Seneca and St. Paul (Vol. vii., p. 500.).—
"The fourteen letters of Seneca to Paul, which are printed in the old editions of Seneca, are apocryphal."—Dr. W. Smith's Dict. of Mythology, &c.
"Seneca, Opera, 1475, fol. The second part contains only his letters, and begins with the correspondence of St. Paul and Seneca."—Ebert's Bibl. Dict.
B. H. C.
Hurrah (Vol. vi., p. 54.; Vol. vii., p. 595.).—Wace's Chronicle of the Norman Conquest, as it appears in Mr. Edgar Taylor's translation, pp. 21, 22, mentions the war-cries of the various knights at the battle of Val des Dunes. Duke William cries "Dex aie," and Raol Tesson "Tur aie;" on which there is a note that M. Pluquet reads "Thor aide," which he considers may have been derived from the ancient Northmen. Surely this is the origin of our modern hurrah; and if so, perhaps the earliest mention of our English war-cry.
J. F. M.
Purlieu (Vol. vii., p. 477.).—The etymology of this word which Dr. Johnson adopted is that which many others have approved of. The only other derivation which appears to have been suggested is from perambulatio. Blount, Law Dict., s. voc., thus explains:
"Purlue or Purlieu (from the Fr. pur, i. e. purus, and lieu, locus) is all that ground near any forest, which being made forest by Henry II., Richard I., or King John, were, by perambulation, granted by Henry III., severed again from the same, and became purlue, i. e. pure and free from the laws and ordinances of the forest. Manwood, par. 2., For. Laws, cap. 20.; see the statute 33 Edw. I. stat. 5. And the perambulation, whereby the purlieu is deafforested, is called pourallee, i. e. perambulatio. 4 Inst. fol. 303."
(See also Lye, Cowel, Skinner, and especially Minshæus.)
B. H. C.
Bell Inscriptions (Vol. vi., p. 554.).—In Weever's Ancient Funeral Monuments (London, 1631) are the following inscriptions: