Cork, Sept. 17.
_Story referred to by Jeremy Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 208.).--Although
unable to point out the source whence Jeremy Taylor derived the story to
which A. TR. alludes, I may be excused for referring your correspondent
to _Don Quixote_, Part II. book III. chap. xiii., where the story,
somewhat amplified, is given; but with this difference, that the staff
is not broken by the injured person, but by Signor Don Sancho Panza,
Governor of Barataria, before whom the case is brought for adjudication.
That the story was founded on an older one may be well inferred, from
its being stated that "Sancho had heard such a story told by the curate
of his village; and his memory was so tenacious, in retaining everything
he wanted to remember, that there was not such another in the whole
island."