_The word "Peruse."_--I find the word _Peruse_ employed as a
substantive, and apparently as equivalent to _Examination_, in the
following part of a sentence in the martyr Fryth's works, Russell's ed.,
p. 407.:--"He would have been full sore ashamed so to have overseen
himself at Oxford, at a peruse."
Can any of your correspondents cite a corresponding instance of its use,
or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any
academic exercise?