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DEATH OF RICHARD HUNNE. 221 in connexion with this tract I hope soon to discuss in a paper in the ' English Historical Review.' The object of this note is to record a few biblio- graphical facts I have incidentally collected about it, and to ask any readers of THE LIBRARY who have further information if they would be so kind as to share their knowledge with me. Hunne died in 1514, but an allusion to the death of Tyndale in its preface shows that the tract cannot be earlier than 1536. If it was included in the first edition of Hall's chronicle, it was published before 1 542 ; it cannot in any case be later than the edition of 1548. Herbert (Ames' ' Typographical Antiquities,' iii, p. 1^52) places it between books dated 1539 and 1541, the British Museum Catalogue suggests ? 1539, and Mr. A. W. Pollard, who has kindly examined the Museum copies for me, says that there are no typographical peculiarities which would enable anyone to assign it to a particular printer, or date it more exactly. There is an entry in the City Records which may perhaps indicate that some- thing similar to one passage of the text was in circulation in 1515 (see the c Victoria History of London,' i, 247, where the date 1517 should be 1515); the possible existence of this or some other earlier version made it important for my purpose to ascertain whether all the extant copies were of the same edition. As a result of a somewhat prolonged search I am inclined to conclude that there are not more than four (or at the most five) such copies, two of which are only fragments. The first is in the