Exeter.
_Treatise of Equivocation_.--In reply to the inquiry of your
correspondent "J.M." (No. 17. p. 263.), I beg to state that, as my
name was mentioned in connection with the Query, I wrote to the Rev.
James Raine, the librarian of the Durham Cathedral Library, inquiring
whether _The Treatise of Equivocation_ existed in the Chapter Library.
From that gentleman I have received this morning the following
reply:--"I cannot find, in this library, the book referred to in
the 'NOTES AND QUERIES,' neither can I discover it in that of Bishop
Cosin. The Catalogue of the latter is, however, very defective. The
said publication ('NOTES AND QUERIES') promises to be very useful."
Although this information is of a purely negative character, yet
I thought it right to endeavour to satisfy your correspondent's
curiosity.