[212]See _Dictionary of Americanisms_, by J. R. Bartlett, who does not, however, we think, refer nearly often enough to the mother-country for the sources of many of the phrases and words which he gives. Even the Old-English inflexions, as he remarks, are in some parts of the States still used, showing what vitality, even when transplanted, there is in our language. Boucher, too, notices in the excellent introduction to his _Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words_, p. ix., that the whine and the drawl of the first Puritan emigrants may still in places be detected. [213]All over the world lives a similar fairy, the same in form, but different in name. His life has been well illustrated in Dr. Bell’s _Shakspeare’s Puck and his Folk-lore_. In England he is known by many names—“the white witch,” “the horse-hag,” and “Fairy Hob;” and hence, too, we here get Hob’s Hill and Hob’s Hole. For accounts of him in different parts see especially Allies’ _Folk-lore of Worcestershire_, ch. xii. p. 409, and _Illustrations of the Fairy Mythology of A Midsummer Night’s Dream_, by J. O. Halliwell. Published by the Shakspeare Society. [214]The most popular songs which I have noticed in the Forest and on its borders are the famous satire, “When Joan’s ale was new,” which differs in many important points from Mr. Bell’s printed version: “King Arthur had three sons;” “There was an old miller of Devonshire,” which also differs from Mr Bell’s copy; and “There were three men came from the north, To fight the victory;” made famous by Burns’ additions and improvements; but which, from various expressions, seems to have been, first of all, a West-Country song, sung at different wakes and fairs, part of the unwritten poetry of the nation. [215]_The Repression of Over-much Blaming the Church_, edited by Churchill Babington, vol. i., part. ii., ch. iii., p. 155. [216]Dr. Bell takes quite a different view of these passages in his _Shakspeare’s Puck and his Folk-lore_. Introduction to vol. ii. p. 6. The simple explanation, however, seems to me the best. [217]See ch. xviii. p. 197. [218]The best cheese, the same as “rammel,” as opposed to “ommary,” which see in Appendix I. [219]In the Abstract of Forest Claims made in 1670 some old customs are preserved, amongst them payments of “Hocktide money,” “moneth money,” “wrather money” (rother, hryðer, cattle-money), “turfdele money,” and “smoke money,” which last we shall meet in the Churchwardens’ Books of the district. The following is taken from the Bishop of Winchester’s payments:—“Rents at the feast of St. Michael, 3_s._ 8_d._ For turfdeale money, 3_s._ 0_d._ Three quarters and 4 bushels of barley at the feast of All Saints. Three bushels of oats, and 30 eggs, at the Purification of the Virgin Mary.”—(p. 57.)