Excerpt from Memorial of Bishop Waynflete It is remarkable that the memorial, which is here published for the first time from a manuscript in Heylin's own handwriting preserved in the Library of Magdalen College, Oxford, has escaped the notice of all his Biographers. It was probably written soon after the Death of Queen Anne, which is alluded to in stanza 107, and which mournful event took place on the 2nd of March, A. D. 1619, the very year in which the author was admitted perpetual fellow of Magdalen College. The notes with one or two exceptions are given from the ms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Life of William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester: Lord High Chancellor of England in the Reign of Henry and Founder of Magdalen College, Oxford; Collected From Records, Registers, Manuscripts, and Other Authentic Evidences Dr. Peter Heylin, in his Memorial of'the Life, Actes, and Death of Waynflete, written in English verse about the vear 1619, professedly follows him, and has added no thing to our information. The subsequent accounts of Waynflete consist almost eu tirely of meagre abstracts from Budden and even in the Biographia 'britannica, where a fuller detail might naturally be ex pected, the story of this eminent and meri torious prelate is compressed into a note. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This alphabetical catalogue documents John Willis Clark's collection of over ten thousand Cambridge-related books, pamphlets and pieces of print.