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excused for this, having adopted it from the age at matriculation as given by Foster.

The following are omissions in the article. No mention is made of the facts that Piggott was a Fellow of the Royal Society or that he was counsel to the Bank of England for several years before his death. Nor can we ascertain from this article how long he held his Solicitor-Generalship to the Prince of Wales, or in what circumstances he vacated it, for which one has to refer to the biography of Erskine.

MB. DABNELL DAVIS is technically correct in saying that Piggott held a patent of precedence, but as a matter of fact that was regarded as equivalent to the rank of King's Counsel. In ' The Royal Kalendar ' for 1796, in a list of 25 " King's Counsel " (sic), the names of Piggott (spelt " Pigot "), Erskine, William Grant, John Anstruther, and J. F. Widmore have the mark f appended, with the foot-note " N.B. Those marked with f have Patents of Precedence." A recent instance is that of J. P. Benjamin, who held a patent of precedence, but was certainly included in the list of Q.C.s.

ALFBED B. BEAVEN, M.A. Leamington

There is no inconsistency in the fact that Pigott was only fifteen when admitted to membership of the Middle Temple. The date of his call to the Bar was 28 Nov., 1777 (Hutchinson, 'Notable Middle Templars'), but the age is not recorded on that occasion. The date of his matriculation at Trinity College, Oxford, was 17 Oct., 1878, when his age, according to Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses,' was twenty-six.

C. E. A. BEDWELL.

Middle Temple Library.

JUSTICE HAYES'S * ELEGY WBITTEN IN

THE TEMPLE GABDENS ' (10 S. x. 468).

Mr. Justice Hayes, better known as Mr. Serjeant Hayes, was not an Irish judge, but was made an English Queen's Bench puisne, August, 1868. He died in Novem- ber, 1869. The poem referred to is to be found in a volume entitled ' Hayesiana,' edited with a memoir by Edmund Macrory, Q.C., and published by Butterworths in 1893.

Mr. Justice Hayes was also the author of a skit on special pleading (which is in the same volume), under the name of "Crogate's Case, a dialogue : Venue In the Shades." In this amusing jeu d' 'esprit Baron Parke, afterwards Lord Wensleydale, comes on the scene as " Baron Surrebutter."

J. E. LATTON PICKEBING. Librarian, Inner Temple.

AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 428, 476).

Lose this day loitering, c.

These lines are translated from Goethe ; the English version is by Dr. John Anster, varied by Longfellow. See the statements at 7 S. ix. 169, 218, 278. W. C. B.

The quotation asked for by E. F. D. will be found in Anster's translation of Goethe's ' Faust,' ' Prelude at the Theatre,' Manager's last speech, near the end. M. C. L.

New York.

The passage quoted by L. K., ante, p. 468, is in a letter written by Mr. Disraeli to Lord Grey de Wilton on 3 Oct., 1873, and is known as the Bath letter, as it was written in support of Mr. Forsyth, K.C., who was then the Conservative candidate for the borough of Bath. It is in this letter that Mr. Disraeli refers to the Ministers' " career of plunder- ing and blundering." L. K. should verify his quotation, as " Ministers " should be substituted for " Ministry." Also the word " and " should be omitted before " institu- tion." The letter will be found in The Times of 8 October, and in ' The Annual Register ' for 1873.

HABBY B. POLAND. Inner Temple.

See ' Annals of our Time ' for 3 Oct., 1873.

G. W. E. R.

In his speech at Manchester on 3 April, 1872, Lord Beaconsfield (then, of course, Mr. Disraeli), when criticizing the Govern- ment's Irish policy, said :

" Her Majesty's new Ministers proceeded in their career like a body of men under the influence of some delirious drug. Not satiated with the spolia- tion and anarchy of Ireland, they began to attack every institution and every interest, every class and calling in the country." ' Selected Speeches of the late Rt. Hon. the Earl of Beaconsfield,' by T. E. Kebbel, vol. ii. p. 513 (Longmans & Co., 1882).

T. F. D.

[Several other correspondents thanked for replies.]

PIMLICO : EYEBBIGHT (10 S. x. 401, 457). Even if the writer referred to by COL. PBIDEAUX is correct in stating that there is now in the West Indies an island called Pimlico, it may well be doubted whether there was such an island before 1650. And even if there was, the island did not give its name to the bird. And the " theory that Pimlico [in London] received its name from the West Indian island " is quite untenable. The "Ben Pimlico" of 1598 was doubtless not " some old salt who