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 NOTES AND QUERIES, [ii s. xn. JULY 10, 1915.

contributed to the fund sums ranging from 10/. 16s. to 31. 3s. : the total amount was 1211. 17s. " THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF DEBRITZEN

IN THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY. " It is well known that the University of De- britzen has from the earliest times of the Blessed Reformation down to our Days constantly supplied almost all Hungary with Pastors and. Masters of Schools ; But within these three Years past, such has been the prevailing Influence of their Enemies at the Court, that an Edict hath been issued from the Aulic Chamber forbidding the Magistrates of Debritzen to pay the usual Salaries to their Pro- fessors, with this hard Clause annex'd to it, that no Provision shall be made for them within the Kingdom by way of Collection. In this their Distress they had no other Resource left them but that of imploring the Compassion and charitable Assistance of their Brethren abroad, particularly the English ; humbly hoping they will be moved to pity the Distress, to which the said University is now reduc'd, and willingly contribute towards keeping it up : As the preservation of the Re- form'd Religion in the Kingdom of Hungary seems under God chiefly to depend upon the Continuance of this Seminary of Learning and pure Religion. Whatever shall be collected here for that Charitable Purpose, His Grace the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury has been pleas'd to declare, He will see properly and faithfully applied by means of the Rev' 1 M r Majendie Prebendary of Sarum."

R. L. P.

A "POUND" FOB PRISONERS (11 S. xi. 471). "Pound. A prison. Pounded; im- prisoned." See ' A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ' (by Francis Grose), third edit., 1796. " Lob's Pound. A prison." Ibid. A note by Dr. Grey on ' Hudibras,' part i. canto iii. line 910, is referred to. The lines concerned are :

Crowdero whom, in Irons bound, Thou basely threw'st into Lob's Pound.

Not all the words in Grose's ' Dictionary ' are slang. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

In Fanner and Henley's ' Slang and i-s Analogues ' the word " pound " is given as an old substantive for a prison, but no examples of its use are cited. There is an old substantive " Lob's pound," also meaning a prison, as the following examples show :

1603. Dekker, ' Batchclor's Banquet ' : "He ran wilfully into the p e rill of Lob's Pound."

1663. Butler, ' Hudibras,' I. iii. 909 [ut supra].

1671. Crowne, ' Juliana,' I. i. : " Between 'um both he 's got into Lobb's pound."

[Note (Maidment, 1870). Jocularly, a prison cr place of confinement. This phrase is still used and applied to the prison made for a child between the feet of a grown-up person.]

There is also a slang phrase among thieves, " In for pound," meaning " Com- mitted for trial."

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

A RUSSIAN EASTER (11 S. xi. 277, 440, 498). ST. SWITHIN will, I think, find that MR. W. A. FROST is correct in his statements about the Russian Church. Dr. Wladimir Guettee, priest and S.T.D. of the Orthodox Church of Russia, in the second edition of his ' Exposition de la Doctrine de 1'Eglise Catholique Orthodoxe ' (Paris, Bruxelles, 1884), writing of " 1'eglise romaine," says at pp. 443-4 :

"Elle celebre des liturgies secretes ou messes basses ; elle en celebre plusieurs dans la meme eglise et sur le meme autel ; elle celebre une foule de messes tons les jours. Ce sont la autant d'a&w-s." The italics are the author's. And again :

"On ne doit pas celebrer la liturgie deux fois, le meme jour, sur le meme autel."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

I am still sceptical about Mass being celebrated three times on the same day at any altar belonging to the Orthodox Eastern Church, and I may say that Easterns do not usually call the Eucharist " the Mass," but " the Liturgy." I can quite believe that at some church in Petrograd there were three services on Easter Day between midnight and daylight, and that the priest stood at the centre of the altar at each of them, for that is his ordinary position, and hence a stranger might imagine that he was celebrating Mass. Nor would a knowledge of Greek undeceive him * as in Russia the services are in Slavonic.

What may be called the special Easter Matins a service very different from the ordinary Matins begins in many churches at midnight, lasts about an hour, and is followed by the Liturgy of St. Chrysostom, which, if there be much ceremonial and music, may occupy three hours, though that is not the case everywhere, and at Bays- water it takes far less time.

It is possible to extend Matins by the addition of certain other service?, and if there is much singing the whole series may last even seven hours. This, I understand, is the case at Moscow Cathedral, where the Liturgy is not reached till about 7 A.M., so that there is a service, or series of services, lasting ten hours, though it is difficult to believe that the same priests and choir officiate throughout.

Assuming then that there were three ser- vices (wrongly called Masses) at some church in Petrograd between midnight and daylight, I should say that the first was the Easter Matins ; the second some, at least, of those other services to which I have referred ; and the last the Liturgy. At the end of this, as at the beginning of Matins, the priest