"There was a Preface intended to this play, in vindication of it, against two scurrilous libels lately printed. But it was judged, that a defence of this nature would require more room than a preface would reasonably allow. For this cause, and for the importunity of the stationers, who hastened their impression, 'tis deferred for some little time, and will be printed by itself. Most men are already of opinion that neither of the pamphlets deserve an answer, because they are stuffed with open falsities, and sometimes contradict each other; but, for once, they shall have a day or two thrown away upon them, tho' I break an old custom for their sakes, which was to scorn them." Was this threatened preface ever issued? Are the "two scurrilous libels" here spoken of so scornfully, known to be in existence? The new-found Epilogue belongs as much to the political as to the dramatic history of those troublous times; and let us hope, _maugre_ the unfortunate coarseness of the school to which it belongs, that Mr. Collier will some day present us with a reprint of it _in toto_, accompanied by the above noted preface, if it exist. There is ample matter, as the pages of "NOTES AND QUERIES" have lately shown, for a new volume of Dryden Miscellanies. HENRY CAMPKIN. Minor Queries. 332. _Barrister._--Can any of your correspondents refer me to the etymon of this name, given to a vocation attached to our English courts of law? I can find none even in the comprehensive _Etymological Dictionary_ of Nat. Bailey, unless, indeed, by dividing the word into two portions, viz. "bar" and "rister," and then, with a little of the critic's license, assuming that the latter half might originally have been written "roister." But as this analysis would _render_ it so little characteristic of the class so named, and would strongly imply that some portion at least of that distinguished body was once viewed as the "roisters," _i.e._ "bullies and blusterers," of that division of our courts called "the Bar," it is evident that we cannot reasonably look for the derivation of the latter part of the word from that source. But still, as there may be those who are inclined, in spite of these cogent objections, to doubt whether this may be its true etymon; and it is fit that any such lurking and slanderous suspicion should be dispelled from every sceptic mind, some one of your curious and learned correspondents, anxious to effect it, will, perhaps, tax his etymological skill to the suggestion of a less offensive, and more just and appropriate derivation, than "Bar-roister." W. Y.