—The famous Avis aux Réfugiéz, a work commonly attributed to Bayle, pretends on its title-page to have been written "Par Mons. C.L.A.A.P.D.P." Who can tell me whether these initials have any purport?
N. P. BIBLIOPHILUS.
Prianho, De Pratellis and Prideaux Family.
—What ground is there for Dr. Oliver, the author of Historic Collections relating to the Monasteries of Devon, published 1820, and the Rev. G. C. Gorham, in his History of St. Neots in Huntingdonshire and in Cornwall, published in 1824, supposing that De Pratellis is the same name as Prideaux? Dr. Oliver says (p. 123.), Adam Prianho or De Pratellis al Prydeaux appointed prior. Gorham, vol. i. p. 172., says, Robert de Preus (alias Robert de Pratell?). And again, in vol. ii. p. clxviii., Robert de Preaux alias Prideaux, was presented by the prior and convent in 1270; his quotation is from Instituted rolls and Registers, Lincoln Cathedral: the roll reads Preus and De Pratellis.
G. P. P.
Joseph Adrien Le Bailly.
—In the choir of the church of St. Sauveur at Bruges is a monument of black marble, to the memory of Joseph Adrien Le Bailly, who died the 18th Oct. 1775, aged eighty-two. After describing him as the member of a noble and warlike family, the epitaph proceeds as follows:
"Victime de l'envie il mourût, en citoyen la calomnie avait flêtri sa vertu, la vérité en a déchiré la voile.... L'honnête homme a reparu, et la justice l'a vengé."
I have searched, but in vain, for some notice of this individual, and shall feel indebted to any of your readers who will be kind enough to give me some particulars which will throw light upon these mysterious expressions.