_Joseph of Exeter de Bello Antiocheno._--Joseph of Exeter, or Iscanus,
was the author of two poems: 1st, _De Bello Trojano_; 2dly, _De Bello
Antiocheno_. The _first_ has been printed and published. The _second_
was only known by _fragments_ to Leland. See his work _De Scrip. Brit._
p. 239. Mr. Warton, in his _History of English Poetry_ (1774), affirms,
that Mr. Wise, the Radcliffe librarian, had informed him that a MS. copy
of the latter was in the library of the Duke of Chandos at _Canons_.
Query, where is it? It was not at Stowe. It is not in Lord Ashburnham's
collection, nor in the British Museum; nor in the Bodleian Library, nor
in the archives of Sir Thomas Phillipps. For the honour of the nation,
we earnestly hope that it may be discovered and committed to the press.