e 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.'"

C.

_Meaning of Pallace_ (No. 13. p. 202., and No. 15. p. 233.).--Bishop
Horsley seems to throw some light on this point by his note on the 9th
verse of the 45th Psalm. The learned prelate says

"'Out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee
glad,'--rather, from 'cabinets of Armenian ivory they have
pleasured thee.' From _cabinets_ or _wardrobes_, in which the
perfumes, or the garments were kept."

This meaning of the word, derived from the Hebrew, corroborat