Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850 by Various
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I saw it some years ago in on old journal or transactions, but Capt. Cuttle's maxim not having been then given to the world, and being now unable to make a search, I avail myself of your valuable publication. [Hebrew] _Colonel Blood's House_.--The notorious Colonel Blood is said to have resided at a house in Peter Street, Westminster. Tradition points out the corner of Tufton Street. Can any of your readers give me information as to the correctness of this statement? E.F.R. _John Lucas's MS. Collection of English Songs_.--Ames, the author of the _Typographical Antiquities_, is said to have had in his possession a folio MS. volume of English Songs or Ballads, composed or collected by one John Lucas, about the year 1450. If this MS. is in private hands, the possessor would confer an essential service on the antiquarian public by informing them of its contents. E.F.R. _Theophania_.--I send you a copy, _verbatim et literatim_, of the title-page of an old book in my possession, in the hope that some one of your correspondents may be able to furnish me with information respecting its author. I believe the work to be a very scarce one, having never seen or heard of any other copy than my own. "Theophania; or severall Modern Histories Represented by way of Romance; |
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