Churchyard Yews
SIR,—It certainly does appear as though Mr. Gardner, suddenly looming up in the deep field, had caught me on the boundary. The question is whether even he did not have one foot over it. In other words, he must give me time to re-consult the authorities as to the Cusop yews being mentioned in Domesday Book. He has set me a formidable job, for, owing to the unconscionable time it takes nowadays for a book to be printed, mine on the Southern Marches, in whose research I discovered about these yews, has been all but two years in the press already, and I was looking up the records as far back as 1947 before writing the book. As the material for this research was both complex and voluminous, I cannot recall at this distance of time in what par- ticular work his information was revealed. All I can plead at the moment is that I should hardly have picked it out, unusual as it is, if there had not been some substance in it. Will therefore Mr. Gardner suspend judgement until I have gone back to the most likely sources, and I can let him know what success, if any, I have.—Yours faith-
Reddings, Long Crendon, Bucks.
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