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persons to be found at the end of Wheeler's ' Diet of Noted Names of Fiction.' This gives nearly 1,200 names, and includes, with variations, several of those mentioned by MB. BLEACKLEY. R. S. B.

There is an excellent article on this subject at 2 S. iii. 262 by the late MACKENZIE WALCOTT.

Creevey gives several, as " Jenny " for Sir Robert Peel, and " Slice " for the Duke of Gloucester.

I have noted also from F. L. Gower's ' Bygone Years ' " Filthy Lucre," Duke of Parma and Lucca ; " Poodle " and " Paul Pry," Fred. Byng ; " Plenty and Waste," Mrs. Gore and her daughter.

At 8 S. vi. 225 " Dinner Bell " is noted for Edmund Burke.

Prof. Herbert Mayo, referred to at 10 S. vi. 473, was persistently called the " Mid- dlesex Owl." R. J. FYNMOBE.

Sandgate.

Two at least of the sobriquets in MB. BLEACKLEY'S list have been applied to other notable personages. " Foul- weather Jack " was the name given by his crew to Admiral the Hon. John Byron, grandfather to the poet; and Theodore Hook called Edward Irving "Dr. Squintum."

R. L. MOBETON.

" Corporal John " was the name given to Marlborough. M. N. G.

In addition to my previous list the follow- ing were in general use during the eighteenth century :

The Jockey = Charles, llth Duke of Norfolk.

Old Tick=Old Q., William, 4th Duke of Queensberry.

Lord Fanny = John, Baron Hervey.

Lord Crop = Lord George Gordon.

The Gentle Shepherd = George Grenville.

Weathercock = William Windham.

The Doctor = Henry Addington, 1st Vis- count Sidmouth.

The Temple Leech = George Colman the elder.

Sixteen- String Jack = John Rann, the highwayman.

Little Pickle = Mrs. Jordan.

Garrick was generally termed " Roscius," and Foote invariably referred to as " Aris- tophanes." HOBACE BLEACKLEY. [H. L. O. also thanked for reply.]

" POT-GALLEBY " (10 S. vii. 388). DB- MUBBAY invites some rational suggestion as to the meaning of this term ; it may

therefore be pardonable to indulge in con- jecture. Our Northern seaport in the Tyne is typical of conditions existing in almost every port and harbour, and one of its features in thus described :

" Scarce a house on the river side of the street but had its ruinous wharf, supported on half-a- dozen green weed-grown piles, or its tumble-down, gaudy-painted balcony." G. H. Has well, ' The Maister : a Century of Tyneside Life,' 1895, p. 34. In nautical terms such a balcony is called a " gallery " : for example, " Gallery, a balcony projecting from the admiral's or captain's cabin " (Smyth, ' Sailor's Word- Book,' 1867, s.v.). Outjutting encroach- ments on the foreshore in constructing riverside galleries, or balconies, occur as frequent causes of litigation. Most of the public-houses on the shore were furnished with an annexe of this kind, a favourite lounging-place, where frequenters were in full view of the passing river traffic. This common adjunct of the pothouse may well have been known by seafarers as a "pot- gallery," and its undue projection would form the subject of such injunctions as those cited by DB. MUBBAY.

R. OLIVEB HESLOP.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

The contrivance for restraining the liberty of a river which is known on the Thames between Windsor and Oxford as a " lock " is called on the Itchen a " pot," derived, I suppose, from puteus, like pozo in Castilian, pozzo in Italian, puits in French. When the gates of the pot, or lock, are closed, there is on the top of them a narrow bridge of planks which gives passage over the river, and it often has railings. Such a bridge might possibly be known as a " pot-gallery." E. S. DODGSON.

DB. MUBBAY invites explanation or suggestion as to this word. May I make my suggestion in the form of historical narration ?

Formerly the Thames was wide and shallow. At low water there was a narrow channel and a wide expanse of uncovered shore. Fishing was an important industry, both by nets and kiddles. Fishermen living on the bank ran a stage or fence right down the sloping bank to near the navigable channel. To judge from the passage in Stow, they went, indeed, beyond it. This stage the fisherman equipped with fish- kiddles and eel-pots. To get at them at high water or on the dry he added a foot- plank to his stage, and thus made a " gallery' ' of it. When his eel-pots, &c., were not in use they were hauled up : one can see them