d taken refuge in the galilee of the church"

(Fair Maid of Perth, ch. ix.).

The tomb of the Venerable Bede is in the Galilee of Durham Cathedral.
I had a schoolfellow with this uncommon name, now generally perverted
to Galley. In a play now running (Feb. 1913) in London, there is a
character named Sanctuary, a name found also in Crockford and the
London Directory.

I have only once come across the contracted form Sentry [Footnote: On
the development in meaning of this word, first occurring in the phrase
"to take sentrie," i.e. refuge, see my Romance of Words, ch. vii.]
(Daily Telegraph, Dec. 26, 1912), and then under circumstances which
might make quotation actionable. Purvis is Mid. Eng. parvis, a porch,
Greco-Lat. paradises. It may be the same as Provis, the name selected
by Mr. Magwitch on his return from the Antipodes (Great Expectations,
ch. xl.), unless this is for Provost. Porch and Portch both occur as
surnames, but Porcher is Fr. porcher, a swineherd, and Portal is a
Huguenot name. Churcher and Kirker, Churchman and Kirkman, are
usually local; cf. Bridges and Bridgman.

The names Temple and Templeman were acquired from residence near one
of the preceptories of the Knights Templars, and Spittlehouse (Chapter
III) is sometimes to be accounted for in a similar way (Knights of the
Hospital). We even find the surname Tabernacle. Musters is Old Fr.
moustiers (moutiers), common in French place-names, from Lat.
monasterium. The word bow, still used for an arch in some old towns,
has given the names Bow and Bowes. A medieval statute, recently
revived to baffle the suffragettes, was originally directed against
robbers and "pillers," i.e. plunderers, but the name Piller is also
for pillar; cf. the French name Colonise. With these may be mentioned
Buttress and Carvell, the latter from Old Fr. carnet (creneau), a
battlement.

As general terms for larger dwellings we find Hall, House, also
written Hose, and Seal, the last-named from the Teutonic original
which has given Fr. Lasalle, whence our surname Sale. To the same
class belong Place, Plaice, as in Cumnor Place.

The possession of such surnames does not imply ancestral possession of
Haddon Hall, Stafford House, etc., but merely that the founder of the
family lived under the shadow of greatness. In compounds -house is
generally treated as in "workus," e.g. Bacchus (Chapter VIII),
Bellows, Brewis, Duffus (dove), Kirkus, Loftus, Malthus, Windus (wynd,