In the Appendix (p.495. note), Dr. Bruno Ryves is mentioned, and spoken of
as the author of _Mercurius Rusticus_; but no notice is taken of his being
one of the authors of the _Querela_. Of Dr. Ryves, who assisted in the
Polyglot, a good account is given in Todd's _Life of Bishop Walton_, vol.
i. pp. 306-309.

Barwick was upon another occasion assisted in a work against the League and
Covenant, published in 1644, by William Lacy of St. John's, Isaac Barrow of
Peter-House, Sethward of Sidney College, Edmund Baldero, and William
Quarles of Pembroke Hall, and Peter Gunning of Clare Hall. It is not an
improbable conjecture that some of these distinguished men assisted in the
composition of the _Querela_.

A.B.R.

Easton.

_"Then" for "than."_--At the end of Selden's _Titles of Honour_ (edit.
1631), after the list of "Faults escapled in print," occur the words, "may
with no less difficulty be amended _then_ observed?" Was the word _then_
commonly used in the sense of _than_; or is it a misprint?

P.H.F.

[Dr Latham, in _English Language_, p. 377. (3d ed.), observes. "As to
the word _than_, the conjunction of comparison, it is a variety of
_then_; the notions of _order_, _sequence_, and _comparison_, being
allied. _This is good; then_ (or _next in order_) _that is good_, is an
expression sufficiently similar to _this is better than that_ to have
given rise to it."]