Jeremy Taylor's Ductor Dubitantium

Book I. chap. 2. Rule 8. § 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. § 32.— "The filthy gingran." Apparently a drug or herb. Can it be identified, or its etymology pointed out? *Ibid.* §. 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…