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'''Richard Bancroft''' ((1544&ndash;1610) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604.

The Chapter Library has a number of books from Bancroft's library, some of them with one of his two armorial book stamps (see below), some of them with a simple centre-piece binding with the initials "R B". These books were originally in Lambeth Palace Library and
came into the Chapter Library at Canterbury after the Restoration through the gift by [[William Sancroft|Archbishop Sancroft]] of duplicates from [[Lambeth Palace Library]] (c. 1680&ndash;1690).

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==Armorial binding stamps==

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==Bindings stamped with "R B"==
Some of these books have a twentieth century pencil note stating that the initials R B are those of [[Richard Byrde]] (or Birde) who had been a canon of Stall X from 1590 to 1609. Professor James Carley confirms that the initials are in fact those of Archbishop Bancroft and that the books can be traced in the catalogues of his library; at least one still has a post-Reformation Lambeth Palace shelfmark. Other examples are found in the Lambeth collections.<ref>Personal communication from Professor James Carley.</ref>
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==List of books with Archbishop Bancroft's armorial stamp==
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==Further items from Archbishop Bancroft's library==
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[[Category:Archbishops of Canterbury|Bancroft, Richard]]
[[Category:Provenance|Bancroft, Richard]]
[[Category:Clergy|Bancroft, Richard]]
[[Category:Notable provenances|Bancroft, Richard]]