_, which sold
for thirteen guineas; and the first four folio Shakespeares. The prices
obtained for these were eighty-five pounds, one shilling; thirteen
pounds; twenty-four pounds; and three pounds, nine shillings.

The more important manuscripts were _Praeparatio ad Missam_, written and
illuminated for Pope Leo X., which fetched ninety-nine pounds, fifteen
shillings; _Droits d'Armes et de Noblesse_, ninety-four pounds, ten
shillings; _Roman de la Rose_, eighty-four pounds; _Missale Romanum_,
sixty-one pounds, nineteen shillings; and _Romant des Trois
Pelerinages_, thirty-one pounds, ten shillings. These were all written
on vellum.

In 1819 Mr. Hibbert printed for the Roxburghe Club, from a manuscript
preserved in the Pepysian Library at Magdalen College, Cambridge, _Six
Bookes of Metamorphoseos by Ovyde_, translated from the French by
Caxton, together with some prefatory remarks by himself.

REV. CHARLES BURNEY, D.D., 1757-1817

Charles Burney, the second son of Charles Burney, the author of _The
History of Music_, was born at Lynn, Norfolk, in the early part of
December (the exact date is uncertain) 1757. He was educated at the
Charterhouse, and Caius College, Cambridge, but left the University
without taking a degree. He afterwards became a student of King's
College, Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. in 1781. After leaving the
College he devoted himself to educational work, and for a short time was
an assistant master at Highgate School, which he left to join Dr.
William Rose, the translator of Sallust, in his school at Chiswick. In
1786, having married Rose's second daughter in 1783, he opened a school
of his own at Hammersmith, which he carried on until 1793, when he
removed to Greenwich, and there established a very flourishing academy,
which in 1813 he made over to his son, the Rev. Charles Parr Burney.
Late in life (1807) Burney took orders, and was appointed to the Rectory
of St. Paul's, Deptford, Kent, and in a short time after to the Rectory
of Cliffe in the same county. In 1811 he was made Chaplain to the King,
and in 1817, a few months before his death, he was collated to a
prebendal stall in Lincoln Cathedral. He received the degree of LL.D.
from the Universities of Aberdeen and Glasgow in 1792, the degree of
M.A. was conferred on him by Cambridge University in 1808, and that of
D.D. by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1812. Burney, who was the friend
and companion of Dr. Parr and Professor Pors