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were allotted to him (J. C. Anderson, ' Inclosure of the Commons of Croydon,' 1889, pp. 41, 69, 185-6). The estate of Addington was sold by him in or about 1803, and the Manor House with adjoining lands and the advowson were acquired in 1808 for the Archbishop of Canterbury, with whom they remained until a few years ago. W. P. COURTNEY.

TERRACE (11 S. iii. 207, 251, 291). In the Preface to the second volume of Britton and Pugin's ' Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London,' 1828, p. xxv, refer- ence is made to a proposal for forming a raised road, or Terrace of communication, between Westminster and Waterloo Bridges, an anticipatory idea of the present Embank- ment. The next step would be a row of buildings erected on such a " raised road," which would in course of time assume the name of " terrace " from the road on which it was constructed, and thus eventually the term would be applied to any row of houses, even though erected on a piece of level ground.

This volume contains an excellent archi- tectural chapter on the terraces and other buildings in the Regent's Park (pp. 224-35). Cornwall Terrace, which was the first range of buildings erected in that park, was commenced in May, 1821, and completed within t\\o years. Chester and Cambridge Terraces were still in course of construction when the book was issued, but were finished when Thomas Smith published his ' Maryle- bone ' in 1833.

In my paper on * Adelphi Names ' (10 S. v. 236) I wrote that the Adelphi was probably indifferently known as "Royal Terrace " and " Adelphi Terrace " for several years after it was built. In Horwood's map, 1794-9, it is called " Royal Adelphi Terrace." Garrick in his will described himself as "of the Adelphi," and mentioned his " dwelling-house in the Adelphi," though it was generally known as No. 4, Adelphi Terrace.

It may be noted that, by a slip of the pen, MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS (ante, p. 291) has ascribed the authorship of ' The Literary History of the Adelphi,' 1908, to Mr. " Brother ten " instead of Mr. Austin Brere- tcn. The reference ' Grace Catalogue,' 182, should be "p. 183, No. 171." In the given as " R. Green " instead of " B. Green." W. F. PRIDEAUX.
 * Catalogue ' the name of the engraver is

'PICKWICK' DIFFICULTIES (11 S. iii. 267, 313). The term "Old Strike a Light" may be illustrated by a quotation from ' A Dictionary of Slang, Jergon, and Cant,* by Barrere and Leland : " Strike a light (popular), to open an account of the minor sort, generally applied to alehouse scores. This is said to have originated \vith printers." See also ' Slang and its Analogues,' by Farmer and Henley, where there is the following : "To Strike a Light to run up an alehouse score."

There was an eld form of cabriolet with a large hood to it, a representation of which can be seen in Seymour's engraving ' The Pugnacious Cabman,' chap. ii. of ' Pick- wick.' The clumsy hood was afterwards removed. In other words, the head was taken off, hence the expression " guillo- tined cabriolet."

A " flat-head " is defined in the above- mentioned dictionaries as "a greenhorn, or sammy soft." A pianoforte used to be spoken of as a bcx of music, but I do not know what the tin box of music refers to. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

I think that " guillotined cabriolet '* is simply 'a humorous way of saying " cab." " Cab " is the shortened form of " cabriolet," dating from 1830, according to the ' New English Dictionary.' " Guillotined cab- riolet "is a cabriolet from which the head has been removed. When the ' Pick- wick Papers ' first appeared the word " cab," though in existence, was not probably in common use. H. W. TRENCHARD.

HARRISON THE REGICIDE (11 S. iii. 285). Although I am not able to show that there was any relationship between the family of Thomas Harrison and his wife Catherine Harrison, daughter of Ralph Harrison, who was a woollen draper in Watling Street, I should like to offer some comments on three stetements in MR. GUIMARAENS'S note, viz.: (1) "the execu- tion of Harrison in May, 1660 "; (2) " He [Harrison] v, s shortly efter sent & prisoner to the To\ver by order of Cromwell, and soon after died " ; (3) "It has been said that the regicide was of humble extraction."

In regard to the first, Harrison was executed at Charing Cross on 13 October, 1660.

In the second place, Harrison was arrested in 1657 in connexion \\ith Venner's Fifth Monarchy plot, and in February, 1658, he was sent to the Tower. On Cromwell's