2. I am said to have "repeated what _C._ had already stated."--I consulted the _Shakspere_ of Malone, and verified my recollections, when the query of "Mr. JEBB" appeared--but forbore to notice its misconceptions. Besides, one _C._, after an interval of two months, merely _asserted_ that it was not a blunder of Malone; the other _C._ furnished, off-hand, his proofs and references. 3. To argue fairly, we must use the same words in the same sense. Now _C._ (No. 24. p. 386.) asserts the _Malone had never seen_ the introductory fragment; and asks, who _forged_ it? He uses the word _fabrication_ in the sense of forgery.--The facts are produced (No. 25. p. 404.). He is informed that the _audacious fabrication_, which took place before 1770, was first published by Malone himself, in 1790--yet he expects me to apply the same terms to the blunder committed by another editor in 1794. 4. As an answer to my assertion that the Irish editor _attempted to unite_ the two fragments, _C._ proceeds to prove that he _did not unite them_. The procedure is rather defective in point of logical exactness. It proves only what was not denied. Malone refers to the _will of John Shakspere, found by Joseph Moseley_, with sufficient clearness; and it is charitable to assume that the Irish editor intended to observe the instructions of his precursor. He failed, it seems--but why? It would be useless to go in search of the rationale of a blunder. Have I "_mistaken the whole affair_"?--I entreat those readers of the "NOTES AND QUERIES" who may take up the affirmative side of the question to point out my errors, whether as to facts or inferences. BOLTON CORNET. * * * * * AUTHORS WHO HAVE PRIVATELY PRINTED THEIR OWN WORKS. Can any of your readers refer me to any source whence I can obtain an account of "JOHN PAINTER, B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford?" He appears to have been a very singular character, and fond of printing (privately) his own lucubrations; to most of which he subscribes himself "The King's Fool." Three of these privately printed tracts are now before me:--1. _The Poor Man's Honest Praises and Thanksgiving_, 1746. 2. _An Oxford Dream, in Two Parts_, 1751. 3. _A Scheme designed for the Benefit of the Foundling Hospital_, 1751. Who was ROBERT DEVERELL, who privately printed, in 4to., _Andalusia; or Notes tending to show that the Yellow Fever was well known to the Ancients_? The book seems a mass of absurdity; containing illustrations of Milton's _Comus_, and several other subjects equally incongruous. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * MINOR QUERIES.