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sut,—I am obliged to Mr. J. Gordon Stanier for his courteous correc- tion. He is quite right on both points. The Foreman of the Jury was Thomas Veer, but it was undoubtedly Edward Bushel (so spelt in the State Trials) who dominated the jury, and it was upon his head that the maledictions of the malevolent Recorder were so savagely heaped. The report in the State Trials was supplied by Penn and Mead, and they use the spelling Mead throughout, as does Chief Justice Vaughan in the famous Habeas Corpus proceedings originated by Edward Bushel. I hope kir. Stanier will not think me guilty of unpar- donable levity if I say that the addition of the final " e" to the name of Mead has done no great harm in this case. But in other circumstances the omission of the final " e " can lead to most unfortunate results. When I was last in the United States of America I heard of a business- man who was compelled to leave his wife at home when he went for
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