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This article focuses on the Royal Manuscript 18 B II which is the earliest and most complete surviving witness to the Middle English prose "Melusine." The article discusses the single-text codex and its features including the number and placement of capitula and explores the hypothesis that the manuscript was translated from the first edition of writer Jean d'Arras's "Mélusine" printed by Adam Steinschaber in Geneva, Switzerland in August 1478.

The article focuses on a letter dated November 11, 1585 from William Davison, the English ambassador to the Low Countries, to an unidentified recipient. It mentions the note argues that the letter was most likely addressed to Sir Christopher Hatton, shedding light on their patronage relationship and providing a valuable addition to Hatton's limited surviving papers. Topics explored include the recipient's profile, the close working relationship between Davison and Hatton.

The article focuses on the history of "The Diggers' Song," a song associated with a 17th-century English commune known as the Diggers, and its possible authorship. It discusses how the song was originally preserved in an anonymous and undated version, found in the papers of Sir William Clarke, a military administrator. The article also explores the potential authors of the song, including Gerrard Winstanley and Robert Coster, and their connection to the Digger movement.

The author presents a list of the sales of the art and books of English author William Blake between 1997 and 2016.

The article explores the eighteenth-century newspaper war between journalist Mary Singleton of "The Old Maid" and Mr. Town of "The Connoisseur." Topics discussed include the documentation of the exchanges between Singleton and Mr. Town on issues such as competition and hypocrisy, the way Mr. Town published criticisms of Singleton in "The Connoisseur," and the response offered by Singleton about the involvement of single women in newspaper publishing.

The article discusses about the Chairing the members, one of the William Hogarth's four paintings The Humours of an Election. It informs that the series describes an election which takes place in the mythic borough of Guzzledown, making it a satire on the manoeuvrings behind the 1754 General Election, particularly in the constituency of Oxfordshire.

The article focuses on a fall 1926 incident involving Miriam Stephenson, a Lawrence College sophomore, who wrote a paper on George Bernard Shaw's 'philosophy and religion.' Shaw's response, a note calling her an "ingenious young liar" and suggesting a career in journalism, is examined. The topics include the incident itself, Shaw's unconventional response, and the implications for Stephenson's future, potentially in journalism.

The article focuses on Ares dual role as both god of war and lover of Aphrodite goes back to Homer. Topics include examines the first line of the epigram evokes the Iliad, where Ares fights on the battlefield; the second line, the Odyssey, in which Odysseus hears the story of how Hephaestus, the husband of Aphrodite, entrapped Ares in bed with his wife.

The article reports that the Italian scholar Scipione Lentolo, known in English as Lentulus completed several page history of the Waldensian church and its tribulations, the Historia delle grandi e crudeli persecutioni contra il popolo che chiamano valdese. Topics incldue examines this partisan yet scholarly account of the highly controversial Protestant community in the French and Italian Alps was over thirty years in the making and circulated early.

The article focuses on comprehensive catalogue of 1967 John Skelton: Canon and Census, Robert S. Kinsman and Theodore Yonge categorize the poem ‘On Time' among the ‘doubtful pieces.' It mentions Trinity College Dublin MS 661 is not well known and small sixteenth-century paper manuscript of 154 pages. It also mentions number of pieces, both prose and verse, which were current in the late Middle Ages and are registered in the standard indexes.

The author discusses possible copying errors on manuscripts of the play "A Yorkshire Tragedy" by Thomas Middleton. The author describes emendations based on the misreading of the ascenders of handwritten letters, and cites editors John Jowett and Stanley Wells' interpretation of the play. The debated scene is between a husband and an adulterous wife, and handwriting samples from Middleton's play "A Game of Chess" are described. Paper from the Jacobean era and the depictions of time and the murder of children in the play are also discussed.

The article focuses on William Blundell and his writing of the first standalone "A history of the Isle of Man." The article explores the evidence supporting Blundell's authorship of the history and identifies three aspects suggesting his authorship such as thematic affinities between the History and Blundell's copious notes and correspondence, Blundell's intimacy with the Stanley family Lords of Man since 1405, and the similarity of the History to his other writings.

The article focuses on a previously unknown episode in the career of physician and philosopher Walter Charleton (1619-1707) in which he was involved in a case concerning St. John the Baptist Hospital in Bath, England in 1667-68.

