ting the sheets,
it appears that the stated price of Law-Books, in the reign
of Hen. 8, was ten sheets for one groat. _Bibl.
Monast-Fletewodiana_, no. 3156.]

[Footnote 180: In a copy of this book, printed by Grafton in
1546, which was in the library of that celebrated
bibliomaniac, Tom Rawlinson, was the following singular MS.
note: "At Oxforde the yeare 1546, browt down to Seynbury by
John Darbye _pryce_ 14_d._ When I kepe Mr. Letymers shype I
bout thys boke when the testament was obberagatyd that shepe
herdys myght not red hit I pray god amende that blyndnes
wryt by Robert Wyllyams keppynge shepe uppon Seynbury hill.
1546." _Camdeni Annales: Edit. Hearne_, vol. i., p. xxx.]

[Footnote 181: From Mr. Nichol's curious work, I make the
following further extracts:

L _s._ _d._
A.D.
1539. Item, paid for the half part of the Bybell, }
accordingly after the King's injunction } 0 9 9
1544. Item, also paid for six books of the Litany }
in English } 0 1 6
1549. Paid for iv books of the service of the church 0 16 0
[This was probably Grafton's Prayer book of 1549, fol.]
1559. Paid for a Bybyl and Parafrawse 0 16 0

[From the Ch. Wardens Accts. of St. Margaret's Westminster]

The Inventory of John Port, 1524.
In the shop.

Item, a premmer lymmed with gold, and with imagery }
written honds } 0 8 4
(From the do. of St. Mary Hill, London.)

To William Pekerynge, a ballet, called a Ryse and }
Wake } 0 0 4
(From the books of the Stationers' Company).

See pp. 13, 15, 126, and 133, of Mr. Nichols's work.]

[Footnote 182: By the kindness of Mr. William Hamper, of
Birmingham (a gentleman with whom my intercourse has as yet
been only epistolary, but whom I must be allowed to rank
among our present worthy bibliomaniacs), I am in possession
of some original entries, which seem to have served as part
of a day-book of a printer of the same name: "it having been
pasted at the end of '_The Poor Man's Librarie_' printed by
John Day in 1565." From this sable-looking document the
reader has the