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married in 1305 to the Due de Bretaigne. Froissart, c. ccxxix. p. 268." My copy of Froissart does not mention this. Perhaps a perfect copy may do so and give other infor- mation. HERBERT SOUTHAM. Shrewsbury.

FIRST-FLOOR REFECTORIES (10 th S. ii. 167). The refectory of Battle Abbey is built over a series of vaults, on the slope of a hill. These as they descend the hill increase in height.

SHERBORNE.

The refectory in the Cistercian Abbey of St. Mary, Old Cleeve. Somerset, is built upon an early English substructure, used, if my memory serves aright, as cellarage, lavatory, and garde-robes. It is approached by a flight of nineteen steps. GEORGE A. AUDEN.

MR. CANN HUGHES makes a mistake in alluding to Bayham as a priory. It was an abbey; but he "sins in good company," for Dugdale is a great offender, with his indis- criminate use of the words "abbey" and in the page-headings as well as in a single account. But such mistakes are to be depre- cated nowadays. JOHN A. RANDOLPH.
 * l priory," sometimes both words being used

The late Rev. E. Mackenzie Walcott, in his


 * Cathedrals of the United Kingdom,' under

crypt beneath the refectory." A crypt is correctly defined in Parker's * Concise Glos- sary' as "a vault beneath a building, either entirely or partlj r underground." If, in each of the buildings to which MR. CANN HUGHES draws attention, " the refectory is upstairs over a crypt," what exists upon the inter- mediate ground floor ? HARRY HEMS.
 * Durham,' states that it has "a Norman

Fair Park, Exeter.

The refectory (fratry) at Carlisle is several feet above the ground-level, is entered by a flight of steps, arid has a crypt beneath it.

ANTIQUARY v. ANTIQUARIAN (10 th S. i. 325, 396 ; ii. 174). I can find no evidence to show that the Society of Antiquaries was ever .known as the Antiquarian Society, except in popular parlance. I have a copy of a small pamphlet entitled

" A Copy of the Royal Charter and Statutes of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Printed by Order of the Council, for the use of the Members. London, Printed in the Year MDCCLIX."

The charter had been granted by Royal Letters Patent, dated 12 November, 1751, but neither in that document nor in the statutes is the Society called otherwise than the Society of Antiquaries. The abbreviation

F.A.S. was occasionally used by members, but I hardly think it was official, as the Charter President, Martin Folkes, places P.S.A. after his name in his signature to the statutes. On p. 18 comes "The President and Council's Nomination of the first or modern Fellows of the Society," one of whom was a member of my own family, Benjamin Prideaux. This worthy gentleman, who, like all good anti- quaries, lived and died a bachelor, was a son of Edmund Prideaux, of Pads tow, in Corn- wall, by his wife Hannah, daughter of Sir Benjamin Wrench, of Norwich, and a grand- son of Humphrey Prideaux, Dean of Norwich. He was a member of the Inner Temple, and died 22 July, 1795. His father Edmund was also a distinguished antiquary, and is called by Walpole, in a fit of spleen, "a great oaf of unlicked antiquity."* Whether the "great boy" who accompanied him on his visit to Horace, when he bored that virtuoso to dis- traction, was Benjamin or his elder brother Humphrey, I am unable to say.

It is true, as DR. KRUEGER says, that there are several words in the English language, formed with -ian and -arian, which are used substantively and adjectively. But when both the substantival and adjectival forms exist, I cannot think, with DR. KRUEGER, that it conduces to the ** handiness " of Eng- lish to make all the parts of speech uniform. It rather tends, in my humble opinion, to make for confusion and obscurity. We do not call a geographer a "geographical," or a numismatist a ** numismatic." Why then style an antiquary an "antiquarian"? The word " antiquary " has been classicized, nob only by the title of Scott's novel, but by the usage of our best writers, including, as MR. H. G. HOPE has shown, the first Lord Lytton, who, whatever may be thought of his novels, which, in my poor judgment, are greatly underrated, was, at all events, an educated man and a writer of excellent English.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

OWEN BRIGSTOCKE (10 th S. ii. 86). There were at various times four adult members of the Brigstocke family named Owen, and for the information of PALAMEDES and D. M. R. I will in a future number give all that is known of each of them. In the first place, however, I wish to be allowed to correct a number of inaccuracies that appeared re Owen Brigstocke at 8 th S. xi. 257. Anne

Toynbee, i. 203. Both Cunningham and Mrs. Toyn- bee have copied Walpole's note, in which he erroneously says that Edmund was grandson of Dean Prideaux. He was his son and eventually his heir.
 * Walpole'a Letters, ed. Cunningham, i. 14S ; ed.