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Pilgrimage of Kings, &c.—Blind Man's Buffing—Muffin—Hundred Weight, &c.

By STEPHEN BEAUCHAMP.

1. Can your readers oblige me with the name of the author and the date of a work entitled *The Pilgrimage of Kings and Princes*, of which I possess an imperfect copy—a small quarto? 2. What is the etymology of the game Blind Man's *Buff*? I am led to doubt whether that was the old spelling of it, for in a catalogue now before me I find a quarto work by Martin Parker, entitled *The Poet's Blind Man's Bough*, or *Have among you my Blind Harpers*, 1641. 3. What is the origin of the word *muffin*? It is not in *Johnson's Dictionary*. Perhaps this sort of tea-cake was not known in his day. 4. By wh…