April 6. 1850.
[In Palmer's _Origines Liturgice_, vol. i. p. 241. (2d edit.),
we find the following note on the response, "_Quia_ non est
alius," &c.:--"Brev. Eboracens. fol. 264.; Brev. Sarisb. fol.
85." Bishop Lloyd remarks on this verse and response as
follows:--"I do not know what Burnet means by stating that this
response was made in the year 1549, on the occasion of political
occurrences, for this answer is found in all the foreign
breviaries, in the Salisbury primer, and in the primer of Hen.
VIII. See Burnet's _Hist. Ref._ p. ii. b. 1. anno 1549."]
_Yeoman._--This word, the origin of which Dr. Johnson says is much
doubted, in the general acceptation of it meaning signifies a small
farmer; though several authorities quoted by Johnson tend to show it
also signifies a certain description of servants, and that it is applied
also to soldiers, as Yeoman of the Guard. It is not, however, confined
to soldiers, for we hear of Yeoman of the Chamber; Yeoman of the Robes;
Yeoman of the Pantry; Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod.
I should be glad if any of your readers can give an explanation of the
word as used in the latter instances.