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si loke of hell blackened the upper surfaces. T LUS they ever after remained.

THOMAS AULD.

KIPLING'S 'RECESSIONAL': ' DULCE DOMUM (9 h S. iii. 208, 236). For 'Dulce Domum' se< C lappell's ' Popular Music of the Olden Time,' ii. 579; Hullah's ' Part-Song Book '; ' N. & Q.,' 4 t! S. vi. 166; vii. 140. The native home of this school -song is Winchester, and its history may be found in most of the modern books about that college. The words are in the college 'Song- Book,' pub- lished by Wells, College Street, Winchester. To hear Wykehamists, old and young, sing it [ on " Meads "on " Domum Day " is a thing not soon forgotten. An English version, with the music, is given in a little volume published by the National Society, ' Song - Book for Schools,' by Dr. C. Villiers Stanford, p. 112 ; but the music is slightly altered from the traditional tune used at Winchester.

W. C. B.

The Winchester School version of ' Dulce Domum ' may be found in ' Wykehamica,' by the Rev. H. C. Adams, M.A. (Parker, 1878), and if G. L. S. wishes to have a copy and will write to me I shall be pleased to send it.

FRED. C. FROST, F.S.I.

Teignmouth.

Novello, Ewer & Co., of Berners Street, publish for three halfpence in their Musical Times series the original Latin of 'Dulce Domum' with an English translation, to- gether with the air by John Redding (circa paniment. F. A. RUSSELL.
 * 1660), arranged in four parts, and an accom-

/' THE CHAUNT OF ACHILLES ' (9 th S. iii. 188, 2). This was reprinted in Bailj/s Magazine r or October, 1898, with a short introduction. The 'Chaunt' is dated September, 1838, and signed " Pat-roclus," i.e., the late Bernal Osborne. SILO.

KEY AND KAY (9 th S. iii. 248). Certainly key and kay are the same word. The pronunciation of final -ey and -ay s changed but little. Day and they were )roriounced in Chaucer's time as they are >ronounced now ; and the same is the case with nearly all words in -ey and -ay. Putting iside ley, which is a mere variant of lea, the mly exceptions are key and quay. Both these vords were pronounced like all the rest till ecently. Chaucer has keye, riming with rteye or playe, to play ; and the pronunciation is kay lasted till after Herbert's time. Hence {aye was Latinized as Gains ; but the college s now called Key 's.

qu be

The poet Gay, in his ' Epistle,' No. 6, has uay riming with day and they. I should glad if any one can tell us when the pro- nunciation as key QIC kee, of either of the words quay or key, can be first clearly detected. Hardly, I think, till the seventeenth or eighteenth century. WALTER W. SKEAT.

Kay is sometimes used for key in this part of Lincolnshire, but ked is a more common form. In the Louth churchwardens' accounts for 1569 the following entry occurs:

"For a Stoke locke and a kay to the church house, vj d ."

Sir Thomas More, by way of illustrating

something, speaks of

"some sely woman seeking saint Sythe when she

seghyth for miscasting of her kayes." 'English

Workes,' 1557, p. 130 h.

And again he says :

" Ye speke of seking to saiiitys for sleight causis, as for the losse or rnisse of kyttes kayes." Ibid.. 131 b.

Thomas Stapleton uses the form thus : "All such objections as protestants nowe, and

kaye colde Christians do make." ' Fortress of

Faith,' ed. 1565, p. 123*.

EDWARD PEACOCK. Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

ARCHERY BUTTS (9 th S. iii. 288). I had hoped to find in Col. Walrond's contribution re ' Archery ' to the "Badminton Library of Sports "an answer to the above query, but, failing this, I am tempted to send the fol- lowing extract, a propos des butts. These, by an enactment of 1541, were to be set up in every parish, so that shooting might take place on holy days, &c. :

" In 1572 the statute for keeping in repair the butts was enforced with increased activity, and some parish entries refer to 'putting up and re- pairing the butts,' hauling timber, earth, &c. Occa- sionally village ambition takes a flight and such an entry as this is found :

"'Item, making a Turk for shott, boards, nails, and making, xviiiS.

" ' Item, the paynter, xiir/.' "

The notion of giving a target the form of a Turk may well have originated in Crusading days, and from this fetish the modern " Aunt Sally " of fair renown can doubtless trace her descent. I wonder, by the way, whether inns ever took the name of the "Saracen's Bead " from standing near to such butts, or
 * rom acquiring a disused effigy to serve as a

sign. ETHEL LEGA-WEEKES.

A MARTYR BISHOP OF ARMAGH (9 th S. ii. 525). Judging from the contents and pro- 3able date of the Spanish manuscript quoted by PALAMEDES, I should think that the