Annals of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, A.D. 1598-A.D. 1867

Chapter Library. By what right they thus alienated their corporate

property no one probably cared to enquire; but, from the tokens of neglect still visible upon the books, we may conclude that only by this alienation were they in all likelihood saved from ultimate destruction: for they nearly all bear more or less sign of having been exposed to great damp, which in several instances...