Hargrave MS 258-264

" Historia Placitorum Coronæ. The History of the Pleas of the Crown." In seven Volumes. Folio; on paper. At the beginning of the first Volume are the following Notes in Mr. Hargrave's hand-writing.

" This and the six succeeding Volumes are a Transcript of Lord Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown from the original Manuscript in his own hand-writing. The printed Book was from the latter with such Corrections as appear in this Transcript to be in the hand-writing of Lord Hale. In respect of these corrections Mr. Emlyn, the editor of the printed Work, considered this Transcript as the original finished and perfected. I bought this Transcript in seven small folio Volumes of Mr. Deighton the bookseller; and he bought them of the personal representatives of the late Mr. Lockyer Davis. What is now become of the volume containing the original Manuscript I have not yet heard. "My friend Mr. Henry Brown of Liverpool, since the Date of the above-written memorandum, accidentally met with the original Manuscript of Lord Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown, at a Shop for Books, near Mr. Brooke's in Bell Yard, Temple-Bar Fleet Street, and bought it for the trifling sum of 10s. 6d. F. H."