TREATISE OF EQUIVOCATION

I can now inform you that the MS. *Treatise of Equivocation*, about which J.M. inquired (Vol. i., p. 263.), is preserved in the Bodleian Library (Laud, *Miscellaneous MSS. 655*.). Dodd, in his *Church History* (vol. ii. pp. 381. 428.), under the names Blackwell and Francis Tresham, mentions the work by its second title, *A Treatise against Lying and fraudulent Dissimulation*, and states that the MS. is in the Bodleian. Through the kindness of Dr. Baudinel, I have seen the tract; and as there is a certain historical interest attached to it, some information on the subject may be acceptable to y…