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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 100. 



sbow that no bioijrapher of note has afBrmed it. 

 It was an expedition Jilted out by Raleigh which 

 discovered Virginia. M. 



It appears by the Hisiorie of Travaile into Vir- 

 ginia Britannia, by Strachey, so ably edited by 

 jlr. Major for the Halvliiyt Society, that Sir 

 Walter Raleigh sent out' his first expedition to 

 Virginia in 1584, under Captain Amadas ; in 1585 

 a fleet under Sir R. Grenville, which he intended 

 to have commanded in person, but jealousy at 

 court prevented him. In 1587 a second fleet was 

 sent to Roanoaic under Captain White, in 1590 

 supplies by Captain White, and in 1602 he sent 

 Samuel Mace. Neither Oldys nor Cayley mention 

 his having gone there ; and as they carry on the 

 events of iiis life pretty clearly year by year, I 

 think, in reply to the Query of Mr. Breen, that 

 there is pretty good evidence to show that he never 

 was there. E. N. W. 



Southwark. 



Siege of Londonderry (Vol. iv., p. 162.). — Can 

 B. G. give any information respecting the list of 

 persons who received grants of hind in the county 

 of Londonderry after the conclusion of the war in 

 1691 ? Also, whether he knows of an old ballad 

 (cotemporary I believe) called " The Battle of 

 the Boyne ? " I have an old history of the siege of 

 Derry, by Mr. George Walker, 1689. I shouhl be 

 glad to know what the pamphlet contains, and 

 whether the family of Downing are mentioned in 

 it. " A. C. L. 



Coivper Law (Vol. iv., p. 101.). — For the satis- 

 faction of your correspondent C. de D., I tran- 

 scribe from Jamieson's Dictionary the following : 



" CowPER Justice, trying a man after execution : 

 thesame with Jeddart, ox Judburgh justice* [See Jeduart 

 Justice.] 



' Yet let the present swearing trustees 

 Know they give conscience Cowper Justice, 

 And by subscribing it in gross, 

 Renounces every solid gloss. — 

 And if my judgement be not scant, 

 Some lybel will be relevant, 

 And all the process firm and fast. 

 To give the counsel Jedburi/h cast.' 



Cleland's Poems, pp. 109, 110. 



" This phrase is said to have had its rise from the 

 conduct of a Baron-bailie in Co«/)ar- Angus, before the 

 abolition of heritable jurisdictions." 



Charles Thibiold. 

 Cambridge, Sept. 8. 1851. 



Decrctorum Doctor (Vol. iv., p. 191.). — The 

 precise meaning of this term is Doctor of the Canon 

 Law. A doctor of laws was a doctor of hath the laws 



* Also " Jedmnod Justice." See Scott's Fuir Maid 

 of Perl /i, vol. sliii. p. 301, 



(th.at is, the Civil Law and the Canon Law). The 

 University of Cambridge was forbidden to grant 

 degrees in Canon Law in 1535 ; and soon after- 

 wards these degrees were discontinued in Oxford, 

 in consequence of the repudiation of the Papal 

 authority, although three or more persons took 

 tiie degree of Bachelor of Decrees there in the 

 reign of Queen Mary, Further details respecting 

 the Canon Law, and the graduates in that faculty, 

 will be found in Fuller's History of the University 

 of Cambridge, ed. Priskett and Wright, pp. 220, 

 225. ; Wood's History and Anliq. of the University 

 of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. i. pp. 63. 359. ; vol. ii. 

 pp. 67. 79. 768, 769, 770. 902. ; Hallam's Middle 

 Ages, 9th ed. vol. ii. p. 2. ; Peacock on Statutes of 

 the University of Cambridge, Appendix A. xlix. 

 n. 1. C. H. Cooper, 



Cambridge, Sept. 13. 1851. 



Nightingale and Thorn (Vol. iv., p. 175.), by 

 A.W. H.: — 



" Every thing did banish moan, 

 Save the nightingale alone : 

 She, poor bird, as all forlorn, 

 Leaned her breast up-tiil a thorn, 

 And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, 

 That to hear it was great pity." 



Shakspeare : Passionate Pilgrim, xix. 



W. J. Bernbard Smith. 



Temple, 



The earliest allusion to this fable, that I know 

 of, occurs in the Passionate Pilgrim, Sect. xix. 



Ovid, in bis version of the fable of Tereus, does 

 not introduce the thorn ; so probably the allusion 

 is not classical. 



Apollodorus also gives this myth, but I have 

 him not to refer to. B. E, H. 



Ca7-li the Economist (Vol. iv., p. 175.). — Alpha 

 will find in a very excellent work, entitled Storia 

 delta Economia Pubblica in Italia, SfC, di Giuseppe 

 Pecchio, Lugano, 1829, 8vo., the information he 

 requires regarding the first work on political 

 economy, by an Italian writer, who seems to have 

 lieen Gasparo Scaruffi ; and also learn that Gian 

 Rinaldo Carli died in 1795. F. R. A, 



Tale of a Tub (Vol. i., p. 326. ; Vol. iii., p. 28.). 

 — It is no wonder that Henry VIll.'s chancellor 

 Sir Thomas More should have heard of an extra- 

 ordinary tale about a tub, since its earliest form — 

 the model of so many copies — is in Apuleius, at 

 tlie beginning of the 9th book. It forms likewise 

 the argument of the second novel of Boccacio's 

 Seventh Day, ove " Peronella niette un suo amante 

 in un doglio." Girolamo Morlino told the same 

 objectionable story in Latin ; and Agnolo Firen- 

 zuola, tlie Italian translator of Apuleius, seems to 

 have adopted the witty Florentine's imagery, for- 

 getting the original which he professed to follow. 

 See Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, Firenze, 1 742, 



