Some books were lost but a large part of them were saved due to the efforts of Dr Robert Vilvaine, who had them transferred to St John's Hospital.
Leta 1566 sta dekan in kanonik predstavila nadškofu Matthewu Parkerju rokopis anglosaških evangelijev v katerih je bil imenovan škof Leofric, leta 1602 so predstavili 81 rokopisov iz knjižnice Sir Thomasa Bodleya za Bodleian Library v Oxfordu.