[The fifteen O's are fifteen prayers commencing with the letter O, and will be found in Horæ Beatissime Virginis Marie, secundum usum ecclesiæ Sarum, p. 201. edit. 1527.]
Meaning of Pightle.—As I dare say you number some Suffolk men among your readers, would any of them kindly inform me the meaning and derivation of the word "pightle," which is always applied to a field adjoining the farm-houses in Suffolk?
Philo-Stevens.
[Phillips, in his New World of Words, has "Pigle or Pightel, a small Parcel of Land enclosed with a Hedge, which in some Parts of England is commonly call'd a Pingle.">[
Inscription on a Guinea of George III.—Round the reverse of a guinea of George III., 1793, are the following initials:—"M. B. F. ET H. REX—F. D. B. ET L. D. S. R. I. A. T. ET E." The earlier letters are sufficiently intelligible; but I should be glad to learn the meaning of the whole inscription.
J. H. C.
Adelaide, South Australia.
[Of the Faith Defender, of Brunswick and Lunenburg Duke, of the Holy Roman Empire Arch-Treasurer and Elector.]
Meaning of Crambo.—Sir Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, part ii. § 15. ed. 1678) says:
"I conclude, therefore, and say, there is no happiness under (or, as Copernicus will have it, above) the sun, nor any Crambo in that repeated verity and burthen of all the wisdom of Solomon, All is vanity and vexation of spirit."