CORRESPONDENCE OE RAY. 33 



Mr. Jessop to Mr. Weat. 



Sir, — I have done the most part of that you enjoined 

 me. I have stuffed the skins of a Moor-cock and Moor- 

 hen [Tetrao tetrix]. I have gotten a black-legged Lin- 

 net \Linota cannabina] ; and gathered a few of the Vac- 

 cinia rubra [Vaccinium vitis-idaa, Linn.], but cannot 

 separate the seeds as you directed. As they are, I shall 

 send them you. I have procured the skin of a great 

 bird, which he that gave it me called a Scarfe \_Gree)i 

 Cormorant and Shag, C. Phalacrocorax graculus\ ; but I 

 believe it will prove a Bernide \A?iser leitcopsis]. The 

 description of it I sent to Mr. Willughby. I have 

 gathered some words and proverbs which I believe you 

 have not yet met with ; and received from Mr. Fisher an 

 account of the Hauke Butterfly. I shall send you all 

 when I know which way I may do it safely. Richard 

 Wright is come from London, and hath done little there ; 

 only the judge hath advised him to indite the man and 

 the maid, if Stephen trouble him any more. This only is 

 observable, which I was not acquainted Avith when you 

 was with us, that Kurlew, the foreman of the jury, who, 

 the spirit saith, was bribed by Stones, died raving mad 

 within three days after he had passed his verdict, crying 

 out that he saw the devil, and such-like expressions. 

 This is very true, for I had it from one who was at his 

 burial. The coroner also hath lingered away ever since 

 the assizes, and died about the time that Wright went to 

 London. The maid at Overhaddon still liveth, and 

 eateth nothing. She hath been watched twice for fear 

 of imposture ; once by the directions of a physician who 

 lives thereabouts, and for about a fortnight since by my 

 Lord Devonshire's order, who sent his own servants by 

 turns. 



Having lately perused, amongst the Philosophical 

 Transactions, my Lord Brounker's quadrature of the hy- 

 perbole, which pretends to have done it only as near as 



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