[ 45C 3 
thefe were what Sir R. M. miftook for the Duke 
of Tork’s Dogs, as feems plain from the remarkable 
Ctrcumftance of the one Beagle that had none of 
the Plant given him, mentioned in both the Stories. 
So flrangely may Errors arife, and be multiplied, by 
jumbling theldeasof different things together in the 
Minds and Memories of Men, how wife and learned 
foever. So far as I can find, all the Concern King 
James had in this Affair, was his fending a Plant to 
the Royal Society, which his Huntfman recom* 
mended as an excellent Remedy for the Bite of a 
Mad-Dog ; and it feems to me very likely, that the 
Huntfman might have met with this Story in Grey , 
and told it to his Matter, and this he might tell to Sir 
R. M~ and it may be, the Man, to fet out the Vir- 
tues of the Medicine the more, might tell the Duke, 
that feveral of his own Hounds were cured by it, 
whether it were really fo or not. None of thefe 
Suppofitions are impoffible, nor, in my poor Judg- 
ment, very improbable. 
To make this dark Affair appear in a ftill clearer 
Light, let me defire you to compare and confider the 
following Extra&s. In a Letter to Mr. Ray from 
Mr. Aubry> publifhed by Mr. < Derham , and dated 
Aug . 5- 1691. there is this Paragraph,^. 250. [King 
James fentby Sir Garden (I fuppofe it fhould have 
bzzxiGourdon) to the Royal Society, a Plant called* 
Star of the Earth , with the Receipt made of it, to 
cure the Bite of a Mad-Dog, which is in Tranfac- 
tions N q 187.] This refers to a Receipt communi- 
cated by Sir R-Gourdon , by his Majetty’s Command, 
and in which there is mention of the Star of the 
Earth* and to which this N, £. is added* [The Plant 
