[124] He has recently (1816) published an octavo volume entitled
     “Histoire des Polypiers, Coralligenes Flexibles, vulgairement
    nommes Zoophytes.  Par J.V.F.  Lamouroux.  From one of his Epistles,
    I subjoin a fac-simile of his autograph.

    [Illustration:  Lamouroux]

[125] The medallic project here alluded to is one which does both the
    projector, and the arts of France, infinite honour; and I sincerely
    wish that some second SIMON may rise up among ourselves to emulate,
    and if possible to surpass, the performances of GATTEAUX and AUDRIEU. 
    The former is the artist to whom we are indebted for the medal of
    Malherbe, and the latter for the series of the Bonaparte medals. [Has
    my friend Mr. Hawkins, of the Museum, abandoned all thoughts of his
    magnificent project connected with such a NATIONAL WORK?]

[126] See post—­under the running title Bayeux.

[127] See page 172 ante.

[128] It is described in the 2d vol. of the AEDES ALTHORPIANAE; forming the
    Supplement to the BIBLIOTHECA SPENCERIANA:  see page 94.

[129] Goube, in his Histoire du Duche de Normandie, 1815, 8vo. has
    devoted upwards of thirty pages to an enumeration of these worthies;
    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