Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853

and Queries, Number 184, May 7,
1853, by Various

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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
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NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 184.] Saturday, May 7, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition
5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Old Popular Poetry: "Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough,
and William of Clowdesly," by J. Payne Collier 445 Witchcraft, by Rev.
H. T. Ellacombe 446 Spring, &c., by Thomas Keightley 448 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 Buxton, Bart.--Anagrams
452
QUERIES:-- Seal of William d'Albini 452 Forms of Judicial Oath, by
Henry H. Breen 453 MINOR QUERIES:--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

Cliff--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
REPLIES:-- The Discovery and Recovery of MSS., by Kenneth R. H.
Mackenzie 456 "The Whippiad" 457 Spontaneous Combustion, by
Shirley Hibberd 458 Major-General Lambert, by Edgar MacCulloch
459 The "Salt-peter-man," by J. Deck 460 Metrical Psalms and Hymns,
by J. Sansom 460 The Sign of the Cross in the Greek Church 461
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--New Developing
Fluid--Photographic Tent--Mr. Wilkinson's simple Mode of levelling
Cameras--Antiquarian Photographic Club 462 REPLIES TO MINOR
QUERIES:--Erroneous Forms of Speech: Mangel Wurzel--The
Whetstone--Charade--Parochial Libraries--Judge Smith--Church
Catechism--Charade attributed to Sheridan--Gesmas and
Desmas--Lode--Epitaphs imprecatory--Straw-bail--How to stain
Deal--Detached Belfry Towers 463
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 465 Books and Odd
volumes wanted 465 Notices to Correspondents 466 Advertisements
466
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Notes.
OLD POPULAR POETRY: "ADAM BELL, CLYM OF THE
CLOUGH, 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
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.
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
lycense 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 published by