238 THOMAS HARDING April friends : the first, Thomas Hyde, who had probably been his pupil at New College, and, later, prebendary and head master of Winchester, became afterwards one of the most celebrated professors of Douai ; ^ the second was Thomas Bayley, an English priest, formerly a student of divinity in Cambridge.^ They took in hand the management of the inheritance ; they made an inventory of the money and a few jewels, chiefly rings, represent- ing a value of about 850 florins. From an entry in the list of precious objects, Conspicillia, and this other. Item cocleare argen- teum cum uasculo argenteo pro oculis abluendis, it appears that Harding's eyes and sight were delicate. The other goods consisted chiefly of gowns and dresses which, to judge from the materials,
- ustade, halfe-sette, grouegreine ', and from the description, had
been brought over from England. The scholar is revealed by the reams of paper and the leaden or leathern writing instruments. More characteristic even is the fine collection of books which was sold by auction like the rest of the goods. The list shows that Harding was interested in Italian literature : he possessed a Petrarch, a translation of Ptolemy's letters in that language, and a work by Blondus. He had not interrupted his study of Hebrew : besides the lexicons of Pagnini, Munster, and Kimchius, he owned the grammatical treatises of two Lou vain hebraists, Campensis and Clenardus. With the latter he seems to have had a common interest in travels, in foreign peoples and languages, for the famous Epistolae Peregrinationum of the Diest scholar is mentioned next to some collections of letters from India. The greater part of the books, however, are works of divinity and controversy : besides the writings of the fathers of the church and of the schoolmen, the list contains the works of More and Fisher, a life of Reginald Pole, Cooper's Thesaurus, Florence Volusene's De Animi Tranquillitate, and In Psalmum XV Commentatio. Further, the apologetic writings of his friends : Alan Cope's Dialogues, Saunders's Monarchia and Orations, his De Officio Missae and De Adoratione Imaginum, Richard Smith's works, his own Rejoynder against Jewell, and many more. Nearly as numerous as the works of his countrymen are those of the Louvain professors of divinity : the controversial writings of Ruard Tapper and Michael de Bay, Pighius's Hierarchia, Hessels's Eucharistia, and Sonnius's Demonstrationes Religionis Christianae € Verbo Dei ; similarly the exegetic treatises of Jansenius on the • Thomas Hyde was matriculated at Louvain on 5 April 1 563 : ' D. Thomas Hyde nuberiensis [of Newbury] anglus ' (Lib. iv Intit., fo. 390 ; see Wood, i. 250 699, 703, and Diet, of Nat. Biogr.).
- Thomas Bayley was matriculated at Louvain on 31 July 1563 : ' Thomas baleus,
baccalaureus f ormatus Cantabrigiae — pauper [i.e. he did not pay the fuJl matriculation fees] — presbyter anglus ' (Lib. iv Intit., fo. 393).
