J.E.B. MAYOR.

_Darvon Gatherall._--I send you an extract from Southey's _Common-place

Book_, which refers to Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from

Wordworth's _Ecclesiastical Biography_, where it is given as quotation

from Michael Wodde, who wrote in 1554. He says:--

"Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's Prayer in

English?... If we were sick of the pestilence, we ran to St.

Rooke: if of the ague, to St. Pernel, or Master John Shorne. If

men were in prison, they prayed to St. Leonard. If the Welshman

would have a purse, he prayed to _Darvel Gathorne_. If a wife

were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules; at London,

to St. Uncumber."

Can any of your readers inform me who St. Uncumber was?

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