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Notes and Queries, Number 53, November 2, 1850 by Various
page 47 of 64 (73%)
_Ductor Dubitantium_.--The Judge alluded to by Jeremy Taylor in the
passage quoted by A.T. (Vol. ii., p. 325.), was Chief-Justice
Richardson; but the place where the outrage was committed was not
Ludlow, as stated by the eloquent divine, but Salisbury, as appears from
the following marginal note in Dyer's _Reports_, p. 1886--a curious
specimen of the legal phraseology of the period:--

"Richardson, C.J. de C.B. at Assizes at Salisbury in Summer 1631
fuit assault per Prisoner la condemne pur Felony; que puis son
condemnation ject un Brickbat a le dit Justice, que narrowly
mist. Et pur ceo immediately fuit Indictment drawn pur Noy
envers le Prisoner, et son dexter manus ampute et fixe al
Gibbet, sur que luy mesme immediatement hange in presence de
Court."

EDWARD FOSS.


_Aërostation_ (Vol. ii., p. 317.).--The account published by Lunardi of
his aërial voyage, alluded to by M., is, in the copy I have seen,
entitled

"An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in Britain, in a series
of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Gherardo Compagni,
written under the impressions of the various events that
affected the undertaking, by Vicent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to
the Neapolitan Ambassador. 'A non esse nec fuisse non datur
argumentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London: printed for
the Author, and sold at the Panther; also by the Publisher J.
Bell, at the British Library, Strand, and at Mr. Molini's,
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