In reply to this, the following information has been collected. The name of the author was not _Seward_, but _Seguard_. He is not mentioned by Leland, but Bale calls him "insignis sui temporis rhetor ac poeta;" and states further, that in the city of Norwich, "non sine magno auditorum fructu, bonas artes ingenue profitebatur." He then gives a list of his writings, among which is a work on Prosody, entitled _Metristenchiridion_, addressed to Richard Courtney, Bishop of Norwich, who held the see only from Sept. 1413 to Sept. 1415, and therefore composed during that interval. He notices also a tract _De miseria hominis_, together with _Carmina diversi generis_ and _Epistolae ad diversos_; all of which, he says, he himself saw in manuscripts in Merton College, Oxford, and in the Royal Library of Edward VI. Pits, the next authority in point of date, chiefly follows Bale in his account of John Seguard; but adds, "Equestris ordinis in Anglia patre natus," and among his writings inserts one not specified by Bale, _De laudibus Regis Henrici Quinti, versu_. Tanner copies the first of these statements, yet, singular enough, omits all notice of the poem on Henry V., the very one, apparently, cited in the _Letters on the British Museum_. But there are further difficulties. It was natural to suppose, that the MS. seen by Bale in the Royal Library would be there still; and Tanner unhesitatingly refers to the volume marked 15 A. xxii. art. 5., as the one which contained the poem _De miseria hominis_, noted by Bale. On looking, however, at this manuscript, it became apparent that both Bale and Tanner are in error in ascribing this poem to Seguard. The handwriting is of the early part of the thirteenth century, and consequently full a century and a half before the Norwich poet was born! At the conclusion is this note, by the same hand: "Hos versus, sicut nobis quidam veridicus retulit, Segardus junior de Sancto Audomaro composuit." The writer here named is not mentioned in Fabricius, nor in the _Histoire Litteraire de la France_. Besides the MS. in Merton College, Oxford, referred to by Bale, which still exists there under the signature Q. 3. 1., I find another in Bernard's _Catt._ {262} _MSS. Angliae_, 1697, vol. ii. p. 216., among the manuscripts of Sir Henry Langley of Shropshire, "No. 22. Jo. Segnard [_read_ Seguard] Poemata." I would therefore close these remarks by requesting attention to the following Queries:-- 1. As Blomefield is silent on the subject, is anything more known respecting the biography of John Seguard? 2. Can a list be obtained of the contents of the Merton manuscript? 3. What became of the Langley MS., and where is it at present? 4. In what manuscript of the British Museum is the poem on Henry V. contained? F. MADDEN. P.S. Since I wrote the above, I have found in the Sale Catalogue of the Towneley library, 1814, pt. i. lot 396.: