and _apples-and_,--all evident corruptions of one and the same word.
What is that word?

M.A. LOWER.


_Combs buried with the Dead._--When the corpse of St. Cuthbert was
disinterred in the cathedral of Durham, there was found upon his breast
a plain simple Saxon _comb_. A similar relique has been also discovered
in other sepulchres of the same sanctuary.

Can any of your learned contributors inform me (for I am totally
ignorant) the origin and intent of this strange accompaniment of the
burial of the ancient dead. The comb of St. Cuthbert is, I believe,
carefully preserved by the Dean and Chapter of Durham.

R.S. HAWKER.

Morwenstow, Cornwall.


_Cave's Historia Literaria._--My present Queries arise out of a Note
which I took of a passage in Adam Clarke's _Bibliography_, under the
article "W. Cave" (vol. ii. p. 161.).

1. Has not the bibliographer assigned a wrong date to the publication of
Cave's _Historia Literaria_, viz. 1740, instead of 1688-1698?

2. Will some of your readers do me the favour of mentioning the
successive editions of the _Historia Literaria_, together with the year