MINOR QUERIES.

_Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium._--Book I. chap. 2. Rule 8. § 14.--

"If he (the judge) see a stone thrown at his brother judge, as happened

at Ludlow, not many years since."

(The first ed. was published in 1660). Does any other contemporary writer

mention this circumstance? or is there any published register of the

assizes of that time?

_Ibid._ Chap. 2. Rule 3. § 32.--

"The filthy gingran."

Apparently a drug or herb. Can it be identified, or its etymology pointed

out?

_Ibid._ §. 50.--

"That a virgin should conceive is so possible to God's power, that it

is possible in nature, say the Arabians."

Can authority for this be cited from the ancient Arabic writers?

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