Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1

Clergie. 20. So a blind man, if he could speak Latin. Ib.

21. qu, 11. Rep. 29. b. The orders entitling the party were bishops, priests, deacons, and sub-deacons, the inferior being reckoned Clerici in minoribus. 2 H. P. C. 373. Qu¦re, however, if this distinction is not founded on the stat. 23.

H. 8. c. 1; 25. H. 8. c. 32. By merely dropping all the statutes, it should seem that none but clerks would be entitled to this privilege, and that they would, toties quoties.

59

1 Ann. c. 9.

60

Manslaghter, counterfeiting, arson, asportation of vessels, robbery, burglary, house-breaking, horse-stealing, larceny.

61

It appears, from a blank space at the bottom of this paper, that a continuation had been intended. Indeed, from the loose manner in which the above notes are written, it may be inferred that they were originally intended as memoranda only, to be used in some more permanent form.

62

For the letter of Colonel Clarke, and the order referred to, see Appendix A.

63

The circumstances of the defeat of General Gates’s army, near Camden in August, 1780, being of historical notoriety, this statement is omitted.

64

The remainder of this letter is in cipher, to which there is no key in the Editor’s possession.

65

The original of this letter was in cipher. But annexed to the copy in cipher, is the above literal copy by the author.

66

Livy, Sullust, C¦sar, Cicero’s Epistles, Suetonius, Tacitus, Gibbon.

67

The original of the above was in cipher; though, as in the case of most of the Author’s letters in cipher, he prepared and preserved a literal copy of it.

68

This was the officer, who, on the evacuation of Fort Mifflin, after the British had passed the chevaux-de-frise on the Delaware, was left with fifteen men to destroy the works, which he did, and brought off his men successfully.

He had, before that, been commander of the Rattlesnake sloop of war, and had much annoyed the British trade; Being bred a seaman, he has returned to that vocation.

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A hogshead of tobacco weighs generally about one thousand pounds, English, equal to nine hundred and seventeen pounds French. The seven hogsheads he sailed with, would therefore weigh, according to this estimate, six thousand four hundred and twenty-three pounds. They actually weighed more on the first essay. When afterwards weighed at Landivisiau, they had lost eighty-four pounds on being carried into a drier air. Perhaps, too, a difference of weights may have entered into this apparent loss.