Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849 by Various
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Bishop Coverdale, published by the Parker Society. His reference is
to Whitaker's _Hist. of Richmondshire_, vol. i. p. 17.] _Caraccioli--Author of Life of Lord Clive._ In reply to K.'s query in No. 7., I have to inform him that "Charles Caraccioli, Gent." called himself "the Master of the Grammar School at Arundel," and in 1766 published a very indifferent _History of the Antiquities of Arundel_; and deprecating censure, he says in his preface, "as he (the author) was educated and till within these few years has lived abroad, totally unconversant with the English tongue, he flatters himself that the inaccuracies so frequently interspersed through the whole, will be observed with some grains of allowance." His _Life of Lord Clive_ was a bookseller's compilation. WM. DURRANT COOPER. * * * * * QUERIES. LOVE, THE KING'S FOOL OF THAT NAME. In Rawlinson's Manuscripts in the Bodleian (c. 258.), which I take to have been written either in, or very soon after, the reign of Henry VIII., there is a poem thus entitled:-- "THE EPITAPHE OF LOVE, THE KYNGE'S FOOLE." Can any of your readers furnish me with information regarding him? He |
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