P.S. Upon what authority does your correspondent E. H. D. D. (Vol. iv.,
p. 507.) assert that "E in such compositions stands for 250?"
_Passage in Jeremy Taylor_ (Vol. iv., p. 435.).--I have to thank your
correspondent F. A. for calling my attention to a passage in the present
edition of Jeremy Taylor, in which the bishop cites a "common saying"
concerning Repentance. I had already discovered the error which F. A.
alludes to, my attention having been called to the words in question, by
finding them quoted by Jackson (Sermon on Luke, xiii. 6. _et seq._); and
a MS. note in the margin by a former possessor of the volume gave me the
true account of the sentence.
I am living at a distance from libraries, and without the opportunity of
examining questions; but I believe F. A. will find that he has slightly
misunderstood L'Estrange; the sentence in question _not_ being found in
Coverdale's translation of the Bible.