Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849 by Various
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of Bouquet), nor in Martiniere's _Grande Dictionnarie Geographique_, nor
in the Index to Wright's _Courthand_, a miserable and imperfect compilation. [These Queries are addressed to our correspondents in a very flattering review of "NOTES AND QUERIES" which appeared in the _Morning Herald_ of the 16th of November, and we shall be very glad to receive such answers to all or any of them as it may be in the power of any of our friends to supply.] * * * * * MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY. Sir,--I have had intrusted to me a MS. metrical book on Alchymy, "written by me Myles Bloomefylde, late of Bury Saynes Edmunde in ye Countye of Suffolke, Physytione;" but I can find no account of the author. Worton, Ritson, and Tanner, mention a "William Blomefield, born at Bury. Bachelor in Physic and a Monk of Bury," who wrote _inter alia_ a metrical work called _Bloomefield's Blossoms, or the Camp of Philosophy_. Were there two metrical writers on alchymy of the name Bloomfield, temp. Eliz. and connected with Bury? BURIENSIS. [The following Note by Park, which first appeared in the Edition of Wharton published in 1840, iii., p. 83., coupled with the fact that William Blomefield is described as a Bachelor of |
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