Back to Cerne - I can't help thinking that if it were of 16th, 17th or 18th century origin, there would be a folk song about it, with a cleaned up version in the National Song Book, and Mudcat discussions about the sources for older words closer to the original. For there to be silence argues the sort of cover-up Nixon could only dream of. One thing that was clear from reading up the Peasant's Revolt was the level of communication in 1381, among a population depleted from the Black Death, and it wouldn't have been less when the population rose again. Can't you imagine the young farmers on market day, saying to their mates from the other side of the market town "You'll never guess what we've been and done"? Something along the lines of the Derby Ram, I would imagine coming out of it.