The Cambridge Press, is, like that of the Sister University, of great, though disputed antiquity. Its undoubted existence reaches back for a period of 319 years, and it has claims to a duration still more extended. Among the κειμήλια equeathed by Archbishop Parker to Corpus Christi College is to be found a quaint old folio, commencing “Fratris laurencii gulielmi de saona ordinis minorum sacre theologie doctoris prohemium in novam rhetoricam,” and concluding “compilatum autem fait hoc opus in alma universitate Cantabrigie, Anno Domini 1478. Die. et. 6. Julii. quo die festum sancte Marthe recolitur. Sub protectione Serenissimi regis anglorum Eduardi quarti.” This colophon is, as the reader will perceive, conclusive only as to the date of the composition of the work in question. The absence however of pagination, signatures, or catch-words, points it out as printed very little later than the date of its composition; so the only thing to be settled is, where it, in point of fact, was printed, which may as well have been at Cambridge as any where else; at least the chances in favour of the supposition bear a relation, which may be ascertained, to those against it, and a relation much greater than might at first have been supposed from the mode of stating the question, inasmuch as Friar Laurence was clearly at that time a resident in the University of Cambridge, probably a lecturer there.