REPLY1850
Querela Cantabrigiensis
By J. SANSOM.
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 d…
Topics: Authorship, Historical Pamphlets, Church of England
Locations: Dorsetshire, Oxford, Paule's Church Yard