On learning that his Oxford opponent had _prepared a new_ edition of his work, _to be published after his death_, in which he was told were some arguments thought to bear hard on his own. "But this appears to have as little foundation as other stories of the kind," says the editor of the History just quoted; "since it is not probable that Dr. John Caius ever saw the strictures which are said to have occasioned his death: for, as Thomas Caius died in 1572, they remained in MS. till they were published by Hearne in 1730;"--a conclusion, however, to which our learned historian seems to have jumped rather hastily, as it was just as possible that a MS. copy reached Dr. John Caius in the second as in the first case; and it is natural to suppose that the Oxford champion would desire it should be so. As a specimen of the manner in which such controversies are conducted, I conclude with the brief notice, that Tony Wood, as the author of _Terræ-Fillius_ calls him, has largely treated of the subject in his _Annals of Oxford_, where he states, that SIR SIMON D'EWES, When compiling his work on the antiquity of the University of Cambridge, "thought he should be able to set abroad a _new matter_, that was never heard of before, for the advancement of his own town and University of Cambridge above Oxford;" but "hath done very little or nothing else but renewed the old Crambe, and taken up Dr. Cay's old song, running with him in his opinions and tenets, whom he before condemning of dotage, makes himself by consequence a dotard." According to Sir Simon, "Valence College (_i. e._ Pembroke Hall) was the first endowed college in England;" "his avouching which," says Wood, "is of no force;" and he, as might be expected, puts in a claim for his own college (Merton, of Oxford,) "which," he adds, "Sir Simon might have easily known, had he been conversant with histories, was the oldest foundation in either University." Therefore, "if the antiquity of Cambridge depends upon Valence College (or rather, upon Peter House,) and that house upon this distich, which stood for a public inscription in the parlour window thereof, it signifies nothing:-- "Qua præit Oxoniam Cancestria longa vetustas Primatus a Petri dicitur orsa Domo." He finally overwhelms his opponent by adding, that Oxford became a public University in 1264, and that a bull for the purpose was obtained the previous year, Cambridge then "_being but an obscure place of learning, if any at all_." Thus I have cracked _Nut the First_. Those who would add "sweets to the sweets" may find them in abundance in the writers I have named already; and the subject is treated of very learnedly by Dyer, in his _Dedication_ to his "Privileges of the University of Cambridge." * * * * * GONE TO JERUSALEM.