 To the library of St Paul's Cathedral he presented a manuscript that had belonged to Syon Abbey.To the library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Hare gave books including Thomas de Elmham's "History of St. Augustine's, Canterbury"; also giving money to a fund for repairing highways around Cambridge.In 1594 he gave to the university a book relating to its privileges, written by Thomas Marhaunt, B.D., early in the fifteenth century.