"The alderman, by help of rabble, Brought from the wall communion table; Below the steps he plac'd it, where It stood before, in midst of quire." A pamphlet war followed; for there was immediately _A Letter to the Vicar of Grantham about setting his Table altarwise_. In answer to this came _A Coal from the Altar_; which was in its turn assailed by _The Quench Coal out_, and _The Holy Table, Name and Thing_ (said to have been written by Williams, Bishop of Lincoln.) A Dr. Pocklington (who was he?) espoused the side of the Altar party, and published his _Altare Christianum_. During this literary contest the vicar appears to have died, and, some twelve months after his death, out comes _The Dead Vicar's Plea_. The affair seems to have created what we should now call a great sensation in the "religious world:" for, says our author: "Scarce was a pen but what has try'd, And books flew out on every side, Till ev'ry fop set up for wit, And Laud, and Hall and Heylin writ, And so did White and Montague, And Shelford, Cousins, Watts, and Dow, Lawrence and Forbis, and a crew Whose names would"---- Master Ward did not like these men, and therefore I omit his rather uncharitable conclusion. Is there any record left of the notable quarrel, which appears to have engaged the attention and pens of some of the learned men of the age? Perhaps some of your correspondents at Grantham could throw some light upon this question. L. L. L. Kirton-in-Lindsey.