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 222 DEATH OF RICHARD HUNNE. British Museum (pressmark 6495 a 27), acquired in 1869. It is described as incomplete in the 'Catalogue of Early printed Books' (1884), and in Hazlitt's ' Bibliographical Collections/ 3rd Series, p. 295 (1887), but has since been made complete by the addition of the last leaf from the second copy at the Museum (pressmark 6495 a 58) acquired in 1905. This lacks not only that leaf but also the first four. Possibly these missing leaves form the fragment in the St. Paul's Cathe- dral Library (see W. Sparrow Simpson's Catalogue, p. 71), which was purchased in 1878 from Mr. Russell Smith (' Notes and Queries,' 5th Series, X, 242), who had bought it at a sale held by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, on I2th April, 1876 (anno- tated catalogue of this sale now at the British Museum). This, consisting only of the title-page and preface, resembles in all respects the corre- sponding parts of the first copy. The remaining example is in the Library of Corpus Christi Col- lege, Cambridge. The Librarian, who has kindly compared it with a description sent to him of the others, reports that it seems exadlly the same, and that Hazlitt's collation (op. cit. 4th Series, p. 191) is wrong, as it, like them, has only four leaves in quire b. In 1862 a request for information about the tract appeared in ' Notes and Queries ' (3rd Series, I, 450), signed G. H. This may either indicate the existence of a fifth copy, or refer to the first one mentioned above, afterwards acquired by the British Museum. E. JEFFRIES DAVIS.