ed spots cultivated
from time immemorial. These are not always found in _cold_ situations.
Nothing is more common than to add a final _d_, unnecessarily, to a word or
syllable, particularly in compound words. Instances will occur to every
reader, which it would be tedious to enumerate.

J.I.

After reading the foregoing communications on the subject of the
much-disputed etymology of COLD HARBOUR, our readers will probably
agree with us in thinking the following note, from a very distinguished
Saxon scholar, offers a most satisfactory solution of the question:--

With reference to the note of G.B.H. (Vol. i, p. 60.) as well as to the
very elaborate letter in the "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries"
(the paper in the _Archaeologia_ I have not seen), I would humbly suggest
the possibility, that the word _Cold_ or _Cole_ may originally have been
the Anglo-Saxon Col, and the entire expression have designated _a cool
summer residence_ by a river's side or on an eminence; such localities, in
short, as are described in the "Proceedings" as bearing the name of Cold
Harbour.

The denomination appears to me evidently the modern English for the A.-S.
Col Hereberg. Colburn, Colebrook, Coldstream, are, no doubt, analagous
denominations.

[Greek: PH.]

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ST. UNCUMBER.

(Vol. ii., p. 286.)

PWCCA, after quoting from Michael Wodde's _Dialogue or Familiar Talke_ the
passage in which he says, "If a wife were weary of her husband _she offred
otes at Paules_ in London to St. Uncumber," asks "who St. Uncumber was?"

St. Uncumber was one of those popular saints whose names are not to be
found in any calendar, and whose histories are now only to be learned from
the occasional allusions to them to be met with in our early
writers,--allusions which it is most desirable should be recorded in "NOTES
AND QUERIES." The following cases, in which mention is made of this saint,
are therefore noted, although they do not throw much light on the history
of St. Uncumber.

The first is from Harsenet's _Discoverie, &c._, p.l34.:

"And the commending himselfe to the tuition of S. Uncumber, or els our
blessed Lady."

The second is from Bale's _Interlude concerning the Three Laws of Nature,
Moses, and Christ_:

"If ye cannot slepe, but slumber,
Geve _Otes_ unto Saynt Uncumber,
And Beanes in a certen number
Unto Saynt Blase and Saynt Blythe."

I will take an earl