logical
exactness. It proves only what was not denied. Malone refers to the
_will of John Shakspere, found by Joseph Moseley_, with sufficient
clearness; and it is charitable to assume that the Irish editor
intended to observe the instructions of his precursor. He failed, it
seems--but why? It would be useless to go in search of the rationale
of a blunder.

Have I "_mistaken the whole affair_"?--I entreat those readers of
the "NOTES AND QUERIES" who may take up the affirmative side of the
question to point out my errors, whether as to facts or inferences.

BOLTON CORNET.

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AUTHORS WHO HAVE PRIVATELY PRINTED THEIR OWN WORKS.

Can any of your readers refer me to any source whence I can obtain
an account of "JOHN PAINTER, B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford?" He
appears to have been a very singular character, and fond of printing
(privately) his own lucubrations; to most of which he subscribes
himself "The King's Fool." Three of these privately printed tracts are
now before me:--1. _The Poor Man's Honest Praises and Thanksgiving_,
1746. 2. _An Oxford Dream, in Two Parts_, 1751. 3. _A Scheme designed
for the Benefit of the Foundling Hospital_, 1751.

Who was ROBERT DEVERELL, who privately printed, in 4to., _Andalusia;
or Notes tending to show that the Yellow Fever was well known to
the Ancients_? The book seems a mass of absurdity; containing
illustrations of Milton's _Comus_, and several other subjects equally
incongruous.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_Seager a Painter.--Marlow's Autograph._--In a MS., which has
lately been placed in my hands, containing a copy of Henry Howard's
translation of the last instructions given by the Emperor Charles V.
to his son Philip, transcribed by Paul Thompson about the end of the
sixteenth century, are prefixed some poems in a different handwriting.
The first of these is an eclogue, entitled _Amor Constans_, in which
the dialogue is carried on by "Dickye" and "Bonnybootes," and begins
thus:--"For shame, man, wilt thou never leave this sorrowe?" At the
end is the signature, "Infortunatus, Ch.M." Following this eclogue
are sixteen sonnets, signed also "Ch.M.;" in two of which the author
alludes to a portrait painter named _Seager_. One of these sonnets
commences thus:--

"Whilest thou in breathinge cullers, crimson white,
Drewst these bright eyes, whose language sayth to me.