Hull.
[The earliest notice of pews occurs in the Vision of Piers Plouman, p. 95., edit. 1813:—
"Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute
Yparroked in puwes. The person hit knoweth."
See also The History of Pews, a paper read before the Cambridge Camden Society, 1841.]
Flemish Account.—T.B.M. (Vol. i., p. 8.) requests references to early instances of the use of this expression. In the History of Edward II., by E.F., written A.D. 1627 (see "NOTES AND QUERIES" Vol. i., pp. 91. 220.), folio edition, p. 113., I find "The Queen (Isabella) who had already a French and an Italian trick, was jealous lest she should here taste a Flemish one;" because she feared lest the Earl of Henault should abandon her cause. This instance is, I think, earlier than any yet referred to.
S.G.
Use of Monosyllables.—The most remarkable instance of the use of monosyllables that I remember to have met with in our poets, occurs in the Fire-worshippers in Lalla Rookh. It is as follows:—
"I knew, I knew it could not last—