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een occasioned by the circumstance that another tract, with the following title, published in 1701, has the initials W. B. at the end of it,--_A Letter to a Convocation Man, by a Clergyman in the Country_. I have examined both tracts, and they are quite different, and leave no appearance of having proceeded from the same hand. TYRO. Dublin. _King Robert Bruce's Coffin-plate_ (Vol vii., p. 356.) was a modern forgery, but not discovered to be so, of course, until after publication of the beautiful engraving of it in the _Transactions of the Scottish Society of Antiquaries_, which was made at the expense of, and presented to the Society by, the barons of the Exchequer. I believe that a notice of the forgery was published in a subsequent volume. W. C. TREVELYAN. _Eulenspiegel or Howleglas_ (Vol. vii., p. 357.).--The following extract from my note-book may be of use: "The German Rogue, or the Life and Merry Adventures, Cheats, Stratagems, and Contrivances of Tiel Eulenspiegle. 'Let none Eulenspiegle's artifices blame, For Rogues of every country are the same.' London, printed in the year MDCCIX. The only copy of this edition I ever saw was one which had formerly belonged to Ritson, and which I purchased of Thomas Rodd, but afterwards relinquished to my old friend Mr. Douce." This copy, therefore, is no doubt now in the Bodleian. I have never heard of any other. While on the subject of Eulenspiegel, I would call your correspondent's attention to some curious remarks on the Protestant and Romanist versions of it in the _Quarterly Review_, vol. xxi. p. 108. I may also take this opportunity of informing him that a very cleverly illustrated edition of it was published by Scheible of Stuttgart in 1838, and that a passage in the _Hettlingischen Sassenchronik_ (Caspar Abel's Sammlung, p. 185.), written in 1455, goes to prove that Dyll Ulnspiegel, as the wag is styled in the Augsburgh edition of 1540, is no imaginary personage, inasmuch as under the date of 1350 the chronicler tells of a very grievous pestilence which raged through the whole world, and that "dosulfest sterff Ulenspeygel to Moellen." I am unable to answer the Query respecting Murner's visit to England. The most complete account of his life and writings is, I believe, that prefixed by Scheible to his edition of Murner's _Narrenbeschwoerung_, and his satirical dissertation _Ob der Koenig von Engla
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