It cannot at all events have descended from remote antiquity, for "episcopari" is a comparatively modern word.
St. Bernard uses it in his 272nd Epistle; but the Benedictine editors speak of it as an "exotic."
RT.
Warmington.
Hougoumont (Vol. iv., p. 313.).
—The assertion of your correspondent A. B. R. I have met with before, but forget where: viz. that the proper designation of the château in question is Goumont, and that Hougoumont is only a corruption of Château Goumont.
This may be the case; but the Duke must not be charged with the corruption, for I have now before me a map of the Département de la Dyle, published "l'An 8 de la République Française, à Bruxelles, &c., par Ph. J. Maillart et Sœur," &c., in which the place is distinctly called Hougoumont.
A. C. M.
Exeter.