[The abuses connected with the introduction of pues into churches have
led to an investigation of their history, as well as to the etymology
of the word. Hence the modern adoption of its original and more correct
orthography, that of _pue_; the Dutch _puye_, _puyd_, and the English
_pue_, being derived from the Latin _podium_. In Vol. iii., p. 56., we
quoted the following as the earliest notice of the word from the
_Vision of Piers Plouman_:
"Among wyves and wodewes ich am ywoned sute
Yparroked in _pues_. The person hit knoweth."
Again, in _Richard III._, Act IV. Sc. 4.: "And makes her _pue-fellow_
with others moan."--In Decker's _Westward Hoe_: "Being one day in
church, she made mone to her _pue-fellow_."--And in the _Northern Hoe_
of the same author: "He would make him a _pue-fellow_ with lords."--See
a paper on _The History of Pews_, read before the Cambridge Camden
Society, Nov. 22, 1841.]
_"Jerningham" and "Doveton."_--Who was the author of _Jerningham_ and
_Doveton_, two admirable works of fiction published some twelve or fifteen
years ago? They are equal to anything written by Bulwer Lytton or by James.