REPLY1849
MYLES BLOMEFYLDE—ORTUS VOCABULORUM
Sir,—In reference to the Query of BURIENSIS in No. 4. of your periodical, as to the parentage of Myles Blomefylde, of Bury St. Edmund's, I beg to contribute the following information. In the library of St. John's College, Cambridge, is a volume containing an *unique* copy of "the boke called the Informacyon for pylgrymes vnto the holy lande," printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1524, at the end of which occurs the following manuscript note:— "I, Myles Blomefylde, of Burye Saynct Edmunde in Suffolke, was borne ye yeare following after ye pryntyng of this boke (that is to saye) in the yeare of our Lo…
Topics: Genealogy, Book Collecting, Typographical Antiquities, Bibliography
Locations: Bury St. Edmund's, St. John's College, Cambridge, Venice, London, Fletestrete