A dispute once arose between the Doctors of Law and Medicine, in Cambridge, as to which had the right of precedence. "Does the _thief_ or _hangman_ take precedence at executions?" asked the Chancellor, on reference to his judgment. "The former," answered a wag. "Then let the Doctors of Law have precedence," said the Chancellor. * * * * * COMPLIMENTS TO THE LEARNED OF BOTH UNIVERSITIES. "The names which learned men bear for any length of time," says Dr. Parr, "are generally well founded." _Dr. Chillingworth_, for his able and convincing writings in support of the Protestant Church, was styled "MALLEUS PAPISTARUM." _Dr. Sutherland_, the friend and literary associate of Dr. Mead, and others, obtained the _soubriquet_ of "THE WALKING DICTIONARY." John Duns, better known as the celebrated _Duns Scotus_, who was bred at Merton College, Oxford, and is said to have been buried alive, was called DOCTOR SUBTILIS; Another Mertonian, named Occam, his successor and opponent, was named DOCTOR INVINCIBILIS; A third was the famous Sir Henry Savile, who had the title of PROFOUND Bestowed upon him: and a fourth of the Society of Merton College, was the celebrated Reformer, John Wickliffe, who was called DOCTOR EVANGELICUS. Wood, says, that Dr. John Reynolds, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, died in 1607, "one of so prodigious a memory, that he might have been called THE WALKING LIBRARY;" To "see whom," he adds, "was to command virtue itself." If Duns Scotus was justly called "the most subtle doctor," says Parr, Roger Bacon, "THE WONDERFUL," Bonaventure "the Seraphim," Aquinas the "Universal and Evangelical," surely Hooker has with equal, if not superior justice, obtained the name of "THE JUDICIOUS." Bishop Louth, in his preface to his English Grammar, has bestowed the highest praise upon the purity of Hooker's style. Bishop Warburton, in his book on the Alliance between Church and State, often quotes him, and calls him, "the excellent, the admirable, the best good man of our order." * * * * * JOHN LELAND, Senior, says Wood, who in the reigns of Henry V. and VI. taught and read in Peckwaters Ynne, while it flourished with grammarians, "was one so well seen in verse and prose, and all sorts of humanity, that he went beyond the learnedest of his age, and was so noted a grammarian, that this verse was made upon him:-- 'Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland grammaticorum;' Which," he adds, "with some alteration, was fastened upon John Leland, junior, by Richard Croke, of Cambridge, at what time the said Leland became a Protestant, and thereupon," observes Wood (as if it were a necessary consequence,) "fell mad:" 'Ut rosa flos florum sic Leland flos fatuorum.'