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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
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and made the communication to your pages, is 
incorrect, the note being furnished by one of your 
earliest correspondents, subscribed with his own 
initials. E. D. 
Shameful Severity formerly practised in Schools. 
— Your correspondent X. O. B. (2™'S. p. 13.), 
and also Henry KensineTon (p. 53.), will be in- 
terested in the verses subjoined. ‘They were the 
production of one of the boys in the upper form 
of a very large school, where great severity was 
practised in the last century. ‘The retaliation re- 
corded was firmly credited by all the scholars, and 
affirmed by the servants. As extremes usually 
beget extremes, corporal punishment seems now 
to be quite abrogated : — 
“ The Tables turned by ‘Dear Molly,’ the Name of En- 
dearment used always by the Doctor to that Vixen, his 
Wife. 
“ Our Master, who, within his school, 
_ Bears always most tyrannic rule, 
And every day, to keep us jogging, 
Gives four or five a good sound flogging, 
Storming like any demigod, 
Whilst he administers the rod ; 
, Of all his manliness forsaken, 
At home can scarcely save his bacon. 
: Whilst his ‘Dear Molly,’ with tongue pye, 
Scolds him all day confoundedly ; 
And oft’ at night, with his own’ birch, 
Makes him pray louder than at church; 
Until, ‘ Dear Moily’s’ wrath to appease, 
He begs her pardon on his knees.” 
K. D. 
N.B. The words printed in Italics were school 
phrases in daily use at that time. 
Thomson, Armstrong, and Savage.— A scrap 
from the Daily Advertiser of Tuesday, Sept. 13, 
1737, preserved in a volume of Masonic Collec- 
tions, by Dr: Rawlinson (now Bodl. MS., Rawl. 
C. 136.), informs us that on the preceding Friday, 
James Thomson, Esq., author of The Seasons, 
Dr. Armstrong, and others, were admitted free 
and accepted Masons at Old Man's Coffee-House, 
Charing Cross, on which occasion “ Richard Sa- 
vage, Esq., son of the late Earl Rivers, officiated 
as Master.” W. D. Macray. 
New College. 
Queriss, 
GALILEE. 
May we not hope, through the medium of “ N, 
& Q.,” to set at rest, or at least throw some ad- 
ditional light upon that obscure point, the origin 
of the term galilee, as applied to the porch or 
chapel at the entrance, or at the west end of some 
churches? At Durham we find the galilee (1153 
-1154) in the form of a large chapel at the west 
end of the nave, that was built for the use of 
females frequenting the monastic church. At 
Ely the galilee (1200-1215) is a beautiful porch 
at the west end of the nave; and at Lincoln it is 
a porch on the west side of the south transept. 
St. Stephen’s Chapel at Westminster formerly had 
a galilee, which was a vestibule or ante-chapel at 
the west end. 
The reasons usually assigned for the use of the 
term are five in number : — 
1. The author of the Ancient Rites and Monu- 
ments of Durham, a work written in 1593, tells 
us — 
“Tt is called the galilee by reason (as some think) of 
the translation of the same, being once begun and after- 
wards removed ; whereupon it took the name of galilee.” 
alluding to Bishop Pudsey’s fruitless attempt, in 
the first instance, to build the chapel for females 
at the east end of the cathedral. 
2. Mr. Millers, speaking of Ely, accounts thus 
for the term: i 
“ As Galilee, bordering on the Gentiles, was the most 
remote part of the Holy Land from the holy city of Jeru- 
salem, so was this part of the building most distant from 
the sanctuary, occupied by those unhappy persons who, 
during their exclusion from the mysteries, were reputed 
searcely, if at all, better than heathens,” 
3. Another writer says — 
“ Attached to the south end of one of the crosses of the 
western transept of Lincoln Cathedral is an elegant porch, 
called a galilee, open on three sides, the fourth leading 
by folding doors into the church. There were formerly 
such porches at the western extremity of all churches. 
In these, public penitents were stationed, dead bodies 
deposited previous to interment, and women allowed to 
visit their relatives who were monks of that church. We 
gather from a passage in Gervase, that when a woman 
applied to see a relative who was a monk, she was an- 
swered, ‘ He goeth before you into Galilee; there you shall 
see him;’ and hence the name.”— Compitum, u. 265. 
4. Surtees conjectures that the text — 
“ Go, tell my brethren that they go into Galilee; there 
they shall see me.”—Matt. xxviii. 10. 
as applied to the consolation given in this part of 
the building at the time when the kingdom was 
under interdict, may have given rise to the term. 
5. Ornsby suggests the following origin : 
“There was a custom among the Benedictine monks 
to make a procession at. certain times round their church 
and cloister, and to halt at certain stations, in memory of 
the Resurrection, and of the various times at which our 
Lord afterwards appeared to His disciples. His last ap- 
pearance was on a mountain in Galilee, and it is therefore 
not improbable that the place where the procession made 
its final halt should have received that name.” — Sketches 
of Durham, p. 83, 
All these explanations of the origin of the term 
cannot have equal claims to be the true one; per- 
haps none may beso. The first — Galilee, from 
removal or translation, —might have stood, if 
Durham only had this appendage to its cathedral. 
The second — Galilee, from Galilee being that. 
portion of Western Palestine furthest distant from 
