It is one of the peculiar advantages of literary
accumulation, that it is only by diffusing the knowledge of the
materials amassed, and the information gained, that their value is
felt. Unlike the miser, the scholar and antiquary, by expending, add
to the value of their riches.
Permit me to avail myself of the "good the bounteous gods have sent
me," and make one or two inquiries through the medium of your
columns. {184} In the first place, can any of your readers inform me
by whom a pamphlet, of the Elizabethan period, noticed in the
_Censura Literaria_, and entitled _The Fraternitye of Vagabondes_,
was reprinted, some years since?--Was it by Machelle Stace, of
Scotland Yard, who died a brother of the Charter-House?
In the second place, can any of your clerical readers tell me where
I can find any account of the late Rev. Mr. Genesse, of Bath, author
of a _History of the Stage_, in ten volumes, one of the most
elaborate and entertaining works ever published, which must have
been a labour of love, and the labour of a life?
And, in the third and last place, I find, in the _Bristol Gazette_
of the early part of last month, the following paragraph:--"THE RED
MAIDS, 120 in number, enjoyed their annual dinner in honour of the
birthday of their great benefactor, Alderman Whitson. The dinner
consisted of joints of _veal_ (which they only have on this
occasion), and some dozens of plum puddings.
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