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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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count for the Saracen's head on their crest. 

 Speaking of 'Prdaux -in Normandy (situate about 

 "two leagues from Rouen), Lamartiniere says : 



" Paroisse de France dans la Normandie, avec titre de 

 Baronie, et Haute Justice. L'an I'iOO Jean de Prc^aux, 

 Chevalier, Sieur Chatekin de Br^aux, fonda le rrieur($ de 

 Beaulieu en presence de Gautier, Archeveque de JBouen.-et 

 cette ,fon4ation se fit en la foret de Pre'aux." 



Further, — 



" Pr(faux est aussi le Dom de deux paroisses et de deux 

 Abbaj'es, d'une de Benedictins et I'autre de 'Benedictines, 

 situee dans la Diocese de Lisieux, h una grande lieue de 

 Pont Eaude-mer, dans un yallou, et pres de lasovrce d'un 

 ruisseaii qui y fait tourner plusieurs mouilus. L'abbayo 

 de Saint Pierre de Pr^aux, Sancti Fetr.i F.ratetknsis, est 

 jiossed^e par les Benedictins de la Congregation de Saint 

 Maur, et fut batie vers l'an 1055. Elle reconnoit pour 

 Fondateur Oufro3' de Vieilles, Baron de Preaux, Seigneur 

 de Pont Jiauilemer, Comte de Meuilan et.de Beaumoat-le- 

 rEoger. li'Egliae," &c. 



The French words (written in Italics by myself) 

 in the last paragraph, and the following extract 

 from Pryce {Corn. Diet., " Villages in Cornwall "), 

 would seem to tiirow some doubt on the coi'rect- 

 ioess of my etymohigy of jP/u'deaux : 



" Pri^D'eaux, Pres-d'^dux, near the waters ; also nom. 

 fain." 



This was my first idea as to the etymology ^f the 

 word, but 1 do not think it js the correct one. 

 An Olp Subscriber should consult Dufresne, 

 who nQt only gives Pratellum and frateau, and 

 numerous .authorities, but also th:e fojlowing from 

 JUi Roman de la Rose, MS. : 



"Ains alez chantant e^t halanit 

 Par ces jardins, par ccs Prolans 

 Avec ces garcons desloians." 



See also Memoires dressejs sur les Lieiix en 1 704, 

 cited by Lamartiniere. K. S. Chaknock:. 



•Array's Inn. 



LJVSS or EMINENT LAWYERS. 



(2°'^ S. ii. 451.) 



I have for many years possessed a copy of 

 Kearsley's publication, d^ted 1790, to which 

 J. Mt. refers, Strictw'es on the Lives and Charac- 

 ters of the most Eminent Lawyers of the present 

 Day, Sfc. At the top of the title-page there is 

 the .fojlowing name iq MS., "L. Thos. Rede." 

 Jixe title-page lias also two mottoes. The fii-st 

 is, — 



" I, bone, quo Virtus tua te vooat, I pede faustp." 



ffor. 



By the #ide of ;those oSiPttoes .there is written, in 

 tie same hand which inscribed " L. Thos. liede," 

 the following note, "I was then in the FLaet 

 Prison." The second motto is; 



•<', . .. . Siae me, liber, ibis in urhem. 



gei wjiii ! ^jiftd ^POUWP *W lieeit iie tuo." 



Ovid, 



With respect to the authorship of the volume, and 

 especially of a passage respecting Lord Tliurlow, 

 on a leaf preceding the title the following MS. 

 note appears : 



" Lemon Thos. Rede, whose signature I find on the top 

 of tlie title-page, and by whom it appeared from certain 

 ciroumstances, the booltseller I purcttased of bad this 

 book in exchange, was in reality the oste>isil>k autlwr. 

 But a very large part of (this volume was furnished by me, 

 especially of tlie latter ciiaracters, from Pepper Arden, 

 &c. The first three or four characters were printed before 

 I knew anything of the work or the undertaker, who was 

 then, as he has stated in the margin, in the fleet, yet" 

 [the MS. adds, without giving any .authority beyond the 

 writer's own] "carrying on the business of a money 

 lender by advertisement." 

 The note continues : 



" He was bred to the Jaw, followed the profession of a 

 , and i^ now, I believe, a reviewer." 



This manuscript illust-ration is signed " J. Thel- 

 wall," a political celebrity, and afterwards a very 

 successful professor of elocution, of whom further 

 description is not requisite. JNIr. T. here states 

 that " the first three or four chariicters " were 

 printed before he knew anything of the work. 

 Tiie first character in the volume is that of " The 

 Right Honorable Edward Lord Thublow, Lord 

 High Chancellor of P^ngland ; " therefore if the 

 manuscript illustrations of my volume, which I 

 have adduced above, are to be relied tm, I assume 

 it must be considered that " L. Thos. Rede," ex- 

 isting in 1790, " was, in reality, the ostensible 

 author." 



Your correspondent <juates a passage from the 

 notice of " Thurlow," and intimates that it would 

 be gratifying to know who in 1790, "upwards of 

 sixty years ago, ventured to speak out so boldly.'* 

 I venture to surmise that your correspondent is 

 not very conversant with the boldness of the 

 writings and proceedings of 1790 to 1794, &c., or 

 he would not have made al^ such remark. At all 

 events, a ^preceding page (p. 14.) of the article 

 from which he makes the excellent quotation, also 

 shows quite as much boldness, and is not unworthy 

 of being extracted, it is as follows : — 



"His [Thurlow's] unrivalled excellence is an iron 

 countenance, an inflexible ha.rdihood of feature, an invul- 

 nerable, impenetrable asj)ect, that nothing can abash, no 

 crimson tinge ; that stares humanity from the justice-seat, 

 and defies the tear of pitj'. Charity, it is said, covers a 

 multitude of sins, and inhumanity implies a depravity of 

 heart that gives the owner credit for tiie possession of 

 untold crimes." 



The Italics are the author's. 



A Hermit at Hampstead. 



Wotton'.s " Courttie Controvjersie of Cupid's 

 Cautels" (2"'i S. ii. 428.) — The following extract 

 from Blomfield'g History of Norfolk (London, 



