Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 by Various
page 45 of 67 (67%)
by changing it to _Wyattville_. This produced the following epigram in,
I think, the _Morning Chronicle_:--

"'Let GEORGE whose restlessness leaves nothing quiet,
Change, if he will, the good old name of _Wyatt_;
But let us hope that their united skill
May not make _Windsor Castle--Wyattsville!_'"]


_"Peruse."_--In reply to the question of "H.W." (No. 14. p. 215.),
although from want of minute reference I have been unable to find, in
the original edition, the quotation from Frith's works, I beg leave to
suggest that the word "Peruse" is a misprint, and that the true reading
is "Pervise." To this day the first examination at Oxford, commonly
called the "Little-Go," is "Responsiones in _Parviso_." It must not,
however, be supposed that "Pervise," or "Parvise," is derived from the
Latin "Parvus;" the origin, according to Spelman and succeeding
etymologists, is the French "Le Parvis," a church porch.

In London the Parvis was frequented by serjeants at law: see Chaucer,
_Prol. Cant. Tales_. There is a difference of opinion where it was
situated: see Tyrwhitt's _Gloss_. The student in ecclesiastical history
may compare _Leo Allatius de Templis Græcorum_, p. 44.

T.J.


_Autograph Mottoes of Richard Duke of Gloucester and Harry Duke of
Buckingham_. (No. 9. p. 138.)--There can be no doubt that "Mr. NICOLS"
is somewhat wrong in his interpretation of the Duke of Buckingham's
DigitalOcean Referral Badge