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 Lorde 1525, the 5 day of Apryll,
betwene 10 & 11, in ye nyght, nyghest xi, my father's name
John, and my mother's name Anne."
This tract is bound up with two others, on both of which Blomefylde has
written his initials, and from one entry seems to have been at Venice in
1568. He was undoubtedly an ardent book-collector, and I possess copies
of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, printed by W. de Worde, in 1518, and the
_Promptuarium Parvulorum_, printed by the same, in 1516, bound together,
on both of which the name of _Myles Blomefylde_ in inscribed.
I may add, as a slight contribution to a future edition of the
_Typographical Antiquities_, that among Bagford's curious collection of
title-pages in the Harleian Collection of MSS. (which I doubt if Dr.
Dibdin ever consulted with care), there is the last leaf of an edition
of the _Ortus Vocabulorum_, unnoticed by bibliographers, with the
following colophon:--
"Impr. London. per Wynandum de Worde, commorantem in vico
nuncupato Fletestrete, sub intersignio solis aurei, Anno
incarnatiôis Dominice M.CCCCC.IX. die vero prima mêsis
Decêbris."--_Harl. MSS._ 5919. art. 36.
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