In connection with the name "frumity-flowers " for cuckoo-flowers, can frumity formerly have been a festival dish on Garland Day? In Lincolnshire, the proper seasons for eating it are Yuletide and sheep-shearing.
About 1820 or 1830, an old man, a barber in Leeds, used to sing to an air something like "Pease upon a Trencher" (i.e. T. Moore's "The time I've lost in wooing") the following:
"Pudding in a lanthorn,
Pudding in a lanthorn,
Cheese and bread in a linen beg (bag),
And pudding in a lanthorn."
A Written Charm.
(Supra, p. 2, and Plate I.)
The parchment charm exhibited on my behalf was sent to me by the Editor of the Chemist and Druggist, who had received it with others like it from a firm of druggists at Bradford, to whom they were brought by a customer who had recently found them in "an old hall" in the neighbourhood, and supposed them to be old medical prescriptions. I found them to be undoubtedly charms; all were exactly alike, but so far illegible that it was only with great difificulty and by collating the lot that I succeeded in making them out. The words run as follows:
Aon + hora + Cammall + + +
Naadgrass + Dyradgrass + + +
Arassund + yo + Sigrged + + +
dayniss + Tetragrammaton E
Inurmed E Soleysicke + + +
domend + Ame + dias + hora + + M.
Fiat.
Mr. Peacock judges it to be written in a legal hand not earlier than the reign of George III. Professor Skeat says: "I do not
