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REPLY1850

Querela Cantabrigiensis

By A. B. R. (Easton)

MR. SANSOM is sustained by Anthony Wood in assigning the *Querela* to Dean Ryves; but it may be doubted whether he were anything but the editor, publishing it as an Appendix to the *Mercurius Rusticus*. The title of the work is *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*. Now Dean Ryves was a member of the University of Oxford. In Wood's *Fasti*, it is stated that he took the degree of B.A., Oct. 26, 1616, being then of New College. On June 9, 1619, he was admitted of Mag…

Topics: University History, Royalist Literature, Civil War Era Publications

Locations: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, New College, Magdalen College, London, St. John's, Peter-House, Sidney College, Pembroke Hall, Clare Hall