Excerpt from Address to the Library Association, by the President, John K. Ingram, LL. D Of materials for English and general European history and literature, our collection does not offer very much. We have, indeed, copies of some of the mediaeval chronicles, such as are to be found in all similar libraries. We have a fine copy, which it will be remembered Brereton noticed When he was here in 1685, of the Opus Majas of Roger Bacon, of the still unprinted portion of which I gave, many years ago, a detailed account, which Victor Cousin did me the honour of re-producing in substance in the Journal ales Saiaiils. We also possess a ms. Of Piers Plowman, which was collated for Mr. Skeat's edition of Langland's poem. We are rather strong in Wyclif literature; Dr. Todd printed from mss. Of ours some tracts attributed to the reformer; Mr. Arnold and Mr. Matthew used several of our volumes when preparing their editions of some of the English Treatises; and a Latin volume has just come back to us from Dresden, where it had been in Dr. Buddensieg's hands for his assistance in the work he is doing for the Wyclif Society. A'set of volumes of no ordinary historical interest has by a series of chances come into our possession. I mean a portion of the Records of the Roman Inquisition, filling 57 bound, and about 12 unbound, fasciculi. The whole body of records of which these volumes form a part was removed from Rome to Paris by the orders of Napoleon I. Those 1n our Library either became separated from the others in the transfer to Paris, or more probably remained in France when the rest(17) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.