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The 2nd. Viscount Montague, like his grandfather before him, was the recipient of several literary dedications. His material circumstances as a wealthy Sussex landowner, and his spiritual significance as one of the foremost Catholic peers, made him an appropriate patron for a number of writers at the beginning of the seventeenth century. At the same time, Montague was a well-known distributor of Catholic books, and a benefactor of ‘three score and six costly great volumes in folio all bought of set purpose and fayrly bound with his Armes’ to that ‘bulwark of extreme Protestantism’ the Bodleian Library.
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3 Wheeler, G.W. Letters of Sir Thomas Bodley to the University of Oxford 1598-1611, (1927), 7–8.Google Scholar See Alan, Davidson ‘Catholics and Bodley’, in The Bodleian Library Record, VIII, No. 5, (1971), 252–7.Google Scholar
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21 APC, 1601-4, 221.
22 CSP Dom, 1603-10, 127. For Montague's speech, see Lords Journal, 2, 328-9.
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29 P.R.O. SP. 116/11/39.
30 A Booke of orders and rules established by me Anthony Vizcount Montague for the better direction of governments of my howswholde, and family together wth the seuerall dutyes apperteyninge to my ne officers, and other servants: Wherevnto I haue prefixed a preface declaring my purpose, and intendment in that behalf, with a brief view of the seuerall matters, which are herein handeled, answeringe to the particular treatises as they are placed in the booke. (1595). W.S.R.O., Cowdray MS. 18. The book is printed, except for the supplement, with an introduction by Sir, Sibbald Scott as ‘“A Booke of Orders and Rules” of Anthony Viscount Montague in 1595, Edited, from the original MS’, in Suss. Arch. Coll., 7 (1854), 173–212,Google Scholar and, with a brief introductory note dealing with the buildngs mentioned in the text by John Hope, W.H. St. in his Cowdray and Easebourne Priory in the County of Sussex, (1919), 119–34.Google Scholar The manuscript is commented on at some length by Mrs. Charles, Roundell in her Cowdray: The History of a Great English House, (1884), 51–73.Google Scholar
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