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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 191. 



cording to St. Paul (Rom. iii. 27.), for their sal- 

 vation. T. J, BUCKTON. 

 Birmingham. 



FAITHFULL TEATK. 



(Vol. vii., p. 529.) 



The Ter Tria *, about which your correspondent 

 J. S. inquires, is neither a rare nor a very valuable 

 book ; and if his copy has cost him more than some 

 three and sixpence, it is a poor investment of 

 capital. Mine, which is of the second edition, 

 1669, has the following book-note : 



"The worthy Faithful! Teate indulges himself in the 

 then prevailing bad taste of anagramising his name: see 

 the result after the title. A better play upon his name 

 •is that of Jo. Chishull, who, in lashing the prophane 

 wits of the day, and eulogising the author, has the fol- 

 lowing comical allusion thereto: 



>. ' Let all wise-hearted sav'ring things divine 



Come suck this Teat that yields both milk and wine, 

 Loe depths where elephants may swim, yet here 

 The weakest lamb of Christ wades without fear.' " 



The Ter Tria was originally published in 16.58; 

 its author, F. T., was the father of the better 

 known Nahum Tate, the co-translator of the last 

 authorised version of the Psalms, — a l^eat which, 

 following the metaphor of Mr. Chishull, has nou- 

 rished not a few generations of the godly, but now, 

 like a sucked orange, thrown aside for the more 

 juicy productions of our modern Psalmists. Old 

 Teate (or Tate, as the junior would have it) is 

 styled in this book, " preacher at Sudbury." He 

 seems subsequently to have removed to Ireland, 

 where his son Nahum, the laureat, was born. 



J. O. 



(Vol. vlii., p. 528.) 



] Parvise seems tohave been aporch, used as aschool 

 or place for disputation. The parvise mentioned 

 in the Oxford "Little-Go" (Responsions) Testa- 

 mur is alluded to in Bishop Cooper's book against 

 Private Mass (published by the Parker Society). 

 He ridicules his opponent's arguments as worthy of 

 *' a sophister in the parvyse schools." The Serjeant- 

 at-law, in Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, had been 

 often at the paruise. In some notes on this character 

 in a number of the Penny Magazine for 1 840 or 1 841 , 

 it is farther remarked that the choristers of Nor- 

 wich Cathedral were formerly taught in the parvise, 



* " Ter Tria ; or the Doctrine of the Three Sacred 

 Persons: Father, Son, and Spirit. Principal Graces: 

 Faith, Hope, and Love. Main Duties : Prayer, Hear- 

 ing, and Meditation. Summarily digested for the 

 Pleasure and Profit of the pious and ingenious Reader. 

 By F. T. Tria sunt omnia." 



i. e. porch. The chamber over a porch in some 

 churches may have been the school meant. In- 

 stances of this arrangement were. to be found at 

 Doncaster Church (where it was used as a library}, 

 and at Sherborne Abbey Church. The porch here 

 was Norman, and the chamber Third Pointed ; and 

 at the restoration lately effected the pitch of the 

 roof was raised, and the chamber removed. 



B. A. Oxoir. 

 Oxford University. 



I believe that the parvisus, or paradisiis of the 

 Respor\sions Testamur, is the pro-scholium of the 

 divinity school, otherwise called the "pig-market,"^ 

 from its site having been so occupied up to the 

 year 1554. This is said to be the locality in which, 

 the Responsions were formerly held. 



It is ordered by the statutes, tit. vi., — 



" Quod priusquam quis ad Gradum Baccalaurei in 

 Artibus admittatur, in Parviso semel Queestionibus 

 Magistrorum Scholarum respondeat." 



However, they go on to direct, " Locus hisce Re- 

 sponsionibus assignetur Schola Metaphysices ; " 

 and there they are at present held. (See the 

 Glossary to Tyrwhitt's Chaucer ; and also Parker's 

 Glossary of Architecture, ad voc. " Parvise.") 



Cheverells* 



The term parvise, though used in somewhat dif- 

 ferent senses by old writers, appears to mean 

 strictly a porch or antechamber. Your correspon- 

 dent OxoNiENSis will find in Parker's Glossarif 

 ample information respecting this word, with re- 

 ferences to various writers, showing the diflerent 

 meanings which have been attached to it. " Re- 

 sponsions," or the preliminary examinations at 

 Oxford, are said to be held in parviso ; that is, in 

 the porch, as it were, or antechamber before the 

 schools, which are the scene of the greater exa- 

 minations for the degree. H. C. K. 



If your correspondent will refer to the word 

 Parvisium, in the Glossary at the end of Watt's edi- 

 tion of Matthew Paris, he will find a good deal of 

 information. To this I will add that the word ia 

 now in use in Belgium in another sense. I saw 

 some years since, and again last summer, in a 

 street leading out of the Grande Place, by one 

 side of the Halle at Bruges, on a house, this 

 notice, — 



" IN FKRVISE 



VERKOOPT MEN DRANK. 



D. P. 



Begbrook. 



THE C(ENACUtUM OF LIONARDO DA VINCI. 



(Vol. vii., pp. 524, 525.) 



Mr. Smirke's paper, questioning the received 

 opinion as to the points of time and circumstance 



