1825.] 
yernment ought certainly to add them to 
the treasured curiosities of the British 
. Museum. 
Tailors. — Sir John Hawkwood was 
usually styled Joannes Acutus, from the 
sharpness, it is said, of his needle or his 
sword. Fuller, the historian, says, he turned 
- his needle into a sword, aud his thimble 
into a shield. He was tlie son of a tanner 
—was bound apprentice to a tailor—and 
pressed for a soldier. He served under 
‘Edward III.; and was knighted ; distin- 
guished himself at the battle of Poictiers, 
where he gained the esteem of the Black 
Prince, and finished his military career in 
the pay of the Florentines. He died in 
1394, at Hedingham, in Essex, his native 
place, where there is a monument to his 
memory. Sir Ralph Blackwell was his 
fellow-apprentice—also knighted for his bra- 
very by Edward IiI.—married his mas- 
ter’s daughter— and founded Blackwell 
Hall. John Speed, the historian, was a 
Cheshire tailor; and John Stowe, the an- 
tiquary was also a tailor: he was born in 
London in 1525, and lived to the age of 
_ eighty. Benjamin Robins was the son of 
a tailor at Bath; he compiled Lord An- 
son’s Voyage round the World. Elliot’s 
regiment of light-horse was chiefly com- 
posed of tailors; and the first man who 
suggested the idea of abolishing the slave- 
trade was Thomas Woolman, a quaker and 
tailor, of New Jersey. He published many 
_ tracts on this species of traffic—went great 
distances to consult individuals on the sub- 
ject, on which business he came to Eng- 
land and went to York—where he caught 
the small-pox, and died, Oct. 7, 1772. 
The papal bull is an edict written upon 
parchment, and takes its name from the 
boule or seal, originally of gold or silver 
bullion, but now frequently of lead, or 
Wax, appended to it ; and bearing the im- 
ress, on the right, of the head of St. 
Peter; on the left, that of St. Paul; and 
on the reverse is inserted the name of the 
ene Pope, and the year of his pontifi- 
cate. 
The regular established post between 
London and the towns in the three king- 
doms commenced in 1635. The penny- 
post was instituted in London and its sub- 
urbs by one Murray, an upholsterer, in 
1681: it was first introduced in Dublin in 
1774; and extended and improved round 
London in 1794, In 180] it was made a 
two-penny post. 
. Medical Jurisprudence.—Dr. J. Gordon 
Smith, Fellow of the Royal Society of 
Literature, &e., whose valuable work, on 
this subject, we noticed some months back 
in our critical department (M.M. vol. 59, 
p- 160), is about to deliver (and will in- 
deed, aye commenced before our day of 
publication) at the Medical Theatre, Great 
Pulteney-street, a ‘‘ Course of Lectures on 
Forensic Medicine,” including, among 
others, the following subjects ;— All ques- 
Domestic Varieties. 
357 
tions, connected with the death of a citi- 
zen, that call for medical testimony. The 
reality of death—its semblance, whether 
arising from disease, supended animation, 
or whatever cause. The investigation of 
cases where persons are found dead, under 
mysterious and unusual circumstances, 
either from natural causes, or violent in- 
terference. Death by violence, or personal 
agency. Homicide. Poisons—their his- 
tory and detection, experimentally illus- 
trated. Suffocation—by gas, drowning, 
hanging, &c. Wounds and Brnises—in 
all their extensive varieties. Suicide—its 
detection. Prolicide, or the destruction 
of offspring, including Feeticide, or crimi- 
nal abortion, and Infanticide, or the mur- 
der of new-born children; under which the 
doctrines of the pulmonary. test will be ela- 
borately and practically investigated. Many 
collateral questions connected with death 
will be introduced, that cannot be noticed 
here. Violence, not necessarily involving 
a fatal issue, comprehending, among other 
details, maiming; surgical operations and 
mala praxis; rape, &c. &e. Disqualifi- 
cations for social functions and civil offices : 
Moral—as mental alienation, &e. Strictly 
physical—for marriage ; for military ser- 
vice. Pretended, including feigned dis- 
eases, &e. , Imputed, comprehending mis- 
taken diseases, &c. Miscellaneous ques- 
tions, not easily arranged under foregoing 
heads—as legitimacy of birth, doubtful sex, 
personal identity, insurance of lives, medi- 
cal evidence, &c. &c. Medical police. A 
few lectures will comprehend an outline of 
subjects of municipal interest, relating to 
the preservation of the public health—of 
which a syllabus will be arranged hereafter. 
—The Forensic lectures will be particu- 
larly addressed to the practitioner, and ad- 
vanced student ; the gentlemen of the law 
will find them of use ; and no pains will be 
spared to accomplish the pupil for the me- 
dical duties of a court of justice. 
Mr. James Field, of Bolt-court, Fellow 
and Registrar of the Medical Society of 
London, is about to prepare, for the use of 
his pupils, and for subsequent publication, 
a Series of Questions involving the most im- 
portant principles of Anatomy, Physiology, 
Chemistry, Botany, Pharmacy, and Materia 
Medica. The answers to these questions 
are to be furnished by the student himself, 
and are to be derived from the works of 
Fyfe, Blumenbach, Richeraud, Thomson, 
Ure, Brande, Sir James Edward Smith, 
and other elementary writers most in use; 
to whose works references will be given, so 
that the student will not be perplexed by 
inquiries, to which he would not have the 
opportunity to reply. The idea is taken 
from a book published by Mr. F.’s cousin, 
Barron Field, Esq-, late judge of the Su- 
preme Court at Botany Bay, entitled “ An 
Analysis of Blackstone’s Commentaries, in 
the form of Questions, to which the Stu- 
dent is to furnish Answers by perusal of that 
rk.’” 
