Darvon Gatherall

I send you an extract from Southey's *Common-place Book*, which refers to Darvon Gatherall. Southey had copied it from Wordworth's *Ecclesiastical Biography*, where it is given as quotation from Michael Wodde, who wrote in 1554. He says:— "Who could, twenty years agone, say the Lord's Prayer in English?... If we were sick of the pestilence, we ran to St. Rooke: if of the ague, to St. Pernel, or Master John Shorne. If men were in prison, they prayed to St. Leonard. If the Welshman would have a purse, he prayed to *Darvel Gathorne*. If a wife were weary of a husband, she offered oats at Poules;…