obscurity, see Parker's _Glossary of Architecture_; a
curious paper by Mr. Hamper, in _Archaeologia_, vol. xxiii.; and
_Gentleman's Magazine_ for Nov. 1823, p. 424., and March, 1824, p.
229.]

"_Orchard._"--Professor Martyn, in his Notes on Virgil's _Georgics_, seems
to be of opinion that the English word "orchard" is derived from the Greek
[Greek: orchatos], which Homer uses to express the garden of Alcinous; and
he observes that Milton writes it _orchat_, thereby corroborating this
impression. Is the word spelt according to Milton's form by any other
writers?

N. L. J.

[It is spelt _orchat_ by J. Philips, _Cider_, book i.:

----"Else false hopes
He cherishes, nor will his fruit expect
Th' autumnal season, but in summer's pride,
When other orchats smile, abortive fail."]

"_Peckwater._"--Why is the quadrangle at Christ Church, in Oxford, called
"Peckwater?"

N. L. J.

[The Peckwater Quadrangle derives its name from an ancient hostle, or
inn, which stood on the south-west corner of the present court; and was
the property of Ralph, the son of Richard Peckwater, who gave it to St.
Frideswide's Priory, 30th Henry III.; and about the middle of the reign
of Henry VIII., another inn, called Vine Hall, was added to it; which,
with other buildings, were reduced into a quadrangle in the time of
Dean Duppa and Dr. Samuel Fell. The two inns were afterwards known by
the name of Vine Hall, or Peckwater's Inn; and by this name were given
to Christ Church, in 1547, by Henry VIII.]

_Richard III._--What became of the body after the battle of Bosworth Field?
Was it buried at Leicester?

A. BRITON.

Athenaeum.

[After the battle of Bosworth Field, the body of Richard III. was
stript, laid across a horse behind a pursuivant-at-arms, and conducted
to Leicester, where, after it had been exposed for two days, it was
buried with little ceremony in the church of the Grey Friars. In
Burton's MS. of the History of Leicester, we read that, "within the
town was a house of Franciscan or Grey Friars, built by Simon Montfort,
Earl of {401} Leicester, whither (after Bosworth Field) the dead body
of Richard III., naked, trussed behind a pursuivant-at-arms, all dashed
with mire and blood, was there brought and homely buried; where
afterward King Henry VII. (out of royal disposition) erected for him a
fair