

SCORPION-GRASS 



SCOTCH FIR 



they giro U seldom fatal, l.m even that of the 

 common European scorpions i very painful, and 

 that of some of the largest special which are six 

 inches long la much more severe, attended ith 

 nausea and constitutional derangement, nor <lo the 

 effect* oon ctiase. It in of use to press a larxe key 

 or other tube on the wound, DO as to force out part 

 of tht- IHIIXIH. The best remedy is aiiiiin>iii;i, inter- 

 nallv administered, and also applied externally 

 see VEXOMOCS BITES. 



HcorploB-cnua, an old name for For-ct 



not (<|.v.(, supposed on tin- Doatrint of Signatures 

 (q.v.) to be good for scorpion bites. 



Scory, JOHN, BUhop of Hereford, was born at 

 Acle in Norfolk, and about 1530 was a friar in a 

 Dominican house at Cambridge. After its dis- 

 solution in 1538 he got preferment from his patron, 

 Archbishop Cranmer, to whom he was chaplain 

 until in 1551 he became BUhop of Rochester. He 

 was tramdated next vear to Chichester as successor 

 to the deprived Dr Day, but on Mary's accession 

 he was himself deprived, and, ap| tearing before 

 Bonner, renounced his wife, did itenance, and had 

 formal absolution (1554). Still he cannot have 

 felt safe, for he fled abroad, first to Emden, and 

 then to (ieneva ; and from the Continent addressed 

 an ' Epistle to the faythfull in pryson in England,' 

 exhorting tltcin to com inn. in patience and hope. 

 Mary dead, he came back to England (1559), and 

 the same year was made Bishop of Hereford, and 

 hel|il to consecrate Archbishop I'arker. We find 

 him in l.">7!t |tetitioning Burghley for removal from 

 Hereford ('my present purgatorie ') to Norwich, 

 lint death only removed him. on L'f.th June 1585, at 

 bin palace of \Vhilltoiirne. See vol. L of Cooper's 

 Athena CnHtobriyietue* ( 1858). 



Scorzone'ra (Ital. Korza, 'bark;' tifra, 

 'black'), a genus of plants of the natural order 

 Composite, tub-order Cichoracen-, having yellow 

 or rarely rose-colotire<l Ilovver*. The species are 

 nnmerous, mostly natives of the south of Europe 

 and the East No species is found in Britain. 

 The Common Scorzonera of kitchen-gardens, S. 

 InxfHinirii, a native of the south of Europe, has 

 long been cultivated for its esculent roots. The 

 ntot is Mark externally, white within, altoiit the 

 thickness of a man's finger, long, and tapering 

 very gradually, whence the name Viper' t Grots, 

 sometimes given to the plant, the root being 

 supposed to resemble a viper. It contains a white 

 milky juice, and has a mild, sweetish mucilaginous 

 taste ; it is very pleasant when boiled, the outer 

 rind Iteing first scraped off, and the root steeped in 

 water, to abstract part of its bitterness. The 

 leaves are an inferior substitute for mulberry-leaves 

 in feeding silkworms. -Other species of Scorzonera 

 are used in the same way. The root* of S. deliriota, 

 a native of Parma, are preserved with sugar j 

 those of S. tuberotn are a favourite food of the 

 Kalmucks. 



Tot, MICHAEL. Bee SCOTT. 



S-of. KKOIXALD, a writer ever to be held in 

 honour tut an early ditbeUwrar in the reality of 

 "ii.-ii.-mft, wait a younger son of Sir John Scot of 

 fcoUhall near Smeeil, , Kent, and was born about 



i 16 ^~, He tudie<l at "'"' a- Oxford, married 

 in 1568, a second time after 1584, gave himself up 

 to studv and to gardening, and perhaps acted as 

 steward to his cousin, Sir Thomas. But little 

 more m known of his life save that he was collector 

 01 Mbsidies for the lull,, ,>f Sheiiway in 1586-87, 

 that he himwlf ha<l property and Itore arms and 

 that be died 9th OetBMI 1599. Dr Nlehobon Audi 

 traceeof legal education in hi* writing. He pub. 

 lulled Thr /l,,/.i* <;r,lm in 1574 (3d ed. 1578) 

 and U credited with the introduction of hop- 

 growing Into England. His famous work, Tke 



Discooerie of Witchcraft, appeared in 1684, its de- 

 lilrate aim to check the persecution of witches. 

