"An Orthodox Plea for the Sanctuary of God, Common Service, and White Robe of the House. Printed for the Author, and sold by R. Reynolds, at the Sun and Bible in the Postern."
It is a small 8vo. of eighty-six pages, exclusive of the dedication to the Bishop of Chichester, and an Epistle to the Reader, and has a portrait of the author by W. Sherwin.
Can any of your readers give me any account of this George Alsop, his preferment, if any, and the time of his death?
He is, I feel persuaded, a different person from the author of A Character of Maryland, 12mo., 1666.
P. B.
Minor Queries.
B. L. M.—What is the meaning of the abbreviation B. L. M. in Italian epistolary correspondence? I have reason to believe that it is used
where some degree of acquaintance exists, but not in addressing an entire stranger. In a correspondence now before me, one of the writers, an Italian gentleman, uses it in the subscription to every one of his letters, except the first, thus:
"Ho l'honore d' essere col piu profondo rispetto B. L. M.