Is any definite notion attached to this word? When it is said of a
century there is no difficulty; it means that the writer was born and
died in that century. But when we are told that a writer flourished
about the year 1328 (such limitation of florescence is not uncommon),
what is then meant? What are we to understand he did in or about 1328?
M.
_Drax Abbey and Free School._--Can you, or any of your intelligent
contributors, direct me where I can find any records of Drax Abbey, near
Selby, Yorkshire, or of the Free School in Drax, endowed by Robert Reed,
whom tradition states to heave been a foundling amongst the _reeds_ on
the banks of the Ouse, about half a mile distant. Such information will
place me under great obligation.
T. Dyson.
Gainsboro.
_Ancient Catalogue of Books._--A few days since I made the acquisition
of a curious old catalogue {200} of books, interleaved, and containing
about 200 pages, with the following title:
"Catalogus Variorum, in quavis Facultate et materia Librorum
incompactum Officinae Joannis Maire, quorum Auctio publice
habebitur in aedibus Joannis Maire, hora octava matutina et
secunda postmeridiana ad diem ----, 1661. Lugduni Batavorum, ex
Typographia Nicolai Herculis, 1661."
On the back is the following notice to "buyers:"
"Monitos volumus Emptores, hosce Libros ea vendi conditione, ut
cum eorum traditione pretium praesenti pecunia persolvatur. Et si
quis Libros a se emptos intra sex septimanarum spatium, a prima
Auctionis die numerandum, a Bibliopola non exegerit, eos cum
emptoris prioris damno aliis vendere integrum erit ac licitum.
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