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 12 S. IX. OCT. 1, 1021.; NOTES AND QUERIES. 279 CHEESE SAINT AND CHEESE SACRIFICES (12 S. ix. 130, 239, 255). As to the j cheese sacrifices, many good classical re- ferences are given in Pauly-Wissowa- Kroll, ' Real Encyclopadie,' s.v. ' Kase,' Halbband xx., columns 1494-1495. Less compressed information is in ' Die Milch im Kultus der Griechen und Homer ' (K. Wyss), passim. Much as to the early Christian sects, and generally, is in ' Der Unsprung des Judicium Offae ' (A. Jacoby) in Archiv fiir Religionswissenschaft, 1910, xiii., pp. 523-566, especially at p. 543 et seq. . As to a cheese saint, my impression is that St. Bridget of Ireland might be pressed into service as such ; my memoranda on her have been lent, however, and other readers, conversant therewith, can doubtless act on this hint. ' San Lucio : Hagiogra- phisches und Ikonographisches ' (E. Stiickel- berg) in A.R. (as above), 1910, xiii., pp. 333-343, gives so unhackneyed an account of such a saint that no attempt will be made to condense it here. It is most rare to be able to trace the development of a saint in such unsophisticated surroundings (in a little Alpine village near the Italian- Swiss boundary), and in any case it is worth while for any religious researcher to become acquainted with this Archiv, which is full of good things but is most rarely cited in England. ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass. LIVERPOOL SLAVE-SHIP, c. 1785 (12 S. ix. 229). Some years ago I saw in an old furniture dealer's shop in Exchange Street East, Liverpool, a ledger of a Liverpool firm with accounts of dealings in slaves. The shop is gone now, and I do not know who bought the ledger. If your correspon- dent seeks slave-trade documents, he should go to the Liverpool Public Library, where there are many, including logs of slave- ships, bills of lading, lists of slave-ships and traders, journals of masters, accounts of sales and so on. The Bootle Library also has some documents. I suppose your correspondent has seen Gomer Williams's ' History of Liverpool Privateers and Slave Trade,' 1897. Many documents are printed there. The ' Catalogue of Liverpool Prints and Documents,' published by the Liverpool | 1'ublic Library in 1908, has a section on the slave trade, and there have been several additions of documents since then. Many such documents were exhibited in the Liver- pool Historical Exhibition in 1907, and are set out in the catalogue, which should be consulted at the Liverpool Public Library. R. STEWART-BROWN. Bromborough. BIBLE OF JAMES I. : USE OF HEXAMETER LINES (12 S. ix. 209). MR. THORNTON seems surprised to find accentual hexameters in our Authorized Version, and speculates as to these being the work of Cambridge writers. There is no occasion for such surprise. Sentences in this measure occur frequently in our talk and writing, a fact which Clough knew and utilized, not only in his ' Bothie,' but in such other lines as Dearest Louise, how delightful to bring young people together ! And Tennyson said he could go on in- definitely with " perfect " hexameters like High woods roaring above me, dark leaves falling about me. but they would " grow monotonous." More noteworthy is it that, in the genera- tion preceding 1611, Cambridge scholars had made a systematic attempt to introduce quantitative metres (including hexameters) into English verse. The lines quoted from Harvey and Greene are examples of this and are based on the same principles of structure as Tennyson's line, while Clough' s is different except in number of feet. A fairly full account of this unhappy attempt, lately re- vived in our midst, will be found in my 'English Metrists' (Clarendon Press, 1921). In Literature for June 3, 1899, is a list of accentual hexameters in the Authorized Version ("a score out of some hundred or two of sentences "), compiled by C. Lawrence Ford. T. S. OMOND. 14, Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells. FORD'S MSS., SUFFOLK COLLECTIONS (12 S. ix. 230). I think these manuscripts must have been sold after Ford's death. I have his ' Collections for the History of Long Melford,' in two quarto volumes, which appear to have passed through Sir Thomas Phillipps's library. They were probably in one of the Phillipps sales prior to 1895, so an examination of the earlier Phillipps catalogues might reveal other of Ford's manuscripts. Ford died on Jan. 31, 1850, and there were two sales of the libra- ries of anonymous clergymen at Puttick and Simpson's in May of that year, one of these might have been his. Both cata- logues are in the British Museum. H. J. B. CLEMENTS.