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water instead of floating over it, as they should were they the seeds. Thus all the evildoers are expelled from the patient's body, and he is instantly freed of all his torments. I have tried this last but one February, and am fully con- vinced of its effectualness.' "

By " onion " of Japan and China in communication the Welsh onion or cibol has to be understood. Apparently following Alphonso de Candolle, ' Origin of Cultivated Plants/ the writer of the article ' Onion ' in ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' eleventh editirn, says that the onion (Allium cepa) is commonly cultivated in Japan and China, and the cibol (A. fistulosum) was unknown to the ancients. That actually this is not the case is evident from Bret Schneider's ' Botanicon Sinicum ' (Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, New Series, vol. xxv. p. 169, Shanghai, 1893), and his view we can endorse with full confidence. In fact, both the Japanese and the Chinese had cultivated the cibol from time im- memorial, whereas the onion, though intro- duced to Northern China and Japan quite modernly, is not cultivated or used so commonly as the cibol.

KTJMAGTJSU MINAKATA.

Tarabe, Kii, Japan.

De cepis medici non consentire videntur. Cholericis non esse bonas dicit Galienus. Flegmaticis vero multum docet esse salubres, Preesertim stomacho, pulcrumque creare colorem. Contritis cepis loca denudata capillis Ssepe fricans poteris capitis reparare decorem. ' Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum,' 1. 189 et seq. Sir Alexander Croke's edition, Oxford, 1830, p. 110.

Addition quoted by Villa Nova in his Commentary :

Appositas perhibent ..morsus curare caninos, Si tritse cum melle prius fuerint et aceto.

Ibid., p. 153.

If vnto Choller men be much incliri'd, Tis thought that Onyons are not good for those, But if a man be Flegmatique (by kind) Jt does his stomacke good, as some suppose, For ointment iuice of Onyons is assign 'd To heads whose haire falls faster than it growes : ]f Onyons cannot helpe in such mishap, A man must get him a Gregorian cap. But if your hound by hap should bite his master, VVith Honey, Reu\ and Onyons make a plaister.

'The Englishman's Docter, or, The Schcole of Salerne,' 1607, stanza 37. Ibid., p. 137.

In ' A Supplement to the Queen - like Closet,' by Hannah Woolley, fifth edition, 1684, p. 21, is a receipt ' For the Biting of a Mad -dog, taught by Doctor Mat- thias ' :

"Take of Hue, of Garlick,of scraped Pewter, of each two ounces, of Venice-Treacle one ounce, of

Muscadine one quart; put all these into it, siov it close and boyl it in a Kettle of water for the- space of two hours, then pour off the clearest, and apply some of the dregs to the place bitten, and give the Patient two spoonfuls to drink of the Liquor, Morning and Evening for nine days together. This never failed Man nor Beast."

In the same book, p. 36, is a receipt ' For an Impostume in the Ear.' In this a sort of poultice is made of " a great Onion " roasted, " Saffron," and " Salad-Oyl." When: the " Impostume " is " broken and well drawn out, seringe the Ear with a little warm Sack and Betony- Water for three days together, twice a day."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

"THE BLOODY SHIRT " (11 S. xii. 318). I beg to refer MR. EDMUNDS to a notable instance of bloody shirts being exhibited in order to rouse popular indignation. In- 1593 a party of the Border clan of Johnstone- raided the lands of Lord Crichton of San- quhar, William Johnstone of Wamphray " the Galliard " leading the foray, which, was successful in driving off a lot of cattle,- but he himself was taken prisoner by the- Crichtons and hanged. The Crichtons ap- pealed to the Warden, Lord Maxwell, for redress ; but Maxwell, having lately been reconciled with his hereditary enemy, Sir James Johnstone, head of the clan, was unwilling to take proceedings against his people. On 23 July, 1593, a procession of fifteen widows passed up the High Street of Edinburgh, carrying the bloody shirts of their husbands Crichtons who had been slaughtered in the raid by the lads of Wamphray. The spectacle created such indignation that the Government issued a royal commission instructing Lord Maxwell to execute justice upon the Johnstones. This led to the battle of Dryfe Sands, 6 Dec., 1593, where Maxwell was killed and his troops defeated, with a loss, it is said, of 800 killed.

The raid on the Crichtons is commemorated in the ballad of ' The Lads o' Wamphray/ published in Scott's ' Minstrelsy of the^ Scottish Border.' HERBERT MAXWELL, Monreith.

CLERKS IN HOLY ORDERS AS COMBATANTS (11 S. xii. 10, 56, 73, 87, 110, 130, 148, 168, 184, 228, 284). The Roman Catholic Church has, strangely, been drawn upon for but few instances ; more than the gross total here- tofore given could doubtless be supplied from a country so small as Mexico by some one familiar with its history. My glance