5. In the _Bibliographer's Manual_, by Lowndes, there occurs this entry:
"Life and death of Major Clancie, the grandest cheat in this age," 1680,
and the full catalogue of the Hon. Mr. Nassau is referred to. Can any of
your readers state where a copy of this production may be found? A brief
account of Clancie is contained in the _Memoirs of Gamesters and
Sharpers_, by Theophilus Lucas. He wrote, or there was written, under
this name, various other works not noticed by Lowndes. Can any
information be given as to the assumed or real author of these works?

Lowndes also mentions _Clancie's Cheats, or the Life and Death of Major
Clancie_, 1687. Where can access to this work be obtained?

J. MT.

Edinburgh.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_History of Newspapers._--

"The materials for a satisfactory history of newspapers, lie
scattered in facts known one to this person, and one to that. If
each London or provincial journalist, each reader, and each
critic, who has an anecdote and a date, would give it publicity,
some future volume might be prepared from the combined supply,
much more complete than any to be fairly expected from a
comparatively unaided writer who ventures upon an almost