[_Oriol_, or _Oriel_, is a portico or court; also a small room near the hall in monasteries, where particular persons dined. (Blount's _Glossog._) Du Cange says, "_Oriolum_, porticus, atrium;" and quotes Matthew Paris for it. Supposed by some to be a diminutive from _area_ or _areola_. "In modern writings," says Nares, "we meet with mention of _Oriel_ windows. I doubt the propriety of the expression; but, if right, they must mean those windows that project like a porch, or small room. At St. Albans was an _oriel_, or apartment for persons not so sick as to retire to the infirmary. (Fosbroke's _Brit. Monachism_, vol. ii. p. 160.) I may be wrong in my notion of _oriel_ window, but I have not met with ancient authority for that expression. Cowel conjectured that _Oriel_ College, in Oxford, took its name from some such room or portico. There is a remarkable portico, in the farther side of the first quadrangle, but not old enough to have given the name. It might, however, be only the successor of one more ancient, and more exactly an _oriel_." For articles on the disputed derivation of this term, which seems involved in 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.