Langley's Polidore Vergile

At the back of the title of a copy of Langley's *Abridgement of Polidore Vergile*, 8vo., Lond. 1546, seen by Hearne in 1719, was the following MS. note: "At Oxforde, the yere 1546, browt down to Seynbury by John Darbye, pryse 14*d*. When I kept Mr. Letymer's shype I bout thys boke when the Testament was obberagatyd that shepe herdys myght not red hit. I prey God amende that blyndnes. Wryt by Robert Wyllyams, kepynge shepe uppon Seynbury Hill." At the end of the dedication to Sir Ant. Denny is also written: "Robert Wyllyams Boke, bowgyt by John Darby at Oesforth, and brot to Seynbury." The Seyn…