"Ex tabella in Sacello S. Mariæ. Orate pro anima Ricbardi Poure,
quondam Sarum Episcopi." ...

"Qui quidem Richardus Episcopus postea translatus fuit ad
Episcopatum Dunelmensem ... Incipit Prologus in Philobiblon
Richardi Dunelmensis Episcopi, _quem librum compilavit Robertus
Holcot_ de Ord. Prædicatorum _sub nomine dicti Episcopi_."

Still, however, in the appendix to vol. iv. of the _Itinerary_, p. 164.,
it is said:--

"Richardus de _Bury_, alias _Angravyle_ dictus, episc. Dunelm.,
scripsit Philobiblon."

Upon Leland's authority, the Bodleian catalogue ascribes the work in
question to Robertus Holcot. Watt, however (_Bibl. Brit._), seems to
imagine R. de Bury and Holcot to be the same person. His words are (vol.
i. c. 176 ):--"Bury, Richard. Dunelm., _alias_ Robertus Holcot, Bishop
of Durham, and Chancellor and Treasurer of England, in the reign of
Edward III.;" and again, under Holcot's name, "Holcot, Robert, _or_
Richard D. Bury."

The translator (J.B. Inglis) distinguishes in his Preface between these
contemporary writers, and considers R. de Bury to be the undoubted
author of this work passing under his name. In corroboration of his
opinion, Mr. Inglis refers to the _Biographical and Retrospective
Miscellany_; and, in order to prove that the work was finished in the
author's lifetime, he produces the words: