Bishopsthorp, where he dined with Toby Matthew, the archbishop. On the 13th, being Sunday, his majesty went to the Cathedral, where the archbishop preached a learned sermon before him; after which, he touched about seventy persons for the king's evil. This day he dined with the lord mayor, with his whole court; after dinner, he knighted Sir Robert Askwith, the lord mayor, and Sir Richard Hutton, the recorder. On Monday, the king rode to Sheriff Hutton Park; and on Tuesday, Dr. Hodgson, chancellor of the church, and chaplain to his majesty, preached before him at the manor. After sermon, the king took coach in the manor-yard, when the lord mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs, took their leaves of his majesty, who went that night to Ripon." 46 The Cathedral Library is in a large handsome room, situated on the northern side of the church, and was formerly a chapel to the archiepiscopal palace. The floor is of oak, and a light gallery of the same material affords access to the upper shelves: the western window of painted glass exhibits the armorial bearings of the dignitaries of this Cathedral, having in the centre the arms of the present king as duke of Clarence; the other windows are of ground glass. The foundation of the present library was the gift of Archbishop Matthew, by his widow Frances Matthew. The next addition of any considerable amount was from Lord Fairfax; and Archbishop Dolben gave to the library, by his widow and his son Gilbert Dolben, a present of books in the year 1686, consisting of nearly 400 volumes. The collection of the Rev. Marmaduke Fothergill, S. T. P., vicar of Kipwith, in the East Riding of this county, was added to the library some time after his death, which took place in the year 1731. Besides these, other presents, of less amount, in books and in money for the purchase of books, have been made at different times since the foundation of the library, which now contains 108 manuscripts," " and in printed books, as nearly as at present can be ascertained, about 6000 volumes. 46 Drake's History, page 133. 47 Amongst these is a manuscript version of the New Testament, by Wicliffe, which had formerly been Queen Elizabeth's, and containing her majesty's own autograph. |
