med be;
His soldiers wild, to brawls and mutines prest,
Reduced he to peace, so heaven him blest."

By holding up the leaf of my copy to the light, it is easy to see that the
stanza stood originally as given above, but a cancel slip printed in
_precisely the same type_ as the rest of the book gives the following
elegant variation:

"I sing the warre made in the Holy Land,
And the Great Chiefe that Christ's great tombe did free:
Much wrought he with his wit, much with his hand,
Much in that braue atchieument suffred hee:
In vaine doth hell that Man of God withstand,
In vaine the worlds great princes armed bee;
For heau'n him fauour'd; and he brought againe
Vnder one standard all his scatt'red traine."

Queries.--1. Does the above variation occur in any or many other copies of
the edition of 1600?

2. Which reading is followed in the second old edition?

T.N.

Demerary, September 11. 1850.

* * * * *

MINOR QUERIES.

_Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium._--Book I. chap. 2. Rule 8. Sec. 14.--

"If he (the judge) see a stone thrown at his brother judge, as happened
at Ludlow, not many years since."

(The first ed. was published in 1660). Does any other contemporary writer
mention this circumstance? or is there any published register of the
assizes of that time?

_Ibid._ Chap. 2. Rule 3. Sec. 32.--

"The filthy gingran."

Apparently a drug or herb. Can it be identified, or its etymology pointed
out?

_Ibid._ Sec.. 50.--

"That a virgin should conceive is so possible to God's power, that it
is possible in nature, say the Arabians."

Can authority for this be cited from the ancient Arabic writers?

A.T.

_First Earl of Roscommon._--Can you or any of your correspondents put me on
any plan by which I may obtain some information on the following subject?
James Dillon, first Earl of Roscommon, married Helen, daughter of Sir
Christopher Barnwell, by whom he had seven sons and six daughters; their
names were Robert, Lucas, Thomas, Christopher, George, John, Patrick.
Robert succeeded his father in 1641, and of his descendants and those of
Lucas and Patrick I have some accounts; but what I want to know is, who are
the descendants of Thomas (particularly), or of any of the other three
sons?

Lodge, in his _Peerage_, very kindly kills all the sons, Patrick included;
but it appears that he did not depart this life until he had left