MYLES BLOOMFYLDE AND WILLIAM BLOMEFIELD'S METRICAL WRITINGS ON ALCHYMY

Sir,—I have had intrusted to me a MS. metrical book on Alchymy, "written by me Myles Bloomefylde, late of Bury Saynes Edmunde in ye Countye of Suffolke, Physytione;" but I can find no account of the author. Worton, Ritson, and Tanner, mention a "William Blomefield, born at Bury. Bachelor in Physic and a Monk of Bury," who wrote *inter alia* a metrical work called *Bloomefield's Blossoms*, or *the Camp of Philosophy*. Were there two metrical writers on alchymy of the name Bloomfield, temp. Eliz. and connected with Bury? [The following Note by Park, which first appeared in the Edition of Wharton…