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paBa, cum non intelügerent &* pro necromanticis damnarent,longis clavis affigerent tabulatis in fui ordinis bibliotheca Oxonii ,ubi blattas ac tmeas diu pascentia, fituque &* pulvere demumobduBa , misere computruerunt .

Ingentem, inquit Lelandus , librorum numerum scripsit, quiolim, in multa exemplaria diffusi, religiosisiiine per totamBritanniam in bibliothecis servabantur; nunc autem, pudetdicere, partim e luis forulis excisi, & furto, custodum negli-gentia, sublati, partim mutili, direptis hinc inde quaternio-nibus, facti tam raro comparent, ut facilius sit Sibylla? foliacolligere, quam nomina librorum, quos scripsit. En tibi au -tem, Vir Eruditiffme , laterculum eorum , quae a diversis scrip-toribus Bacono attribuuntur , juxta scientiarum ordmem dispo-fitum.

Grammat.

Summa Grammaticalis , lib. i.De conflruBione partium &*c.lib. i.

Grammatica Graeca, lib. i.Grammatica Hebraea, lib. i.De militate linguarum , lib. i.

Oratio Grammatica. Bal. PitsAd completam. Bal. Pits

Bal. PitsBal. Pits.

Multae praeclarae radices. Lei.Bal. Pits

Mathemat. Physic. &c.

De Geometria , lib. i. Bal. Pits. ,

De laudibus artis Mathemati - Post hanc scientiam. Bal. Pitsae, lib. i.

De s a parte Mathematices , Bal.lib. i.

Parabola de quadratur a ffb.i.. Lei. Bal. Pit/.

De centris gravium , lib. i. Lei. Bal. PitsDe planis , lib. i. Bal. Pits.

story be probable as the fcene is Iaid. by Twine, where Abbot Voche speaks it, as done beforchis time. Wbich if true, I think would not have escaped the knowledge of Leland.And confidering he was so much an admirer of Bacon, and withal so higbly angry withthat house for making bis accefs into their library so difficult, Ldo not see well now hecould omit to have taken notice of it, (At. Tho’ it be no neceflary consequence m logidcto argue ai authoritate negative, yet this authority, ali circumstances considered, makes tome very probable. MS. penes Cl. Dem. Bdv. Burton , Artmg.

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