acquainted with the derivations propounded by Mr. Richardson, but
consider them all unsatisfactory. While on the subject, I would also ask
if Mr. Richardson's _Dictionary_ is considered the best {168} source
extant of information on English etymology, because I cannot help
thinking that it has very many faults and deficiencies. The very word,
for instance, on the derivation of which your valuable correspondent MR.
FORBES offered a suggestion in No. 38., viz. _Martinet_, I had in vain
sought for in Mr. Richardson's _Dictionary_, at least in his quarto
edition, 1887.

PRISCIAN.

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"_Querela Cantabrigiensis_."--Is anything known of the authorship of the
_Querela Cantabrigiensis: or, a Remonstrance by way of Apologie for the
banished Members of the late flourishing University of Cambridge. By
some of the said Sufferers. Anno Dom. 1647_? This seems a favourable
time for inserting this Query, as there is a chance of _a second series
of "The Universities' Complaint"_ making its appearance before the year
is out.

J.M.B.

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_Long Lonkin._--Can any of your readers give me a clue to the
personality of Long Lonkin, the hero of a moss-trooping ballad popular
in Cumberland, which commences--