PROVOST OF BRUGES 
 
 
Bertram, of Singleside.- Sir W. Scott, 
Guy Mannering (time, George II.). 
 
   Protosebastos (The), or SEBASTOCRA- 
 TOR, the highest State officer in Greece.- 
 Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, 
 Rufus). 
 
 Protospathaire (The), or general of 
 Alexius Comnenus, emperor of Greece. 
 His name is Nicanor.-Sir W. Scott, Count 
 Robert of Paris (time, Rufus). 
 
 Proud (The). Tarquin II. of Rome, 
 was called Superbus (reigned B.c. 535-510, 
 died 496). 
 Otho IV., kaiser of Germany, was called 
 "The Proud" (1175, 1209-1218). 
 
 Proud Duke (The), Charles Seymour, 
 duke of Somerset. His children were not 
 allowed to sit in his presence; and he 
 spoke to his servants by signs only 
 (*-1748). 
 
 Proudfute (Oliver), the boasting bon- 
 net-maker at Perth. 
 Magdalen or Maudie Proudfute, Oliver's 
 widow.-Sir W. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth 
 (time, Henry IV.). 
 
 Proudie (Dr.), hen-pecked bishop of 
 Barchester. A martinet in his diocese, 
 a serf in his home. 
 
 Proudie (Mrs.), strong-willed, strong- 
 voiced help-mate of the bishop. She lays 
 down social, moral, religious and ecclesias- 
 tical laws with equal readiness and sever- 
 ity.-Anthony Trollope, Framley Parson- 
 age and Barchester Towers. 
 
 Prout (Father), the pseudonym of Fran- 
cis Mahoney, a humorous writer in Fra- 
ser's Magazine, etc. (1805-1866). 
 
 
  Provis, the name assumed by Abel Mag- 
  witch, Pip's benefactor. He was a convict, 
  who had made a fortune, and whose chief 
  desire was to make his proteg6 a gentleman. 
-C. Dickens, Great Expectations (1860). 
 
  Provoked Husband (The), a comedy 
by Cibber and Vanbrugh. The "provoked 
husband" is Lord Townly, justly annoyed 
at the conduct of his young wife, who 
wholly neglects her husband and her 
home duties for a life of gambling and 
dissipation. The husband seeing no hope 
of amendment, resolves on a separate 
maintenance; but then the lady's eyes 
are opened-she promises amendment, 
and is forgiven. 
  *** This comedy was Vanbrugh's Jour- 
ney to London, left unfinished at his death. 
Cibber took it, completed it, and brought 
it out under the title of The Provoked Hus- 
band (1728). 
 
  Provoked Wife (The), Lady Brute, the 
wife of Sir John Brute, is, by his ill man- 
ners, brutality, and neglect, "provoked " 
to intrigue with one Constant. The in- 
trigue is not of a very serious nature, 
since it is always interrupted before it 
makes head. At the conclusion, Sir John 
says: 
    Surly, I may be stubborn, I am not, 
    For I have both forgiven and forgot. 
                   Sir J. Vanbrugh (1697). 
 
  Provost of Bruges (The), a tragedy 
based on "The Serf," in Leitch Ritchie's 
Romance of History. Published anony- 
mously in 1836; the author is S. Knowles. 
The plot is this: Charles ''the Good," 
earl of Flanders, made a law that a serf is 
always a serf till manumitted, and who- 
ever marries a serf, becomes thereby a 
serf. Thus, if a prince married the daugh- 
ter of a serf, the prince becomes a serf 
 
 
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