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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 124. 



Prianho, De Pratellis and Prideaux Family. — 

 What ground is there for Dr. Oliver, the author 

 of Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries 

 of Devon, published 1820, and the Rev. G. C. 

 Goi'ham, in his History of St. Neots in Huntingdon- 

 shire and in Cornwall, published in 1824, sup- 

 posing that De Pratellis is the same name as 

 Prideaux ? Dr.Oliver says (p. 123.), Adam Prianho 

 or De Pratellis al Prydeaux appointed prior. 

 Gorham, vol. i. p. 172., says, Robert de Preus 

 (alias Robert de Pratell ?). And again, in vol. ii. 

 p. clxviii., Robert de Preaux alias Prideaux, was 

 presented by the prior and convent in 1270; his 

 quotation is from Instituted rolls and Registers, 

 Lincoln Cathedral : the roll reads Preus and 

 De Pratellis. G. P. P. 



Joseph Adrien Lc Baillij. — In tlie choir of the 

 church of St. Sauveur at Bruges is a monument 

 of black marble, to the memory of Joseph Adrien 

 Le Bailly, who died the I8th Oct. 1775, aged 

 eighty-two. After describing him as the member 

 of a noble and warlike family, the epitaph pro- 

 ceeds as follows : 



" Victiine de I'envie 11 mourut, en citoyen la calom- 

 nie avait fletri sa vertu, la verite en a dechire la voile. 



L'honnete homrae a reparu, et la justice I'a 



venge." 



I have searched, but in vain, for some notice of 

 this individual, and shall feel indebted to any of 

 your readers who will be kind enough to give me 

 some particulars which will throw light upon these 

 mysterious expressions. J. H. M. 



Bath, 



The Great Bowyer Bible. — Can you afford me 

 information respecting the Great Bowyer Bible, 

 which, I believe, about twenty years ago was 

 valued at lOOOZ., and disposed of by lottery? 



Is it in private hands, or in a public library ? 



J. S. 



[The Bowyer Bible was disposed of, in 1848, in 

 Mrs. Parkes's Club Subscription. 



Th e name of the gentleman who was so fortunate 

 as to obtain it, for his subscription of one guinea, is 

 Saxon ; a gentleman farmer, residing near Shepton 

 Mallett in Somersetshire. He received the Bible in 

 an appropriate cabinet from Mrs. Parkes, who knows 

 nothing further of its subsequent history.] 



Orloff, Derivation of. — What is the derivation 

 of the word orloff, as applied to the deck of a ship 

 of war ? The " orloff deck " is, I believe, the first 

 lower deck which runs flush from stem to stern. 



W. A. L. 



[Falconer and others spell it Orlop, from the Dutch 

 overloop, a running over, or overflowing. Dr. Ogilvie 

 says, '' In a ship of war it is a platform of planks laid 



over the beams in the hold, on which the cables are 

 usually coiled. It contains also sail-rooms, carpenters' 

 cabins, and other apartments. Also, a tier of beams 

 below the lower deck for a like purpose. In three- 

 decked ships the second and lowest decks are sometimes 

 called orlops."^ 



"^ Captain bold of Halifax." — Byron says, ia 

 a note somewhere, that many of the modern Greek 

 poems are in the metre of the English ballad : 

 " A captain bold of Halifax, that lived in country 

 quarters." 



The same may be said of a metre much used iu 

 Terence and Plautus. 



Where is this ballad to be found ? 



Ed. G. Jacksok. 



Saffron Walden. 



[Though we cannot point where this song, written 

 by George Colman, and known as " Unfortunate Miss 

 Bailey," is to be met with, we can refer our correspon- 

 dent to a clever Latin version of it by the Rev. G. H. 

 Glasse, printed in the Gentleman s Magazine for August, 

 1805, which commences — 



" Seduxit miles virginem, receptus in hybernis, 



Prajcipitans quse laqueo se transtulit Avernis." 

 There is also in the same magazine a French version 

 which runs — 



" Un capitaine hardi d' Halifax, demeurant a son 

 quartier, 

 Seduit une fille qui se pendit, un lundi avec sa jar- 

 retiere," &c.] 



Goblin, Gorgeous, Gossip. — May I ask the de- 

 rivation of the following English words, — Goblin, 

 Gorgeous, Gossip ? J. G. T. 



[Goblin is derived from the low Latin Gohelinus ; 

 see Ducange, who defines it, " Daemon, qui vulgo 

 Faunus, Gallis, Gobelin Folastre, German, Kobold," and 

 quotes as his authority Ordericus Vitalis. 



Gorgeous, according to Skinner, is from the French 

 Gorgias, probably from Gorge, and transferred from the 

 palate to the eye. No such word as Gorgias is, how- 

 ever, to be found in Roquefort's Glossaire. 



Gossip is from the Anglo-Saxon God-sibbe, " cog- 

 natus in Deo." Nares in his Glossary furnishes the 

 following apt illustration of it : " Our Christian ances- 

 tors, understanding a spiritual affinity to grow between 

 the parents and such as undertooke for the child at 

 baptism, called each other by the name of God-sib, 

 that is, of kin together through God ; and the child, 

 in like manner, called such his godfathers and god- 

 mothers." — Verstegan, p. 223.] 



Maheremium; Arc de Arbouin. — In a survey 

 of the castle of Launceston made in the 1 1 Edw. III., 

 occurs the following passage : " Una pva capella 

 quar pietes sunt de maheremio et plaustro et 

 maheremiii inde fere disjungit." 



Will any of your readers kindly inform an un- 

 skilled person the meaning of this description ? 



The same record contains some notable instances 

 of jocular tenures, such as " ccc volucr' quae voc'' 



