Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 by Various
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There is also a good article on these letters in a very excellent work entitled _Analectabiblion_, or _Extraits Critique de divers Livres rares, &c., tiréz du Cabinet du Marq. D. R. (oure)_. Paris, 1836. 2 tomes 8vo. F.R.A. _Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum_.--The article inquired for by H.B.C. (Vol. ii, p. 55) is probably one in the _Edinburgh Review_, vol. liii. p. 180., attributed to Sir William Hamilton, the distinguished Professor of Logic in the university of Edinburgh. CH. * * * * * CAXTON'S PRINTING-OFFICE. (Vol. ii., p. 99.) Mr. Rimbault is wrong in giving to Abbot Milling the honour of being the patron of Caxton, which is due to Abbot Esteney. Mr. C. Knight in his _Life of Caxton_, which appropriately formed the first work of his series of _Weekly Volumes_, has the following remarks upon the passage from Stow, quoted by Mr. Rimbault: "The careful historians of London here committed one error; John Islip did not become abbot of Westminster till 1500. John Esteney was made abbot in 1474, and remained such until his |
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