Nevertheless, Mr. Corney's conjecture may be right, as Forby
(_Vocabulary,_ vol. ii. p. 258.) mentions Poke-Day as the day
on which the allowance of corn is made to the labourers, _who, in
some places, receive a part of their wages in that form._ Now the
_Pokerer_ might be the officer who distributed the grain on
these occasions.

I open my note to add, that Mr. Gutch (No. 14. p. 211.) will find,
in Sterne's _Sentimental Journey_,--"_God tempers the wind_,"
said Maria, "to the shorn lamb."

The words which I have underlined are printed in Italics in my
edition of the work (London, 12mo. 1790), which may indicate that
they are quoted from some other author.

BRAYBROOKE.

Audley End, Feb. 2.


_Walewich or Watewich._--I have made the reference suggested by
"W.B.M."

Canute was residing at Walewich, and the Abbot of Ely was
consecrated there by the Archbishop of Canterbury. This "Walewich"
can be no obscure place, and we need not look for it in
Cambridgeshire.

I am inclined to think that the word ought to have been written