82. Commends Dr. Woodward's shield, and enquires about the sale of his curiosities.-Mention of Mr. Wilkinson, parson of Laurence Waltham, an antiquary, whose books passed into the hands of Mr. Le Neve, and that he should feel great delight in perusing any volume of his MSS.-He does not expect an...
83. Further enquiries about L. Pembroke's picture of Rich. II. which he did not know before to have been engraved.-Some remarks on Dr. Woodward's. shield, and the strictures on it by Mr. Downes.-That he has heard there is an account of it in the London Journal for Sat. April 9 last, or in one ab...
84. That the remark, on Woodward's shield in the London Journal are just.-Cannot imagine why they have reprinted Bale's book about Sir Jofin Oldcastle, as he really thinks it is not worth more than twopence, but his such things as often come from the London presses.-That Dr. Rawlinson had told h...
85. That the person who has printed a part of his book is man of a very vile character and is "very pragmatical in Kent, where he is abhominated"; that he is a silly fellow, an enemy to antiquity, and is for altering originals; that his Catechism was, stolen, and his books in no esteem.-That he ...
86. Wishes to know whether, Bale's tract about Oldcastle does not occur in pag. 261 of the first edition of Fox's Acts and Monuments [it does]; and whether in Mr. West's copy of Arnold's Chronicle there be not a blank leaf, instead of a title-page, a thing common in old printed books.-Refers Mr....
87. A printed advertisement of the publication of the Monk of Evesham's History of Ric. II., with proposals for printing Trokelowe Annales Edw. II. fo. 133.
88. That all the copies of Arnold's Chronicle begin without a title.-He gives a further account of that work, in which we have nothing new but his conjecture that Thomas Elmham, the historian of Hen. V., might have been the author of the Nutbrown Maid; but that this being only surmise, he did no...