carried a bill for such purposes, would also carry a
bag, or _poke_, and might therefore be very appropriately called a
poker.

It will be seen in Halliwell's _Dictionary_, verb. "Bag" and "Bagging,"
and in the _Hereford Glossary_ (London, 1839), verb. "Bag," that
_bagging_ is sometimes used to signify cutting; and, more particularly,
cutting for burning.

I mention this, because it may be thought pertinent {205} to the present
inquiry; but as this use of the word has been plausibly supposed to be
derived from the Welsh _Bach_, a hook, it seems to have nothing to do
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
of the Church. At Oxford: Printed by Joseph Barnes, and are to
be sold in Paule's Church Yard, at the sign of the Crowne, by
Simon Waterson, 1603."

J. Sansom.

"_One Bell_" (Vol ii., p. 166.)--In the sixth edition of the _Book of
the Church_ (I _believe_ references are also given in all editions since
the first), Southey gives us his authority for this, "Strype's
_Cranmer_, p. 266. (edition of 1694.)" The passage occurs in book ii.
chap. 26.: "The Duke of Somerset's death." I quote it from the reprint
by the Ecclesiastical History S