Chapter C

_Prutenicæ_ (No. 14. p. 215.).--The work to which your correspondent alludes is, I presume, _Prutenicæ Tabulæ Cælestium Motuum, autore Erasmo Reinholdo_: Tubingæ, 1562. This work is dedicated to Albert, Duke of _Prussia_. In the dedication is the following passage:

"Ego has tubulas _Prutenicas_ dici volui, ut sciret posteritas
tuâ liberalitate, Princeps Alberte, nos adjutos esse, et tibi
gratiam ab iis, quibus profuturæ sunt deberi."

Reinhold therefore called them Prutenie, _i.e. Prussian_ tables, in compliment to the reigning duke. _Pruteni_ is an ancient name of the Prussians. Albert (grandson of Albert the Achilles, Margrave of Brandenburg) was in 1511 elected Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, who then held Prussia. He continued the war which his order had for some time carried on with his uncle, Sigismund I., King of Poland. But he subsequently embraced the doctrines of Luther, deserted his order, became reconciled to Sigismund, and for his reward East Prussia was now first raised into a duchy as a fief of Poland, and made hereditary in his family. This Albert was the founder of the University of Konigsberg. (See Puffendorff, Frederick the Great, and Robertson.)

_Pandoxare_ (No. 13. p. 202., No. 15. p. 234.).--There is, or till very lately was, an officer of Trinity College, Cambridge, called the Pandoxator. He had the oversight of the college brewhouse, and formerly of the college bakehouse also. See Monk's _Life of Bentley_, 2nd ed. i. 210. In Dr. Bentley's time the office seems to have been held by a senior fellow. Of late years junior fellows have held the situation.

C.H. Cooper.

Cambridge, Feb. 11. 1850.

_Gazetteer of Portugal._--In answer to the inquiry of "Northman" (No. 16. p. 246.), P.C.S.S. has to state, that he believes that the most recent, as it is unquestionably the most copious, work on the topography of Portugal is the _Diccionario Geografico de Portugal_, published at Lisbon in 1817, in seventeen volumes, 8vo.

P.C.S.S.

_Dog Latin_ (No. 15, p. 230.).--Many things low and vulgar are marked with the prefix "dog"; as _dog-rose_, _dog-trick_, _dog-hole_, as also _dog-gerel_. When the great mortar was set up in St. James's Park, some one asked "Why the carriage was ornamented with dog's heads?" "To justify the Latin inscription," said Jekyl.

C.

_Epigram_ (No. 15. p. 233.).--Surely not by Kenrick, if written, as it seems, about 1721. Kenrick was not heard of for near thirty years later.

C.

_Pallace, Meaning of_ (No. 15. p. 233.).--Put out of all doubt by the following article in Phillips's _World of Words_. "_Pallacia_, in old records, 'Pales or paled fences.'"