The article examines the unusual recycling of material in the late-15th-century Middle English manuscript "Oxford, Trinity College, MS 29" or "T." It mentions the focus of "T" on the universal history of the world. Among its manuscript and print sources are the print of "Polychronicon," the "Canterbury Tales," and the poem "Confessio Amantis" by John Gower. It describes the recycling of texts and materials in "T" as the frugality of medieval manuscript culture.

The article presents additional notes to the documentation of the 2014 book "Facts and Inventions: Selections From the Journalism of James Boswell." Topics discussed include the discovery of a paper about Highland Regiment mutineers described by Boswell in a letter to the periodical "Public Advertiser" on September 29, 1778, interest of the journalist in executions demonstrated in an August 1785 article, and the English political satire written by Boswell in 1770.

The article refers to a June 1753 letter written by English author Samuel Richardson to British poet Elizabeth Carter, as well as Carter's letter in response, which discuss the British Jewish naturalization Act of 1753. Richardson refers to a "little paper" which he included with his letter to Carter. The article argues that this was a pamphlet attributed to Philip Carteret Webb having the abbreviated title "The Bill, Permitting Jews to be Naturalized by Parliament, Having Been Misrepresented in the London Gazetteer, of Friday the 18th May."

The article discusses the life and accomplishments of 16th century English translator Thomas North. Topics explored include the commissioning of North as justice of the peace in Cambridgeshire, England in 1592, the recognition earned by North's translation of Plutarch's biographical work "Parallel Lives," and the honour of knighthood awarded to North on October 8, 1591.

The article discusses the way British writer J. H. Prynne dedicated his 2011 book "Kazoo Dreamboats; or, On What There Is" to the Jinling Patriots. Topics explored include the relevance of this dedicatory note, the decision of Prynne to use the cultural name of the Chinese city of Nanjing in his dedication, and the socio-political issues addressed by Prynne in the said book.

The article reviews the Shell Series of the periodical "Gentleman's Magazine" from 1755-1759 contributed by French naturalist Antoine-Joseph Dezallier d'Argenville.

The article lists the attributions of authorship of anonymous, pseudonymous, or incompletely signed letters, poems, articles, reviews, obituaries, drawings, and staff notes appearing in the Gentleman's Magazine during the years 1824–1826.

The article focuses on letters to Roden Noel, English poet, from cleric Frederic William Farrar, novelist Giovanni Ruffini and painter Anna Mary Howitt Watts. It informs that letters are in the Sheila and Terry Meyers Collection in Swem Library at the College of William and Mary. It also informs that the letters illustrate the social and literary connections.

The article focuses on John Locke bequeathed his manuscripts to his relative Peter King with descendants, the earls of Lovelace, preserved these manuscripts until 1947. It mentions systematic catalogue of the smaller deposits of Locke's manuscripts in several other repositories remains a desideratum. It also mentions he subsequently arranged for its contents to be sent to his home in Oak Spring, Virginia.

The article focuses on June of 1662 Anglo-Welsh poet Katherine Philips accompanied her long-time friend Anne Lewis to Ireland after the latter's marriage to Marcus Trevor, Viscount Dungannon. It mentions demand for manuscript copies of her poems and translations most of which remained unprinted and increase in manuscript circulation of her poems. It also mentions print edition of Philips poems published by Richard Marriot.

The article focuses on Ambrose Barnes and John Milton left some papers with bold speculations on politics, including a call for England to be divided into self-governing republics. It mentions Surtees Society edition has attracted some attention from literary scholars because of its references to Barnes's relations by marriage. It also mentions Katherine Philips, who ‘was a woman of the times, and loved poetry better than presbytry and variety of republicanism.

The article discusses and offers the text of the 1880s unpublished letters received by the British editor, social reformer and Methodist Sir Percy William Bunting from the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The letters' topics, including the ethics of crime, violence in Ireland and the periodical "Contemporary Review," are discussed.

The article explores documentary records about the life and date of demise of Church of England clergyman Gilbert Coles in the 17th century. Topics discussed include the attitude demonstrated by Coles toward the educational system and policies during the Interregnum period in England, the arguments regarding the date of his death on his tombstone, and the confusion over the dates of the death of Coles and his son, Edward.

The article explores the possible origins of the confusion over the identity of 16th century antiquarian Laurence Nowell and his first cousin, English churchman Laurence Nowell. Topics discussed include the appointment of the churchman Nowell as Dean of Lichfield until his death, the significant contribution of antiquarian Nowell to the field of cartography, and the enquiries made by antiquary Anthony Wood into the Nowell that also attended the University of Oxford in England.

