Can any of your readers refer me to any source whence I can obtain
an account of "JOHN PAINTER, B.A. of St. John's College, Oxford?" He
appears to have been a very singular character, and fond of printing
(privately) his own lucubrations; to most of which he subscribes
himself "The King's Fool." Three of these privately printed tracts are
now before me:--1. _The Poor Man's Honest Praises and Thanksgiving_,
1746. 2. _An Oxford Dream, in Two Parts_, 1751. 3. _A Scheme designed
for the Benefit of the Foundling Hospital_, 1751.
Who was ROBERT DEVERELL, who privately printed, in 4to., _Andalusia;
or Notes tending to show that the Yellow Fever was well known to
the Ancients_? The book seems a mass of absurdity; containing
illustrations of Milton's _Comus_, and several other subjects equally
incongruous.