Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853

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Various. Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853

Notes

OLD POPULAR POETRY: "ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE CLOUGH, AND WILLIAM OF CLOWDESLY."

WITCHCRAFT

SPRING, ETC

NOTES AND QUERIES ON BACON'S ESSAYS, NO. III

SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE

Minor Notes

Queries

SEAL OF WILLIAM D'ALBINI

FORMS OF JUDICIAL OATH

Minor Queries

Minor Queries with Answers

Replies

THE DISCOVERY AND RECOVERY OF MSS

"THE WHIPPIAD."

SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION

MAJOR GENERAL LAMBERT

THE "SALT-PETER-MAN."

METRICAL PSALMS AND HYMNS

THE SIGN OF THE CROSS IN THE GREEK CHURCH

PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES

Replies to Minor Queries

Miscellaneous

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC

BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE

Notices to Correspondents

MR. HALLIWELL'S. FOLIO EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE

PEOPLE'S EDITION OF. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY

MEDICAL, INVALID, AND. GENERAL LIFE OFFICE,

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY,

The Camden Society, FOR THE PUBLICATION OF. EARLY HISTORICAL AND LITERARY REMAINS

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I have very recently become possessed of a curious printed fragment, which is worth notice on several accounts, and will be especially interesting 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 adventures of Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly.

There are (as many of your readers will be aware from Ritson's small volume, Pieces of Ancient Popular Poetry, 8vo. 1791) two old editions of Adam Bell, &c., one printed by William Copland, without date, and the other by James Roberts 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.

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6th July, 1692/3.

The above Abigail Barker was examined before their Majesties Justices of the Peace in Salem.

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