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tune or song has appeared, but, curious^
enough, omits ' Woodstock.'
It is very doubtful if this song is by Butler, but I am inclined to think that it is. It certainly does not appear in several editions of his remains.
Two years ago I arranged the song for baritone with pianoforte accompaniment, and resuscitated it at the annual dinners of the Society of Antiquaries and the Pepys Club. It made an excellent impression and was much appreciated.
I should be glad to see MB. PIERPOINT'S version. JOSEPH C. BRIDGE,
M.A., D.Mus., F.S.A.
Chester.
BOOKWORMS (IIS. xii. 138, 185, 208, 268, 308). Le danger signale par votre corres- pondant etait bien connu des anciens. Pour eombattre ce redqutable fleau, ils employaient I'huilede cedre, dont ils enduisaient parche- mins^ et papyrus : on 1'appelait KeSpiov ou " cedrium," et Pline fait mention du precede, xvi. 11, 21. Vitruve, Horace, Perse, et Martial y font aussi allusion, ce dernier dans son epigramme " ad librum suum," iii. 2 :
Cedro nunc licet ambules perunctus. Je ne sais s'il existe dans le commerce en Angleterre une huile essentielle extraite du cedre ; je conseillerais 1'usage de 1'essence, analogue, tiree du Juniperus communis, em- ployee medicalement en Allemagne, ou celle de la lavande. On pourrait en f rotter les planches de la bibliotheque, ou meme les reliures, ce qui ne les endommagerait guere, ces essences etant tres volatiles.
PIERRE TURPIN. 29, The Bayle, Folkestone.
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT (11 S. xii. 239). Since writing my query at the above refer- ence I have noticed that the ' late Dom Adam Hamilton, O.S.B., in ' The Angel of Syon ' (London, 1905), at p. 87, wrote :
" I may add as an unique fact that in the church of the Syon community the annual Masses are still said and suffrage's offered for the souls of King Henry V., Queen Philippa, Lord Fitzhugh, and their other founders and bene- factors in days of old, besides the Masses and suffrages for William the Conqueror and the other founders of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall, the Devonshire estates of that Benedictine monastery having been transferred to Syon. The writer has himself sometimes celebrated these Masses at Syon."
It would seem that in speaking of " the Devonshire estates " of St. Michael's Mount Dom Adam had fallen into error, and was
really referring to the possessions of the
Benedictine Priory of Otterton.
The manor of Otterton, which belonged to Ghida, wife of Earl Godwin, and mother of King Harold, was given by William the Conqueror to the Abbey of Mont St. Michel, but no priory was founded there for a long time after the Conquest. M. Dupont at pp. 267-8 of ' Le Mont Saint-Michel Inconnu ' gives a short account of the vicissitudes of Otterton Priory ; but, as the original query- had nothing to do with Otterton Priory, it will be enough to state that it was suppressed and its revenues given to Syon Abbev* 20 April, 1415.
Probably Dom Adam thought that Otter- ton was a cell of St. Michael's Mount, whereas in 1415 both St. Michael's Mount and Otterton were alien priories dependent on the Abbey of Mont St. Michel.
JOHN B. \V AINEWRIGHT.
PUNCTUATION : ITS IMPORTANCE (11 S. xL 49, 131, 177, 217; xii. 288). Canon Vere is quoted by LEO C. as having written :
" I do not know what authority HARMATOPEGOS has for his contention that the comma ought to come after ' Pilato.' I should think the great Dr. Husenbeth knew what he was about." My authority was given at 11 S. xi. 177, and is the original Greek. HARMATOPEGOS.
"BOCHE" (11 S. x. 367, 416, 454, 495; xi. 78). In the discussion on the origin of this nickname has any correspondent yet suggested that it is merely a French cor* ruption of the German word Bursch, " a fellow " ? In my own mind I assumed that to be so before I ever read or heard the sub j ec t questioned .
B. GLANVILL CORNEY.
CAT QUERIES (US. xii. 183, 244, 286). I have known very thin cats which were wasting away, as if with consumption, eat flies, but I think the habit of doing so was caused by a false appetite to be traced to the presence of a tapeworm in the animal. Twice, at least, in my experience " consumptive," fly-eating cats suffered from tapeworm.
I. M. T.
FOLK-SPEECH: "PLAIN" (11 S. xii. 137,. 187, 267). "Plain" is sometimes used in Devonshire to express indisposition. A few years ago an elderly lady I knew used it fre- quently in this sense. When I asked her how she was, she would sometimes say she was- " feeling plain," and at other times " very/ plain." . A. J. DAVY.
Torquay.
