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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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of reheting; but at the same time I must allow that it 
is not likely to have been inserted by way of a gloss,” 
Ihave met with the word Rehetour in the fol- 
lowing passages of Wycliffe’s writings; I quote 
them in the hope that some of your learned readers 
may be able to throw light on the origin and 
meaning of the word. In the treatise “Of the 
Chirche and hir Membris, Wycliffe, speaking of 
the new orders of monks and friars, says : — 
“ Who may denye that ne this noumbre of thes 
officeris is now to myche, & so this stiward ” [viz. the 
Pope] “hath chargid this hous” [i. e. the Church | 
“ with newe rehetours to harm of it; and sith Poul 
techith in bileve that thei shulden not be charious to 
the chirche, it semith bi good resoun, that this stiward 
passith his power, and failith in governaunce of the 
chirche, agen the reule that Crist hath taugt, & so he 
is not Cristis stiward, but stiward of anticrist. What 
man can notse that a stiward of an erthli lorde, whanne 
many servaunts don amys, holdith hem stille, & bryng- 
ith inne new that don worse bi a litil tyme, failith 
foule in his offiss, & so servauntis upon servauntis 
weren charious to this hous, & if her first offiss was 
good, & this is now al, other the chaunging of these 
rehetours shulde do harm to this hous: and thus it 
stondith in the chirch, of thes new servauntes that ben 
brout inne, & newe lawes ben made to hem, & newe 
customs that thei bringen inne,” &c. 
Again, in another part of the same tract, still 
alluding to the same subject, he says: — 
“ Lord what stiward wer he that wolde ordeyne 
newe rehetours to ete mennes mete, & do hem harm 
azens Crist’s ordenaunce.”’ 
Here the word Rehetour seems to be used in 
the sense of a person dependent on or chargeable 
to a great man’s house or family. But its exact 
meaning and origin etymologically I do not know, 
and would be very thankful to any of your readers 
who would inform me. 
The Complement to the Dictionary of the French 
has the word Rehaitier, which it marks as obsolete, 
and explains Ce Encourager, Reprendre de la force, 
de l’audace.” This, howev er, throws no light on 
the word as used by Wycliffe and Chaucer. 
The word appears to have been in use in Scot- 
land; and Jamieson, in his Etymological Dictio- 
nary of the Scottish Language, gives the following 
instances of its use, but throws no additional light 
on its etymology or real meaning : — 
“ Renatoure, Rewaror, s. 
‘ Now lat that ilk rehatoure wend in hy, 
The blak hellis biggingis to vesy, 
Vnder the drery depe flude Acheron.’ 
Doug. Virgil, 467. 53. 
“ Tmprobus, Maffei. 
“ Rudd conjectures that it signifies, ‘ mortal enemy,’ 
from Fr. rehair, to hate extremely. Dunbar uses the 
phrase ‘bawd rehator,’ Evergreen, ii. 60. ; and Kennedy, 
in his reply, ‘ranegald rehator,* ibid. p. 68. 
“ Conjecture might supply various sources of deriva~ 
tion: as Jtal. rihautita, revenge; regattare, to contend, 
to put every thing in disorder; reatura, guilt. But 
both the determinate sense and etymology are uncer- 
tain. 
“ To Reuere, v. a. To revive, to cheer. 
‘With kynde countenance the renk couth thame 
rehete.’-— Gawan and Gol. iv. 13. 
“ Chaucer, id. Fr. rehait-er. 
Mr. Halliwell, in his Dictionary of Archaic and 
Provincial Words, &c. gives the following expla- 
nations of Rehete and Reheting : — 
“Renere. (1.) To revive; to cheer; to encourage. 
(A. N.) ‘Him would I comforte and rehete.’ Rom. 
Rose, 6509. 
‘ Thane the conquerour kyndly carpede to those 
lordes, 
Rehetede the Romaynes with realle speche.’ 
Morte Arthure, MS. Lincoln, f. 55. 
(A. S.) 
Burning ; smarting.” 
«“ (2.) To persecute. 
« REHETING. 
(A. S.) 
Without stopping to inquire how the same word 
can signify revive, cheer, mortal enemy, encourage, 
persecute, burning, smarting, I think it must be 
admitted that the passages I have quoted from 
Wycliffe’s Treatise on the Church are not explained 
iste any of the foregoing attempts to discover the 
mide and meaning ; of the word in question. 
As I hope shortly to bring out the treatise re- 
ferred to, along with two other tracts by Wycliffe, 
which have never yet been printed, I shall feel 
ereatly obliged to any of your readers who will 
kindly supply me with the information I seek for 
in this communication. J. H. Topp. 
Trinity College, Dublin, Dec. 20. 1849. 
MINOR QUERIES. 
Ancient Motto. — Can any one tell me in what 
author may be found this motto, “ Nullis fraus 
tuta latebris”? B. 
Ordination Pledges. —Is there any book, either 
a standard work or a modern manual, which gives 
a complete list of all the oaths, subser iptions, and 
declarations, which are required of the clergy at 
their several ordinations and appointments ? 
CLericts. 
[As we presume Cuericus is acquainted with Hodg- 
son’s Instructions for the Use of Candidates for Holy 
Orders, we insert his query in the hopes that some of 
our correspondents will furnish Ciericus with the fur- 
ther information he requires. ] 
M. Scutter’s “ Atlas Novus.” —I shall feel obliged 
by you, or any “to whom these presents shall 
come,” affording me some information respecting 
a work and its author, of which no mention is 
made in any bibliographical or biographical work 
which I have consulted. 
The book is in two enormous folio volumes, 
