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with whom also the legislator was on friendly terms. As Sir Walter was dead more than twenty years before the Forbes Mackenzie Act became law, it was, of course, impossible that he could have used the ex- pression " Forbes Mackenzie hour of eleven n in the sense indicated above. W. SCOTT. Stirling.

Of 'this phrase Sir Walter Scott knew nothing. The Forbes Mackenzie Act for regulating public-houses in Scotland did not become law until 1853 ; and when William Chambers wrote as he did about Miss Ritchie's rule of 1810 or thereabout, he merely meant to remind a reader that she had anticipated the wisdom of a subsequent legislator who limited a day's sale of liquor to 11 P.M. ST. SWITHIN.

This phrase came into existence only in the early years of the latter half of the nine- teenth century, when an Act of Parliament was promoted by Forbes Mackenzie, M.P., and passed. Among other things it enjoined the closing of all public-houses at 11 P.M. A shorter designation is "Forbes' hour," which will be found in a quotation contributed by me to the ' E.D.D., ? s.v.

ALEX. WARRACK.

Oxford.

An English analogy is furnished by an expression common for some time after the passing of the Licensing Act of 1872 at the instance of Mr. H. A. Bruce (afterwards Lord Aberdare), that, when 11 P.M. had come, the clock "struck Bruce." Some deliberately humorous publicans, in- deed, had the name "Bruce" substituted on their clocks for the usual numerals XI.

POLITICIAN.

[G. S. D. and T. F. D. also thanked for replies.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. i. 269, 316, 335). C. B. W.'s sixteenth quotation, " Rumbling in pebble -stones n (Leigh Hunt, * Description of a Hot Day l ), is not improbably an imperfect reminiscence of the following, from Ambrose Phillips' s ' Fourth Pastoral l :

Nor valley brook that, hid by alders, speeds

O'er pebbles, warbling

R. A. POTTS.

COURT GUIDES (11 S. i. 289). Boyle's ' Court Guide, 1 1792, is, I think, the first and earliest of its kind ; but a good deal of information about the London residences of other than merchants and business men will be found in ' The New Complete Guide *

(otherwise ' Baldwin's New Complete Guide 1 ). This was not issued regularly every year. I have the 12th (1770), 13th (1771), and the 15th (1777) editions (i.e. issues). Doubtless these and the earlier issues are to be found in the B.M.

' The Gentleman's Register * (otherwise ' Rider's British Merlin ? ), of which I have a copy of the second (or 1749) edition, may also be consulted with advantage, although it does not pretend to be a " Court Guide. "

W. ROBERTS.

"MALLAS RIGG 3? (11 S. i. 128, 295). Why not consult the ' English Dialect Dictionary ? ? It gives rig, ' ' the space between furrows in a ploughed field, a measure of land " ; which, by the way, is one of the commonest of all provincial words. And, again, it has mallace, mallus, ' ' the marsh-mallow. n And the ' N.E.D.* tells us that mallows, pi., is frequently used instead of 'mallow, singular. So that mallas rigg simply means "Mallows ridge." No doubt it was a spot where mallows once grew.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

SIR JOHN CHAD WORTH (11 S. i. 129). Mr. Stocken's notes are entirely opposed to the categorical statements made by Anthony Munday in my edition of Stow's ' Survey J (1618). It is -there stated (p. 663) that Chadworth was Mayor in 1401, and in 1428 gave a " Parsonage house, a Revestrie, and Church yard " to the parish of St. Mildred's, Bread Street ; that this parson- age was burnt to the ground in 1485 ; and that the parson and his man lost their lives in the fire.

It is also stated that, notwithstanding his being so great a benefactor to the church, Chadworth' s monument was pulled down ; and that Thomas Hall, Salter, 1582, Thomas Collins, Salter, Alderman, and Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, Mayor 1575, were buried in Sir John Chadworth' s vault in that church.

WM. NORMAN.

According to ' A List of some Eminent Members of the Mercers* Company of London * (1872) John Chadworth filled the office of Warden in the years 1401 and 1407.

JOHN T. PAGE.

S. T. COLERIDGE PHRASES (11 S. i. 310). Both the phrases " An owl mangling a poor dead nightingale " and " O ye who honour the name of man, rejoice that this Walpole is called a Lord," which were used by S. a Coleridge over the hapless Chatterton, are recorded in Joseph Cottle's ' Early Recolle'c-