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364 ROBERT WYER. Wyer's book, as has been said, was regarded as saleable down to 1632 at least. The latest text extant, printed by M. P. for Henry Gosson, n.d., but perhaps the work licensed to Gosson in 1632, is the text of Wyer's second edition, with the language modernized, and with the style made clearer and less redundant. A chapter on palmistry has been added at the end, and geographical in- formation based on the discoveries of the century Greenland, Virginia, the Cape of Good Hope- is included in the book. The element of fraud in these publications of Wyer's was observed by chance in a study not primarily concerned with Wyer and his ways, and in which these three books were almost the only ones from Wyer's printing-house considered. The time at the present writer's command does not permit of an investigation into Wyer's work as a whole. Perhaps some student more fortunately situated may be led to ascertain whether it was by the habitual practice of such methods of business that Wyer made his way to the respectable position of churchwarden. 1 H. B. LATHROP. 1 An expression of thanks is due to the staffs of the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, and the University Library at Cambridge for courtesy shown to the writer. In addition, Mr. A. Rogers, of the University Library at Cambridge, has laid him under special obligations by kind and valuable assistance.