vol. iii. p. 295. But in _Huet's Origines de la Ville de Caen;_
p. 491-652, there will be found much more copious and satisfactory
details.

[130] I am furnished with the above particulars from a _Notice
Historique_ of Moysant.

[131] [A copy of this Roman Edition of 1542, of equal purity and amplitude,
is in the library of the Rev. Mr Hawtrey of Eton College: obtained of
Messrs. Payne and Foss.]

[132] When I was at Paris in the year 1819, I strove hard to obtain from
Messrs. Debure the copy of this work, UPON VELLUM, which they had
purchased at the sale of the Macarthy Library. But it was destined for
the Royal Library, and is described in the _Cat. des Livres Imp. sur
Velin_, vol. i. p. 263.

[133] [Twenty-eight years have passed away since I kept my terms at
Lincoln's Inn with a view of being called to THE BAR; and at this
moment I have a perfect recollection of the countenances and manner of
Messrs. Bearcroft, Erskine, and Mingay,--the pitted champions of the
King's Bench--whom I was in the repeated habit of attending within
that bustling and ever agitated arena. Their wit, their repartee--the
broad humour of Mingay, and the lightning-like quickness of Erskine,
with the more caustic and authoritative dicta of Bearcroft--delighted
and instructed me by turns. In the year 1797 I published, in one large
chart, an _Analysis of the first volume of Blackstone's
Commentaries_--called THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS. It was dedicated to
Mr. (afterwards Lord) Erskine; and published, as will be easily
conceived, with more zeal than discretion. I got out of the scrape by
selling the copper plate for 50 shillings, after having given 40
guineas for the engraving of the Analysis. Some fifty copies of the
work were sold, and 250 were struck off. Where the surplus have lain,
and rotted, I cannot pretend to conjecture: but I know it to be a VERY
RARE production!]

[134] [So in the preceding Edition. He who writes notes on his own
performances after a lapse of ten years, will generally have something
to add, and something to correct. Of the above names, the FIRST was
afterwards attached to the _Master of the Rolls_, and to a
_Peerage_: with the intervening honour of having been _Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas_. My admiration of this rapid elevation
in an honourable profession will not be called singular; fo