with a _poke_.

E. Smirke.


_Querela Cantabrigiensis_ (Vol. ii., p. 168.).--J.M.B. inquires whether
anything is known of the _authorship_ of the _Querela Cantabrigiensis_?
The tract in question appears to have been "written by Bruno Ryves," the
author of _Mercurius Rusticus_, and some few other treatises, in
connexion with which it is commonly bound. Ryves is described by Watt as
"a loyal divine," who was "born in Dorsetshire," and "died 1677." His
_Querela_ was first printed at Oxford in 1646. There was a second
edition in 1647.

In case J.M.B. do not himself intend to send out a new edition of this
tract, it is to be hoped that his Query may induce some one else to do
so. Indeed, a reprint of several similar pamphlets and short treatises,
belonging to the same period, might be brought out with great advantage
at this crisis. The series might begin with

"The Answere of the Vice-Chancellour, the Doctors, both the
Proctors, and other the Heads of Houses in the Universitie of
Oxford:

"(Agreeable, undoubtedly, to the joint and uniforme opinion of
all the Deanes and Chapters, and all other the learned and
obedient Cleargy in the Church of England:)

"To the humble Petition of the Ministers of the Church of
England, desiring Reformation of certaine ceremonies and abuses