Notes and Queries, Number 23, April 6, 1850 by Various
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"He was in the suite of the English ambassador to Russia, returned and
practised physic in London married unfortunately, buried his wife, and then went to Nottingham, where he lived several years. During his abode there he wrote a small _Treatise on the Small Pocks_, this _Catalogue of Plants_, and the _History of Nottingham_, the materials for which John Plumtre, Esq. of Nottingham, was so obliging as to assist him with. He also was paid 40l. by a London bookseller for adding 20,000 words to an English dictionary. He was master of seven languages, and in 1746 he was favoured with a commission in the Nottinghamshire Foot, raised at that time. Soon after died, and was buried in St. Peter's Churchyard. "William Ayscough, father of the printer of this _Catalogus Stirpium_ (G. Ayscough), in 1710, first introduced the art of printing at Nottingham. "Mr. White was the same year the first printer at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; and Mr. Dicey at Northampton."--_MS. Note in the Copy of the Cat. Stirpium, in the Library of the British Museum_. * * * * * MISCELLANEOUS. NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. Our advertising columns already show some of the good results of the _Exhibition of the Works of Ancient and MediƦval Art_. Mr. Williams announced last week his _Historic Reliques_, to be etched by |
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