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smuch as it illustrates some points not touched upon by Mr. Collier.] * * * * * QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 1. It is not without some slight reluctance that I notice anonymous communications, but shall endeavour to repress such feelings with regard to the modest students who may choose to announce their desiderata through the convenient channel of the "NOTES AND QUERIES." A _hearty well wisher_ to so commendable an enterprise, shall have my first responsive scrap. The inquiry affords no scope for ingenuity of conjecture! The _foolish rime_ to which bishop Aylmer refers, is undoubtedly the pamphlet thus entitled:-- "A Skeltonicall salutation, Or condigne gratulation, And iust vexation Of the Spanish nation, That in a bravado Spent many a crusado, In setting forth an armado England to invado." Oxford, Joseph Barnes, 1589. 4to. "A Skeltonicall salutation," &c. Imprinted at London for Toby Cook, 1589. 4to. The Oxford edition is recorded by Ames, and there is a copy of the London edition in the British Museum. Strype, in his account of bishop Aylmer, gives the substance of the letter as his _own_ narrative, almost _verbatim_--but fails to identify the pamphlet in question. Park briefly describes it in _Censura Literaria_, 1815, ii. 18.; and there is a specimen of it in _The Poetical Works of John Skelton_, as edited by the Reverend Alexander Dyce, 1843. While _queries_ evince a sharp mental appetite, _answers_ help to satisfy it; and so, by their united influence, a brisk circulation of ideas may be produced--which, as master Burton assures us, wards off melancholy. BOLTON CORNEY. * * * * * NOTES UPON "NOTES, NO. 1." Sir,--I take the liberty to send you one or two Notes on your first Number, just as they occur to me in looking it over. I will not trespass on you by preface or apology. The "_bibliographic project_" I shall rejoice {20} to see carried out; and though neither an unemployed aspirant nor a fortunate collector (of which class I hope many will be stimulated by the proposition), yet, as I once took some trouble in the matter, I should be happy to contribute some Notes then made whenever the plan is matured and the proposed appeal is made--provided (I must add, and to _you_ I may add) I can find them. The _Liber Sententiarum_ was printed by Limborch, at Amsterdam, in 1692. It forms the greater par
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