In Wood's Athenae Oxonienses (ii. 519) there is a short biography of John Theyer. He was bom apparently in 1597 and his career—not an eventful one—does not now concern me particularly. It is the conclusion of Wood's article which supplies me with a text: “ His death hapned at Cowper's-hill [near Gloucester] on the 25th of Aug. in sixteen hundred seventy and three, and two days after was buried among his Ancestors in the Church-yard at Brockworth, particularly near to the grave of his grandfather — Theyer, who had married the sister of one Hart the last Prior of Langthony near Glocester. He then left behind him a Library of ancient Manuscripts consisting of the number of about 800, which he himself had for the most part collected. The Foundation of it was laid by his grandfather, who had them from Prior Hart, and he from the Library of Langthony when it was dissolved, besides Household stuff belonging to that Priory. Afterwards Charles Theyer (grandson to our author John Theyer, who in his last will had bequeathed them to him) did offer to sell them to the University of Occon, but the price being too great, they were sold to Robert Scot, of London, bookseller, who soon after sold them to his Majesty, King Ch. II., to be reposed in his Library at S. James's, he having first, as I have been informed, cull'd them.”