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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 18, 
whether the original MS. can be safely assumed 
to be an autograph. 
[Our correspondent “P.” writes, “ It surprises 
me your (Edipi should be so wide of the mark in 
this motto. It is simply, ‘ Oft remember me.’”’] 
Devices of the Standards of the Anglo-Saxons 
(No. 14 p.216.)— The arms, i. e. the standards 
of the successive rulers of Britain, may be found 
in Sir Winston Churchill's curious work, Divi 
Britannici, which gives (as your correspondent © 
supposes) the White Horse for Kent, the White 
Dragon for Wessex, and the Raven for the 
Danes. C. 
Prutenice (No. 14. p.215.).—The work to which 
your correspondent alludes is, I presume, Pru- 
tenice Tabule Celestium Motuum, autore Erasmo 
Reinholdo: Tubing, 1562. This work is dedicated 
to Albert, Duke of Prussia. In the dedication is 
the following passage : — 
‘Ego has tabulas Prutenicas dici volui, ut sciret 
posteritas tua liberalitate, Princeps Alberte, nos ad- 
jutos esse, et tibi gratiam ab iis, quibus profuture sunt 
deberi.” 
Reinhold therefore called them Prutenic, i. e. 
Prussian tables, in compliment to the reigning 
duke. Pruteni is an ancient name of the Prus- 
sians. Albert (grandson of Albert the Achilles, 
Margrave of Brandenburg) was in 1511 elected 
Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, who then 
held Prussia. He continued the war which his 
order had for some time carried on with his uncle, 
Sigismund I., King of Poland. But he subse- 
quently embraced the doctrines of Luther, de- 
serted his order, became reconciled to Sigismund, 
and for his reward East Prussia was now first 
raised into a duchy as a fief of Poland, and made 
hereditary in his family. This Albert was the 
founder of the University of Konigsberg. (See 
Puffendorff, Frederick the Great, and Robertson.) 
* * 
Pandoxare (No. 13. p.202., No. 15. p. 234.).— 
There is, or till very lately was, an officer of 
Trinity College, Cambridge, called the Pandoxator. 
He had the oversight of the college brewhouse, 
and formerly of the college bakehouse also. See 
Monk’s Life of Bentley, 2nd ed. i.210. In Dr. 
Bentley’s time the office seems to have been held 
by a senior fellow. Of late years junior fellows 
have held the situation. C. H. Cooper. | 
Cambridge, Feb. 11. 1850. 
Gazetteer of Portugal. —In answer to the in- 
quiry of “ Nortaman” (No. 16. p.246.), P.C.S.S. 
has to stzte, that he believes that the most recent, 
as it is unquestionably the most copious, work on 
the topography of Portugal is the Diccionario 
Geografico de Portugal, published at Lisbon in 
1817, in seventeen volumes, 8vo. P.C.8.8S. 
Dog Latin (No. 15, p. 230.).— Many things 
low and vulgar are marked with the prefix “dog”; 
as dog-rose, dog-trick, dog-hole, as also dog-gerel. 
When the great mortar was set up in St. James’s 
Park, some one asked “Why the carriage was 
ornamented with dog’s heads?” “ To justify the 
Latin inscription,” said Jekyl. C. 
Epigram (No. 15. p. 233.). — Surely not by 
Kenrick, if written, as it seems, about 1721. 
Kenrick was not heard of for near thirty years 
later. 
Pallace, Meaning of (No. 15. p. 233.).— Put 
out of all doubt by the following article in 
Phillips’s World of Words. ‘“ Pallicia, in old 
records, ‘ Pales or paled fences.’ ” C. 
Meaning of Pallace (No. 13. p. 202., and No. 
15. p. 233.) — Bishop Horsley seems to throw some 
light on this point by his note on the 9th verse of 
the 45th Psalm. The learned prelate says — 
“ « Out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made 
thee glad,’ — rather, from ‘ cabinets of Armenian ivory 
they have pleasured thee.” From cabinets or wardrobes, 
in which the perfumes, or the garments were kept.” 
This meaning of the word, derived from the 
Hebrew, corroborates the sense given to it in Mr. 
Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic, §&c.Words, viz. 
a storehouse. ALFRED Garry. 
Ecclesfield, Feb. 9. 
ZElian. — The querist (No. 15. p. 232.) is in- 
formed that Alian’s Treatise De Animalium Natura 
has been translated into Latin as well as his other 
works, by Conrad Gessner, fol. Zurich, 1556; but 
it does not appear that an English translation of it 
has hitherto been published, A.W. 
Brighton. 
Why Dr. Dee quitted Manchester.— A corre- 
spondent (No. 14. p. 216.) of yours wishes to 
know the reason why Dr. Dee resigned his 
wardenship, and left Manchester. I would refer 
him to the interesting ‘Life of Dee,” by Dr. Cooke 
Taylor, in his Romantic Biography of the Age of 
Elizabeth, who writes : — 
“ But in his days mathematics were identified with 
magic, and Dee’s learned labours only served to 
strengthen the imputations cast upon his character by 
the Fellows of his College in Manchester. He was so 
annoyed by these reports that he presented a petition 
to King James, requesting to have his conduct judi- 
cially investigated; but the monarch, on the mere 
report that Dee was a conjuror, refused to show him 
the slightest fayour. Indignant at the injurious treat- 
ment he continued to receive, he quitted Manchester 
with his family in the month of November, 1604: it is 
uncertain whether he renounced his wardenship at the 
same time, but he seems to have received no mure of 
its revenues; for, during the remainder of his life, 
