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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Old Popular Poetry : " Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, 



ancf William of Clowdesly," by J. Payne Collier - 445 



Witchcraft, by Rev. H. T. Ellacombe - - -446 



Spring, &c., by Thomas Keightley . _ - 443 



Notes and Queries on Bacon's Essays, No. III., by 



P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. - - - - 448 



Shakspeare Correspondence, by S. W. Singer, Cecil 

 Harbottle, &c. ----- - 449 



Minor Notes : — Local Rhymes, Norfolk — " Hobson's 

 Choice"— Khond Fable — Sir Thomas Fowell Bux- 

 ton, Bart Anagrams ..... 452 



Queries : — . 



Seal of William d'Albini - - - - - 452 



Forms of Judicial Oath, by Henry H. Breen . - 453 



Minor Qceries: — Passage in Boerhaave — Story of 



Ezzelin — The Duke, — General Sir Dennis Pack 



Haveringemere — Old Pictures of the Spanish Armada 



— Bell Inscription — Loselerius Villerius, &c The 



Vinegar Plant — Westminster Parishes — Harley Family 



— Lord Clifr — Enough— Archbishop Magee— Carpets 

 at Rome — Nursery Rhymes — Gloves at Fairs — Mr. 

 Caryl or Caryll — Early Reaping-machines - - 453 



Minor Queries with Answers :—" Diary of a Self- 

 Observer " — Jockey — Boyle Lectures ... 456 



The Discovery and Recovery of MSS., by Kenneth 

 R. H. Mackenzie .-.-.. 

 " The Whippiad " • 



Spontaneous Combustion, by Shirley Hibberd - 

 Major-General Lambert, by Edgar MacCulIoch 

 The " Salt-peter-man," by J. Deck ... 

 Metrical Psalms and Hymns, by J. Sansom 

 The Sign of the Cross in the Greek Church 

 Photographic Notes and Queries :— New Developing 

 Fluid — Photographic Tent — Mr. Wilkinson's simple 

 Mode of levelling Cameras — Antiquarian Photogra- 

 phic Club - - ... 



Replies to Minor Quehiks : — Erroneous Forms of 

 Speech: Mangel Wurzel— The Whetstone— Charade 



— Parochial Libraries— Judge Smith — Church Cate- 

 chism — Charade attributed to Sheridan- Gesmas and 

 Desmas — Lode— Epitaphs imprecatory — Straw-bail 



— How to stain Deal — Detached Belfry Towers 

 Miscellaneous : — 



461 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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Vol.. VII. — No. 184. 



OLD POPULAR poetry: " ADAM BELL, CLYM OP 

 THE CLODGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOWDESLY." 



I have very recently become possessed of a 

 curious printed fragment, which is worth notice 

 on several accounts, and will be especially Inte- 

 resting to persons who, like myself, are lovers of 

 our early ballad poetry. It is part of an unknown 

 edition of the celebrated poem relating to the ad- 

 ventures of Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and 

 William of Cloudesly. 



There are (as many of your readers will be 

 aware from Eitson's small volume, Pieces of An- 

 cient Popular Poetry, 8vo. 1791) two old editions 

 of Adam Bell, S^c, one printed by William Cop- 

 land, without date, and the other by James Ro- 

 berts in 1605. The edition by Copland must 

 have preceded that by Roberts by forty or fifty 

 years, and may have come out between 1550 and 

 1560; the only known copy of It Is among the" 

 Garrick Plays (at least It was so when I saw it)- 

 in the British Museum. The re-impression by- 

 Roberts Is not very uncommon, and I think that 

 more than one copy of it is at Oxford. 



When Copland printed the poem, he did not 

 enter it at Stationers' Hall ; comparatively few of 

 his publications, generally of a free, romantic, or 

 ludicrous character, were licensed, and he was^ 

 three times fined for not first obtaining the leave' 

 of the Company. Nevertheless, we do find an 

 entry of a "book" called "Adam Bell," &c., 

 among the memoranda belonging to the year 

 1557-8, but It was made at the instance, not of 

 Copland, but of John Kynge, in this form : 



" To John Kynge, to prynte this boke called Adam 

 Bell, &c., and for his Jycense he geveth to the howse"— . 



What sum he gave Is not stated. Again, we meet 

 with another notice of it in the same registers^ 

 under the date of 1581-2, when John Charlwood 

 was interested In the undertaking. I mention 

 these two entries principally because neither 

 Ritson nor Percy were acquainted with them ; 

 but they may be seen among the extracts pub- 

 lished by the Shakspeare Society in 1848 and 

 1849. 



