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_Poor Robin's Almanack_.--Who was the author or originator of _Poor
Robin's Almanack_? Are any particulars known of its successive
editors? In what year did it cease to be published? The only one I
possess is for the year 1743,--"Written by Poor Robin, _Knight of the
Burnt Island_, a well-wisher to Mathematicks," who informs his readers
that this was his eighty-first year of writing. What is meant by
_Knight of the Burnt Island_?
I must not omit to add, that at Dean Prior, the former vicar, Robert
Herrick, has the reputation of being the author of _Poor Robin_.