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 394 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vi. NOV. 17, im obsolete iu England, but still in use in the Southern (States, where, in country districts remote from cities, a number of similar words still linger. Much of that country was settleo in 11 ic eighteenth century, and no inconsider- able uuuiber of so-called " Americanisms' are m reality the survival of words common enough m England at that period, but which have since become obsolete. l''i;i.i'i.l:li K T. HlBGAME. [Many other repliea received.] B.D. (9th S. vi. 309).—Chauncy is wrong. " In Decretis Baccalaureus " means Bachelor in the Decretals or Canon Law, expressed by " B.Cau.L." in Boase's ' Kegister ol the Uni- versity of Oxford.' The Latin for Bachelor of Divinity is "Sacrae Tuuologue" (or "in Sacra Theologia ) " Baccalaureus.' " in utroque jure" means " in both canon and civil law," LL.D., as at Cambridge and many other universities, but the canon law has been abolished at Oxford and has not been adopted at Durham, hence, iu these latter universities, the law degrees are B.C.L. and D.C.L., not LL.B. and LUD. J. T. F. Durham. '1'iu- modern Latin for B.D. is "Bacca- laureus Diviuitatis.' "Sanctse Theologian Baccalaureus " would have equalled B.D. Is "oacrW ever used in place of "Sanctse"| Bachelor in Divinity is a free translation of " in Decretis Baccalaureus," if only for the reason that decretum, equals Soy/**. This version is probably more correct tnan Bache- lor iu Divinity by ordination or edict. AKIHUH MAYALL. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY TERMS (9th S. vi. 188, 275;.—Tneso all apparently relate to eccle- siastical matters iroin a churchwardens account book. It is, perhaps, desirable that the amouut should be given for each item. 1. "Ibnellys,' shells or rough com'us, either for the interment of the very poor or as temporary receptacles for the bodies which nad oeeu disinterred during rebuilding opera- tions, and were awaiting the finished cotlius. 3. "Brygges," supports for the lamp. A " brig " or bridge was, according to Halliweli, a utensil employed in brewing and in dairies to set the strainer upon, aud also a kind of iron set over a tire. "Brigge" is a form of "bridge" in Northumberland as well as on the otner side of the Tweed. .Probably this was the sanctuary lamp, as one was always kept burning beioru the Host. 3. " Boyling the sensor.'1 A censer was used at funerals, ixc., and it may be lhat this was a way of purifying it from possible contagious germs after, as was the custom, the inceusation of the corpse. 4. "Platters." Fosbroke informs us that "in the fourteenth century we find them [i.e. lamps] of glass (among the Anglo-Saxons rare), drawn up and down with cords—lit with paper—with dishes under them " (' En- cycl. of Antiq.,' 1840, p. 323). These dishes or platters were used to catch the " kitchen stuff" used in the place of tallow, a use which Fosbroke says dated from the days of Augus- tine. A " paschall" was a large candlestick used at Easter. In the Anglo-Saxon Church, as a preliminary to hallowing the paschal candle on Easter Eve, all the lights in the church were extinguished, and a fresh light struck for communicating to the " paschal," and hence to the other candles. See ' Elfric's Second Epistle,' Henry Soames ; ' The Anglo- Saxon Church,' 1856, p. 267. 5. "Deft," a handy, ready-at-hand imple- ment of unspecified use. 6. "Balling." The balls of the clapper probably needed renewing. In a good bell the clapper would suffer from constant con- cussion. " Balling " is described in Kay niond's ' Mining Gloss.,' 1881, as " the aggregation of iron in the puddling process into balls or loups." But MR. WALLACE-JAMES'S explana- tion is no doubt preferable, namely, that " balling " means fastening leather covers on bell-clappers for tolling. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL. Wimbledon Park Road. 2. " Brygg" is the term used for the arrangement for supporting the floating wick in primitive lamps formed by burning melted fat in an open vessel. If the wick falls over it is "drowned," and a wire, or something of the kiud, fastened across the vessel was used to keep it erect. " Briggs" are still used in the North as a support for the strainer through which the milk is poured when putting it away. 3. Was it not usual to boil metal vessels in wood ashes and potash to cleanse them when they became very foul ] M. N. 1 should think that "balling three bell- clappers " must mean refashioning the old iron balls when worn out. J. T. F. Wiatertou, Doucastcr. [Other similar replies acknowledged.] PROLOUUE AND EPILOGUE TO THE 'CRITIC' ,9th S. vi. 289).—In the Tauchnitz edition of Sheridan's Dramatic Works' (Leipzig, 1869) the prologue to the ' Critic' is marked as the jrod action of the Hon. Richard Fitzpatrickf >ut no epilogue is given. THOMAS BAYNE.