write and even to discourse; a jargon, says Wilson, in his _Memorabilia Cantabrigiæ_, could not but be offensive to a classical car. He, therefore, took more than ordinary pains to acquaint himself with the technical terms of the profession, and to mark the abuse of them, of which he has admirably availed himself in the formation of the character of _Ignoramus_, who not only transacts business, but "woos in language of the Pleas and Bench." The comedy was enacted before his Majesty by the members of the University, and he was so much delighted with, _on dit_, either the wit or absurdity, that he caused it to be played a second time, and once at Newmarket. During one of these representations, says Dr. Peckard, formerly Master of Magdalen College, in his Life of Mr. Farrer, "the King called out aloud, 'Treason! Treason!' The gentlemen about him being anxious to know what disturbed his Majesty, he said, 'That the writer and performers had acted their parts so well, that he should die of laughter.'" It was during the performance of this play, according to Rapin and others, that James was first struck with the personal beauty of _George Villiers_, who afterwards became Duke of Buckingham, and supplanted _Somerset_ in his favour. Thomas Gibbons, Esq. says, in his Collection, forming part of the Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, (No. 980, art. 173.) that "the comedy of Ignoramus, supposed to be by Mr. Ruggle, is but a translation of the Italian comedy of Baptista Porta, entitled _Trapulario_, as may be seen by the comedy itself, in Clare-hall Library, with Mr. Ruggle's notes and alterations thereof." A literary relique that is said to have now disappeared; but it is to be hoped, for the credit of a learned Society, that it is a _mistake_. Dyer in his _Privileges of Cambridge_ (citing vol. ii. fol. 149 of Hare's MSS.) gives _the judgment of the Earl Marshal of England_, which settled this famous controversy. The original document is extant in the Crown Office, in these words:--"I do set down, &c. that the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge is to be taken in commission before the Mayor. King James, also, in the third of his raigne, by letters under the privy signett, commandeth the Lord Ellesmere, Chancellor of England, TO PLACE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR BEFORE THE MAYOR, in all commissions of the peace or otherwise, where public shew of degrees is to be made." AN OXONIAN AND A BISHOP, Who had half a score of the softer sex to lisp "Papa," not one of whom his lady was conjuror enough "to get off," was one day accosted in Piccadilly by an old Oxford _chum_, with, "I hope I see your Lordship well." "Pretty well, for a man who is daily smothered in _petticoats_, and has ten daughters and a wife to carve for," was the reply. * * * * * BRIEF NOTICE OF THE BOAR'S HEAD CAROL, AS SUNG IN QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD, ON CHRISTMAS DAY.