 The work is marked by humanity and strong 

 sense, great boldness and power of logic, and 

 i- an admirable exposure of the chilili.-li absurd- 

 ities which formed the basis of the witchcraft 

 cases, and of the alwnrd manner in which the 

 evidence was collected by the inquisitors and 

 witch-finders. The healthy rationalism and ojien- 

 ness of mind of the writer were more than two 

 centuries before their time in England, and 

 naturally excited the antipathy of a self-conceited 

 fool like King James, who wiote his Itumuiwlogy 

 (1597) 'chiefly against the damnable opinions of 

 \Vicrus and Scot, the latter of whom is not 

 axhamed in public print to deny there can In- Mich 

 a thing as witchcraft.' The 'king's answer was 

 jiitiful, bnt he had the advantage of being able to 

 Imrn Scot's book by the hands of the common 

 hangman. Scot's work should have lieen complete 

 as an antidote to 'Sprenger's fables and Bodin's 

 babies, which reach riot so fur to the extolling of 

 witches' omni|ioteiicie as to the derogating of (lod's 

 glorie;' but, besides the feeble effort of the royal 

 Solomon, answers and refutations continued to 

 lie written by Gifford, Perkins, Meric Casaubon, 

 Cotta, and many eminent divines, and, with such 

 few exception* as the writers Webster, Wagstaffe, 

 Ady, and others, witchcraft kept ite hold upon the 

 minds even of great men down to and oeyond 

 < Manx-ill, Sir Thomas Browne, Hie-hard Baxter, and 

 even John Wesley. One great merit of Scot's hook 

 to the modem student is its richness as a collection 

 of forms of incantations and the processes of sorcery, 

 for ite rational and liberal-minded author hail the 

 fairness to quote his antagonists honestly liefore pul- 

 verising them with his logic. The full title of the 

 book best explains it.s scope and aim : ' The dis- 

 coverie of witchcraft, wherein the lewde dealing of 

 will-lies and witehniongers is notablie delected, the 

 knaverie of conjurors, the impietie of inchantors, 

 the follie of soothsayers, the impudent falsehood of 

 cousenors, the infidelitie of atheists, the pestilent 

 practices of Pythonists, the curiositie of figure- 

 casters, the vanitie of dreamers, the beggarlie art 

 of Alcumystrie, the abhomination of idolatrie, the 

 horrible art of poisoning, the xertne ami power of 

 natural! magike, and all the conveiances of Legier- 

 demaine and juggling are deciphered : and many 

 other things opened, which have lon^; lien hidden, 

 howbeit verie necessarie to be knoxvne' 'for the 

 undeceiving of Judges, Justices, and Juries, and 

 for the preservation of jxtor, aged, deformed, 

 ignorant people ; frequently taken, arraigned, con- 

 demned, and executed for \Vitches, xvhen according 

 to a ri^'lit understanding, ami a good conscience, 

 Physick, Food, and necessaries should IKS admin- 

 istered to them ' was added in the 1651 title-page, 

 besides other changes. This second edition was in 

 quarto; the third, in 1665, was in folio, and con- 

 tained, from an unknown and less rational pen, 

 nine fresh chapters, commencing the fifteenth 

 I look, and a second book of the ' Discourse on 

 I 'evils and Spirits' appended to the first and 

 ecoiid issues. The next edition in time was the 

 imited reprint of 1886, admirably edited, with an 

 Introduction, by Briiudey Nicholson, M.D. See 

 also CONJUKINO. 



Scot and Lot. The old legal phrase Scot 

 A.S. scent, 'pay') and Lot enibraced all 

 larochial assessments for the poor, the church, 

 ighting, cleansing, and watching. Previously to 

 lie lieform Act the right of voting for members of 

 >arliament and for municipal officers was, in 



various English boroughs, exclusively vested in 



payers of Scot and Lot. 



Scotch Fir. See PINE. 



