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John Vicars (1580? - 1652)

Chronicler, poet, and polemicist Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/28264 References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

12. This MSt. contains. 1. Liber XL Omeliarum beati Gregorii Pape Urbis Rome. 2. Petri Archidiaconi Lond. Remediorum vitiorum 1 & 2 pars in libris XII. 3. Venerabilis Bernardi Clarevallensis Abbatis, libri 5, Exhortationum. 4. Cantica Canticorum cum gloss. interlin. & Bernardus super Canticum præfatum. Many of the Letters painted and gilt. Don. Rev. Rob. Midgeley de Coxwold. This once belonged to John Vicars Rector of Newton near Tadcaster. The Catalogue of whose Library I shall add from his Autograph, to gratify the Curiosity of such as desire to know the Rates of Books before the Art of Printing was invented. Opera divi Hieronomi, in 4 libris xxxiii s. iiii d. Opera Sti. Gregorii, in uno libro, xiii s. iiiii d. Opera Sti. Bernardi, in uno Vol. viii s. Opera Tridonis, in 4 libris, x s. Opera Epiphanii, x s. Opera Anselmi, vi s. Opera Plutarchi, vi s. viii d. Opera Bede, in ii libris, x s. Opera Macrobii, xii d. Opera Cipriani, in ii libr. iii s. iiii d. Sermones Jacobi Voraginis in ii libr. ii s. viii d. Opera Sti. Augustini in 6 Voluminibus, iii l. Opera Chrystostomi, in 3 libr. xxx s. Opera Sti. Ambrosii, in uno Volumine, x s. Opera Sti. Hilarii, vi s. viii d. Opera Dionisii Chartusiani, in 5 libr. xxxiii s. iiii d. Opera Basilii magni, viii s. Opera Cirilli, in ii libr. x s. Opera Dionisii Areopagiti, vi s. viii d. Opera Originis in ii libris, viii s. Opera Hamonis, vi s. Thomas de Aquino super Sententias, in iiii Voluminibus, iiii s. And in a later Hand is added the Glebe belonging to the said Rectory of Newton-Kine. 1563.