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 12 s. ix. SEPT. IT, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 239 CHEESE SAINT AND CHEESE SACRIFICES (12 S. ix. 130). MB. WALLACE asks for in- formation, on cheese sacrifices. Examples of the employment of cheese for this pur- pose among the ancient Greeks are given in the article Kdse by the Pauly-Wissowa ' Real-Encyclopaedie der Classischen Alter- tumsM'issenschaft,' vol. x., Part 2 (Stutt- gart, 1919). In a long inscription of 288 lines ( ' Inscriptiones Graecae,' vol. xii., Part 3) which was originally in the island of Thera and has had many adventures since, a certain Epicteta, at the beginning of the second century B.C., left directions for an annual festival which she endowed in honour of the Muses, her deceased husband and sons, and herself, after death. One regulation here mentions cakes (cXXtfrat) made of wheat and cheese, the amount of the ingredients being specified, which are to be offered in sacrifice. The Artotyritae were a Christian sect, a kind of Montanists who used bread and cheese in the eucharist. The fourth-century bishop Philastrius writes of them : Alii sunt Artotyritae in Galatia, qui panem et caseum offerunt, non illud quod ecclesia catho- licaetapostolica celebrat offerendo. ' Diversarum haereseon liber,' 46 (74). EDWARD BENSLY. CAROLS (12 S. ix. 190). One of the best books on carols is ' Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern ; including the Most Popular in the West of England and the Airs to which they are sung ; also Specimens of French Provincial Carols ; with an Introduction and Notes, by William Sandys, F.S.A.' (London, 1833). The Introduction of 144 pages traces the history and customs of the carol. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. I would recommend ' The Cowley Carol Book,' by the Rev. G. R. Woodward, M.A. (A. R. Mowbray and Co.; 1st series 1902, 2nd series 1919, both with music). J. DE BERNIERE SMITH. THE "CHALK FARM PISTOLEER " (12 S. ix. 149, 196). There is an allusion to duelling at Chalk Farm in * lei on parle francais ' : Sprigging (wringing Ms hands) : Oh, dear oh, dear ! A duel across my best bit of mahogany ! (Rushing between them roaring) Gentlemen K'-'itlemen ! this isn't Chalk Farm ! G. H. WHITE. 23, Weighton Road, Anerley. MOORISH BATTLE-AXE AS CREST (12 S. ix. 168).: The bearing of this may possibly refer to the knight having performed some par- ticular exploit during one of the Crusades. At a somewhat later date other families bore as a crest a Saracen's or Moor's head, as, for instance, the Nortons of Hampshire (see Harl, Soc. publications, vol. Ixiv., p. 13). Here again this crest probably bore reference to some deed, actual or traditional, performed by an ancestor of the family William de Norton having taken up the Cross in the last Crusade of 1270 (see ' Some Feudal Coats of Arms and Pedigrees '). FREDERIC CROOKS. AUTHORS WANTED. (12 S. ix. 191.) " Give us men ! " Probably the poem referred to by MB. BUCKLEY is that which begins ; " God give us men ! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, . true faith, and ready hands," by Josiah Gilbert Holland, an American. It is given at 11 S. ix. 357. According to Allibone's ' Dictionary ' and Kirk's ' Supplement ' he was a doctor of medicine, and a somewhat prolific author. ROBERT PIERPOINT. (128. ix. 112.) 8. Carlyle's * Past and Present,' Bk. I., chap, v., mentions Bob us Higgins, " Sausage-maker on the great scale." THOMAS FLINT. JJote* on The Story of Shoreham. By Henry Cheal. (Corn- bridge's Hove, 7s. 6d. net.) THE publication of the treasures of the Record Office is clearly stimulating interest in the detail of bygone daily life, an interest which is beginning strongly to show itself in the recent compilation of local histories. As we have often urged in our columns, there is little historical reading that can compare in delightfulness with the best and most vivid of the Calendars, and since com- paratively few readers have the time or means at hand for such delectation it is a deed of quite appreciable goodness to make the most important or picturesque matters contained in them acces- sible. This is done best of all in the story of a town, and nowhere better than in the story of such a town as Shoreham. Mr. Cheal had here an oppor- tunity of which he has availed himself, it is plain, with enjoyment as well as care. His work claims to be judged as a popular history which is to say that he has decided not to encumber it with references to his sources. Fellow-archaeologists and other students of Sussex antiquities will often, indeed, be at no loss to discover whence his information is derived : but even these, no less than the general reader,