The article critiques the Old English poem "The Dream of the Rood." Topics discussed include the interpretation of the phrase "sorhleoð galan" as an expression for mourning noted by historian Michael Swanton, the way said poem on the Passion of Jesus Christ presented contexts for a sorrowful song, and the commentary offered by Irish poet Blathmac Cú Brettan on the stanzas which suggested the failure of the Jews to offer public funeral rites for Christ.

The article explores the 16th century lawsuit filed by Southwark gentleman Robert Browne in the Court of King's Bench in England against playwright Benjamin Jonson, who was then identified as a London bricklayer. Topics discussed include the discovery of lawsuit records by historian Leslie Hotson, the alleged non-payment of debt by Jonson which resulted to the lawsuit, and the failure of Jonson to fulfill the bond he sealed on April 7, 1599.

The article explores documentary records about the children of English playwright Ben Jonson. Topics discussed include the elegies written by Jonson for his late first son and first daughter, the 1608 burial of his child that was entered in the parish register of Saint Dunstan and All Saints Stepney church in London, England, and the recording of the baptism of his daughter at Saint Mary Matfelon in Whitechapel on March 25, 1610.

The article examines a new document from the city archives of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England regarding the players who were touring with a company which claimed to be Queen Anne's men. These players include Thomas Swinnerton, Martin Slaughter, William Perry and William Parr. Topics discussed include an order issued by the Earl of Pembroke Sir William Herbert that warns town authorities against these players on July 16, 1616, and the difference of the new document and the old one.

The article looks at the unpublished poem "Ode to Contemplation" by John Wilson Croker, author, literary critic and first secretary of the Admirality in the early 19th century Britain. Topics discussed include the reputation of Crocker as a literary critic in light of his review of the poem "Endymion" by John Keats and works by Mary Shelley and Alfred Tennyson, overview of Croker's poem "The Battles of Talavera," and the absence of punctuation in the "Ode to Contemplation."

The article focuses on Scottish biographer John Boswell. Topics include a description of Boswell's journal in London, England for the period of April 21 to May 16, 1768 in the Yale editors "Catalogue," his final entry for May 16, 1768, his friendship with Edinburgh bookseller Alexander Donaldson, and a brief biographical background on covenanter Robert Trail.

The article reports that between the years 1821 and 1828 an anonymous contributor writing under the signature ‘T.N.' sent fifty-six poems and four letters to the Gentleman Magazine. Topics include examines although his identity has proved impossible to verify with absolute certainty it is my contention, based on extensive evidence in his contributions, that a very strong case can now be made that he was Revd Thomas Nichols.

The article focuses on engraving of Edmund Spenser's tomb, which usually appears as a frontispiece to the volume and faces the title-page that is bound immediately after sig. A1. Topics include considered that in the place of the usual frontispiece, this copy has George Vertue 1727 engraved portrait of Spenser, which has been cropped to fit the volume.

The article reports that Bobby Fong described ‘five fugitive poems' that had circulated during Wilde's lifetime but were not well known because they had not been included in the 1908 Collected Edition. Topics include considered poem was published and attributed to Wilde in the New York Tribune on 23 January 1882 at which time Wilde was in the USA at the start of an almost year-long lecture tour.

The article reports that during the last two decades or so Wirral has emerged as the favored location for the site of the battle of Brunanburh fought in 937 C.E. Topics include examines support for the identification, however, remains far from being universally accepted and several other locations have been advanced and it is perhaps fair to say that the case for Wirral rests primarily on philological grounds.

The article reports that Nicholas Trevet Annales sex regum Anglie and its anonymous Continuatio are important narrative sources for England in the high to late Middle Ages. Topics include considered it relates anecdotes, legends, and local stories as Trevet pays by far the greatest attention to events of national importance and often narrates them at length.

The article discusses a passage B XV 417-28a from Langland's C-Papers by Piers Plowman. Piers Plowman B XV 417 has presented itself to any editors or readers as a crux, either textual or interpretive. As a standalone passage; its point is clear the manuscript variants are minor. In the poem Anima, he discusses the contemporary followers of the apostles. Quotations from the book "Piers Plowman: The B Version" have been used in the article to analyze the passage. The passage doesn't look like ur-B material of revision, rather seems to be a draft of matter perhaps originally intended for the opening of C XVII, but eventually discarded and nor recalled from the ur-B papers, its best material is for use where appropriate.