To give the counsel Jedburgh cast.'
Cleland's Poems, pp. 109, 110.
"This phrase is said to have had its rise from the conduct of a Baron-bailie in Coupar-Angus, before the abolition of heritable jurisdictions."/
[17] Also "Jedwood Justice." See Scott's Fair Maid of Perth, vol. xliii. p. 304.
CHARLES THIRIOLD.
Cambridge, Sept. 8. 1851.
Decretorum Doctor (Vol. iv., p. 191.).
—The precise meaning of this term is Doctor of the Canon Law. A doctor of laws was a doctor of both the laws (that is, the Civil Law and the Canon Law). The University of Cambridge was forbidden to grant degrees in Canon Law in 1535; and soon afterwards these degrees were discontinued in Oxford, in consequence of the repudiation of the Papal authority, although three or more persons took the degree of Bachelor of Decrees there in the reign of Queen Mary. Further details respecting the Canon Law, and the graduates in that faculty, will be found in Fuller's History of the University of Cambridge, ed. Priskett and Wright, pp. 220. 225.; Wood's History and Antiq. of the University of Oxford, ed. Gutch, vol. i. pp. 63. 359.; vol. ii. pp. 67. 79. 768, 769, 770. 902.; Hallam's Middle Ages, 9th ed. vol. ii. p. 2.; Peacock on Statutes of the University of Cambridge, Appendix A. xlix. n. 1.
C. H. COOPER.
Cambridge, Sept. 13. 1851.