"_Querela Cantabrigiensis_."--Is anything known of the authorship of the _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. Anno Dom. 1647_? This seems a favourable time for inserting this Query, as there is a chance of _a second series of "The Universities' Complaint"_ making its appearance before the year is out. J.M.B. * * * * * _Long Lonkin._--Can any of your readers give me a clue to the personality of Long Lonkin, the hero of a moss-trooping ballad popular in Cumberland, which commences-- "The Lord said to his ladie, As he mounted his horse, Beware of Long Lonkin That lies in the moss." And goes on to tell how Long Lonkin crept in at "one little window" which was left unfastened, and was counselled by the wicked maiden to-- "Prick the babe in the cradle" as the only means of bringing down the poor mother, whom he wished to kill. Are there any other traditions of him, and can he have any connection with the name bestowed by children on the middle finger, in the following elegant rhyme?-- "Tom Thumbkin, Will Wilkins, Long Lonkin," &c.? This I had always supposed merely to refer to the length of the finger, but the coincidence of names is curious. SELEUCUS. * * * * * REPLIES. 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 your readers. But it may be as well first to give the account of its production at the trial of Guy Fawkes and the conspirators, Jan. 27, 1606. (See _State Trials_, vol. ii. col. 180.) After Coke had introduced under the seventh head of his speech, as the fourth means for carrying on the plot, "their perfidious and perjurious equivocating," there follows:--