ii., p. 296.).--The name asked for by U.J.B. of the
Catholic priest, who, sooner than break the seal of confession, suffered
death, is John of Nepomuc, Canon of Prague. By order of the Emperor
Wenceslas, he was thrown off a bridge into the Muldaw, because he would
not tell that profligate prince the confession of his religious empress.
This holy man is honoured as St. John Nepomucen on the 16th of May, in
the kalendar of Saints.
D. ROCK.
[U.J.B., if desirous of further particulars respecting St. John
Nepomuc, may consult Mrs. Jameson's interesting _Legends of the
Monastic Orders_, pp. 214. 217.--ED.]
_Cavell, meaning of_ (Vol. i., p. 473.).--I concur entirely with the
etymology of the word _cavell_ given at p. 473. A lake having been
drained in my country, the land is still divided into _Kavelingen_; as
lots of land were formerly measured by strings of cord, _kavel_,
_kabel_, _cable_. Vide Tuinman _Trakkel_, d. n. t. p. 165. _Kavelloten_
is to receive a cavell by _lot._ cf.
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