Barton upon Humber.
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Minor Notes.
_Value of MSS._--In the cause of Calvert _v._ Sebright, a question arose as
to the sale of a collection of manuscript books by the late Sir John
Sebright in the year 1807. In aid of the inquiry before the Master, as to
the difference in value of the manuscripts in 1807 and the year 1849, Mr.
Rodd made an affidavit, from which I have made the following extract,
showing the prices at which five lots were sold in 1807, and the prices at
which the same lots were sold at the late Mr. Heber's sale in 1836:
"No. in Catalogue, 1185. Bracton de (Hen.) Consuetudinibus et Legibus
Anglicæ. (In pergamena) literis deauratis. Sold in 1807 for 1l. 13s.:
produced at Heber's sale, 1836, 6l. 6s.
"Lot 1190. Gul. Malmesburiensis de Gestis Regum Anglorum. (In
pergamena.) Sold in 1807 for 1l. 7s.: produced at Heber's sale, 1836,
63l.
"Lot 1195. Chronica Gulielmi Thorn. (In membranis.) Sold in 1807 for
12s.: produced at Heber's sale, 1836, 85l.
{10} "Lot 1198. Henrici Archid. Huntindoniensis de Gestis Anglorum et
Gyr. Cambriensis expugnatio Hiberniæ. (In pergamena.) Sold in 1807 for
2l. 1s.: produced at Heber's sale, 1836, 78l. 15s. 6d.
"Lot 1206. Chronica Matt. Parisensis sine Historia Minor cum vitâ
authoris, per Doctissimum Virum Rog. Twysden Bar. (In papyro.) Sold in
1807 for 2l. 8s.: produced at Heber's sale, 1836, 5l. 15s. 6d. Total
produce in 1807, 8l. 1s.: in 1836, 238l. 17s."
In the catalogue of Heber's books, &c., Nos. 447. 1006. 498. 118. and 1016.
correspond with the Nos. 1185. 1190. 1195. 1198. 1206.