THE LIBERARY: FRENCH BOKIS.-Scala Cronica in Kyldare; Frossart, iiij volumis; Anguiran, ij volumis; Le illustracions de Gaule et singularites de Troy; Launcelott du Lake, iij volumis; De la terre saincte; Ogier le Danois; Larbre des Bataillis; Ung autre libre en Frauncois, en p'shemyn; Ung p'tie de la Bible; Leis Cronikis de France; Mandevile; Lalace damore de vine; Le brevier des nobles, le catir chosis, en ung volume; Le triumph des dames; Ung liber de farsis; Le legent de towt' Sainct; Leze triumphis de Petrake; Le Geardyn de Plesence; Le Romaut le la Roise et Mathiolus; Ung abreviacion de la Bible; Le Swonge du Virgier; Ercules; Encheridion; Vincent isstoriall. v. volumis; La j. volume de la Biblia; Saynt Austen de Civite Dei ij volums; Polipominon saint Jerome en parchement; Les Croniques de la grand et petit Bretaine; Le Methemorphoze; Jozaphus de la baittalle Judick; Oraste le ij volume; Le Graunte Boece; Le ij et iij decade de Titus Livius; j Cronike de Fraunce en parchamyn; Les Comentaris de Sesar.

YET BOKIS ENGLYSH BOKIS.-Furst, Policronycon; Bockas; Arthur; The Sege of Thebes; The Croniklis of England; Cristian de Pise; Camberens; The Distruccion of Troy; The Sege of Jerusalem; The Enaydos; Charlamayn; The Shep'dis Calender; Gesta Romanor'; Troillus; Caton de senectute et de aicisia; The Ordre of the Gartre; The Kyng of Englondis Answre to Lutter; The Sege of the Roodis; Littilton is Tenors; Sir Thomas Moore is booke agayns the new opinions that hold agayns Pilgremages; Regimine Sanitatt'; An olde booke of the Croneklys of Englond.

HEC SUNT NO'IA LIBROR' EXISTEN' IN LIBRARIA GERALDI COMIT' KILDARIE.

Hugo de Vienna sup' iiij Evang'listas; Tria volumia Cronice Anthonini; Tria volumia op'is Se'i Anthonij cũ glo; Quatuor p'tes Nich'i de Lyra; Hugo de Vienna sup' spalteriu; Jacobi Locher op'a poete laureati ; Opus Cornelij Vitelli poete; Virgilius cu iiij coment'; Tabula utilissima sup' Lyra; Juvenalis cu glosa; Theodulus cũ comento; Dyalagus S'ci Georgij; Boecius de Consolacõe Ph'ie; Virgilius cu glosa; Therencius; Fasciculus tp'um; Liber Cronice in p'gameno; De div'sitate anime; Psalteriu de auratu in p'gamēo; Accidens Portiform'; Lib. Alex'i de auratus; Ordinale; The cronicles of England in frenche; A frenche boke in p'chment; The trye of battails; Parte of the Bible in french; The cronicles of Fraunce in french; Maundvile in French; Lalas d'Amo' de viegne; La brevier dez nobles, le quatre choses toutz cestz au vn lyv'; La tryumph de Damez; A boke of Farss' in French.

ENGLISH.-The Polycronicon; Bocaas the fall of princes; Athur; The siedge of Thebes; The Cronicles of England; The feettis of Armes of chyvalry made by Xp'yn de Pyce; Camb'ens.

IRISH.-Saltir Casshill; Saint Beraghans boke; Anothir boke wherein is the begynnyng of the cronicles of Irland; The birth of Criste; Saint Kateryns lif; Saint Jacob is passion; Saint George is passion; The spech of Oyncheaghis; Saint Feghyn is lif; Saint Fynyan is lif; Brislagh my Moregh'; Coucullyns act'; The monk of Egipt lif; Foilfylm'ey, The vij sag'; The declaracōn of Gospellis; Saint Bernard' passion; The history of Clanelyre; The leching of Kene is legg; Camb'ens.

THE OBYTIS OF DYV'CE LORDYS AND GENTYLLMEN OF THE GERALDYS.

OBITUS Maricij filii Geraldi q'm prim' venit in Hib'n' nullus post se in Hib'n' constancia fide firmore relingquens Anno Dпi мo. co. Îxxxo. Obijt Geraldus filius eiusdem Maricij Just' Hib'n' Anno Dõi мo.

Obitus Mauricius filius eiusdem Geraldi Just' Hib'n qui fuit fret' minoris ac prim' fundat' fr'm minor' de zeoghill' qui' fuit Just' Hib'n' et const'uxit castrum de Sliggagh & monest'iu ibidem Anno Dñi мo. cc. Ivijo.

Obijt Thom's filius dicti Maricij xxviij° die mens' Maij Anno Dñi.

Obierut felicis recordacionis Dūs Johanes filius Thom'e fundat covent.. Predicator' de Traly; et Dñs Mauricius filius eiusdem Thome in loco...vocat' callyn Desmonie Anno Dni м°. cc. lx". et sepulti sut in boriali p'te monasterij de Traly.

Obijt Thomas filius dicti Mauricij Anno Dñi мo. cc. lxxxixo.

Obijt Mauricius filius Thome p'dicti prim' Comes Desmonie et Just' Hib'n' Anno Dni мo. ccclvo.

Rycardus de Burgo comes Ulton' fuit capt' p' Joh'em filiu Thome filij Mauricij filij Maurici Anno Dñi мo. cc. lxxxxiiijo.

Obit' dni Mauricij filij p'dicti Maricij sc'de Comit' Desmonie A Dni....