Death's hand was strong."
They are taken from Hymn cxxiii. of Hymns and Anthems, London, C. Fox, 1841.
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Fairlop Oak (Vol. v., pp. 114. 471.).—Your correspondents J. B. Colman and Shirley Hibberd will find much information relative to this oak and the fair in a work with the following title:
"Fairlop and its Founder, or Facts and Fun for the Forest Frolickers. By a famed first Friday Fairgoer; contains Memoirs, Anecdotes, Poems, Songs, &c., with the curious Will of Mr. Day, never before printed. A very limited number printed. Tobham, Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press. Fairlop's Friday, 1847."
J. Russell Smith, 30. Soho Square, had several copies on sale some time back.
S. Wiswould.
Boy Bishop at Eton (Vol. v., p. 557.).—The festival of St. Hugh, Bishop (Pontificis) of Lincoln, was kept on November 17.
For "Nihilensis," in the "Consuetudinarium Etonense," should be read "Nicolatensis," as it stands in a Compatus of Winchester College, of the date 1461: the Boy Bishop assuming his title on St. Nicholas' Day, Dec. 6, and then performing his parody of Divine Offices for the first time; St. Nicholas of Myra being, according to the legend, the patron of children.
It is singular that, whereas, as in other foundations, the Feast of the Holy Innocents was appointed for the mummeries of the Boy Bishop at Winchester by the founder, it was forbidden at Eton and King's, although the statutes of the latter were borrowed almost literally from those of Wykeham. It would therefore appear that there was some local reason for the exception.