Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 4.djvu/162

 130 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io* s. iv. A™. 12.1905. countess once asked me if I agreed with her in thinking that the Castilian word pequeno must be of Celtic origin, and cognate with Welsh and Breton bichan=sma.l, little. I replied that I thought it must be. But I hope that Prof. Rhys, or some one better acquainted with Celtic, will answer the question. E. S. DODGSON. This word is certainly derived from the Portuguese, through the so-called Creole dialects. Mgr. S. R. Dalgado, in his 'Dia- lecto Indo-Portugues de Ceylao,' records in_ the vocabulary "piquin, pequeno, fi- Ihinho"; and "pequmino, pequeno,:> this latter word, as he notes, being common also to the dialects of Cochin and Man- galor. On p. 33 he has: " Diminutive adjective employed as primitive: pequi- nino = pequeno (small). Pequin is in many cases a substantive, and signifies child." A good instance of the use of the word in the lingua franca of India in the seventeenth century occurs in the ' Relation ou Journal d'un Voyage fait aux Indes Orientales,' by Francois de 1'Estra (Paris, 1677;. The writer was being conveyed as a prisoner of war by the Dutch from Hugli to Batavia, and he says (pp. 210-11):— " All the recreation that we had was to hear the singing of the slaves whom the officers of the ship the Lion Rouge had bought in Bengala. There were about sixteen of them, both boys and girls, one of whom gave birth to a child whilst dancing on the deck with her companions, who received the infant and incontinently washed it. plunging it into a pail of sea-water, like a tripe ; they then wrapped it up in their gowns, after having left it for a full hour in the rays of the sun on the deck of the ship the Lion Roiige. They presented it to Captain Dominique, saying these words to him, 'Seignor s/tipre, dis- posse quo vos ten pay deste piequenin biche voa pode da algun cose per comey per el & per bevey tan ben per sou may.' That is to say, ' Since you are the father of this little child, it is reasonable that you should give us something for it to drink or eat, as also to the mother.' The captain laughed, and ordered the cabin-boy to take a flask of brandy, with some biscuits, to the lying-in woman, who after having washed her body at the bow of the ship was as lively and well as when she was bought in Bengala." Here piequenin is an adjective, qualifying biche, which, in the form bich, is recorded by Mgr. Dalgado in his 'Dialecto Indo-Portugues de Damao' as being a familiar term, meaning " son." (It is probably the Portuguese bicho, " worm, insect," used affectionately.) DONALD FERGUSON. "KNIAZ " (10th S. iv. 107).—Yes ! Kniaz is prince. But it is chiefly used for Poles and Tartars. Now Poland is full of poor princes, and all Tartars are called Kniaz. As the hotel and restaurant waiters in Russia are usually Tartars—for Tartars can be trusted not to drink—Russians habitually address waiters as Kniaz. D. [Replies from MR. R. PIERPOINT, MR. J. PLATT, and MR. A. WATTS next week.] WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM AND NORFOLK (9th S. xii. 249).—I do not think that any reply has yet appeared to MR. HIBGAME'S query. He stated that William of Wykeham, afterwards Bishop of Winchester, was collated by the king to the rectory of Pulham on 10 July, 1361. According to Moberly's ' Life of Wyke- ham' (second edition, 1893), pp. 40-42, the original collation was made on 30 Novem- ber, 1357, and was repeated on 10 July, 1361 ; but Wykehain's connexion with Pulham ter- minated the very next month, on 20 August, when he voluntarily resigned the living in order that it might be given to Andrew Stratford. See also Blomefield and Parkin's ' Norfolk,' iii. 264. As narrated by Moberly, the royal claim in 1357 to collate to this living rested upon a sen- tence of the King's Bench, whereby Thomas de Lisle, Bishop of Ely, forfeited the tem- poralities of his see, which were accordingly confiscated by the king. De Lisle insti- tuted proceedings before Pope Innocent VI., at Avignon, against Wykenam for taking possession of the living without rightful pre- sentation, but the proceedings fell through on account of De Lisle's death on 23 June, 1361. The king thereupon promptly repeated the collation, but Wykeham almost as promptly resigned. It is not clear that he ever resided at Pulham or even visited the church, and the circumstances attending his tenure of the living were such that the story of his building the church porch, alluded to by MR. HIBGAME, must be regarded with con- siderable doubt, so long as it rests on mere tradition, unsupported by any confirmatory evidence. To what period of architecture ought the porch to be ascribed ? Several writers have supposed that William of Wykeham, the bishop, had another con- nexion with Norfolk. Blomefield and Parkin (v. 1425) thought that he was probably iden- tical with the William of Wykham who was presented to the church of Irstead by the king on 12 July, 1349, during an interval between the death of one abbot of St. Bennet of Hulme and the appointment of his suc- cessor. Walcott, in his 'William of Wyke- ham and his Colleges,' p. 9, accepted this identification as certain; and Moberly, pp. 19, 39, not only did the same, but some- how or other arrived at the mistaken con- clusion that the letters patent for the pro-