When that part of the text was written which relates to the Royal Library, as it was in the time of King Edward VI, I had not yet seen the admirable life of Edward, prefixed by Mr. J. G. Nichols to his collection of that Prince's Literary Remains, printed for the Roxburghe Club. It is useless now to regret that the printed books of the Royal collection were not, like its manuscripts, kept apart, when received by George the Second's gift. But great as is the difficulty of identifying those gathered by our Kings, severally, Mr. Nichols has succeeded in making a most interesting list of such of the printed volumes, at present scattered throughout the general library of the British Museum, as bear indisputable (or almost indisputable) marks of having been added to the original Royal library by Edward the Sixth.

That list includes the Biblia Rabbinica printed by Bomberg at Venice, in 1547, bound (as three volumes instead of four) in crimson velvet; Froschover's Latin Bible of the same date, magnificently bound in green velvet, but having now a leather back adorned with crowns and roses, and with the king's monogram; a Tyndale's English Testament, which has lost its title page as well as its original binding; the Vecchio Testamento of Bruccioli (1540); the Homilies of 1547, printed by Whitchurche; Peter Martyr's Tractatio de Sacramento Eucharistiæ (1549); Ochino's Tragœdie of the Usurped Primacie of the Bishop of Rome (translated by Ponet, from the author's manuscript, 1549); the Homiliæ of Rudolph Gualther (Zurich, 1553) bound in leather curiously gilt with arabesque borders; the Homiliæ of John Hofmeister (1549); the Basil edition of Castilio's Psalter, &c., of 1547; the Paraphrasis in triginta Psalmos of Flaminio (1552); the Monarchia de N. S. Jesu Christo of John Anthony Panthera Parentino (1545); the treatise De amplitudine Misericordiæ Dei, with other translations from the Italian, by Curio, dedicated by the translator to Edward in 1550; Hooper's Oversight and Deliberacion upon the Holy Prophet Jonas (1550), and Agnes D'Albiac's Livre de Job, traduit en poesie Francoise (1552); both also dedicated, as well as presented, to the king.